Deep Listening

So magic happened last week . . . magic that had been a long time coming. On October 3, 2008, I sent an email to Jeff Bezos, the man who owns Amazon.com explaining my saga with his company and their subsidiaries in my attempt to get my audiobook on Amazon. It was not pretty, and you can find my extremely successful letter on this blog.

By morning, I had an email from the president of Mobipocket to arrange for the first ten years of Seeds to be listed as a Kindle product—it now is. Then I had communiqués from their Special Customer Service Group who put me on to Audible.com which eventually made a contract with me and this week my latest book, Oklahoma! Hex, is on Audible.com, Amazon.com, and iTunes.

AND . . . wait for it . . . ever since I heard of podcasting, I knew I would take to it like a duck to water. The Universe conspired to send me sound wizard Sam Adelman. I got the equipment, did the podcasts, and they too were uploaded to iTunes!

The name of the program is Deep Listening; the graphic designed by Suzanne Rhodes, is above.  Sam asked me to name the program as he was preparing the intro and the outro for the episodes. I hadn’t a clue.

I was reading Science of Mind magazine later that day, and a subtitle from an article leaped off the page at me. Deep Listening! Of course.

It means two things: first, that when you listen to the podcasts, they will be about “deep” things, spiritual things, and second, they will be a result of me going deep within. Because of the natural ratio provided by human physiology, i. e. two ears, one mouth, I do a lot more listening than talking.

 The first two episodes were inspired by an article in Spirit of Ma’at magazine. Dr. Michael Abrams wrote an article on “The 12 Conditions of a Miracle.” I read each one and riff on what it means. Each episode is about 15 minutes. They’re designed to feel like a chat with me.

I’m already on the hunt for the subjects for the next two episodes. Our goal is to post two new ones around the 15^th of each month.

Of course, questions and suggestions are invited! So welcome, beloved, to Deep Listening—may it become one more source of nourishment for your soul.

P. S. Google Alerts let me know Saturday morning that my novel is on Audible.com all over the world! International—part of my vision all along!

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  By Court, January 21, 2009 @ 10:59 am

  Love the new look and feel of your blog, Susan. Felicidades about the podcasts, Kindle and Audible books! You’re on a roll.

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