From ladyofquills at spray.se Tue Apr 4 09:22:41 2006 From: ladyofquills at spray.se (Kimberly) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 18:22:41 +0200 Subject: [Helpers] 02introk new essay. In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060319113031.02ec3fd8@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <001301c65803$ff6e6950$6501a8c0@quilly> Heya everybody, > > At 07:18 AM 18/03/2006, Kimberly wrote: > >Ok, just so I'm clear... Why are you sending these essays to the list? > >Is it because you want me to edit them or for another reason? Lol > > I thought the helpers might be interested to read the new lesson > essays > as they are completed, and possibly give me some feedback. > Tell me how wonderful they are and keep me motivated. ;) > > Also, it is a simple way to get the essays to Sachiko to paste into the > lesson. > > I consider these essays done and not in need of editing... don't you > agree? > Sorry about that Mystress! LOL I was just confused because one of the other people that I do editing for often just sends me stuff out of the blue in email form rather than in a document so that I can edit them for him. I didn't even look over them before I asked you about them, so I couldn't even tell you if they weren't perfect as they were. Unfortunately, the project that I've been doing for my other client has continued on past the time that was expected and I haven't been able to get to looking over many of the lessons on the website/CD yet. I'm sorry. The only one I've been able to do so far is the first lesson, which looks perfect as it is and doesn't seem to need any editing. I promise I start looking over the rest asap! Blessings, Kimberly From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Fri Apr 7 13:12:33 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 13:12:33 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Spring Fever, European Tour and April Chat Schedule. References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060329082516.04cc7ef8@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <004801c65a7f$9b5ba9e0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> I think I mentioned while ago, but if you are still interested in setting up the web Calendar/Scheduler I maybe able to set it up for you when I have time. I will need the access to Cpanel of your current rental server though. Let me know. I found something that I pointed out...... > Monday April 10, 5PM PST > Repeated Friday April 12 at noon PST > Chat Workshop: Soul travel. > Similar to astral travel, but much simpler to learn and use. After > basic > instuction in soul travel, and soul retrieval if needed, we will go > a few > places, off to the moon, visit with Goddess Pele in her Hawaiian > volcano, > exploring the earth heart, and then exploring deeper inside of > ourselves to > use soul energy for healing and clearing blockages. > http://kundalini-teacher.com/meditations/soul.html This is Repeated Friday April 14th, isn't it? Sachiko From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Fri Apr 7 13:24:22 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:24:22 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... In-Reply-To: <001301c65803$ff6e6950$6501a8c0@quilly> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060319113031.02ec3fd8@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060407124122.041dea48@mail.fire-serpent.com> To Kimberly and the group: Sorry to be so absent, but I am hard at work editing the lessons. Just finished completely redoing # 13, the heart voice. I must say, the work is going wonderfully. I am quite inspired by some of what is coming out, really good stuff, very clear. I've become a much better writer since some of the old lessons were written! I want to know, are y'all interested in my posting the lessons to the list as they are completed, and giving me feedback? I don't need to post them here for Sachiko, I can upload the word documents to the site for her to paste into the lessons,and retain more of the formatting. Kimberly: I can reduce your job, most of the lessons I've done look good to me but there are a very few that I cannot seem to smooth out, like the Aspects of consiousness lesson. I pasted the old lesson together with the essay from K teacher and they don't quite flow as I would like. How about if I post specific lessons to work on, instead of your trying to edit the whole thing? Hillary: If Kimberly is busy, can you help edit? Richard: I'll have the meta file template to you soon. Sachiko: Can you paste the new essays into the old form on the live site? Some of the new content is so much better, I want new members to be seeing the new stuff instead of the old, even if the whole update with the new design is not ready yet. Paste the new links content from the poplink files into the old forms, too. I'll upload a dozen word documents later today. Sandra C: how is it going with finding experiences links? Did you want me to zip the tea room archives so you can search them on your hard drive? I tried to use the live tea room search last night, it wasn't working for me. Sandra D: Are you still with us? At 09:22 AM 04/04/2006, you wrote: >Sorry about that Mystress! LOL I was just confused because one of the >other people that I do editing for often just sends me stuff out of the >blue in email form rather than in a document so that I can edit them for >him. I didn't even look over them before I asked you about them, so I >couldn't even tell you if they weren't perfect as they were. > >Unfortunately, the project that I've been doing for my other client has >continued on past the time that was expected and I haven't been able to >get to looking over many of the lessons on the website/CD yet. I'm >sorry. The only one I've been able to do so far is the first lesson, >which looks perfect as it is and doesn't seem to need any editing. > >I promise I start looking over the rest asap! > >Blessings, From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Fri Apr 7 13:35:03 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:35:03 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Spring Fever, European Tour and April Chat Schedule. In-Reply-To: <004801c65a7f$9b5ba9e0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060329082516.04cc7ef8@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060407132526.0404bdd0@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 01:12 PM 07/04/2006, you wrote: >I think I mentioned while ago, but if you are still interested in >setting up >the web Calendar/Scheduler I maybe able to set it up for you when I >have time. I will need the access to Cpanel of your current rental >server though. You have it. I gave you top level access to fire-serpent.org. All my sites are on the same account, except domin8rex.com and the FST videos. Kundalini teacher is folder kteach, I think... or kteacher. I made a calendar of tables, a few months back. Haven't done anything with it yet... it is low tech. I could really use a good calendar/scheduler! My new lifedrive has one, but that is not web friendly. >Let me know. > >I found something that I pointed out...... > > > Monday April 10, 5PM PST > > Repeated Friday April 12 at noon PST > > Chat Workshop: Soul travel. > > Similar to astral travel, but much simpler to learn and use. After > > basic > > instuction in soul travel, and soul retrieval if needed, we will go > > a few > > places, off to the moon, visit with Goddess Pele in her Hawaiian > > volcano, > > exploring the earth heart, and then exploring deeper inside of > > ourselves to > > use soul energy for healing and clearing blockages. > > http://kundalini-teacher.com/meditations/soul.html > >This is Repeated Friday April 14th, isn't it? ooops. Thanks. Nobody had contacted me that they were attending the chat today, so I thought it was a no-go. Just checked and you did... sorry! >Sachiko > > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From Druout at aol.com Fri Apr 7 14:03:58 2006 From: Druout at aol.com (Druout at aol.com) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 17:03:58 EDT Subject: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... Message-ID: <22c.97dcb8e.31682dbe@aol.com> I'd be happy to! :) In a message dated 4/7/2006 1:25:26 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, Mystress at fire-serpent.com writes: Hillary: If Kimberly is busy, can you help edit? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Fri Apr 7 14:09:23 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 14:09:23 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Spring Fever, European Tour and April Chat Schedule. References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060329082516.04cc7ef8@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060407132526.0404bdd0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <007101c65a87$8c7b6660$0100a8c0@sachikojn> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" To: "FST Helpers list." Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 1:35 PM Subject: Re: [Helpers] Spring Fever, European Tour and April Chat Schedule. > At 01:12 PM 07/04/2006, you wrote: >>I think I mentioned while ago, but if you are still interested in >>setting up >>the web Calendar/Scheduler I maybe able to set it up for you when I >>have time. I will need the access to Cpanel of your current rental >>server though. > > You have it. I gave you top level access to fire-serpent.org. All > my > sites are on the same account, except domin8rex.com and the FST > videos. > Kundalini teacher is folder kteach, I think... or kteacher. > > I made a calendar of tables, a few months back. Haven't done > anything > with it yet... it is low tech. I could really use a good > calendar/scheduler! My new lifedrive has one, but that is not web > friendly. You gave me the info for the old server. I don't have the info for new server. I need URL for the current serrver Cpanel and login info for it. (not the FTP server info that you gave me recently) This is the calender I'm using... http://www.heartinhealing.com/calender/month.php Here is the web calender site http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php Sachiko From sandradavis7 at yahoo.com Sat Apr 8 10:07:55 2006 From: sandradavis7 at yahoo.com (Sandra Davis) Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 10:07:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060407124122.041dea48@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <20060408170755.17391.qmail@web51503.mail.yahoo.com> Yes I am. --- Mystress Angelique Serpent wrote: > Sandra D: Are you still with us? From sandracantu79 at hotmail.com Mon Apr 10 07:42:57 2006 From: sandracantu79 at hotmail.com (Sandra Cantu) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:42:57 -0500 Subject: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060407124122.041dea48@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: Hello all, I currently don't have internet connectivity at home, only at work. So zipping the files in a document seems like a good idea. Also, I know you gave us a link with all of the course lessons before and I haven't been able to find them. Can you send it again or just the course titles so that I can put some stuff of the tea room archives together with the course lessons. I have had some personal stuff to take care of too. I should have some more time from now on and I also gotta either fix my computer at home or just buy a new one. Thank you. >From: Mystress Angelique Serpent >Reply-To: "FST Helpers list." >To: "FST Helpers list." >Subject: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... >Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:24:22 -0700 > > To Kimberly and the group: > > Sorry to be so absent, but I am hard at work editing the lessons. Just >finished completely redoing # 13, the heart voice. I must say, the work is >going wonderfully. I am quite inspired by some of what is coming out, >really good stuff, very clear. I've become a much better writer since some >of the old lessons were written! > > I want to know, are y'all interested in my posting the lessons to the >list as they are completed, and giving me feedback? > > I don't need to post them here for Sachiko, I can upload the word >documents to the site for her to paste into the lessons,and retain more of >the formatting. > > Kimberly: I can reduce your job, most of the lessons I've done look >good to me but there are a very few that I cannot seem to smooth out, like >the Aspects of consiousness lesson. I pasted the old lesson together with >the essay from K teacher and they don't quite flow as I would like. > > How about if I post specific lessons to work on, instead of your trying >to edit the whole thing? > > Hillary: If Kimberly is busy, can you help edit? > > Richard: I'll have the meta file template to you soon. > > Sachiko: Can you paste the new essays into the old form on the live >site? Some of the new content is so much better, I want new members to be >seeing the new stuff instead of the old, even if the whole update with the >new design is not ready yet. Paste the new links content from the poplink >files into the old forms, too. I'll upload a dozen word documents later >today. > > Sandra C: how is it going with finding experiences links? Did you want >me to zip the tea room archives so you can search them on your hard drive? >I tried to use the live tea room search last night, it wasn't working for >me. > > Sandra D: Are you still with us? > > >At 09:22 AM 04/04/2006, you wrote: > > >Sorry about that Mystress! LOL I was just confused because one of the > >other people that I do editing for often just sends me stuff out of the > >blue in email form rather than in a document so that I can edit them for > >him. I didn't even look over them before I asked you about them, so I > >couldn't even tell you if they weren't perfect as they were. > > > >Unfortunately, the project that I've been doing for my other client has > >continued on past the time that was expected and I haven't been able to > >get to looking over many of the lessons on the website/CD yet. I'm > >sorry. The only one I've been able to do so far is the first lesson, > >which looks perfect as it is and doesn't seem to need any editing. > > > >I promise I start looking over the rest asap! > > > >Blessings, > > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Mon Apr 10 13:49:48 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:49:48 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060319113031.02ec3fd8@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060407124122.041dea48@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <010501c65ce0$4f18c190$0100a8c0@sachikojn> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" To: "FST Helpers list." Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 1:24 PM Subject: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... > Sachiko: Can you paste the new essays into the old form on the > live > site? Some of the new content is so much better, I want new members > to be > seeing the new stuff instead of the old, even if the whole update > with the > new design is not ready yet. Paste the new links content from the > poplink > files into the old forms, too. I'll upload a dozen word documents > later today. I have updated the files. http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/25introk.html http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/14matgod.html This is the sample page that I copy from tantra lesson. I'm sure I have updated all the link to fit as sample page, but please check the links on the page(next, previous etc..) if it's correct. http://www.fire-serpent.com/14matgod.html These are the exact same files with font settings for the content of the page. They are linked to files listed above. http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/t.css http://www.fire-serpent.com/t.css Sachiko From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Mon Apr 10 14:00:53 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:00:53 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Calendar Message-ID: <012301c65ce1$dbb5a770$0100a8c0@sachikojn> Thank you for the info for the Cpanel. I have found the exact same WebCalendar system on your server. http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php I can still set it up for you since it's bit tricky to set up as public calendar. just let me know. Sachiko From ladyofquills at spray.se Wed Apr 12 01:19:11 2006 From: ladyofquills at spray.se (Kimberly) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:19:11 +0200 Subject: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060407124122.041dea48@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <004801c65e09$c754fc30$6501a8c0@quilly> Hi again! Ok, it looks like my work with my other client has finally reached an end, thank Goddess! :P I don't know how much editing Hillary has been able to get done, but if there is anything left that needs to be edited, please send it my way Mystress and I'll look at it right away. From what I can remember of the classes there weren't many of them that needed work, so sending the ones that you would like looked at works well with me. :) Blessings to all, Kimberly > -----Original Message----- > From: Helpers-bounces at fire-serpent.org [mailto:Helpers-bounces at fire- > serpent.org] On Behalf Of Mystress Angelique Serpent > Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 10:24 PM > To: FST Helpers list. > Subject: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... > > To Kimberly and the group: > > Sorry to be so absent, but I am hard at work editing the lessons. Just > finished completely redoing # 13, the heart voice. I must say, the work is > going wonderfully. I am quite inspired by some of what is coming out, > really good stuff, very clear. I've become a much better writer since > some > of the old lessons were written! > > I want to know, are y'all interested in my posting the lessons to the > list as they are completed, and giving me feedback? > > I don't need to post them here for Sachiko, I can upload the word > documents to the site for her to paste into the lessons,and retain more of > the formatting. > > Kimberly: I can reduce your job, most of the lessons I've done look > good to me but there are a very few that I cannot seem to smooth out, like > the Aspects of consiousness lesson. I pasted the old lesson together with > the essay from K teacher and they don't quite flow as I would like. > > How about if I post specific lessons to work on, instead of your trying > to edit the whole thing? > > Hillary: If Kimberly is busy, can you help edit? > > Richard: I'll have the meta file template to you soon. > > Sachiko: Can you paste the new essays into the old form on the live > site? Some of the new content is so much better, I want new members to be > seeing the new stuff instead of the old, even if the whole update with the > new design is not ready yet. Paste the new links content from the poplink > files into the old forms, too. I'll upload a dozen word documents later > today. > > Sandra C: how is it going with finding experiences links? Did you want > me to zip the tea room archives so you can search them on your hard drive? > I tried to use the live tea room search last night, it wasn't working for > me. > > Sandra D: Are you still with us? > > > At 09:22 AM 04/04/2006, you wrote: > > >Sorry about that Mystress! LOL I was just confused because one of the > >other people that I do editing for often just sends me stuff out of the > >blue in email form rather than in a document so that I can edit them for > >him. I didn't even look over them before I asked you about them, so I > >couldn't even tell you if they weren't perfect as they were. > > > >Unfortunately, the project that I've been doing for my other client has > >continued on past the time that was expected and I haven't been able to > >get to looking over many of the lessons on the website/CD yet. I'm > >sorry. The only one I've been able to do so far is the first lesson, > >which looks perfect as it is and doesn't seem to need any editing. > > > >I promise I start looking over the rest asap! > > > >Blessings, > > > > _______________________________________________ > Helpers mailing list > Helpers at fire-serpent.org > http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > From Druout at aol.com Wed Apr 12 08:41:37 2006 From: Druout at aol.com (Druout at aol.com) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:41:37 EDT Subject: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... Message-ID: <278.843b62e.316e79b1@aol.com> In a message dated 4/12/2006 1:22:49 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, ladyofquills at spray.se writes: I don't know how much editing Hillary has been able to get done, but if there is anything left that needs to be edited, please send it my way Mystress and I'll look at it right away. From what I can remember of the classes there weren't many of them that needed work, so sending the ones that you would like looked at works well with me. :) Dear Kimberly, I haven't done anything as yet! Angelique didn't get back to me and I've been fairly busy so didn't get started on my own! Love, Hillary -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Wed Apr 12 12:19:22 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:19:22 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... In-Reply-To: <004801c65e09$c754fc30$6501a8c0@quilly> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060407124122.041dea48@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060412021221.04cefa68@mail.fire-serpent.com> Believe it or not, I have been writing 18 hours a day for a straight week.. and I'm up to lesson #39~!! but some of the first lessons don't have homework or experiences, yet. I sort of ran out of steam so I am going back and giving the first 40 lessons a second or third edit, to polish them. I'll post the ones I feel need some work. I have been adding some experiences as I go, and some experiences links and additional links... but I was getting them from tea room and K-list archives on my hard drive, not patient to fix them to be proper URLs. So that is a small thing to be done. Percyval: my emails to you are not getting through, you can call me. Sachiko: I wondered why the headers looked to oddly slanted. The title header is italic and bold in the CSS, so there is no need to add it in the code of the page. I think the title font could be a little smaller, too. Easier on the eyes if there is a little more blank space around it. Speaking of which, please make sure there is a blank space above and below the text in each text box so the writing is not crowded. At 01:19 AM 12/04/2006, you wrote: >Hi again! > >Ok, it looks like my work with my other client has finally reached an >end, thank Goddess! :P > >I don't know how much editing Hillary has been able to get done, but if >there is anything left that needs to be edited, please send it my way >Mystress and I'll look at it right away. From what I can remember of the >classes there weren't many of them that needed work, so sending the ones >that you would like looked at works well with me. :) > >Blessings to all, >Kimberly > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Helpers-bounces at fire-serpent.org [mailto:Helpers-bounces at fire- > > serpent.org] On Behalf Of Mystress Angelique Serpent > > Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 10:24 PM > > To: FST Helpers list. > > Subject: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... > > > > To Kimberly and the group: > > > > Sorry to be so absent, but I am hard at work editing the lessons. >Just > > finished completely redoing # 13, the heart voice. I must say, the >work is > > going wonderfully. I am quite inspired by some of what is coming out, > > really good stuff, very clear. I've become a much better writer since > > some > > of the old lessons were written! > > > > I want to know, are y'all interested in my posting the lessons to >the > > list as they are completed, and giving me feedback? > > > > I don't need to post them here for Sachiko, I can upload the word > > documents to the site for her to paste into the lessons,and retain >more of > > the formatting. > > > > Kimberly: I can reduce your job, most of the lessons I've done >look > > good to me but there are a very few that I cannot seem to smooth out, >like > > the Aspects of consiousness lesson. I pasted the old lesson together >with > > the essay from K teacher and they don't quite flow as I would like. > > > > How about if I post specific lessons to work on, instead of your >trying > > to edit the whole thing? > > > > Hillary: If Kimberly is busy, can you help edit? > > > > Richard: I'll have the meta file template to you soon. > > > > Sachiko: Can you paste the new essays into the old form on the >live > > site? Some of the new content is so much better, I want new members >to be > > seeing the new stuff instead of the old, even if the whole update with >the > > new design is not ready yet. Paste the new links content from the >poplink > > files into the old forms, too. I'll upload a dozen word documents >later > > today. > > > > Sandra C: how is it going with finding experiences links? Did you >want > > me to zip the tea room archives so you can search them on your hard >drive? > > I tried to use the live tea room search last night, it wasn't working >for > > me. > > > > Sandra D: Are you still with us? > > > > > > At 09:22 AM 04/04/2006, you wrote: > > > > >Sorry about that Mystress! LOL I was just confused because one of the > > >other people that I do editing for often just sends me stuff out of >the > > >blue in email form rather than in a document so that I can edit them >for > > >him. I didn't even look over them before I asked you about them, so I > > >couldn't even tell you if they weren't perfect as they were. > > > > > >Unfortunately, the project that I've been doing for my other client >has > > >continued on past the time that was expected and I haven't been able >to > > >get to looking over many of the lessons on the website/CD yet. I'm > > >sorry. The only one I've been able to do so far is the first lesson, > > >which looks perfect as it is and doesn't seem to need any editing. > > > > > >I promise I start looking over the rest asap! > > > > > >Blessings, > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Helpers mailing list > > Helpers at fire-serpent.org > > http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Wed Apr 12 16:53:40 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:53:40 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060407124122.041dea48@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060412021221.04cefa68@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <001d01c65e8c$53359250$0100a8c0@sachikojn> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" To: "FST Helpers list." Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:19 PM Subject: Re: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... > Sachiko: I wondered why the headers looked to oddly slanted. The > title > header is italic and bold in the CSS, so there is no need to add it > in the > code of the page. I think the title font could be a little smaller, > too. > Easier on the eyes if there is a little more blank space around it. Could you be more specific? Which file? Which line? Which CSS? All I did was to copy&paste the contents part and CSS file with indent, italic, and bold for the paragraph. So that I don't have to add     to the beginning of every paragraph. Sachiko From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Wed Apr 12 22:34:01 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:34:01 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... In-Reply-To: <001d01c65e8c$53359250$0100a8c0@sachikojn> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060407124122.041dea48@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060412021221.04cefa68@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060412180839.02f05e98@mail.fire-serpent.com> LOL!! Yeah I guess I was pretty darn vague. Sorry! I meant the fscnew/current/tantra new lesson forms. The lesson number and title in the top table. I noticed when I was looking at the 02matgod in its new lesson shape. I also noticed a few small grammatical errors... FYI: To make my life simpler, I copied all the lessons into a new folder on my hard drive, used search and replace to take out most of the code, then renamed them from html to doc files to edit them in word. So, some lessons you haven't seen yet will still have some paragraph code in it, to save some time... however some will have the odd paragraph code missing on some lines. My focus is the writing and I'm not taking much time to mess with other stuff. Particularly with the experiences, word will show some lines italic, which won't appear when you paste it into html... unless dreamweaver has some tricks I dunno about! I'm thinking, if I upload all the doc files maybe Hillary or Sandra C can tweak the links and italic bits then save them as text files for you? Also, some experiences I had patience to mess with so they made more sense, like "Student wrote" followed by my response below. I usually respond at the top for email and tea room, but it makes less sense that way, for a new reader. What you did was great! Thanks. I was just preoccupied with my writing. Speaking of which, some of what is coming out as I edit the lessons is really quite inspired! Some of the homework assignments, particularly. Like the one for sexual energy and genetics. I had no idea what to write for homework!! What came out is an essay/ assignment about looking at your ancestors talents and how they combine in you to get a better idea of your soul's purpose in incarnating. Also, the lesson on merkaba, etc distractions is going to be about the soul, instead. Looking forward to making a video for that one. Soul retrievals are cool! At 04:53 PM 12/04/2006, you wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" >To: "FST Helpers list." >Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:19 PM >Subject: Re: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... > > > > Sachiko: I wondered why the headers looked to oddly slanted. The > > title > > header is italic and bold in the CSS, so there is no need to add it > > in the > > code of the page. I think the title font could be a little smaller, > > too. > > Easier on the eyes if there is a little more blank space around it. > >Could you be more specific? > >Which file? Which line? Which CSS? > >All I did was to copy&paste the contents part and CSS file >with indent, italic, and bold for the paragraph. So that I don't have >to add     to the beginning of every paragraph. > > >Sachiko > > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Wed Apr 12 13:02:56 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:02:56 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Aspects of Consciousness. Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060412125623.02e53850@mail.fire-serpent.com> My conceptualizations of consciousness draw on Carl Jung's ideas, but also from my own insights as a Shaman, and my experiences with Kundalini. "As above so below"... I am going to describe the aspects of the human consciousness in terms of layers. In my description we are beginning at the surface and moving downward through the layers, into unity, but I could just as easily speak of "higher" instead of lower. I am defining separate layers of the unconscious mind, for the purposes of conceptualization, but the map is not the territory. We conceptualize in linearity, our minds are linear- we think one thought at a time, but there really isn't any linearity, outside of our experience of time-space. Space and time are illusion, an artefact of linear perception. Everything everywhere is really happening all at once. We draw maps, and put in boundary lines defining areas and territory, but those dividing lines are fuzzy to nonexistent in the reality of the individual psyche. The spiritual truth is that 'All is One.' The "Top" or surface layer is the ego mind: who you think you are; your conditioned mind. Usually, it is a grocery list of qualities, much like how you might define yourself for a personal ad or resume. Your age, occupation, marital status, politics, height, weight, etc. Your beliefs, opinions, likes and dislikes, plus the baggage of your experiences: The personal qualities that are a result of how you chose to respond to events, in the past. The ego includes anything that you believe about yourself, that is a fear, judgment, belief or limit. Most people are only aware of the ego aspect of themselves, as identity, although in dreams they may get a glimpse of greater potential. Jung defines Shadow self as "What you think you are not." Those qualities you deny and repress in yourself, and project onto, or see in others. He classifies it as the part of the ego, and that makes sense, because it really is a shadow cast by the ego, a mirror reflection of ego beliefs. I consider it part of the unconscious... because it is usually hidden from the ego. People normally do not consider what they are not, as part of what they are; yet it is. Generally speaking, you only criticize qualities in others that are also part of you. You are All that Is, manifest into an illusion of individuality. Therefore, the content of Karma that is held by the Shadow is also the veil of separation that keeps you from knowing your Divine, infinite Self. You are All. The Shadow only takes form, as a guide if you are a Shaman. In Kundalites, it remains hidden, mysterious and invisible except for the growing awareness of how the things that bug us most about other people, are faults we have ourselves. That which we think we are not, the projections, are separation that keeps us from experiencing Unity. If you are All that Is, then you are Christ, Gandhi, Buddha, Mohammed and all the Archangels. If you are All that Is, then you are also Hitler, Genghis Khan, Dracula and Pinochet... but those aspects of yourself are likely repressed and hidden by the Shadow. If you feel a negative reaction to the idea that you are Hitler, then you understand better, what Jung meant: "The shadow is that which we think we are not. " It also means the qualities you most admire in others are a part of you, too. What you see is yourself reflected. The Unconscious IS the Divine Beloved. Jung said the unconscious mind is the opposite gender of the body: anima/animus. The Divine Beloved holds your whole life's memories. You don't see your whole life flashing before your eyes unless you are dying or in serious crisis situation, but the process of Kundalini brings forth a lot of forgotten memories and emotional experiences up into consciousness so they can be forgiven, surrendered, integrated. Kundalini is a death and rebirth process, so you may see you life flashing before your eyes but over a span of years of meditations, out of linear order, because your Divine Beloved will pace and guide the process to what is best for you, and what you can handle. Your Divine Beloved knows where all your personal karma is stored, the Shadow is Gatekeeper who keeps you from being inundated by all of the information at once. The Divine Beloved chooses what will come up to be integrated or released, and when. It is in charge of your Kundalini process. The form of your Divine Beloved will be unique to you, but the Divine is All, so it also encompasses many of the deeper layers, just as the vast unconscious mind includes or encompasses the collective consciousness. The Unconscious is unified with the Collective Cosmic Consciousness, which in turn is not separate from the Unity consciousness which is All... Goddess. The Divine Beloved can take any form, or none at all, but usually it will take the form of your "ideal" partner, the man or woman of your dreams. Within you, Goddess takes a form that you can love, to have a personal, intimate relationship with you. You can have a personal relationship with your own Spirit. The layer between your personal memories, and the collective, contains the Archetypes ... usually perceived as the "Old gods", like Thor and Kali... they have *form*. That is, they often can be recognised by how they look, dress, and behave. They are a part of you, but they are also themselves, and are manifestations of the universal energy and your own unconscious mind. Often archetypes are connected to particular symbols, like how Thor is represented by the peculiar pointed Celtic hammer, and a Nordic Rune. Archetypes are representations of different aspects of being human, although some make take the form of animals or monsters. There are many different forms or representations of the Archetypes. One is the 12 signs of the Zodiac, another is the Greek pantheon of old Gods. Each of the Greek Gods represents an aspect of Being: Athena is wisdom, Aphrodite is sexual love, Mars is war and aggression, etc. The Tibetans have a similar cosmology, with hundreds of lesser deities or demons representing the many aspects of being human. In esoteric Christianity, these take the form of angels or demons. Most older religions do not separate the old ones into concepts of good and bad, so clearly. Aphrodite was the Goddess of love, but she could also be jealous, angry, manipulative... just like people. Below the level of the archetypes, is the collective, which is the storehouse of every lifetime that ever has or will be, or could be, on every sentient planet. This is sometimes referred to as the Akashic records. You can learn to read the Akashic records deliberately, but I do not recommend it. It is not very useful, since limitless manifestation suggests that within the Records, lies *every* possibility. Not only what did or will happen, but also everything that ever could happen. The possibility you tap into, is not necessarily the one that was or will Be. What you will see, is yourself reflected. You will see into a mirror of your fears and limiting beliefs, so you can surrender your fear and integrate. Trying to be guided by the Akashic records can really pull you off balance, especially if you get attached to what you see, as "Truth." I have seen people get pulled into some crazy ideas from going there, especially if they have an ego attitude of specialness at being able to do so, or think they are some kind of clairvoyant messenger of truth. Better to stay in the Now and let "Goddess handle it"...let higher wisdom guide your path, and be a passive recipient of Divine insights. If you need to know something, Goddess will find a way to communicate... either intuitively, or through synchronicity. Goddess is omnipotent and outside of time, She can arrange the synchronicities you need years in advance, so to speak... and She will, because She loves you. A song on the radio answering a question you posed in your mind, a show on TV mirroring a situation you are struggling with... As you start to become more observant of yourself, you will notice a line from a song or conversation will seem to stand out, or stick in your head. Do not get obsessive trying to give these events meaning. They will tend to be clarified by appearing in patterns of 3 or more. Be patient; wait to be shown meaning rather than quickly attaching to an interpretation. When you consider interpretations, stay grounded and pay attention to your gut reaction: tension means it is not true. The collective consciousness is also where your "Past lives" are stored. I discourage people from getting too absorbed with the idea of past lives. Sometimes people will use a belief in a special past life to build ego, or they will use an idea of a bad past life to emotionally abuse themselves. For myself, I believe in past lives every second Tuesday and on those days I can contemplate whether the Tibetan elements of my work come from a past life as a Lama, or the SM elements come from my past life as a Romanian Prince. It is fun. The rest of the time it is irrelevant. Here and now is what is important. If time and space do not truly exist and everything is really happening all at once, what is "past"? It is better to consider visions of past lives as parables or metaphors drawn from the library of the collective, to give insights into what is happening in your life and relationships in the present life and time. If you are truly All that Is, then all "past lives" are yours, part of you already. It is best to think of past lives, as simply metaphors of what is occurring in the here and now. Resonant parables drawn from the collective, by your unconscious to give you insight into current events. Below the level of the collective, is the "Light", the Godhead. Most people who have Near Death experiences don't make it all the way into the Light. They stop at the edge of it, "Heaven's gate" where they meet angels and dead relatives. Deeper in, you will find a non-dual place of light. In that place you are God, there is lots of bright light, and you are alone. You are All. If you go through the light you come out the other side, into the Void: the place outside of time that can be thought of as the "Dreamtime"... the place "before" creation where all of creation comes from. Infinite womb of Goddess, a place of no forms, but infinite potential. In the Genesis of the Old testament, it says that in the beginning there was Void, nothingness. Out of the Void came a voice that said "Let there be light." Goddess, the Void (Consciousness) giving birth to her consort, God the Light (matter and energy)... and between them, they created everything else. There spiritual aspects of consciousness that are individual, include the soul and the Higher self. The higher self often appears in dreams as a wise older person the same gender as yourself. The higher self is like halfway between the ego and the soul. It is individual as you are, and it interacts with people as you do, but it is closer to spirit. Sometimes it is easier to deal with someone on a higher self level, and allow things to trickle down into physical reality; but it is best to let your Angels negotiate on your behalf. The Higher Self has free will, like the ego, and so it carries a reflection of your karma, and becomes more enlightened as you do. I have found some people's higher selves in need of healing, whereas the Soul cannot be harmed by anything you do in this life. The soul appears as a tiny, infinitely bright spark of light, most often found near the power chakra. It is Divine, it chose from your parents DNA to make you, and it knows your path for this lifetime. What you incarnated to experience. It does not experience separation from Goddess, beyond duality there is only one soul, having every experience everywhere. It is like that physics theory that suggests there is only one photon, very busy appearing everywhere at once. I know these are tricky concepts, slippery at best. I will explain it another way to give greater understanding. Consider the aspects of your consciousness, as if they are sitting together, at an outdoor cafe on the French Riviera. You sit in one chair. You as your ego, that which you think you are, your conditioned mind. Anything that you believe about yourself that is a fear, judgment, belief or limit. All your ideas about yourself. Across from you, sits your Shadow side. Your inner demon, that which you think you are not. It may look like simply a very deep shadow, or it may take the form of someone you judge and reject. Or even someone you admire, someone you think you cannot measure up to. The Shadow is a reflection of the ego: the bigger the ego, the larger shadow it casts. They both represent your separation from the Divine, except the Shadow is the part of the Divine that has taken on the task of reflecting your fears back to you, so you can choose love instead and clear karma. For everything you believe you are, there is a belief of what you are not. Ego polishes its buttons of pride and illusions of holier than thou, because all flaws and negative judgments are projected onto the Shadow. The Shadow plays the bad guy, by reflecting it all back at you so you can see what you fear, and have the free will option to choose love and unity. In most awakened people the shadow is integrated through the discipline of seeing yourself mirrored as what you judge. With some spiritual awakening, such as Shamanism, it is not unusual for the Shadow to take a form, to be an inner teacher. A harsh trainer, whose sharp tongue teaches humility. You have to learn to love and accept your own shadow unconditionally, to integrate it and become self realized. To one side of you sits your Divine Beloved, your own unconscious mind which has a mind of its own. It is usually the opposite gender of your body. It is your soul mate, lover and guide. Behind and above you floats an invisible presence, the Witness. The part of you can see outside of your ego, it sees things as they really are without the distortions of ego or emotion. This aspect of you is outside of duality, emotionless unconditional love. You will learn how to deliberately invoke this presence, or state of mind, in a later lesson. Behind the Shadow and the Divine beloved, there is a large crowd gathered: the Archetypes. These are most easily understood as manifestations of the old Gods. Many Pagan pantheons, such as the Greek, Roman, Norse and Mayan Pantheons had a God for each aspect of being human. Athena is the Goddess of reason and self defensive war, Mars is the God of aggressive war and conflict. Behind the Archetypes, is an infinite crowd; the collective consciousness. Every being whom ever existed, or ever will exist. Every event, every blade of grass and every snowflake that ever has been or will be, is alive in the eternal moment, outside of time. All of this is within the infinity of the collective consciousness. The Divine Beloved, encompasses all the archetypes, and the entire collective. Your unconscious, the "Divine Beloved", does not experience itself as separate from the Archetypes, the Collective, or the Witness Self. Many faces, one Self. Imagine all the archetypes, the collective and the Divine beloved wear the same clothes, the same uniform. One aspect of the Shadow, is that it is also the Portal Guardian, the gatekeeper between your conscious and unconscious mind. The veil of forgetfulness. Its role is protective; it keeps your conscious ego mind from being overwhelmed by the crowded chaos of the collective. By reflecting your fears back to you, it keeps you from going to altered states that you are not yet ready for. You could say that it is the Shadow that is in charge of pacing and arranging your process... the pace and order of its unfolding. It is also the Angel of Death, because spiritually, death is the doorway to the Light, and the unconscious is not separate from that. The awakening process eventually leads you to experience the death of your ego. The experience of separation from the Divine ends and you become the Light and then eventually, the Void: Blissful, peaceful nothing of a Zen silent mind. Ego dies and goes into the light, and your Higher Self comes down into the body to be You. Body lives on as a temple of your Spirit. The shadow keeps you from going there before you are ready, because too much karma clearing all at once would be a mentally hazardous experience. The Shadow, is the fiery sword that guards Eden, so that only those who are without fear, can pass. Understanding the many aspects of consciousness is useful for the Kundalini process, because these aspects so often show up symbolically, in dreams. Understanding that your consciousness is made up if an internal cast of characters is useful because it allows you to communicate directly with these aspects of yourself, in meditation. You already experience yourself as separate from these aspects of you. Surrender to that, and create a relationship between the aspects so they can teach and guide you. I'll give you a third metaphor. Think of your ego as a mountain that you can see. The mountain is reflected in a lake. A lake or ocean is a metaphor for the unconscious mind, the mystery of what is hidden beneath the surface. Water is symbolic of spiritual energy, in dreams and visions. At the boundary between air and water, the reflection of the mountain on the lake is the Shadow, the Guardian who hides the secrets of the lake's depths. Below the lake are the layers of the Earth, the Archetypes and the Akashic records, the unity of the Earth itself, Gaiamind, and encompassing it all is the Void. The Earth suspended in the starry void of space. Through the process of consciousness expansion that is Kundalini, we integrate with everything... but everything, would overwhelm awareness, so we only get the "Reader's Digest version". We get information on a "need to know" basis, we are shown what we need to see, to choose to surrender, but we are not shown everything all at once. Nor do we necessarily integrate the unconscious material in any particular order... order implies linearity, and the unconscious is not linear, although I describe it as such, for the purpose of conceptualizing it for you. In a classical, idealized pattern of the awakening process, the chakras open in order from the bottom upwards, and in this fantasy, there would be linearity and order, in the integration... but the reality is that people can experience a bottom-upwards opening, or a top down opening, and often some of the upper chakras will open to some degree before the snakes wake. The karmic issues of the individual determine the path, and they may have some cultural commonalities but are essentially unique to each person. One night you might be hanging with Kali, in your dreams, the next night you might be in the void or surfing "past" lives. Or you might be dreaming, hanging out in the infinite alternative realities of the astral realms, which are like a big adventure schoolroom where you do role play games to grow in wisdom and experience. There is a Zen story of a teacher who asks his students to try to hold the Ocean in a sieve. The students are confused by this and only one student actually tries to do it. After many hopeless attempts at understanding, the Teacher shows up and the student asks for explanation. To answer, the Teacher throws the sieve far out into the ocean, where it sinks to the bottom. This is a metaphor for the Kundalini process. The sieve is ego, and the Ocean is the unconscious. The sieve cannot hold the ocean; it is too small and full of holes. It needs instead to be thrown into the ocean and immersed there. Then the ocean washes through it eternally, and it is always filled. Home work: - Try it! Imagine sitting at the cafe table from the essay, with the many parts of your mind, plus your Higher Self and Guardian Angel... and let them be a council, to sort out all of your problems for you. Even if you cannot hear them, they will hear you, and act on your behalf and in service to your highest good and the continued unfolding of your spiritual path. - Become more mindful of your thoughts. Begin to learn to watch thoughts go by and inquire of yourself, "Where did that come from?" instead of reacting to the content of the thought. Notice the types of thoughts you have. Notice how many different "Voices" you have in your mind. How often do you hear remembered voices of other people? Parents, teachers, spouse or partner, boss, relative, etc? Some thoughts come as music. Are there other thoughts when the music is present, or is the music interrupted if you have a thought? Who is the DJ? Does the music chosen sort of match what you are doing, or is it a song you heard recently, on replay in your head? Some people have an inner critic, and/or an inner narrator who tells the story of what you are doing. Some have an inner defence attorney pleading their case before the critic and some known, or unknown judge. Is there a Judge? Who is the judge of you, in your mind? Do you have an inner coach, or cheerleader? Do you have a director who tells you what to do? Pay attention to the voices rather than the words. Do they remind you of anyone? Are they male, or female? Older, younger? Notice how your body and emotions respond to the noise of these characters. Notice the conversations that go on in your mind. Do you find yourself mentally rehashing an argument after it has ended, or rehearsing what you would like to say to someone? If you are a visual person, what pictures do you get? Is it a slideshow or a movie? Is there a soundtrack? As an artist, I often get cartoon type pictures in my imagination. If I tell you to imagine a banana, does it appear floating by itself, or is there a backdrop, or scenery? Do you think of a painting, or Carmen Miranda's hat? When you think of a banana, what other thoughts or feelings are associated? Do you remember the smell of a banana, or when you last ate one? What other thoughts, memories, feelings or images do you associate with "Banana?" A song? Day-O! Are there some thoughts that always trigger a similar string of thoughts and feelings? If you focus on the source of thoughts, you may find a level of thought that is like a spark of beginning, before a thought is translated into words, images or feelings. Similarly, you may feel a subtle spark before a taste, smell or physical sensation translates into meaning. This can be difficult; the spark is so tiny and fleeting. Notice how selective attention is. Right now you are focusing on reading this, and so the rest of the world outside of your attention to these words, fades into an unimportant blur. Notice the relationship between thoughts and groundedness. What thoughts interfere with your being grounded? If you spend more time being grounded, are there fewer thoughts? Do the inner voices change or grow silent? Experiences needed. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Fri Apr 14 11:55:35 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:55:35 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060407124122.041dea48@mail.fire-serpent.com><4.3.2.7.2.20060412021221.04cefa68@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060412180839.02f05e98@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <00c101c65ff5$043a8c90$0100a8c0@sachikojn> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" To: "FST Helpers list." Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:34 PM Subject: Re: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... > LOL!! Yeah I guess I was pretty darn vague. Sorry! I meant the > fscnew/current/tantra new lesson forms. The lesson number and title > in the > top table. I noticed when I was looking at the 02matgod in its new > lesson > shape. Ohh, you mean this line, right? #03: Matriarchy and History These code (>) were there already on some files,but not all. I wasn't sure if they need to be there or taken out, so I left them there. Also you see the tag here, but font-size is set in CSS too. (I have pointed out below) I would choose CSS and discard font tag here. Please let me know. ------------------------------------------------------------------ In "fscss1.css" file class "title" setting. "Font-family" has this font "ZapfChancery-MediumItalic" that I'm assuming it is not standard, so most of people would see the text with other choices. "Font-style" is set as "normal" NOT "italic", so people won't see the text in italic. "font-size" is set here in CSS, but it is set again in html as you can see on the above code (). I would discard tag in html and use CSS setting below to keep it simple. That's what the css file is for anyway. .title { color: #66cccc; background-color: #000000; font-family: "ZapfChancery-MediumItalic", Georgia,"times new roman",,serif; font-size: 22px; font-style:normal; font-weight:bold; line-height:normal; text-align:center; text-valign: middle; text-transform:none; } ------------------------------------------------------------------ > I also noticed a few small grammatical errors... That I'm not really the right person to work on with.... I will leave it up to someone who is native to this language. > Particularly with the experiences, word will show some lines > italic, > which won't appear when you paste it into html... unless dreamweaver > has some tricks I dunno about! > > I'm thinking, if I upload all the doc files maybe Hillary or > Sandra C > can tweak the links and italic bits then save them as text files for > you? DOC file is fine with me. I usually check the style is matching with original. I may need to do some tweeking anyway so you can just leave the html coding up to me. Please let me know what you would like to do. Sachiko From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Fri Apr 14 13:09:11 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:09:11 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Earth & Sky energy. Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060414114318.031333a0@mail.fire-serpent.com> There are only two kinds of energy. One which is the air-sun energy, which is referred to as chi, or ki, or prana, and then there is also the Kundalini Shakti energy, which is the energy of cosmic consciousness. Most folks approach spirituality on a sky path. Sky energy is called "Prana" or "Chi" or "Orgone"... there are many names for it, and a Martial arts Master can show you a good example of what Chi can do. Building up the power of chi to break a ton of ice with his forehead, or shatter a stone with his hand. Chi can be increased by breathing and visualizations. There is more of it on a forest or a mountaintop and that is why it feels so good to be there. If you have an open third eye, you can actually see the prana particles in the air. You may have noticed sometimes if you look at a bright blue sky, snow, or the air around a tree; there are a lot of tiny swirling comets that seem to wink in and out of existence. Those are prana particles, and the trees make them out of sunlight. That is why humans feel good in the forest, because we need the chi of trees, and that is why we need the trees. Science may try to tell you that what you are seeing is the blood moving through the back of your eyes. However, if you observe the phenomena for yourself, you will notice that there are more prana sparkles around a tree than a building or telephone pole. More sparkles around a charged magical object than around a mundane item. More prana in a forest than a shopping mall. You may also notice than when the energy is high, they swirl bright and quickly, and when there is less energy, they will be less bright and more sluggish in their movements. Chi is the ambient life energy that things are made out of. It is used a lot in martial arts, like Tai Chi, and in energy work like Chi-gong or Reiki. It is used in many different forms of healing. The more chi you have the healthier you will be. More life energy means more life! Chi energy is not intelligent: it needs to be directed. When a Kung Fu master is ordering his chi to break a river stone in half with his hand, he is the directing the chi, he is telling it what to do. Reiki is Chi that is being directed by symbols implanted into the healer via initiation. Chi can be affected by human thought. We can change it; direct it and we can alter what it does. Most magic that is done by spells and will power uses the power of Chi. Chi is the slave of free will, it does not judge what use you make of it, any more than sunlight does. Kundalini Shakti is the Cosmic Consciousness of the universe. Nobody tells Kundalini what to do. The Shakti has its own intelligence that is infinitely wiser than any human being. You can ask it nicely, but you cannot control the Shakti energy. Rather, you set aside your free will and invite Goddess to have Her way with you, because She is infinite wisdom and unconditional love. Therefore, when we are working with chi, to invoke healing, or when we are opening and drawing the light down inside of us, we're using an energy that needs to be told what to do. It needs to be controlled. If you just send it out, it will feel good, but it will not serve any particular purpose. Whereas, when I am radiating the Shakti energy, I do not tell it what to do. I just become that, be nothing, and its own wisdom makes it take whatever form is needed by the recipient. Since I am not directing it, I do not know what form it takes. It is the unconscious of the person who receives it, and their own Divine guidance that decides what that Shakti shows up as. So for some circumstances, like the grounding site, where I'm sending out Shakti on a higher self level of surrender, I don't actually know how people are affected by that, unless they write back and tell me, because that's not up to me. It is the Shakti that we surrender to, because it is so much wiser than we are. It is the wisdom of the infinite that is outside of time. Whereas the prana, the chi energy, we just open it up and we let it in. It is the vibration of sunlight, as opposed to the earth energy that comes up from below. Beyond being two types of energy, Chi and Shakti represent two different paths, the Sky God Sun chi path, and the Kundalini: an Earth Goddess, Lunar path. This course is a genuinely Matrifocal tradition. Seeing the Goddess in the moon, and the Earth, and as the Great Void that holds all the stars, including our own Sun. The space that surrounds the Sun is the womb/yoni of the Goddess. Those who are dazzled by the Light never see Her... they do not hear Her voice... yet She pulls their strings and designs their DNA. She is the Dreamtime, the dark before creation outside of time, that is hidden between the particles of matter that are made of light. She is the void that begat the Big Bang. The dark of the Tao. In Genesis it says that from out of the void came a voice that said, "Let there be Light". We associate "God" with the light, and chi with light, but Goddess is the Voice that spoke the Logos (word) and created the Light. One way of thinking of it: the God is the stuff, the light. Goddess, consciousness is the spaces between. It is binary: zero and one. Goddess the nothing void= zero. Consciousness. Her child the God of Light = one. Matter. The Tarot card of the *Magician* is numbered 1. Unity with the Light of the Godhead. Individuals on the path of the Magician, stop there thinking that they are done. That light is prana, chi. It is the light of the Father, and it does not judge what use you make of it. It obeys the whims of Free Will. Shiva doesn't care what his children do, he just shines his light on them all to "do as thou Wilt shall be the whole of the law", as Crowley put it. Unconditional love: the Sun shines on saint and sinner both. Much is made in Western Culture about "God's will"... but if you get to know the Male principle thru unity with the Light, you will discover that he has no Will, to speak of. Chi doesn't judge what use you make of it. God may be the figurehead, but Goddess is the "power behind the Throne". He serves Her will for Creation. He won't tell you that, unless you know to ask. By the same token, many of the sensations caused by Kundalini are caused by feeling Shakti directing chi, within you. When your heart voice is opened, ask for yourself... don't take my word for it. Build faith by experience. Unity with the Solar Principle is one level of enlightenment and some say it can be attained without Kundalini. Those who seek power for it's own sake, stop there with the discovery that God doesn't judge. Kundalini can take you beyond that... Kundalini is Shakti... the consciousness behind evolution, creation... wisdom. She has a mind of Her own, and desires Limitless manifestation. She is Sophia Goddess of limitless wisdom. Shakti hears your prayers and respects your free will but She is Mother who won't bend Her power to your weenie ego will, unless it aligns with Her will for you, to evolve and know yourself. To come to Her. You must abandon your own free will, utterly, and align yourself with Hers, then you can hear Her. The power of chi is miraculous, but limited. The power of Shakti is infinite, but it is invoked by surrender to Divine Will, aligning yourself with Goddess' will for you. You do not control the Shakti, you become a vessel of it. To bring that light down and experience unity with All that Is, in the here and now of daily being, and not just in meditation, one gives love to the dark Goddess and steps into the void to ascend and become the Tarot card of 0. The cosmic Fool, frozen forever outside of time, outside of the fears and cares of duality with one foot in the void... led by the little dog barking that is the voice of the instincts... how Shakti speaks thru the coils of your DNA.. I don't know why it is, but people often presume me to be a fan of Aliester Crowley. I've never been a fan of "the Beast," as he was known in Victorian England when he was alive. Crowley was a Magician who wrote several books, and died in 1947. He was a member of the Golden Dawn. The Golden Dawn descended from the Rosicrucians/Freemasons who descended from the Egyptian Mystery Schools who worshipped the sun God Ra because his cyclic movements caused the flooding of the Nile. It is referred to as a "Solar" patriarchal tradition. Many Wiccans, by contrast, work with a "Lunar" tradition, Focusing on the Moon Goddess as primary because of Her effects on the tides, women's bodies, and human minds. Crowley believed that a woman's body is the Altar of the Magician, and he had female Priestesses, but his Priestesses were not allowed to speak. Crowley was projecting the Void onto them, but did not allow them to speak... he believed the Goddess had no voice. He worshipped the Goddess Babylon, but as a slave to his will. He felt the Goddess is silent, and I can only guess he didn't listen hard enough. She speaks! Women have 10x the spiritual energy that men do... we need it, for procreation. Women repress their own power to be small enough to please the egos of Patriarchal men. Trying to funnel women's power thru a male vessel is trying to put 10 pounds of power in a one-pound sack. Something has to give, and what went was the women's minds. Several of his Priestesses ended up in the mental hospital, which really was a terrible fate in Victorian England, psychiatry was still being invented. This would suggest that his ideas are not healthy, but he still has plenty of followers worldwide. I have met a very few enlightened "Thelmites" as they are called, but most of them misinterpret the primary laws. They hear "Do what thou wilt, shall be the whole of the law" from the power chakra and think it is about the will of ego: Do whatever you want. It is really about acting from non-duality, the crown chakra, where there is no ego and Divine Will is all. Crowley also borrowed from yoga of the East, which sees Shiva (Sun God as Penis light sabre) as the Active principle and Shakti as the black infinite void womb space where creation happens. Sometimes it is helpful to know a bit of history, when interpreting spiritual ideas. Remember in Victorian England they did not know about DNA, or about the female egg. It was believed that the womb was just emptiness and the child came entirely from sperm. Women's power to give birth is the oldest mystery of the Divine Feminine, but patriarchy gave the power of life creation to the male, and replaced women's moon blood mysteries with sacrifice and warfare. The body mind is a trillion times more intelligent than the ego and it can create bliss if the ego gets out of its way... but Free Will is Goddess law... the body mind bows to the ego, to create reality tunnels of beliefs until the ego learns the hard lessons of "be careful what you pray for", realizes it cannot see all the ripples of any action and asks to be rescued from wanting. One who is too enamoured of the power trap of the Magician, is busy making more Karma and is not likely to find the humility to ascend to become the Cosmic fool. In falling for the trap of Ego and silencing his Priestesses, Crowley repressed his own unconscious body-mind... his own Fem side, the true source of his power. He needed to surrender to the silence of the Void within himself, to attain the Fool... but the Karma he created as Magician made that option impossible for him. Always seeking balance. I like to know where the edges are, so I can find the middle path. Homework - As you continue with grounding, start to notice the difference between the sky energy coming down into your crown, and the energy you get from the centre of the Earth. Sky Father, Earth Mother. Notice whether the energy feels different if you assign it gender. - Experiment with looking at the air around trees, on a sunny day. It is good practice to begin opening your third eye. Once you start to see the prana comets, you may start to see the energy field that is the life force of the tree, as well. The tree's aura. Notice, that you see the prana when you focus on the "nothing" empty space around the tree, more than when you are looking at the tree itself. - Continue with the homework from the Matriarchy lesson, noticing your ideas about gender, spirituality, and the Divine. - Spend some time thinking about the binary nature of reality, the something and the nothing. The stuff and the spaces between. Notice how often the space is as important as the stuff... ifIrunmywordsalltogethertheyaremuchhardertoread. What's that on the road ahead? What's that on the road, a head? Experiences In his Graduation essay, T wrote: This lesson is most fascinating. For years, I have felt a tangible force at work in nature. I take to the mountains often and wondered why it felt so good to be there and bask in this energy. Learning that it was called chi led me to study and practice chi kung, yoga, and energy work. Learning about Shakti was new for me in a way. I liken Shakti as God's power and I love how you explain it as "God may be the figure head, but Goddess is the power behind the throne." Love it! It is fascinating to learn the differences between chi or prana and Shakti energy. The former being without intellect and directed by will, and the latter, undirected and with an infinite mind of itself, the one we surrender to. Very interesting.

