Hi everyone, this is Jennifer Urezzio. I’m a Super Power Expert and founder of the Soul Language, and this is SuperPowers of the Soul.
Today, I’m with Devorah Spilman, and we are talking about the soul and storytelling.
Welcome!
Thank you. Delighted to be here.
I am so excited that you are here with us. I always like to start these questions with everyone getting to know you from the soul out. So one of my favorite questions is to understand what people think their super power of their soul for themselves is. So what would you consider the superpowers of your soul for yourself?
So, it’s funny because I think the superpower of my soul is connected to what I do in the world, but in different orders, which is the whole world of story and imagination, and being able to see the stories in others. See that’s my story: Say it, share it, tap into it, the expression of my soul and feeling like I’m a vessel for that kind of higher God consciousness. The light to come through, get clothed in story and go out in the world.
Beautiful. So with that in mind, we often talk about sacred purpose, what we’re profoundly here to experience and then offer that experience to others. What would you consider your sacred purpose then?
The simplest way I’ve said it all my life, that is probably true for a lot of people is, to bring God’s light out into the world and then how it moves into how I do that, maybe because a lot of people I hope, do that.
So a lot of my sacred purpose is to help people, and it starts with children. To help them, they access this other realm, whether you call it prayer or spirit or God or imagination, but getting out of the ordinary and experiencing that wondrous, extraordinary realm that mostly our culture doesn’t value and doesn’t teach.
So I always feel like I infiltrate, right? I’ll go into the public schools and tell these stories that take the children into these mystical realms and model for them a whole other way of experiencing being, knowing. Then in the stories about what I would do, for many years, I created and told original stories first in the public schools and then in Jewish schools, and I always modeled that the children who did this deeper work and had these expanded experiences, created success in their life.
The value of these kinds of alternate experiences is very, very powerful. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on the importance of imagination in learning. I have a real passion for accessing imagination. In the last few years I’ve even coined the term spiritual imagination, the realm. I call it the realm of spiritual imagination. I call it that because it gives weight to imagination and connects it to a higher purpose. It also gives people permission to trust that realm, this other way of knowing, and I think, even without knowing it.
I think that the world of imagination and story is the food for which we are starving. Our souls are starved and they’re not starved for physical food.
The first stories I told for years were about the imaginary world of Samba Doodle, and when I went back and looked at it, it was all about they go through a cave and they come out in another world, and it really was kind of a metaphor for this transcendent way of knowing and being.
I see what you mean and I love it. What is the common theme that your soul has shared with you over time?
I think that the world of imagination and story is the food for which we are starving. Our souls are starved and they’re not starved for physical food. They’re starved for this higher imagine realm. So all my life, I have known that somehow, and I have been able to give people of any age access to that realm.
When you get access to that realm of the soul of imagination, of spiritual imagination, that higher realm, it’s like, “Oh, I feel so much better. I feel joy, I feel creativity, I feel the flow.” You know how a lot of times when people go back, they see something they’ve always done and they didn’t realize that was what they had always done? A lot of times I say we’re all a little invisible to ourselves because we’re so normal to ourselves, right?
So, when I did that work on myself and I went back, it was like I was always taking children into this magical realm where they would go naturally if we let them or if we didn’t stop them, shall we say. So then, a number of years ago, I realized I sort of switched who I was helping to do that, and I switched over to helping women, especially women over 50 to actually regain access to that realm, because a lot of us, we had it and the world didn’t let us keep it.
Wow. So before we take our break here, give your website, so everyone knows how to get in touch with you.
Right. So they just go to my name, devorahspilman.com.
Probably the first thing to do is what I call, get out of the goo. I have a whole teaching on how do you get out of that old negative voice that keeps you stuck. It’s a new take on all creative endeavors and how you move forward, because I believe we have so much amazing creativity and imagination inside of us, and we just need access.
Beautiful. Okay, everyone, stay tuned. We’re going to be talking to Devorah about the soul and storytelling.
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