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April 19, 2009
Book Review - "The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues" by Sandra Maitri
This book is not an Introduction to the Enneagram, and this book review might not make sense to those unfamiliar with it. For a brief intro go elsewhere on Simon’s site to Consultancy or Books.
I discovered the Enneagram about 20 years ago and have found it invaluable in understanding myself and some of my friends and family who have also discovered it. However, I was complaining to a friend that I wanted to go deeper with it, rather than going around it again and she recommended Sandra Maitri’s Passions and Virtues book. I also misheard her and have read it before Maitri’s first book “The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram” but I would follow the advice my friend was trying to give me and read that one first.
“Passions and Virtues” does what it says on the tin. After an introduction, there are 9 chapters clustered not numerically but in corners – the outer corner with 9, 8 and 1; the image corner with 3, 2 and 4 and the fear corner with 6, 5 and 7. This meant, as a 6, I had to wait a long time to get to “mine” but my friend had wisely counselled me not to go straight to it. One of the gifts of the book was that there isn’t a chapter in it that you cannot relate to which immediately communicated the wisdom beneath the Enneagram – that we are all connected and struggle to not be bound by our passions whilst the virtues can feel forever elusive. In each chapter, Maitri describes the transformational process for each Ennea-type from their passion to their virtue. So, for a 9 from laziness to action, for an 8 from lust to innocence, for a 1 from anger to serenity, for a 3 from deceit to veracity, for a 2 from pride to humility, for a 4 from envy to equanimity, for a 6 from fear to courage, for a 7 from gluttony to sobriety and for a 5 from avarice to non-attachment.
The assumption of the book is based in what Freud called psychodynamic theory though the Ennegram had got there first. This is the world-view which says that when we were children we reacted to our environment in a way that gets hardwired as our main defence against the world. In Enneagram terms, this is our Enneatype. However, it is largely unconscious so to become aware of it and then to try to live more freely from it is a long and complex process – albeit apparently simple: we merely have to accept ourselves. This is why when we manage it in any shape or form, it feels like coming home which is the sub-title of the book – “Finding the way home”. Or as Eliot once magnificently put it:
“the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time”
Maitri bravely describes what this transformational process feels like for each Enneatype. It therefore does not make for light reading but equally she writes clearly and explains any psychological jargon. In my view, she uses the most useful insights of psychotherapy. Sometimes I wondered if she could have been more concise but maybe the subtleties of our inner processes require her careful slow unfolding. What results is nothing less than a map of the inner world of being human seen through the lens of the Enneagram, coloured by the understanding of psychotherapy and strongly flavoured with a good dose of Buddhism.
I believe I have understood the Enneagram much more deeply than I have understood it before but for me, the most compelling thing about this great achievement of a book is its spirituality. It sings of compassion and urges self-compassion from beginning to end. The message of each chapter is: “Dare to look at yourself. See your immense loveliness. See your less attractive moments. Do not focus all your energy on judging and banishing. Be merciful. Just keep looking and noticing and allowing your soul to simply be and be open to the reality of all that life is and slowly, by slowly, freedom will come and it will feel like home”.
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