[Helpers] Sweden poster/flier sketch & stuff

[Gustaf Grefberg]

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. :)
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