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domain: harmonism
tags: [harmonism, harmonic-profile, assessment, companion, personality, enneagram, constitution, development, wheel-of-harmony]
content_layer: applied
doctrinal_status: clouded
breadth: full
depth: introductory
craft: clean
published: "2026-05-17"
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# The Harmonic Profile

*The assessment instrument [[MunAI]] reads when meeting a practitioner. Maps the individual across every dimension [[Harmonism]] recognizes: constitution, psychology, development, vitality, and current position within the [[Wheel of Harmony]]. See also: [[Jing Qi Shen]] (vitality framework), [[The Human Being]] (ontological anthropology), [[The Way of Harmony|Way of Harmony]] (sequencing logic).*

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The most complete multidimensional self-assessment available — three scored layers (Wheel, Enneagram, Constitution), biographical context, and a space to name your intentions. ~140 questions, 30–40 minutes. Everything is generated in your browser — nothing is stored or transmitted. Share your results with [[MunAI]] to begin navigating the [[Wheel of Harmony|Wheel]] with precision.

## Purpose

The Harmonic Profile is MunAI's first and most comprehensive act of seeing. It answers the question every guide must begin with: *who is this person, what were they given, where do they stand, and where does growth lie?*

Most existing personality assessments capture one or two dimensions of the human being. [[Harmonism]] holds [[Harmonic Realism]] — reality is inherently harmonic, and the human being is constituted by two irreducible dimensions: the physical body and the energy body (the soul and its chakra system), whose diverse modes of consciousness span the full spectrum from survival through emotion, will, love, expression, cognition, ethics, and cosmic awareness. The Harmonic Profile maps across this entire architecture, at two timescales: *constitution* (what you were born with) and *current state* (where you are now). It is not another personality quiz. It is the most complete multidimensional mapping Harmonism can offer — an instrument designed to be taken once, deepened over a lifetime, and never replaced.

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## Architecture

The Harmonic Profile consists of three layers, each grounded in Harmonism's ontological framework. The layers are not borrowed tests assembled in sequence — they are facets of a single integrated reading, organized by Harmonism's own understanding of what constitutes a human being.

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### Layer I — The Wheel Assessment

*What it maps: current life position, developmental maturity, and overall altitude — across all eight pillars (the seven peripheral pillars and the central pillar of [[Glossary of Terms#Presence|Presence]]).*

The person encounters the [[Wheel of Harmony]] and maps their current state across each domain: [[Wheel of Health|Health]], [[Wheel of Matter|Matter]], [[Wheel of Service|Service]], [[Wheel of Relationships|Relationships]], [[Wheel of Learning|Learning]], [[Wheel of Nature|Nature]], [[Wheel of Recreation|Recreation]], and their relationship to Presence — awareness, stillness, the sovereign ground of being.

This is the gateway, and it is Harmonism-native from the first moment. No one has ever given the person a framework that places these seven dimensions of life on equal architectural footing with a contemplative center. The Wheel Assessment communicates immediately that Harmonism sees reality differently from any framework the person has previously encountered.

#### The Dual Reading: Function and Development

The assessment is not merely functional (how is your Health *performing*?) but also developmental (how mature and sophisticated is your *relationship* to Health?). A person who sleeps eight hours but has never examined their sleep architecture, tracked their circadian rhythm, or understood the relationship between sleep and Jing conservation operates at a different developmental register than a person who has built a sovereign sleep protocol. Both might rate their Health similarly on a functional scale; the developmental dimension reveals the difference.

Each pillar becomes a diagnostic surface that reveals both where the person is and how deeply they have engaged with that dimension of life. The correspondences between Wheel pillars and developmental lines are structural, not forced:

The [[Wheel of Health|Health]] pillar's developmental dimension maps to the kinesthetic and somatic line of development — not just "are you healthy?" but "how sophisticated is your understanding of your own body?" The [[Wheel of Presence|Presence]] pillar maps directly to the spiritual line. [[Wheel of Learning|Learning]] maps to the cognitive line. [[Wheel of Relationships|Relationships]] maps to the interpersonal and moral lines. [[Wheel of Service|Service]] maps to moral and vocational maturity. [[Wheel of Matter|Matter]] maps to economic and material intelligence. [[Wheel of Nature|Nature]] maps to ecological consciousness. [[Wheel of Recreation|Recreation]] maps to the aesthetic and play dimensions of development.

