The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul

"I learned and worked with the knowledge of the enneagram in the same group as Sandra Maitri, led by Claudio Naranjo. The enneagram knowledge that this group worked with became the source of all enneagram books, except those of Oscar Ichazo, from whom Naranjo received that knowledge. We spent several years intensely and experientially working with this useful material within the context of inner spiritual transformation, resulting in an experience and depth of comprehension of it that I find preserved in Maitri's book. Her careful study of the enneagram types also reflects her continued experience in teaching it for many years, just as it embodies her mature understanding of spiritual transformation. Sandra is not only a teacher of the enneagram; she is first and foremost an experienced and fine teacher of inner spiritual transformation. Her book possesses a depth and completeness that I find missing in the existing enneagram literature." -- A.H. Almaas, founder and director of the Ridhwan School and author of books including THE ELIXIR OF ENLIGHTENMENT, THE VOID, THE PEARL BEYOND PRICE, and THE POINT OF EXISTENCE "In both her writing and teaching, Sandra Maitri has a brilliant capacity to explain esoteric, baffling concepts in a thoroughly relevant and thrilling manner. It is a privilege for me to have been counted as one of her students." -- Geneen Roth, author of FEEDING THE HUNGRY HEART and WHEN FOOD IS LOVE "Sandra Maitri is a cartographer of consciousness. The maps she plots are based on the enneagram, an ancient system of understanding human personality. And the destinations, the high roads of these maps, are what we all long for in our hearts -- freedom from the prison of repeating the old patterns, freedom to enter new territory. I highly recommend this book to anyone in search of a master cartographer to show the way through the narrows to ten thousand miles of clear sailing." -- Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D. co-author, THE FEMININE FACE OF GOD and THE CULTURAL CREATIVES, former Chair of Psychological Research, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Canada Sandra Maitri was a member of the first group of students to whom the Chilean psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo presented the enneagram system in the U.S. almost three decades ago. Throughout her many years of studying and teaching it, Maitri has preserved the legacy of this original transmission. In addition to her work with Naranjo, she has studied with various Eastern and Western spiritual and psychological teachers, including A.H. Almaas, founder of the contemporary spiritual path, the Diamond Approach. As one of the principal and supervising teachers of the Diamond Approach, she teaches the enneagram as part of the larger work of personal transformation, working with hundreds of students each year in the U.S. and Europe. She lives in Marin County, California.