DIRECTORY

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ABOUT SOULSPEAK
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CHRISTOPHER HICKEY'S
FASCINATING BIOGRAPHY
OF PSYCHIC ALICE HICKEY

If you miss this intimate, quirky portrait , you'll be the poorer for it.

INVESTIGATION
OF ALTERNATIVE
WORLD VIEWS

Alternative thinkers are onto something, but some sloppy thinking about preliterate cultures, myths and consciousness needs a good hard slap with a ruler.

SOULSPEAK MOTHER GOOSE NURSERY RHYMES
FOR CREATIVE KIDS

If you want your kids to have their creativity boosted by one of the most creative minds in poetry, they should be watching this video series.

FUNNY VIDEOS
OF JOAN ALAMOS,
MEXICAN MOVIE STAR
FAMOSA

An over-the-top, hilarious look at Celebrity From South of the Border

CLICK HERE FOR
ALL THE LATEST
SOULSPEAK NEWS

AN INTRIGUING MEMOIR
OF ABORIGINE POET
ELDRED VAN-OOY

It's short, but it will take you to places you've never been.

FREE PDF
KINDLE E-BOOK VERSION ($2.95)

A POET'S VISION
OF SARASOTA
AND FLORIDA

A look at the haunting soul
beneath the shopping centers and condos.

FREE PDF
KINDLE E-BOOK VERSION ($2.95)

NURSERY RAPS

A falling-down-the-elevator- shaft version of the Nursery Rhymes

FREE PDF
KINDLE E-BOOK VERSION ($2.95)

ADORA

Intuitive,
Healer,
Spiritual Guide,
Spontaneous Spoken Poet.
Call her.

WHITEY VINOY'S MIND-BENDING,
ANIMATED VIDEO: BARBEQUE

If you think great storytelling went out of fashion a hundred years ago, you're in for a big surprise, Brother.

JUSTIN'S FAVORITE
DREAMSTORY VIDEOS

Where art videos should be going. Justin's own selection of his groundbreaking, prizewinning work.

VIDEO SOULSPEAK

When you're tired of looking at the same old crap, here's a groundbreaking free web video station that will open you up like flower.

RADIO SOULSPEAK

Think of a dream consisting only of sound.

The best, most eclectic music/ spoken word free web radio in the world.

LEARN HOW
TO CREATE DEEPER,
MORE MOVING POEMS

You should know by now that moving words around has nothing to do with it.

JUSTIN'S KNOLS ON
JULIAN JAYNES AND
PRELITERATE ORAL
POETRY

If you think you really understand preliterate cultures and poetry, be prepared for a surprise.

MERIDA MEXICO
TRAVEL VIDEOS

It's not the home of the Mayans for nothing. An artist's look at the most peaceful city in all of Mexico.

BEST PLACES TO EAT IN SARASOTA

Don't visit Sarasota without checking out these videos of Justin's favorite spots. Guaranteed great food, inexpensive menus, friendly service by family owned and operated restaurants and cafes.

BEST PLACES TO EAT
IN MERIDA, YUCATAN,
MEXICO

Don't travel to the Yucatan without viewing these videos of good, safe, inexpensive places to eat: yucateca style, tacos, mariscos, real pizza, chinese, desayuno buffet, sandwiches.

ABOUT SOULSPEAK / THE LATEST SOULSPEAK PROJECTS

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ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO KNOW SOULSPEAK IS TO LISTEN TO IT. HERE'S A LINK TO OUR 24/7/365 WEB RADIO STATION, RADIO SOULSPEAK.

JUST CLICK ON THE PLAY ARROW

WANT SOME PRINT? OK HERE IT IS:

ABOUT SOULSPEAK

SOULSPEAK is an organization of poets, musicians and artists founded by poet Justin Spring in 1992. We believe that the spontaneous, communal speaking of poetry, the poetry of preliterate man is an instinctive human act that can be learned, or more to the point, re-awakened in anyone.

We call our contemporary, highly musical adaptation of that poetry SOULSPEAK. It is a primal, largely unconscious poetry. Our audio and video recordings of SOULSPEAK, which we usually make under the name, MANY VOICES of SOULSPEAK, combine spontaneous oral poetry, singing and music in a multi-voiced stream.

What you will hear on our audio and video recordings, however, is not a 40,000 year-old sound, but an eclectic contemporary sound based on the very same ancient principles of spontaneous composition. Nothing is rehearsed, planned or edited. What you hear is what took place at that moment. We call these highly spiritual, spontaneous communal poems, speakings.

We also believe SOULSPEAK offers poets an attractive alternative to our contemporary, over-intellectualized written poetry, especially if they are seeking to move their poetry into audio and video forms.

We have taught this same poetry to thousands of individuals of all ages, many of them students, as SOULSPEAK allows anyone to create beautiful poems within minutes.

Many have also participated through our SOULSPEAK Healing Programs, as SOULSPEAK allows anyone to speak from the unconscious in a beautiful, healing and cathartic way.

Because SOULSPEAK bypasses the conscious mind, it is especially effective in treating those groups resistant to standard therapeutic procedures. A White Paper on those results is available by clicking here.

THE LATEST SOULSPEAK PROJECTS

JUSTIN SPRING'S GUARANTEED BEST PLACES TO EAT

I am a big eater and a big fan of family owned restaurants that serve great food at good prices and who see their restaurants not only as a way of making a living but also as a way of sharing of the things they love.

