There are many enneagram writers and teachers who discuss the enneagram of personality and its impact on interpersonal relationships but don’t approach the enneagram’s spiritual dimension. Many of them have contributed enormously to our understanding and have helped individuals, couples, businesses, and other groups in significant ways. So how–and why–do we use the enneagram with a spiritual purpose?
The history of the enneagram is ancient and rich, with its earliest known applications being spiritual and cosmic ones. The symbol itself represents universal oneness, and the philosophy underlying the teachings contains components from mystical Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Taoism, Buddhism, and ancient Greek philosophy. While the enneagram offers lessons at multiple levels and on many dimensions, its deepest teachings touch us at our core and point us toward our essential oneness with everyone and everything.
If we are open to such depths of experience and understanding, then we can use the enneagram to find inner guidance and inner knowing. The enneagram offers deep wisdom, and what is more spiritual than that?
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