This means the Wheel *is* the developmental assessment — when read with sufficient depth. [Ken Wilber](https://grokipedia.com/page/Ken_Wilber)'s key contribution is that people develop unevenly across different capacities. Someone can be cognitively sophisticated and emotionally immature, morally developed and spiritually dormant, physically masterful and relationally blind. The Wheel makes this unevenness visible: a person with deep Health engagement but shallow Relationship maturity is immediately legible as a particular developmental configuration.

#### Developmental Altitude as Meta-Pattern

The overall developmental altitude — the kind of complexity assessed by [Clare Graves](https://grokipedia.com/page/Clare_W._Graves) (Spiral Dynamics), [Susanne Cook-Greuter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_development) (ego development stages), and [Robert Kegan](https://grokipedia.com/page/Robert_Kegan) (subject-object theory) — emerges as a meta-pattern across all eight pillars. Development is the progressive capacity to take as *object* what was previously *subject* — to step back from identification and see larger patterns. Harmonism applies this to the Wheel itself: a person embedded in the Wheel does not see it as architecture; a person who has developed sufficiently can hold the Wheel as a tool for self-governance. How someone engages with the Wheel *as a whole* — whether they see the connections between pillars, whether they understand the fractal architecture, whether they can hold paradox and complexity — reveals their overall altitude.

#### Dharmic Orientation

The deepest register of the Wheel Assessment integrates with the Presence pillar: how does the person relate to meaning, purpose, and alignment? Do they feel oriented toward something larger than personal preference? Is their life experienced as coherent or fragmented, purposeful or adrift? This is not religiosity or spiritual identity — it is the phenomenological question of whether life feels aligned with [[Glossary of Terms#Logos|Logos]] or not. This dimension cannot be fully captured by a questionnaire — it deepens the longer MunAI knows you, revealed through the quality of the person's engagement over time.

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### Layer II — The Enneagram Profile

*What it maps: ego-structure, growth edge, instinctual orientation, level of development.*

The psychological core of the Harmonic Profile. The [Enneagram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enneagram_of_Personality) — specifically the [Riso-Hudson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Richard_Riso) model — provides the deepest and most architecturally rigorous mapping of the human personality available. It is indispensable for three reasons.

First, it maps *type* — the characteristic ego-structure through which a person organizes experience. Nine fundamental patterns of attention, motivation, and defense. A Type 5 retreats into mental models and conserves energy. A Type 8 advances through force and refuses vulnerability. A Type 2 gives to receive. Each type has a characteristic way of falling asleep to [[Glossary of Terms#Presence|Presence]] and a characteristic path back.

Second, it maps *development within type* — the nine Levels of Development that range from profound health to severe pathology. This is what distinguishes Riso-Hudson from popular Enneagram culture: the same structural type expresses radically differently at different levels of health. A healthy Type 5 is a visionary pioneer; an average Type 5 is a detached observer; an unhealthy Type 5 is a paranoid recluse. MunAI needs this vertical dimension to calibrate its guidance.

Third, it maps *instinctual variant* — Self-Preservation (SP), Sexual/One-to-One (SX), or Social (SO). This determines where the ego's fixation concentrates its energy: bodily security and practical competence (SP), intense connection and attraction (SX), or group belonging and social role (SO). The instinctual variant profoundly shapes how a person engages the Wheel — an SP Type will naturally prioritize Health and Matter; an SX Type will be drawn to Relationships and Presence; an SO Type will engage Service and Community.

The wing (the adjacent type that flavors the dominant type) adds further nuance. Together — type, wing, instinctual variant, and Level of Development — the Enneagram profile gives MunAI a precise psychological map from which to understand how the person's mind works, what it fixates on, where its blind spots lie, and where liberation becomes possible.

Supplementary psychological frameworks — the [Big Five](https://grokipedia.com/page/Big_Five_personality_traits) trait dimensions, [Jungian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_cognitive_functions) cognitive functions — provide additional data that enriches the Enneagram reading rather than competing with it. MunAI may use these lenses where they add precision, but the Enneagram remains the psychological center of gravity.

