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Soul Making

Soul-making is an undefinable metaphor that emphasizes the creative process of composing one's soul as a poem. It suggests that individuals are co-creators in their own soul-making journey, influenced by emotions and experiences that contribute to their unique narrative. Ultimately, the universe is viewed as a poetic realm where every event plays a role in the larger composition of life.

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Soul Making

Soul-making is an undefinable metaphor that emphasizes the creative process of composing one's soul as a poem. It suggests that individuals are co-creators in their own soul-making journey, influenced by emotions and experiences that contribute to their unique narrative. Ultimately, the universe is viewed as a poetic realm where every event plays a role in the larger composition of life.

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GE 105 (Art Appreciation)

Lesson 9: Soul-Making
Soul is Beyond Definition
Soul-making cannot be defined. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus said, “You could not
discover the limits of soul, even if you traveled by every path in order to so; such is the depth of
its meaning.”
Soul-Making is a Metaphor
The term soul-making is a metaphor. The word ‘metaphor’ is comprised of two Greek
words- Meta- above and Phero- to carry. So, a metaphor is an image or phrase that carries the
reader above the literal sensory realm into the realm of invisible imagination. Like myth,
metaphor enlists the truth of imagination over truth of literalism.
Soul-making is a metaphorical term. Therefore, the term will never be adequate for those
logical positivists or rationalistic materialists who exclude all non-material or ‘non-sensical’
words.
Soul-Making is Poetry Making
The word ‘making’ in ‘soul-making’ comes out of the Greek word poieo which means ‘to
be the author or maker of something’. Our English words poet, poem and poetry come from this
word. The reason for that term, for example rather than soul-builder or soul-grower, is that the
emphasis is on creative, intelligent authorship. The making is not done by impersonal processes,
but by intelligent forces. So then, soul-making is psycho poesis or soul poetry.
The Poetry of Psyche
One way to understand this is to imagine the Universe as an immense dictionary filled
with an infinite number of Living Words (archetypes). Your individual life is like a page upon
which the Universe composes a poem. Your soul is a poem in the process of being composed or
authored.
John Keats called this world a school of soul-making, or psycho-poetic composing. All
emotions, human institutions, feelings, ideas, pains, and pleasures are the writing instruments
that compose our souls. However, it is more than just being done to us.
Co-Creating: You are the Poet and the Poem
We are co-creators in the soul-making process. We choose the words and words choose
us. Our human desire for poetry comes from the Higher Realms, not vice versa; we write and
read poetry because we are poetry.
Conclusion
Soul-making is not an empirical science. Soul-making is beyond definition. This
Universe is suffused with Poetic Words or Living Energies that are part of the soul-making
process. Each of us is a unique poem, gradually being weaved into a larger poetic whole/soul.
Every incident and event is part of that epic poem. While there may be tragedies and betrayals,
troubles and failures, successes and victories—there are no useless words in your poem; and
most of it goes on at levels we cannot see or understand. In that sense, we must trust the Author.

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