Soul Mapping: An Imaginative Way to Self-Discovery

by Kenneth C. Ruge, Richard W. Shoup, Nina H. Frost

Soul Mapping asks readers to actively participate in discovering their truest selves, to admit what D. H. Lawrence calls "the angels who are knocking at our doors." At the heart of the book is the creation of 12 maps, each organized around a key theme - including the present, childhood and family patterns, education, hobbies and pleasures, hidden desires, envies, prohibitions, fears, loss, and the future. Conceived to elicit unexpected epiphanies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569246459
• ISBN13: 9781569246450
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

get to know yourself

This book is such a gold mine for finding your true identity. It is a lot of work. You really have to spend some time to thoughtfully answer the questions posed but the effort is such a gift to yourself. I bought this book 8 years ago & just brought it out again. It is very useful during times of change. I highly recommend this book to anyone in need of some soul searching.

Hear even the "faint calls and small voices" of vocation

This is a superb book. It doesn't work out linearly: you could read one chapter and one chapter there and do their respective exercises without losing on anything. It's not a "read-only" book but a workbook where you reflect on different areas of your life and write down the key ideas you discovered about yourself. And even if you thoroughly worked on yourself before, you are subject to find out new, uncharted areas. It discusses such unexplored subjects as the envy you feel that gives clues about your vocation, the detours and losses of your life, the power of place (favorite travels and inner terrains). The last chapter puts everything together, whenever you're ready. Take your time, you could be working on it for many weeks or months. Enjoy yourself!

Soul Mapping Offers a Gradual, Deep Path to Self-Discovery

I have long been interested in the problem-framing approach known as mind mapping, and that's what led me to order a copy of this excellent new book. I have only had a copy of Soul Mapping in hand for about a week, and I am already very excited about the work I have completed in it. It's not one of those "instant fix" self-help books, but one that offers a curriculum for life change that will probably take me several months, or more, to work through slowly. I like that - the feeling that I am working gradually on a process that will help me better understand myself, my place in the world and the options available to me out there. It's a truly caring, thoughtful and intelligent book that emphasizes authentic life changes over quick ones. I'm very pleased and I hope this book will find the wide audience it deserves.