One of the challenges of getting the audio version in CD form has been the length of the recording. It runs a little over 4 hours - which with CDs of 80 minutes capacity makes it necessary to use 4 CDs to duplicate the cassette tape version. That meant, that either we would have 3 full CDs and one with less than 10 minutes on it - or that we go back into the studio and add extra material by recording enough to make the 4th CD of reasonable length. The cost of doing that - plus the cost of producing and packaging the CDs - has been what has kept me from getting it done for years.
The new development that has made it possible to offer the CDs now, has to do a guy named Jeff Sohler who attended my San Francisco Intensive in April. He is a former computer programmer who has been specializing in internet marketing for some years now. He first contacted me last year about the possibility of producing the CDs. Jeff also has a lot of ideas about utilizing my writing on the site to produce audio products. He is a great believer in the effectiveness of presenting information in audio form. Jeff is also a great believer in my work - and wants to help me make it available to a much wider audience.
He has ideas for helping me create a whole new version of my web site with all the latest technological wonders available - streaming video, podcasts, downloadable audio CDs, etc. Since I am ignorant of all these new developments - and still utilize a web composing program many generations out of date (stone age in internet terms) - and I have a fear of, and resistance to, change, I corresponded with him some but didn't give what he was offering me a high priority. I have also been in precarious financial position for some time, and was afraid that it would cost me a lot of money.
When Jeff came to my Intensive in San Francisco, he brought me a
version of my tapes on CD that he had produced for himself to listen to.
He did it by dropping the introduction that I recorded just for the tapes,
and slightly speeding up my voice on the first CD of a 3 CD set. When
I got around to listening to them about a week later, I was amazed at the
quality of the recording. There is a part of the first CD where the
sound is slightly "thicker" because of the microscopic changes he made to
make it fit time wise - but that doesn't detract from the presentation of
the information at all. I probably wouldn't have even noticed it,
if I hadn't been aware of it. The rest of the CDs are of very high
quality.
I got real excited about the possibility after listening to them. I am still going to record material for a 4th CD one of these days so that we can get to a fully produced, slickly packaged version - hopefully in the not too distant future - but offering this "work in progress" version allows me to make the audio version of my book available on CD now. We are pricing it much less than we would a fully finished CD ($19.95) - and he will be offering it at a discount through his web site (EnrichmentUnlimited.com - specializing in Personal Development / Self Help Products.)
This 3 disc set - the "work in progress" version of Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls "An Audio Spiritual Experience" - will only be available by itself through Jeff's web site. I will have some copies that I will sell in person at my Intensive Training Day seminars - and I will offer the CD set in combination with my book (and perhaps some combination of my book, the CDs, and pay to view sections, phone counseling, and /or Intensive Training Days - not sure about details yet, but I will be posting a page with combination offers including the CDs sometime this weekend.)" - June 2006 Joy2MeU Update Newsletter