Posted by Mystress on November 15, 2001 at 12:36:05:

In Reply to: Introduction, Question & Technical Note posted by Ted on November 14, 2001 at 18:07:03:

: Greetings All!

: I recently signed on to the FST course, and I've come upon my first question that I wasn't able to answer completely via Google... :)

Welcome, Ted!

: Question: In the "Earth & Sky Energy" Lesson, Mystress gives examples of:

: Earth path & energy - Tantra & Kundalini
: Sky path & energy - Martial Arts & Chi

: What are the esoteric paths & forms of energy for Water, Fire & Ether?

: I have some ideas, but I'd like to hear your views...

You are not the first person to ask about this, so I guess that essay is not clear and needs an edit.

That essay is not about the various paths, of the elements, so much as the two primary forms that energy takes, and how we relate to them. How the energies often feel when you do the grounding. More properly expressed, the binary of 1 and 0. Free Will and surrender. Something and nothing. Chi is something... light. Goddess is nothing. Void from which creation sprang.

All energy is some form or combination of the thing and the space it occupies. The spaces between the stars and between the subatomic particles. We define the *things* in so many ways, elements, etc. while seldom considering the space, just as most people never wonder if there is more to them, than their ego.
The essay is binary, it is about the duality of free will and Divine will. You are asking me to explain it in multiplicity. Does not really apply. Black and white, not colour.

The reference to fire is a side comment... K. is a fire path because it is about sudden, fiery fast transmutation: the fire Serpent is a symbol for K.
What is fire itself? It is the action of alchemy. Not listed on the modern periodic table of elements. Not a thing, but a specific activity, a alchemical reaction that turns matter into light!

When all of your karma stuff is burnt away, transmuted back into light that flows, then you... your ego.. becomes nothing but a transparent lens of Goddess/dharma/Spirit experiencing being human in linearity. Nothing but the Nothing that gave us birth. That is Self Realization.

Having said that, I can speak a little about other paths. TM, for example would be a water path. Simply reciting the mantra and becoming nothing for 1/2 hour 2x a day, the flow of spiritual energy gradually washes karma away, like water eroding stone. Yet... water has an oxidation effect on iron, and that too is a type of alchemy: rust is created by a type of fire.

Sorry if this explanation is not clear.. Kundalini and Goddess both, are really impossible to define in words. I give your ego some stories to make it easier to surrender, but these are metaphors. A way to try to define patterns in words. They can never fully define what Is.. and is not!

: I'm enjoying the course very much!

Good!

