From sandracantu79 at hotmail.com  Fri Mar 10 06:53:57 2006
From: sandracantu79 at hotmail.com (Sandra Cantu)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:53:57 -0600
Subject: [Helpers] (no subject)
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060221130103.05241de0@mail.fire-serpent.com>
Message-ID: <BAY103-F329D824B93168791996F10A7ED0@phx.gbl>

I was looking at B0b's post on the bulletin board.   and I came across this 
part:

Mystress wrote:
"I need someone who enjoys reading the tea room archives, and uses the 
search engine, to mark down the url of their favourite Tea room posts about 
a lesson or idea for a "highlights" section of each lesson, so that future 
students can be inspired reading other students past experiences."

Well, it happens that I was wondering what I could do to help, and this 
seems like a perfect task I can work on, and it also can be shared to be 
able to make it bigger.

I'm up for that.

:)


>From: Mystress Angelique Serpent <Mystress at fire-serpent.com>
>Reply-To: "FST Helpers list." <Helpers at fire-serpent.org>
>To: Helpers at fire-serpent.org
>Subject: [Helpers] Looking for inspiration.
>Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:04:53 -0800
>
>
>    The image on the right side of the new design... the goofy one of me 
>with the candle & knife... what the heck is that supposed to mean? Shine 
>the light and cut away the karma? Looks kind of scary. The image was 
>borrowed from www.domin8rex.com/vault and only intended as a placeholder 
>while I thought of something better... except I am not inspired.  Please 
>somebody think of something better? What would work and look good in that 
>corner?
>
>   I've been working on the preview pages, and trying to get organized by 
>making a new work file for them,  and I've gotten a lot done on the 
>preview, but at this point I am a little lost.
>
>   Some content is repeated, some of it needs to be moved to a different 
>page... I will upload the current work in progress, can someone look at it 
>with a fresh eye and add notes to the 'preview work list' I will post in 
>another email?
>
>  I am redoing the index page according to an ebook I got about "killer 
>mini websites" using their formula. Work in progress:
>
><a href="http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/index.html">old 
>Index.</a>
><a href="http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/1indexnew.html">New 
>index work in progress</a> I know it is ugly, still working on the content.
>Why is quote table cut off?
>
>   I did make a new form for the preview, dunno where the old one got to. I 
>suspect the new form probably has errors and needs tweaking... Sachiko can 
>you look it over?
><a href="http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/NEWFORM.html">Fire 
>Serpent Tantra-Level 1: TITLE</a>new form.
>
>   The navbar could be made into flash, it is the same on all pubic pages 
>except the sample lessons, but I think it might be best to wait until the 
>public/preview pages are closer to being finished. I feel like the preview 
>is too big, and would like to delete some pages and links. All the 
>marketing research I am doing says the public part should be short as 
>possible.. I always knew that, but I had a lot to say!! LOL!
>
>  There is a tiny but boring job to be done, and that is making 
>meta-refresh pages with the name of the old lesson files that goes to the 
>new ones, so students lesson bookmarks won't go out of date all at once 
>when the new site goes live. No hurry for that.
>
>   I was working on the new lesson 1 again last night. I am looking for 
>some quotes to put into the "experiences" section of it. Can some helpers 
>please be inspired to write a short note about your experience of the 
>course, particularly the energy of it, and how you have been pacing 
>yourself- speed of lesson progress. What would you like to share with 
>future students?
>
>   Thanks, everyone!
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>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 Mar 13 09:04:23 2006
From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:04:23 -0800
Subject: [Helpers] (no subject)
In-Reply-To: <BAY103-F329D824B93168791996F10A7ED0@phx.gbl>
References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060221130103.05241de0@mail.fire-serpent.com>
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060313090324.03033f08@mail.fire-serpent.com>

   Thank you Sandra! Let me know if you need anything.

At 06:53 AM 10/03/2006, you wrote:
>I was looking at B0b's post on the bulletin board.   and I came across this
>part:
>
>Mystress wrote:
>"I need someone who enjoys reading the tea room archives, and uses the
>search engine, to mark down the url of their favourite Tea room posts about
>a lesson or idea for a "highlights" section of each lesson, so that future
>students can be inspired reading other students past experiences."
>
>Well, it happens that I was wondering what I could do to help, and this
>seems like a perfect task I can work on, and it also can be shared to be
>able to make it bigger.
>
>I'm up for that.
>
>:)
>
>
> >From: Mystress Angelique Serpent <Mystress at fire-serpent.com>
> >Reply-To: "FST Helpers list." <Helpers at fire-serpent.org>
> >To: Helpers at fire-serpent.org
> >Subject: [Helpers] Looking for inspiration.
> >Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:04:53 -0800
> >
> >
> >    The image on the right side of the new design... the goofy one of me
> >with the candle & knife... what the heck is that supposed to mean? Shine
> >the light and cut away the karma? Looks kind of scary. The image was
> >borrowed from www.domin8rex.com/vault and only intended as a placeholder
> >while I thought of something better... except I am not inspired.  Please
> >somebody think of something better? What would work and look good in that
> >corner?
> >
> >   I've been working on the preview pages, and trying to get organized by
> >making a new work file for them,  and I've gotten a lot done on the
> >preview, but at this point I am a little lost.
> >
> >   Some content is repeated, some of it needs to be moved to a different
> >page... I will upload the current work in progress, can someone look at it
> >with a fresh eye and add notes to the 'preview work list' I will post in
> >another email?
> >
> >  I am redoing the index page according to an ebook I got about "killer
> >mini websites" using their formula. Work in progress:
> >
> ><a href="http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/index.html">old
> >Index.</a>
> ><a href="http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/1indexnew.html">New
> >index work in progress</a> I know it is ugly, still working on the content.
> >Why is quote table cut off?
> >
> >   I did make a new form for the preview, dunno where the old one got to. I
> >suspect the new form probably has errors and needs tweaking... Sachiko can
> >you look it over?
> ><a href="http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/NEWFORM.html">Fire
> >Serpent Tantra-Level 1: TITLE</a>new form.
> >
> >   The navbar could be made into flash, it is the same on all pubic pages
> >except the sample lessons, but I think it might be best to wait until the
> >public/preview pages are closer to being finished. I feel like the preview
> >is too big, and would like to delete some pages and links. All the
> >marketing research I am doing says the public part should be short as
> >possible.. I always knew that, but I had a lot to say!! LOL!
> >
> >  There is a tiny but boring job to be done, and that is making
> >meta-refresh pages with the name of the old lesson files that goes to the
> >new ones, so students lesson bookmarks won't go out of date all at once
> >when the new site goes live. No hurry for that.
> >
> >   I was working on the new lesson 1 again last night. I am looking for
> >some quotes to put into the "experiences" section of it. Can some helpers
> >please be inspired to write a short note about your experience of the
> >course, particularly the energy of it, and how you have been pacing
> >yourself- speed of lesson progress. What would you like to share with
> >future students?
> >
> >   Thanks, everyone!
> >
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >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  Wed Mar 15 13:21:07 2006
From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent)
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:21:07 -0800
Subject: [Helpers] Stuff & things...
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060313094559.03081a20@mail.fire-serpent.com>


   Heya:

   Sorry if it seems quiet around here... it is just that I am incredibly 
busy. March is half over already, and Europe draws near. Spring is making 
me hyperactive as usual and it is hard to sit still at my desk... but I 
still have a lot of website updates to do.
  I've been working on plans for Europe, proposals, content, wardrobe,
flights, advertising, luggage, passport, etc..

     Despite feeling overwhelmed, I am really happy at the turn my work is
taking. Excited about Europe but scared too. Lori getting back to me with a
schedule was comforting, I am getting more confident that I will at least
break even on the trip.

     The FST update is hard because I tend to read from memory and not 
actually see the content. I finally hauled out my old double-spaced 
hardcopy of the course, (a 5" thick binder!) and put it on a giant book 
holder on my desk, so I make notes there (sometimes in the jacuzzi!) and 
then paste the content into Word for editing, Canadian spellcheck and 
grammar... but then I end up adding more after I paste it into the web 
page, and then it becomes an issue of version control. I lose track of 
whether the word version or the web version is most up to date.
The lesson I accidentally posted to this list was a draft version that was 
later updated.


    It is very slow going, every time I decide an essay is "done" I later
get new inspiration, and with some of the essays I get a feeling that what
I am adding actually belongs in a different lesson. My new "introduction to
Kundalini" has a lot of stuff that might be better in the Serpents lesson.
Sigh.

  I'm thinking it is better for me to just focus on the content, so I am 
saving the word docs and when there are many I'll upload them to the fscnew 
site, and hopefully someone else can add paragraph breaks and paste them 
into the lesson.

   Some of the new essays are so much better than the old, I am wondering 
if the new ones should be pasted into the live site as they are completed. 
b0b's post made me think perhaps the live site should be updated 
concurrently with the new design. I'm impatient to have the new site up, 
but there is still so much to do!

    Dreamweaver is a learning curve I just don't have time for, right now. 
I tried to update a lesson, (tantra/01cintro) and when I uploaded it, it 
was messed up. Sachiko, can you fix it? That lesson is meant to be called 
01stdyguid.html and you will find a file by that name that has the correct 
content, but I messed it up too!

   How do I tell Dreamweaver the local directory is a mirror of the web, so 
it doesn't download all the images each time I want to look at a file? 
Something to do with projects?

   The good thing is that some essays look fine to me and don't need 
editing... but I still have to add homework and experiences, and 
experiences links to them! Ack. So much to do!

    Sandra C:  Adding experiences means searching the tea room archives for 
keywords of each topic, and deciding what posts have information that 
enhances understanding.  If you will select posts, then I will go through 
them and choose one to edit and add to the lesson... I'm open to 
suggestions for that... keeping in mind that the finished update will 
become a book, I really need to be emailing the members whose posts I use 
in the lesson and asking permission. Not for the links to the tea room, 
just for the experiences area.

  I'm also thinking of eliminating the "Experiences links" box from each
lesson and just adding the links to the bottom of the main experiences
section. Changing the form at this point feels like going backwards... but 
I feel it would be smoother.

    Getting experiences from the K-list archives is a whole other deal and I
have no idea when or how that will happen.

   Question: does it make more sense to have the homework box at the 
bottom, or below the experiences section instead of below the essay?

   With regards to the new right corner image... I sometimes get emails 
like this:

 >country = indonesia
 >body = Good Morning / afternoon / evening. Iam from Indonesia.
 >I followed rei ki tummo trainning. I don't feel kundalini energy as
 >perfectly yet. I want to my kundalini is growth without prolem. Someone
 >told me, your picture could help to kundalini growth. If this is right and
 >if you don't mind,please send me your picture.
 >Thank you very much to your attention.I am sorry, if my english rather bad.

   Been getting them for a few years now. It kind of blows my mind to know
people all over the world meditate on my photo to get Kundalini... just
weird, but I cannot think of a reason to discourage it. People all over the
world masturbate to my fetish pix, and I got used to that .. but it is
still odd to think of people looking at me to raise K. like they do with
Sai Baba or Grandma Devi.

Anyway, in light of this phenomena, I think I'll use a different pic of 
myself for the new right corner image for the lessons. The videos have some 
lovely images with mudras I use spontaneously.

   Gustaf please select a few stills from the vids, when you edit them, and 
then I can mess with one in photoshop to add a fun aura or something that 
will fit the site design.

    I am also concerned that your editing the vids will interfere with your 
progress of the course. The vids were not recorded in the lesson order, and 
are not even labeled as which vids go with which lessons! I'm trying to 
take notes as I go, but I am getting hyper and spaced out from my own 
Shakti coming back at me! Whoa! I hope it doesn't overwhelm you, too.

   I'm not sure whether the magnetic tape is degraded or whether the video 
quality was not good to begin with, but I am seeing colour bleed on the 
videos. The worst is when my teeth flash bright yellow, picking up the 
background colour of the gold cloth on the chair. Really bad! Distracting 
and unattractive. Can this be fixed?

    There are a few people who are on this list who are not actually doing 
anything, and have not done anything. I appreciate the good intentions that 
moved you to join, but this is not a list for lurkers or voyeurs so please 
either volunteer to do something or unsub yourself. Thanks.
     




From ladyofquills at spray.se  Wed Mar 15 23:26:06 2006
From: ladyofquills at spray.se (Kimberly)
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:26:06 +0100
Subject: [Helpers] Text editing?
Message-ID: <005001c648ca$e40ae230$6501a8c0@quilly>

Hi Mystress!
 
I have been lurking around the list for like a month or something now,
and I haven't said anything yet. I was kinda waiting because I wasn't
sure if you wanted to deal with the text editing yet for the lessons
themselves. With all the other rearranging that you are doing (which I
barely understand at all), I thought maybe it would be too much to throw
that into the mix as well right now. :-)
 
But, I'm here and would be more than happy to help with any text editing
needs that you have for the lessons, or help organizing things into book
form or both. whatever! Let me know what I can do or where I can start.
:-)
 
Blessings,
Kimberly
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From gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com  Thu Mar 16 00:41:10 2006
From: gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com (Gustaf Grefberg)
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:41:10 +0100
Subject: [Helpers] Stuff & things...
Message-ID: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0C886F@mail.starbreeze.com>

>    Gustaf please select a few stills from the vids, when you edit
them,
> and then I can mess with one in photoshop to add a fun aura or
something >that will fit the site design.

