The Telepathy Tapes + Live events

[video] A 1 Day Creative Intensive + A Journey through your Soul Story

Greetings Beautiful Souls!!

I feel like I’m the last kid to show up to The Telepathy Tapes podcast party.

(Full disclosure—I'm only on episode 8.)

It was interesting—until episode 6 stopped me in my tracks. One of the children shared how words themselves can be the problem in communication.

It’s amazing when you think about it—that we keep asking these ancient symbols, forged in a very different time, to keep working for us in the complexity of modern life.

Most of our tools have evolved—cars, planes, even the hammer.
But words? We still rely on them as our primary mode of communication, even as our consciousness expands—or contracts—depending on the user and the moment.

One of the secrets of great storytellers is that words play just one part in what they are creating— as at the center of it all, great storytellers are masters of energy (whether that be on the screen, around the fire, or on the stage), as they engage far more than words to communicate.

When we think of the old storytellers—those known as guides and healers—used words as vessels. But it wasn’t the words themselves doing the work. It’s what the storyteller infuses into them. The words were simply carriers for sound, energy, and intention.

A great story uses words to build a vehicle—but it is what’s inside that vehicle that transports us.

When I trained as an actor with in the Sanford Meisner Technique at The Neighborhood Playhouse, for an entire year, we practiced a single method: repeating the same words over and over and over again—until the underlying intention came forward and revealed what was really being said.

A Meisner exchange might look like this:

Person 1: “This is a door.” (stating a fact)
Person 2: “This is a door.” (meaning: no sh*, that’s obvious)*
Person 1: “This is a door!” (meaning: don’t call me dumb)
Person 2: “This is a door?” (meaning: what’s wrong with you? I just agreed with you and now you’re upset)
Person 1: “This is a door.” (meaning: my first boyfriend used to make me feel stupid, and now you are too)

Words matter.

But what matters most is what we pour into them.

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
— Maya Angelou

INTERLUDE:

3 Opportunities to Engage Your Story this Spring & Summer

This Thursday

is a free introduction class to a 6 week journey that begins next week:

Soul Story Power Council is not a storytelling course: it is an initiator experience where you will learn how to transform the story of your life while gaining access to and right relationship with your life force.

Community ——→ Play —-→ Commitment—→ Old Knowledge——→

The Story of Your Soul———————>

THIS SUNDAY 1 DAY WORKSHOP

This Sunday we will be creating together online.

Don’t think of this as being online on Sunday— Imagine an entire day to be held in creative sanctuary as you explore the myths that define you, your ability to stand as a magician and transform our story, and the power that comes with standing in and giving your medicine.

Join us for a 2 hour class with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe. We’ll be exploring the role of story as ceremony and re-examine the hero’s journey narrative.

Meanwhile…. enjoy this hilarious video about how words by themselves don’t hold the story.