Writings

Enneagram, engram, whatever

When Deborah Giattina, in her otherwise enlightening article ["Hard Science, 9/21/05], says, "Think of L. Ron Hubbard's enneagrams and '70s swingers," she confuses L. Ron Hubbard's engrams with the Enneagram. The Enneagram has nothing to do with dianetics or L. Ron Hubbard or replayed mental traumas; rather, the Enneagram is a mathematical and spiritual model of the universe's cyclical motion through its nine key stages, as well as a powerful system for studying humanity's nine personalities and their paths to evolution.

TONY BRASUNAS
San Francisco