When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Your self as you truly are? Or a mask that you identify as yourself? On The Enneagram Tapes, you will learn how an ancient tool for self-inquiry can help you uncover the truth of your own being, and see that the possibilities for your life are limited only by your misidentification.A Return to the Enneagram's Original Tradition With roots in antiquity, the Enneagram is one of the world's most enduring systems for understanding the human mind. Today it is popular among career counselors, religious study groups, therapists, and even the parents of teenagers. On The Enneagram Tapes, Eli Jaxon-Bear returns us to the Enneagram¹s original tradition, first revealed in modern times by the mystic Gurdjieff after visiting the mystery schools in the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia.
Everyone says that they want to be happy, Jaxon-Bear begins. So why is there so much suffering? The answer lies with our false identifications, and the fixations that define and limit them. The Enneagram can serve as a "wisdom mirror" that can help you look deeply into yourself, and wake up to your true nature.
In 12 entertaining lectures, and with the help of men and women sharing examples from their own lives, Jaxon-Bear guides you through the nine points of the Enneagram, examining the fixations that are unique to each one of them, and demonstrating how they move and relate with each other.
There are many works on the Enneagram which explain how to take advantage of your type's strengths, work around weaknesses, assess the types of others, and get along with them by "seeing through their eyes." Now, with Eli Jaxon-Bear¹s The Enneagram Tapes, the original purpose of this once secret spiritual system is fully illuminated: to move beyond fixation to freedom, and realize peace and self-liberation in this lifetime.