From Fixation to Freedom: The Enneagram of Liberation

by Eli Jaxon-Bear

Overview

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Yourself as you truly are? Or a mask that you identify as yourself? On From Fixation to Freedom, 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 parents of teenagers. They use it as an uncanny guide to nine character fixations that distinguish all humans from one another and relate them to the central passions in the world's sacred texts.

On From Fixation to Freedom, Eli Jaxon-Bear returns us to the Enneagram's original tradition, first revealed in modern times by the mystic Gurdjieff after visiting the mystery schools in the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia.

The Inner Truth of Who You Are

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, Jaxon-Bear teaches, 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, interact, and relate to each other.

With useful insights from other wisdom traditions, including Zen and Advaita, here is a unique way to self-understanding, revealed through this timeless system for knowing the inner truth of who you are, independent of exterior conditioning.

The Nine Points as a Path to Freedom

There are many works on the Enneagram that 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-Bear's From Fixation to Freedom, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591795933
Publisher:	Sounds True
Publication date:	04/01/2001
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 6.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Eli Jaxon-Bear was born Elliot Jay Zeldow in Brooklyn, New York, in 1947. He is an author, teacher, and founder of Pacific Center Press. A long-time student of the Enneagram, Eli published his first book on its use as a wisdom mirror, Healing the Heart of Suffering, in 1989. In 1996, he founded The Leela Foundation, a spiritual organization dedicated to world peace and freedom, which integrates insights of the Enneagram with the truth of nondual wisdom. Eli continues to teach and lead retreats based on the transmissions of his teacher, H.W.L. Poonja. Eli Jaxon-Bear is also the editor of Wake Up and Roar.

Table of Contents

The Desire for Happiness. . . . . . . . . . Roots of The Sacred Enneagram . . . . A Vehicle for Self-Inquiry. . . . . . . . . . Using the Enneagram . . . . . . . . . . . . The Inner Essence of the Enneagram What is Ego? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 ..............19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

PART II

THE ENNEAGRAM OF CHARACTER FIXATION

The Enneagram of Character Fixation. . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 The Three Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 The Three Animal Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 Obsessive-Compulsives: The Anger Points . . . . . . . . . . 49 Point Nine: The Core Anger Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 Point Eight: The Externalized Anger Point . . . . . . . . . .77 Point One: The Interiorized Anger Point . . . . . . . . . . .99

Hysterics: The Image Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121 Point Three: The Core Image Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Point Two: The Exteriorized Image Point . . . . . . . . . .143 Point Four: The Interiorized Image Point . . . . . . . . . .175

Paranoid Schizophrenics: The Fear Points. . . . . . . . . .173 Point Six: The Core Fear Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175 Point Seven: The Exteriorized Fear Point . . . . . . . . . .197 Point Five: The Interiorized Fear Point . . . . . . . . . . . .209 Movement and Relationships of the Points . . . . . . . . 223

PART III

WAKING UP: ESSENCE, TRANSCENDENCE,

AND SILENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

The Holy Idea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .239 The Holy Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .247 Qualities of Essence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .253 The Black Hole: Bliss and Despair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .257 The Way of Silence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .269

Editorial Reviews

“Eli’s profound teaching of the Enneagram is a support for true self-investigation. His model of the ego is useful for all seekers after truth. He shows the traps of mind and the possibility of waking up from the trance of suffering.” – Gangaji

“The Enneagram of Liberation is aptly named. Eli Jaxon-Bear has written a warm, engrossing book on the process of seeing through the veils. Readers sincerely seeking to use the Enneagram as part of their spiritual journey will be well-served by the wit and wisdom on these pages.” – Russ Hudson and Don Richard Riso, authors of The Wisdom of the Enneagram.

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