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In-Reply-To: <00c101c65ff5$043a8c90$0100a8c0@sachikojn> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060407124122.041dea48@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060412021221.04cefa68@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060412180839.02f05e98@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060414134458.032250f0@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 11:55 AM 14/04/2006, Sachiko M wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" >To: "FST Helpers list." >Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:34 PM >Subject: Re: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... > > > > LOL!! Yeah I guess I was pretty darn vague. Sorry! I meant the > > fscnew/current/tantra new lesson forms. The lesson number and title > > in the > > top table. I noticed when I was looking at the 02matgod in its new > > lesson > > shape. > >Ohh, you mean this line, right? > > > >#03: Matriarchy and History > yes! >These code (>) were there already on some files,but not >all. I wasn't sure if they need to be there or taken out, so I left >them there. I think they were leftover from when I was experimenting with font sizes for the preview pages. On some preview pages there is a lot of info that needed a smaller font... whereas most of the lesson titles are of similar length, with few exceptions. I probably did not get around to updating the CSS for the lessons. Feel free to fix it. >Also you see the tag here, but font-size is set in CSS >too. (I have pointed out below) I would choose CSS and discard >font tag here. For the most part, yes. I would say that a size tag could be added to modify it in some cases. A single word lesson title like Entities could be a little larger, and a longer title like "The road to hell is paved with Good intentions" in a smaller font to make it fit. I think it might be good to underline the title so people know it is a link.. what do you think? >Please let me know. > > >------------------------------------------------------------------ > In "fscss1.css" file class "title" setting. > >"Font-family" has this font "ZapfChancery-MediumItalic" that I'm >assuming it is not standard, so most of people would see the text >with other choices. It comes standard with Windows, so most people will see it as it is. Choose as you think best for alternates. The equivalent font for mac, etc. >"Font-style" is set as "normal" NOT "italic", so people won't see the >text in italic. whoops. Does it look better normal or italic? >"font-size" is set here in CSS, but it is set again in html as you can >see on the above code (). I would discard tag >in html and use CSS setting below to keep it simple. That's what >the css file is for anyway. Yes. With exceptions, noted above. >.title { >color: #66cccc; >background-color: #000000; >font-family: "ZapfChancery-MediumItalic", Georgia,"times new >roman",,serif; >font-size: 22px; >font-style:normal; >font-weight:bold; >line-height:normal; >text-align:center; >text-valign: middle; >text-transform:none; >} > >------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > I also noticed a few small grammatical errors... > >That I'm not really the right person to work on with.... >I will leave it up to someone who is native to this language. Sorry, that note was for myself and the other editors. The page needs some tweaking, and I was thinking aloud whether to tweak it as an html file or to give you a new doc file version. At present I am going through the lessons I did last week, a second and third time even before handing them to the editors. > > Particularly with the experiences, word will show some lines > > italic, > > which won't appear when you paste it into html... unless dreamweaver > > has some tricks I dunno about! > > > > I'm thinking, if I upload all the doc files maybe Hillary or > > Sandra C > > can tweak the links and italic bits then save them as text files for > > you? > >DOC file is fine with me. I usually check the style is matching with >original. OK. With some of the doc files I am using various fonts, like bookman old style or courier, just to get a fresh eye. Occasionally I am punching up a phrase to draw attention to it by making it bold or larger. Previously, the parts of the lessons were in different fonts to distinguish them, but I don't think it is necessary, now that the lesson parts are in separate boxes. I'm wondering what you and everyone thinks of that? >I may need to do some tweeking anyway so you can just leave the html >coding up to me. > > >Please let me know what you would like to do. I was thinking to let the editors add the paragraph breaks etc. to save you some time. You have the biggest workload of anybody. There is still flash navigation to do. Another thing that is on my mind, is that the finished new course will need to be redone to create the new FST CD. I am wondering if it is better to do that all at once when it is done, or making a copy of each for a separate directory as you go? For example, tea room experiences links can be relative for the online course, but for the CD they need to be complete links. For the CD, I moved all the realplayer files into the main tantra folder, just to make my job easier because the original links led to a different server. Some systems don't like a tree more than three folders deep. I have an archiving program that always chokes when I save my server stats because that tree goes seven folders deep in some places. The CD will get a second tweaking when the new vid files are ready. I'm adding a few new images to the lessons, haven't figured out how you would like me to indicate that for you. Maybe a comment tag telling you what photo goes where? Sorry if this is not clear. 90% of my brain is focused on the writing, off in the Void getting words.... so that doesn't leave much for co-ordinating the activities of two editors and a web designer ! Blessings! From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sat Apr 15 15:39:21 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 15:39:21 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Chat party! Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060415153715.02dd9220@mail.fire-serpent.com> http://fire-serpent.org/chat/phpMyChat.php3 Everyone is welcome! Register a username to get in. Main room. From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Mon Apr 17 10:20:52 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:20:52 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Europoster Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060417101442.047b2ef8@mail.fire-serpent.com> Here is the result of my weekend's work so far: promo poster/flyer for the European tour. I'd like some feedback... I know the poster has too many words but I don't know what to cut. Opinions please! http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstpostereuro1%20copy.jpg http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstpostereuro1 copy.jpg large http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstpostereuro2copy.jpg small From ladyofquills at spray.se Mon Apr 17 12:11:45 2006 From: ladyofquills at spray.se (Kimberly) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:11:45 +0200 Subject: [Helpers] Europoster In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060417101442.047b2ef8@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <000701c66252$c5fa66c0$6501a8c0@quilly> Wow, this is cool! Nice work Mystress! I do think though, that you've put way too much stuff on it. When I read it, it gives me the feeling like you are trying to sell some quick fix kinda thing, rather than giving me a feeling of true spiritual teaching. I think this is only because there is so much to read. I would suggest narrowing it down to something along the lines of: "Are you experiencing: Mystical visions? Paranormal phenomena? Feeling the emotions of others as if they were your own? Other types of psychic experiences? These things may be confusing and difficult to explain, but there is no cause for fear. These are some of the symptoms associated with the spontaneous spiritual awakening of Kundalini! Not only can Mystress help you awaken your kundalini but she can also smooth the path of a sponaneous awakening so that it becomes the blissful experience it is meant to be!" I really don't like the line "Are you looking for a compassionate ear?" ... Gives me the feeling of a spam email when I read it! LOL Maybe something like this would be better? "Private consultations with Mystress are available upon request if you'd like to talk to someone who really understands what you're going through." I'd also state the professional help thing more like this: "Mystress Angelique also offers practical advice to mental health and healing professionals on spiritual emergence and emergencies in their clients." This gives it a more professional sound. The "Are you:" section reads a bit too gimicky to me too, but I do like most of what its saying... Hmmmm... I would suggest simply taking out these parts: -Ready to turn your life over to a higher power - your soul -Afraid you are going mad? I think taking out just those two would make it sound more genuine and less like a commercial. I hope this helps! Blessings, Kimberly > -----Original Message----- > From: Helpers-bounces at fire-serpent.org [mailto:Helpers-bounces at fire- > serpent.org] On Behalf Of Mystress Angelique Serpent > Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 7:21 PM > To: Helpers at fire-serpent.org > Subject: [Helpers] Europoster > > Here is the result of my weekend's work so far: promo poster/flyer for > the European tour. > > I'd like some feedback... I know the poster has too many words but I > don't know what to cut. Opinions please! > > http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstpostereuro1%20copy.jpg > http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstpostereuro1 copy.jpg > large > > > http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstpostereuro2copy.jpg > small > > > > _______________________________________________ > Helpers mailing list > Helpers at fire-serpent.org > http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Mon Apr 17 12:22:17 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:22:17 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Europoster In-Reply-To: <000701c66252$c5fa66c0$6501a8c0@quilly> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060417101442.047b2ef8@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060417121622.049d9ea0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Great suggestions, Kimberly! Exactly the kind of feedback I am needing. I've been working on this almost continuously for a few days so I really am too close to it to see it well. Needs a fresh eye! Needs a spellcheck too I suspect! Are you photoshop-friendly? Want to take a whack at editing the original? It will have to be edited for the Sweden workshops anyhow. The full size psd file can be found here: http://fire-serpent.org/loriwest/ BTW: what do you think of the dancing snake lady? She could be replaced with a tao symbol or something, but I like that she is cute, eye catching and playful. At 12:11 PM 17/04/2006, you wrote: >Wow, this is cool! Nice work Mystress! > >I do think though, that you've put way too much stuff on it. When I read >it, it gives me the feeling like you are trying to sell some quick fix >kinda thing, rather than giving me a feeling of true spiritual teaching. >I think this is only because there is so much to read. > >I would suggest narrowing it down to something along the lines of: > >"Are you experiencing: > >Mystical visions? >Paranormal phenomena? >Feeling the emotions of others as if they were your own? >Other types of psychic experiences? > >These things may be confusing and difficult to explain, but there is no >cause for fear. These are some of the symptoms associated with the >spontaneous spiritual awakening of Kundalini! Not only can Mystress help >you awaken your kundalini but she can also smooth the path of a >sponaneous awakening so that it becomes the blissful experience it is >meant to be!" > > >I really don't like the line "Are you looking for a compassionate ear?" >... Gives me the feeling of a spam email when I read it! LOL Maybe >something like this would be better? > > > >"Private consultations with Mystress are available upon request if you'd >like to talk to someone who really understands what you're going >through." > > >I'd also state the professional help thing more like this: > >"Mystress Angelique also offers practical advice to mental health and >healing professionals on spiritual emergence and emergencies in their >clients." > >This gives it a more professional sound. > >The "Are you:" section reads a bit too gimicky to me too, but I do like >most of what its saying... Hmmmm... I would suggest simply taking out >these parts: > >-Ready to turn your life over to a higher power - your soul >-Afraid you are going mad? > >I think taking out just those two would make it sound more genuine and >less like a commercial. > > >I hope this helps! > >Blessings, > >Kimberly > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Helpers-bounces at fire-serpent.org [mailto:Helpers-bounces at fire- > > serpent.org] On Behalf Of Mystress Angelique Serpent > > Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 7:21 PM > > To: Helpers at fire-serpent.org > > Subject: [Helpers] Europoster > > > > Here is the result of my weekend's work so far: promo poster/flyer >for > > the European tour. > > > > I'd like some feedback... I know the poster has too many words but I > > don't know what to cut. Opinions please! > > > > http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstpostereuro1%20copy.jpg > > http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstpostereuro1 copy.jpg > > large > > > > > > http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstpostereuro2copy.jpg > > small > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Helpers mailing list > > Helpers at fire-serpent.org > > http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Mon Apr 17 12:33:20 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:33:20 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Fwd: Re: Europoster Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060417122721.046ae008@mail.fire-serpent.com> BTW: here are the notes on the PSD file I sent Lori: > I think my design is too wordy... but I think it looks good! I've sent > it to my helpers list for feedback. I think I got the A4 size right, had > to look it up on the web! > > Some notes on the design and layers: > > There are three versions of the background: the bottom one is FST teal, > the other two are progressively greener, and there is an invisible > greener version of the logo too. The FST colour prints blue on my > computer too, I usually have to increase the yellow and decrease cyan in > the print specs, to make it come out the right shade of greenish teal. > > You could make them all invisible to do a white background, but you > would have to change the font colour of some of the text. I've made > separate layers for different areas of text, to make it easier to edit. > > With white text, I usually make a duplicate layer so it shows up > better, then take the white glow part of the emboss off one layer so it > isn't fuzzy looking. You have to edit both layers the same. > There is no pound symbol on my computer, so that is missing from the > price. > > The new headline is inspired by the bestseller book "The DaVinci > code" I read the book and realized a tie-in might be fruitful! It is all > about chasing after the mysteries of the Divine Feminine which was edited > out of Christianity... that's my gig! > > I'm going to dig around in my archived CDs and see if I can find the > original photo I used, see if I can fix the weird hair effect I did back then. I was about to set the poster aside to work on creating the page url mentioned on the poster. >Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:22:17 -0700 >To: "FST Helpers list." >From: Mystress Angelique Serpent >Subject: Re: [Helpers] Europoster >Cc: "Lori West" > > Great suggestions, Kimberly! Exactly the kind of feedback I am needing. > > I've been working on this almost continuously for a few days so I > really am too close to it to see it well. Needs a fresh eye! Needs a > spellcheck too I suspect! > > Are you photoshop-friendly? > >Want to take a whack at editing the original? It will have to be edited >for the Sweden workshops anyhow. > > The full size psd file can be found here: > > http://fire-serpent.org/loriwest/ > > BTW: what do you think of the dancing snake lady? She could be > replaced with a tao symbol or something, but I like that she is cute, eye > catching and playful. > >At 12:11 PM 17/04/2006, you wrote: >>Wow, this is cool! Nice work Mystress! >> >>I do think though, that you've put way too much stuff on it. When I read >>it, it gives me the feeling like you are trying to sell some quick fix >>kinda thing, rather than giving me a feeling of true spiritual teaching. >>I think this is only because there is so much to read. >> >>I would suggest narrowing it down to something along the lines of: >> >>"Are you experiencing: >> >>Mystical visions? >>Paranormal phenomena? >>Feeling the emotions of others as if they were your own? >>Other types of psychic experiences? >> >>These things may be confusing and difficult to explain, but there is no >>cause for fear. These are some of the symptoms associated with the >>spontaneous spiritual awakening of Kundalini! Not only can Mystress help >>you awaken your kundalini but she can also smooth the path of a >>sponaneous awakening so that it becomes the blissful experience it is >>meant to be!" >> >> >>I really don't like the line "Are you looking for a compassionate ear?" >>... Gives me the feeling of a spam email when I read it! LOL Maybe >>something like this would be better? >> >> >> >>"Private consultations with Mystress are available upon request if you'd >>like to talk to someone who really understands what you're going >>through." >> >> >>I'd also state the professional help thing more like this: >> >>"Mystress Angelique also offers practical advice to mental health and >>healing professionals on spiritual emergence and emergencies in their >>clients." >> >>This gives it a more professional sound. >> >>The "Are you:" section reads a bit too gimicky to me too, but I do like >>most of what its saying... Hmmmm... I would suggest simply taking out >>these parts: >> >>-Ready to turn your life over to a higher power - your soul >>-Afraid you are going mad? >> >>I think taking out just those two would make it sound more genuine and >>less like a commercial. >> >> >>I hope this helps! >> >>Blessings, >> >>Kimberly >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Helpers-bounces at fire-serpent.org [mailto:Helpers-bounces at fire- >> > serpent.org] On Behalf Of Mystress Angelique Serpent >> > Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 7:21 PM >> > To: Helpers at fire-serpent.org >> > Subject: [Helpers] Europoster >> > >> > Here is the result of my weekend's work so far: promo poster/flyer >>for >> > the European tour. >> > >> > I'd like some feedback... I know the poster has too many words but I >> > don't know what to cut. Opinions please! >> > >> > http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstpostereuro1%20copy.jpg >> > http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstpostereuro1 copy.jpg >> > large >> > >> > >> > http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstpostereuro2copy.jpg >> > small >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Helpers mailing list >> > Helpers at fire-serpent.org >> > http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org >> > >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Helpers mailing list >>Helpers at fire-serpent.org >>http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From Druout at aol.com Mon Apr 17 12:48:37 2006 From: Druout at aol.com (Druout at aol.com) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:48:37 EDT Subject: [Helpers] Europoster Message-ID: <3d1.47a105.31754b15@aol.com> Hard to do this without a text file! The poster is gorgeous though! I'd shorten symptoms list to Mystical visions involutary body motions Psychic experiences Spontaneous laughing or crying Earrringing Feeling electrical or energy sensations Strong creative impluses. In the section below I'd take out Shaktipat since you have it in the right hand section and leave it as "Mystress can smooth..." I rather like "compassionate ear." I'd shorten right hand part and start with the end section: Do you feel like spiritual growth is blocked Are you having a diffiult time coming to terms... Afraid you are going mad... Trying....etc. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Mon Apr 17 13:24:42 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:24:42 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] poster text Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060417132252.04a22ef0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Embrace the Mysteries of the Divine Feminine! Free Lecture: Facilitating Spiritual Emergence. Are you experiencing: - Mystical visions? - paranormal phenomena? - Feeling the emotions of others as if they are your own? - Involuntary body movements? - Psychic experiences? - Head sensations? - Emotional outbursts? - Spontaneous laughing or crying? - Ear ringing and other inner sounds? - Computers, electronics and light bulbs blowing up when you are near? - Strong creative impulses? - Feeling heat, cold, wind, tingles,electrical or energy sensations in your body? These are the symptoms of a spontaneous spiritual awakening of Kundalini! Mystress can awaken Kundalini, and also smooth the path of a spontaneous awakening so it becomes the blissful, joyous love experience it is meant to be! Are you looking for a compassionate ear? Someone who can understand what you are going through? One-to-one consultations available upon request. Practical advice to mental health and healing professionals in managing spiritual emergence and emergency in their clients. Free Introductory Lecture: Facilitating Spiritual Emergence. 7:00 pm, 31 May 2006 Meeting room E at Regent's College Inner circle, Regent's Park, London Right side: Are you: Feeling like there must be more to life than what you have experienced so far? Ready to turn your life over to a Higher power - your own Soul? Seeking Shaktipat to awaken or enhance your Kundalini? Awakened, and having a difficult time coming to terms with your experiences? Feeling like your spiritual growth has somehow become stalled or blocked? Afraid that you are going mad? Trying to get in touch with the "Inner Guru", the still small voice of your heart? Mystress Angelique Serpent Shaman, Spiritual teacher, healer, Shaktipat Master and expert in Kundalini awakening, us bringing her wisdom,teaching and amazing energy to the UK in person for the first time. Fire Serpent Tantra is designed to awaken the Goddess energy of Kundalini in a safe, natural way and teach participants how to work with the energy directly, without the need for giving oneself over to an external Guru or guide. 3-4 June Fire Serpent Tantra Workshop Tate Basement B Regent's College Cost 150 / 120 if booked before 12 May 2006 For further information or to book your place, please contact Lori West Tel +44 (0) 7770 918275 Email: Loriwest at fire-serpent.org or visit http://kundalini-teacher.com/workshop.html From gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com Mon Apr 17 13:44:20 2006 From: gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com (Gustaf Grefberg) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:44:20 +0200 Subject: [Helpers] Europoster References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060417101442.047b2ef8@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0E2134@mail.starbreeze.com> My reflections out of a Swedish perspective. :) Overall layout is good! "Are you experiencing" Personally I think there are a bit too many things here. First thing that struck me was that it may sound a bit cheap or unserious here. Almost as if telling you that if you have head sensations you are having a kundalini awakening. :) Personally I would rewrite it in a way that makes it less a list of detailed symptoms and more about checking wheter the reader is experiencing dramatic and unexplainable changes in his/her life, and then maybe have a few example symptoms. :) A lot of people I know wouldn't take it seriously otherwise.. Which would be a pity, considering the stuff you facilitate! I would also change "These are the symptoms" to "These may be symptoms of", which would lead the reader more into the mystery of finding out more. And maybe something like "Mystress can bring you onto the path of kundalini awakenening", which would also offer something intriguing! I can feel the energy behind "Are you looking for a compassionate ear?", but to me it sounds a bit too much like a psychic ad.. From my own exposure to the swedish yoga and new age "scene" I would rather phrase it as you being someone offering individual guidance and support in spiritual awakening/development. That you are compassionate is definitely good to get in there, but in a different way. :) "Are you" For some reason, my inner voice reacts to "Afraid you are going mad?" As if it doesn't really belong with the rest. The rest is perfect, content-wise, although it's also in my view a bit too much like a bombardment of questions. In the "Mystress Angelique Serpent" section I would like to see something with relation to Tantra! Because that's what FST is about. I would rather see something along the lines of a tantric guide/master/guru/facilitator or something like that than the part about being an expert in kundalini awakening.. That sounds a bit too academic in my opinion. The stuff I've learned in FST is -definitely- tantra, and giving tantra more emphasis in the whole ad would definitely be a positive thing here. Especially among those already exposed to yoga or spirituality. A lot of people I know here are very intriqued with tantra, especially when I tell them about you being a tantric master/mistress/teacher :) I'd give that more room! Everybody don't know what kundalini is. So a very short reference to what it is, along with a link or two would be very helpful.. An example. Swami Satyananda refers to K as "The evolutionary force in man".. I am sure you have your own catchy phrases for it. I get the feeling it would help. Some of these ideas came while typing, others while I was talking with Kimberly about it. She should have credit for most of it. :) Namaste! Gustaf -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- FrÃ¥n: Helpers-bounces at fire-serpent.org genom Mystress Angelique Serpent Skickat: mÃ¥ 2006-04-17 19:20 Till: Helpers at fire-serpent.org Ämne: [Helpers] Europoster Here is the result of my weekend's work so far: promo poster/flyer for the European tour. I'd like some feedback... I know the poster has too many words but I don't know what to cut. Opinions please! http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstpostereuro1%20copy.jpg http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstpostereuro1 copy.jpg large http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstpostereuro2copy.jpg small _______________________________________________ Helpers mailing list Helpers at fire-serpent.org http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Mon Apr 17 13:55:33 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:55:33 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Europoster In-Reply-To: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0E2134@mail.starbreeze.com > References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060417101442.047b2ef8@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060417134919.049955f0@mail.fire-serpent.com> My brain is exploding... I'm doing too many things at once, again! Trying to catch up with emails, creating new email addresses for workshop hosts, making the workshops page, looking at the poster, reviewing essay edits, making a second and third DVD copies of the vids, and eating honey-nut Cheerios dry. All at once. I sent an email of the text of the poster to the list. Thank you for your suggestions. Please edit it as you think best and send it back? I know there were some things Lori suggested that somehow got cut.. like "this workshop will be a powerful, life changing experience and a lot of fun! " At 01:44 PM 17/04/2006, you wrote: >Content-class: urn:content-classes:message >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C6625F.B3D892B8" > >My reflections out of a Swedish perspective. :) > >Overall layout is good! > >"Are you experiencing" >Personally I think there are a bit too many things here. First thing that >struck me was that it may sound a bit cheap or unserious here. Almost as >if telling you that if you have head sensations you are having a kundalini >awakening. :) Personally I would rewrite it in a way that makes it less a >list of detailed symptoms and more about checking wheter the reader is >experiencing dramatic and unexplainable changes in his/her life, and then >maybe have a few example symptoms. :) A lot of people I know wouldn't >take it seriously otherwise.. Which would be a pity, considering the stuff >you facilitate! > >I would also change "These are the symptoms" to "These may be symptoms >of", which would lead the reader more into the mystery of finding out >more. And maybe something like "Mystress can bring you onto the path of >kundalini awakenening", which would also offer something intriguing! > >I can feel the energy behind "Are you looking for a compassionate ear?", >but to me it sounds a bit too much like a psychic ad.. >From my own >exposure to the swedish yoga and new age "scene" I would rather phrase it >as you being someone offering individual guidance and support in spiritual >awakening/development. That you are compassionate is definitely good to >get in there, but in a different way. :) > >"Are you" >For some reason, my inner voice reacts to "Afraid you are going mad?" As >if it doesn't really belong with the rest. The rest is perfect, >content-wise, although it's also in my view a bit too much like a >bombardment of questions. > >In the "Mystress Angelique Serpent" section I would like to see something >with relation to Tantra! Because that's what FST is about. I would >rather see something along the lines of a tantric >guide/master/guru/facilitator or something like that than the part about >being an expert in kundalini awakening.. That sounds a bit too academic in >my opinion. The stuff I've learned in FST is -definitely- tantra, and >giving tantra more emphasis in the whole ad would definitely be a positive >thing here. Especially among those already exposed to yoga or >spirituality. A lot of people I know here are very intriqued with tantra, >especially when I tell them about you being a tantric >master/mistress/teacher :) I'd give that more room! > >Everybody don't know what kundalini is. So a very short reference to what >it is, along with a link or two would be very helpful.. An example. Swami >Satyananda refers to K as "The evolutionary force in man".. I am sure you >have your own catchy phrases for it. I get the feeling it would help. > >Some of these ideas came while typing, others while I was talking with >Kimberly about it. She should have credit for most of it. :) > >Namaste! >Gustaf > > > > >-----Ursprungligt meddelande----- >FrÃ¥n: Helpers-bounces at fire-serpent.org genom Mystress Angelique Serpent >Skickat: mÃ¥ 2006-04-17 19:20 >Till: Helpers at fire-serpent.org >Ämne: [Helpers] Europoster > > Here is the result of my weekend's work so far: promo poster/flyer for >the European tour. > > I'd like some feedback... I know the poster has too many words but I >don't know what to cut. Opinions please! > >http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstpostereuro1%20copy.jpg >http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstpostereuro1 copy.jpg >large > > >http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstpostereuro2copy.jpg >small > > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Mon Apr 17 13:57:14 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:57:14 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] poster text Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060417135709.04678ea8@mail.fire-serpent.com> Embrace the Mysteries of the Divine Feminine! Free Lecture: Facilitating Spiritual Emergence. Are you experiencing: - Mystical visions? - paranormal phenomena? - Feeling the emotions of others as if they are your own? - Involuntary body movements? - Psychic experiences? - Head sensations? - Emotional outbursts? - Spontaneous laughing or crying? - Ear ringing and other inner sounds? - Computers, electronics and light bulbs blowing up when you are near? - Strong creative impulses? - Feeling heat, cold, wind, tingles,electrical or energy sensations in your body? These are the symptoms of a spontaneous spiritual awakening of Kundalini! Mystress can awaken Kundalini, and also smooth the path of a spontaneous awakening so it becomes the blissful, joyous love experience it is meant to be! Are you looking for a compassionate ear? Someone who can understand what you are going through? One-to-one consultations available upon request. Practical advice to mental health and healing professionals in managing spiritual emergence and emergency in their clients. Free Introductory Lecture: Facilitating Spiritual Emergence. 7:00 pm, 31 May 2006 Meeting room E at Regent's College Inner circle, Regent's Park, London Right side: Are you: Feeling like there must be more to life than what you have experienced so far? Ready to turn your life over to a Higher power - your own Soul? Seeking Shaktipat to awaken or enhance your Kundalini? Awakened, and having a difficult time coming to terms with your experiences? Feeling like your spiritual growth has somehow become stalled or blocked? Afraid that you are going mad? Trying to get in touch with the "Inner Guru", the still small voice of your heart? Mystress Angelique Serpent Shaman, Spiritual teacher, healer, Shaktipat Master and expert in Kundalini awakening, us bringing her wisdom,teaching and amazing energy to the UK in person for the first time. Fire Serpent Tantra is designed to awaken the Goddess energy of Kundalini in a safe, natural way and teach participants how to work with the energy directly, without the need for giving oneself over to an external Guru or guide. 3-4 June Fire Serpent Tantra Workshop Tate Basement B Regent's College Cost 150 / 120 if booked before 12 May 2006 For further information or to book your place, please contact Lori West Tel +44 (0) 7770 918275 Email: Loriwest at fire-serpent.org or visit http://kundalini-teacher.com/workshop.html From Druout at aol.com Mon Apr 17 12:53:46 2006 From: Druout at aol.com (Druout at aol.com) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:53:46 EDT Subject: [Helpers] Europoster Message-ID: <3c1.4c339b.31754c4a@aol.com> PS like snake lady! LOL! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rich at ulterium.com Tue Apr 18 21:06:49 2006 From: rich at ulterium.com (Rich) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:06:49 +0700 Subject: [Helpers] Europoster In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060417101442.047b2ef8@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <021301c66366$b1376750$6e65000a@clarityforms.com> I like the layout and definitely catchy to me. The language is very familiar for me, however, I'm not sure if it's simple enough for non Kundalites? "Embrace the mysteries of the divine feminine"... I realise the relevance of this title but what if just "Embrace the mysteries of the divine". Difficult to say what will attract the most vs the fitting audience. Makes assumption that people know what Shaktipat and Kundalini is. "These are the symptoms of a spontaneous spiritual awakening or Kundalini!", does mention what kundalini symptoms are but not sure if it needs a clear explanation of what Kundalini is (if there is one!). For example I was reading last night: Kundalini is a Hindu word which describes or attempts to describe the sacred transformative element that awakens consciousness. Kundalini is also described as a sacred, spiritual or creative energy which when activated within the individual 'rises' to 'erupt' through the persons energy 'vents' or chakras awakening 'self-realization' or the integrated force of the individuals physiological, mental, emotional and religious selves. This type of awakening may also be called shamanic awakening, ascension, transformation, awakening or release of the energy body. >From http://www.steel-door.com/kundalini_rising.htm A little bit wordy but use of text size and thickness can help to put a lot of word down without looking too crowded. Cost needs a Pound sign? r From gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com Wed Apr 19 05:29:01 2006 From: gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com (Gustaf Grefberg) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:29:01 +0200 Subject: [Helpers] Europoster Message-ID: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0C8916@mail.starbreeze.com> > My brain is exploding... I'm doing too many things at once, again! > > Trying to catch up with emails, creating new email addresses for > workshop hosts, making the workshops page, looking at the poster, > reviewing > essay edits, making a second and third DVD copies of the vids, and eating > honey-nut Cheerios dry. All at once. You seem to be doing a great job! I guess Shakti helps us to multi-task better. Growing up in a male body I notice the difference for sure! > Thank you for your suggestions. Please edit it as you think best and > send > it back? I'll let Kimberly take care of that one. She's the editor in our family. :) I know there were some things Lori suggested that somehow got > cut.. like "this workshop will be a powerful, life changing experience and > a lot of fun! " I'd love to see something like that in there. And we are both photoshop-friendly, so if you have a PDF file we can work on it if you want. I still need the complete login information for the FTP! You sent me the password before, but I didn't get the URL and the user name.. Then I can upload the songs that came with the pre-grad essay also. From sandracantu79 at hotmail.com Wed Apr 19 11:51:59 2006 From: sandracantu79 at hotmail.com (Sandra Cantu) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:51:59 -0500 Subject: [Helpers] List of Lessons In-Reply-To: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0C8916@mail.starbreeze.com> Message-ID: Hi all, It's great to see all the cooperation here. Does anybody have the link of the list of lessons in the course? I volunteered a while back to associate the lessons with the tea room archives. I haven't done it and I'm willing to start and it would be helpful to have the list of the lessons before starting. Thanks, Sandra A. Cantu. >From: "Gustaf Grefberg" >Reply-To: "FST Helpers list." >To: "FST Helpers list." >Subject: Re: [Helpers] Europoster >Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:29:01 +0200 > > > My brain is exploding... I'm doing too many things at once, again! > > > > Trying to catch up with emails, creating new email addresses for > > workshop hosts, making the workshops page, looking at the poster, > > reviewing > > essay edits, making a second and third DVD copies of the vids, and >eating > > honey-nut Cheerios dry. All at once. > >You seem to be doing a great job! I guess Shakti helps us to multi-task >better. Growing up in a male body I notice the difference for sure! > > > Thank you for your suggestions. Please edit it as you think best and > > send > > it back? > >I'll let Kimberly take care of that one. She's the editor in our family. >:) > > I know there were some things Lori suggested that somehow got > > cut.. like "this workshop will be a powerful, life changing experience >and > > a lot of fun! " > >I'd love to see something like that in there. And we are both >photoshop-friendly, so if you have a PDF file we can work on it if you >want. > >I still need the complete login information for the FTP! You sent me >the password before, but I didn't get the URL and the user name.. Then I >can upload the songs that came with the pre-grad essay also. > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Wed Apr 19 15:34:05 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:34:05 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] List of Lessons References: Message-ID: <004001c66401$5e6d15b0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra Cantu" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:51 AM Subject: Re: [Helpers] List of Lessons > Hi all, > > It's great to see all the cooperation here. Does anybody have the > link of > the list of lessons in the course? I volunteered a while back to > associate > the lessons with the tea room archives. I haven't done it and I'm > willing > to start and it would be helpful to have the list of the lessons > before > starting. > > Thanks, > > Sandra A. Cantu. I would like to help you, but I'm not sure exactlly what you mean by the link of the list of lesson. Would you like the list of the lesson 1 through 60 with link to the each file? You can take a look at this folder where every files are stored. http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/ Files are named according to lesson number. 01stdyguid.html (lesson 1 study guide) 02introk.html (lesson 2 introduction to kundalini) 03matgod.html (lesson 3 Matriarchy and History ) so on... Would this it help you anyway? Sachiko From sandracantu79 at hotmail.com Wed Apr 19 16:36:49 2006 From: sandracantu79 at hotmail.com (Sandra Cantu) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:36:49 -0500 Subject: [Helpers] List of Lessons In-Reply-To: <004001c66401$5e6d15b0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> Message-ID: Sachiko, That link what exactly what I was looking for...It's perfect. I want to associate the posts in the tea room with the lessons, and in the meantime I'll learn a lot of stuff while doing that!!! I guess I just ran out of excuses not to help. ;) Thanks much. -Sandra >From: "Sachiko M" >Reply-To: "FST Helpers list." >To: "FST Helpers list." >Subject: Re: [Helpers] List of Lessons >Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:34:05 -0700 > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Sandra Cantu" >To: >Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:51 AM >Subject: Re: [Helpers] List of Lessons > > > > Hi all, > > > > It's great to see all the cooperation here. Does anybody have the > > link of > > the list of lessons in the course? I volunteered a while back to > > associate > > the lessons with the tea room archives. I haven't done it and I'm > > willing > > to start and it would be helpful to have the list of the lessons > > before > > starting. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Sandra A. Cantu. > >I would like to help you, but I'm not sure exactlly what you mean by >the link of the list of lesson. > >Would you like the list of the lesson 1 through 60 with link to the >each file? > >You can take a look at this folder where every files are stored. >http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/ > > >Files are named according to lesson number. > >01stdyguid.html (lesson 1 study guide) >02introk.html (lesson 2 introduction to kundalini) >03matgod.html (lesson 3 Matriarchy and History ) >so on... > >Would this it help you anyway? > >Sachiko > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From rich at ulterium.com Wed Apr 19 17:14:26 2006 From: rich at ulterium.com (Rich) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:14:26 +0700 Subject: [Helpers] List of Lessons In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <02b301c6640f$71d10a90$6e65000a@clarityforms.com> > That link what exactly what I was looking for...It's perfect. I want to > associate the posts in the tea room with the lessons, and in the meantime > I'll learn a lot of stuff while doing that!!! Are these names now finalised? For the re-direct pages to replace the old FST file names... Will the new files be stored in a different folder to the old ones? (I assume the redirects are only necessary for the Web based FST and not the CD based?) Can someone send me the final URL that would be used to access say lesson 1, so I can follow for the page redirects? With Thanks, Richard From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Wed Apr 19 18:00:04 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:00:04 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] lesson list, old and new In-Reply-To: <002301c64d62$b1468380$6e00000a@clarityforms.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060317002730.052605d0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060331011323.0499a6a8@mail.fire-serpent.com> The form for the meta pages is www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/1tinyform.html new name on top, old link below. 01stdyguid. >#1. how to make the most of this course. (moved from the members index.) 02introk >#2. Introduction to Kundalini >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/25introk.html >Video:25IntroK.ram 03matgod >#3. Matriarchy & Goddess >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/14matgod.html >Video:14matgod.ram 04sacsex >#4. The Sacredness of Sexuality. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/sacsex.html >Video:SacredSex.ram 05role >#5. Roleplay & Responsibility >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/16role.html >Video:16Role.ram 06aspects >#6. Aspects of consciousness: The Jungian paradyme. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/aspects.html 07grnd >#7. Grounding. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/1grnd.html >Video: 1Grnd.ram 07granim >#7A. Grounding Animation. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/gr_anim.html 08testgnd >#8 Testing for Groundedness. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/2testgnd.html >Video: 2TestGnd.ram 09earthsky >#9 Earth & Sky Energy >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/19earthsky.html >Video:EarthSky2.ram 10holytrin >#10. The Holy Trinity. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/6holytrin.html >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/6holytrin_18-12-03.html >Video: 6HolyTrin.ram 11chaksys >#11. Chakra System. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/20chaksys.html >Video:20ChakSys.ram >Home work: chakra meditations. 12chakeye >#12. New Lesson: Chakras, dimensional levels and communication. The eyes >of wisdom 13heartchak >#13. Opening the Heart Chakra. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/3chakra.html >Video: 3Chakra.ram 14entities >#14. What are entities?? >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/entities.html >Video:Entities.ram 15entrem >#15. Entity Removal. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/4entrem.html >Video: 4EntRem.ram > COMMENTS ON ARCHANGELS AND SHIELDING. 16guides >#16. Testing your guides >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/tstgui.html >Video:Guides.ram 17waking >#17. Waking the Serpents. