The Power of the Spoken Word

The Power of the Spoken Word Florence Scovel Shinn - "The Power of the Spoken Word" is a collection of the most influential author's lectures, which have been gathered, made into the book and published posthumously by her student.Florence Scovel Shinn taught metaphysics in New York for many years. Her meetings were well attended and in that way she was the means of bringing the message to a considerable number of people. Her books have had a wide circulation not only in America but abroad. They seem to have a knack of finding their way to remote and unexpected places in Europe and other parts of the world. Now and again we meet someone who came into Truth through finding a Florence Shinn book in the most improbable location.



Florence Scovel Shinn (September 24, 1871, Camden, New Jersey October 17, 1940) was an American artist and book illustrator who became a New Thought spiritual teacher and metaphysical writer in her middle years. In New Thought circles, she is best known for her first book, The Game of Life and How to Play It (1925).Her books "Your Word Is Your Wand" and "The Game of Life and How To Play It" were released as audiobooks in 2014 and 2015 respectively and were narrated by actress Hillary Hawkins.Shinn is considered part of the New Thought movement, as her writings follow in the tradition of Phineas Quimby (18021866), Emma Curtis Hopkins (18491925), and both Charles Fillmore (18541948) and Myrtle Fillmore (18451931), co-founders of the Unity Church.Motivational author Louise Hay acknowledges her as an early influence.