Gotcha. :)

>     I am also concerned that your editing the vids will interfere with
> your
> progress of the course. The vids were not recorded in the lesson
order,
> and
> are not even labeled as which vids go with which lessons! I'm trying
to
> take notes as I go, but I am getting hyper and spaced out from my own
> Shakti coming back at me! Whoa! I hope it doesn't overwhelm you, too.

Well I've gotten pretty far into the course now, to the Empathy lesson,
I don't think there are all that many left before the graduation
classes. It's the graduation videos I need to watch out for (until I've
actually done those classes, of course) And I'm sure it will overwhelm
me a bit from time to time! But Goddess won't give me anything I can't
handle in the end. :)

And I will definitely need some notes to help me discern which videos
that goes with each class, and any notes about any versions you prefer
would be very helpful, too.  LOL Shakti kick huh? Will have to do some
thorough grounding before each editing session. Never thought I'd have
to get grounded for that!


>    I'm not sure whether the magnetic tape is degraded or whether the
video
> quality was not good to begin with, but I am seeing colour bleed on
the
> videos. The worst is when my teeth flash bright yellow, picking up the
> background colour of the gold cloth on the chair. Really bad!
Distracting
> and unattractive. Can this be fixed?

It depends on if it only affects areas of the picture, or the entire
picture. If it's color anomalities of the whole picture it's easier to
fix. Vegas has a bunch of filters that can be applied before rendering,
a lot like in Photoshop. I will keep an eye out for your teeth :D

Namaste
Gustaf



From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com  Thu Mar 16 10:49:18 2006
From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M)
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:49:18 -0800
Subject: [Helpers] Stuff & things...
References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060313094559.03081a20@mail.fire-serpent.com>
Message-ID: <03ae01c6492a$55450ac0$0100a8c0@sachikojn>

My computer gave up on me, so I'm setting up my other computer
for temporally use...

I was wandering if you could give me the password for FTP server
login again, since I don't have access to the original email that you
sent me with server info.

>    Dreamweaver is a learning curve I just don't have time for, right 
> now.
> I tried to update a lesson, (tantra/01cintro) and when I uploaded 
> it, it
> was messed up. Sachiko, can you fix it? That lesson is meant to be 
> called
> 01stdyguid.html and you will find a file by that name that has the 
> correct
> content, but I messed it up too!

I had a brief access to my old computer, so I downloaded the files off 
the
server.

I understand taht you are reffering to these files?
http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/01cintroops.html
http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/01stdyguid.html


The problem that you were having is that the images around
the table were not showing, is that correct?

If  you can view those above files with no problem then the problem 
was the path to the images file.

Path for the images file was like this:
<img src="../../titles/imagefile.gif">

Instead of this:
<img src="../titles/imagefile.gif">


>   How do I tell Dreamweaver the local directory is a mirror of the 
> web, so
> it doesn't download all the images each time I want to look at a 
> file?
> Something to do with projects?

I'm not sure about this setting, but you might want to run a setting 
again.

[Site] --> [Manage Sites]

and Edit the site you would like to edit.

I don't have password for the FTP server right now, so I can' t test 
the
setting to figure this out.

Sachiko 




From Mystress at fire-serpent.com  Thu Mar 16 07:14:49 2006
From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent)
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:14:49 -0800
Subject: [Helpers] Text editing?
In-Reply-To: <005001c648ca$e40ae230$6501a8c0@quilly>
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060316061845.0336b020@mail.fire-serpent.com>

At 11:26 PM 15/03/2006, you wrote:

>Hi Mystress!
>
>
>
>I have been lurking around the list for like a month or something now, and 
>I haven t said anything yet. I was kinda waiting because I wasn t sure if 
>you wanted to deal with the text editing yet for the lessons themselves.

   yup I am dealing.. attempting to deal! LOL!!

>With all the other rearranging that you are doing (which I barely 
>understand at all), I thought maybe it would be too much to throw that 
>into the mix as well right now. J

   I'm very grateful to Goddess for the team we have here!  Tasks have been 
neatly divided up and there is progress!

   Sachiko is handling web design, flash & FTP
   Gustaf will be and is handling audio and video.
   Sandra C is taking care of collecting the experiences links.
   Sandra D is/was working on updating links, and Hillary helping.
   Ted was working on the new site FAQ... not sure where he got to... 
probably waiting for me to give feedback.
   Richard is... well, helping with a few things!
   Percyval is supporting, because he was so involved with the original 
creation he probably knows the course better than I do!


    That pretty much leaves editing the lessons and creating homework 
assignments, which must be mine to do... but hell, yeah I need an editor.
   I'm pretty happy with the first 6 lessons I am done editing, but I 
noticed tendencies I need an editor to watch for.

    Some lessons are very ADD! I jump from topic to topic like a mountain 
goat fleeing a cougar. With one essay, I rearranged it completely by making 
a second, blank word page and selecting paragraphs and pasting them in one 
by one, in a completely different order to have it flow and make sense.

  Other essays, like roleplay & responsibility were scrapped and completely 
rewritten.

   I think one lesson, "7 years" never was written, I said all I had to say 
in the video... that happened a few times.  I'm going to write an essay on 
self healing for it.
   I suspect there are essays that were abandoned, rather than finished...
   I keep finding stupid email shorthand that I thought I had deleted.. 
like spelling though as tho.
   Some essays were never spellchecked!! egad.  (you need a Canadian 
spellchecker!!)

    I've gotten a lot tougher on myself with regards to the quality of my 
writing, since the course was created... I prefer it more polished and 
correct!

    But, dusting the stupid errors is wearing me out. I need to focus on 
the content... specifically, what content needs improving.

   If you can go through each lesson essay and paste it into word, clean it 
up, make comments about what can be cut-improved, redone, etc. with the red 
ink then email it back to me directly so I can be laser... if you like I 
will make the word docs and add comments, then send them to you for editing.

   I need an editor to clean things up and help me focus on where 
improvement is needed so I can be more efficient.

    The other thing is a little printable PDF reference booklet I have been 
working on with Rich. It will be a freebie on K-teacher, but I am also 
planning to give out copies to workshop attendants.  It will take the form 
of a little magazine printed horizontally on letter size paper, folded and 
stapled.

    What is different about it for me, is I like headings to fall on the 
top of the page whenever possible, and so I am writing to length... which 
is normal for almost every sort of writing except web pages and emails!!  I 
don't like seeing half or 2/3 of a page blank before the next heading, and 
I am not good enough at formatting in word to make things fit! I plan to 
add an essay about Kundalini, other than that it is mostly done but could 
be cleaner and prettier! Hmm, I may have sent you an older copy along with 
the soap & CD.

   It can wait a month. The course update is the first priority.


>
>
>But, I m here and would be more than happy to help with any text editing 
>needs that you have for the lessons, or help organizing things into book 
>form or both& whatever! Let me know what I can do or where I can start. J

   there ya go! Let me know what you think.




From ladyofquills at spray.se  Thu Mar 16 22:19:04 2006
From: ladyofquills at spray.se (Kimberly)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:19:04 +0100
Subject: [Helpers] Text editing?
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060316061845.0336b020@mail.fire-serpent.com>
Message-ID: <005b01c6498a$b0e574e0$6501a8c0@quilly>

Hiya!


> 
>    I'm very grateful to Goddess for the team we have here!  Tasks have
> been
> neatly divided up and there is progress!
> 
>    Sachiko is handling web design, flash & FTP
>    Gustaf will be and is handling audio and video.
>    Sandra C is taking care of collecting the experiences links.
>    Sandra D is/was working on updating links, and Hillary helping.
>    Ted was working on the new site FAQ... not sure where he got to...
> probably waiting for me to give feedback.
>    Richard is... well, helping with a few things!
>    Percyval is supporting, because he was so involved with the
original
> creation he probably knows the course better than I do!
> 
> 

Hey thats great. :) Good idea to keep them organized like that too, so
you know what everybody is working on. I had a friend once who was
having a bunch of people help her with an online project, and it was
total chaos because she couldn't keep track of who was doing what. Lol 



>     That pretty much leaves editing the lessons and creating homework
> assignments, which must be mine to do... but hell, yeah I need an
editor.
>    I'm pretty happy with the first 6 lessons I am done editing, but I
> noticed tendencies I need an editor to watch for.
> 

Is there anything in particular that you'd like me to watch for?


>     Some lessons are very ADD! I jump from topic to topic like a
mountain
> goat fleeing a cougar.

Yeah, I noticed this when we first started taking the class. Gustaf had
no problem following some of these lessons, but I'm a more literal
thinker, and the skipping around tended to confuse me, which is why I
volenteered for this. :) LOL

>    I keep finding stupid email shorthand that I thought I had
deleted..
> like spelling though as tho.
>    Some essays were never spellchecked!! egad.  (you need a Canadian
> spellchecker!!)
> 

I'll keep an eye out for the internet slang, no worries there. I don't
have a Canadian spell check, but I think the one I have is British, so
it should be similar, spelling color with a u and all that. :) 


>    If you can go through each lesson essay and paste it into word,
clean
> it
> up, make comments about what can be cut-improved, redone, etc. with
the
> red
> ink then email it back to me directly so I can be laser... if you like
I
> will make the word docs and add comments, then send them to you for
> editing.
> 

Either way would be fine with me. I don't know what kind of time/energy
you have for this particular part of the project at the moment. If you
have the time and inclination to make the word docs and add your
comments first, that might give me a clearer idea of what you are
thinking on some of it to begin with. Or, if you'd rather, I'll just
start us off by editing whats out there and that might spark the ideas
or thoughts that you want to comment on. Just let me know which you'd
prefer. Would you want me to take the documents from the CD you sent or
from the web page?



>    I need an editor to clean things up and help me focus on where
> improvement is needed so I can be more efficient.
> 


Thats what I'm here for! :)


>     The other thing is a little printable PDF reference booklet I have
> been
> working on with Rich. It will be a freebie on K-teacher, but I am also
> planning to give out copies to workshop attendants.  It will take the
form
> of a little magazine printed horizontally on letter size paper, folded
and
> stapled.
> 
>     What is different about it for me, is I like headings to fall on
the
> top of the page whenever possible, and so I am writing to length...
which
> is normal for almost every sort of writing except web pages and
emails!!
> I
> don't like seeing half or 2/3 of a page blank before the next heading,
and
> I am not good enough at formatting in word to make things fit! I plan
to
> add an essay about Kundalini, other than that it is mostly done but
could
> be cleaner and prettier! Hmm, I may have sent you an older copy along
with
> the soap & CD.
>
>    It can wait a month. The course update is the first priority.
> 

I'd be glad to help with that too as soon as we've finished the update.
:)

Blessings,

Kimberly 



From gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com  Fri Mar 17 00:54:45 2006
From: gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com (Gustaf Grefberg)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:54:45 +0100
Subject: [Helpers] Text editing?
Message-ID: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0C8879@mail.starbreeze.com>

> >     Some lessons are very ADD! I jump from topic to topic like a
> mountain
> > goat fleeing a cougar.
> 
> Yeah, I noticed this when we first started taking the class. Gustaf
had
> no problem following some of these lessons, but I'm a more literal
> thinker, and the skipping around tended to confuse me, which is why I
> volenteered for this. :) LOL

It takes one to know one!  I have a small touch of something ADD-ish
myself. Not severe enough to cause too much trouble, but I totally
understand what it feels like... Something makes it very easy for me to
catch your lessons, even when sentences may be completely illogical or
broken off. Often I haven't noticed them until Kimberly points them out
to me. 


> >    I need an editor to clean things up and help me focus on where
> > improvement is needed so I can be more efficient.
> >
> 
> 
> Thats what I'm here for! :)

Trust me, she is a -very- good editor. :) And awakened editors don't
grow on trees. Take advantage of this one!



From satthyam at yahoo.dk  Fri Mar 17 03:09:04 2006
From: satthyam at yahoo.dk (Tommy Kristensen)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:09:04 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Helpers] Helpers Digest, Vol 10, Issue 3
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Hello everyone 
   
  I am one of the lurkers. I am not a pervert just not as clever as you :) I really wanted to help.. but i dont understand many of the mails. I hate being the dumb kid in the class but i guess i am in this :)
   
  I wish you all the best, and good luck with the site.
   
  I would like to hear more about the european tour though?
   
  God bless
Tommy
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:21:07 -0800
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent 
Subject: [Helpers] Stuff & things...
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Heya:

Sorry if it seems quiet around here... it is just that I am incredibly 
busy. March is half over already, and Europe draws near. Spring is making 
me hyperactive as usual and it is hard to sit still at my desk... but I 
still have a lot of website updates to do.
I've been working on plans for Europe, proposals, content, wardrobe,
flights, advertising, luggage, passport, etc..

Despite feeling overwhelmed, I am really happy at the turn my work is
taking. Excited about Europe but scared too. Lori getting back to me with a
schedule was comforting, I am getting more confident that I will at least
break even on the trip.

The FST update is hard because I tend to read from memory and not 
actually see the content. I finally hauled out my old double-spaced 
hardcopy of the course, (a 5" thick binder!) and put it on a giant book 
holder on my desk, so I make notes there (sometimes in the jacuzzi!) and 
then paste the content into Word for editing, Canadian spellcheck and 
grammar... but then I end up adding more after I paste it into the web 
page, and then it becomes an issue of version control. I lose track of 
whether the word version or the web version is most up to date.
The lesson I accidentally posted to this list was a draft version that was 
later updated.


