The Power of the Spoken Word — Florence Scovel Shinn

In The Power of the Spoken Word, Florence Scovel Shinn explores one of the central principles of her spiritual teaching: that speech carries formative power. Words are not treated as idle sounds, but as carriers of expectation, belief, fear, faith, and inner alignment. What is repeatedly spoken—whether consciously or carelessly—has the tendency to externalize itself in experience.

Drawing from the metaphysical framework that made her one of the most beloved voices in New Thought, Shinn demonstrates that spoken language can either bind the individual to limitation or open the way to transformation. Complaint, fear, resentment, and negative expectancy are shown to act as subtle forms of self-obstruction, while affirmations of faith, right action, divine order, and spiritual confidence become instruments of release and renewal.

Throughout the text, Shinn’s characteristic clarity and directness remain fully present. She writes not as an abstract philosopher, but as a practical teacher of spiritual law—offering examples, insights, and formulas intended to be applied in daily life. The spoken word becomes, in her hands, both a mirror of consciousness and a tool for its reordering.

Accessible, concise, and quietly forceful, The Power of the Spoken Word serves as an ideal introduction to Shinn’s metaphysical outlook while also standing as an important statement of her broader teaching. It is a work concerned not only with speech itself, but with the deeper principle behind it: that inner conviction, when verbalized with clarity and faith, becomes an active participant in the shaping of reality.

This text has been carefully prepared by Odd Enough Books / Holographic Pagan Press as part of an ongoing effort to preserve and circulate significant works from the history of New Thought, metaphysical philosophy, and the forgotten library of human consciousness.

This is a handmade archival physical book, assembled with black binding tape and featuring newly prepared cover artwork and layout by C.K. Lee.

Issued here as a Holographic Pagan Press edition.

Details

Author: Florence Scovel Shinn
Title: The Power of the Spoken Word
Format: Handmade archival physical book
Binding: Black tape-bound spine
Publisher: Odd Enough Books / Holographic Pagan Press
Cover and Layout: C.K. Lee

Collector’s Note

This edition is part of the Holographic Pagan Press archival publishing project, devoted to recovering and preserving works from the history of metaphysics, occult philosophy, New Thought, spiritual science, and the development of human consciousness.

Each physical copy is printed, assembled, and finished by hand in limited quantities, presenting Shinn’s work in a newly prepared edition designed for reading, study, and collection.