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The 9 Dimensions of the Soul: Essence and the Enneagram

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In the past two decades many enlightenment books have been published. Some have fallen into the category of the trendy self-help variety. Nine Diminsions is about as far from those as can be imagined. It represents a great deal of care and thought on the part of its author. David Hey doesn't set forth easy answers to spiritual questions, free of any contribution on the reader's part. Here we find a path to self knowledge (and a way to know others as well) that can help us create and sustain meaningful relationships with those we love. The book is readable because it is obvious that Hey has spent considerable time thinking about his subject and his readers. He has written about a difficult subject with grace and courage.

David Hey has written a simple, profound, and important book for helping us understand the Enneagram. With clarity and precision, he has taken this often hard-to-understand aspect of the Enneagram -- the Essence in each of us and how this relates to our Enneagram type and our search for meaning -- and made it available in a form that reads like poetry. As an Enneagram author myself (Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work" and "What Type of Leader Are You?"),I understand the challenges involved in taking this sometimes compex material and putting it into a form that others can readily understand and use. David has risen to this challenge.

The Enneagram and the teachings of Gurdjieff I have found to be too arcane for the casual reader. Hey's book The 9 Dimensions of the Soul provides an entertaining and informative analysis of some of this difficult material. As you read this book it is impossible not to begin to see how the enneagram applies to our own actions and everyone we deal with in our lives. This book also gives insight on why we behave the way we do. What I also found both useful and fascinating is how these profiles can be applied to the collective and how we work together. I would recommend this book to anyone who has seen a pattern in their own behavior.

Having lived and worked with the enneagram for a number of years, this beautiful book has added so much and inspired me in my own process and in my work. I strongly recommend it to you who want to grow and you who want to know.

I've read alot of enneagram books, but this book definetly one of my favorites, precise, clear, and finally an enneagram book that did not repeat the usual material on types but offered original thoughts on presence, spirtual/psychological growth and the enneagram: recomend highly