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Welcome to the SoulSong Journey, a guided process of daily intuitive reflection through artful contemplation.

If this is your first time here, you might want to read the Welcome message from Curator.

If you want to know more about how a SoulSong Journey unfolds, keep reading the Full Story below.

If you are already a Soul Traveler, welcome back and make your way to the Sacred Grounds.

The SoulSong Journey unfolds in a metaphoric landscape inhabited by Shaman, Curator and fellow Soul Travelers. It is a creative and supportive way of illuminating your inner wisdom through artful contemplation. It is intended for artistic, intuitive and sensitive souls who enjoy using active imagination and journaling to ground their emotions, shape their visions, and express their intuitive insights.

SoulSong Testimonial

"I have been wanting to journal for years, but have never managed to do so and have really looked for something to ground me and invite me to do a daily check in or reflection." ~ Klara/SoulSong Traveler ~

Are you an energy healer, wellness coach, intuitive reader, creativity coach, or spiritual mentor? The SoulSong Journey is an enjoyable, streamlined and cost-effective way to create a unique deck of Oracles, Illuminations or Insights to enrich and empower your community. Email Curator if you are ready to begin your Journey. Or keep reading the Full Story to find out more.

SOULSONG JOURNEY ~ THE FULL STORY

SERIOUS PLAY

SOULSONG ARRAY

RESOURCES REQUIRED

GAMEPLAY ELEMENTS

FAQ

TESTIMONIALS

Daily Engagement through Serious Play

The imaginal world in which your SoulSong Journey unfolds is revealed incrementally, through daily email prompts delivered by Curator.

These daily prompts are a call to Serious Play, a practice interweaving your capacities for artful contemplation, active imagination, mythical storytelling and journaling.

Each daily prompt from Curator includes a curious message and a ticket granting you access to the Sacred Grounds. It is on the Sacred Grounds that you will discover the most vital aspect of a SoulSong Journey – Shaman’s artefacts. All artefacts you encounter in a SoulSong Journey are LightCatchers, but no two LightCatchers are ever the same.

Simply stated, a LightCatcher is an artwork – but more than this it is an imaginal tool designed for intuive reflection and self-realization. The deeper significance of a LightCatcher remains hidden without your personal engagement. When you approach shaman’s artefacts with curiosity, courage and an open-heart, they will draw your attention into ever deeper dimensions of self-knowing. 

As you practice crafting a Title and a Theme in response to each LightCatcher, you witness your creative intelligence and intuitive choice-making at play. In this magical encounter, you uncover and validate authentic pathways for honoring the Song of your Soul.

Daily practice consists of three purposeful actions: Engage. Title. Theme.

Engaging with a LightCatcher is nothing more or less than an improvisation, a game of Find-the-Seeker in which there is only ever one destination – Home, to your innate wisdom and authentic expression; even though the pathways Home may be manifold and multidimensional.

When you Engage with a LightCatcher, you activate its meaning-making potential. You’ll notice multiple senses firing and well-worn patterns of perception being disrupted. Imaginal pathways open up allowing you to access deeply embodied intuitions as well as clear-minded noetic illuminations

There is no right or wrong way to Engage with a LightCatcher.

As you give shape and form to your intuitive reflections, you begin distilling your Soul’s Wisdom. It is through active imagination and journaling that you are able to translate the fluid feelings and sensations of your inner world into memorable signposts.

When you Title a LightCatcher, your metaphoric intelligence stirs and your storyteller springs into action. Your weaver-of-worlds creates meaningful new connections and associations, uncovers methods for integrating contrasting ideas and feelings, and threads your inner and outer experiences into a single, coherent concept.

Your Title captures a context or key idea in 5 or less words.

When you attribute a Theme in response to a LightCatcher, you validate a quality or state of being that plays a prominent role in shaping your lived experience. This is an invitation to highlight what feels authentically right for you.

Your Theme is a single word that points to the most significant aspect of your response.

The pathways and signposts you shape with your chosen Title & Theme may seem imaginal to begin with - symbolic and ephemeral - but in truth, they have the potential to exert a tangible effect on your daily lived life.

Over time, your responses in this daily practice of Serious Play, as well as the Resources you choose to call upon as you navigate your way through the world of the LightCatcher Chronicles, will illuminate your unique SoulSong.

SoulSong Testimonial

"I am deeply grateful for the exquisite fractals of wondrous wisdom now enriching my SoulSong Array. It is a daily pleasure to witness this imaginative unfolding and play my part in it." ~ Stef/SoulSong Traveler ~

Co-creating Your SoulSong Array

As the tangible outcome of your daily Serious Play, and with the support of Curator, you will create a SoulSong Array consisting of 48 cards.

An array is a kaleidoscopic collection of Wisdom fractals

After each daily Serious Play, you share your Title, Theme and Exposition with Curator. She then integrates your Wisdom with its complementary LightCatcher in a card design, and stores this in a secure online folder with a password which you can view at any time.

When your SoulSong Array reaches 48 fractals, it will be printed, boxed and shipped to you. Curator will communicate with you about final design elements such as box colour, title of your deck, card back design. If you intend sharing your Wisdom Deck with your followers and community, Curator will also facilitate the setting up of your dedicated shop page.

In your hands, your SoulSong Array becomes a tangible tool for purposeful application in your daily life.

As a collection of fractals, it is a demonstration of your innate creative essence and intuitive strategies of sense-making – your authentic Soul-inspired ethos.

Your SoulSong Array can be used in any number of ways:

  • as a catalyst for creative writing or journaling;
  • as a prompt for dreamwork and active imagination;
  • as an invitation for quiet contemplation and reverie;
  • as an activation for daily affirmation and self-appreciation;
  • as an oracle in problem solving or self-enquiry.