I have compiled a series of video reviews of restaurants in the Sarasota Florida area and in Alamos and Merida Mexico of places where I love to eat and have never had a bad meal. If you visit any of these cities, check this link out:

GOOD PLACES TO EAT

Now playing: JUSTIN SPRING

Here's my latest soundtrack music. I composed it with Garage Band. You can turn it off by clicking on pause on the SOUNDCLICK Player.

Alternative World Views

As many of you may know, I have a strong interest in alternative world views (UFOs, alien abductions, psychic healing, Atlantis, etc) but am dismayed how uninformed many proponents of these views are of the nature of the preliterate sources they are using as stone cold facts to support their theories.

I'm also dismayed how ignorant some proponents are of the power of the unconscious mind to project visions into this world, preferring to see those psychic events as alien abductions from outer space.

I have started a new blog to supply what I see as necessary corrections. You can see the blog: ALTERNATIVE WORLD VIEWS at http://scyllasoulspeak1.blogspot.com/

Here is a sample of a few of the videos:

THE PREHISTORIC ROOTS OF POETRY

Here is my new VIDEO series on the preliterate origins of poetry. If you want to know why poetry has the characteristics it does, and what really separates it from prose and everything else, check out THE PSYCHIC, UNCONSCIOUS ROOTS OF POETRY.

A NEW VIDEO SERIES OF A COMIC NATURE:
WHITEY AND THE MOON LADY'S CRAZY TALKING SHOW: A NO-HOLDS BARRED COMEDY TALK SHOW.

ANOTHER NEW VIDEO SERIES BY PSYCHIC/POET/PERFORMER ADORA.
CONVERSATIONS WITH ADORA

I PLAN TO BE BROADCASTING MORE LIVE SHOWS IN THE FUTURE. CHECK IN EVERY SO OFTEN TO SEE WHAT THEY ARE.

WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE,
YOU CAN VIEW THEM LIVE
RIGHT HERE:

Live streaming video by Ustream

SOME OTHER STUFF

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO AREN'T FAMILIAR WITH SOULSPEAK, IT IS A CONTEMPORARY VERSION OF ANCIENT, PRELITERATE ORAL/MUSICAL POETRY

SOULSPEAK IS ALSO THE NAME OF MY ORGANIZATION, WHICH IS DEDICATED TO BRINGING THE BEAUTY AND HEALING POWER OF POETRY AND THE ALLIED ARTS INTO THE EVERYDAY LIVES OF EVERYDAY PEOPLE

HERE ARE SOME OF MY PRIZEWINNING DREAMSTORIES.

SOME OLD THINGS

YOU SHOULD BE
TUNING IN:

RADIO SOULSPEAK
VIDEO SOULSPEAK

SOME NEW THINGS I'M DOING:

CLICK HERE:

VIDEO LIFE PORTRAITS

A PROGRAM EVERY GRANDPARENT SHOULD BE INTERESTED IN:

OTHER NEW PROJECTS

2. KNOLS. SOME OF THE KNOLS I HAVE WRITTEN ON (1) JULIAN JAYNES' THEORIES ON PRELITERATE CONSCIOUSNESS AND (2) THE NATURE OF PRELITERATE ORAL POETRY.

1. A NEW VIDEO SERIES on
How To Create Better Poems
using the SOULSPEAK method, which unlocks our inborn ability to create better narrative poems by quieting the conscious mind so that the poem can form itself automatically.

3. A LIVE WEB VIDEO SERIES. Every Sunday at 4PM EST, I host a lively, call-in show on the Psychic, Unconscious Roots of Poetry.

4. REALLY FUNNY VIDEOS. Some new and very funny, quirky celebrity spoofs: JOAN ALAMOS: MEXICAN MOVIE STAR FAMOSA.

5. SOULSPEAK MOTHER GOOSE. Animated Nursery Rhymes for Creative Artistic Children, ages 2-6 and UP.

6.THE REAL SKINNY ON "ALICE HICKEY: BETWEEN WORLDS". CLICK HERE TO SEE A CHATTY VIDEO SERIES ON THE CHARACTERS, PLACES AND THEMES OF MY PRIZE-WINNING NOVEL, ALICE HICKEY.
I MADE THE VIDEOS TO EMPHASIZE THE FACT THAT THE NOVEL IS REALLY A FICTIONALIZED MEMOIR (2000-2007) OF MY TRAVELS WITH PSYCHIC ALICE HICKEY THROUGH FLORIDA, CALIFORNIA, MEXICO AND PANAMA IN AN ATTEMPT TO UNRAVEL A SERIES OF PSYCHIC EVENTS THAT OVERWHELMED ME IN 2000-2001.

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SOULSPEAK is an organization founded by poet and Artistic Director Justin Spring in 1992.

SOULSPEAK has been best known for its innovative spontaneous poetry programs in the at-risk community to help those populations express their fears, conflicts and joys. Over 3000 children and adults have participated in SOULSPEAK programs for creative, healing expression.

ART WORK: HAND OF TIME BY SCYLLA LISCOMBE, CHE PRIMAVERA BY JUSTIN SPRING, MISC PHOTOS BY JUSTIN SPRING AND SCYLLA

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