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### Layer III — The Constitutional Profile

*What it maps: the body you were given — its elemental constitution, energetic architecture, and vitality reserves.*

This layer draws from a dual elemental cartography — Indian/Greek (substance) and Chinese (dynamic) — each honored within its own logic, plus a somatic-empirical anchor. Harmonism does not merge these systems into a single elemental framework. They map different aspects of the same vital terrain, and their integrity must be preserved.

#### The Dual Elemental Cartography

The Indian and Greek traditions share the same elemental system — five elements in the same configuration: Earth (Prithvi), Water (Apas), Fire (Agni), Air (Vayu), and Aether/Akasha (space, the container and medium of the other four). The Indian system is the older (the *pancha-mahabhuta* appear in the Vedic texts, predating the pre-Socratics by centuries), and there is genuine scholarly debate about whether Greek natural philosophy received this framework through Persian intermediaries or arrived at it independently. Either way, the convergence is too precise to be coincidental — the same five elements, the same hot/cold and wet/dry quality axes, the same progression from dense (Earth) to subtle (Aether). The Greek four-element model is the Indian five-element model with Aether implicit rather than named. This shared elemental ontology underlies the [tridosha](https://grokipedia.com/page/Dosha) system: Vata (Aether + Air), Pitta (Fire + Water), Kapha (Water + Earth). The Harmonic Profile treats Indian and Greek as a single cartography of **elemental substance** — what things are constitutionally made of.

The Chinese tradition operates with five phases — Wood (木), Fire (火), Earth (土), Metal (金), Water (水) — but these are fundamentally different from the Indian/Greek elements. *Wu Xing* are not substances but phases of transformation. They describe **elemental dynamics** — how energy moves, transforms, generates, and controls. The cycles are the point: generative (Wood feeds Fire, Fire creates Earth, Earth bears Metal, Metal collects Water, Water nourishes Wood) and controlling (Wood parts Earth, Earth dams Water, Water quenches Fire, Fire melts Metal, Metal chops Wood). The Chinese system replaces Air with Wood and Metal, drops Aether, and maps organ-emotion-season dynamics rather than constitutional qualities.

The two cartographies are complementary, not competing. The Indian/Greek system answers: *what is this person constitutionally made of?* The Chinese system answers: *how does energy transform through this person?* A complete constitutional reading requires both — substance and dynamic, structure and process. They converge on the same constitutional reality from different angles: a person who is Pitta-Vata in Ayurveda (fire + air dominant) will typically present as Wood/Fire in Wu Xing (upward, expansive, sharp). But the convergence is discovered through parallel assessment, not by collapsing the systems into one.

#### Dynamic Cartography — Daoist Assessment (Chinese)

**Yin/Yang dominance** — the fundamental polarity. Maps to real physiological patterns: sympathetic/parasympathetic balance, anabolic/catabolic tendency, heat/cold constitution. A yin-dominant constitution runs cold, conserves energy, tends toward introversion and consolidation. A yang-dominant constitution runs hot, expends energy, tends toward action and expansion.

**Wu Xing constitutional type** — the person's dominant element within the Chinese five-phase system, including the generative and controlling cycle dynamics that shape their constitutional pattern. A Wood-dominant person pushes upward, is strategic and prone to frustration. A Metal-dominant person values precision, structure, and release — and is prone to grief. MunAI reads the element not as a personality label but as a lens on organ-system vulnerabilities, emotional tendencies, and seasonal patterns.

**[[Jing Qi Shen#I. Jing (精) — Essence|Jing]] reserve profile** — the assessment of primal vitality. Prenatal indicators (family constitution, birth order, known factors about parental health and conception quality), current postnatal state (hair quality, dental health, bone density indicators, libido, hormonal markers, recovery speed, energy patterns), and depletion patterns (adrenal symptoms, chronic fatigue, lower back weakness, premature aging signs). The Jing assessment determines the person's *capacity* — how much they can take on, how fast they should move, whether they need a building phase before any intensive practice.

#### Substance Cartography — Ayurvedic Assessment (Indian/Greek)

**Prakriti** (birth constitution) — the dominant dosha or dosha-combination established at conception. Vata (ether + air: light, mobile, creative, anxious), Pitta (fire + water: sharp, driven, inflammatory, precise), Kapha (water + earth: stable, nurturing, slow, resistant to change). Prakriti does not change across the lifespan — it is the constitutional given.

