I ordered Soforia’s introductory tape at the same time I ordered the Marquesa’s and I finally got it last week. When I first started listening, I thought “bummer”. The technical quality is poor. There’s a loud background hiss and at one point she even hits the mike. Her voice is high and oddly cadenced. There’s not a lot of dramatic phrasing, so you don’t get much of an impression of the person behind the voice. She speaks in a slow sing-song, which is kind of boring–certainly not sexy. But it is very relaxing, and her visualizations were delightful. Read more…

When I first began these notes, I referred to them in my day planner as “HJ diary”. The HJ stood for Henry Jekyl. My thought was that Mistress Marquesa’s Hypnotic Surrender tape was the equivalent of the mixture Dr. Jekyl took. I was looking for a change in me, and it could be the catalyst that might bring that other personality out. There was the real–although improbable, I thought at the time–possibility that my personality might change permanently or uncontrollably as a result.
Our moods fluctuate from day to day. To filter out that “noise” from a deeper, more lasting change, was the problem. Back when my survival instincts were at natural coyote levels, I felt the short run might be all the time I would have to “high tail it”, as we coyotes say, to safe ground. So I decided it would be prudent to keep a diary of my feelings and compare them from day to day.
Did a lot of good, huh? Read more…