It is very slow going, every time I decide an essay is "done" I later
get new inspiration, and with some of the essays I get a feeling that what
I am adding actually belongs in a different lesson. My new "introduction to
Kundalini" has a lot of stuff that might be better in the Serpents lesson.
Sigh.

I'm thinking it is better for me to just focus on the content, so I am 
saving the word docs and when there are many I'll upload them to the fscnew 
site, and hopefully someone else can add paragraph breaks and paste them 
into the lesson.

Some of the new essays are so much better than the old, I am wondering 
if the new ones should be pasted into the live site as they are completed. 
b0b's post made me think perhaps the live site should be updated 
concurrently with the new design. I'm impatient to have the new site up, 
but there is still so much to do!

Dreamweaver is a learning curve I just don't have time for, right now. 
I tried to update a lesson, (tantra/01cintro) and when I uploaded it, it 
was messed up. Sachiko, can you fix it? That lesson is meant to be called 
01stdyguid.html and you will find a file by that name that has the correct 
content, but I messed it up too!

How do I tell Dreamweaver the local directory is a mirror of the web, so 
it doesn't download all the images each time I want to look at a file? 
Something to do with projects?

The good thing is that some essays look fine to me and don't need 
editing... but I still have to add homework and experiences, and 
experiences links to them! Ack. So much to do!

Sandra C: Adding experiences means searching the tea room archives for 
keywords of each topic, and deciding what posts have information that 
enhances understanding. If you will select posts, then I will go through 
them and choose one to edit and add to the lesson... I'm open to 
suggestions for that... keeping in mind that the finished update will 
become a book, I really need to be emailing the members whose posts I use 
in the lesson and asking permission. Not for the links to the tea room, 
just for the experiences area.

I'm also thinking of eliminating the "Experiences links" box from each
lesson and just adding the links to the bottom of the main experiences
section. Changing the form at this point feels like going backwards... but 
I feel it would be smoother.

Getting experiences from the K-list archives is a whole other deal and I
have no idea when or how that will happen.

Question: does it make more sense to have the homework box at the 
bottom, or below the experiences section instead of below the essay?

With regards to the new right corner image... I sometimes get emails 
like this:

>country = indonesia
>body = Good Morning / afternoon / evening. Iam from Indonesia.
>I followed rei ki tummo trainning. I don't feel kundalini energy as
>perfectly yet. I want to my kundalini is growth without prolem. Someone
>told me, your picture could help to kundalini growth. If this is right and
>if you don't mind,please send me your picture.
>Thank you very much to your attention.I am sorry, if my english rather bad.

Been getting them for a few years now. It kind of blows my mind to know
people all over the world meditate on my photo to get Kundalini... just
weird, but I cannot think of a reason to discourage it. People all over the
world masturbate to my fetish pix, and I got used to that .. but it is
still odd to think of people looking at me to raise K. like they do with
Sai Baba or Grandma Devi.

Anyway, in light of this phenomena, I think I'll use a different pic of 
myself for the new right corner image for the lessons. The videos have some 
lovely images with mudras I use spontaneously.

Gustaf please select a few stills from the vids, when you edit them, and 
then I can mess with one in photoshop to add a fun aura or something that 
will fit the site design.

I am also concerned that your editing the vids will interfere with your 
progress of the course. The vids were not recorded in the lesson order, and 
are not even labeled as which vids go with which lessons! I'm trying to 
take notes as I go, but I am getting hyper and spaced out from my own 
Shakti coming back at me! Whoa! I hope it doesn't overwhelm you, too.

I'm not sure whether the magnetic tape is degraded or whether the video 
quality was not good to begin with, but I am seeing colour bleed on the 
videos. The worst is when my teeth flash bright yellow, picking up the 
background colour of the gold cloth on the chair. Really bad! Distracting 
and unattractive. Can this be fixed?

There are a few people who are on this list who are not actually doing 
anything, and have not done anything. I appreciate the good intentions that 
moved you to join, but this is not a list for lurkers or voyeurs so please 
either volunteer to do something or unsub yourself. Thanks.






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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:26:06 +0100
From: "Kimberly" 
Subject: [Helpers] Text editing?
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Hi Mystress!

I have been lurking around the list for like a month or something now,
and I haven't said anything yet. I was kinda waiting because I wasn't
sure if you wanted to deal with the text editing yet for the lessons
themselves. With all the other rearranging that you are doing (which I
barely understand at all), I thought maybe it would be too much to throw
that into the mix as well right now. :-)

But, I'm here and would be more than happy to help with any text editing
needs that you have for the lessons, or help organizing things into book
form or both. whatever! Let me know what I can do or where I can start.
:-)

Blessings,
Kimberly
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:41:10 +0100
From: "Gustaf Grefberg" 
Subject: Re: [Helpers] Stuff & things...
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> Gustaf please select a few stills from the vids, when you edit
them,
> and then I can mess with one in photoshop to add a fun aura or
something >that will fit the site design.

Gotcha. :)

> I am also concerned that your editing the vids will interfere with
> your
> progress of the course. The vids were not recorded in the lesson
order,
> and
> are not even labeled as which vids go with which lessons! I'm trying
to
> take notes as I go, but I am getting hyper and spaced out from my own
> Shakti coming back at me! Whoa! I hope it doesn't overwhelm you, too.

Well I've gotten pretty far into the course now, to the Empathy lesson,
I don't think there are all that many left before the graduation
classes. It's the graduation videos I need to watch out for (until I've
actually done those classes, of course) And I'm sure it will overwhelm
me a bit from time to time! But Goddess won't give me anything I can't
handle in the end. :)

And I will definitely need some notes to help me discern which videos
that goes with each class, and any notes about any versions you prefer
would be very helpful, too. LOL Shakti kick huh? Will have to do some
thorough grounding before each editing session. Never thought I'd have
to get grounded for that!


> I'm not sure whether the magnetic tape is degraded or whether the
video
> quality was not good to begin with, but I am seeing colour bleed on
the
> videos. The worst is when my teeth flash bright yellow, picking up the
> background colour of the gold cloth on the chair. Really bad!
Distracting
> and unattractive. Can this be fixed?

It depends on if it only affects areas of the picture, or the entire
picture. If it's color anomalities of the whole picture it's easier to
fix. Vegas has a bunch of filters that can be applied before rendering,
a lot like in Photoshop. I will keep an eye out for your teeth :D

Namaste
Gustaf




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From Mystress at fire-serpent.com  Fri Mar 17 00:44:59 2006
From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:44:59 -0800
Subject: [Helpers] A small job seeks a volunteer
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060317002730.052605d0@mail.fire-serpent.com>


   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.

   Anybody up for that?  Let me know and I'll send the template. Thanks! 




From Mystress at fire-serpent.com  Fri Mar 17 01:23:01 2006
From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:23:01 -0800
Subject: [Helpers] Text editing?
In-Reply-To: <005b01c6498a$b0e574e0$6501a8c0@quilly>
References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060316061845.0336b020@mail.fire-serpent.com>
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At 10:19 PM 16/03/2006, you wrote:
> >
> >    I'm very grateful to Goddess for the team we have here!  Tasks have
> > been
> > neatly divided up and there is progress!
> >
> >    Sachiko is handling web design, flash & FTP
> >    Gustaf will be and is handling audio and video.
> >    Sandra C is taking care of collecting the experiences links.
> >    Sandra D is/was working on updating links, and Hillary helping.
> >    Ted was working on the new site FAQ... not sure where he got to...
> > probably waiting for me to give feedback.
> >    Richard is... well, helping with a few things!
> >    Percyval is supporting, because he was so involved with the
>original
> > creation he probably knows the course better than I do!
> >
> >
>
>Hey thats great. :) Good idea to keep them organized like that too, so
>you know what everybody is working on. I had a friend once who was
>having a bunch of people help her with an online project, and it was
>total chaos because she couldn't keep track of who was doing what. Lol

   Yeah. LOL!! Well, theoretically I have some talent for leadership.  Even 
so, it has been a bit of a learning curve for me.  Realizing my 
dinosaurness. :)


> >     That pretty much leaves editing the lessons and creating homework
> > assignments, which must be mine to do... but hell, yeah I need an
>editor.
> >    I'm pretty happy with the first 6 lessons I am done editing, but I
> > noticed tendencies I need an editor to watch for.
> >
>
>Is there anything in particular that you'd like me to watch for?

   Mostly described below.

> >     Some lessons are very ADD! I jump from topic to topic like a
>mountain
> > goat fleeing a cougar.
>
>Yeah, I noticed this when we first started taking the class. Gustaf had
>no problem following some of these lessons, but I'm a more literal
>thinker, and the skipping around tended to confuse me, which is why I
>volenteered for this. :) LOL

   Ah, perfect!!  Start with those lessons!!
   I have been trying to go through the lessons in order, but doing the 
lessons most in need of repair first, may work better.  That way I won't be 
messing around with stuff that is basically fine, and burning out my ADD 
attention before getting to the more vital fixes.

> >    I keep finding stupid email shorthand that I thought I had
>deleted..
> > like spelling though as tho.
> >    Some essays were never spellchecked!! egad.  (you need a Canadian
> > spellchecker!!)
> >
>
>I'll keep an eye out for the internet slang, no worries there. I don't
>have a Canadian spell check, but I think the one I have is British, so
>it should be similar, spelling color with a u and all that. :)

   Yes, good second choice.

> >    If you can go through each lesson essay and paste it into word,
>clean
> > it
> > up, make comments about what can be cut-improved, redone, etc. with
>the
> > red
> > ink then email it back to me directly so I can be laser... if you like
>I
> > will make the word docs and add comments, then send them to you for
> > editing.
> >
>
>Either way would be fine with me. I don't know what kind of time/energy
>you have for this particular part of the project at the moment.

   I really want to get the course update online ASAP, even if the new vids 
and transcripts are added later.  Right now I am hip deep working with Lori 
West on press releases, etc. and having a flyer or press release that links 
to a website that looks archaic and neglected is just not good.

   I flipped out yesterday, realizing we sent a proposal that linked to a 
page that had not been updated since the Calgary workshop was cauncelled 
two years ago.  I fixed up the page right away, hoping the time zone 
difference meant the recipent had not read their mail yet.

   FST gets over 7000 unique visitors a month, and new membership is steady 
but    the conversion rate of visitors to members is not nearly what it 
ought to be and I am sure the reason is simply that the preview looks 
cluttered and neglected.

   The European tour is partly big promotion for FST and I want FST to look 
sharp! I'm going to take some time this weekend and see if I can get the 
preview pages done and online, even if I have to delete a few pages to do 
it! It is too long anyway. My marketing research tells me to whittle it all 
down to a single page!

   Sorry, some of this is just me sorting my thoughts by thinking out loud.

>  If you
>have the time and inclination to make the word docs and add your
>comments first, that might give me a clearer idea of what you are
>thinking on some of it to begin with.

   That is what I was thinking this morning, but having percolated all 
day,  I realize if I do it I will end up sidetracked into editing the 
essays and be back in the same stuckness.

    I know it might sound strange but my ADD brain... I am jumping through 
hoops of hard copy and pasting into Word just to get a fresh eye enough to 
be able to actually focus to *read* the essays and see the words! I skim, 
read energy and read from memory but I don't see the words!! I've noticed I 
read the first line of each paragraph and skip to the next, and I have to 
really force myself to read word by word.. it is exhausting.

   It is very frustrating, but that is an ADD brain dealing with something 
that is not new or novel. This stuff is old news to me and that makes it 
hard to focus.  I created this course in the first place was I was tired of 
answering the same questions, writing the same stuff over and over.

    I also sometimes lose track of what I have written in my head and what 
has actually gotten typed up... like the page I mentioned earlier. I 
thought that page had been updated and horrors no it was awful.

  Or, if you'd rather, I'll just
>start us off by editing whats out there and that might spark the ideas
>or thoughts that you want to comment on.

   Yes. If the essay shows up with red ink and comments then I will be able 
to approach it with a fresh eye. Your eye!

   I do have a few years of tea room posts archived in my subconscious. 
Some lessons trigger more questions and therefore are most in need of 
clarification.   There are some lessons,  like heart voice that some 
students were stuck on for months... and, in some cases the new content is 
probably already written some where.. the info can be edited into the new 
essay from my tea room response.

   I kind of approach writing like coding HTML, or like collage.  Many of 
the present essays were scooped from email archives or my other web pages, 
sometimes quilted together from bits. The grounding itself, started out as 
an email to the Celestine prophecy list in 1996! People on that list read 
it and became awakened and I said Hmmm...
   Sometimes it does not work, if the tone of the various bits don't work 
together it is better to start fresh from scratch.

   Maybe you and Sandra C can work together. Sandra, you are going to be 
going through the Tea Room posts for the experiences links. Can you 
give  Kimberly a heads-up if you find something I wrote in response to 
someone, that could be edited into the lesson essay to clarify it?

   Kimberly, I may be sending you prospecting the archives sometimes, if I 
know I have already written something but will get too sidetracked if I go 
look for it myself.  You may discover stuff that would be good to add as 
experiences links, so pass it into Sandra C.