**Vikriti** (current imbalance) — the dosha pattern in its current expression. Vikriti deviates from prakriti under the influence of diet, lifestyle, season, stress, and accumulated imbalance. The gap between prakriti and vikriti is itself diagnostic: it reveals where the person has drifted from their constitutional center.

#### Somatic-Empirical Anchor

Observable markers that ground the traditional assessments in concrete observation: body type, temperature tendency, digestive patterns, sleep architecture, energy rhythm across the day, hormonal health indicators. Where objective data is available (blood panels, HRV, metabolic typing), MunAI incorporates it. This is the empirical anchor that keeps the constitutional profile honest.

MunAI reads *across* both cartographies and the empirical anchor, looking for convergence and divergence. Where the substance reading (Ayurvedic prakriti/vikriti), the dynamic reading (Wu Xing constitution, Yin/Yang polarity), and the somatic-empirical markers converge, confidence is high. Where they diverge, there is something genuinely interesting to investigate — a depletion pattern, a compensatory adaptation, or a constitutional nuance that only one tradition's lens can see.

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## Epistemological Boundaries

### Frameworks Integrated

The Harmonic Profile metabolizes the following frameworks, each reframed through Harmonism first principles:

**Primary personality typology:** [Enneagram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enneagram_of_Personality) (Riso-Hudson model with Levels of Development) — the personality framework with the greatest spiritual depth, mapping the fixation structure of ego, the direction of integration, and the path from compulsion to essence. The Enneagram is not merely phenomenological — it is a cartography of the soul's entanglement with personality, and the most aligned with Harmonism's interior ontology.

**Empirically validated:** Epigenetic research on transgenerational inheritance, somatotyping, HRV and autonomic balance metrics, [Big Five](https://grokipedia.com/page/Big_Five_personality_traits) personality traits (40-60% heritability, strong cross-cultural replication — useful as supplementary behavioral data, though psychometrically flat compared to the Enneagram's structural depth).

**Phenomenologically robust:** [Jungian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_cognitive_functions) cognitive functions, developmental psychology (Graves, Cook-Greuter, Kegan).

**Clinically established across millennia:** [Tridosha](https://grokipedia.com/page/Dosha) constitutional typing (emerging genomic correlations via Ayugenomics), [Wu Xing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxing_(Chinese_philosophy)) constitutional assessment (Traditional Chinese Medicine), [[Jing Qi Shen|Jing reserve]] indicators, Yin/Yang polarity assessment.

**Philosophically grounded:** [[Glossary of Terms#Logos|Logos]]-[[Glossary of Terms#Dharma|Dharma]] ontology, [[Harmonic Realism]], Wilber's AQAL lines/levels/states/types, Aurobindo's swabhava (innate nature of the soul), Hillman's daimon (the acorn of individual calling).

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## How MunAI Uses the Harmonic Profile

The Harmonic Profile is not a static document — it is MunAI's evolving understanding of the individual.

The initial assessment produces a functional map: Wheel position and developmental maturity across all pillars (where they stand and how deeply they engage), Enneagram profile (how their mind works), and constitutional pattern (what body they inhabit). From this, MunAI generates its first guidance: which pillar to address first, what register to use, what pace to set, what resources to prescribe from the vault.

Over time, the profile deepens. MunAI observes how the person responds to guidance, where they resist, where they accelerate, what patterns recur. The constitutional and Enneagram layers remain relatively stable (these are structural, not situational). The Wheel position shifts as the person grows. The developmental altitude — which emerges as a meta-pattern across all eight pillars — reveals itself gradually through the quality of the person's engagement.

The Harmonic Profile's ultimate purpose is not classification but navigation. It exists so MunAI can say, with increasing precision: *given who you are, where you stand, and what the Wheel reveals, here is the next step that serves your alignment with [[Glossary of Terms#Dharma|Dharma]].*

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*See also: [[MunAI]], [[Wheel of Harmony]], [[Jing Qi Shen]], [[The Human Being]], Enneagram, [[The Way of Harmony|Way of Harmony]]*
