SOULSPEAK: The Outward Journey of the Soul

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Here’s what others are saying about SOULSPEAK: The Outward Journey of the Soul:

Here is a book that really explains not only the origins of poetry, but how today we can again create poetry as a form of the soul speaking. Justin Spring is passionate and compelling in his pursuit of this pure poetry, what he calls the outward journey of the soul. And in his text he teaches all of us how to speak from a deeper place,letting the unconscious, or the soul, rise up into language and art.

Victoria Sullivan, poet, playwright, editor of PLAYS BY AND ABOUT WOMEN

In an age in which so much of what people say is social gambit, political rhetoric, make talk cliché, I applaud Justin Spring’s powerful technique for returning us to what is truly important, a language that means something, and that echoes vertically as well as sending out ripples horizontally; that is to say, it combines communication with a reference to the soul and the realm of the invisibles. It is a language that you could never be ashamed of having spoken....They are the glittering mantle in which the soul likes to wrap itself.

SOULSPEAK hovers between the realms of the Shaman’s magic and the priest’s incantation, the artist’s stroke, and the philosopher’s insight. Poetry is a calculus of the emotions, and if the poem is designed for immortality, also a calculus of the spirit. It describes a curve, An acceleration of realization, an epiphany; in short, the movements of the soul.

I advise you to work with this book..... try the exercises, sense the vast imponderable soul-animal Spring invokes for us, lying beneath us. Think that God is hovering nearby, just waiting to borrow your voice.

Dr. Stephen Larsen, Professor Emeritus SUNY, co-author

of FIRE IN THE MIND: LIFE OF JOSEPH CAMPBELL.

HERE IS A GUIDE TO WHAT THE BOOK CONTAINS:

SOULSPEAK: The Outward Journey of the Soul

is made up of two sections: 

 Section One: Parts I -IV

 Section Two: Part V




 
PARTS I-IV  ARE SPECIALIZED, AND CONTAIN THE BACKGROUND OF SOULSPEAK, A CONTEMPORARY FORM OF EARLY ORAL POETRY, AS WELL AS INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO CREATE IT. 


Here are the topics covered in Parts I-IV

Part I ~ Background and History

Chapter 1    Speaking to the Gods  Chapter 2    Accepting Tribal Art Chapter 3    The Vocabulary of Tribal Art Chapter 4    The Soul’s Stories  Chapter 5    The Effect of Writing on Consciousness Chapter 6  Preliterate Poetry⎯A Primer Chapter 7    SOULSPEAK as a Participatory Art

Part II ~ Preparing to Speak

Chapter 8  The Communal Nature of SOULSPEAK  Chapter 9    SOULSPEAK as a Journey Chapter 10  My Own Journey Continues

Part III ~ Creating a Speaking

Chapter 11  Creating a Speaking  Chapter 12  Some Additional Tips on Speaking  Chapter 13  Speaking and Responding Chapter 14  Expanding SOULSPEAK  Chapter 15  Other SOULSPEAK Catalysts Chapter 16  SOULSPEAK as an Aid to Writing Poetry Part IV ~ Some Final Thoughts on SOULSPEAK

Chapter 17  Some Final Thoughts on SOULSPEAK

SOME ADDITIONAL VIDEO RESOURCES FOR PARTS 1, 2,3, 4

Above are some examples of SOULSPEAK being used as a soundtrack for video versions of SOULSPEAK called  Dreamstories.

Click here for a video tutorial on SOULSPEAK: how to use it to create better, more moving poems.

Here is a Player with many variations of SOULSPEAK, starting with the  the haunting DARK JOURNEY. 

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MANY VOICES OF SOULSPEAK

 

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PART V

PART 5 OF THE BOOK WILL BE OF INTEREST TO ANYONE SEEKING TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE HISTORY AND NATURE OF ANCIENT ORAL POETRY. 

THE RELATIONSHIP OF WRITTEN POETRY TO PRELITERATE ORAL POETRY IS DISCUSSED IN DEPTH. 

THERE IS ALSO AN EXAMINATION OF THE VARIOUS FORMS OF CONTEMPORARY SPOKEN POETRY.

 
Here are the topics covered in Part V

Chapter 18 The State of Contemporary Poetry
Chapter 19 What Oral Poetry Brings to the Table
Chapter 20 We Have Mistaken the Totem for the God
Chapter 21 The Encroaching Sea of Orality
Chapter 22 Oral Poetry: Common and UncommonSpeech
Chapter 23 The Transition from Oral to Written Poetry
Chapter 24 A Brief History of Oral and Written Poetry
Chapter 25 The Form of Oral Poetry
Chapter 26 The Difference Between Oral and Written Composition
Chapter 27 Let’s Pretend You’re an Epic Poet
Chapter 28 Oral Poetry as a Galapagos of Poetry
Chapter 29 Rap and Slam Poetry
Chapter 30 Performance and Music in Poetry
Chapter 31 Using Rap and Homer to Convince the Skeptical




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