   Is that workable?

   For both of you... the search engine in Windows on your computer might 
be more efficient for keyword and phrase searches than the one on the 
website. Would you like me to zip the Tea Room archives so you can dowload 
a copy?

   Very few people who sign up for FST send me a grad essay.  I think a 
certain percentage of people dropping out is normal but the percentage is 
too high... and I wish I knew what lesson people stop at.  I know the 
middle section of the course is very challenging, but it feels like 
someplace there is a fly in the ointment that discourages people or puts 
them off.  Keep an eye out.

>Just let me know which you'd
>prefer. Would you want me to take the documents from the CD you sent or
>from the web page?

   Ah. I am trying to remember. When we did the file comparison to whittle 
down the various versions, did that include files from the CD? I think so, 
because I remembered editing some lessons while preparing the CD but I 
thought I had  forgotten to paste the improvements into the web version... 
that was why we had to do version control.
   You could use the CD versions, but going with the fscnew/current/tantra 
web versions would be better. If nothing else, because the filenames on the 
CD were not changed, and the web file names are correct.  I'm giving the 
doc files the same name as the lessons they are for.

   You just need the text, hmm... I may have all the lessons in a doc file 
someplace.

> >    I need an editor to clean things up and help me focus on where
> > improvement is needed so I can be more efficient.
> >
>
>
>Thats what I'm here for! :)

   Then you are an answer to my stressed out prayers! :)

   Early this week I was feeling particularly overwhelmed by my deadlines 
and things to do list, frozen into head-spinning inertia from a racing brain.

    I felt better when I realized it was full moon... but I really did 
spend a lot of time in prayer, surrendering and asking Goddess to take it 
all, and guide me in prioritizing and focus on what She gives back.  It 
really helped to calm me down and clear my head.  I think some things 
disappeared from my mental things to do list. I dunno what, but the whole 
web of interconnected activities is seeming much simpler now.



> >     The other thing is a little printable PDF reference booklet I have
> > been
> > working on with Rich. It will be a freebie on K-teacher, but I am also
> > planning to give out copies to workshop attendants.  It will take the
>form
> > of a little magazine printed horizontally on letter size paper, folded
>and
> > stapled.
> >
> >     What is different about it for me, is I like headings to fall on
>the
> > top of the page whenever possible, and so I am writing to length...
>which
> > is normal for almost every sort of writing except web pages and
>emails!!
> > I
> > don't like seeing half or 2/3 of a page blank before the next heading,
>and
> > I am not good enough at formatting in word to make things fit! I plan
>to
> > add an essay about Kundalini, other than that it is mostly done but
>could
> > be cleaner and prettier! Hmm, I may have sent you an older copy along
>with
> > the soap & CD.
> >
> >    It can wait a month. The course update is the first priority.
> >
>
>I'd be glad to help with that too as soon as we've finished the update.
>:)

   Good!   thank you!!


>Blessings,
>
>Kimberly




From Mystress at fire-serpent.com  Fri Mar 17 01:32:31 2006
From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:32:31 -0800
Subject: [Helpers] 02introk new essay.
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060317012313.054bc758@mail.fire-serpent.com>

Kundalini is the sacred Fire Serpent of spiritual evolution.  The medical 
symbol, the caduceus, is an icon of fully awakened Kundalini, with the two 
Fire Serpents uncoiled around the staff of the spine where the Shakti 
energy rises up the central channel. This rising energy is often felt as 
heat, tingling or vibrations. The caduceus is topped with the round halo of 
the crown chakra at the top of the head. The wings are part of the heart 
chakra. The serpents form a giant helix, like DNA. Kundalini is the 
creative, evolutionary energy of Cosmic Consciousness that gave you birth, 
directed up the spine into the head, rather than outward to procreate, 
create life. We evolve by giving birth. The Kundalini process evolves us, 
by changing the direction of the energy, inward to give birth to a new you.

Kundalini and serpents are historically associated with healing, from the 
caduceus to the Brazen Serpent Moses set up in the desert to heal the 
Hebrews. I have known people who appeared to become 20 years younger as the 
process did its work, and it is common for old injuries to reappear, only 
to be healed more completely. People have reported that their actual DNA 
has been changed by the process. For some, the healing happens more on the 
emotional, mental and spiritual levels: Kundalini encompasses all.

The symbolism of Kundalini appears in many serpents of mythology, from the 
Rainbow serpent of the Australian aborigines, to the feathered Serpent of 
the Maya. Serpents represent the instinctive wisdom of the body and 
intuition rising into conscious awareness.

On old sailing maps when there was an area of sea still uncharted, the 
cartographers would write Here be Dragons", and draw serpents frolicking in 
the waves. Kundalini serpents are represented by Leviathan the serpent of 
the Earth's power and wisdom, in the dragons of the unknown, the deep 
mysteries of earth and sea rising to be faced by the conscious individual 
on the warrior path, or what Joseph Campbell would call "the heroes journey."

Kundalini is the great unknown, unknowable. Awakened people often dream of 
serpents, water and other archetypal symbolism: the language of the 
unconscious mind.  The surface of the sea represents the boundary between 
the conscious and unconscious mind, in dreams and mythology.

The Serpent is the most ancient symbol for the Earth. Science has 
discovered that people who do spiritual healing, go into a state where 
their body's energy field is matched with the Schumann resonance, the 
magnetic field of the earth itself. Dead planets, like Mars do not have a 
magnetic field. The source of the magnetic field of the Earth is the 
electrical charge of friction on the fiery crystal of super compressed iron 
spinning in the center of the earth, which we form a connection to with the 
essential practice of Grounding.

Along with health, the serpent is the symbol for rebirth, and immortality 
because it sheds its skin. A serpent with its tail in its mouth: the 
Ouroborus, is the symbol for the wheel of life, the turning of the seasons. 
It is a symbol for how life eats life, the food chain.

According to ancient texts, achievement of Kundalini awakening would to 
take years/lifetimes of spiritual work and meditation, but in these modern 
times, Kundalini awakening has become a worldwide phenomena. Many people 
are awakening spontaneously, without any preparation on how to handle what 
has been called the most powerful and potentially dangerous force in the 
universe. Those who experience spontaneously awakening often fear they are 
going insane. This fear may be falsly validated by psychiatic professionals 
who are unfamiliar with awakening phenomena. What Jungian psychiatrist Dr. 
Stanislav Grof calls "spiritual emergency."

Kundalini seeks to purify the body to become a temple of the Soul, the 
Divine. To accomplish this it works through the unconscious mind to resolve 
or release all the limiting beliefs of the mind, the fears, scars and 
emotional baggage of trauma held in the body. All the things that are 
holding you back from manifesting your Divine potential. In order to expand 
your consciousness, the barriers and fears of limiting beliefs must be 
dismantled gently as your karma dissolves.

Kundalini awakening can appear as madness, with visions, uncontrollable 
physical sensations and extravagant psychic phenomena. It isn't something 
to be forced, as trying to force the process is really a way of resisting 
the process, not trusting that the Infinite mind that guides the process, 
knows what it is doing without your interference.

People who seek awakening because they want power, give me a mental cartoon 
image of Wile E. Coyote and the ACME steamroller of unconditional love. As 
soon as you see him messing with it, you know he will end up squashed. 
Rolled out flat like a pie crust
 that's his karma.

Don't seek Kundalini awakening unless you are genuinely ready to turn your 
life over to the path of your Soul, because resisting the awakening process 
once it has started, causes the energy to push back harder in its efforts 
to clear a path for itself. It is infinite, you are not so who wins? Going 
to war with your Kundalini is a very bad idea.

  The best thing to do, is to learn to get out of the way and let Goddess 
get on with it. The best way to smooth the process is to trust in the 
Infinite Wisdom that guides it. Have faith, and surrender control. The 
river knows where it is going
 to merge with the sea.

The Kundalini is not something separate, outside of you, although it may 
seem that way to your mind. It is the greater Cosmic mind, that you are a 
part of. It is you, the part of you that is infinite, infinitely wise, 
unconditionally loving, and outside of time.

The ego seeks to place trust in what it knows: How do we define the 
infinite, unknowable that is our essential Self? It is like the wind, we 
cannot see it but we can feel it, and see its effects on our environment. 
We can observe the effects on the people who are experiencing awakening, 
and see commonalities throughout the world's religions and mythologies.

While there is very little scientific research on the effects of Kundalini, 
many benefits have been reported by experiencers:

Improved health. Kundalites find they catch colds and flu less often, and 
with less severity. Wounds and bruises heal more quickly. Old injuries may 
reappear, to be healed more completely a second time.
Increased intelligence. The Kundalini process can increase IQ scores by as 
much as 30%.
Greater personal fulfillment.
Increased peace and well being.
Improved interpersonal relationships.
Improved intuition, psychic abilities, synchronicity.
Expansion of consciousness.

While most religions make reference to this energy of spiritual awakening, 
it is the Sanskrit term *Kundalini*, and other Sanskrit terms describing 
this phenomena, which are the most descriptive and comprehensive, while 
remaining adaptable to most religious or spiritual paths. The Kundalini 
path is a Yoga, not a religion. It is a transformative process that occurs 
on all levels: body, mind and spirit.

The Christian version is the fiery descent of the Holy Spirit, which would 
be defined as a "top-down" awakening in terms of the chakras. Some people 
first experience a "Spiritual awakening" with paranormal experiences, and 
psychic powers. They may begin to be aware of energy and spirits as the 
higher chakras open and the energy makes its way down to the lower chakras. 
These awakenings tend to be more peaceful, but sometimes do not lead to 
waking the Kundalini serpents at the root chakra, at the base of the spine. 
It is the awakening of the Kundalini which integrates the spiritual 
experiences into the "Chop wood carry water" of normal daily life.

One seeks to first gently awaken the Fire Serpent (dormant 
spiritual/evolutionary energy), where it sleeps coiled three and one half 
times at the base of the spine (the root chakra, or Kundalini) and then 
induce it to uncoil inside oneself, releasing energy as it goes and opening 
the Chakras, until it's fiery head pokes out through the crown chakra, 
signifying enlightenment.

Thus, enlightened beings are often portrayed with a halo of light coming 
from the crown of the head. Self Realization comes later, when the 
Kundalini turns around and descends back into the body, bringing the 
non-dual insights of the crown, (Love is all that Is) down into your day to 
day physical life. Learning to see Divine perfection in where you are at, 
here and now in every moment of your life on this good earth.

This final integration of the body with the spiritual energy is sometimes 
called "Ascension" because Kundalini working its way back down through the 
chakras causes the body's vibration to rise. As the body's vibration 
increases it gets easier to see perfection because synchronicities make 
every day a lucky day. What begins as learning to surrender and "go with 
the flow" comes out the other side to live your daily life, surfing on a 
wave of spiritual energy that will carry you wherever your soul desires.

Chakras are like the organs of your spiritual/energy body.  There are 
thousands of chakras throughout the body, however most focus is given to 7 
major chakras that run in a line down the centre of the body, from crown to 
tail bone.  We have a rainbow of lights, within. Each of the chakras is 
associated with an aspect of being: The crown chakra is concerned with 
universal oneness, the relationship with the all.  Next is the third eye, 
which is associated with psychic perception, next, the throat chakra, which 
is concerned mostly with communication... and so on.  The root chakra, from 
whence the Kundalini Serpents rise, is associated with nature itself, with 
your connection to the planet and your life as a spiritual being in a human 
body.  It is associated with survival as a species and procreation, but 
also with the wisdom of the Earth, the instinctual wisdom of nature.

Many spontaneously awakened people wonder "Why me?" and "Why now?" then go 
on to make themselves some mythology of specialness or sin and second 
chances, or of Armageddon and saving the world. Let go of all of that, 
because those ideas are ego resistance in disguise.  Instead ask yourself, 
"Why not me?"  Goddess sees you as infinite and perfect, and in that realm, 
there is nothing but Now.

Gopi Krishna, among others, have attributed the increase in awakening to an 
evolutionary process of our consciousness expanding to balance the lethal 
potential of our technology. I don't like to give energy to such fears, 
they are resistance.

I find truth, in simplicity.  Most people awaken, because they asked for it 
somehow
 they may not have known that Kundalini would be the answer to that 
wish or prayer! So is life; even when we get what we desire, things do not 
turn out like we expect.  People often awaken through trauma of some kind, 
because it is when we are down that we are more likely to surrender, to 
wish for a higher power to intervene in our lives.




From Mystress at fire-serpent.com  Fri Mar 17 01:35:52 2006
From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:35:52 -0800
Subject: [Helpers] 03matgod essay new
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060317013239.05509610@mail.fire-serpent.com>


  Western culture is patriarchal.  I was raised in a Christian home, where 
the Divine was always referred to in masculine terms.  The Lord God the 
Father.  If you grew up in a Patriarchal culture, then you probably 
associate the Divine with masculine identity, even if you are an atheist.

   Patriarchal religions always have God off in the sky somewhere 
distant:  external, vengeful and righteous.  As human beings in male 
dominated Western culture, we have been immersed in Patriarchal ideals that 
are so habitual they are rarely questioned or considered; we take them for 
granted without seeing them.

   Matriarchy focuses on the infinite spark of the Divine within in 
everything, including inside of you.  Goddess is All that Is, including 
me!  Wheee!  Joy.

