Ronald V. Huggins. Pieces on the Enneagram.

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"The Enneagram: False History and Occult Roots," Bibliotheca Sacra 179 (Apr-Jun 2022): 146-62.  

"The Enneagram's Occult Remainders: Two Key Examples," The Worldviews Newsletter (Summer, 2023): 4-7. The PDF of the newsletter is free, but you have to go through the process of adding it to cart and "purchasing it." You can then download it. Also here

"The Enneagram's Occult Remainders: Two Key Examples," The Worldviews Newsletter (Summer, 2023): 4-7. The article as a stand-alone without the rest of the newsletter. This is posted on my academia.edu account. If you have a problem downloading you can make your own account for free and download whatever is available there for free.

"The Enneagram's Occult Remainders: Two Key Examples," This is an online text version at ARC.  The Apologetics Research Center. 

Priority Talk with Greg Davis on WXJC Radio, Birmingham & Huntsville, Alabama. Dr. Ronald Huggins joins Greg and Clete Hux for a deep discussion on Enneagram and Christianity (6 October 2022).


The earliest published version of the Enneagram (c. 1920)


"Enneagram Genesis: In Search of Enneagram Origins." This was an episode in the TV series The Enneagram: What's True, What's False, and Does it Matter? produced by Midwest Christian Outreach, AGTV, and InGrace.  Also here (Monday, 13 June 2022, 7PM)

Discussion of the Enneagram for Life on the Line Podcast and Radio Show with Bryan Hurlbutt and Brad Homer.  Episode one, two, three (14, 21, 28 August 2021).

“Enneagram – No Christian Origins” – Marcia Montenegro and Ron Huggins. Dec. 10 Midwest Christian Outreach Lost Podcast 170 (c. 1920-21).

                                                     


Gurdjieff and the Essenes (2019) In this small book, only available on my academia.edu page for free, I single out one of the "remarkable men," Gurdjieff talks about in his book Meetings with Remarkable Men, in order to illustrate the fictional character of the purported autobiography.  If you have trouble downloading it, you can get an academia.edu account for free which will give you access.


G. I. Gurdjieff

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