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/5waking.html >Video: 5Waking.ram >EXPAND ESSAY WITH COMMENTS ON SERPENTS AND OPENING THROUGH THE HEART. 18bubble >#18. Bubble Spell for Computers. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/23bubble.html >Video:23Bubble.ram > COMENTS ON WHY K. AFFECTS ELECTRONICS, EXPERIENCES, NOTES FROM DAN > WINTER fix footer... >homework: fun with energy balls. 19hspell >#19. House Spell. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/24hspell.html >Video:24Hspell.ram 20thirdeye >#20. Opening the Third Eye. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/3rdeye.html >Video:thirdeye.ram 21wstate >#21. The Witness State: >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/13wstate.html >Video:13WState.ram 22pacing >#22. Slow and Steady: Pacing Yourself. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/pace.html >Video:Pacing.ram 23akasha >#23. New Lesson: Akashic Records, aliens, merkaba, channelling and other >distractions. 24breath >#24. Grounding in one breath >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/grbr.html >Video:OneBreath.ram >FIND OUTSIDE LINKS TO POSTURE AND BREATHING. 25amitra >#25. New Lesson: Amrita, nectar of enlightenment. 26ego >#26. Ego & Higher Self. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/21ego.html >Video:21Ego.ram 27divbel >#27. Introducing the Divine Beloved. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/7divbel.html >Video: 7DivBel.ram 28rgender >#28. Reversed Gender People. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/8rgender.html >Video: 8Rgender.ram 29love >#29. Falling in love with yourself. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/9lself.html >Video: 9Lself.ram 30bodtlk >#30. Body-talk: Understanding Your Body's Language. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/bodtlk.html >Video:Bodytalk.ram 31diet >#31. Kundalini and Diet. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/diet.html >No video. 32surego >#32. Surrendering the Ego Self. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/10surego.html >Video: 10SurEgo.ram 33attach >#33. What Are "Attachments"? >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/whatth.html >Video:attachments.ram >Homework: aka cords. 34seven >#34. Seven Years. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/7years.html >Essay: self healing. 35sacmar >#35. Consummating the Sacred Marriage. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/11sacmar.html >Video: 11SacMar.ram 36sexres >#36. Sexual Responsibility & Libido >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/15sexres.html >Video:15SexRes.ram 37gene >#37. Gene Gender. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/18gene.html >Video:18Gene.ram 38brain >#38. Brain Gender. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/17brain.html >Video:17Brain.ram 39sexgen >#39. Sexual Energy and Gender. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/sexgen.html >Video:sexenergyA.ram >Video:sexenergyB.ram 40addgr >#40. Additional Forms of Grounding. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/addgr.html >Video:AddGround.ram 41mirall >#41. The Mirror of All that Is. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/mirall.html >Video:Mirror.ram 42kspych >#42. What is "Kundalini psychosis"? >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/kpsych.html >Video:KundPsyc.ram >ADD COMMENT THAT YOUR FRIENDS MIGHT CALL YOU CRAZY. 43mirgam >#43. The Mirror Game. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/12mirgame.html >Video: 12MirGame.ram >FINISH ESSAY. 44karlaw >#44. Karmic Law: What you put out, comes back multiplied. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/karlaw.html >Video:KarLaw.ram 45hellro >#45. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/hellro.html >Video:road2hell.ram 46shadow >#46. The Shadow: Daemon is latin for "inner self". >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/shadow.html >Video:shadow.ram 47trapri >#47. The Trap of Righteousness. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/trapri.html >Video:Trapright.ram 48powlov >#48. The Power of Love >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/powlov.html >Video:POLsm.ram 49maethc >#49. Magical ethics: The power of thought. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/maethc.html >Video:Ethics.ram 50clkarm >#50. Using the Grounding to Clear Karma. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/clkaram.html >Video:ClearKarma.ram 51kegel >#51. Kegel Exercises: Pump Up the Shakti! >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/kegel.html >Video:Kegel.ram 52kgen >#52. Kundalini & Genetics. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/22kgen.html >Video:22Kgen.ram 53persis >#53. What You Resist, Persists. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/persis.html >Video:Resist.ram 54xdress >#54. Cross Dressing as a Form of Worship. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/xdress.html >Video:Xdress.ram 55empath >#55. The Power of Empathy. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/empath.html >Video:Empathy.ram 56siddhi >#56. Siddhis; the Power of Miracles. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/siddhi.html >Video:Siddhis.ram 57void >#57. The Void of Rebirth. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/void.html >Video:Rebirth.ram 58hgrail >#58. Ritual for Opening the Holy Grail. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/ograil.html >Video:HolyGrailA.ram >Video:HolyGrailB.ram 59ugrail >#59. Understanding the Grail. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/ugrail.html >Video:GrailClose.ram 60close >#60. Closure of this section of the course. >http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/close.html >Video:Closure.ram > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Helpers-bounces at fire-serpent.org [mailto:Helpers-bounces at fire- > > serpent.org] On Behalf Of Mystress Angelique Serpent > > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 3:45 PM > > To: Helpers at fire-serpent.org > > Subject: [Helpers] A small job seeks a volunteer > > > > > > who is not already commited to do something else. > > > > The lesson names have all been changed. That means, when the update > > goes > > live, all the students old lesson bookmarks will become dead links. > > > > To avoid this, we need to have 58 meta-refresh pages, each bearing the > > filename of an old lesson, and containing the code that redirects members > > to the new lesson and asks them to update their bookmark. > > > > It is a fairly small, simple, boring but necessary task. I will provide > > a template html file, and there is an email from the filename change, with > > all the old and new filenames. Paste the new filename of the lesson into > > the meta-refresh code on the template, save it with the old name of the > > lesson. Repeat 58 times. Save them all to a folder labeled "meta" so we > > don't them mixed up with the old lessons. From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Wed Apr 19 18:10:06 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:10:06 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] lesson list, old and new References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060317002730.052605d0@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060331011323.0499a6a8@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <004401c66417$29c660d0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" To: ; "FST Helpers list." Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 6:00 PM Subject: [Helpers] lesson list, old and new > > > The form for the meta pages is > www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/1tinyform.html This file need some tweeking in html. Give me a second. Sachiko From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Wed Apr 19 18:19:49 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:19:49 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Fwd: RE: Place for uploading sounds Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060419181919.032db4c8@mail.fire-serpent.com> > >Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 11:37:52 -0700 >To: "FST Helpers list." >From: Mystress Angelique Serpent >Subject: RE: [Helpers] Place for uploading sounds >At 10:42 AM 5/20/2005, you wrote: >>Gustaf, >> >>You can use dropload.com. > > No, please don't. Please don't make my life more complicated... > > I made a place for everyone to upload stuff to... maybe you did not get > that email? Info, below. > > From April 23: >> If Sachiko is the only one doing FTP, Sandra sends the file to her, >> then Sachiko can compare versions and copy just the links from Sandra's >> version and paste it into the repaired template. Sachiko, by default >> becomes the one to co-ordinate or combine the group efforts. >> >> But... I do not want to over load anyone's email, and I am not sure >> if attachments are getting through to the list! >> >> So I have created a third option: A separate "helpers" FTP access and >> directory, for everyone to upload their files to. You can download your >> files off the web. View> source and save what comes up in notepad. >> >> Do alter your settings so "View> source" brings up the code in notepad >> or Arachnophilia... Win XP default it is to view source code in >> Frontpage, ... it will chew up the code and barf it back messy. >> For extra security, rename it with your initials and a series number, >> like 1indexMAS3.html. That way we are even less likely to save over each >> others pages, and we can easily rename the page back to the original >> filename, when it is completely done. So long as the first part of the >> filename stays the same, the files will remain easy to locate. >> >> You each have a folder in the helpers directory, with your name on >> it, that way we can use FTP to share files, without over-writing files >> on the new version of FST, or the active one at fire-serpent.com. >> Sachiko can move files between domains and folders. She has access to >> the whole shebang! Email, lists, everything... >> >> Helpers FTP: >>ftp.fire-serpent.org >>user: helpers at fire-serpent.org >>Password: thankyou >> >>http://www.fire-serpent.org/helpers/ >>username helpers >>password thankyou >> >> >> Gustaf, I was not able to access the FTP you sent me for your chakra >> sounds. I am eager to hear them! Please upload them to your folder. Thanks! > > >>>From: Gustaf Grefberg >>>Reply-To: "FST Helpers list." >>>To: "''Helpers at fire-serpent.org' '" >>>Subject: [Helpers] Place for uploading sounds >>>Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 19:34:34 +0200 >>> >>>Not sure if this went through earlier since I had problems with >>>subscription. If it did go through, I apologize for the spam. >>> >>>I have made several different chakra meditation sounds. But they are very >>>large files, and due to hackers probing my computer I can't keep the FTP I >>>have up all the time. So if there is any site, ftp or email address that >>>accepts large attachments, that would be wonderful. >>> >>>Also, I have taken a look at the lesson sound files, and I can definitely do >>>a little bit of restoration on them before converting them to mp3. For >>>example, there are beeps and glitches in some of the recordings that could >>>easily be fixed. I'll keep you updated, just need somewhere to send them. >>>:) >>> >>>Namaste >>>Gustaf >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Helpers mailing list >>>Helpers at fire-serpent.org >>>http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Helpers mailing list >>Helpers at fire-serpent.org >>http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Wed Apr 19 18:23:16 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:23:16 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] List of Lessons References: <02b301c6640f$71d10a90$6e65000a@clarityforms.com> Message-ID: <004701c66419$011b8aa0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich" To: "'FST Helpers list.'" Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [Helpers] List of Lessons Hi. Richard > Are these names now finalised? As far as I know file names are finalized. I'm not sure about the location of the files. If you would like to go ahead and work on your meta refresh, you can do so using the path like below for now. You can always search replace the path before the filename later. Very fast and easy change couple of click and done. This line http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/ can be searched and replaced all later. Sachiko From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Wed Apr 19 18:24:46 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:24:46 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] lesson list, old and new References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060317002730.052605d0@mail.fire-serpent.com><4.3.2.7.2.20060331011323.0499a6a8@mail.fire-serpent.com> <004401c66417$29c660d0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> Message-ID: <005d01c66419$35f386b0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sachiko M" To: "FST Helpers list." Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [Helpers] lesson list, old and new >> The form for the meta pages is >> www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/1tinyform.html > > This file need some tweeking in html. Give me a second. > > Sachiko OK it's done! Sachiko From rich at ulterium.com Thu Apr 20 00:36:53 2006 From: rich at ulterium.com (Rich) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:36:53 +0700 Subject: [Helpers] lesson list, old and new In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060331011323.0499a6a8@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <02ee01c6644d$33b5f520$6e65000a@clarityforms.com> 2 Quick questions: > The form for the meta pages is > www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/1tinyform.html Can I bring this page into the redirect page as a SSI? Can I reduce the refresh time from 25 seconds to 5 or 10 seconds? Richard From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Thu Apr 20 07:38:59 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:38:59 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] lesson list, old and new In-Reply-To: <005d01c66419$35f386b0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060317002730.052605d0@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060331011323.0499a6a8@mail.fire-serpent.com> <004401c66417$29c660d0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060420073817.053ec608@mail.fire-serpent.com> I had already tweaked it... not very well, I guess! Thank you Sachiko. At 06:24 PM 19/04/2006, Sachiko M wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Sachiko M" >To: "FST Helpers list." >Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 6:10 PM >Subject: Re: [Helpers] lesson list, old and new > > > >> The form for the meta pages is > >> www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/1tinyform.html > > > > This file need some tweeking in html. Give me a second. > > > > Sachiko > > >OK it's done! > >Sachiko > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Thu Apr 20 07:40:53 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:40:53 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] lesson list, old and new In-Reply-To: <02ee01c6644d$33b5f520$6e65000a@clarityforms.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060331011323.0499a6a8@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060420073529.05a35008@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 12:36 AM 20/04/2006, you wrote: >2 Quick questions: > > > The form for the meta pages is > > www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/1tinyform.html > >Can I bring this page into the redirect page as a SSI? Not sure why you would want to... but sure, I guess! >Can I reduce the refresh time from 25 seconds to 5 or 10 seconds? So long as there is enough time for people to read the page before it disappears, so they know to make a new bookmark. If I wanted instant redirect, I would use the htaccess instead. Put a link to the new lesson on the page for the impatient folks. Thanks, Rich! >Richard > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Thu Apr 20 07:43:22 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:43:22 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] List of Lessons In-Reply-To: <004701c66419$011b8aa0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> References: <02b301c6640f$71d10a90$6e65000a@clarityforms.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060420073912.0527beb8@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 06:23 PM 19/04/2006, Sachiko M wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Rich" >To: "'FST Helpers list.'" >Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 5:14 PM >Subject: Re: [Helpers] List of Lessons > >Hi. Richard > > > Are these names now finalised? > >As far as I know file names are finalized. >I'm not sure about the location of the files. All but one of the new lessons, and it will not need a meta-redirect. 23akasha >#23. New Lesson: Akashic Records, aliens, merkaba, channelling and other >distractions. Will change to 23soul and be about soul travel, retrieval, etc. >If you would like to go ahead and work on your meta refresh, you can do >so using the path like below for now. You can always search replace >the path before the filename later. Very fast and easy change couple of >click and done. > > > >content="25;URL=http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/02introk.html"> > > >This line http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/ >can be searched and replaced all later. I bow to your wisdom! >Sachiko > > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Thu Apr 20 08:33:33 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:33:33 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Europoster In-Reply-To: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0C8916@mail.starbreeze.com > Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060420075402.057ffeb8@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 05:29 AM 19/04/2006, Gustaf Grefberg wrote: > > My brain is exploding... I'm doing too many things at once, again! > > > > Trying to catch up with emails, creating new email addresses for > > workshop hosts, making the workshops page, looking at the poster, > > reviewing > > essay edits, making a second and third DVD copies of the vids, and >eating > > honey-nut Cheerios dry. All at once. > >You seem to be doing a great job! I guess Shakti helps us to multi-task >better. Growing up in a male body I notice the difference for sure! Eh, I'd like to think so, but I am a little frazzled! > > Thank you for your suggestions. Please edit it as you think best and > > send > > it back? > >I'll let Kimberly take care of that one. She's the editor in our family. >:) Cooooool! I would like to turn it over to her, so I can apply my attention to other stuff. The website URL needs to be more prominent too. I was thinking to merge the two question columns into one, and put some of the content of the workshops on the other side. Grounding, discernment etc. Still up in the air as to whether we will have a poster and a small version of the poster to use as a flyer, or whether there will be a poster and a bifold flyer. My preference is the latter, but printing costs are a consideration. The other thing is, the posters for each workshop do not have to be identical. They can be made to fit what works in different regions. The host in Utrecht made a poster too.. I'll upload it as well. It is in dutch! Also in that folder are: The flyer I made for a Calgary workshop that was cauncelled by the host Lori's update of it for a place that chose not to host me. > I know there were some things Lori suggested that somehow got > > cut.. like "this workshop will be a powerful, life changing experience >and > > a lot of fun! " > >I'd love to see something like that in there. And we are both >photoshop-friendly, so if you have a PDF file we can work on it if you >want. Thought I posted the url for that already... www.fire-serpent.org/loriwest/ and I posted my notes about the file to Lori. Are you not getting all the mail? You could also just edit the text content from the email, and send me an updated version. >I still need the complete login information for the FTP! You sent me >the password before, but I didn't get the URL and the user name.. Then I >can upload the songs that came with the pre-grad essay also. Already sent, forwarded the email from last may. Blessings! >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Thu Apr 20 18:13:50 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:13:50 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060407124122.041dea48@mail.fire-serpent.com><4.3.2.7.2.20060412021221.04cefa68@mail.fire-serpent.com><4.3.2.7.2.20060412180839.02f05e98@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060414134458.032250f0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <00fc01c664e0$d9d51470$0100a8c0@sachikojn> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" To: "FST Helpers list." Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 2:19 PM Subject: Re: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... >> >> >>#03: Matriarchy and History >> > > yes! These are the list of altered files: 03matgod.html 04sacsex.html 05role.html 06aspects.html 07grnd.html 08testgnd.html 09earthsky.html >>Also you see the tag here, but font-size is set in >>CSS >>too. (I have pointed out below) I would choose CSS and discard >>font tag here. > > For the most part, yes. > > I would say that a size tag could be added to modify it in some > cases. > A single word lesson title like Entities could be a little larger, > and a > longer title like "The road to hell is paved with Good intentions" > in a smaller font to make it fit. Since it is more work for such an little things > I think it might be good to underline the title so people know it > is a link.. what do you think? That's good idea. I was just haivng "????" moment when I was looking at the page "current/tantra/12chakeye.html" and wandering how come title text wasn't showing up in my Dreamweaver window. It shows in browser though... I figure there is no ram file link for lesson 12. I think the undeline the link in this case is much better to make it more clear that there is a link. This I can tweek from CSS so let me know. >>------------------------------------------------------------------ >> In "fscss1.css" file class "title" setting. >> >>"Font-family" has this font "ZapfChancery-MediumItalic" that I'm >>assuming it is not standard, so most of people would see the text >>with other choices. > > It comes standard with Windows, so most people will see it as it > is. > Choose as you think best for alternates. The equivalent font for > mac, etc. No, I don't have that font. Next font is Georgia and I think that's what I'm looking at.... I actually don't know much about the Mac font. Is there anybody has some idea? >>"Font-style" is set as "normal" NOT "italic", so people won't see >>the text in italic. > > whoops. Does it look better normal or italic? Depends on which font that you are looking at it, I guess. > Previously, the parts of the lessons were in different fonts to > distinguish them, but I don't think it is necessary, now that the > lesson parts are in separate boxes. > I'm wondering what you and everyone thinks of that? i think it's up to you. I'm fine with what we have now. >>I may need to do some tweeking anyway so you can just leave the html >>coding up to me. >> >> >>Please let me know what you would like to do. > > I was thinking to let the editors add the paragraph breaks etc. > to save > you some time. You have the biggest workload of anybody. There is > still flash navigation to do. I'm not quite sure what you mean here, but whatever you think is fine. We can always have others help with files and see how it works. > Another thing that is on my mind, is that the finished new course > will > need to be redone to create the new FST CD. I am wondering if it is > better > to do that all at once when it is done, or making a copy of each for > a separate directory as you go? One at the time is better I think. Especially how the site is refined as we go, you never know what kind of changes will come in a future. > I'm adding a few new images to the lessons, haven't figured out > how you > would like me to indicate that for you. Maybe a comment tag telling > you what photo goes where? You can always print screen the one of those lesson page and open it in Photoshop or some other imaging software. Put (paste) the images whrere you would like to be. Move things around if it needs to be. Send the screen shot file (PSD files No later than version 6 please.) to me with the actuall jpg or gif images that needs to be added in html. > Sorry if this is not clear. 90% of my brain is focused on the > writing, > off in the Void getting words.... so that doesn't leave much for > co-ordinating the activities of two editors and a web designer ! Don't worry about it. Just focus on what you are doing now. We will figure it out some how. Everything will be done eventually. Sometimes just reading and replying email can be a lot of work... Blessings to you Sachiko From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Thu Apr 20 18:19:36 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:19:36 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060407124122.041dea48@mail.fire-serpent.com><4.3.2.7.2.20060412021221.04cefa68@mail.fire-serpent.com><4.3.2.7.2.20060412180839.02f05e98@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060414134458.032250f0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <011601c664e1$a7ffdba0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sachiko M" To: "FST Helpers list." Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 6:13 PM Subject: Re: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... Sorry.... I didn't finish the reply...... See, I told you replying email can be a lot of work... hehehe >>>Also you see the tag here, but font-size is set in >>>CSS >>>too. (I have pointed out below) I would choose CSS and discard >>>font tag here. >> >> For the most part, yes. >> >> I would say that a size tag could be added to modify it in some >> cases. >> A single word lesson title like Entities could be a little larger, >> and a >> longer title like "The road to hell is paved with Good intentions" >> in a smaller font to make it fit. > Since it is more work for such an little things to alter, I will work on it as I copy & paste the contents. Sachiko From rich at ulterium.com Thu Apr 20 18:17:48 2006 From: rich at ulterium.com (Rich) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:17:48 +0700 Subject: [Helpers] ReDirects In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060420073529.05a35008@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <033701c664e1$699290b0$6e65000a@clarityforms.com> Please find files attached. One is zipped file of re-direct pages. The other is Excel file which generates the re-direct pages. Should you wish to generate new set of pages it may be necessary to enable Macros in Excel. There are some references I'm not sure of: http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/ http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/ [TXT] 03matgod.html 18-Apr-2006 14:36 62k 03matgod.html 14matgod.html [TXT] 03matgod.html.html 10-Apr-2006 15:51 62k 03matgod.html.html <> [TXT] 03matgod_q.html 16-Feb-2006 20:11 8k 03matgod_q.html --> Duplicated on one of them? Unsure of the _q page but not releavant for link from old pages.. [TXT] 32surego.html 22-Mar-2006 15:13 53k 32surego.html 10surego.html [TXT] 32surego_p.html 16-Feb-2006 20:12 3k 32surego_p.html --> Unsure of _p page but not relevant for link from old pages. Summary: http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/ http://www.fire-serpent.com/tantra/ 01cintroops.html 01stdyguid.html 02introk.html 25introk.html 03matgod.html 14matgod.html 03matgod.html.html <> 03matgod_q.html 04sacsex.html sacsex.html 05role.html 16role.html 06aspects.html aspects.html 07granim.html gr_anim.html 07grnd.html 1grnd.html 08testgnd.html 2testgnd.html 09earthsky.html 19earthsky.html 10holytrin.html 6holytrin.html 11chaksys.html 20chaksys.html 12chakeye.html 13heartchak.html 3chakra.html 14entities.html entities.html 15entrem.html 4entrem.html 16guides.html tstgui.html 17waking.html 5waking.html 18bubble.html 23bubble.html 19hspell.html 24hspell.html 1tinyform.html 20thirdeye.html 3rdeye.html 21wstate.html 13wstate.html 22pacing.html pace.html 23akash.html 24breath.html grbr.html 25amrita.html 26ego.html 21ego.html 27divbel.html 7divbel.html 28rgender.html 8rgender.html 29love.html 9lself.html 30bodtlk.html bodtlk.html 31diet.html diet.html 32surego.html 10surego.html 32surego_p.html 33attach.html whatth.html 34seven.html 7years.html 35sacmar.html 11sacmar.html 36sexres.html 15sexres.html 37gene.html 18gene.html 38brain.html 17brain.html 39sexgen.html sexgen.html 40addgr.html addgr.html 41mirall.html mirall.html 42kpsych.html kpsych.html 43mirgam.html 12mirgame.html 44karlaw.html karlaw.html 45hellro.html hellro.html 46shadow.html shadow.html 47trapri.html trapri.html 48powlov.html powlov.html 49maethc.html maethc.html 50clkarm.html clkaram.html 51kegel.html kegel.html 52kgen.html 22kgen.html 53persis.html persis.html 54xdress.html xdress.html 55empath.html empath.html 56siddhi.html siddhi.html 57void.html void.html 58hgrail.html ograil.html 59ugrail.html ugrail.html 60close.html close.html Richard > -----Original Message----- > From: Mystress Angelique Serpent [mailto:Mystress at fire-serpent.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 9:41 PM > To: rich at ulterium.com; FST Helpers list. > Subject: Re: [Helpers] lesson list, old and new > > At 12:36 AM 20/04/2006, you wrote: > >2 Quick questions: > > > > > The form for the meta pages is > > > www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/1tinyform.html > > > >Can I bring this page into the redirect page as a SSI? > > Not sure why you would want to... but sure, I guess! > > > >Can I reduce the refresh time from 25 seconds to 5 or 10 seconds? > > So long as there is enough time for people to read the page before it > disappears, so they know to make a new bookmark. If I wanted instant > redirect, I would use the htaccess instead. > Put a link to the new lesson on the page for the impatient folks. > > Thanks, Rich! > > > > >Richard > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Helpers mailing list > >Helpers at fire-serpent.org > >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Redirects.zip Type: application/x-zip-compressed Size: 59239 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: HTML Redirect File Creator.xls Type: application/vnd.ms-excel Size: 48128 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sat Apr 22 09:31:27 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:31:27 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... In-Reply-To: <011601c664e1$a7ffdba0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060407124122.041dea48@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060412021221.04cefa68@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060412180839.02f05e98@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060414134458.032250f0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060422093034.04b83d90@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 06:19 PM 20/04/2006, Sachiko M wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Sachiko M" >To: "FST Helpers list." >Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 6:13 PM >Subject: Re: [Helpers] updates, current stuff & things... > > >Sorry.... I didn't finish the reply...... >See, I told you replying email can be a lot of work... hehehe LOL! Yeah I know! I get so much, I am always behind with responses. > >>>Also you see the tag here, but font-size is set in > >>>CSS > >>>too. (I have pointed out below) I would choose CSS and discard > >>>font tag here. > >> > >> For the most part, yes. > >> > >> I would say that a size tag could be added to modify it in some > >> cases. > >> A single word lesson title like Entities could be a little larger, > >> and a > >> longer title like "The road to hell is paved with Good intentions" > >> in a smaller font to make it fit. > > > >Since it is more work for such an little things to alter, I will >work on it as I copy & paste the contents. cool! From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sat Apr 22 14:41:30 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:41:30 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] List of Lessons In-Reply-To: References: <004001c66401$5e6d15b0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060422093234.04e22008@mail.fire-serpent.com> Hello, Sandra: You might find it simpler to work with the completed word docs instead, because for some of the lessons I added some experiences already. What has been going on is I have been uploading word files as I consider them completed, to http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/word Then Hillary is going over them to adjust grammar, etc, then I compare versions and apply her changes, then upload them again. At 04:36 PM 19/04/2006, you wrote: >Sachiko, > >That link what exactly what I was looking for...It's perfect. I want to >associate the posts in the tea room with the lessons, and in the meantime >I'll learn a lot of stuff while doing that!!! > >I guess I just ran out of excuses not to help. ;) > >Thanks much. > >-Sandra > > > > >From: "Sachiko M" > >Reply-To: "FST Helpers list." > >To: "FST Helpers list." > >Subject: Re: [Helpers] List of Lessons > >Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:34:05 -0700 > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Sandra Cantu" > >To: > >Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:51 AM > >Subject: Re: [Helpers] List of Lessons > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > It's great to see all the cooperation here. Does anybody have the > > > link of > > > the list of lessons in the course? I volunteered a while back to > > > associate > > > the lessons with the tea room archives. I haven't done it and I'm > > > willing > > > to start and it would be helpful to have the list of the lessons > > > before > > > starting. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Sandra A. Cantu. > > > >I would like to help you, but I'm not sure exactlly what you mean by > >the link of the list of lesson. > > > >Would you like the list of the lesson 1 through 60 with link to the > >each file? > > > >You can take a look at this folder where every files are stored. > >http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/ > > > > > >Files are named according to lesson number. > > > >01stdyguid.html (lesson 1 study guide) > >02introk.html (lesson 2 introduction to kundalini) > >03matgod.html (lesson 3 Matriarchy and History ) > >so on... > > > >Would this it help you anyway? > > > >Sachiko > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Helpers mailing list > >Helpers at fire-serpent.org > >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Sat Apr 22 16:06:04 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:06:04 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Web Calender Message-ID: <002701c66661$55604070$0100a8c0@sachikojn> I have just created Web Calender for Chat workshop. I haven't figure out how to stay on this URL http://www.kundalini-teacher.com/webcal/ instead of jumping this one.... http://kteacher.fire-serpent.org/webcal/ Take a look at it and let me know. The content needs to be written in html code, but you can do that in Dreamweaver and copy paste. And since most of the contents are repeated, once it's done then you can copy the event too. Sachiko From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Sat Apr 22 23:15:23 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:15:23 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Font for the menu Message-ID: <002a01c6669d$4f02ccc0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> Please send me the font file that you used for the menu on the left hand side of the page. I need it inorder to create flash versions. Thanks. Sachiko From gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com Sun Apr 23 11:57:36 2006 From: gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com (Gustaf Grefberg) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:57:36 +0200 Subject: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff References: <004001c66401$5e6d15b0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> <4.3.2.7.2.20060422093234.04e22008@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0E213E@mail.starbreeze.com> Ok! Kimberly and I have been working with a Sweden poster sketch this weekend. Before we can finish it though we need some info and some feedback on the ideas we have. :) We looked at the UK poster, dutch poster and the weekend intensive doc files, and there are elements we like from all of them! First of all, we thought it would be nice to have the flyer be like a version of the poster with a bit more detailed information, we thought that the poster itself should be more simple. Not as brief as the dutch one, yet not as detailed as the UK one. The idea is to have a caduceus in the middle, fairly subtle out on the sides so text can be fitted and seen easily. In the middle it'd be nice to have a rainbow of light, like on the dutch poster. At the top we have the "Embrace the Divine Feminine" text plus something about FST/Spiritual Emergencea and Euro Tour or something like that. Then for info we'd like to have a brief version of the K-symptoms and the text with "Are you feeling like... " etc. We just gave it a sketch label "Are you seeking?" right now for reference. Then also on the left side we would like to have a brief of the topics that the workshop covers. (Including mentioning personal sessions) On the right side, we could have brief info about what Fire Serpent Tantra is (Or Spiritual Emergence if you prefer that) Kimberly and I both felt that focusing on FST was nicer though. Then we also have information about Mystress following, Mystress as a teacher, etc A lot of people here have not heard about Kundalini at all! We'd like to put in a brief note about it.. Does anyone have any good way to describe K in 1-2 sentences? At the bottom left and right we have the FST logo and a picture of Mystress, and in between them we thought about having the time/date/ordering/contact/location info. As you can see this is very rough, and far from all the stuff is in! Good news though. A co worker of mine said he'd help us out when we have the final material, to finalize it in Illustrator. He is very good at making things look neat! I like how the weekend intensive fliers lists the topics more in detail, I'd love to have that in the fliers here. Definitely getting a good feeling about that. Now for questions: * What topics have you planned for the Sweden workshop? * Do you have a high resolution picture of the FST logo, and a high resolution picture of the healing portrait? * What fonts have you been using for the UK/Dutch posters? * Do you have the original PSD files for them available? Namaste! Gustaf & Kimberly PS: The music for the pregrad essay is uploaded to the FTP now, in the Gustaf folder. :) Enjoy! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Postersweden1-sketch.jpg Type: image/pjpeg Size: 154294 bytes Desc: Postersweden1-sketch.jpg URL: From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sun Apr 23 15:31:34 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:31:34 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff In-Reply-To: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0E213E@mail.starbreeze.com > References: <004001c66401$5e6d15b0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> <4.3.2.7.2.20060422093234.04e22008@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060423152717.03510b88@mail.fire-serpent.com> Hello: I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I don't understand why you are starting from scratch instead of just editing the poster I made? Do you really think the poster I made sucked that badly? All I asked was for the text content of the poster, which I sent via email, to be edited shorter. At 11:57 AM 23/04/2006, you wrote: >Ok! > >Kimberly and I have been working with a Sweden poster sketch this weekend. >Before we can finish it though we need some info and some feedback on the >ideas we have. :) > >We looked at the UK poster, dutch poster and the weekend intensive doc >files, and there are elements we like from all of them! > >First of all, we thought it would be nice to have the flyer be like a >version of the poster with a bit more detailed information, we thought >that the poster itself should be more simple. Not as brief as the dutch >one, yet not as detailed as the UK one. > >The idea is to have a caduceus in the middle, fairly subtle out on the >sides so text can be fitted and seen easily. In the middle it'd be nice to >have a rainbow of light, like on the dutch poster. At the top we have the >"Embrace the Divine Feminine" text plus something about FST/Spiritual >Emergencea and Euro Tour or something like that. > >Then for info we'd like to have a brief version of the K-symptoms and the >text with "Are you feeling like... " etc. We just gave it a sketch label >"Are you seeking?" right now for reference. Then also on the left side we >would like to have a brief of the topics that the workshop covers. >(Including mentioning personal sessions) On the right side, we could have >brief info about what Fire Serpent Tantra is (Or Spiritual Emergence if >you prefer that) Kimberly and I both felt that focusing on FST was nicer >though. Then we also have information about Mystress following, Mystress >as a teacher, etc > >A lot of people here have not heard about Kundalini at all! We'd like to >put in a brief note about it.. Does anyone have any good way to describe K >in 1-2 sentences? > >At the bottom left and right we have the FST logo and a picture of >Mystress, and in between them we thought about having the >time/date/ordering/contact/location info. > >As you can see this is very rough, and far from all the stuff is in! Good >news though. A co worker of mine said he'd help us out when we have the >final material, to finalize it in Illustrator. He is very good at making >things look neat! >I like how the weekend intensive fliers lists the topics more in detail, >I'd love to have that in the fliers here. Definitely getting a good >feeling about that. > > >Now for questions: > >* What topics have you planned for the Sweden workshop? >* Do you have a high resolution picture of the FST logo, and a high >resolution picture of the healing portrait? >* What fonts have you been using for the UK/Dutch posters? >* Do you have the original PSD files for them available? > >Namaste! >Gustaf & Kimberly > >PS: The music for the pregrad essay is uploaded to the FTP now, in the >Gustaf folder. :) Enjoy! > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Sun Apr 23 17:35:21 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:35:21 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Font for the menu References: <002a01c6669d$4f02ccc0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> Message-ID: <007401c66736$f8ec04b0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> Thank you for the file. Now I see the Lesson title in "ZapfChancery-MediumItalic" This font is already italic, but other font Georgia and Times Roman isn't. So, it's kind of difficult to make decision.... I think Georgia looks better in Italic, but if you sset the CSS in Italic then "ZapfChancery-MediumItalic" will be toooo italic if you know what I mean... Sachiko ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sachiko M" To: "FST_Helpers" Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 11:15 PM Subject: [Helpers] Font for the menu > Please send me the font file that you used for the menu on the left hand > side of the page. I need it inorder to create flash versions. > > Thanks. > > Sachiko From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Sun Apr 23 17:35:42 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:35:42 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] flash navigation menu Message-ID: <007501c66737$0547c690$0100a8c0@sachikojn> Here is the flash navigation menu... http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/03matgod.html.flash.html Except these three button: Home Video Audio But from "Essay" to "FST Shop" is done in Flash. Sachiko From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sun Apr 23 18:40:40 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:40:40 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Font for the menu In-Reply-To: <007401c66736$f8ec04b0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> References: <002a01c6669d$4f02ccc0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060423183714.03603f08@mail.fire-serpent.com> Yeah, i don't know what the solution is~ Maybe have times be the alternate, not italic. Windows is Times new roman. What software do you use? I was sure Zapf chancery was windows default, and I think calligrapher regular is adobe. At 05:35 PM 23/04/2006, you wrote: >Thank you for the file. > >Now I see the Lesson title in "ZapfChancery-MediumItalic" >This font is already italic, but other font Georgia and Times Roman >isn't. So, it's kind of difficult to make decision.... > >I think Georgia looks better in Italic, but if you sset the CSS in >Italic then "ZapfChancery-MediumItalic" will be toooo italic if you >know what I mean... > >Sachiko > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Sachiko M" >To: "FST_Helpers" >Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 11:15 PM >Subject: [Helpers] Font for the menu > > > > Please send me the font file that you used for the menu on the left hand > > side of the page. I need it inorder to create flash versions. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Sachiko > > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sun Apr 23 18:46:53 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:46:53 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] flash navigation menu In-Reply-To: <007501c66737$0547c690$0100a8c0@sachikojn> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060423184050.0515d3b0@mail.fire-serpent.com> It is cool! I had to reset my internet security to "low" to see it, which makes me go hmmm... I wonder if many people have active X turned off? I am wondering, did you bold the font for flash? The flash letters look heftier than the top 3 links. Compare Home to the Home in homework. I had calligrapher set at 21 points. I guess we need to add the purple on-click back to the top 3 to make them match? More lessons are done, they are indicated by being labeled thus in the word folder, like 02matgodDONE.html (That lesson has changed since it was originally added to the form) Thank you! At 05:35 PM 23/04/2006, Sachiko M wrote: >Here is the flash navigation menu... >http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/03matgod.html.flash.html > >Except these three button: >Home >Video >Audio > >But from "Essay" to "FST Shop" is done in Flash. > >Sachiko > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Sun Apr 23 19:01:45 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:01:45 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Font for the menu References: <002a01c6669d$4f02ccc0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> <4.3.2.7.2.20060423183714.03603f08@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <00af01c66743$0aa65320$0100a8c0@sachikojn> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" To: "FST Helpers list." Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [Helpers] Font for the menu > Yeah, i don't know what the solution is~ Maybe have times be the > alternate, not italic. Windows is Times new roman. > > What software do you use? I was sure Zapf chancery was windows default, > and I think calligrapher regular is adobe. I thought I read somewhere that Zapf chancery comes with some printer but not windows operation system. not sure... Sachiko From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Sun Apr 23 19:07:10 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:07:10 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] flash navigation menu References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060423184050.0515d3b0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <00b001c66743$cc184450$0100a8c0@sachikojn> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" To: "FST Helpers list." Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 6:46 PM Subject: Re: [Helpers] flash navigation menu > It is cool! > > I had to reset my internet security to "low" to see it, which makes me > go hmmm... I wonder if many people have active X turned off? My browser (IE) internet setting is medium not low, but it askes me to click the area to activate the flash. > I am wondering, did you bold the font for flash? The flash letters look > heftier than the top 3 links. Compare Home to the Home in homework. I > had > calligrapher set at 21 points. It is 21point. It's just different type of graphic (vector base) makes slight difference when it's rendered. > I guess we need to add the purple on-click back to the top 3 to make > them match? Sure. I haven't tweek the pre-load file yet. I will upload all the lessons with flash navigation when it's done. > More lessons are done, they are indicated by being labeled thus in the > word folder, like 02matgodDONE.html (That lesson has changed since it > was > originally added to the form) Cool. So, "filenameDONE.doc" is the ready for copy&paste? Sachiko From ladyofquills at spray.se Sun Apr 23 22:50:20 2006 From: ladyofquills at spray.se (Kimberly) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:50:20 +0200 Subject: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060423152717.03510b88@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <006101c66762$f9b236e0$6501a8c0@quilly> Hi Mystress, I hope I didn't offend ya or anything. Gustaf and I were looking at the poster together yesterday and I felt that the layout that you had seemed a bit awkward somehow. When the texts are shortened, its not going to look quite the same as it does now, and I think all three images down the center might look like they are just space fillers rather than the central focus they seem to be meant to be. We were experimenting with other ways to organize it to get all the needed elements onto the picture and have an attractive flow to it. I think once we have the text done and can apply it to your lay out we'll really have a better idea though. I'll be working on that today. Blessings, Kimberly > -----Original Message----- > From: Helpers-bounces at fire-serpent.org [mailto:Helpers-bounces at fire- > serpent.org] On Behalf Of Mystress Angelique Serpent > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 12:32 AM > To: FST Helpers list. > Subject: Re: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff > > Hello: > I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I don't understand why you are > starting from scratch instead of just editing the poster I made? > Do you really think the poster I made sucked that badly? > > All I asked was for the text content of the poster, which I sent via > email, to be edited shorter. > > > > At 11:57 AM 23/04/2006, you wrote: > > >Ok! > > > >Kimberly and I have been working with a Sweden poster sketch this > weekend. > >Before we can finish it though we need some info and some feedback on the > >ideas we have. :) > > > >We looked at the UK poster, dutch poster and the weekend intensive doc > >files, and there are elements we like from all of them! > > > >First of all, we thought it would be nice to have the flyer be like a > >version of the poster with a bit more detailed information, we thought > >that the poster itself should be more simple. Not as brief as the dutch > >one, yet not as detailed as the UK one. > > > >The idea is to have a caduceus in the middle, fairly subtle out on the > >sides so text can be fitted and seen easily. In the middle it'd be nice > to > >have a rainbow of light, like on the dutch poster. At the top we have the > >"Embrace the Divine Feminine" text plus something about FST/Spiritual > >Emergencea and Euro Tour or something like that. > > > >Then for info we'd like to have a brief version of the K-symptoms and the > >text with "Are you feeling like... " etc. We just gave it a sketch label > >"Are you seeking?" right now for reference. Then also on the left side we > >would like to have a brief of the topics that the workshop covers. > >(Including mentioning personal sessions) On the right side, we could > have > >brief info about what Fire Serpent Tantra is (Or Spiritual Emergence if > >you prefer that) Kimberly and I both felt that focusing on FST was nicer > >though. Then we also have information about Mystress following, Mystress > >as a teacher, etc > > > >A lot of people here have not heard about Kundalini at all! We'd like to > >put in a brief note about it.. Does anyone have any good way to describe > K > >in 1-2 sentences? > > > >At the bottom left and right we have the FST logo and a picture of > >Mystress, and in between them we thought about having the > >time/date/ordering/contact/location info. > > > >As you can see this is very rough, and far from all the stuff is in! > Good > >news though. A co worker of mine said he'd help us out when we have the > >final material, to finalize it in Illustrator. He is very good at making > >things look neat! > >I like how the weekend intensive fliers lists the topics more in detail, > >I'd love to have that in the fliers here. Definitely getting a good > >feeling about that. > > > > > >Now for questions: > > > >* What topics have you planned for the Sweden workshop? > >* Do you have a high resolution picture of the FST logo, and a high > >resolution picture of the healing portrait? > >* What fonts have you been using for the UK/Dutch posters? > >* Do you have the original PSD files for them available? > > > >Namaste! > >Gustaf & Kimberly > > > >PS: The music for the pregrad essay is uploaded to the FTP now, in the > >Gustaf folder. :) Enjoy! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Helpers mailing list > >Helpers at fire-serpent.org > >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Helpers mailing list > Helpers at fire-serpent.org > http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > From gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com Mon Apr 24 00:58:46 2006 From: gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com (Gustaf Grefberg) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:58:46 +0200 Subject: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff Message-ID: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0C891B@mail.starbreeze.com> > > Hello: > I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I don't understand why you are > starting from scratch instead of just editing the poster I made? > Do you really think the poster I made sucked that badly? > > All I asked was for the text content of the poster, which I sent via > email, to be edited shorter. > I guess we got a bit carried away and missed your original intent. :) We're focusing on the text today, and if we get some ideas beyond that we'll look into that afterwards. I still think it would be a good idea to mention the topics for the workshop on the poster so people get a clearer idea what they are signing up for. :) Namaste Gustaf From percyval at rcn.com Mon Apr 24 07:08:04 2006 From: percyval at rcn.com (percyval) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:08:04 -0400 Subject: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff References: <006101c66762$f9b236e0$6501a8c0@quilly> Message-ID: <001301c667a8$82ad9b20$6501a8c0@bigmo> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kimberly" > I hope I didn't offend ya or anything. Gustaf and I were looking at the > poster together yesterday and I felt that the layout that you had seemed > a bit awkward somehow. When the texts are shortened, its not going to > look quite the same as it does now, and I think all three images down > the center might look like they are just space fillers rather than the > central focus they seem to be meant to be. hi folks, i really thought the way Kimberly and Gustav changed the layout of the 3 images was great... no opinions or ideas from me on the text content, but if it can be arranged around the new image layout, it will be very good to the eye on first glance... warmly, Percyval From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Mon Apr 24 07:52:50 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:52:50 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff In-Reply-To: <006101c66762$f9b236e0$6501a8c0@quilly> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060423152717.03510b88@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060423234404.039a9bc0@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 10:50 PM 23/04/2006, you wrote: >Hi Mystress, > >I hope I didn't offend ya or anything. Well, yeah, hurt my feelings a little, but I was sort of depressed yesterday. I think it was an energy hangover from a great blissful meditation Sat. night. I did not want to hurt your feelings either. I spent two very long days on that poster! With the result that it has a nice little Shakti charge... compare it with yours. My art has my energy, and that is what we are selling. After two intensive days I was kind of burnt out on it, and so wanted a fresh eye for the text content. I've had a week away and am ready to approach it again. I think I need to clarify what I want. I have had to go over this with Lori, too... The poster is designed to speak to the higher self, first and the ego second. It is the nature of my work, how people are drawn to it defies all the normal rules of marketing. I depend on synchronicity, Goddess brings me my clients, and often through extraordinary means. The ego just needs a reason it can accept. The poster has important symbolic imagery to speak to the unconscious. The snake lady in a white glow... higher self, and then me and then the logo... the grounding into the Earth. The snake lady is cute, playful.. laughter is the nature of spirit. It could have been a tao symbol, but that would not carry the same joy. The tao is on the logo. The grounding medtiation itself, is symbolically coded into the art. Light above, light below, glow around me. She also wanted to go with a smaller, colour poster for the logo... No. I want a twice folded flyer, black and white photocopied. It is inexpensive to produce in large quantities, epecially compared to full colour printing, and it can contain more information, including important testimonials to soothe the worried ego. A colour sticker of the logo can be printed and added. Be sure to get a proof, most printers change the teal green to bright blue. The flyer is mostly designed, it just needs some tweaking. I usually go with a fine quality paper, like parchment, and partly recycled content if possible. There is a reason I rarely use the cadeucus on my work, and that is because people first associate it with medical stuff. The only place I use it, is in "about Kundalini" essays, where it is a non-traditional one I made myself, with chakra colours on it... and a small flapping winged one on the K-gateway because being a cartoon it does not have the same association. The one you chose looks like it belongs on an ambulance and that is not an association to desire. I need the text of the poster edited, and I sent the text to the list, twice! I am wondering if you are not getting all the mail? I posted a high quality large version of the FST logo to the archive months ago, and sent the location twice. I want the "are you" columns reduced and merged into one, so the other side can be about the workshop. I like "are you looking for a compassionate ear" because spontaneusly awakened people in crisis really are! It speaks to the heart. Probably 75% of my clients and students come to me already awakened, so a recognition of the symptoms is more important than defining Kundalini. I agree with the edit for the sentences below that. The blurb about me on the other side isn't great, I like the one on the flyer, better. "Expert on Kundalini awakening" is a title I have always avoided. On the K-list FAQ I write there aren't any. I also sent the URL for the original psd file to the list, twice, but it looks like you used a jpg version, because there is a Mys to the left of me which would have disappeared if you only copied that layer, or made the text layer invisible. Maybe you don't have photoshop, or don't know how to use it? Let me know. I know it is a huge download. Give me a hand editing the text, and I will send you a poster ready for the print shop. I like Bobby's poster, I appreciate the effort, but it doesn't carry the same Shakti either, and I am concerned people won't know the workshop is in English. That event is going to be small, it is in someone's house. I finished making a second copy of the vids, will ship it today. I was not able to do much in the way of notes about the vids, but I think when you watch them you will recognise which vids are what, and know what version was used last time. Gustaf: I am listening to your music, it is really beautiful. Your talent blows my mind! >Gustaf and I were looking at the >poster together yesterday and I felt that the layout that you had seemed >a bit awkward somehow. When the texts are shortened, its not going to >look quite the same as it does now, and I think all three images down >the center might look like they are just space fillers rather than the >central focus they seem to be meant to be. > >We were experimenting with other ways to organize it to get all the >needed elements onto the picture and have an attractive flow to it. I >think once we have the text done and can apply it to your lay out we'll >really have a better idea though. I'll be working on that today. > >Blessings, >Kimberly > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Helpers-bounces at fire-serpent.org [mailto:Helpers-bounces at fire- > > serpent.org] On Behalf Of Mystress Angelique Serpent > > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 12:32 AM > > To: FST Helpers list. > > Subject: Re: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff > > > > Hello: > > I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I don't understand why you are > > starting from scratch instead of just editing the poster I made? > > Do you really think the poster I made sucked that badly? > > > > All I asked was for the text content of the poster, which I sent via > > email, to be edited shorter. > > > > > > > > At 11:57 AM 23/04/2006, you wrote: > > > > >Ok! > > > > > >Kimberly and I have been working with a Sweden poster sketch this > > weekend. > > >Before we can finish it though we need some info and some feedback on >the > > >ideas we have. :) > > > > > >We looked at the UK poster, dutch poster and the weekend intensive >doc > > >files, and there are elements we like from all of them! > > > > > >First of all, we thought it would be nice to have the flyer be like a > > >version of the poster with a bit more detailed information, we >thought > > >that the poster itself should be more simple. Not as brief as the >dutch > > >one, yet not as detailed as the UK one. > > > > > >The idea is to have a caduceus in the middle, fairly subtle out on >the > > >sides so text can be fitted and seen easily. In the middle it'd be >nice > > to > > >have a rainbow of light, like on the dutch poster. At the top we have >the > > >"Embrace the Divine Feminine" text plus something about FST/Spiritual > > >Emergencea and Euro Tour or something like that. > > > > > >Then for info we'd like to have a brief version of the K-symptoms and >the > > >text with "Are you feeling like... " etc. We just gave it a sketch >label > > >"Are you seeking?" right now for reference. Then also on the left >side we > > >would like to have a brief of the topics that the workshop covers. > > >(Including mentioning personal sessions) On the right side, we could > > have > > >brief info about what Fire Serpent Tantra is (Or Spiritual Emergence >if > > >you prefer that) Kimberly and I both felt that focusing on FST was >nicer > > >though. Then we also have information about Mystress following, >Mystress > > >as a teacher, etc > > > > > >A lot of people here have not heard about Kundalini at all! We'd like >to > > >put in a brief note about it.. Does anyone have any good way to >describe > > K > > >in 1-2 sentences? > > > > > >At the bottom left and right we have the FST logo and a picture of > > >Mystress, and in between them we thought about having the > > >time/date/ordering/contact/location info. > > > > > >As you can see this is very rough, and far from all the stuff is in! > > Good > > >news though. A co worker of mine said he'd help us out when we have >the > > >final material, to finalize it in Illustrator. He is very good at >making > > >things look neat! > > >I like how the weekend intensive fliers lists the topics more in >detail, > > >I'd love to have that in the fliers here. Definitely getting a good > > >feeling about that. > > > > > > > > >Now for questions: > > > > > >* What topics have you planned for the Sweden workshop? > > >* Do you have a high resolution picture of the FST logo, and a high > > >resolution picture of the healing portrait? > > >* What fonts have you been using for the UK/Dutch posters? > > >* Do you have the original PSD files for them available? > > > > > >Namaste! > > >Gustaf & Kimberly > > > > > >PS: The music for the pregrad essay is uploaded to the FTP now, in >the > > >Gustaf folder. :) Enjoy! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Helpers mailing list > > >Helpers at fire-serpent.org > > >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Helpers mailing list > > Helpers at fire-serpent.org > > http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From percyval at rcn.com Mon Apr 24 08:32:31 2006 From: percyval at rcn.com (percyval) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:32:31 -0400 Subject: [Helpers] flash navigation menu References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060423184050.0515d3b0@mail.fire-serpent.com> <00b001c66743$cc184450$0100a8c0@sachikojn> Message-ID: <005001c667b4$4f11ab10$6501a8c0@bigmo> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" > I had to reset my internet security to "low" to see it, which makes me > go hmmm... I wonder if many people have active X turned off? hi Mystress, you may already know this, but on Inertnet Explorer v.6/Tools/Options/Security, you can choose to hit the custom level button, and get very specific about your ActiveX security choices... start with the setting on "Medium"... then, you change: "Download signed ActiveX controls" to "Prompt"... and then: "Binary and script behaviors", "Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins" and "Script ActiveX controls marked safe for for scripting" to either "Enable" (or "Prompt" for the safest choice)... leave the other ActiveX choices on "Disable"... this should give you a better balance between security and ActiveX than keeping the security setting on "Low"... btw: if all Msft security patches have been installed, these should be the default settings at "Medium" for IE v.6... so i do think that most folks have their ActiveX turned on... lovingly, Percyval From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Mon Apr 24 08:53:35 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:53:35 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff In-Reply-To: <001301c667a8$82ad9b20$6501a8c0@bigmo> References: <006101c66762$f9b236e0$6501a8c0@quilly> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060424082108.0352ee40@mail.fire-serpent.com> Sorry, I don't like it. The caduceus big and central, and the logo and my pic changed into footnotes, is just wrong to my gut. The caduceus only represents Kundalini to people who already know it is the symbol of Kundalini, for the rest of the world it is the symbol of western medicine, nothing spiritual. They will see it and pass it by. As druid pointed out, some doctors might actually take offense at my using it when I am not a Doc. I appreciate the enthusiasm that motivated the creation.. I do not want to squash that, but please trust me to know my business. The images and the colours will draw people to take a closer look, the text is actually secondary. It must appeal to the higher self, the Divine beloved first, and the ego second. The text is for the ego. Did you know, one couple came to the Vancouver workshop based soley on their gut reaction to my name on the flyer! Glenn, Susan, Master Nipples, all that was irrelevant to them. Steve-noco came from England because when he was in crisis and prayed for help, his computer burped and opened my web page of signs and symptoms.. he did not do a search, click on a link, or anything. Goddess did it. I could tell dozens of stories like that. It is normal for me, I am used to it. The energy of the ad is more important than the content. That is how my advertising works. I know it, I depend on it. My sites get about 7000 unique visitors per month, based on very few links and some search engines...? The math doesn't work out anything like the marketing stats say it should, it works much better... because Goddess has it handled. We need to get the word out, and soon... because ego needs an address, a number to call, a date to write into the day planner. The Divine Beloveds of people who will come, have already decided... I have been advertising like this since I was a pro-dom. The magic makes even a tiny newspaper ad shine like the sun, to those whom Goddess calls to it. Goddess even causes the adverts to travel, like a client who found my ad in a downtown paper that someone left on a coffee shop table in the suburbs. At 07:08 AM 24/04/2006, you wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Kimberly" > > > I hope I didn't offend ya or anything. Gustaf and I were looking at the > > poster together yesterday and I felt that the layout that you had seemed > > a bit awkward somehow. When the texts are shortened, its not going to > > look quite the same as it does now, and I think all three images down > > the center might look like they are just space fillers rather than the > > central focus they seem to be meant to be. > >hi folks, > >i really thought the way Kimberly and Gustav changed the layout of the 3 >images was great... > >no opinions or ideas from me on the text content, but if it can be arranged >around the new image layout, it will be very good to the eye on first >glance... > >warmly, > >Percyval > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com Mon Apr 24 10:28:05 2006 From: gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com (Gustaf Grefberg) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:28:05 +0200 Subject: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff References: <004001c66401$5e6d15b0$0100a8c0@sachikojn><4.3.2.7.2.20060422093234.04e22008@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060423152717.03510b88@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0E2142@mail.starbreeze.com> Ok! It seems I've looked at it from the wrong viewpoint! > Well, yeah, hurt my feelings a little, but I was sort of depressed >yesterday. I think it was an energy hangover from a great blissful >meditation Sat. night. I did not want to hurt your feelings either. > > I spent two very long days on that poster! With the result that it has >a nice little Shakti charge... compare it with yours. My art has my energy, >and that is what we are selling. After two intensive days I was kind of >burnt out on it, and so wanted a fresh eye for the text content. I've had a >week away and am ready to approach it again. Gotcha! I was more looking at it as a general tantra workshop rather than something for people who are already awakened/being awakened. Spiritual Emergence is not talked so much about in this country, at least not where I've been. But I know about people who have had rough K-awakenings here in Sweden. There's a lady who is in contact with a few "victims" of kundalini yoga. Maybe some of them may be interested in attending the workshop. (Adding that to my list of people to contact) Some people may look at it a bit dubiously, but others will no doubt welcome it! > I think I need to clarify what I want. I have had to go over this with >Lori, too... Sorry that you had to do it again with us. > The poster is designed to speak to the higher self, first and the ego >second. It is the nature of my work, how people are drawn to it defies all >the normal rules of marketing. I depend on synchronicity, Goddess brings >me my clients, and often through extraordinary means. > > The ego just needs a reason it can accept. The poster has important >symbolic imagery to speak to the unconscious. The snake lady in a white >glow... higher self, and then me and then the logo... the grounding into >the Earth. The snake lady is cute, playful.. laughter is the nature of >spirit. It could have been a tao symbol, but that would not carry the same >joy. The tao is on the logo. > The grounding medtiation itself, is symbolically coded into the art. >Light above, light below, glow around me. What you are saying all makes sense and feels right to me. > She also wanted to go with a smaller, colour poster for the logo... >No. I want a twice folded flyer, black and white photocopied. It is >inexpensive to produce in large quantities, epecially compared to full >colour printing, and it can contain more information, including important >testimonials to soothe the worried ego. Very cheap indeed! Makes it easy to spread the fliers in a lot of places. > A colour sticker of the logo can be printed and added. Be sure to get a >proof, most printers change the teal green to bright blue. Ok gotcha. > The flyer is mostly designed, it just needs some tweaking. I usually go >with a fine quality paper, like parchment, and partly recycled content if >possible. Ok! > There is a reason I rarely use the cadeucus on my work, and that is >because people first associate it with medical stuff. The only place I use >it, is in "about Kundalini" essays, where it is a non-traditional one I >made myself, with chakra colours on it... and a small flapping winged one >on the K-gateway because being a cartoon it does not have the same >association. The one you chose looks like it belongs on an ambulance and >that is not an association to desire. The cadeucus on that draft was my idea, and I get what you are saying about it. I don't mind scrapping it. It was just an idea. :) > I need the text of the poster edited, and I sent the text to the list, >twice! I am wondering if you are not getting all the mail? I posted a high >quality large version of the FST logo to the archive months ago, and sent >the location twice. Quite possible! I couldn't find the mail with the PSD link for example. > I want the "are you" columns reduced and merged into one, so the other >side can be about the workshop. I like "are you looking for a >compassionate ear" because spontaneusly awakened people in crisis really >are! It speaks to the heart. Probably 75% of my clients and students come >to me already awakened, so a recognition of the symptoms is more important >than defining Kundalini. I agree with the edit for the sentences below >that. The blurb about me on the other side isn't great, I like the one on >the flyer, better. "Expert on Kundalini awakening" is a title I have always >avoided. On the K-list FAQ I write there aren't any. Good points! We'll look into that. > I also sent the URL for the original psd file to the list, twice, but >it looks like you used a jpg version, because there is a Mys to the left of >me which would have disappeared if you only copied that layer, or made the >text layer invisible. We copy/pasted from the PDF file because we couldn't find the PSD file. I couldn't find that mail. So that's why so much of it is totally off. > Maybe you don't have photoshop, or don't know how to use it? Let me >know. I know it is a huge download. Give me a hand editing the text, and I >will send you a poster ready for the print shop. We do have photoshop and know how to use it. At least basic operation. > I like Bobby's poster, I appreciate the effort, but it doesn't carry the >same Shakti either, and I am concerned people won't know the workshop is in >English. That event is going to be small, it is in someone's house. We'll keep the Shakti intact. > I finished making a second copy of the vids, will ship it today. I >was not able to do much in the way of notes about the vids, but I think >when you watch them you will recognise which vids are what, and know what >version was used last time. Ok I understand. :) I will do my best to compare, and if I get stuck I'll post about it and get your help with it. > Gustaf: I am listening to your music, it is really beautiful. Your >talent blows my mind! It's Goddess' doing. :) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 6057 bytes Desc: not available URL: From gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com Mon Apr 24 10:36:24 2006 From: gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com (Gustaf Grefberg) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:36:24 +0200 Subject: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff References: <006101c66762$f9b236e0$6501a8c0@quilly> <4.3.2.7.2.20060424082108.0352ee40@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0E2143@mail.starbreeze.com> >Sorry, I don't like it. The caduceus big and central, and the logo and >my pic changed into footnotes, is just wrong to my gut. If you don't like it that's all I need to know. :) I spend all my working days creating stuff that gets under scrutiny of people. >The caduceus only represents Kundalini to people who already know it is the symbol of >Kundalini, for the rest of the world it is the symbol of western medicine, >nothing spiritual. They will see it and pass it by. >As druid pointed out, some doctors might actually take offense at my >using it when I am not a Doc. Point taken! New experience learned. > I appreciate the enthusiasm that motivated the creation.. I do not want >to squash that, but please trust me to know my business. The images and >the colours will draw people to take a closer look, the text is actually >secondary. It must appeal to the higher self, the Divine beloved first, >and the ego second. The text is for the ego. > > Did you know, one couple came to the Vancouver workshop based soley on >their gut reaction to my name on the flyer! Glenn, Susan, Master Nipples, >all that was irrelevant to them. > Steve-noco came from England because when he was in crisis and prayed >for help, his computer burped and opened my web page of signs and >symptoms.. he did not do a search, click on a link, or anything. Goddess >did it. I could tell dozens of stories like that. It is normal for me, I am >used to it. The energy of the ad is more important than the content. > > That is how my advertising works. I know it, I depend on it. My sites >get about 7000 unique visitors per month, based on very few links and some >search engines...? The math doesn't work out anything like the marketing >stats say it should, it works much better... because Goddess has it handled. I totally trust you know your business. I'm also one of those people who "ended up" at your website. > We need to get the word out, and soon... because ego needs an address, a >number to call, a date to write into the day planner. The Divine Beloveds >of people who will come, have already decided... Yep! As soon as we have the poster and the flyer I will get to it. Btw, the yoga teacher group is meeting in Gävle this weekend.. We are gonna get our diplomas, yay! If I can have some fliers available by then I can announce your workshop to them and let them have fliers.. Good place to start at. > I have been advertising like this since I was a pro-dom. The magic >makes even a tiny newspaper ad shine like the sun, to those whom Goddess >calls to it. Goddess even causes the adverts to travel, like a client who >found my ad in a downtown paper that someone left on a coffee shop table in >the suburbs. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 4329 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ladyofquills at spray.se Mon Apr 24 10:55:31 2006 From: ladyofquills at spray.se (Kimberly) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:55:31 +0200 Subject: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060423234404.039a9bc0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <009401c667c8$47f9a120$6501a8c0@quilly> Mystress, I apologize for hurting your feelings. The poster we sent to the list was just a suggestion, not meant to offend or to trample on all your work. I'll just edit the text and let you apply it where you think it best fits. -- Are you experiencing: Mystical visions? Paranormal phenomena? Feeling the emotions of others as if they were your own? Psychic sensitivity? These are often symptoms of the spontaneous spiritual awakening known as Kundalini. Mystress can not only awaken Kundalini, but also smooth the path of a spontaneous awakening so it becomes the blissful, joyous, love experience it is meant to be. Are you: Feeling like there must be more to life than you've experienced so far? Awakened and having trouble coming to terms with your experiences? Feeling like your spiritual growth has Somehow become blocked or stalled? Mystress Angelique Serpent Shaman, Spiritual Teacher, healer and Shaktipat Master is bringing her Wisdom, teaching and amazing energy to Sweden for the very first time. Are you looking for a compassionate ear? Someone who can understand what you are Going through? One on one consultations available Upon request. Practical advice to mental health and Healing professionals on managing Spiritual emergence and emergency in Their clients. -- These are my suggestions for the text sections. The "Fire Serpent Tantra" portion looks good as it is. The capitalizing on the indented lines (if they come through indented as they are when I'm writing this) is an automatic feature of this email program that I can't figure out how to turn off, so please ignore that. If you'd like me to cut and paste these into one of the documents you sent instead, just let me know and I'll do that. Otherwise, I figured all you'd need was the text and you could place it on the poster wherever you feel it best fits. Kimberly > -----Original Message----- > From: Helpers-bounces at fire-serpent.org [mailto:Helpers-bounces at fire- > serpent.org] On Behalf Of Mystress Angelique Serpent > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 4:53 PM > To: FST Helpers list. > Subject: Re: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff > > At 10:50 PM 23/04/2006, you wrote: > >Hi Mystress, > > > >I hope I didn't offend ya or anything. > > Well, yeah, hurt my feelings a little, but I was sort of depressed > yesterday. I think it was an energy hangover from a great blissful > meditation Sat. night. I did not want to hurt your feelings either. > > I spent two very long days on that poster! With the result that it has > a nice little Shakti charge... compare it with yours. My art has my > energy, > and that is what we are selling. After two intensive days I was kind of > burnt out on it, and so wanted a fresh eye for the text content. I've had > a > week away and am ready to approach it again. > > I think I need to clarify what I want. I have had to go over this > with > Lori, too... > > The poster is designed to speak to the higher self, first and the ego > second. It is the nature of my work, how people are drawn to it defies > all > the normal rules of marketing. I depend on synchronicity, Goddess brings > me my clients, and often through extraordinary means. > > The ego just needs a reason it can accept. The poster has important > symbolic imagery to speak to the unconscious. The snake lady in a white > glow... higher self, and then me and then the logo... the grounding into > the Earth. The snake lady is cute, playful.. laughter is the nature of > spirit. It could have been a tao symbol, but that would not carry the same > joy. The tao is on the logo. > The grounding medtiation itself, is symbolically coded into the art. > Light above, light below, glow around me. > > She also wanted to go with a smaller, colour poster for the logo... > No. I want a twice folded flyer, black and white photocopied. It is > inexpensive to produce in large quantities, epecially compared to full > colour printing, and it can contain more information, including important > testimonials to soothe the worried ego. > > A colour sticker of the logo can be printed and added. Be sure to get a > proof, most printers change the teal green to bright blue. > > The flyer is mostly designed, it just needs some tweaking. I usually > go > with a fine quality paper, like parchment, and partly recycled content if > possible. > > There is a reason I rarely use the cadeucus on my work, and that is > because people first associate it with medical stuff. The only place I use > it, is in "about Kundalini" essays, where it is a non-traditional one I > made myself, with chakra colours on it... and a small flapping winged one > on the K-gateway because being a cartoon it does not have the same > association. The one you chose looks like it belongs on an ambulance and > that is not an association to desire. > > I need the text of the poster edited, and I sent the text to the list, > twice! I am wondering if you are not getting all the mail? I posted a > high > quality large version of the FST logo to the archive months ago, and sent > the location twice. > > I want the "are you" columns reduced and merged into one, so the other > side can be about the workshop. I like "are you looking for a > compassionate ear" because spontaneusly awakened people in crisis really > are! It speaks to the heart. Probably 75% of my clients and students come > to me already awakened, so a recognition of the symptoms is more important > than defining Kundalini. I agree with the edit for the sentences below > that. The blurb about me on the other side isn't great, I like the one on > the flyer, better. "Expert on Kundalini awakening" is a title I have > always > avoided. On the K-list FAQ I write there aren't any. > > I also sent the URL for the original psd file to the list, twice, but > it looks like you used a jpg version, because there is a Mys to the left > of > me which would have disappeared if you only copied that layer, or made the > text layer invisible. > > Maybe you don't have photoshop, or don't know how to use it? Let me > know. I know it is a huge download. Give me a hand editing the text, and > I > will send you a poster ready for the print shop. > > I like Bobby's poster, I appreciate the effort, but it doesn't carry > the > same Shakti either, and I am concerned people won't know the workshop is > in > English. That event is going to be small, it is in someone's house. > > I finished making a second copy of the vids, will ship it today. I > was not able to do much in the way of notes about the vids, but I think > when you watch them you will recognise which vids are what, and know what > version was used last time. > > Gustaf: I am listening to your music, it is really beautiful. Your > talent blows my mind! > > >Gustaf and I were looking at the > >poster together yesterday and I felt that the layout that you had seemed > >a bit awkward somehow. When the texts are shortened, its not going to > >look quite the same as it does now, and I think all three images down > >the center might look like they are just space fillers rather than the > >central focus they seem to be meant to be. > > > >We were experimenting with other ways to organize it to get all the > >needed elements onto the picture and have an attractive flow to it. I > >think once we have the text done and can apply it to your lay out we'll > >really have a better idea though. I'll be working on that today. > > > >Blessings, > >Kimberly > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Helpers-bounces at fire-serpent.org [mailto:Helpers-bounces at fire- > > > serpent.org] On Behalf Of Mystress Angelique Serpent > > > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 12:32 AM > > > To: FST Helpers list. > > > Subject: Re: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff > > > > > > Hello: > > > I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I don't understand why you are > > > starting from scratch instead of just editing the poster I made? > > > Do you really think the poster I made sucked that badly? > > > > > > All I asked was for the text content of the poster, which I sent via > > > email, to be edited shorter. > > > > > > > > > > > > At 11:57 AM 23/04/2006, you wrote: > > > > > > >Ok! > > > > > > > >Kimberly and I have been working with a Sweden poster sketch this > > > weekend. > > > >Before we can finish it though we need some info and some feedback on > >the > > > >ideas we have. :) > > > > > > > >We looked at the UK poster, dutch poster and the weekend intensive > >doc > > > >files, and there are elements we like from all of them! > > > > > > > >First of all, we thought it would be nice to have the flyer be like a > > > >version of the poster with a bit more detailed information, we > >thought > > > >that the poster itself should be more simple. Not as brief as the > >dutch > > > >one, yet not as detailed as the UK one. > > > > > > > >The idea is to have a caduceus in the middle, fairly subtle out on > >the > > > >sides so text can be fitted and seen easily. In the middle it'd be > >nice > > > to > > > >have a rainbow of light, like on the dutch poster. At the top we have > >the > > > >"Embrace the Divine Feminine" text plus something about FST/Spiritual > > > >Emergencea and Euro Tour or something like that. > > > > > > > >Then for info we'd like to have a brief version of the K-symptoms and > >the > > > >text with "Are you feeling like... " etc. We just gave it a sketch > >label > > > >"Are you seeking?" right now for reference. Then also on the left > >side we > > > >would like to have a brief of the topics that the workshop covers. > > > >(Including mentioning personal sessions) On the right side, we could > > > have > > > >brief info about what Fire Serpent Tantra is (Or Spiritual Emergence > >if > > > >you prefer that) Kimberly and I both felt that focusing on FST was > >nicer > > > >though. Then we also have information about Mystress following, > >Mystress > > > >as a teacher, etc > > > > > > > >A lot of people here have not heard about Kundalini at all! We'd like > >to > > > >put in a brief note about it.. Does anyone have any good way to > >describe > > > K > > > >in 1-2 sentences? > > > > > > > >At the bottom left and right we have the FST logo and a picture of > > > >Mystress, and in between them we thought about having the > > > >time/date/ordering/contact/location info. > > > > > > > >As you can see this is very rough, and far from all the stuff is in! > > > Good > > > >news though. A co worker of mine said he'd help us out when we have > >the > > > >final material, to finalize it in Illustrator. He is very good at > >making > > > >things look neat! > > > >I like how the weekend intensive fliers lists the topics more in > >detail, > > > >I'd love to have that in the fliers here. Definitely getting a good > > > >feeling about that. > > > > > > > > > > > >Now for questions: > > > > > > > >* What topics have you planned for the Sweden workshop? > > > >* Do you have a high resolution picture of the FST logo, and a high > > > >resolution picture of the healing portrait? > > > >* What fonts have you been using for the UK/Dutch posters? > > > >* Do you have the original PSD files for them available? > > > > > > > >Namaste! > > > >Gustaf & Kimberly > > > > > > > >PS: The music for the pregrad essay is uploaded to the FTP now, in > >the > > > >Gustaf folder. :) Enjoy! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Helpers mailing list > > > >Helpers at fire-serpent.org > > > >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Helpers mailing list > > > Helpers at fire-serpent.org > > > http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Helpers mailing list > >Helpers at fire-serpent.org > >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Helpers mailing list > Helpers at fire-serpent.org > http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Mon Apr 24 15:19:45 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:19:45 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff In-Reply-To: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0E2142@mail.starbreeze.com > References: <004001c66401$5e6d15b0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> <4.3.2.7.2.20060422093234.04e22008@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060423152717.03510b88@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060424145738.036c0028@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 10:28 AM 24/04/2006, you wrote: >Ok! It seems I've looked at it from the wrong viewpoint! > > > Well, yeah, hurt my feelings a little, but I was sort of depressed > >yesterday. I think it was an energy hangover from a great blissful > >meditation Sat. night. I did not want to hurt your feelings either. > > > > I spent two very long days on that poster! With the result that it has > >a nice little Shakti charge... compare it with yours. My art has my energy, > >and that is what we are selling. After two intensive days I was kind of > >burnt out on it, and so wanted a fresh eye for the text content. I've had a > >week away and am ready to approach it again. > >Gotcha! I was more looking at it as a general tantra workshop rather than >something >for people who are already awakened/being awakened. Spiritual Emergence is >not >talked so much about in this country, at least not where I've been. But I >know about >people who have had rough K-awakenings here in Sweden. Yes, they are everywhere, and represent the majority of my clients. >There's a lady who is in >contact with a few "victims" of kundalini yoga. Maybe some of them may be >interested >in attending the workshop. (Adding that to my list of people to contact) >Some people may look at it a bit dubiously, but others will no doubt >welcome it! Yes! > > I think I need to clarify what I want. I have had to go over this with > >Lori, too... > >Sorry that you had to do it again with us. No, it is fine. Good to have clarity. Sorry, I did not want to be hard on you. > > The poster is designed to speak to the higher self, first and the ego > >second. It is the nature of my work, how people are drawn to it defies all > >the normal rules of marketing. I depend on synchronicity, Goddess brings > >me my clients, and often through extraordinary means. > > > > The ego just needs a reason it can accept. The poster has important > >symbolic imagery to speak to the unconscious. The snake lady in a white > >glow... higher self, and then me and then the logo... the grounding into > >the Earth. The snake lady is cute, playful.. laughter is the nature of > >spirit. It could have been a tao symbol, but that would not carry the same > >joy. The tao is on the logo. > > The grounding medtiation itself, is symbolically coded into the art. > >Light above, light below, glow around me. > >What you are saying all makes sense and feels right to me. Good! > > She also wanted to go with a smaller, colour poster for the logo... > >No. I want a twice folded flyer, black and white photocopied. It is > >inexpensive to produce in large quantities, epecially compared to full > >colour printing, and it can contain more information, including important > >testimonials to soothe the worried ego. > >Very cheap indeed! Makes it easy to spread the fliers in a lot of places. yes! :) The posters generate interest and intrigue, but the flyers sell the course. If the photocopy shop has a folding machine then it gets very easy. A few dozen posters, several hundred fliers. A few little Shakti-charged newspaper and/or magazine ads. If we can get some press coverage, a radio, TV or news interview, so much the better! > > A colour sticker of the logo can be printed and added. Be sure to get a > >proof, most printers change the teal green to bright blue. > >Ok gotcha. Yes, printing a few pages of stickers is inexpensive, you can even get large label pages and print them at home if you have a colour printer. I get the Avery full sheet labels and cut them by hand. > > The flyer is mostly designed, it just needs some tweaking. I usually go > >with a fine quality paper, like parchment, and partly recycled content if > >possible. > >Ok! > > > There is a reason I rarely use the cadeucus on my work, and that is > >because people first associate it with medical stuff. The only place I use > >it, is in "about Kundalini" essays, where it is a non-traditional one I > >made myself, with chakra colours on it... and a small flapping winged one > >on the K-gateway because being a cartoon it does not have the same > >association. The one you chose looks like it belongs on an ambulance and > >that is not an association to desire. > >The cadeucus on that draft was my idea, and I get what you are saying about >it. I don't mind scrapping it. It was just an idea. :) I know, a rough draft. I could have been clearer about what I wanted, sooner. > > I need the text of the poster edited, and I sent the text to the list, > >twice! I am wondering if you are not getting all the mail? I posted a high > >quality large version of the FST logo to the archive months ago, and sent > >the location twice. > >Quite possible! I couldn't find the mail with the PSD link for example. http://fire-serpent.com/loriwest All the versions are there, the PSD file is in the same folder as the jpg > > I want the "are you" columns reduced and merged into one, so the other > >side can be about the workshop. I like "are you looking for a > >compassionate ear" because spontaneusly awakened people in crisis really > >are! It speaks to the heart. Probably 75% of my clients and students come > >to me already awakened, so a recognition of the symptoms is more important > >than defining Kundalini. I agree with the edit for the sentences below > >that. The blurb about me on the other side isn't great, I like the one on > >the flyer, better. "Expert on Kundalini awakening" is a title I have always > >avoided. On the K-list FAQ I write there aren't any. > >Good points! We'll look into that. Thank you. > > I also sent the URL for the original psd file to the list, twice, but > >it looks like you used a jpg version, because there is a Mys to the left of > >me which would have disappeared if you only copied that layer, or made the > >text layer invisible. > >We copy/pasted from the PDF file because we couldn't find the PSD file. >I couldn't find that mail. So that's why so much of it is totally off. I did not make a pdf file, just a jpg and psd. > > Maybe you don't have photoshop, or don't know how to use it? Let me > >know. I know it is a huge download. Give me a hand editing the text, and I > >will send you a poster ready for the print shop. > >We do have photoshop and know how to use it. At least basic operation. Same for me. Self taught, but I have been messing with it for quite a few years now. > > I like Bobby's poster, I appreciate the effort, but it doesn't carry the > >same Shakti either, and I am concerned people won't know the workshop is in > >English. That event is going to be small, it is in someone's house. > >We'll keep the Shakti intact. :) > > I finished making a second copy of the vids, will ship it today. I > >was not able to do much in the way of notes about the vids, but I think > >when you watch them you will recognise which vids are what, and know what > >version was used last time. > >Ok I understand. :) I will do my best to compare, and if I get stuck I'll >post about it and get your help with it. Cool! I'm going to work on the poster today, maybe I can send a copy on disc as well as the DVDs. > > Gustaf: I am listening to your music, it is really beautiful. Your > >talent blows my mind! > >It's Goddess' doing. :) heh, :) It is lovely, and it came through you! >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com Thu Apr 27 02:10:33 2006 From: gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com (Gustaf Grefberg) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:10:33 +0200 Subject: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff Message-ID: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0C892E@mail.starbreeze.com> > yes! :) The posters generate interest and intrigue, but the flyers sell > the course. If the photocopy shop has a folding machine then it gets very > easy. > > A few dozen posters, several hundred fliers. A few little > Shakti-charged newspaper and/or magazine ads. If we can get some press > coverage, a radio, TV or news interview, so much the better! Any chance there are any fliers I can have/print before Saturday? It'd be a good opportunity. :) > http://fire-serpent.com/loriwest The link is broken for some reason. Kimberly edited the text and responded to the list, but if we get a working link we can edit it in Photoshop.. Not sure or not if we need the font you've been using also? Additionally, we need to get the right info nailed down at the bottom of the poster (and the flier?), like time/place, contact info and that whole deal. Let me know what you need from me and I'll provide you with all the details. > I did not make a pdf file, just a jpg and psd. Weird.. I couldn't find a psd file there before. I'll look again as soon as the page/link is accessible again. > Cool! I'm going to work on the poster today, maybe I can send a copy on > disc as well as the DVDs. That sounds like a good plan! > >It's Goddess' doing. :) > > heh, :) It is lovely, and it came through you! True, that's how it's given a unique form! From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Thu Apr 27 21:39:04 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:39:04 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff In-Reply-To: <009401c667c8$47f9a120$6501a8c0@quilly> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060423234404.039a9bc0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060424152150.038e9598@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 10:55 AM 24/04/2006, you wrote: >Mystress, >I apologize for hurting your feelings. The poster we sent to the list >was just a suggestion, not meant to offend or to trample on all your >work. Is ok, I know you meant no harm. As I mentioned, I was a little depressed from an energy hangover or I'd not have been so touchy. It is up to me to express what I want or need more clearly! I have finished the poster and folded flyer for the UK, so I am ready to input new info for Sweden. The poster is still cluttered and busy but the content is much better, more ecstatic and joyous. I like it! I know you have sent me details, location of workshop etc. but would you send it again? How to write the address, etc. I did manage to figure out how to make a pound sign. So proud of myself LOL! £ !!! So what kind of sign for Sweden? Would you prefer to edit the UK flier yourself? >Practical advice to mental health and > Healing professionals on managing > Spiritual emergence and emergency in > Their clients. This bit was only for the UK, Lori is a student of psychiatry and wanted the free introductory lecture to be aimed at that audience. The Utrecht event might not have an introductory, as it turns out I will be spending the first week of my trip in France YAY!!! The one in Sweden will be about Kundalini: grounding and discernment. UK flyer and a5 mini poster is in the fscnew directory. Edit and print! >The capitalizing on the indented lines (if they come through indented as >they are when I'm writing this) is an automatic feature of this email >program that I can't figure out how to turn off, so please ignore that. I wish I could get mine to do it automatically! :) >If you'd like me to cut and paste these into one of the documents you >sent instead, just let me know and I'll do that. Otherwise, I figured >all you'd need was the text and you could place it on the poster >wherever you feel it best fits. It was very helpful, I was able to get a fresh eye from reading your notes. That has turned out to be a big bonus for me with Hillary's edits, too... I do not take all her grammar suggestions, but seeing them inspires me to write more clearly. From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Thu Apr 27 21:41:33 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:41:33 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff In-Reply-To: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0C892E@mail.starbreeze.com > Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060427213628.038ac690@mail.fire-serpent.com> Sorry thought I had responded to this already. Been busy working on press release. At 02:10 AM 27/04/2006, you wrote: > > yes! :) The posters generate interest and intrigue, but the flyers >sell > > the course. If the photocopy shop has a folding machine then it gets >very > > easy. > > > > A few dozen posters, several hundred fliers. A few little > > Shakti-charged newspaper and/or magazine ads. If we can get some press > > coverage, a radio, TV or news interview, so much the better! > >Any chance there are any fliers I can have/print before Saturday? It'd be >a good opportunity. :) > > > http://fire-serpent.com/loriwest > >The link is broken for some reason. oops http://fire-serpent.org/loriwest But more current versions are in the fscnew directory. Edit and print! >Kimberly edited the text and >responded to the list, but if we get a working link we can edit it in >Photoshop.. Not sure or not if we need the font you've been using also? > >Additionally, we need to get the right info nailed down at the bottom of >the poster (and the flier?), like time/place, contact info and that >whole deal. Let me know what you need from me and I'll provide you with >all the details. Sat 10 am to 9pm, sun 10 am to 6 pm, You have a new address sweden at fire-serpent.org > > I did not make a pdf file, just a jpg and psd. > >Weird.. I couldn't find a psd file there before. I'll look again as soon >as the page/link is accessible again. > > > Cool! I'm going to work on the poster today, maybe I can send a >copy on > > disc as well as the DVDs. > >That sounds like a good plan! > > > >It's Goddess' doing. :) > > > > heh, :) It is lovely, and it came through you! > >True, that's how it's given a unique form! > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com Fri Apr 28 02:15:06 2006 From: gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com (Gustaf Grefberg) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:15:06 +0200 Subject: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff Message-ID: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0C893E@mail.starbreeze.com> > Sorry thought I had responded to this already. Been busy working on > press release. That's fine, I know you are busy! > oops http://fire-serpent.org/loriwest > > But more current versions are in the fscnew directory. Edit and print! Yep these links are working! > Sat 10 am to 9pm, sun 10 am to 6 pm, You have a new address > sweden at fire-serpent.org Trying to figure out with the admin here how to set up the email forwarder From gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com Fri Apr 28 02:35:36 2006 From: gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com (Gustaf Grefberg) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:35:36 +0200 Subject: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff Message-ID: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0C893F@mail.starbreeze.com> > I know you have sent me details, location of workshop etc. but would you > send it again? How to write the address, etc. I did manage to figure out > how to make a pound sign. So proud of myself LOL! > £ !!! The address: Gävle Yogaskola Norra Skeppsbron 1 10810 Gävle Number to the yoga center: 026 108108 For descriptions, it's just across the street from the backside of the railroad station. http://kartor.eniro.se/query?streetname=Norra+Skeppsbron+1%2C+g%E4vle&what=map&asearch=1 For those traveling, you can take a train directly from Stockholm airport, either directly or by changing trains in Uppsala. It's less than 2 hours from Stockholm airport For info on the city: http://www.gavle.se/ click on the English flag for English info. Accomodations/Hotels in the nearby area: Forsbacka Wärdshus Värdshusvägen 22 810 41 Forsbacka 026-35170 info at forsbackawardshus.se www.forsbackawardshus.se Hotell Aveny S.Kungsgatan 31 802 51 Gävle 026-615590 info at aveny.nu www.aveny.nu Hotell Boulogne Byggmästargatan 1 803 24 Gävle 026-126352 hotell.boulogne.gavle at telia.com www.hotellboulogne.com/ Hotell Gävle Staketgatan 44 803 11 Gävle 026-665100 info at hotellgavle.se www.hotellgavle.se Scandic Hotel Gävle Väst Johanneslötsvägen 6 806 28 Gävle 026-4958100 gavle at scandic-hotels.com www.scandic-hotels.com Park Inn Rezidor SAS i Gävle Norra Slottsgatan 9, Box 1417 801 38 Gävle 026-647000 info.gavle at rezidorparkinn.com www.gavle.parkinn.se Nya Järnvägshotellet Centralplan 3 803 11 Gävle 026-120990 info at jarnvagshotellet.nu www.jarnvagshotellet.nu Hotel Tre Stockar N Nyvallsvägen 42 801 06 Gävle 026-191000 info at hoteltrestockar.com www.hoteltrestockar.com My cell, if we need that for anyone: 070 4325745 Note that all numbers are Swedish-local numbers, if calling from outside the country, +46 is dialed first and the first 0 in the area code is skipped. Let me know if I missed anything. > So what kind of sign for Sweden? Would you prefer to edit the UK flier > yourself? Probably best to let you do the editing since we need to finish it as soon as possible. :) > This bit was only for the UK, Lori is a student of psychiatry and > wanted > the free introductory lecture to be aimed at that audience. The Utrecht > event might not have an introductory, as it turns out I will be spending > the first week of my trip in France YAY!!! Nice! > The one in Sweden will be about Kundalini: grounding and discernment. > > UK flyer and a5 mini poster is in the fscnew directory. Edit and print! Good choice of topics! What needs to be edited in it for the Sweden workshop, and are you already working on it? > >The capitalizing on the indented lines (if they come through indented as > >they are when I'm writing this) is an automatic feature of this email > >program that I can't figure out how to turn off, so please ignore that. > > I wish I could get mine to do it automatically! :) > > >If you'd like me to cut and paste these into one of the documents you > >sent instead, just let me know and I'll do that. Otherwise, I figured > >all you'd need was the text and you could place it on the poster > >wherever you feel it best fits. > > It was very helpful, I was able to get a fresh eye from reading your > notes. > > That has turned out to be a big bonus for me with Hillary's edits, > too... I do not take all her grammar suggestions, but seeing them inspires > me to write more clearly. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Helpers mailing list > Helpers at fire-serpent.org > http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Fri Apr 28 09:13:43 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:13:43 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff In-Reply-To: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0C893F@mail.starbreeze.com > Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060428090017.0543a850@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 02:35 AM 28/04/2006, you wrote: > > I know you have sent me details, location of workshop etc. but would you > > send it again? How to write the address, etc. I did manage to figure out > > how to make a pound sign. So proud of myself LOL! > > £ !!! > >The address: >Gävle Yogaskola >Norra Skeppsbron 1 >10810 Gävle Ah, that is good. I looked at the web page but I was not sure about the address I saw there. Now I get to figure out how to make an A with an umlat. You did not tell me the sign for your currency. Now that I think on it,.. I'm not sure paypal will accept all currencies. I guess the price needs to be in Eurodollars? >Number to the yoga center: >026 108108 > >For descriptions, it's just across the street from the backside of the >railroad station. > >http://kartor.eniro.se/query?streetname=Norra+Skeppsbron+1%2C+g%E4vle&what=map&asearch=1 > >For those traveling, you can take a train directly from Stockholm airport, >either directly or by changing trains in Uppsala. It's less than 2 hours >from Stockholm airport > >For info on the city: >http://www.gavle.se/ >click on the English flag for English info. > >Accomodations/Hotels in the nearby area: > >Forsbacka Wärdshus >Värdshusvägen 22 >810 41 Forsbacka >026-35170 >info at forsbackawardshus.se >www.forsbackawardshus.se > > >Hotell Aveny >S.Kungsgatan 31 >802 51 Gävle >026-615590 >info at aveny.nu >www.aveny.nu > > >Hotell Boulogne >Byggmästargatan 1 >803 24 Gävle >026-126352 >hotell.boulogne.gavle at telia.com >www.hotellboulogne.com/ > > >Hotell Gävle >Staketgatan 44 >803 11 Gävle >026-665100 >info at hotellgavle.se >www.hotellgavle.se > > >Scandic Hotel Gävle Väst >Johanneslötsvägen 6 >806 28 Gävle >026-4958100 >gavle at scandic-hotels.com >www.scandic-hotels.com > > >Park Inn Rezidor SAS i Gävle >Norra Slottsgatan 9, Box 1417 >801 38 Gävle >026-647000 >info.gavle at rezidorparkinn.com >www.gavle.parkinn.se > > >Nya Järnvägshotellet >Centralplan 3 >803 11 Gävle >026-120990 >info at jarnvagshotellet.nu >www.jarnvagshotellet.nu > > >Hotel Tre Stockar >N Nyvallsvägen 42 >801 06 Gävle >026-191000 >info at hoteltrestockar.com >www.hoteltrestockar.com > > >My cell, if we need that for anyone: >070 4325745 > >Note that all numbers are Swedish-local numbers, if calling from outside >the country, +46 is dialed first and the first 0 in the area code is skipped. > >Let me know if I missed anything. > > > So what kind of sign for Sweden? Would you prefer to edit the UK flier > > yourself? > >Probably best to let you do the editing since we need to finish it as soon >as possible. :) I am swamped. I have the correct info now, so maybe it won't take too long... > > This bit was only for the UK, Lori is a student of psychiatry and > > wanted > > the free introductory lecture to be aimed at that audience. The Utrecht > > event might not have an introductory, as it turns out I will be spending > > the first week of my trip in France YAY!!! > >Nice! > > > The one in Sweden will be about Kundalini: grounding and discernment. > > > > UK flyer and a5 mini poster is in the fscnew directory. Edit and print! > >Good choice of topics! > >What needs to be edited in it for the Sweden workshop, and are you already >working on it? I would like you to do a fast edit for the weekend, print up a handful or photocopy them, and send it back to me. You need a few for this weekend, the flier can be changed later for the larger quantity printing. Take out the blurb about mental health professionals, change the dates, address, price, host info, introductory. With the folded flyer, take out Lori's testimonial and add your own. There are two versions of the folded flyer, Lori's and mine. Use whichever you like best. The magick font for the folded flier headings is in the fscnew directory, might be in the Sweden subdirectory. I think I uploaded the calligrapher font there too. > > >The capitalizing on the indented lines (if they come through indented as > > >they are when I'm writing this) is an automatic feature of this email > > >program that I can't figure out how to turn off, so please ignore that. > > > > I wish I could get mine to do it automatically! :) > > > > >If you'd like me to cut and paste these into one of the documents you > > >sent instead, just let me know and I'll do that. Otherwise, I figured > > >all you'd need was the text and you could place it on the poster > > >wherever you feel it best fits. > > > > It was very helpful, I was able to get a fresh eye from reading your > > notes. > > > > That has turned out to be a big bonus for me with Hillary's edits, > > too... I do not take all her grammar suggestions, but seeing them inspires > > me to write more clearly. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Helpers mailing list > > Helpers at fire-serpent.org > > http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com Fri Apr 28 10:25:23 2006 From: gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com (Gustaf Grefberg) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:25:23 +0200 Subject: [Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060428090017.0543a850@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0E2154@mail.starbreeze.com> > Ah, that is good. I looked at the web page but I was not sure about the >address I saw there. Now I get to figure out how to make an A with an >umlat. You did not tell me the sign for your currency. Now that I think on >it,.. I'm not sure paypal will accept all currencies. I guess the price >needs to be in Eurodollars? When I am sitting at an American computer I go to a Swedish webpage and copy/paste the Swedish characters into the document. :) > I would like you to do a fast edit for the weekend, print up a handful >or photocopy them, and send it back to me. You need a few for this weekend, >the flier can be changed later for the larger quantity printing. > > Take out the blurb about mental health professionals, change the dates, >address, price, host info, introductory. With the folded flyer, take out >Lori's testimonial and add your own. There are two versions of the folded >flyer, Lori's and mine. Use whichever you like best. The magick font for >the folded flier headings is in the fscnew directory, might be in the >Sweden subdirectory. I think I uploaded the calligrapher font there too. I leave early tomorrow morning, it's already friday evening here, so I hafta see if I will be able to make it. It's just a local group of yoga teachers. Either way I am going to announce the workshop to them while up there. If I don't have the fliers I can mail to them. Got all of them and another network of yoga teachers who will all receive them. :) Then I can mail the flier to Mattias and he can print/copy them and put them up in just a day or so. But if I get it ready tonight I will bring them up with me! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sun Apr 30 12:04:36 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 12:04:36 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] flash navigation menu In-Reply-To: <00b001c66743$cc184450$0100a8c0@sachikojn> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060423184050.0515d3b0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060423202217.036a11c0@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 07:07 PM 23/04/2006, you wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" >To: "FST Helpers list." >Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 6:46 PM >Subject: Re: [Helpers] flash navigation menu > > > > It is cool! > > > > I had to reset my internet security to "low" to see it, which makes me > > go hmmm... I wonder if many people have active X turned off? > >My browser (IE) internet setting is medium not low, but it askes me to >click the area to activate the flash. Ok.. I don't like making people do stuff like that... I keep getting cold feet/ negative gut reaction to the flash menus. I think your original idea to switch over to stylesheet menu might still be the best way to go. I love my calligrapher menu but I need to let go of that attachment and choose something else. At this point the flash needs tweaking anyhow.. I see the experiences links link is still there. I appreciate the work you did of making flash, but I cannot ignore my gut. I found a good page on standard fonts for win & mac: http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html I like Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua and Georgia better than times new roman, and they seem to be quite standard. Please change the CSS to have it as the default font for the pages. I like a larger than average size so people can sit back to read the lessons. Which of the fonts on that web page do you think would be a good replacement for calligrapher? On some of my other sites, like www.domin8rex.com I went with arial, all caps. I really don't like sans-serif fonts but it was the best choice for that page. Could you make a test menu with several types of fonts and put it in sample page so I can see how the fonts look with the overall design? At the moment I am leaning toward impact or comic sans ms... and to simplify things, might be a good idea to make the title font the same as the links menu. Too many fonts looks cluttered. I am thinking to change the "other links" to "lesson links" and deleting the silly little pop up table box, just have the pop up directly from the nav menu. What do you think? Maybe it is good to have the box to let people know there is a pop-up in case they have anti-popup software running. Just not sure we have to tell them on every lesson! Sorry to make so many changes, this late in the game... > > I am wondering, did you bold the font for flash? The flash letters look > > heftier than the top 3 links. Compare Home to the Home in homework. I > > had > > calligrapher set at 21 points. > >It is 21point. It's just different type of graphic (vector base) makes >slight difference when it's rendered. ah. > > I guess we need to add the purple on-click back to the top 3 to make > > them match? > >Sure. I haven't tweek the pre-load file yet. >I will upload all the lessons with flash navigation when it's done. You mean when all the lessons are done? I don't want to use the flash on the CD, and SSI won't work on a CD. > > More lessons are done, they are indicated by being labeled thus in the > > word folder, like 02matgodDONE.html (That lesson has changed since it > > was > > originally added to the form) > >Cool. So, "filenameDONE.doc" is the ready for copy&paste? Yes they are! Also, I think it was 23akash? is now 23soul. I might have the lesson number wrong... Thank you! >Sachiko > > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sun Apr 30 12:33:20 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 12:33:20 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Please check in... Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060430120452.02f02300@mail.fire-serpent.com> I have so many balls in the air, with preparing for Europe that I have gotten a little out of touch with progress on the FST update. Could everybody on the list, please "check in" and let me know what task you are working on and how far along it is? If you have no task, let me know about that too! So far as I know: Sachiko is doing file uploading, transferring content to lessons and overall web stuff. Gustaf is going to be doing video editing (the DVDs are sent and should arrive in a little over a week. ) Percyval is doing general support, and will be supporting Gustaf with the video edits as he knows the videos better than anybody. Sorry percyval I have not been able to make another copy of the raw footage to send to you. Hillary has been helping with grammar edits of the lessons, and also does updates to the K-gateway but is down with wrist injury. (Get well soon!) Sandra C will be doing experiences links. How is that going? Sandra D. is archiving links pages. Kimberly is to be editing essays, but I think, at present is busy with Sweden promo. Rich did meta files and will be fixing my little PDF booklet. Ted? You still here? Tommy? Is that everybody? Sorry if I missed anyone, my brain is a little frazzled! New tasks up for grabs: I want to get the preview pages up, ASAP. Could somebody take a look at them fscnew/current and make notes on what still needs to be done? I know the main index page is not finished yet, and there needs to be info on ikobo for asia and interac email payment for Canada on the thanks3 payment page. Could be that some pages that are still not done will just get deleted from the link menu and full speed ahead damn the torpedoes! The realplayer info page may get deleted or changed, if we decide to go with a different format for the lesson vids. I need a new page made for K-teacher, for people to sign up for the Europe workshops. It can be based on the present www.kundalini-teacher.com/tantra.html page but with a signup form and payment options. I am thinking to perhaps have links and separate signup forms for each workshop, so that a copy can be directed to each host as well as to me. It will be called workshop.html. The CGI for the webform is called bnbform8.cgi, I think... druid altered the basic code to hide email addresses from spammers, so each form will need a different version of bnbform8 to go to different people. Thanks, everybody! From gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com Sun Apr 30 13:28:41 2006 From: gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com (Gustaf Grefberg) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:28:41 +0200 Subject: [Helpers] Please check in... References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060430120452.02f02300@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0E2157@mail.starbreeze.com> > Gustaf is going to be doing video editing (the DVDs are sent and should >arrive in a little over a week. ) Aside to video editing, I'm helping prepare for the workshop in Sweden in June. Some news, I announced it to the yoga teacher's group and got a lot of support from people who will help spread fliers at yoga centers, new age stores and other place. Additionally, one of the ladies know a lot of people who have had difficult k-risings and will gladely help spread information to them after I told her about you and what you do. She had never heard about the Spiritual Emergence network, but was absolutely thrilled with it and said that Sweden needs something like it as well. What's left as far as I know is to find papers to put ads in and to contact and see if they want to interview you and stuff like that. I'll do some investigating! Also I have asked about a cameraman. There might be someone at Starbreeze (where I work) who would be able to do it. He's not sure about his schedule yet though. I've also gotten price info on professional camera men, and the going rate is around 10k SEKfor a full weekend coverage, that's around 1000 Eur. If I got a friend to take care of it it would no doubt be a lot cheaper. I will look at all the options so you can pick what suits you best. I've also checked about the rent/price for us to use the yoga centre. He made a proposal and said you can use it with no cost at all (including for individual sessions) if he can attend the workshop in turn. If not I'm sure he'd give you a very fair rate. There are several printshops right in the are where I work, so I can get things copied up real quick. I believe that's all for now! Namaste Gustaf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ladyofquills at spray.se Sun Apr 30 13:44:10 2006 From: ladyofquills at spray.se (Kimberly) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:44:10 +0200 Subject: [Helpers] Please check in... In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060430120452.02f02300@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <002501c66c96$d568fec0$6501a8c0@quilly> Ummm.. I think maybe I misunderstood something. I was under the impression from our past emails that you thought the lessons were pretty much done and rather than have me go through all of them, you were going to send me certain ones that you thought should be tweaked as far as the wording and such. I'd be happy to go through each lesson thoroughly though, if you'd like. That's what I had intended to do from the beginning anyway. Just let me know! Blessings, Kimberly > -----Original Message----- > From: Helpers-bounces at fire-serpent.org [mailto:Helpers-bounces at fire- > serpent.org] On Behalf Of Mystress Angelique Serpent > Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 9:33 PM > To: Helpers at fire-serpent.org > Subject: [Helpers] Please check in... > > > I have so many balls in the air, with preparing for Europe that I have > gotten a little out of touch with progress on the FST update. > > Could everybody on the list, please "check in" and let me know what > task > you are working on and how far along it is? If you have no task, let me > know about that too! > > So far as I know: > > Sachiko is doing file uploading, transferring content to lessons and > overall web stuff. > > Gustaf is going to be doing video editing (the DVDs are sent and should > arrive in a little over a week. ) > > Percyval is doing general support, and will be supporting Gustaf with > the video edits as he knows the videos better than anybody. Sorry percyval > I have not been able to make another copy of the raw footage to send to > you. > > Hillary has been helping with grammar edits of the lessons, and also > does updates to the K-gateway but is down with wrist injury. (Get well > soon!) > > Sandra C will be doing experiences links. How is that going? > > Sandra D. is archiving links pages. > > Kimberly is to be editing essays, but I think, at present is busy with > Sweden promo. > > Rich did meta files and will be fixing my little PDF booklet. > > Ted? You still here? Tommy? Is that everybody? Sorry if I missed > anyone, my brain is a little frazzled! > > New tasks up for grabs: > > I want to get the preview pages up, ASAP. Could somebody take a look at > them fscnew/current and make notes on what still needs to be done? I know > the main index page is not finished yet, and there needs to be info on > ikobo for asia and interac email payment for Canada on the thanks3 payment > page. > > Could be that some pages that are still not done will just get deleted > from the link menu and full speed ahead damn the torpedoes! The realplayer > info page may get deleted or changed, if we decide to go with a different > format for the lesson vids. > > I need a new page made for K-teacher, for people to sign up for the > Europe workshops. It can be based on the present > www.kundalini-teacher.com/tantra.html page but with a signup form and > payment options. I am thinking to perhaps have links and separate signup > forms for each workshop, so that a copy can be directed to each host as > well as to me. It will be called workshop.html. The CGI for the webform is > called bnbform8.cgi, I think... druid altered the basic code to hide email > addresses from spammers, so each form will need a different version of > bnbform8 to go to different people. > > > Thanks, everybody! > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Helpers mailing list > Helpers at fire-serpent.org > http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Sun Apr 30 14:18:16 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:18:16 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] flash navigation menu References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060423184050.0515d3b0@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060423202217.036a11c0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <002b01c66c9b$994674e0$0100a8c0@sachikojn> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" To: "FST Helpers list." Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [Helpers] flash navigation menu >>>My browser (IE) internet setting is medium not low, but it askes me to >>click the area to activate the flash. > > Ok.. I don't like making people do stuff like that... All you have to do is to one extra click, on the flash area, but if you don't want to use flash that's fine. > I keep getting cold feet/ negative gut reaction to the flash menus. I > think your original idea to switch over to stylesheet menu might still be > the best way to go. I love my calligrapher menu but I need to let go of > that attachment and choose something else. > > At this point the flash needs tweaking anyhow.. I see the experiences > links link is still there. I appreciate the work you did of making > flash, but I cannot ignore my gut. No Flash menu it is. You mean reguler typed text link with font-style set in Stylesheet? > I am thinking to change the "other links" to "lesson links" and > deleting > the silly little pop up table box, just have the pop up directly from the > nav menu. What do you think? Maybe it is good to have the box to let > people > know there is a pop-up in case they have anti-popup software running. > Just not sure we have to tell them on every lesson! > > Sorry to make so many changes, this late in the game... Change is perfectly fine. I just need to know what to do. >> > I guess we need to add the purple on-click back to the top 3 to make >> > them match? >> >>Sure. I haven't tweek the pre-load file yet. >>I will upload all the lessons with flash navigation when it's done. > > You mean when all the lessons are done? I don't want to use the flash > on the CD, and SSI won't work on a CD. I meant when all the files are altered and ready to be replaced. I am aware that SSI doesn't work off server, but I wasn't aware that you didn't want to use Flash for CD. But then again, I you don't want to use flash menu, right? I've been little busy with my own work lately. I have my own web site update that I'm planing to finish sometime around the end of June. Also I have some jewelry to make for my handmade jewelry business during same time. Which means that I have less time for FST stuff for a while, so in order to use my time more efficiently I need to have clear vision of what I have to do. Sachiko From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Sun Apr 30 15:23:59 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:23:59 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Essey article Message-ID: <005901c66ca4$c7f16440$0100a8c0@sachikojn> I'm working on 03matbod.html and notice that in some paragraph has indente some not. Am I upposed to paste exactly what I see in word document? or all paragraph should have indentation as it is set in CSS? for example.... (indented) Returning to the Goddess, and merging with that Infinite Self is the final result of the Kundalini process. Surrender is letting go of the small self, and turning your life path over to the love and wisdom of the part of you that is Infinite. (not indented) In Wiccan theology, the Goddess is considered primary. She is eternal, immortal, endlessly creative, always giving birth. The God is Mortal, dying with the cut grain, with the fading seasons to be reborn again and again thru the Goddess. (not indented) Matrifocal religions tend to be permissive, using the power of sacred sexual energy for magical purposes: making the crops grow better by sharing sexual energy on a full moon in the fields. Matrifocal spiritual paths tend to focus on cherishing of the body as a sacred vessel, on life itself, as a gift of Goddess. (indented) Matriarchy says: 'Let us follow the instincts She gave us, in Her wisdom, and worship Her with acts of Love and Pleasure.' This is a much more humanist attitude than "God is up there in heaven disapproving of the physical mud people having sex": The programming of puritan Christian western culture. Sachiko From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sun Apr 30 15:34:31 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:34:31 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Essey article In-Reply-To: <005901c66ca4$c7f16440$0100a8c0@sachikojn> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060430153411.03996c50@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 03:23 PM 30/04/2006, you wrote: >I'm working on 03matbod.html and notice that in some paragraph has indente >some not. Am I upposed to paste exactly what I see in word document? or all >paragraph should have indentation as it is set in CSS? Yes, indent them all. Thanks. >for example.... > >(indented) > Returning to the Goddess, and merging with that Infinite Self is the >final result of the Kundalini process. Surrender is letting go of the small >self, and turning your life path over to the love and wisdom of the part of >you that is Infinite. > >(not indented) >In Wiccan theology, the Goddess is considered primary. She is eternal, >immortal, endlessly creative, always giving birth. The God is Mortal, dying >with the cut grain, with the fading seasons to be reborn again and again >thru the Goddess. > >(not indented) >Matrifocal religions tend to be permissive, using the power of sacred >sexual energy for magical purposes: making the crops grow better by sharing >sexual energy on a full moon in the fields. Matrifocal spiritual paths tend >to focus on cherishing of the body as a sacred vessel, on life itself, as a >gift of Goddess. > >(indented) > Matriarchy says: 'Let us follow the instincts She gave us, in Her wisdom, >and worship Her with acts of Love and Pleasure.' This is a much more >humanist attitude than "God is up there in heaven disapproving of the >physical mud people having sex": The programming of puritan Christian >western culture. > > >Sachiko > > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sun Apr 30 16:10:16 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:10:16 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Please check in... In-Reply-To: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0E2157@mail.starbreeze.com > References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060430120452.02f02300@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060430160654.0375a2b0@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 01:28 PM 30/04/2006, you wrote: >Content-class: urn:content-classes:message >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C66C94.AB965234" > > > Gustaf is going to be doing video editing (the DVDs are sent and should > >arrive in a little over a week. ) > >Aside to video editing, I'm helping prepare for the workshop in Sweden in >June. yay! >Some news, I announced it to the yoga teacher's group and got a lot of support >from people who will help spread fliers at yoga centers, new age stores and >other place. Additionally, one of the ladies know a lot of people who have had >difficult k-risings and will gladely help spread information to them after I >told her about you and what you do. She had never heard about the Spiritual >Emergence network, but was absolutely thrilled with it and said that Sweden >needs something like it as well. Great! >What's left as far as I know is to find papers to put ads in and to contact >and see if they want to interview you and stuff like that. I'll do some >investigating! > >Also I have asked about a cameraman. There might be someone at Starbreeze >(where I work) who would be able to do it. He's not sure about his schedule >yet though. I've also gotten price info on professional camera men, and the >going rate is around 10k SEKfor a full weekend coverage, that's around >1000 Eur. >If I got a friend to take care of it it would no doubt be a lot cheaper. I >will >look at all the options so you can pick what suits you best. Turns out druid bought a camera and I will be able to bring it along... but it does not have a separate microphone outlet. Some kind of PA system may be necessary. I am hoping we can visit the location and test things beforehand. If you have a friend who is a really good cameraman he is welcome to attend for free in exchange for filming. >I've also checked about the rent/price for us to use the yoga centre. >He made a proposal and said you can use it with no cost at all (including for >individual sessions) if he can attend the workshop in turn. If not I'm >sure he'd >give you a very fair rate. He is welcome to attend. I'm looking forward to meeting him. >There are several printshops right in the are where I work, so I can get >things >copied up real quick. yay! >I believe that's all for now! > >Namaste >Gustaf > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sun Apr 30 16:18:51 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:18:51 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] Please check in... In-Reply-To: <002501c66c96$d568fec0$6501a8c0@quilly> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060430120452.02f02300@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060430161037.0399c8d8@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 01:44 PM 30/04/2006, you wrote: >Ummm.. I think maybe I misunderstood something. I was under the >impression from our past emails that you thought the lessons were pretty >much done and rather than have me go through all of them, you were going >to send me certain ones that you thought should be tweaked as far as the >wording and such. Ah, yes you are correct. Thanks for checking in. I would like you to go through my sites and/or K-list email archives and see if you can find a good essay I can add/edit for the "waking the serpents" lesson because the present essay has become the homework assignment. 17waking.html >I'd be happy to go through each lesson thoroughly >though, if you'd like. That's what I had intended to do from the >beginning anyway. Let me sleep on it. The first 16 lessons I am considering to be done, I am reluctant to re-approach them over again. I need a homework assignment for 39sexgen, I am feeling it should be basic ESO lessons but I am not feeling patient to write it up. The lesson is below, please look at it and give me suggestions. I have also attached it, in case your email converts to html. Thanks for checking in! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------     Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Lady Nancy Astor