Patriarchy = external God.
Matriarchy = Goddess is within you, within everything.

Sometimes people take issue with my calling God, by a feminine pronoun: 
Goddess. They insist that God is genderless, infinite spirit.

   They are right, and they miss the point:  The term "Goddess" is 
functional in how it changes one's thinking and identifications.

The purpose is to make a shift of thinking; to break away from thinking of 
God in the way Michelangelo painted: as an old white bearded guy in the 
sky... or as described in the old testament, a judgmental Father God with a 
tendency to smite people with lightning from his home in the heavens, and 
reward the faithful with crucifixion.

   A conscious choice to refer to the Divine as feminine, brings the 
masculine cultural associations from the unconscious into awareness, so 
that they can be acknowledged and surrendered. Choosing to think of the 
genderless Divine as female, draws your attention to the unconscious male 
gender ideas you carry, so you can let them go.

   The imperative of Kundalini is surrender, and it is difficult to 
surrender, if you do not trust.  Resistance makes the process more 
difficult.  The way to a smooth Kundalini process is to trust that the 
Divine spark within you, your Infinite Mind knows what it is doing and 
intends your highest good, so you can get out of the way and let the 
process unfold peacefully.

Many people have issues with the religion of their birth, and mistrust the 
punishing Father God of patriarchal culture.  It can be difficult to 
reconcile the cultural God archetype, with the idea of the Divine, manifest 
as the true nature of us mortal, fragile, fallible human beings, but this 
is the experience which unfolds through the Kundalini process.

Changing your gender identification of the Divine to an unconditionally 
loving Mother, can be useful for releasing the intimidating concepts of the 
righteous angry Father God on his lofty throne.  "Goddess" is a new idea 
that does not have the negative associations.

In order to release the cultural programming first you have to find 
it.  The beliefs that tend to be hardest to find, are the ones that are so 
habitual, so common as cultural beliefs that they are never questioned.

As a teenager, I was impressed by a quote from David Bowie in a Playboy 
magazine interview I was too young to be legally reading.  He said that he 
believed it was good to take himself to extremes, to add deeper cuts to his 
personality. He is an artist who keeps re-inventing himself, by moving 
headlong into experiences that ordinary people would shy away from.  He 
deliberately goes places that are new, difficult, sometimes uncomfortable 
in order to push himself to be more open and creative.

It is a Zen idea, that if one gets off balance in one direction, it is 
useful to find balance by going to the opposite direction.  I advocate the 
"middle path" of moderation, but I also believe that sometimes you cannot 
know where the middle is, until you have measured the distance to the 
edges.  Until you have pushed your own limits and expanded them. The place 
of detachment is found by collapsing opposites, bringing polarities together.

So, the Yogis go to the cremation grounds to meditate on life. Awareness of 
life is sharper in the presence of death.  The presence of the polarity 
brings it into sharper focus. By going to the extreme they can grow to see 
the underlying unity of life and death; that they are two sides of a coin, 
a turning wheel.  Death is illusion, yet its presence and inevitability is 
what makes life precious and beautiful.

The idea of the middle path comes from Buddhism.  The young Prince 
Siddharta was raised in a luxurious palace. His father had decreed that the 
Prince should have no knowledge of the dark side of human 
experience.  Siddharta knew nothing of illness, death or poverty. The first 
time he left the palace and saw the impoverished, the sick, the dead and 
the aged,  he abandoned his royal lifestyle to follow a spiritual path. He 
joined a group of ascetics, who starved and beat themselves, practiced 
abstinence and lived in the forest without shelter in the hope that by 
denying the body they would be rewarded in spirit.
  One day a pretty cowherd came by and gave Siddharta food, a bath and 
intimacy. The other ascetics where shocked and rejected him, but he was 
pleased with what he had done, how much better he felt indulging the body's 
needs instead of denying them and from this he was inspired with the idea 
of the Middle path. From royal luxury to hermit poverty, the Buddha 
explored the edges and found the middle road.

Matriarchy is about a change in consciousness... a different way of looking 
at the world, at Spirit, at ourselves and our relationship with 
others.  It's about moving into the opposite polarity, from the Patriarchy 
of Western culture, to find the edges of both paradigms, so you know where 
the middle path is.

The spiritual imperative is "Know Thyself."  Spiritual growth is about the 
process of self discovery. Learning where the edges are, is about getting 
to know your Self.

   Moving from one gender polarization to the other, eventually leads to 
the middle path... the genderless, formless, Self, that is Realized through 
the spiritual evolutionary process.

Spirit, what some call God or Buddha nature, Source, is infinite, 
genderless, ineffable, nameless. It, the Self, the  I AM, does not care 
what we call It; for no names can hold It or define It. We are the ones, 
who care... and what a lot of names we have come up with! What a lot of 
Holy Wars have been started, over this simple thing: what to call, that 
which is nameless.

The energy Itself doesn't care what we call It... Unconditional love does 
not judge. It is infinite, and nameless, words cannot encompass or describe 
it. The infinite energy of All that Is, is infinite, nameless, genderless. 
It is bigger than the limitations and definitions of gender. When one 
reaches beyond all dualities, including the polarity of gender, there is 
only Being.  It just Is. The Self is bigger than any limiting ideas of 
religion or dogma, including mine
 yet, It is me, the infinite part of me. 
It is you. The part of you that is Infinite, unconditional love.

We are the ones who care about what we call our Gods. We are the ones who 
have the power to change our selves, by changing our beliefs, which in turn 
change our decisions, and thus, our lives. Moving into a Matrifocal belief, 
brings the Patriarchal, male dominant programming of culture, into sharp 
relief, so we can see it with awareness. So we can have the option to make 
better choices.

At that metaphysical level of existence, beyond duality, beyond the 
polarities of male-fem, light-dark, everything is True, and nothing is 
real. Religion and philosophy don't matter, in that place, they are limited 
human conceptions that cannot hold the Infinite. Since time and space don't 
exist at that level, that place is nowhere. It is now here. It is within 
our consciousness, as much as it is everywhere else.

In order to expand consciousness and come into awareness of that higher 
reality underlying creation, you have to discard the beliefs about yourself 
that say you, and everything else, are less that that. Let go of believing 
that the Divine is something off in the sky, outside of you.

Often when seekers are resistant to the concept of surrender, it is because 
they are afraid of giving power away to something they perceive as being 
outside of themselves.  Many people have a deep unconscious mistrust of the 
external, Patriarchal God. They have too much anger to be able to surrender 
fully. With the Goddess, you can make a fresh start.

Traditionally, in Hindu texts, the Kundalini Shakti is referred to as a 
Goddess; In most Kundalini oriented writings, you will find this 
convention. Kundalini is the Goddess. Goddess Shakti. Goddess is within 
you, the smarter part of your own mind, which guides and directs the 
Kundalini process.

     For decades male archaeologists and scholars insisted that 
Matriarchal, female dominant cultures were a myth, that the status quo of 
the Patriarchy was how things have always been.

It was not until women became archaeologists that the symbols of the 
Goddess were recognised. It was when we had a sufficient number of feminine 
voices speaking of their conclusions and discoveries to be heard as a 
dissenting voice, that the evidence of the Matrifocal history of early 
human culture started coming to light.  Great female archaeologists and 
scholars like Marija Gimbutas saw the signs of the Goddess  birds, spirals 
and chevrons- through feminine eyes and brought about a radical change in 
how we understand prehistoric mythology, religion and culture.

 From an historical, evolutionary viewpoint, Matriarchy long predates 
Patriarchy.  The earliest roots of religion were Matriarchal. The oldest 
idols are feminine, the most ancient tombs are shaped like a uterus and 
vulva; womb shaped.  Birth and death, a cycle.  Birth, and the mysteries of 
menstruation are the oldest miracles, blood and birth and death belonged to 
the Mother Goddess. At death, people went back to the Mother, to be reborn.

Mother is still our "first God". She is the power we first learn to 
surrender to, as the source of life, food, comfort... survival. The rhythm 
of her heartbeat was the first tune we danced to, floating in the amniotic 
sea of her womb.

The earliest Goddesses were associated with Serpents. Serpents were 
considered a symbol of the Earth itself. Shedding skin was considered a 
sign of rebirth. The Oroborus, a serpent with it's tail in it's mouth, is a 
symbol of the Infinite, and the circle of life. Life eats life, with out 
beginning and with out end.

In nature, creation springs from the feminine... as the Wiccan chant goes,

"We all come from the Goddess,
and to Her we shall return,
like a drop of rain,
flowing to the ocean."

   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.

In Wiccan theology, the Goddess is considered primary. She is eternal, 
immortal, endlessly creative, always giving birth. The God is Mortal, the 
Stag King Her consort, dying with the cut grain, with the fading seasons to 
be reborn again and again through the Goddess.

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.  Modern scientific studies have 
proven the effectiveness of these ancient rituals!

   Matrifocal spiritual paths tend to focus on cherishing of the body as a 
sacred vessel, on life itself, as a gift of Goddess.  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.

Asceticism and deprivation is the difficult road to enlightenment... denial 
of the body wisdom is the Patriarchal way. Your body knows that the 
quickest path to Goddess is through pleasure and bliss.  Goddess comes 
through with that message, even if She has to eroticise patriarchal sexual 
guilt and pain/punishment itself, to turn you on to Life.

Goddess designed your body to have the path of enlightenment built right 
into your DNA, as instinctive as learning to walk.  For patriarchal 
religion to complete it's power grabs over the much stronger matriarchal 
religions, all trappings of the sacred power of sex had to be strictly 
suppressed. Women had to be programmed to believe that their sexual 
appetites, free will, and even their sacred moon blood was unclean and 
sinful, a sign of weakness instead of a sign of Her power and fertility.


It is the winners of wars who write the history books
 and there were wars 
in the transition from the early Matrifocal religions, to the Patriarchal:

  The Priestesses of Goddess Bridgit of Ireland used the Serpent as their 
sacred symbol, even though there are not, and have never been snakes in 
Ireland. It was these women, midwives and healers who were the "snakes" St. 
Patrick drove into the sea. The Pope forbade healing because illness and 
pain of childbirth was believed to be God's punishment for sin. The 
Priestesses drowned themselves in the sea rather than be converted, and 
forbidden to use their healing power.

The "Song of Solomon", or "Song of Songs" in the Old Testament was 
originally a Sumerian invocation of Inanna, the Goddess of love.  She who 
was worshipped in the sacred groves on the hill tops.  Solomon worshipped 
in those groves. His son David cut them down, killed the worshippers, and 
cut the Goddess out of the Hebrew faith.

In the Song of Solomon, Inanna's lover, the God has been taken by death, 
and she wanders lonely seeking him to resurrect him, just as Isis wandered 
seeking Osiris, after he had been torn to pieces and killed. It follows the 
theme of the God dying, and being reborn through the Goddess.

In 1500BC, the Aryan Horsemen from the North, invaded the Indus Valley, 
where the peaceful, Matriarchal culture of the Dravidians had resided for 
1500 years. The Dravidian culture originated what we now know as sexual 
Tantra.  The winners write the history books, and the Aryans did their best 
to smash the culture they had conquered, replacing the Goddess Mother with 
Patriarchal Gods of War.  However, as with the Christian missionaries, the 
result was a merging, not a replacement, of the original culture.

The early Christians referred to the Holy Spirit as "God the Mother."  What 
happened to that idea?  Around 500 AD, Rome was at war. Constantinople, a 
Roman general claimed to have seen a crucifix in a vision that promised him 
victory. At that time, Christians used the symbol of the fish.  He won, 
became Emperor of Rome and spent the rest of his life rearranging 
Christianity to be a political tool of oppression, and burning anyone who 
did not agree, as a heretic.  He did not convert to Christianity himself, 
until he was old and at death's door. His sons continued the work of 
editing the New Testament into the perfect tool of political subjugation.

For patriarchal religion to maintain it's mind control idea of a forbidding 
punishing God, it was vital that the best sources of true awakening and 
spiritual ecstasy be suppressed... because folks who are awakened have 
direct irrefutable evidence of Goddess within, and cannot be controlled or 
convinced otherwise.  They will not listen to anyone telling them God needs 
a middleman, a Priest. People who are awakened tend not to listen to 
outside authority telling them things that disagree with their own spirit.


I don't expect you to, either.  I am not a Guru, for you to have 
unconditional trust and faith in
 that would be patriarchal, trying to find 
God-dess outside of yourself, in me.  I won't take the Guru role, to be God 
for you. You are the God of your own life.

   I experimented with the Guru role for a few years, and I took it to some 
interesting extremes, in a consensual way. I had devotees who went from 
zero to self realized in six months, they could not sustain it. I had taken 
on their karma and transmuted it for them, so they did not really know 
themselves.  They recreated, or fell back into their karmic tendencies 
because they had not built a strong spiritual foundation of self knowledge. 
They did not know how they got there, because they were carried instead of 
walking the road with their own feet, so they did not know how to find the 
way back when they went astray.

   Some seekers find this course after becoming disaffected with a Guru, 
there is an instinct within them that cannot wholly trust what is outside 
of themselves. Their instinct is correct. Even with a successful 
Guru-devotee relationship there is a hierarchy that lingers even after the 
Devotee is self-realized. For example, Yogananda's achievements with the 
Self Realization Fellowship far outstripped the accomplishments of his 
Guru, Sri Yukteshwar.  Yet, in "Autobiography of a Yogi" there is a scene 
where Yogananda's dead Guru appears and Yogananda falls to his knees.  Why 
were they not yet equals?  Respect for the teacher I can understand, but 
his reaction is extreme.


