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Enneagram is a much touted "personality typing system"
that's wildly popular among many clergy, religious, and lay
people. It's said to be a helpful tool to monitor one's
psychological and spiritual growth. The Enneagram's geometric
pattern has nine points, one for each major personality type. By
answering a lengthy series of questions aimed at uncovering
one's deeply hidden personality traits, the Enneagram's
apologists claim that each person completing the psychological
profile will, based on the score received, fit into one of the
nine types. In addition to the main type, each person has a
secondary type, or "wing," which is the type he is
next most akin to. For example, you might be a
"Perfectionist" with a "Helper" wing.
Although the Enneagram is strongly criticized by some (comments
have ranged from "silly" to "numbskullish"),
it continues to flourish in retreat houses, parishes, and
religious workshops throughout the country.
But there's a new and, many are saying, more accurate
personality typing system that's been recently unveiled by Envoy
Magazine Ñ the ANDY-EAGRAM. Following the general format of the
Enneagram, the ANDY-EAGRAM shows you which character from the
1960s hit television program, "Mayberry R.F.D.," your
personality is most like. For example, you might be an
"Aunt Bee" with a "Gomer wing."
The ANDY-EAGRAM was discovered in 1987 in Dismal Seepage,
Mississippi, by semi-retired scrap metal collector, Clarence
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