A groundbreaking exploration of the spiritual dimension of working with the enneagram by one of its earliest students and teachers in America. The enneagram is a widely used method of deciphering your personality by identifying yourself among nine basic types. Although the method has grown in popularity, almost all presentations treat it only as a typology of personality, a valuable psychological tool that can help people understand and change their behavior.Here is one of the first books to explore in an authentic and comprehensive way the original spiritual dimension of the enneagram. Among the most knowledgeable teachers of enneagram in America, Sandra Maitri shows how the enneagram not only reveals our personalities, but illuminates a basic "essence" within each of us. She shows how traversing the inner territory particular to our type can bring us profound fulfillment and meaning, as well as authentic spiritual development. The enneagram's true function, Maitri explains, is to "point the way to who we are beyond the level of personality, a dimension of ourselves that is infinitely more profound, more interesting, and more rewarding." In restoring the enneagram to its original spiritual context, The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram offers a unique and powerful tool for self-transformation. Brilliantly conceived, the book makes an important and long-lasting contribution to the literature of psycho-spirituality. Index