    Enlightenment, is a do it yourself process.
    I am a Priestess, Mystress
 teacher, trainer.  I see Goddess in me and 
in you, and my work is to train you to hear and surrender to the will of 
Goddess within yourself, and have none before.  To teach you how to set 
your ego self aside and turn your life over to the will of your own soul, 
and not another.  I will teach you discernment, how to hear the signals of 
your own body instincts, Goddess within you, telling you what is true for you.

   Look upon some of these ideas as "thought experiments"... try them out 
for yourself, see how they fit. Change your beliefs for a day, or a week, 
and see what comes up for you: how that affects how you make decisions in 
your life. Change your world, by changing inside of yourself... by changing 
your mind. You can always change your mind again, later if it does not work 
for you. In the meantime you will have gained insights into the inner 
workings of your own mind: the spiritual imperative "Know Thyself."

Find out, what is true, for you.


  new links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marija_Gimbutas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddess_movement
http://www.levity.com/mavericks/gim-int.htm




From Mystress at fire-serpent.com  Fri Mar 17 15:13:21 2006
From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:13:21 -0800
Subject: [Helpers] Stuff & things...
In-Reply-To: <03ae01c6492a$55450ac0$0100a8c0@sachikojn>
References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060313094559.03081a20@mail.fire-serpent.com>
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060317145657.055e4f08@mail.fire-serpent.com>

At 10:49 AM 16/03/2006, Sachiko M wrote:
>My computer gave up on me, so I'm setting up my other computer
>for temporally use...
>
>I was wandering if you could give me the password for FTP server
>login again, since I don't have access to the original email that you
>sent me with server info.

done.


> >    Dreamweaver is a learning curve I just don't have time for, right
> > now.
> > I tried to update a lesson, (tantra/01cintro) and when I uploaded
> > it, it
> > was messed up. Sachiko, can you fix it? That lesson is meant to be
> > called
> > 01stdyguid.html and you will find a file by that name that has the
> > correct
> > content, but I messed it up too!
>
>I had a brief access to my old computer, so I downloaded the files off
>the
>server.
>
>I understand taht you are reffering to these files?
>http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/01cintroops.html
>http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/01stdyguid.html

  yes.



>The problem that you were having is that the images around
>the table were not showing, is that correct?

  Yeah, half the table border images were not showing.


>If  you can view those above files with no problem then the problem
>was the path to the images file.
>
>Path for the images file was like this:
><img src="../../titles/imagefile.gif">
>
>Instead of this:
><img src="../titles/imagefile.gif">

   Yes, and I don't know why it happened. Dreamweaver did it!

> >   How do I tell Dreamweaver the local directory is a mirror of the
> > web, so
> > it doesn't download all the images each time I want to look at a
> > file?
> > Something to do with projects?
>
>I'm not sure about this setting, but you might want to run a setting
>again.
>
>[Site] --> [Manage Sites]
>
>and Edit the site you would like to edit.
>
>I don't have password for the FTP server right now, so I can' t test
>the
>setting to figure this out.
>
>Sachiko

   No rush.  Get to it when you can. I'm focusing on content, right now, 
not webdesign. Thanks! 




From Mystress at fire-serpent.com  Fri Mar 17 15:17:35 2006
From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:17:35 -0800
Subject: [Helpers] Text editing?
In-Reply-To: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0C8879@mail.starbreeze.com
 >
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060317151454.032d5b38@mail.fire-serpent.com>

At 12:54 AM 17/03/2006, you wrote:
> > >     Some lessons are very ADD! I jump from topic to topic like a
> > mountain
> > > goat fleeing a cougar.
> >
> > Yeah, I noticed this when we first started taking the class. Gustaf
>had
> > no problem following some of these lessons, but I'm a more literal
> > thinker, and the skipping around tended to confuse me, which is why I
> > volenteered for this. :) LOL
>
>It takes one to know one!  I have a small touch of something ADD-ish
>myself.

   Most artists do.

>Not severe enough to cause too much trouble, but I totally
>understand what it feels like... Something makes it very easy for me to
>catch your lessons, even when sentences may be completely illogical or
>broken off.

   oy!!

>Often I haven't noticed them until Kimberly points them out
>to me.
>
>
> > >    I need an editor to clean things up and help me focus on where
> > > improvement is needed so I can be more efficient.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Thats what I'm here for! :)
>
>Trust me, she is a -very- good editor. :) And awakened editors don't
>grow on trees. Take advantage of this one!

   yup, I plan to. Goddess provides!



>_______________________________________________
>Helpers mailing list
>Helpers at fire-serpent.org
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From ladyofquills at spray.se  Sat Mar 18 07:18:09 2006
From: ladyofquills at spray.se (Kimberly)
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:18:09 +0100
Subject: [Helpers] 02introk new essay.
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060317012313.054bc758@mail.fire-serpent.com>
Message-ID: <008301c64a9f$2b5cdf00$6501a8c0@quilly>

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 you wanted me to start with the ones on the web page or on the
CD. (I can't remember which lessons in particular were confusing me
before, so I was just going to start from the beginning and go from
there.) I was planning on editing the essays and sending them to you as
they were finished. Unfortunately, I won't be able to start on that
until I'm finished with my current work project of editing, which I
should be able to complete by the middle of this week.

So, let me know if you'd rather me start with these that you've sent to
the list.

Thanks!

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: Friday, March 17, 2006 10:33 AM
> To: Helpers at fire-serpent.org
> Subject: [Helpers] 02introk new essay.
> 
> Kundalini is the sacred Fire Serpent of spiritual evolution.  The
medical
> symbol, the caduceus, is an icon of fully awakened Kundalini, with the
two
> Fire Serpents uncoiled around the staff of the spine where the Shakti
> energy rises up the central channel. This rising energy is often felt
as
> heat, tingling or vibrations. The caduceus is topped with the round
halo
> of
> the crown chakra at the top of the head. The wings are part of the
heart
> chakra. The serpents form a giant helix, like DNA. Kundalini is the
> creative, evolutionary energy of Cosmic Consciousness that gave you
birth,
> directed up the spine into the head, rather than outward to procreate,
> create life. We evolve by giving birth. The Kundalini process evolves
us,
> by changing the direction of the energy, inward to give birth to a new
> you.
> 
> Kundalini and serpents are historically associated with healing, from
the
> caduceus to the Brazen Serpent Moses set up in the desert to heal the
> Hebrews. I have known people who appeared to become 20 years younger
as
> the
> process did its work, and it is common for old injuries to reappear,
only
> to be healed more completely. People have reported that their actual
DNA
> has been changed by the process. For some, the healing happens more on
the
> emotional, mental and spiritual levels: Kundalini encompasses all.
> 
> The symbolism of Kundalini appears in many serpents of mythology, from
the
> Rainbow serpent of the Australian aborigines, to the feathered Serpent
of
> the Maya. Serpents represent the instinctive wisdom of the body and
> intuition rising into conscious awareness.
> 
> On old sailing maps when there was an area of sea still uncharted, the
> cartographers would write Here be Dragons", and draw serpents
frolicking
> in
> the waves. Kundalini serpents are represented by Leviathan the serpent
of
> the Earth's power and wisdom, in the dragons of the unknown, the deep
> mysteries of earth and sea rising to be faced by the conscious
individual
> on the warrior path, or what Joseph Campbell would call "the heroes
> journey"
> 
> Kundalini is the great unknown, unknowable. Awakened people often
dream of
> serpents, water and other archetypal symbolism: the language of the
> unconscious mind.  The surface of the sea represents the boundary
between
> the conscious and unconscious mind, in dreams and mythology.
> 
> The Serpent is the most ancient symbol for the Earth. Science has
> discovered that people who do spiritual healing, go into a state where
> their body's energy field is matched with the Schumann resonance, the
> magnetic field of the earth itself. Dead planets, like Mars do not
have a
> magnetic field. The source of the magnetic field of the Earth is the
> electrical charge of friction on the fiery crystal of super compressed
> iron
> spinning in the center of the earth, which we form a connection to
with
> the
> essential practice of Grounding.
> 
> Along with health, the serpent is the symbol for rebirth, and
immortality
> because it sheds its skin. A serpent with its tail in its mouth: the
> Ouroborus, is the symbol for the wheel of life, the turning of the
> seasons.
> It is a symbol for how life eats life, the food chain.
> 
> According to ancient texts, achievement of Kundalini awakening would
to
> take years/lifetimes of spiritual work and meditation, but in these
modern
> times, Kundalini awakening has become a worldwide phenomena. Many
people
> are awakening spontaneously, without any preparation on how to handle
what
> has been called the most powerful and potentially dangerous force in
the
> universe. Those who experience spontaneously awakening often fear they
are
> going insane. This fear may be falsly validated by psychiatic
> professionals
> who are unfamiliar with awakening phenomena. What Jungian psychiatrist
Dr.
> Stanislav Grof calls "spiritual emergency."
> 
> Kundalini seeks to purify the body to become a temple of the Soul, the
> Divine. To accomplish this it works through the unconscious mind to
> resolve
> or release all the limiting beliefs of the mind, the fears, scars and
> emotional baggage of trauma held in the body. All the things that are
> holding you back from manifesting your Divine potential. In order to
> expand
> your consciousness, the barriers and fears of limiting beliefs must be
> dismantled gently as your karma dissolves.
> 
> Kundalini awakening can appear as madness, with visions,
uncontrollable
> physical sensations and extravagant psychic phenomena. It isn't
something
> to be forced, as trying to force the process is really a way of
resisting
> the process, not trusting that the Infinite mind that guides the
process,
> knows what it is doing without your interference.
> 
> People who seek awakening because they want power, give me a mental
> cartoon
> image of Wile E. Coyote and the ACME steamroller of unconditional
love. As
> soon as you see him messing with it, you know he will end up squashed.
> Rolled out flat like a pie crust. that's his karma.
> 
> Don't seek Kundalini awakening unless you are genuinely ready to turn
your
> life over to the path of your Soul, because resisting the awakening
> process
> once it has started, causes the energy to push back harder in its
efforts
> to clear a path for itself. It is infinite, you are not so who wins?
Going
> to war with your Kundalini is a very bad idea.
> 
>   The best thing to do, is to learn to get out of the way and let
Goddess
> get on with it. The best way to smooth the process is to trust in the
> Infinite Wisdom that guides it. Have faith, and surrender control. The
> river knows where it is going. to merge with the sea.
> 
> The Kundalini is not something separate, outside of you, although it
may
> seem that way to your mind. It is the greater Cosmic mind, that you
are a
> part of. It is you, the part of you that is infinite, infinitely wise,
> unconditionally loving, and outside of time.
> 
> The ego seeks to place trust in what it knows: How do we define the
> infinite, unknowable that is our essential Self? It is like the wind,
we
> cannot see it but we can feel it, and see its effects on our
environment.
> We can observe the effects on the people who are experiencing
awakening,
> and see commonalities throughout the world's religions and
mythologies.
> 
> While there is very little scientific research on the effects of
> Kundalini,
> many benefits have been reported by experiencers:
> 
> Improved health. Kundalites find they catch colds and flu less often,
and
> with less severity. Wounds and bruises heal more quickly. Old injuries
may
> reappear, to be healed more completely a second time.
> Increased intelligence. The Kundalini process can increase IQ scores
by as
> much as 30%.
> Greater personal fulfillment.
> Increased peace and well being.
> Improved interpersonal relationships.
> Improved intuition, psychic abilities, synchronicity.
> Expansion of consciousness.
> 
> While most religions make reference to this energy of spiritual
awakening,
> it is the Sanskrit term *Kundalini*, and other Sanskrit terms
describing
> this phenomena, which are the most descriptive and comprehensive,
while
> remaining adaptable to most religious or spiritual paths. The
Kundalini
> path is a Yoga, not a religion. It is a transformative process that
occurs
> on all levels: body, mind and spirit.
> 
> The Christian version is the fiery descent of the Holy Spirit, which
would
> be defined as a "top-down" awakening in terms of the chakras. Some
people
> first experience a "Spiritual awakening" with paranormal experiences,
and
> psychic powers. They may begin to be aware of energy and spirits as
the
> higher chakras open and the energy makes its way down to the lower
> chakras.
> These awakenings tend to be more peaceful, but sometimes do not lead
to
> waking the Kundalini serpents at the root chakra, at the base of the
> spine.
> It is the awakening of the Kundalini which integrates the spiritual
> experiences into the "Chop wood carry water" of normal daily life.
> 
> One seeks to first gently awaken the Fire Serpent (dormant
> spiritual/evolutionary energy), where it sleeps coiled three and one
half
> times at the base of the spine (the root chakra, or Kundalini) and
then
> induce it to uncoil inside oneself, releasing energy as it goes and
> opening
> the Chakras, until it's fiery head pokes out through the crown chakra,
> signifying enlightenment.
> 
> Thus, enlightened beings are often portrayed with a halo of light
coming
> from the crown of the head. Self Realization comes later, when the
> Kundalini turns around and descends back into the body, bringing the
> non-dual insights of the crown, (Love is all that Is) down into your
day
> to
> day physical life. Learning to see Divine perfection in where you are
at,
> here and now in every moment of your life on this good earth.
> 
> This final integration of the body with the spiritual energy is
sometimes
> called "Ascension" because Kundalini working its way back down through
the
> chakras causes the body's vibration to rise. As the body's vibration
> increases it gets easier to see perfection because synchronicities
make
> every day a lucky day. What begins as learning to surrender and "go
with
> the flow" comes out the other side to live your daily life, surfing on
a
> wave of spiritual energy that will carry you wherever your soul
desires.
> 
> Chakras are like the organs of your spiritual/energy body.  There are
> thousands of chakras throughout the body, however most focus is given
to 7
> major chakras that run in a line down the centre of the body, from
crown
> to
> tail bone.  We have a rainbow of lights, within. Each of the chakras
is
> associated with an aspect of being: The crown chakra is concerned with
> universal oneness, the relationship with the all.  Next is the third
eye,
> which is associated with psychic perception, next, the throat chakra,
> which
> is concerned mostly with communication... and so on.  The root chakra,
> from
> whence the Kundalini Serpents rise, is associated with nature itself,
with
> your connection to the planet and your life as a spiritual being in a
> human
> body.  It is associated with survival as a species and procreation,
but
> also with the wisdom of the Earth, the instinctual wisdom of nature.
> 
> Many spontaneously awakened people wonder "Why me?" and "Why now?"
then go
> on to make themselves some mythology of specialness or sin and second
> chances, or of Armageddon and saving the world. Let go of all of that,
> because those ideas are ego resistance in disguise.  Instead ask
yourself,
> "Why not me?"  Goddess sees you as infinite and perfect, and in that
> realm,
> there is nothing but Now.
> 
> Gopi Krishna, among others, have attributed the increase in awakening
to
> an
> evolutionary process of our consciousness expanding to balance the
lethal
> potential of our technology. I don't like to give energy to such
fears,
> they are resistance.
> 
> I find truth, in simplicity.  Most people awaken, because they asked
for
> it
> somehow. they may not have known that Kundalini would be the answer to
> that
> wish or prayer! So is life; even when we get what we desire, things do
not
> turn out like we expect.  People often awaken through trauma of some
kind,
> because it is when we are down that we are more likely to surrender,
to
> wish for a higher power to intervene in our lives.
> 
> 
> 
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> 



