A CHRISTIAN TRANSPOSITION OF THE ENNEAGRAM: WITH ...

Discovery, (New Jersey, Dimension Books (1984)
An early book on the enneagram from a Christian spiritual perspective.
Daniels, David, and Price, Virginia, The Essential Enneagram: The Definitive Personality Test and
Self-Discovery Guide, (HarperCollins, New York, 2000)
A brief presentation of the enneagram, which contains their self-discovery test which
otherwise can be taken on-line with a fee.
Dunne, Tad, Enneatypes, Method and Spirit: Our Nine Basic Compulsions, (Universal Publishers,
1999).
This book is available second-hand. He offers a more theoretical and methodological
perspective, has interesting perspectives on the triads, and it is from him that I got the
idea of using the transcendental precepts, though I do so in a different way than he
does. His book and earlier notes have been helpful to other enneagram authors.
Hurley, Kathleen, and Dobson, Theodore, My Best Self: Using the Enneagram to free the Soul
(HarperSanFrancisco: 1993)
This book offers original perspectives, and develops the intellectual, emotional, creative
centres in ways not found elsewhere. N.B.: Dobson later changed his name to Donson.
Lapid-Bogda, Ginger, What Type of Leader are you Using the Enneagram System to Identify
and Grow your Leadership Strengths and Achieve Maximum Success, (McGraw Hill, New York,
2007)
This book’s title explains its business rather than spiritual perspective. It offers a clear
and well-organized perspective on each of the enneatypes, concentrating on areas of
strength and areas of development for each one.
Maitri, Sandra, The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues: Finding the Way Home
(Tarcher/Penguin, New York: 2005)
----------------- The Spiritual Dimensions of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul
(Tarcher/Putnam: New York, 2000)
Sandra Maitri was trained by Claudio Naranjo in the first American-based group, and
her perspectives are those of the gnostic-type spirituality which I have tried to
transpose to some extent in my notes. Her spirituality is indebted to the diamond
approach of A.H. Almaas. A wealth of keen insights, and attempts to link the enneagram
with the work of Freud and Jung. The first book concentrates on the passions, the
second on the fixations.
Palmer, Helen, The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself and the Others in your Life (New York:
HarperOne, 1991)
This is a classic from one of the long-standing experts on the Enneagram. The original
goes back to 1988.
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