"The woman cries before the wedding and the man after."

Polish Proverb.

"From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn."

Greek Proverb.

" The people I'm furious with are the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. It's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket."

Anita Loos.

"Whether women are better than men I cannot say -- but I can say they are certainly no worse."

Golda Meir.

The crow that mimics a cormorant is drowned.

Japanese Proverb.

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Faith Whittlesey

"No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted."

Elsa Einstein.

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

Alphonse de Lamartine

It's not the men in my life that counts-- it's the life in my men.

Mae West.

This essay is really about sexual energy and gender, but I want to illustrate it with notes about biology. Biology shows that the prehistoric human sexual patterns, must have taken the form of a gang bang, like for a cat in heat. The evidence for this is written in our bodies, in how we are shaped, in our drives, and even in the subtle behaviours of sperm and egg. For one thing, analysis of male sperm shows variety. There are rangers, hunters, and lovers. A man makes one kind of sperm that is called "killer sperm" because its job is to find and kill sperm from other men. Further, the numbers of killer sperm are multiplied if he woman he is with, is another man's wife. Nature winks at unfaithful lovers, because variety promotes evolution. The texture of frothy semen when it is first released, forms what is called a "soft plug." It is meant to plug a woman's cervix so sperm from other men cannot enter. With some insects and animals, the semen makes a hard plug, so genetic competition cannot enter at all. The life span of the soft plug is about five minutes, before it turns to liquid and flows out the yoni. The shape of the male penis is a suction pump. While this helps the spread of feminine lubricant, it also sucks other men's semen away, breaks up the soft plug to give the lover of the moment a better chance at fertilizing the egg. Our biology suggests that monogamy is not part of natural human behaviour. Quite literally, we are not built for that. Nature gives a procreative advantage to men who are good lovers, and to responsive women. Hindu tradition always held that conception is more likely if the woman has an orgasm. Science has proven it, with micro cameras to show a woman's cervix dipping into the pool of semen in her yoni and sucking it up, when she has an orgasm. What is the purpose of female multi-orgasmic ability, if a woman only has one lover? The biological, procreative purpose. It was always thought that the human ovum plays an entirely passive role in conception, but we now know that eggs are selective. The one sperm that gets in, is the chosen one which has been allowed in. The egg decides who the winner will be. As all sperm from a single lover have the same DNA, what does the egg use as basis for the selection? How did this selective process evolve? Were eggs once, normally offered the sperm from several men, to choose from? Look at the pacing of men and women's sexual desires? Most men can be erect and physically ready for sex in minutes, if not seconds. Most women, take much longer, and their desire lasts longer, a sexually awakened woman is not sated with a single orgasm. Social scientists believe the prehistoric human sexual behaviour was much like that of our closest primate relative: the bonobo monkey. Bonobo monkeys have sex to say hello, and good bye, how are you, and that looks like a nice banana. They have all kinds of sex. Oral sex, gay sex, group sex, daisy chains, and every combination you can imagine plus a few you might not think of. Put a bunch of bananas in front of chimpanzees, they will fight over them, establish the pecking order, then eat. Put the bananas in front of bonobo monkeys, they will have a massive orgy, then eat.

Guest essay by Jasper.

As you may have understand already is the fact that Kundalini has a transforming affect on your entire Being. It is the force that brings out a more complete aspect of you, more unlimited. It moves you to every polarity you can imagine and let you dissolve it.

If there is one polarity which is very obvious it is the male and female polarity, and Kundalini is even going to dissolve this polarity within you.

Men and women experience sexuality differently. Men tend to make love from their penis (2nd chakra) and women tend to do it from their heart (4th chakra).

Men tend to ejaculate, pushing their sexual energy outwards. Women can rise higher on their orgasm because the sexual energy gets build up internally with each orgasm.

It's a bit like the yin/yang polarity used in Chinese philosophy. The male energy is described as an active/outward/aggressive energy. The female energy is described as an passive (as in Being)/inward/cultivating energy.

The best way to get a feel for this is to just feel how a sperm is and how a womb is. Sperm moves towards the womb in an almost frantic way, the little light that brings Life, it moves, competing with it's fellow seed till it reaches the womb, connects with it and vanishes into the greater whole. The womb just Is. It is receptive, has the enormous power of sustaining and nourishing Life.

From birth on, you are naturally connected with both the female and the male energy and most of the time one is more dominant is strongly correlated your body gender. So it is not that strange that this also appears in your sexual energy is used. Aggressive/conquering or maybe 'waiting eternally for mister/miss right'

This difference maybe confusing or even frustrating when expectations are created upon it. Then the polarities get into a knot, which has to be untied first in order to see the two polarities. Then one can identify with both of them, love each other till they dissolve. Here is the recipe for enlightenment ;)

This is where the Divine Beloved comes in. S/He can help you become more in touch with your opposite sexual energy, get to know hir and make love to hir.
  Respect and honour your own sexuality and the one from your Divine Beloved.
  And if you wish you can apply this in the physical world with a sexual partner. Honour the sexual energy in him or her and see in him/her the Divine Beloved. Be Shiva and Shakti making love; the Tao of Tantra.
  Till finally you become androgynous; a balanced female/male Being. Homework

I want to talk about sexual energy and gender. Men and women are very different with their sexual energy. They're different with their orientation to it. They're different with how often it comes up for them. They're different with their drives and their needs. They're different in so many ways. But for the moment, I really just want to talk about the energy itself. But first of all, by sexual energy I'm really referring to "Shakti". I'm referring to that Kundalini energy that's waiting in the Root Chakra. I'm referring to how that moves up and expresses in your life.
  The spiritual energy that is the sacred sexual energy that creation comes from. Whether it's the creation of another human being, or an artistic creation, or a batch of cookies, there is still some energy that goes into creation.

Now, women have about ten times more spiritual energy than men do. This just is. For our purposes this has a lot of different effects.

What it means is that in a situation of patriarchy, women have had to make themselves really small. They've had to diminish their pride in their gender. They've had to diminish the power of women's blood even, to become small enough not to be threatening to patriarchal men who were trying to do this "dominion of nature" stuff. Alright?
  So patriarchy makes women smaller, because they have to be smaller not to be threatening to men who only have ten percent as much energy as they do. It really doesn't work, in that way.

As far as sexuality goes, there is a lot of Tantra Sex that suggests that men should not ejaculate. The idea of this is that because man's sexual/spiritual energy is so much more limited, they deplete themselves a lot if they are actually aiming energy outward instead of focusing on keeping their energy in and having it move up the spine to promote their own evolution.
  Now I'm not in too much disagreement with this. I do promote men learning to have orgasms without ejaculating, and this is quite possible. In this course, there is a book that I recommend that will teach you how to do that possibly better than I can, and that is called, "The ESO Program".

Now women are exactly the opposite of this, because the more orgasms a woman has, the more sensual and the more sexual energy that she gets. So women don't have to hold back their orgasms or hold back their energy in that way at all. Instead, it fuels them to learn to become multiply orgasmic or to even learn to have extended orgasms.

Now how this works in the couple's dynamic is very interesting, because the female has so much more of this spiritual energy. You know there's the expression, "the power behind the throne." and that really talks sometimes about how a man will become much more successful if he's got the power of the greater female energy behind him. Women can use their spiritual energy to bathe men in, and when they do that, men start to glow.

You know, you've seen sometimes men who just have no romance in their life, they kind of look like pound puppies sometimes, because they are not being fed that essential feminine energy. Now there may be some gay couples who are taking this course, and I'm not excluding you with this. But I'm speaking here in general terms for the genders, and how energy works in that dynamic.

Now on the other hand, if a man directs his sexual energy toward a woman (because women have so much more of this Goddess-power), what he puts out comes back multiplied. So a male in a state of surrender, devoting his energy to a female, is going to end up really empowered a lot more than a guy who's trying to be in charge, or than a man who is alone. The more of his sexual energy he can dedicate to the Goddess within his female partner, the taller he's going to stand, and the better he's going to feel about himself, and the more loved and cherished and valuable he's going to feel on an inner level of a sense of self confidence and self worth.

Now, as this relates in Tantra, once you get the empathy happening and the couple is truly unified, the man very quickly discovers that her orgasms feel a lot better than his do, and she can have more of them. So this means that when you have the man focusing on giving the woman pleasure, then he has a much better sexual experience. Not only because he's getting what he puts out comes back multiplied, but he is actually getting a Tantric experience of feeling his partner's orgasms without feeling the depleting limited effect of his own orgasms. So it just keeps getting better and better and better. It's a very powerful effect, and it's very very beautiful.

So there's a lot of different dynamics like this. If you're a single male, then I suggest that you learn to have orgasms without ejaculating, because humans really do have two ways to evolve. One way is procreation: putting the energy outward, making babies, generations changing, new generations growing, and that's how most of nature does it. But Kundalini gives you another option. Kundalini awakened people procreate by inspiration, by awakening other people, and when you re-direct that sexual energy up and inside of you, then it goes to work at the evolving the individual.

Evolving you to fulfill more of your inherent Divine potential to awaken new codons of your DNA, to expand the dark sides of your brain, to awaken your intuition so that you can be all you can be.

So it's important for both genders, think of your sexual pleasure as belonging to the Goddess. Give it to Her; What you put out comes back multiplied.

If you're a solo male, then direct your sexual energy towards the Earth. Think of it as fertilizer to make the flowers grow, and also try to redirect it up into your head. Goddess below, Goddess above, however you want to think of it... but stop directing the sexual energy towards different forms of pornography. You know, fantasizing about the centerfolds or any of that sort of thing. Let it become much more internal. Let it become a love relationship with your Inner Divine Beloved, and surrender your sexual pleasure to Her as an act of worship. For women it is the same, surrender your pleasure and your body to the Divine Beloved within you.

Now, in a state of Tantra, each of us is worshiping the Divine in the other, and celebrating it in ourselves. So that means the Divine energy just keeps going in an upward spiral, and keeps getting stronger and clearer, and more beautiful, and it evolves both of us.

The genders are different. The energy of the genders are different, not just in vibration, but most especially in quantity. Women have ten times as much sexual energy/spiritual energy as men do because we need it. We are the carriers that make whole other human beings inside of our own bodies... and in order to be able to do that, and then to nurture the children once they're grown, we have to have a much bigger fount of this energy than men do.

I've said before that women are nature. Women are automatically much more in tune with the phases of moon. Our bodies change with the tides, with the feminine intuition. Part of that is simply having ten times more sexual energy than men do.

It's a little bit harder for men to open up that intuition, and to get in touch with that aspect of themselves. Not only because there is less energy, but also, of course, because of the divided brain and some of the other different biological effects.
  So if you're a male, send your sexual energy to Goddess within you, or devote it in service to the woman in your life (or to the feminine qualities of the man in your life, if that's how your relationship goes).

If you're a woman, devote your sexual energy to the Divine Beloved inside of yourself. Enjoy your sexual energy. Don't be afraid of having as many orgasms as you possibly can, and you'll also find that if you interrupt your own orgasms, that they get better.

Women have a three stage orgasm, which means it comes up, and then there's this tension/plateau period (where to the man quite often seems it like nothing is happening), but it's a gathering energy before the sensual release... and if you actually interrupt your orgasms before they go over the top and begin to spill, stop and breathe for a moment. What you'll find is that when they resume, they go back into climbing again. So instead of up -> over -> down, what happens is you get into this stair-step effect of increasing/plateauing, increasing/plateauing, increasing/plateauing, and eventually what will happen is that it's almost like the switch gets broken. When it finally hits the peak of how much pleasure you can stand, and you begin to go on the downward swing, it doesn't stop. It almost gets into a free-flying space where time slows down. Everything becomes very still, very languid, and it hardly takes any stimulation at all to just keep these waves of orgasmic bliss flowing on and on and on.

Men can learn to do this as well. But it's a little easier for women to learn it because we don't spill and have to start over and wait to recover. So in some ways it's a lot easier for the woman to learn it, and the man to promote it. Then with the process of Kundalini, with the process of Tantric empathy, your male Beloved will get to share the pleasure that you feel anyway, and both of you will be on a rocket ship of bliss to a higher dimension. It's very beautiful; it's very worth doing. So, sexual energy and genders, we're different. Women definitely have the advantage. We don't have to worry about energy depletion because we've got so much. Men have to be a little more careful about redirecting it.

Re-directing it to the Goddess. < >Just let me know! > >Blessings, >Kimberly > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Helpers-bounces at fire-serpent.org [mailto:Helpers-bounces at fire- > > serpent.org] On Behalf Of Mystress Angelique Serpent > > Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 9:33 PM > > To: Helpers at fire-serpent.org > > Subject: [Helpers] Please check in... > > > > > > I have so many balls in the air, with preparing for Europe that I >have > > gotten a little out of touch with progress on the FST update. > > > > Could everybody on the list, please "check in" and let me know what > > task > > you are working on and how far along it is? If you have no task, let >me > > know about that too! > > > > So far as I know: > > > > Sachiko is doing file uploading, transferring content to lessons >and > > overall web stuff. > > > > Gustaf is going to be doing video editing (the DVDs are sent and >should > > arrive in a little over a week. ) > > > > Percyval is doing general support, and will be supporting Gustaf >with > > the video edits as he knows the videos better than anybody. Sorry >percyval > > I have not been able to make another copy of the raw footage to send >to > > you. > > > > Hillary has been helping with grammar edits of the lessons, and >also > > does updates to the K-gateway but is down with wrist injury. (Get well > > soon!) > > > > Sandra C will be doing experiences links. How is that going? > > > > Sandra D. is archiving links pages. > > > > Kimberly is to be editing essays, but I think, at present is busy >with > > Sweden promo. > > > > Rich did meta files and will be fixing my little PDF booklet. > > > > Ted? You still here? Tommy? Is that everybody? Sorry if I missed > > anyone, my brain is a little frazzled! > > > > New tasks up for grabs: > > > > I want to get the preview pages up, ASAP. Could somebody take a look >at > > them fscnew/current and make notes on what still needs to be done? I >know > > the main index page is not finished yet, and there needs to be info on > > ikobo for asia and interac email payment for Canada on the thanks3 >payment > > page. > > > > Could be that some pages that are still not done will just get >deleted > > from the link menu and full speed ahead damn the torpedoes! The >realplayer > > info page may get deleted or changed, if we decide to go with a >different > > format for the lesson vids. > > > > I need a new page made for K-teacher, for people to sign up for the > > Europe workshops. It can be based on the present > > www.kundalini-teacher.com/tantra.html page but with a signup form and > > payment options. I am thinking to perhaps have links and separate >signup > > forms for each workshop, so that a copy can be directed to each host >as > > well as to me. It will be called workshop.html. The CGI for the >webform is > > called bnbform8.cgi, I think... druid altered the basic code to hide >email > > addresses from spammers, so each form will need a different version of > > bnbform8 to go to different people. > > > > > > Thanks, everybody! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Helpers mailing list > > Helpers at fire-serpent.org > > http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org -------------- next part --------------     Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Lady Nancy Astor

"The woman cries before the wedding and the man after."

Polish Proverb.

"From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn."

Greek Proverb.

" The people I'm furious with are the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. It's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket."

Anita Loos.

"Whether women are better than men I cannot say -- but I can say they are certainly no worse."

Golda Meir.

The crow that mimics a cormorant is drowned.

Japanese Proverb.

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Faith Whittlesey

"No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted."

Elsa Einstein.

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

Alphonse de Lamartine

It's not the men in my life that counts-- it's the life in my men.

Mae West.

This essay is really about sexual energy and gender, but I want to illustrate it with notes about biology. Biology shows that the prehistoric human sexual patterns, must have taken the form of a gang bang, like for a cat in heat. The evidence for this is written in our bodies, in how we are shaped, in our drives, and even in the subtle behaviours of sperm and egg. For one thing, analysis of male sperm shows variety. There are rangers, hunters, and lovers. A man makes one kind of sperm that is called "killer sperm" because its job is to find and kill sperm from other men. Further, the numbers of killer sperm are multiplied if he woman he is with, is another man's wife. Nature winks at unfaithful lovers, because variety promotes evolution. The texture of frothy semen when it is first released, forms what is called a "soft plug." It is meant to plug a woman's cervix so sperm from other men cannot enter. With some insects and animals, the semen makes a hard plug, so genetic competition cannot enter at all. The life span of the soft plug is about five minutes, before it turns to liquid and flows out the yoni. The shape of the male penis is a suction pump. While this helps the spread of feminine lubricant, it also sucks other men's semen away, breaks up the soft plug to give the lover of the moment a better chance at fertilizing the egg. Our biology suggests that monogamy is not part of natural human behaviour. Quite literally, we are not built for that. Nature gives a procreative advantage to men who are good lovers, and to responsive women. Hindu tradition always held that conception is more likely if the woman has an orgasm. Science has proven it, with micro cameras to show a woman's cervix dipping into the pool of semen in her yoni and sucking it up, when she has an orgasm. What is the purpose of female multi-orgasmic ability, if a woman only has one lover? The biological, procreative purpose. It was always thought that the human ovum plays an entirely passive role in conception, but we now know that eggs are selective. The one sperm that gets in, is the chosen one which has been allowed in. The egg decides who the winner will be. As all sperm from a single lover have the same DNA, what does the egg use as basis for the selection? How did this selective process evolve? Were eggs once, normally offered the sperm from several men, to choose from? Look at the pacing of men and women's sexual desires? Most men can be erect and physically ready for sex in minutes, if not seconds. Most women, take much longer, and their desire lasts longer, a sexually awakened woman is not sated with a single orgasm. Social scientists believe the prehistoric human sexual behaviour was much like that of our closest primate relative: the bonobo monkey. Bonobo monkeys have sex to say hello, and good bye, how are you, and that looks like a nice banana. They have all kinds of sex. Oral sex, gay sex, group sex, daisy chains, and every combination you can imagine plus a few you might not think of. Put a bunch of bananas in front of chimpanzees, they will fight over them, establish the pecking order, then eat. Put the bananas in front of bonobo monkeys, they will have a massive orgy, then eat.

Guest essay by Jasper.

As you may have understand already is the fact that Kundalini has a transforming affect on your entire Being. It is the force that brings out a more complete aspect of you, more unlimited. It moves you to every polarity you can imagine and let you dissolve it.

If there is one polarity which is very obvious it is the male and female polarity, and Kundalini is even going to dissolve this polarity within you.

Men and women experience sexuality differently. Men tend to make love from their penis (2nd chakra) and women tend to do it from their heart (4th chakra).

Men tend to ejaculate, pushing their sexual energy outwards. Women can rise higher on their orgasm because the sexual energy gets build up internally with each orgasm.

It's a bit like the yin/yang polarity used in Chinese philosophy. The male energy is described as an active/outward/aggressive energy. The female energy is described as an passive (as in Being)/inward/cultivating energy.

The best way to get a feel for this is to just feel how a sperm is and how a womb is. Sperm moves towards the womb in an almost frantic way, the little light that brings Life, it moves, competing with it's fellow seed till it reaches the womb, connects with it and vanishes into the greater whole. The womb just Is. It is receptive, has the enormous power of sustaining and nourishing Life.

>From birth on, you are naturally connected with both the female and the male energy and most of the time one is more dominant is strongly correlated your body gender. So it is not that strange that this also appears in your sexual energy is used. Aggressive/conquering or maybe 'waiting eternally for mister/miss right'

This difference maybe confusing or even frustrating when expectations are created upon it. Then the polarities get into a knot, which has to be untied first in order to see the two polarities. Then one can identify with both of them, love each other till they dissolve. Here is the recipe for enlightenment ;)

This is where the Divine Beloved comes in. S/He can help you become more in touch with your opposite sexual energy, get to know hir and make love to hir.
  Respect and honour your own sexuality and the one from your Divine Beloved.
  And if you wish you can apply this in the physical world with a sexual partner. Honour the sexual energy in him or her and see in him/her the Divine Beloved. Be Shiva and Shakti making love; the Tao of Tantra.
  Till finally you become androgynous; a balanced female/male Being. Homework

I want to talk about sexual energy and gender. Men and women are very different with their sexual energy. They're different with their orientation to it. They're different with how often it comes up for them. They're different with their drives and their needs. They're different in so many ways. But for the moment, I really just want to talk about the energy itself. But first of all, by sexual energy I'm really referring to "Shakti". I'm referring to that Kundalini energy that's waiting in the Root Chakra. I'm referring to how that moves up and expresses in your life.
  The spiritual energy that is the sacred sexual energy that creation comes from. Whether it's the creation of another human being, or an artistic creation, or a batch of cookies, there is still some energy that goes into creation.

Now, women have about ten times more spiritual energy than men do. This just is. For our purposes this has a lot of different effects.

What it means is that in a situation of patriarchy, women have had to make themselves really small. They've had to diminish their pride in their gender. They've had to diminish the power of women's blood even, to become small enough not to be threatening to patriarchal men who were trying to do this "dominion of nature" stuff. Alright?
  So patriarchy makes women smaller, because they have to be smaller not to be threatening to men who only have ten percent as much energy as they do. It really doesn't work, in that way.

As far as sexuality goes, there is a lot of Tantra Sex that suggests that men should not ejaculate. The idea of this is that because man's sexual/spiritual energy is so much more limited, they deplete themselves a lot if they are actually aiming energy outward instead of focusing on keeping their energy in and having it move up the spine to promote their own evolution.
  Now I'm not in too much disagreement with this. I do promote men learning to have orgasms without ejaculating, and this is quite possible. In this course, there is a book that I recommend that will teach you how to do that possibly better than I can, and that is called, "The ESO Program".

Now women are exactly the opposite of this, because the more orgasms a woman has, the more sensual and the more sexual energy that she gets. So women don't have to hold back their orgasms or hold back their energy in that way at all. Instead, it fuels them to learn to become multiply orgasmic or to even learn to have extended orgasms.

Now how this works in the couple's dynamic is very interesting, because the female has so much more of this spiritual energy. You know there's the expression, "the power behind the throne." and that really talks sometimes about how a man will become much more successful if he's got the power of the greater female energy behind him. Women can use their spiritual energy to bathe men in, and when they do that, men start to glow.

You know, you've seen sometimes men who just have no romance in their life, they kind of look like pound puppies sometimes, because they are not being fed that essential feminine energy. Now there may be some gay couples who are taking this course, and I'm not excluding you with this. But I'm speaking here in general terms for the genders, and how energy works in that dynamic.

Now on the other hand, if a man directs his sexual energy toward a woman (because women have so much more of this Goddess-power), what he puts out comes back multiplied. So a male in a state of surrender, devoting his energy to a female, is going to end up really empowered a lot more than a guy who's trying to be in charge, or than a man who is alone. The more of his sexual energy he can dedicate to the Goddess within his female partner, the taller he's going to stand, and the better he's going to feel about himself, and the more loved and cherished and valuable he's going to feel on an inner level of a sense of self confidence and self worth.

Now, as this relates in Tantra, once you get the empathy happening and the couple is truly unified, the man very quickly discovers that her orgasms feel a lot better than his do, and she can have more of them. So this means that when you have the man focusing on giving the woman pleasure, then he has a much better sexual experience. Not only because he's getting what he puts out comes back multiplied, but he is actually getting a Tantric experience of feeling his partner's orgasms without feeling the depleting limited effect of his own orgasms. So it just keeps getting better and better and better. It's a very powerful effect, and it's very very beautiful.

So there's a lot of different dynamics like this. If you're a single male, then I suggest that you learn to have orgasms without ejaculating, because humans really do have two ways to evolve. One way is procreation: putting the energy outward, making babies, generations changing, new generations growing, and that's how most of nature does it. But Kundalini gives you another option. Kundalini awakened people procreate by inspiration, by awakening other people, and when you re-direct that sexual energy up and inside of you, then it goes to work at the evolving the individual.

Evolving you to fulfill more of your inherent Divine potential to awaken new codons of your DNA, to expand the dark sides of your brain, to awaken your intuition so that you can be all you can be.

So it's important for both genders, think of your sexual pleasure as belonging to the Goddess. Give it to Her; What you put out comes back multiplied.

If you're a solo male, then direct your sexual energy towards the Earth. Think of it as fertilizer to make the flowers grow, and also try to redirect it up into your head. Goddess below, Goddess above, however you want to think of it... but stop directing the sexual energy towards different forms of pornography. You know, fantasizing about the centerfolds or any of that sort of thing. Let it become much more internal. Let it become a love relationship with your Inner Divine Beloved, and surrender your sexual pleasure to Her as an act of worship. For women it is the same, surrender your pleasure and your body to the Divine Beloved within you.

Now, in a state of Tantra, each of us is worshiping the Divine in the other, and celebrating it in ourselves. So that means the Divine energy just keeps going in an upward spiral, and keeps getting stronger and clearer, and more beautiful, and it evolves both of us.

The genders are different. The energy of the genders are different, not just in vibration, but most especially in quantity. Women have ten times as much sexual energy/spiritual energy as men do because we need it. We are the carriers that make whole other human beings inside of our own bodies... and in order to be able to do that, and then to nurture the children once they're grown, we have to have a much bigger fount of this energy than men do.

I've said before that women are nature. Women are automatically much more in tune with the phases of moon. Our bodies change with the tides, with the feminine intuition. Part of that is simply having ten times more sexual energy than men do.

It's a little bit harder for men to open up that intuition, and to get in touch with that aspect of themselves. Not only because there is less energy, but also, of course, because of the divided brain and some of the other different biological effects.
  So if you're a male, send your sexual energy to Goddess within you, or devote it in service to the woman in your life (or to the feminine qualities of the man in your life, if that's how your relationship goes).

If you're a woman, devote your sexual energy to the Divine Beloved inside of yourself. Enjoy your sexual energy. Don't be afraid of having as many orgasms as you possibly can, and you'll also find that if you interrupt your own orgasms, that they get better.

Women have a three stage orgasm, which means it comes up, and then there's this tension/plateau period (where to the man quite often seems it like nothing is happening), but it's a gathering energy before the sensual release... and if you actually interrupt your orgasms before they go over the top and begin to spill, stop and breathe for a moment. What you'll find is that when they resume, they go back into climbing again. So instead of up -> over -> down, what happens is you get into this stair-step effect of increasing/plateauing, increasing/plateauing, increasing/plateauing, and eventually what will happen is that it's almost like the switch gets broken. When it finally hits the peak of how much pleasure you can stand, and you begin to go on the downward swing, it doesn't stop. It almost gets into a free-flying space where time slows down. Everything becomes very still, very languid, and it hardly takes any stimulation at all to just keep these waves of orgasmic bliss flowing on and on and on.

Men can learn to do this as well. But it's a little easier for women to learn it because we don't spill and have to start over and wait to recover. So in some ways it's a lot easier for the woman to learn it, and the man to promote it. Then with the process of Kundalini, with the process of Tantric empathy, your male Beloved will get to share the pleasure that you feel anyway, and both of you will be on a rocket ship of bliss to a higher dimension. It's very beautiful; it's very worth doing. So, sexual energy and genders, we're different. Women definitely have the advantage. We don't have to worry about energy depletion because we've got so much. Men have to be a little more careful about redirecting it.

Re-directing it to the Goddess. < From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Sun Apr 30 17:14:03 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:14:03 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] flash navigation menu References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060423184050.0515d3b0@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060423202217.036a11c0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <003701c66cb4$27e3a020$0100a8c0@sachikojn> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" To: "FST Helpers list." Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [Helpers] flash navigation menu >I see the experiences links link is still there Is it supposed be discarded? > I found a good page on standard fonts for win & mac: > http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html Here you can see Comic Sans for menu and Palatino for title. I think Palatino fits nicely. It's similer to what we had before. Comic San is little too cute I think... # This is lesson title .title { color: #66cccc; background-color: #000000; font-family: Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Georgia, Palatino, , serif; font-size: 22px; font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; line-height:normal; text-align:center; text-valign: middle; text-transform:none; } # This is essay contents .txtblack { color : black; background-color : #009999; font-family : Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Georgia, Palatino; font-size : 19px; font-style : normal; font-weight : normal; line-height : normal; margin : 8px 10px; padding-left : 10px; padding-right : 8px; text-align : left; text-indent : 16px; word-spacing : 3px; margin-left : 8px; margin-right : 10px; margin-top : 0; padding-bottom : 0; padding-left : 10px; padding-right : 8px; text-decoration : none; } # These are the navigation menu on the left A.navmenu:link { color : #33CCCC; text-decoration : none; font-size: 21px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; } A.navmenu:visited { color : #33CCCC; text-decoration : none; font-size: 21px; } A.navmenu:hover { color : #ffffff; text-decoration : underline; font-size: 21px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; } A.navmenu:active { color : #FFFFFF; text-decoration : underline; font-size: 21px; font-family: Comic Sans MS; } From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Sun Apr 30 17:15:03 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:15:03 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] flash navigation menu References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060423184050.0515d3b0@mail.fire-serpent.com><4.3.2.7.2.20060423202217.036a11c0@mail.fire-serpent.com> <003701c66cb4$27e3a020$0100a8c0@sachikojn> Message-ID: <003c01c66cb4$4bf57b50$0100a8c0@sachikojn> Sorry. I forgot the link to the file.... http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/03matgod.html_text.html Sachiko ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sachiko M" To: "FST Helpers list." Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [Helpers] flash navigation menu > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" > To: "FST Helpers list." > Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 12:04 PM > Subject: Re: [Helpers] flash navigation menu > >>I see the experiences links link is still there > > Is it supposed be discarded? > > >> I found a good page on standard fonts for win & mac: >> http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html > > > Here you can see Comic Sans for menu and Palatino for title. > I think Palatino fits nicely. It's similer to what we had before. > > Comic San is little too cute I think... > > > # This is lesson title > > .title { > color: #66cccc; > background-color: #000000; > font-family: Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Georgia, Palatino, , serif; > font-size: 22px; > font-style:italic; > font-weight:bold; > line-height:normal; > text-align:center; > text-valign: middle; > text-transform:none; > } > > > # This is essay contents > > .txtblack { > color : black; > background-color : #009999; > font-family : Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Georgia, Palatino; > font-size : 19px; > font-style : normal; > font-weight : normal; > line-height : normal; > margin : 8px 10px; > padding-left : 10px; > padding-right : 8px; > text-align : left; > text-indent : 16px; > word-spacing : 3px; > margin-left : 8px; > margin-right : 10px; > margin-top : 0; > padding-bottom : 0; > padding-left : 10px; > padding-right : 8px; > text-decoration : none; > } > > > # These are the navigation menu on the left > A.navmenu:link { > color : #33CCCC; > text-decoration : none; > font-size: 21px; > font-family: Comic Sans MS; > } > A.navmenu:visited { > color : #33CCCC; > text-decoration : none; > font-size: 21px; > > } > A.navmenu:hover { > color : #ffffff; > text-decoration : underline; > font-size: 21px; > font-family: Comic Sans MS; > } > A.navmenu:active { > color : #FFFFFF; > text-decoration : underline; > font-size: 21px; > font-family: Comic Sans MS; > } > > > _______________________________________________ > Helpers mailing list > Helpers at fire-serpent.org > http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > > > From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sun Apr 30 19:19:16 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 19:19:16 -0700 Subject: [Helpers] flash navigation menu In-Reply-To: <003701c66cb4$27e3a020$0100a8c0@sachikojn> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060423184050.0515d3b0@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060423202217.036a11c0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060430185318.03777c30@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 05:14 PM 30/04/2006, you wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" >To: "FST Helpers list." >Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 12:04 PM >Subject: Re: [Helpers] flash navigation menu > > >I see the experiences links link is still there > >Is it supposed be discarded? Ah! I seee...I had to go back to an archived version of the design to realize that there wasn't an experiences text box originally, therefore no link to it. I want a link to the experiences text box, but the experiences links box will be deleted in favour of having experiences links at the bottom of the experiences text box. > > I found a good page on standard fonts for win & mac: > > http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html > > >Here you can see Comic Sans for menu and Palatino for title. >I think Palatino fits nicely. It's similer to what we had before. > >Comic San is little too cute I think... I don't mind its cuteness, but I am missing my calligrapher, especially seeing as it is used in the title gifs and the top of the text boxes. The menu no longer matches the "Fire Serpent Tantra Kundalini mystery school at the top and the "Essay for the week" "Quotes" etc. at the top of each text window. There is a third way to do this. Are you familiar with embedded fonts? http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/design/fonts/tutorials/tutorial2.html http://www.webmonkey.com//98/01/index3a_page3.html?tw=design http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/weft00.htm http://www.ssi-developer.net/design/embed-font.shtml I Really like palantino for the text, it looks so relaxing. :) >line-height:normal; >text-align:center; >text-valign: middle; >text-transform:none; >} > > ># This is essay contents > >.txtblack { >color : black; >background-color : #009999; >font-family : Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Georgia, Palatino; >font-size : 19px; >font-style : normal; >font-weight : normal; >line-height : normal; >margin : 8px 10px; >padding-left : 10px; >padding-right : 8px; >text-align : left; >text-indent : 16px; >word-spacing : 3px; >margin-left : 8px; >margin-right : 10px; >margin-top : 0; >padding-bottom : 0; >padding-left : 10px; >padding-right : 8px; >text-decoration : none; >} > > ># These are the navigation menu on the left >A.navmenu:link { > color : #33CCCC; > text-decoration : none; > font-size: 21px; > font-family: Comic Sans MS; >} >A.navmenu:visited { > color : #33CCCC; > text-decoration : none; > font-size: 21px; > >} >A.navmenu:hover { > color : #ffffff; > text-decoration : underline; > font-size: 21px; > font-family: Comic Sans MS; >} >A.navmenu:active { > color : #FFFFFF; > text-decoration : underline; > font-size: 21px; > font-family: Comic Sans MS; >} > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org