From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com  Sat Mar 18 10:52:23 2006
From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M)
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:52:23 -0800
Subject: [Helpers] Stuff & things...
References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060313094559.03081a20@mail.fire-serpent.com>
	<4.3.2.7.2.20060317145657.055e4f08@mail.fire-serpent.com>
Message-ID: <011301c64abd$188f59c0$0100a8c0@sachikojn>

Thank you for the server info. I did some test on connecting
to remote server through Dreamweaver....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" <Mystress at fire-serpent.com>
To: <Helpers at fire-serpent.org>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Helpers] Stuff & things...


>>If  you can view those above files with no problem then the problem
>>was the path to the images file.
>>
>>Path for the images file was like this:
>><img src="../../titles/imagefile.gif">
>>
>>Instead of this:
>><img src="../titles/imagefile.gif">
>
>   Yes, and I don't know why it happened. Dreamweaver did it!

I'm guessing it could be the setting of the site that you have on your
Dreamweaver. If you have [fscnew] as local root folder, then change
it to [fscnew/Current] and see if it works.

.....................................................................................................
Try with this setting below for local info :

- Go to [Site] --> [Manage Site]

- Click [New] --> [Site]

- Click on [Advanced] tab.

- Under Category window on the left hand side. Click [Local info]

Site name: (name whatever you like ex: FST_online)

Local root folder: (on your heard drive)/fscnew/Current
(ex. D:\HP_mystress\fscnew\Current\)

Default images folder: (on your heard drive)/fscnew/Current/title
(ex. D:\HP_mystress\fscnew\Current\title)

HTTP address: http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/

.....................................................................................................
Try this setting below for Remote Info:

Access: FTP
FTP host: ftp.fire-serpent.org
Host directly: /public_html/fscnew/current/
Login: (your login)
Password: (your password)
Check on [Enable file check in and check out]

This is how Check-in and Check-out works:
If you and your co-workers are working together on a larger site, the
file check-in and check-out feature helps to prevent you from
overwriting each others' files. Also, if you or your co-workers use
Macromedia Contribute, you must enable file check-in and check-out.
For the Trio Motors sample site, though, you don't need this feature.

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Upload your local files

After setting up your local and remote folders, you can upload your
files from your local folder to the web server.

To upload your pages to a remote site:
  1.. In the Files panel (Window > Files), select the site's local
root folder. This is the site on your heard drive.
(ex. D:\HP\HP_mystress\fscnew\Current\)

  2.. Click the blue Put Files arrow icon in the Files panel toolbar.

  Dreamweaver copies all the files to the remote folder you defined in
Define a remote folder. This operation may take some time, as
Dreamweaver must upload all the files in the site, including multiple
versions of some files for use with multiple tutorials.

  3.. Open your remote site in a browser to make sure everything
uploaded correctly.
---------------------------------------------------------------------

I hope this will help you solve your problem. I've never used sever
connection through Dreamweaver, so I'm not sure all the details of
how it works.

Sachiko 
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From Mystress at fire-serpent.com  Tue Mar 21 07:04:56 2006
From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:04:56 -0800
Subject: [Helpers] 02introk new essay.
In-Reply-To: <008301c64a9f$2b5cdf00$6501a8c0@quilly>
References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060317012313.054bc758@mail.fire-serpent.com>
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060319113031.02ec3fd8@mail.fire-serpent.com>

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 thought you wanted me to start with the ones on the web page or on the
>CD. (I can't remember which lessons in particular were confusing me
>before, so I was just going to start from the beginning and go from
>there.) I was planning on editing the essays and sending them to you as
>they were finished. Unfortunately, I won't be able to start on that
>until I'm finished with my current work project of editing, which I
>should be able to complete by the middle of this week.

   That's OK.


>So, let me know if you'd rather me start with these that you've sent to
>the list.

I consider these essays done and not in need of editing... don't you agree?



>Thanks!
>
>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: Friday, March 17, 2006 10:33 AM
> > To: Helpers at fire-serpent.org
> > Subject: [Helpers] 02introk new essay.
> >
> > Kundalini is the sacred Fire Serpent of spiritual evolution.  The
>medical
> > symbol, the caduceus, is an icon of fully awakened Kundalini, with the
>two
> > Fire Serpents uncoiled around the staff of the spine where the Shakti
> > energy rises up the central channel. This rising energy is often felt
>as
> > heat, tingling or vibrations. The caduceus is topped with the round
>halo
> > of
> > the crown chakra at the top of the head. The wings are part of the
>heart
> > chakra. The serpents form a giant helix, like DNA. Kundalini is the
> > creative, evolutionary energy of Cosmic Consciousness that gave you
>birth,
> > directed up the spine into the head, rather than outward to procreate,
> > create life. We evolve by giving birth. The Kundalini process evolves
>us,
> > by changing the direction of the energy, inward to give birth to a new
> > you.
> >
> > Kundalini and serpents are historically associated with healing, from
>the
> > caduceus to the Brazen Serpent Moses set up in the desert to heal the
> > Hebrews. I have known people who appeared to become 20 years younger
>as
> > the
> > process did its work, and it is common for old injuries to reappear,
>only
> > to be healed more completely. People have reported that their actual
>DNA
> > has been changed by the process. For some, the healing happens more on
>the
> > emotional, mental and spiritual levels: Kundalini encompasses all.
> >
> > The symbolism of Kundalini appears in many serpents of mythology, from
>the
> > Rainbow serpent of the Australian aborigines, to the feathered Serpent
>of
> > the Maya. Serpents represent the instinctive wisdom of the body and
> > intuition rising into conscious awareness.
> >
> > On old sailing maps when there was an area of sea still uncharted, the
> > cartographers would write Here be Dragons", and draw serpents
>frolicking
> > in
> > the waves. Kundalini serpents are represented by Leviathan the serpent
>of
> > the Earth's power and wisdom, in the dragons of the unknown, the deep
> > mysteries of earth and sea rising to be faced by the conscious
>individual
> > on the warrior path, or what Joseph Campbell would call "the heroes
> > journey"
> >
> > Kundalini is the great unknown, unknowable. Awakened people often
>dream of
> > serpents, water and other archetypal symbolism: the language of the
> > unconscious mind.  The surface of the sea represents the boundary
>between
> > the conscious and unconscious mind, in dreams and mythology.
> >
> > The Serpent is the most ancient symbol for the Earth. Science has
> > discovered that people who do spiritual healing, go into a state where
> > their body's energy field is matched with the Schumann resonance, the
> > magnetic field of the earth itself. Dead planets, like Mars do not
>have a
> > magnetic field. The source of the magnetic field of the Earth is the
> > electrical charge of friction on the fiery crystal of super compressed
> > iron
> > spinning in the center of the earth, which we form a connection to
>with
> > the
> > essential practice of Grounding.
> >
> > Along with health, the serpent is the symbol for rebirth, and
>immortality
> > because it sheds its skin. A serpent with its tail in its mouth: the
> > Ouroborus, is the symbol for the wheel of life, the turning of the
> > seasons.
> > It is a symbol for how life eats life, the food chain.
> >
> > According to ancient texts, achievement of Kundalini awakening would
>to
> > take years/lifetimes of spiritual work and meditation, but in these
>modern
> > times, Kundalini awakening has become a worldwide phenomena. Many
>people
> > are awakening spontaneously, without any preparation on how to handle
>what
> > has been called the most powerful and potentially dangerous force in
>the
> > universe. Those who experience spontaneously awakening often fear they
>are
> > going insane. This fear may be falsly validated by psychiatic
> > professionals
> > who are unfamiliar with awakening phenomena. What Jungian psychiatrist
>Dr.
> > Stanislav Grof calls "spiritual emergency."
> >
> > Kundalini seeks to purify the body to become a temple of the Soul, the
> > Divine. To accomplish this it works through the unconscious mind to
> > resolve
> > or release all the limiting beliefs of the mind, the fears, scars and
> > emotional baggage of trauma held in the body. All the things that are
> > holding you back from manifesting your Divine potential. In order to
> > expand
> > your consciousness, the barriers and fears of limiting beliefs must be
> > dismantled gently as your karma dissolves.
> >
> > Kundalini awakening can appear as madness, with visions,
>uncontrollable
> > physical sensations and extravagant psychic phenomena. It isn't
>something
> > to be forced, as trying to force the process is really a way of
>resisting
> > the process, not trusting that the Infinite mind that guides the
>process,
> > knows what it is doing without your interference.
> >
> > People who seek awakening because they want power, give me a mental
> > cartoon
> > image of Wile E. Coyote and the ACME steamroller of unconditional
>love. As
> > soon as you see him messing with it, you know he will end up squashed.
> > Rolled out flat like a pie crust. that's his karma.
> >
> > Don't seek Kundalini awakening unless you are genuinely ready to turn
>your
> > life over to the path of your Soul, because resisting the awakening
> > process
> > once it has started, causes the energy to push back harder in its
>efforts
> > to clear a path for itself. It is infinite, you are not so who wins?
>Going
> > to war with your Kundalini is a very bad idea.
> >
> >   The best thing to do, is to learn to get out of the way and let
>Goddess
> > get on with it. The best way to smooth the process is to trust in the
> > Infinite Wisdom that guides it. Have faith, and surrender control. The
> > river knows where it is going. to merge with the sea.
> >
> > The Kundalini is not something separate, outside of you, although it
>may
> > seem that way to your mind. It is the greater Cosmic mind, that you
>are a
> > part of. It is you, the part of you that is infinite, infinitely wise,
> > unconditionally loving, and outside of time.
> >
> > The ego seeks to place trust in what it knows: How do we define the
> > infinite, unknowable that is our essential Self? It is like the wind,
>we
> > cannot see it but we can feel it, and see its effects on our
>environment.
> > We can observe the effects on the people who are experiencing
>awakening,
> > and see commonalities throughout the world's religions and
>mythologies.
> >
> > While there is very little scientific research on the effects of
> > Kundalini,
> > many benefits have been reported by experiencers:
> >
> > Improved health. Kundalites find they catch colds and flu less often,
>and
> > with less severity. Wounds and bruises heal more quickly. Old injuries
>may
> > reappear, to be healed more completely a second time.
> > Increased intelligence. The Kundalini process can increase IQ scores
>by as
> > much as 30%.
> > Greater personal fulfillment.
> > Increased peace and well being.
> > Improved interpersonal relationships.
> > Improved intuition, psychic abilities, synchronicity.
> > Expansion of consciousness.
> >
> > While most religions make reference to this energy of spiritual
>awakening,
> > it is the Sanskrit term *Kundalini*, and other Sanskrit terms
>describing
> > this phenomena, which are the most descriptive and comprehensive,
>while
> > remaining adaptable to most religious or spiritual paths. The
>Kundalini
> > path is a Yoga, not a religion. It is a transformative process that
>occurs
> > on all levels: body, mind and spirit.
> >
> > The Christian version is the fiery descent of the Holy Spirit, which
>would
> > be defined as a "top-down" awakening in terms of the chakras. Some
>people
> > first experience a "Spiritual awakening" with paranormal experiences,
>and
> > psychic powers. They may begin to be aware of energy and spirits as
>the
> > higher chakras open and the energy makes its way down to the lower
> > chakras.
> > These awakenings tend to be more peaceful, but sometimes do not lead
>to
> > waking the Kundalini serpents at the root chakra, at the base of the
> > spine.
> > It is the awakening of the Kundalini which integrates the spiritual
> > experiences into the "Chop wood carry water" of normal daily life.
> >
> > One seeks to first gently awaken the Fire Serpent (dormant
> > spiritual/evolutionary energy), where it sleeps coiled three and one
>half
> > times at the base of the spine (the root chakra, or Kundalini) and
>then
> > induce it to uncoil inside oneself, releasing energy as it goes and
> > opening
> > the Chakras, until it's fiery head pokes out through the crown chakra,
> > signifying enlightenment.
> >
> > Thus, enlightened beings are often portrayed with a halo of light
>coming
> > from the crown of the head. Self Realization comes later, when the
> > Kundalini turns around and descends back into the body, bringing the
> > non-dual insights of the crown, (Love is all that Is) down into your
>day
> > to
> > day physical life. Learning to see Divine perfection in where you are
>at,
> > here and now in every moment of your life on this good earth.
> >
> > This final integration of the body with the spiritual energy is
>sometimes
> > called "Ascension" because Kundalini working its way back down through
>the
> > chakras causes the body's vibration to rise. As the body's vibration
> > increases it gets easier to see perfection because synchronicities
>make
> > every day a lucky day. What begins as learning to surrender and "go
>with
> > the flow" comes out the other side to live your daily life, surfing on
>a
> > wave of spiritual energy that will carry you wherever your soul
>desires.
> >
> > Chakras are like the organs of your spiritual/energy body.  There are
> > thousands of chakras throughout the body, however most focus is given
>to 7
> > major chakras that run in a line down the centre of the body, from
>crown
> > to
> > tail bone.  We have a rainbow of lights, within. Each of the chakras
>is
> > associated with an aspect of being: The crown chakra is concerned with
> > universal oneness, the relationship with the all.  Next is the third
>eye,
> > which is associated with psychic perception, next, the throat chakra,
> > which
> > is concerned mostly with communication... and so on.  The root chakra,
> > from
> > whence the Kundalini Serpents rise, is associated with nature itself,
>with
> > your connection to the planet and your life as a spiritual being in a
> > human
> > body.  It is associated with survival as a species and procreation,
>but
> > also with the wisdom of the Earth, the instinctual wisdom of nature.
> >
> > Many spontaneously awakened people wonder "Why me?" and "Why now?"
>then go
> > on to make themselves some mythology of specialness or sin and second
> > chances, or of Armageddon and saving the world. Let go of all of that,
> > because those ideas are ego resistance in disguise.  Instead ask
>yourself,
> > "Why not me?"  Goddess sees you as infinite and perfect, and in that
> > realm,
> > there is nothing but Now.
> >
> > Gopi Krishna, among others, have attributed the increase in awakening
>to
> > an
> > evolutionary process of our consciousness expanding to balance the
>lethal
> > potential of our technology. I don't like to give energy to such
>fears,
> > they are resistance.
> >
> > I find truth, in simplicity.  Most people awaken, because they asked
>for
> > it
> > somehow. they may not have known that Kundalini would be the answer to
> > that
> > wish or prayer! So is life; even when we get what we desire, things do
>not
> > turn out like we expect.  People often awaken through trauma of some
>kind,
> > because it is when we are down that we are more likely to surrender,
>to
> > wish for a higher power to intervene in our lives.
> >
> >
> >
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From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com  Tue Mar 21 12:17:40 2006
From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:17:40 -0800
Subject: [Helpers] Stuff & things...
References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060313094559.03081a20@mail.fire-serpent.com>
Message-ID: <00c601c64d24$81da5a10$0100a8c0@sachikojn>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" <Mystress at fire-serpent.com>
To: <Helpers at fire-serpent.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:21 PM
Subject: [Helpers] Stuff & things...


