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“Mother Night: Learning to See in the Dark”
Oct 14th, 2009 | 21 responses
Sounds True is the superlative audio company that has produced my audio books for the last twenty years… my works like The Radiant Coat, Stories about the Crossings Between Life and Death… a work used by many professionals in health, healing and hospices. Other of my works: Theatre of the Imagination: Thirteen weeks of live performances of myths and stories revolving around dark and difficult life themes… broadcast over many NPR and public radio stations in US and Canada. There are 14 audio books now. Some have managed to be noted for awards.
Tonight, Wednesday October 14th, at 7pm Mountain Standard Time, instead of again taking to the stage in performance, instead of again being alone in the sound studio with engineers outside the glass window, we’re going to do a first (for me it’s a first)… a six week long series as a Live Web Event every Wednesday night.
The Live Web Event series is called Mother Night: Learning to See In The Dark. You can read more about it here if you wish.
And you can hear my voice for free in an hour long podcast-interview with the intrepid founder/president of Sounds True, Tami Simon… the interview is called Diamonds in the Dark. If listening takes too long, you can if you like, read a transcript of the interview by clicking on “read the transcript” on that page.
Sometimes TMV readers write to me wondering what I do with my days and nights. Different endeavors depending on the call. But right now, it is cold as a witch’s lace-up motorcycle boot here in the Rockies. So near dusk tonight, I’ll climb in my black pickup truck and tool down the road an hour away to the big sound studio where teams and engineers, microphones, headphones, p-popper screens and a clothesline (for any notes) and whatever cpu gear will be waiting for me…
and once there, I’ll find just the right key on my big key ring to open the door to another world… a world of ancient stories and myths… the first ‘news-broadcasters’ of the old oral traditions… for stories have always been used to teach, and to remember what might matter most to us all once we manage to shoulder past all the aggrivations of the day world.
Listeners will be able to email in questions if they like tonight, and all in all, hopefully the stories ‘ from the dark’ …from Mother Night’s fireside, will warm hearts and souls of all raggedy, strange, and wondrous fellow travelers who step into the circle with us… we who are equally ragged, strange, and hopefully wondrous in our own ways.
This I wrote for the precis of Mother Night:
“The most endangered species on earth is the human soul. Many try to stand in one world only, the world of the collective culture, thereby experiencing a sense of standing outside the true self, allowing too much waste into one’s life—due in part to over-immersion in the daytime world only. A sense of being ‘not in oneself entirely’ comes from not returning to the soul’s true home, often enough … a home that is not provisioned nor protected by the overculture. Thus, a critical el susto (loss of soul nourishment) comes upon us. We are weakly linked or severed completely from the one-of-a-kind wild and wise self that emerges from the realm of mystery, dreams, and shadow…”
No Pollyanista, I know for certain most of us have traveled so very far, and through so very much, to gather together at any crossroads in time, especially after having so relentlessly crossed and crisscrossed such a wide world that is part wild –and part bewildering– in part deadly — in part life-sparing…
Most will know what I’m saying when I say:
Scar Clan is being convened tonight.
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I live in Brussels and wont be able to follow this event live.
I've been searching but not been able to find any email anywhere.
How can I mail you or contact you? josephinea197-at-yahoo.se
Can't wait, dr. e
me again. went through a couple of the links, but still can not figure out how to go to the live web session…help?
Yeah!. . . .I am ready Dr. E.. . .
Dear D.E. Rodriguez: One of the Sounds True team will be posting an answer to your question here in a bit. Live web session tonight 7 pm Mountain Standard Time.
Josephinea, you can contact at projectscreener@aol.com
thanks; see you in voice soon sparrow and all
dr.e
Dear DE,
The link won't be active until an hour before the session starts luv.
Here's the setup info:
Just follow these simple steps:
1.
Verify that you have continuing access to your Sounds True online account
Your course is kept secure by accessing it through your digital library. Select “Your Account” from the home page, and enter your email address and password. (When your account was first created, you were sent a temporary password. If you did not change it to something that you will remember, please go to “Your Account” and reset your password now.) For assistance with your Sounds True account, please contact customer service.
2.
Register for your online session(s).
1. Select “Register” from the course home page.
2. Enter you first name, last name and email address, and select “Register Now”.
3. You will see a confirmation page and will also receive a confirmation email. Both will contain the link you will use when your online session starts.
Note: this link will not be active until one hour before the time of the online session.
4. If your course or event is more than one session, you will need to register for each one separately through its own button on the course home page.
3.
One hour before your online session is scheduled to begin:
1. Select the link in your confirmation email or on the course home page.
2. You will be prompted to download required temporary internet files needed to join your session. Select “Yes”, “Grant”, or “Trust” (depending on your operating system) to allow download.
3. If you have Java already installed on your computer, you will be ushered into the waiting room for the course.
4. If you do NOT have Java properly installed, you will be prompted to install it. Follow the instructions to do so. After it is installed, you will be directed into the waiting room.
I hope this helped. See yas tonight.
(well, not REALLY see ya but .. you know what I mean. heeh)
Ghosty
Thanks for the interview link Doc!
I'm really looking forward to the sessions and unless an “act of God” hits the city I live in, I'll be there.
Ghosty
well Ghostie, thank you. You laid it out well. See you on the web soon. Thanks.
thanks for all the info.
Have signed up for tonight's program, albeit I'll be listening to it afterwards.
It was so nice to finally hear your voice, dr. e, in the “preview”
Dorian
Tx Doriancito
la voz
Thank you for an awesome thread!
Hello All!
Sorry it took me a few to post – I'm new to Disqus. Anyway, yes, the register link will indeed be live tonight, about an hour before the course starts. And it's not truly registering – it's more of a link to the Event (about which we are pretty excited here!). Have fun tonight!
-Rebecca
dear sparrow
i have your question in hand and safe. It is such a good one I would like to save it for next week and incorporate it if that is alright with you.
kindest regards,
dr.e, tired dr. e tonight. lol
thanks Dr. E. . . .the first night was awesome. . .
i did think about you driving home late at night in the cold Colorado winds. . .and sent some good thoughts and prayers. . .
Thank you Dr. E for coming out of hiding last night. It was wonderful. You were the water for many thirsty souls.
Sparrow y Newtothis
Thank you so much. Soon again.
Thank you too Ghost for the instruction, and Rebecca from Sounds True for following up.
with kind regards,
dr.e
pls see reply above or below, not sure dear newtothis, which direction the comments are positioned at right now, oldest or newest first.
thanks for the interview link Dr E. I look forward to listening.
Did you know the Guardian in the UK just did a big series of fairy tales? http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/fairytales
Looking forward to session 3 dr. e.