--- product_id: 14822071 title: "The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul" price: "VT7055" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/14822071-the-spiritual-dimension-of-the-enneagram-nine-faces-of-soul store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul **Price:** VT7055 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul - **How much does it cost?** VT7055 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/14822071-the-spiritual-dimension-of-the-enneagram-nine-faces-of-soul) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul [Maitri, Sandra] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul Review: Wonderful help on the road to Enlightenment - When we are fully awake and alive to the present moment, we don't need a personality. Sandra documents the fall into uncounsciousness most of us took between the ages of 3 and 6 where we built a personality. A personality is our way to fake it when we are not fully connected. She documents a way to see the personality as having 9 types. Each of these types hides an aspect of truth that we fail to experience. Each type is a way to fake being connected. Each Enneatype is therefore a way to spin reality, to make it look like we are not broken and lost. This work is so powerful it might cause you to break down and cry, because it will nail your way to avoid life. After you cry you will feel 'born again' with a fresh new look on life. I have read this book three times and sent 4 copies to my friends. Our local UU church here in Alabama has a 17 member study group meeting once a week, working through this wonderful book. The release of this book will be marked in history as a major event leading the Western Culture to the exploration of Enlightenment and the end of all sorrow. May you find Enlightenment as a personal experience.. Bill Savoie Update: 1/26/14 This book can be read more than three times. Yes, it is not an easy read, but the subject information is hard, so keep at it. Reread, like I do, a paragraph several times. The earth will shift in this way. The efforts you place in this book will not be wasted. At some point, it all makes so much sense, you just swim in an ongoing non-conceptual bliss. You can really let go of your personality and even better, not need to fix anyone who chooses to keep theirs. The value of that is priceless. Review: Worth many readings - Maitri was one of the first group of students to whom the Chilean psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo presented the enneagram system in the United States. If you are already familiar with the nine personality types of the enneagram, this book will deepen your understanding. It is fun and fascinating to note how human beings fall into nine ways of relating to reality. It can also be useful in our encounters with ourselves and others to realize that we are not all motivated in the same ways. Maitri illuminates these aspects of personality and then goes on to show how each of us can move beyond an intellectual understanding of personality and beyond identification with our personality to a seeing of what our personality blinds us to, an ability to be onto oneself. A beginning point for everyone is bringing awareness to the body. Maitri says: "By bringing consciousness to our bodies, experiencing and fully allowing whatever sensations, emotions, and thoughts that arise within our consciousness, we move deeper into ourselves and start feeling more in contact with ourselves. This shift of focus from outer directedness to inner exploration in and of itself begins to take some of the wind out of the personality's sails. As we begin exploring the terrain within us, one of the first things that we typically encounter is our inner `shoulds' that come from our internal critic, the superego. This voice inside of us, which is the internalization of composite authority figures from childhood, was the final layer of the personality to develop, and so it is the first that we encounter. . . . One of the first orders of business on our inner journey, then, is learning to defend against the superego." Maitri continues to describe the process which leads to a shift in identity from our personality to our essential nature. This very interesting and wise book is worth many readings. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #320,661 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #295 in Popular Psychology Personality Study #1,705 in Happiness Self-Help #2,497 in Spiritual Self-Help (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (293) | | Dimensions | 5.98 x 0.75 x 9.02 inches | | Edition | Reprint | | ISBN-10 | 1585420816 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1585420810 | | Item Weight | 12.6 ounces | | Language | English | | Print length | 336 pages | | Publication date | February 19, 2001 | | Publisher | Tarcher | ## Images ![The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51aQ-8hmo0L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful help on the road to Enlightenment *by W***E on June 27, 2004* When we are fully awake and alive to the present moment, we don't need a personality. Sandra documents the fall into uncounsciousness most of us took between the ages of 3 and 6 where we built a personality. A personality is our way to fake it when we are not fully connected. She documents a way to see the personality as having 9 types. Each of these types hides an aspect of truth that we fail to experience. Each type is a way to fake being connected. Each Enneatype is therefore a way to spin reality, to make it look like we are not broken and lost. This work is so powerful it might cause you to break down and cry, because it will nail your way to avoid life. After you cry you will feel 'born again' with a fresh new look on life. I have read this book three times and sent 4 copies to my friends. Our local UU church here in Alabama has a 17 member study group meeting once a week, working through this wonderful book. The release of this book will be marked in history as a major event leading the Western Culture to the exploration of Enlightenment and the end of all sorrow. May you find Enlightenment as a personal experience.. Bill Savoie Update: 1/26/14 This book can be read more than three times. Yes, it is not an easy read, but the subject information is hard, so keep at it. Reread, like I do, a paragraph several times. The earth will shift in this way. The efforts you place in this book will not be wasted. At some point, it all makes so much sense, you just swim in an ongoing non-conceptual bliss. You can really let go of your personality and even better, not need to fix anyone who chooses to keep theirs. The value of that is priceless. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Worth many readings *by J***E on August 2, 2013* Maitri was one of the first group of students to whom the Chilean psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo presented the enneagram system in the United States. If you are already familiar with the nine personality types of the enneagram, this book will deepen your understanding. It is fun and fascinating to note how human beings fall into nine ways of relating to reality. It can also be useful in our encounters with ourselves and others to realize that we are not all motivated in the same ways. Maitri illuminates these aspects of personality and then goes on to show how each of us can move beyond an intellectual understanding of personality and beyond identification with our personality to a seeing of what our personality blinds us to, an ability to be onto oneself. A beginning point for everyone is bringing awareness to the body. Maitri says: "By bringing consciousness to our bodies, experiencing and fully allowing whatever sensations, emotions, and thoughts that arise within our consciousness, we move deeper into ourselves and start feeling more in contact with ourselves. This shift of focus from outer directedness to inner exploration in and of itself begins to take some of the wind out of the personality's sails. As we begin exploring the terrain within us, one of the first things that we typically encounter is our inner `shoulds' that come from our internal critic, the superego. This voice inside of us, which is the internalization of composite authority figures from childhood, was the final layer of the personality to develop, and so it is the first that we encounter. . . . One of the first orders of business on our inner journey, then, is learning to defend against the superego." Maitri continues to describe the process which leads to a shift in identity from our personality to our essential nature. This very interesting and wise book is worth many readings. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Did not think that I would like it, but did *by D***L on November 28, 2010* Having read 7-8 books on the E already, I have been sort of tired of it for a while. Some of the criticisms of this book scared me off at first. After some time I became interested in the E again, trying to see the types as more like archetypes of the different sides to a person, than types. I found more of that here than other E books. Although each chapter deals with a Type. The chapters were sort of boring at times. But there were several things I enjoyed. She spoke more about the implicit phenomenological experience of each type than any other E book. Others tend to focus on behaviors much more. I loved the description of the inner triangle. And took away many insights about the nature of the Human Condition. And in a more dyanmic, three dimensional way than any other spiritual philosophy I have seen. East or West. I also loved the descriptions of the idealized aspect at the end of book. I've been looking for a way of making more sense of the essential aspects. I like Almaas' works, but his 5ness tends to show, and the essential aspects are all over the place. With this book, I was able to draw out my own E of the essential aspects. Finally, I thought the soulchild thing sounded cheezy. But when reading about it, it made perfect sense. So, to sum up, from originally rejecting this book, I found it to be one of the top E books I've come across. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul - The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types - The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues: Finding the Way Home --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/14822071-the-spiritual-dimension-of-the-enneagram-nine-faces-of-soul](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/14822071-the-spiritual-dimension-of-the-enneagram-nine-faces-of-soul) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-05-09*