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Ignorance is bliss except in self-awareness...
What you dont know about yourself can hurt you and your relationshipsand even keep you in the shallows with God. Do you want help figuring out who you are and why youre stuck in the same ruts? The Enneagram is an ancient personality typing system with an uncanny accuracy in describing how human beings are wired, both positively and negatively.
InThe Road Back to YouIan Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile forge a unique approacha practical, comprehensive way of accessing Enneagram wisdom and exploring its connections with Christian spirituality for a deeper knowledge of ourselves, compassion for others, and love for God. Witty and filled with stories, this book allows you to peek inside each of the nine Enneagram types, keeping you turning the pages long after you have read the chapter about your own number. Not only will you learn more about yourself, but you will also start to see the world through other peoples eyes, understanding how and why people think, feel, and act the way they do. Beginning with changes you can start making today, the wisdom of the Enneagram can help take you further along into who you really areleading you into places of spiritual discovery you would never have found on your own, and paving the way to the wiser, more compassionate person you want to become.

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InterVarsity Press PO Box 1400 Downers Grove IL 60515-1426 2016 by Ian - photo 1

InterVarsity Press
P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL 60515-1426

2016 by Ian Morgan Cron

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from InterVarsity Press.

InterVarsity Press is the book-publishing division of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, a movement of students and faculty active on campus at hundreds of universities, colleges and schools of nursing in the United States of America, and a member movement of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. For information about local and regional activities, visit intervarsity.org .

Published in association with Creative Trust Literary Group, 210 Jamestown Park, Suite 200, Brentwood, TN, 37027, creativetrust.com .

All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION , NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

While any stories in this book are true, some names and identifying information may have been changed or combined to protect the privacy of individuals.

Cover design: Cindy Kiple

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ISBN 978-0-8308-9327-0 (digital)
ISBN 978-0-8308-4619-1 (print)


Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Cron, Ian Morgan, 1960- author.
Title: The road back to you : an Enneagram journey to self-discovery / Ian
Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile.
Description: Downers Grove : InterVarsity Press, 2016. | Includes
bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016036470 (print) | LCCN 2016037719 (ebook) | ISBN
9780830846191 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780830893270 (eBook)
Subjects: LCSH: PersonalityReligious aspectsChristianity. | Typology
(Psychology)Religious aspectsChristianity. | Enneagram.
Classification: LCC BV4597.57 .C76 2016 (print) | LCC BV4597.57 (ebook) | DDC
248.4dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016036470


Grant, Lord, that I may know myself that I may know thee.

Augustine

Ian

To Anne, Cailey, Aidan, Maddie and Paul, with love

And to Wendell and Ella, my beloved companions

Suzanne

To Giuseppe, my love

And to Joey, Jenny, Joel and BJ, our hope

Contents

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

General George S. Patton Jr.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.

Anne Lamott

I want you to be happy, but I want to be the reason.

Unknown

The real question is, can you love the real me?... Not that image you had of me, but who I really am.

Christine Feehan

If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you.

Tim Burton

I think I am, therefore, I am. I think.

George Carlin

Theres no harm in hoping for the best as long as youre prepared for the worst.

Stephen King

Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings!

Peter Pan

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.

Thomas Merton

1
A Curious Theory of Unknown Origin

One Saturday morning, my cell phone rang at 7:00 a.m. Only one person in the world dares call me at that hour.

Is this my youngest son, Ian? my mother said, pretending to be unsure shed called the right number.

Yes, its me, I said, playing along.

What are you working on? she asked.

At that moment I wasnt working on anything. I was standing in the kitchen in my boxers wondering why my Nespresso was making end-of-life noises and imagining all the sad ways an early morning conversation with my mother could end if my coffeemaker broke and I was deprived of my days first cup.

Im thinking about writing a primer on the Enneagram, I said, gratefully watching a black stream of coffee love fill my mug.

The sonogram? she shot back.

No, I said the

The anagram? she said, firing a second round before I could stop her.

Enneagram. Enneagram! I repeated.

Whats the any-a-gram? she said.

My mother is eighty-two years old. For sixty-seven of those years she has smoked Pall Malls, successfully avoided exercise and eaten bacon with impunity. She has never needed glasses or a hearing aid and is so spry and mentally acute youd think nicotine and inactivity were the keys to a long and happy life. Shed heard what I said the first time.

I smiled and continued with one of my Enneagram elevator speeches. The Enneagram is an ancient personality typing system. It helps people understand who they are and what makes them tick, I said.

There was a long, utterly airless silence on the other end of the phone. I felt like I had been suddenly flung wildly into a black hole in a far-off galaxy.

Forget the angiogram. Write a book about going to heaven and coming back, she said. Those authors make money.

I winced. They also have to die first.

Details, she purred, and we laughed.

My mothers tepid response to the idea of my writing a book about the Enneagram gave me pause. I had my own reservations about the project as well.

When my grandmother didnt know what to make of something she would say it was novel. I suspect thats how shed describe the Enneagram. No one knows for certain when, where or who first came up with the idea for this map of the human personality. What is clear is that its been a work in progress for a long time. Some trace its origins back to a Christian monk named Evagrius, whose teachings formed the basis for what later became the Seven Deadly Sins, and to the desert mothers and fathers of the fourth century, who used it for spiritual counseling. Some say that elements of the Enneagram also appear in other world religions, including Sufism (the mystical tradition within Islam) and Judaism. In the early 1900s an undeniably strange teacher named George Gurdjieff used the ancient nine-pointed geometric figure, or enneagram, to teach esoteric subjects unrelated to personality types. (I know, I know: if I end the story here I could add Harrison Ford and a monkey and have the backstory for an Indiana Jones movie. But wait, the plot thins!)

In the early 1970s a Chilean named Oscar Ichazo happened upon the Enneagram and made significant contributions, as did one of his pupils, an American-trained psychiatrist named Claudio Naranjo, who developed it further by weaving insights drawn from modern psychology into it. Naranjo brought the Enneagram back to the United States and presented it to a small group of students in California, including a Catholic Jesuit priest and educator on sabbatical from Loyola Seminary named Father Robert Ochs.

Impressed with the Enneagram, Ochs returned to Loyola, where he taught it to seminarians and priests. It soon became known among clergy, spiritual directors, retreat leaders and laypeople as a helpful aid to Christian spiritual formation.

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