SoulSong Testimonial

"This process has coincided with my most positive life change in years, it feels rather good indeed. It's been like a conditioning for the rest of my life." ~ James/SoulSong Traveler ~

Required Resources

A SoulSong Journey is an interdimensional world that spans the virtual, the material and the mystical. It makes use of the digital devices we commonly use on a daily basis to bridge the extraordinary, creating playful portals for authentic expression and artistic living.

To embark on a SoulSong Journey, you will need:

  • a PC, laptop or mobile device;
  • access to a mailing system with a preferred email address;
  • a web browser to access the Sacred Grounds;
  • a recommended 15-20 minutes daily, or at the very minimum 15-20 minutes three times a week, to engage in Serious Play.

Other than this, you will only need your imaginative potential, creative courage, and storytelling skills into play to reap the benefits of embarking on a SoulSong Journey.

Gameplay Elements

Curator’s prompts ~ in the form of daily emails that include Serious Play prompts, reminders about available resources, and tickets to access the Sacred Grounds.

Shaman’s Artefacts ~ a collection of LightCatchers, both archived (already in existence) and emergent (originated by Shaman in present time on a daily basis).

The Sacred Grounds ~ a secure and private online space (hosted on Hylo, an open source project designed for collaborative communities) offering Seeker’s a place of convergence and conversation as they engage in Serious Play. All interactions and communications on the Sacred Grounds are private, and Seekers have the option of customising their profile and notification settings.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is the SoulSong Journey for?

A SoulSong Journey is for anyone who has a desire to illuminate their intuitive wisdom whether this be for personal reflection and well-being only, or as a source of upliftment and enrichment for their community.

Why should I embark on a SoulSong Journey?

Many of us walk through life without giving shape and form to the our inner Wisdom. You may have caught glimpses of your intuitive intelligence, inbetween the grander and more obvious events in your life, but not yet found a way to bring this Wisdom into the light. As a collection of authentic impulses towards vitality, flourishing and well-being, the Song of your Soul is always exerting an influence on your lived experience but may be coming into conflict with some inherited ideas or conditioned actions. A SoulSong Journey is a process of illuminating your authentic impulses, and shaping this in ways that you can rely on as enlightened guidance and wise support.

Why is it called a SoulSong Journey?

The title for this Find-the-Seeker game is grounded in the personal ethos of the two creators – a knowing that humans are not simply material beings driven by genetically predetermined instincts; or a chaotic amalgamation of chemical processes; or fallen spirits banished to the earthly plane as punishment and redemption. Rather, we are individuating Souls, each shaping our existence through unique talents, skills and aptitudes, and doing our best to live a life of meaning and purpose. As individuating Souls we are not disconnected from the Whole or isolated in our endeavours – but our Journey is ours alone to make and travel.

Each Soul thus has a unique resonance, a rhythm, a cadence and a flow by which they can be recognized – and learning to trust and express these intrinsic patterns gives rise to a SoulSong Journey.

Who are Shaman and Curator?

Shaman and Curator are the two primary archetypal characters you’ll encounter while embarked on your SoulSong Journey, and represent the two creators of this Find-the-Seeker game. These characters have been chosen by the creators because they align with their innate talents and wisdom. They also indicate each creator’s unique contribution to the SoulSong Journey, and reflect their shared intention as spiritual seekers, artistic researchers, independent content creators and empathic collaborators.

Curator crafts and delivers daily prompts, maintains the Sacred Grounds, and curates Shaman’s artefacts. She also plays a vital role in the design and production of individual SoulSong Arrays. Curator is available for personal support, technical guidance and general administrative enquiries.

Shaman is by nature a solitary figure who spends most of his time in states of active imagination, intuiting and visioning. He has been known to make unexpected appearances at community gathering places and may ask Curator to share any significant insights he has with Seekers on his behalf.

To learn more about the creators behind the characters, visit www.inous.org/about.

What is the LightCatcher Chronicles?

The LightCatcher Chronicles is a perpetual exhibition composed of thousands of Shaman’s Artefacts. This includes archived LightCatchers (originated by Shaman over a period of intense vision-questing) as well as living LightCatchers that are added to the Chronicles on a daily basis for as long as Shaman is fit and able. All LightCatchers are an index of the multidimensional locus in which they were originated. Living LightCatchers reflect the unfolding energies of the present moment and are considered high value in Shaman’s world. These will be marked as such, should they appear on your SoulSong Journey.

How do I start my Journey?

There are two ways for a Soul Traveler to embark on their SoulSong Journey depending on how they would like to make use of their deck on completion:

~ Deck for personal use only ~ with a 3-month Cyclical Pass at $89/month (this includes print & delivery of your deck)

~ Deck for community benefit, available for print-on-demand purchase ~ with a 3-month Cyclical Pass at $49/month (this includes print & delivery of your deck PLUS royalties on the sale of the deck)

For full details on these different offerings, visit our Offerings page.

When you feel your Soul’s calling and are ready to commit to a minimum of 2 months of Serious Play, send an email to Curator and she will send you further details.

Samples of SoulSeeker Arrays

“I have been wanting to journal for years, but have never managed to do so and have really looked for something to ground me and invite me to do a daily check in or reflection.” ~ Klara (theatre-maker, clown, artistic researcher)

“I am deeply grateful for the exquisite fractals of wondrous wisdom now enriching my SoulSong Array. It is a daily pleasure to witness this imaginative unfolding and play my part in it.” ~ Stef (visionary, philosopher, creative consultant)

“This process has coincided with my most positive life change in years, it feels rather good indeed. It’s been like a conditioning for the rest of my life.” ~ James (performer, writer, improviser)

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