The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul

by Sandra Maitri

Overview

A groundbreaking exploration of the spiritual dimension of working with the enneagram by one of its earliest students and teachers in America.

Here is one of the first books to explore in an authentic and comprehensive way the original spiritual dimension of the enneagram. Among the most knowledgeable teachers of the enneagram in America, Sandra Maitri shows how the enneagram not only reveals our personalities, but illuminates a basic essence within each of us. She shows how traversing the inner territory particular to our ennea-type can bring us profound fulfillment and meaning, as well as authentic spiritual development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781585420810
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/19/2001
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	526,655
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.76(d)
Age Range:	18 - 14 Years

About the Author

Sandra Maitri was a member of the first group of students to whom the Chilean psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo presented the enneagram system in the U.S. almost three decades ago. Throughout her many years of studying and teaching it, Maitri has preserved the legacy of this original transmission. In addition to her work with Naranjo, she has studied with various Eastern and Western spiritual and psychological teachers, including A.H. Almaas, founder of the contemporary spiritual path, the Diamond Approach. As one of the principal and supervising teachers of the Diamond Approach, she teaches the enneagram as part of the larger work of personal transformation, working with hundreds of students each year in the U.S. and Europe. She lives in Marin County, California.

Table of Contents

	List of Diagrams	ix
	Foreword	xi
	Introduction	1
Chapter 1	The Inner Triangle and the Fall	23
Chapter 2	Ennea-Type Nine: Ego-Indolence	42
Chapter 3	Ennea-Type Six: Ego-Cowardice	66
Chapter 4	Ennea-Type Three: Ego-Vanity	88
Chapter 5	Ennea-Type One: Ego-Resentment	110
Chapter 6	Ennea-Type Four: Ego-Melancholy	133
Chapter 7	Ennea-Type Two: Ego-Flattery	155
Chapter 8	Ennea-Type Eight: Ego-Revenge	179
Chapter 9	Ennea-Type Five: Ego-Stinginess	201
Chapter 10	Ennea-Type Seven: Ego-Planning	223
Chapter 11	The Inner Flow and the Child Within	245
Chapter 12	The Subtypes	263
Chapter 13	The Wings	277
	Epilogue	283
Appendix A	Determining Your Ennea-Type	286
Appendix B	Diagrams	298
Appendix C	Suggestions for Further Reading	302
	Notes	304
	Acknowledgments	310
	Index	313

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Possesses a depth and completeness that I find missing in the existing enneagram literature."
—A. H. Almaas, author of Essence and Facets of Unity

Editorial Reviews

"Possesses a depth and completeness that I find missing in the existing enneagram literature."
—A. H. Almaas, author of Essence and Facets of Unity

From the Publisher