title: Becoming Conscious:: The Enneagram's Forgotten Passageway
author: Joseph Benton Howell Ph.D
description: Educated at Yale Divinity School, the University of Virginia, and Harvard University, Joseph Howell, PhD has practiced clinical psychology since 1981. An expert on spirituality, psychological change, and the Enneagram, he is in demand as a speaker and teacher around the country. He and his wife, Lark, reside in Anniston, Alabama.
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  ## CHAPTER 8
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  In the days that followed, when Myron looked back at that moment, at the way
  Aimee smiled and waved and vanished into the dark, he would wonder what he’d
  felt. Had there been a premonition, an uneasy feeling, a twinge at the base of
  his subconscious, something warning him, something that he just couldn’t
  shake?
  
  
  He didn’t think so. But it was hard to remember.
  
  
  He waited another ten minutes on that cul-de-sac. Nothing happened.
  
  
  So Myron came up with a plan.
  
  
  It took a while to find his way out. Aimee had led him into this suburban
  thicket, but maybe Myron should have dropped bread crumbs on the way. He
  worked rat-in-a-maze–style for twenty minutes until he stumbled upon Paramus
  Road, which led eventually to a main artery, the Garden State Parkway.
  
  
  But now, Myron had no plans to return to the apartment in New York.
  
  
  It was a Saturday night—well, Sunday morning now—and if he went to the house
  in Livingston instead, he could play basketball the next m