Scenes from Animal Life: Nine Pairs of Fables for the Enneagram Types

Title

en_US Scenes from Animal Life: Nine Pairs of Fables for the Enneagram Types

Description

en_US Original language: ger

en_US Waltraud Kirschke; Translated by Sister Isabel Mary SLG

Creator

en_US Kirschke, Waltraud

Contributor

en_US Lane, Dee

Date

2016-01-25T19:50:50Z

en_US 2005-04

en_US 1998

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:50:50Z

Date Issued

en_US 1998

Abstract

en_US Copyrighted in German by Claudius Verlag Munich as Enneagramms Tierleben: 2 x 9 Fabeln. This is one of those books that cost twice as much to have sent as to buy. It is worth it on both counts! I have read the first four fables--on enneagram types 1 and 2--as well as the two fables on type 8. The stories are perhaps more finely worked, more layered, and more complex than fables usually are, but they are instructive. My favorite is the sad tale of the cat, a type 2, who has helped everybody in the household and farm and then feels forsaken and leaves when she finds another cat in the kitchen. Actually, the family was just taking care of someone else's cat for a week. There may be many of us who can learn the enneagram types better through stories than we can through long descriptions or lists of characteristics. In any case, I found that the stories have even more effect if one reads them first and then consults a standard description of the particular type represented there. This promises to be a helpful book. It also makes me want to consult more of the work of Manfred Kyber.

Identifier

en_US 9780728301498 (pbk.)

en_US 6159 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81565

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US SLG Press: Convent of the Incarnation

en_US Oxford

Subject

en_US BF698.35.E54 K57 1998

en_US Enneagram

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole