The publication of this book in 2000 brought to the burgeoning genre of enneagram books one of its most penetrating and spiritually grounded voices. This book became a classic of its kind, finding its way into multiple printings and the hearts and minds of thousands of readers — without exposure from the mainstream organs of media.

One of the first books to explore in an authentic and comprehensive way the original spiritual context of the enneagram, it shows how the enneagram not only reveals the egoic underpinnings of our personality structure, but when understood more deeply can help us contact our fundamental nature. This book illucidates how traversing the inner territory particular to our ennea-type can lead to profound fulfillment and meaning, as well as authentic spiritual realization.