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Facets of Unity: The Enneagram of Holy Ideas
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A.H. Almaas
Facets of Unity presents the Enneagram of Holy Ideas as a crystal clear window on the true reality experienced in enlightened consciousness. Here we are not directed toward the psychological types but the higher spiritual realities they reflect. We discover how the disconnection from each Holy Idea leads to the development of its corresponding fixation, thus recognizing e...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
September 5th 2000
by Shambhala
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Loved this book. I found it so helpful. I'm reading it a second time and will probably read it a third.
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Amazing, profound, deepens with every reading.
Usually Almaas is too heady for me, but this book is working. He has a great introductory chapter on Basic Trust! I disagree with his thesis that our enneagram type is "caused" by the type of parenting we receive since I was able to tell which types my boys were (and other friends children) within a week of their birth! Certainly parenting impacts us, but we come to earth with strong pre-dispositions. Emphasis on Holy Ideas---and I'm really working with these to open my psyche to th...more
If there were cards for the Diamond Approach, I would get one. I like spiritual writing very much, and Almaas is the crem d'la crem. This book may not be the best for beginners.
Still working through this in combination with Sandra Maitri's Spiritual Dimensions of the Enneagram. Maitri is more accessible, but the original is Almaas. Great book.
This man has amazing insight into the Human psyche, and the path to Remembering our Perfection.
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