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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In the late summer of 1989 three books on the Enneagram appeared in German-speaking bookstores within the space of a few weeks. One of them was the first edition of this book. Since then more than three hun- dred thousand copies of it have been handed across shop counters and the original text has been translated into many other languages. Richard Rohr and I have given numerous lectures and conferences on the Ennea- gram. The German “Ecumenical Enneagram Working Group” (based in Celle) which has more than five hundred members has developed a lively organizational life. We have had the opportunity of getting to know other important Enneagram teachers and learning from them. And so it was high time to rework and update our book. But we have given up any really grand-scale solution. That would have meant rewriting the book and working into it the flood of literature that has since come out. We have decided instead on a small-scale solution since our readers can acquire an overview of the Enneagram itself through other approaches and perspectives. Our book has remained substantially the same. We have inserted only the new insights that we ourselves have come upon and that have become especially important to us. This relates especially to the history of how the Enneagram came into being. Since the first edition we have become convinced that the Enneagram does not derive from medieval Islamic (Sufi) sources but can be traced back at least in part to the Christian desert monk Evagrius Ponticus (d. 399) and the Franciscan Blessed Ram?n Lull (1236-1315). Above and beyond that we have made a few stylistic improvements. (LL)