Creative Speech: The Formative Process of the Spoken Word (CW 280) Paperback – January 2, 2014

this book will develop in you a clear articulated speech, artistic speaking, speaking that heals and is healthy. You will also come to know sound in a much more intimate spiritual way and learn to listen with your whole being. Speech training includes listening just as much as speaking. Amazing book for a teacher or actor. Your speaking will be permeated with your creative individuality and your confidence through the roof!

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This rare text is a compendium of lectures and essays by Rudolf Steiner and Marie von Sivers along side practical tools and excercises on Creative and Conscious Speech form the contents of the book.Everything from the origins of speech and language to healing with the Word are covered. Excerpts from various poets and dramatic works are also included. Really, the revelations are endless in this book. There is much life and verve in it, that makes you feel as if participating in a practical workshop given by two Masters!After Steiner died, his wife continued his work and research and created a whole Speech and Drama movement which she is most famous for, and it is this topic that this book focuses on intensly.Here is a brief excerpt by Rudolf Steiner:"In giving speech artistic shape and form the healthy co-operation and harmonization of body, soul and spirit becomes manifest. The body shows whether it is able to incorporate the Spirit correctly; the soul reveals whether the spirit lives in it truly; and the Spirit is vividly present working directly into the physical. Those taking part in speech courses have a direct personal experience of the revelation of Anthroposophy in the activity of Man. Here it may be regarded as a testing of Anthroposophy that it is in a position to enable the art of speech to come to life again, in its full significance, for it has been led into a helpless situation through the materialistic outlook prevailing in the world."