The lives we live.
The patterns we inherit.
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Books exploring personality, parenting,
and inner life through inquiry and fiction.
Featured Book: The Observer Effect
HarpGnosis Books Welcomes David Jaksøn
David Jaksøn writes psychological fiction exploring perception, identity, personality, and the hidden structures that shape human relationships. His work draws on phenomenology, contemplative traditions, developmental psychology, and the Enneagram, using fiction as a way to examine questions that are often approached only through theory.
New Release: The Enneagram Hexad
A phenomenological exploration of the hidden dynamics of the psychological self.
Following the hexad’s directional movement, John Harper explores six fundamental functions of human experience: Determination, Individuation, Relationship, Autonomy, Containment, and Expansion, which create six tension arcs that maintain the psychological self.
(Paperback Available 11/4/26)
Why Study Personality?
Personality takes shape before we can reflect on who we are. This book examines how those early adaptations become our familiar sense of self, shaping what we notice and how we respond.
The Alchemy of Perception
What we see is shaped by how we look. Fifty-two contemplative lenses invite us to examine familiar assumptions and attend more closely to experience before our explanations settle into place.
The Enneagram as Living Process
The Enneagram’s circle, triangle, and hexad describe processes we can recognize in experience. Exploring their relationships reveals how patterns form and sustain themselves, and where participation in transformation becomes possible.
The Enneagram & The Arc of Transformation
Recognizing a personality pattern doesn’t automatically change it. This exploration follows the process through which familiar reactions become available to inquiry, revealing what supports transformation and what keeps returning us to the same place.
Enneagram Shock Points
Even with considerable understanding, the body can remain braced for familiar threats. An exploration of shock points, nervous system responses, and the embodied difficulty of staying present when our usual patterns are interrupted.
The Enneagram Hexad
Six connected capacities form tension arcs through which the psychological self maintains its familiar equilibrium. Following these relationships reveals how adjustments in one capacity affect the whole configuration, and how presence changes our participation.
The Enneagram World of the Child
A parent’s personality helps shape the emotional world a child grows up in. Understanding that influence brings attention to expectations and reactions that can narrow a child’s freedom to develop.
Nurturing Essence
Children’s essential qualities emerge through ordinary moments of growing up. Drawing on child development and the Diamond Approach®, this book explores how parents can recognize those qualities and support a child’s continuing contact with them.
Allen and the Holy Grail
Grief and isolation have left sixteen-year-old Allen adrift. An old goblet in his grandfather’s house draws him into a quest for five jewels, each bringing him closer to something he’s lost touch with in himself.
OM HU God Vibrations
OM and HU provide a starting point for exploring sacred sound across contemplative traditions. The inquiry follows vibration into bodily experience, examining its relationship to consciousness and our felt sense of separation.
Alone with Alone
The wish to know can keep us reaching for another explanation. Drawing on the apophatic tradition, this contemplation explore what becomes available when we allow experience to remain open beyond our familiar understanding.
Love Loving Love
Mystical verse and contemplative inquiry follow love through longing, devotion, and surrender. The recurring question concerns the one who seeks love, and what happens to that familiar identity as love has its way.
About the Author
John Harper
John Harper is an author, Enneagram teacher, and Diamond Approach® teacher whose writing draws on more than 35 years of inquiry into personality and transformation. His books explore how experience takes shape, how familiar patterns sustain themselves, and how presence opens us to change.
Explore the teachings, articles and events at:
EnneagramAsProcess.com
Contact: HarpGnosisBooks@gmail.com