Emotions and the Enneagram: Working Through Your Shadow Life Script [Paperback]

Margaret Frings Keyes (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: Molysdatur Pubns; Revised edition (June 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1882042093
• ISBN-13: 978-1882042098
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #920,162 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Practical wisdom, April 17, 2006

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Mary R. Bast (Gainesville, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Emotions and the Enneagram: Working Through Your Shadow Life Script (Paperback)

I can't imagine where the reviewer was coming from who trashed this book and referred to it as "Spilled Esotericism" and a "parlor game." Margaret Frings Keyes is a respected psychotherapist who uses the Enneagram in intelligent and therapeutic ways, yet also offers practical ideas for people in everyday life to break free of unhealthy patterns. She is certainly of the same caliber as other authors writing on the subject.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Understand Yourself and Others Better with Emotions and Enneagrams, January 17, 2010

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April Braswell "Your Romance Coach" (Las Vegas, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Emotions and the Enneagram, Working Through Your Shadow Life Script (Paperback)

A former colleague with whom I worked a few years ago was always citing what he was guessing was different people at the office's Enneagram, and recommended I read Margaret Frings Keyes' book on it. Part of what like so much with her approach to discussing Enneagrams is that she approaches presenting the topic in a manner where an Enneagram novice like myself could both still grasp the concepts and utilize tools of "working through you shadow life script."

Since this is an older hard to find book, I'll add the photo cover this weekend and also provide you with the table of contents since it is too old to have the publisher provide the Amazon "Look Inside." That way you will have sufficient information available to you to determine if this is a book you want to purchase via the amazon used book sellers.

Preface: Feelings and Behavior
Behavior Programs
The Enneagram
Clearing Programs and Waking to a Wider Reality
(a very important exercise for us all to address)

PART I: We Live Side by Side in Different Worlds
{talk about parallel realities. With our differences in perspective, indeed, we really do move about in parallel universes. Can we break through and really SEE each other and BE together? At least in certain moments?

Introduction: To Know What We Feel and To Feel What We Know
Personality Programs for Behavior
The Perpetual Motion of the Enneagram
Enneagram Emotions in Response to Danger
[This is an essential section to read to understand and have compassion for different temperament's different fight or flee responses]
The Enneagram Programs
Structure of the Descriptions

Chapter One: The Programs of Submission/Depression
Chapter Two : The Programs of Anxiety and Flight
Chapter Three: The Programs of Anger and Fight

PART II: That You Become the Person Only You Can Be
[Pretty essential, n'est pas? Sounds reminiscent of the concept from The Rules (TM): Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right for women to practice being a CUAO - a Creature Unlike Any Other. We really are unique human beings with unique gifts to give to the world.]

Chapter Four Recovery - Out of the Shadows
Chapter Five: Moving
Chapter Six: A Program of Individual Work
Chapter Seven: The Process of Change; Three Stories
[think case studies]
Chapter Eight: Peacemaking, Integration and Laughter

That's it. It is just a 2 part book. Plenty of diagrams and visual charts for visual learners like myself to do well with the material.

An essential read for anyone is sales and business relationships as well as personal relationships

14 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Spilled Esotericism, April 9, 2002

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Robert William DeMarco "santangelo" (Seattle, Washington United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Emotions and the Enneagram: Working Through Your Shadow Life Script (Paperback)

The decision to allow esoteric traditions to become widely available is not in itself a mistake; sometimes the prudent choice is to hide valuable knowledge in a public place. But the consequences will usually include a merchandising of the information at the level of a parlor game by persons whose consciousness is dominated by what Eckhart called "merchant-mindedness." Those with serious interests in spirituality should consult the work of Helen Palmer, Claudio Naranjo, Oscar Ichazo, Sandra Maitri, and A. H. Almaas.