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A.H. Almaas presents "the holy ideas" that are the spiritual realities of the nine personality types that the Enneagram reflects. For those unfamiliar with the Enneagram, he includes an introduction to the structure of psychological typecasting rediscovered by Oscar Ichazo, founder of the Arica School, who gives this book its high credentials by having written the Foreword. While other books on the subject explain the different characteristics and behaviors of each of the nine fixations or types, Almaas expounds here on how the disconnection from each holy idea leads to the development of its corresponding fixation. Then he provides keys to unlock them. For example, the "seven" type's holy idea is "holy wisdom," which Ichazo defines as "The awareness that reality exists as a succession of moments, each experienced as the present, and that it is only by existing in the present that the constant unfolding of the Cosmos can be experienced ... can real work be done, and results achieved." --Randall Cohan
A quantum leap for Enneagram studies., June 28, 1999 - Reviewer: Erik T. Pedersen from California
It was Ichazo and Naranjo who led us to the door, Palmer and Riso who opened it, but Almaas is the one who leads us through. Profoundly revealing and insightful, Facets of Unity is a must read for serious students of the Enneagram. Almaas surpasses the merely descriptive language of the personality types and clears a path for the development each type unprecedented in the field of Enneagram studies. Perhaps Almaas has described for us the pinacle of what can be understood about the use of the Enneagram as a compass for the soul. The rest he rightfully leaves to us and the degree to which we desire to experience freedom from the fixations of our type. |
