Book Review: Self to Loose, Self to Find

Self to Lose, Self to Find: Using the Enneagram to Uncover Your True, God-Gifted Self, Revised and Updated

By: Marilyn Vancil

CONVERGENT BOOKS

2020

I am reviewing a copy of Self to Lose, Self to Find through Convergent Books and Netgalley:

Is the Enneagram a new age symbol, or is it Biblical?

What exactly does the Enneagram have to do with Jesus?

Marilyn Vancil who has been studying the Enneagram and how it relates to Christianity for over three decades describes it this way: The Enneagram is an accumulation of ancient spiritual teachings and current psychological research.

Vancil goes on to describe our false self, or our self to loose as the one that needs to adapt, adjust, and accommodate to the world in which we live. It’s the self we eventually believe we must be in order to survive and have our basic needs met.

Our Self to Find is described as our new self, our true self the one created to reflect God’s image in a unique way. It’s our deeper self that’s made to be in union with God. It’s the self that longs to emerge through the layers of our Adapted Self in order to experience and express our original design.