The Tao of Chaos: Essence and the Enneagram (Quantum Consciousness, Volume II) [Paperback]

Stephen Wolinsky (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1994 | ISBN-10: 1883647029 | ISBN-13: 978-1883647025

Now, from the author of the highly acclaimed Trances People Live, Quantum Conscious- ness, and The Dark Side of the Inner Child, Dr. Stephen Wolinsky offers his fourth Now, from the author of the highly acclaimed Trances People Live, Quantum Consciousness, and The Dark Side of the Inner Child, Dr. Stephen Wolinsky offers his fourthground-breaking volume, The Tao of Chaos: Essence and the Enneagram. In this book Wolinsky gives us a path to our essential nature by allowing chaos to be the rule rather than the exception. A process whereby chaos becomes our friend, a familiar experience, a welcome home or even a fuel to bring us back to our universal self. Wolinsky shows us that dysfunctional personality is created as a resistance to chaos. All of our efforts to order chaos through resisting it by creating more and more systems to manage it have fallen short. It appears obvious that a personality born of chaos and resistance to chaos can only beget more chaos and resistance. The Tao of Chaos is about looking at our most resisted experience and finding that chaos is no longer an enemy but a friend. Exercises throughout the book will ask you to experience your chaos and by "getting to know" it you will "get to know" the essence of your real self.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Stephen Wolinsky is rewriting modern psychology. Do yourself a favor and get in on the first edition. -Larry Dossey M.D. This book is very timely in that it focuses on one of the major virtues of creative people- their ability to go on in spite of chaos and imperfections in their lives. Wolinsky masterfully develops therapy exercises to improve our ability to deal with chaos. -Amit Goswami Ph.D. This book is brilliant and it has fantastic and wonderful insights. I shall go back to it again and again. -Deepak Chopra M.D. Stephen Wolinsky offers a profound and unique approach that joins quantum physics and chaos theory to the physics and metaphysics of consciousness. In doing so he discovers radical but powerful methods to transform and enhance the human condition. It is quite possible that the process of therapy will never be the same.

Product Details

• Paperback: 364 pages
• Publisher: Bramble Books (January 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883647029
• ISBN-13: 978-1883647025
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #482,216 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, February 10, 2000

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Kay Crawley (Griffin, GA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Tao of Chaos: Essence and the Enneagram (Quantum Consciousness, Volume II) (Paperback)

I have read three of Wolinsky's books . Trances people live , Quantum Consciounes, and now this one . I think He should be so much more well known than he is. This guy is a Genius,and I don't use the word lightly. If you are seeking enlightenment don't go to India or take some expensive course just buy the book the secret is in their.

25 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I should have known better, August 2, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Tao of Chaos: Essence and the Enneagram (Quantum Consciousness, Volume II) (Paperback)

This book and its author are endorsed by some of the most vague, soft-on-the-science type of new-agers out there; I purchased it despite this because I was researching the enneagram of personality heavily at the time. This was a mistake. Wolinsky has nothing new to add to the enneagram, and his "chaos" approach to psychology has nothing to do with chaos science, which he readily admits he does't understand at all--he simply uses it as a marketing tool, one he has, incredibly, copyrighted. This looney book might serve as a useful introduction to the basic typological descriptions, but if you're already familiar with them, skip it. Unless, of course, you're one of the millions who finds foggy, feelgood psychobabble of the kind K. Wilber, D. Chopra, L. Dossey and the rest of their gang write appealing--this guy does the same, only with more qualifications and less originality.