Discover Your Soul Potential: Using the Enneagram to Awaken Spiritual Vitality

by Kathy Hurley

Discover Your Soul Potential shows how to use the Enneagram as a gateway into the full potential of your soul. With it, you can live with simplicity, clarity and compassion; you will feel inspired to create a new partnership between the ordinary and EXTRAordinary sides of your potential. The authors combine insights from mystical traditions with contemporary psychology and their intimate knowledge of the Enneagram to provide this tool for ongoing growth. As part of their life quest to help people live from the power of their own souls, they explain how spiritual vitality can be the privilege, inheritance and responsibility of every human being. Because of its practical approach, this groundbreaking book makes vitality easily accessible to all.

Genres: Nonfiction

260 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2000

Reviews

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you’re looking for a book to fully explain the enneagram and you’re a beginner in that particular personality study, this isn’t the book for you. If you already have a solid understanding of the enneagram and are looking to supplement it, you may or may not enjoy this book. It had potential (no irony intended) in the way it broke up the enneagram into our wounds as a child and how we responded to those wounds making us who we are. Fascinating. It also had potential in talking about the repressed center (each enneagram type has a repressed center - and the three centers are: feeling, thinking, and doing) and how understanding your centers and the way they operate based on your enneagram number can help you understand yourself better. Personally I learned something new about my enneagram number (1) regarding thinking being my repressed center, which really surprised me since I think alllll the time. So learning my thinking wasn’t as effective as someone without a repressed thinking center was interesting. And seeing on paper that I overthink wasn’t wholly surprising but was at least reassuring.

It was just a little bit too spiritual for me. And in a vague, God is every religion, sort of way. Although I also appreciated the focus on deeper work going on internally rather than just working on the ego or the pseudo self. Definitely appreciated the authors’ focus on authenticity and honesty with self. The writing was just a little too mythical for me at times and the book somewhat repetitive. But I did learn more about stances and repressed centers, and that was worth the read! A cool little supplement of a book, is my takeaway. Don’t take it all too seriously.

[Joshua Carney · Rating 3 out of 5]

this is an enneagram book on stance work.

i think my experience was shaped by the fact that I had done a good bit of enneagram reading before I got to this. in that regard, i should have probably skipped over the large chunk of enneagram descriptions in the middle.

Still, the "soul work" stuff in the book was very helpful and pushed me to think.

i feel like theo and kate could have included a few more anecdotes, but I'd recommend the book for those looking to move past a primer on the enneagram.

[Nancy · Rating 4 out of 5]

A classic for understanding and utilizing the enneagram to deepen spirituality from a Christian perspective which I have read before. The material is densely detailed which may put off a casual reader but it successfully synthesizes different psychological and spiritual ideas that can lead to transformative personal growth.

[Hillary Chapman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Borrowed from a friend from church as we were discussing the Enneagram. Not sure this is my thing but I did try and got through half of it.

[Barbara P · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fabulous book to aid in my understanding of the Enneagram tool.