It was adapted as a personality typology by Oscar Ichazo and Claudio Naranjo in the 1970's. Information about the types comes from people communicating their experiences to one another. According to the Enneagram, each of us posses elements of all nine types but in varying degrees. One type is primary, though it might not jell until maturity. We become proficient at viewing the world from one angle, but we can learn to become more flexible and balanced by emulating positive qualities of the other eight types.
Arrows are the types at the end of the two lines that radiate out from each other.
Leaning unconsciously toward our wings and moving along the arrows accounts for many of the variations within each type. We can also move intentionally toward our wings and arrows to strengthen certain traits and abilities. This book has 514 pages packed with detailed descriptions of not only all 9 Enneagram personality descriptions, but also decriptions of each wing AND as many as 9 different levels within each type. I must have book for anybody interested in really exploring their personality, healthy or unhealthy as it may be, learning how we got that way, which steps will help us improve oulselves, and how we function in the face of adversity. Twenty Thirty Forty Fifty Sixty Seconds.