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The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types | 
 enlarge | Authors: Don Richard Riso, Russ Hudson
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
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Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 3309
Media: Paperback
Pages: 400
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0553378201
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.26
EAN: 9780553378207
ASIN: 0553378201
Publication Date: June 15, 1999
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Amazon.com Review
Recommended by two highly credible authorities, consciousness explorer Ken Wilber and spiritual-growth guru Harville Hendrix, this compendium of Enneagram information was assembled by the cofounders of the Enneagram Institute as an introduction to the subject. Designed with a plenitude of charts, boxes, and quotes (by noted illuminaries such as A.H. Almaas, Maya Angelou, and G.I. Gurjieff), this exceptionally easy-to-use, manual-size paperback teaches the reader how to figure out which of the nine types she is, identifies red flags to self-illusion, and provides practical suggestions for spiritual growth. Advice on how to observe your type's fixations and let go of the need to act out automatic and dysfunctional behavioral responses are down-to-earth and attainable. A distinctly accessible approach to cultivating daily happiness through understanding the complexity of fixations that weave together human personality types. --Randall Cohan
Product Description
The first definitive guide to using the wisdom of the enneagram for spiritual and psychological growthThe ancient symbol of the Enneagram has become one of today's most popular systems for self-understanding, based on nine distinct personality types. Now, two of the world's foremost Enneagram authorities introduce a powerful new way to use the Enneagram as a tool for personal transformation and development. Whatever your spiritual background, the Enneagram shows how you can overcome your inner barriers, realize your unique gifts and strengths, and discover your deepest direction in life. The Wisdom of the Enneagram includes:
- Two highly accurate questionnaires for determining your type
- Vivid individual profiles focused on maximizing each type's potential and minimizing predictable pitfalls
- Spiritual Jump Starts, Wake-Up Calls, and Red Flags for each type
- Dozens of individualized exercises and practical strategies for letting go of troublesome habits, improving relationships, and increasing inner freedom
- Revealing insights into the deepest motivations, fears, and desires of each type
Highly accessible, yet filled with sophisticated concepts and techniques found nowhere else, The Wisdom of the Enneagram is a strikingly new fusion of psychology and spirituality. It offers an exciting vision of human possibility and a clear map of the nine paths to our highest self-expression.
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Awesome! January 4, 2009
Laura Bank Witte (Mesa, AZ)
The enneagram is fascination, and can be confusing to understand. The authors do a great job of making it readable and clear. Having this knowledge will help you to understand yourself and those around you in a much deeper way! This book is a great complement to Pearls of Wellness (Pearls of Wellness 52 Inspirations to Achieve a Peaceful Body, Mind, and Spirit).
A practical personality system December 22, 2008
Laurie Allan (Upstate New York)
The Wisdom of the Enneagram is a book that its users find practical and to the point. It enables you to not only understand your primary personality type but also the thinking and behaviors you are likely to manifest when you are under stress and specifically what to do about this. For example, I am a helper type. It is extraordinarily useful to know that when I feel compelled to go out and win everyone over, I am losing my center and it is time to do the exact opposite (reflect and deepen into my own inner process.) This "manual of yourself" provides you with all of the flags and signals that support you in making more conscious and therefore better decisions. For example, I long ago gave up trying to make everyone else as intuitive about my needs as I am sometimes able to be about their needs. This book is the most useful, practical tool and I highly recommend this to everyone who is trying to become a more authentic Self.
The only book to get on the Enneagram September 1, 2008
Stephen Sheridan (San Francisco Bay Area)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had the good fortune to study the Enneagram, as a graduate student in psychology, with Luc Brebion, one of Claudio Naranjo's original "disciples," who brought the teaching of the Enneagram to North America. It was my understanding at the time (1980) that the teaching of it was limited to those who'd studied with Claudio, or his original students, as it was so easy to get it wrong.
I now understand why: the only frame of reference, before the Enneagram, for the study of personality, was a psychiatric one--personality DISORDER (in other words, personality features so extreme or destructive that they were truly pathological, and created major obstacles to fulfillment in both love and work). The great virtue of the Enneagram is that it helps us understand our personalities WITHOUT PATHOLOGIZING. Being able to understand our personality traits and styles can be very useful...but when we feel pathologized in the attempt, it's a turn off (besides not being merited).
Given those considerations, THE WISDOM OF THE Enneagram is the ONLY book I've recommended to clients in therapy over the years, and it has been very well-recieved. It is the ONLY book I've yet read on the Enneagram that really gets it right; I highly recommend it to anyone who wishes to know and understand themselves better. I both helps to locate personality blindspots, and to FORGIVE ourselves for them...while, over time, the greater awareness opens up a broader frame of reference for other possible responses to life. (This is why the hardest people to "type" in this way are those who have done the most inner work; as a result, their behavior, thinking and speech is less predictable, less discernable as having a particular flavor...with the result that who we REALLY are--the True Self or Soul--can shine through the increasingly translucent cover of personality).
Very insightful August 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was more on target about my issues than any other book i could have read and it told me how i need to improve my weaknesses. It has helped me really see my self and the destructive patterns that i never realized that i am caught up in.. I recommend it highly if you are ready to change and have inner peace of mind
The Wisdom of the Enneagram July 28, 2008
J. Welsby (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have read several books on this subject and this is definitely the best so far. Well written and easy to understand.
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