Review
. . . lures the reader-participant into a dance of the senses, into songs of imagination, onto the stage of our lives, giving us the keys to creating and liberating our Inner Theatre, to becoming the playwrights of our greater existence. --
Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, Visionary artist, poet and author, Satan Sleeps with the Holy & Climates of the MindSoul Play is a masterful way to work joyfully and creatively with every aspect of your self. --
James Fadiman, Ph.D., Co-founder, Institute for Transpersonal PsychologySoul Play provides readers with significant personal and transpersonal growth opportunities, and is done in a safe and fun-loving manner. --
John Cullen, Ph.D., President, International Association for Managerial and Organizational PsychosynthesisA refreshing creative approach of using acting and directing in your imagination as a way of psychological growth and wholeness. --
Robert Gerard, Ph.D., Former Hollywood Producer, President, International Foundation for Integral PsychologyAll the world is a stage -- also the inner world. If we fully assimilate this metaphor, we will know ourselves better, we will be empowered, and we will be able to play. Vivian King's book is a great and thorough guide to our inner theatre and the immense possibilities it holds within. --
Piero Ferrucci, Ph.D., Author, What We May Be, President, The Center for the Studies in Psychosynthesis, Florence, ItalyHigh drama and deep soul join in this profound and powerful journey. One discovers oneself as a player on the stage of the world, a co-creator in the theatre of the mind. --
Jean Houston, Ph.D., Author, Director, The Foundation for Mind ResearchThis book presents an entertaining and effective way to discover, develop, and integrate the many archetypal energies that exist within us all. --
Shakti Gawain, Author, Creative Visualization, Living in the Light, and The Path of TransformationVivian, Thank you...for helping Human Beings shine the light on the true person within themselves as they strut upon 'Life's Stage' in their daily performances. --
Diane Ladd Actor, Director, WriterWho would have thought a self-help book could be so much fun to read and so profoundly impactful at the same time. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is committed to taking charge of their life. --
Jack Canfield, Co-author, Chicken Soup for the Soul
From the Publisher
Vivian King's book has been hailed as special by authors, directors, actors and psychology professors for its simple and clear presentation of an enjoyable way of personal growth by seeing life as a play.
One reader commented as follows:
A few years ago, as feature reporter for a CBS affiliate, I had the pleasure of doing a television story about Dr. Vivian King's Inner Theatre. We filmed a portion of one of her workshops and I became more familiar with her unique concepts for assisting what she terms, our "unaccomplished inner actors," to evolve into "accomplished" ones. Dr. King demonstrated how Inner Theatre's goal is to assist the participant to achieve new levels of "self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-mastery."
When I heard that Vivian King had authored a newly-published book, Soul Play, I had to read it. In doing so, I found that her writing provides a remarkable encounter between the author and reader.
In Soul Play you will be introduced to your playwright, supporting cast, director, and many others -- all, incidentally, inside you, who -- with guidance -- are eager to turn the production of your life into a masterpiece. First, however, for that to happen, the Director -- You -- have to take your proper place in the Director's Chair. Then, as Vivian King so cogently tells us, "the more skillfully we play our particular parts, the more we'll bring out the star qualities in others and make the world a better place to be -- or a better Play to see."
Now, as Director of Broadcast Media for Tapestry: The Institute for Philosophy, Religion, and the Life Sciences, it is my job -- and great joy -- to find authors and ideas for the TV discussion shows we're creating. Vivian King is one of those authors who superbly articulates a vision of what we humans are capable of becoming -- then lays out an elegant structure for manifesting that vision.
Read Soul Play and do the exercises. Then observe as time passes, what exquisite and mysterious changes are taking place in your inner and outer world!
Meister Eckhart wrote, "When the soul wishes to experience something, she simply throws out an image and enters into it." I hope you will enter into the experience of Soul Play and reap the real rewards of life, the ones that come from being the writer, actor, producer and director of your own award winning performance!
Consider yourself fortunate if you add this book to your library of favorites to read again and again. I know I will. (James Napier, Director of Broadcast Media, Tapestry: The Institute for Philosophy, Religion, and the Life Sciences).