>  I'm thinking it is better for me to just focus on the content, so I
> am
> saving the word docs and when there are many I'll upload them to the
> fscnew
> site, and hopefully someone else can add paragraph breaks and paste
> them into the lesson.

I have Copy&Paste essay that was sent out to this list. PLease check
and see if I have done correctly.
http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/02introk.html
http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/03matgod.html

For the 03matgod essay, I wasn't sure what to do with the new link
so I left it out.

Do they supposed to be added on popup link file?


>  I'm also thinking of eliminating the "Experiences links" box from
> each
> lesson and just adding the links to the bottom of the main
> experiences
> section. Changing the form at this point feels like going
> backwards... but
> I feel it would be smoother.

I think that make sense more than having separate link box. It's not
big deal to elininating the experience box at all. I can do that as I
copy&paste contents of each lesson.

Just let me know.


>   Question: does it make more sense to have the homework box at the
> bottom, or below the experiences section instead of below the essay?

It might make more sense. If you would like people to read rest of the
article below the homework box, them maybe it is good idea to move
it to be bottom of the page. But if it's option to read but not so
important wather it is read or not then placement of the homework box
should be fine as it is.

Sachiko 




From Mystress at fire-serpent.com  Tue Mar 21 14:52:35 2006
From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:52:35 -0800
Subject: [Helpers] Stuff & things...
In-Reply-To: <00c601c64d24$81da5a10$0100a8c0@sachikojn>
References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060313094559.03081a20@mail.fire-serpent.com>
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060321125903.04a92d48@mail.fire-serpent.com>

At 12:17 PM 21/03/2006, Sachiko M wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" <Mystress at fire-serpent.com>
>To: <Helpers at fire-serpent.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:21 PM
>Subject: [Helpers] Stuff & things...
>
>I have Copy&Paste essay that was sent out to this list. PLease check
>and see if I have done correctly.
>http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/02introk.html
>http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/03matgod.html

  looks good to me!

>For the 03matgod essay, I wasn't sure what to do with the new link
>so I left it out.
>
>Do they supposed to be added on popup link file?

Yes.

   Have not heard from Sandra D lately...

   Hillary has finished a good first draft of updating the poplinks files, 
(yay, thank you!) by linking them to the wayback machine, not to the 
K-gateway library, and not archiving them.

   We took a closer look at the wayback TOS and went hmmm... they might not 
like this library thing. There are some pages that link to wayback whose 
content  can probably be found elsewhere on the web, if we google it, and 
that must be done someday...

    I still want the link content archived, in case wayback goes down 
someday, but until I have time to contact wayback and ask if our library is 
cool with them, the K-gateway library will be fairly small.

   On the other hand, the guy at the Kundalini Research Foundation, who 
represents the work of Gopi Krishna invited us to mirror anything we like!

   Thank you Sandra D for repairing the fstlinks page, seems I was wrong 
and we will need it after all! It needs to be saved to the preview.

   I have a folder of new links I have collected over the years too, but 
they are just a favourites folder and give no indication what lesson I 
intended them for! I'll post it here later, maybe somebody can sort them out.

    The reciprocal links page fstlink.html (no s) does need polishing, and 
that job involves doing a search for pages that link to fire-serpent.com 
and adding those sites to that page (not including search engines, maybe 
not including some bulletin boards & blogs  either, as they tend to be 
transient)
    I may tackle that myself in the future, as I am often amused by what 
some people write about me... but if someone wants to take a stab at it, 
that would be great!

   In other news, I was working intensely on the public/preview pages all 
weekend, and I have uploaded them over the old ones on fscnew/current. They 
are not ready or polished yet, but I am pleased with what I accomplished.

   Some work for you, Sachiko if you will...

   1.) For "truth in advertising" we need the sample lessons for the 
preview, to be the old design, until the day when the updated course goes 
online.  You had them updated to the new design already, which is great, 
but too soon.
    Good to have the updated ones ready for later. Give the updated new 
ones a temporary filename like 02matgodnew for now, so when the new 
/tantra/ pages go live they will be ready, and only need a filename change.

    However, the old sample lesson pages, (find them on the live site if 
you don't have them backed up) can be updated by having the new essays, 
experiences and links   pasted into them,  and the new audio mp3 files can 
be used.

    2.) The sample lesson pages need to be linked to each other, pretty 
much as they are in the live site. Right now in some places the "next" link 
on the new sample lessons you made goes to the tantra folder. The mouseover 
links might as well.. not sure. I was up till 7am working on them and I 
just got up, my brain is not really awake yet.

    3.) I made a whack of new textbox header images for the preview, and 
have installed and uploaded them, but I made zero effort to shrink the 
filesize. They are photoshop max size jpgs. Not sure if they should be 
gifs, I left optimization totally up to you. Sort by date in the titles 
folder with the newest first and they will float to the top of the FTP window.

   4.) Flash navigation and preload array. The navigation mouseovers have 
not changed, though I think the links might need some tweaking. Could be 
some are linked to lesson previews with new filenames.
   Hmm. I guess the old sample lessons will need the new filenames, or the 
flash will be out of date when the new course pages go live... and we will 
need meta files to link the old filename to the new, for people who have 
them bookmarked.
   1tinyform.html already has the meta code and can be edited to become 
meta-refresh pages.

   Anyway... the navtable for the preview pages can become flash anytime. I 
am pretty sure they won't change... and the preload array for the present 
mouseovers can be deleted.

   Question: lately I have been surfing with activex turned off, so flash 
doesn't work. I foolishly reset my security settings on the advice of an 
antivirus site, and got annoyed at the approval popups.  Do many people 
turn off flash and activex, and do we need to allow for that with a browser 
setting sniffer and alternate text?

    5.) Not sure if I spellchecked all the pages. (They need to be 
spellchecked with a Canadian english spellchecker.)  Some pages are not 
done yet, notably the new front index page and the mintro page.  The cintro 
page has changed a lot, and the video for it gets moved to be part of the 
new lesson 01stdyguid.html

     The new index needs to remain named something (not index.html) until 
the site goes live, so that the server file list in the fscnew/current 
folder remains visible to Helpers.

    6.) I noticed an extra /tr between the Shaktipat navlink and the FST 
store navlink, that is messing up some pages.


    Can everyone take a few moments to peruse the new preview pages and 
post here  about anything strange you find? I have a nagging feeling that 
there are some new pages that have the same content... duplicated. I need 
help from fresh eyes.

   Now that the textboxes have shiny new header art, in some places the 
title in the top heading is redundant.  On some pages I have replaced it 
with a pithy expression... (the top header on the support page now says 
"Satsangh means spiritual companionship") but in other places I have not, 
and some of the present header titles are too long and distort the page. I 
could use some fresh ideas about what to put there.

   The quotes box on almost all the preview pages, has the same content 
repeated from the main index. I need new quotes for most of the preview 
pages. Anybody got quotes that would fit? O saint Hillary Mini-slither, the 
living K list library, can you help? :)

> >  I'm also thinking of eliminating the "Experiences links" box from
> > each
> > lesson and just adding the links to the bottom of the main
> > experiences
> > section. Changing the form at this point feels like going
> > backwards... but
> > I feel it would be smoother.
>
>I think that make sense more than having separate link box. It's not
>big deal to elininating the experience box at all. I can do that as I
>copy&paste contents of each lesson.
>
>Just let me know.

  So be it! I noticed as I was choosing experiences to paste in, that it 
made more sense to paste links to the rest of the thread, below the 
experience text instead of off to the side. Thus my inspiration to 
eliminate the experiences links box.

> >   Question: does it make more sense to have the homework box at the
> > bottom, or below the experiences section instead of below the essay?
>
>It might make more sense. If you would like people to read rest of the
>article below the homework box, them maybe it is good idea to move
>it to be bottom of the page. But if it's option to read but not so
>important wather it is read or not then placement of the homework box
>should be fine as it is.

   I would say reading the experiences and transcript is more optional than 
the homework... but it seems logical to have the homework below the essay. 
The problem came when I told students to proceed directly to the next 
lesson after reading 01stdyguide.html, and realized they would miss the 
rest of the lesson... but I can just edit it to tell them to move on when 
thy are finished reading the rest of the lesson.
   Lets leave it as-is, for now.

   I had homework written for introk and matgod, but I dunno where it got 
to! Dang! May have to rewrite it.

   Many thanks to all you helpers, this job is so large and overwhelming, 
it probably never would get done without you!

   When does everyone want the next helpers thank you chat party scheduled 
for?  I'm busy this sunday but otherwise flexible!

    Blessings! 




From Mystress at fire-serpent.com  Tue Mar 21 15:19:58 2006
From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:19:58 -0800
Subject: [Helpers] Helpers Digest, Vol 10, Issue 3
In-Reply-To: <20060317110904.85038.qmail@web26101.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
References: <mailman.5.1142528403.8549.helpers_fire-serpent.org@fire-serpent.org>
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060321150727.0488b2f0@mail.fire-serpent.com>

At 03:09 AM 17/03/2006, Tommy Kristensen wrote:
>Hello everyone
>
>I am one of the lurkers. I am not a pervert just not as clever as you :)

   I did not say anyone was a pervert. A voyeur is like a lurker, someone 
who watches but does not participate.

>  I really wanted to help.. but i dont understand many of the mails. I 
> hate being the dumb kid in the class but i guess i am in this :)

   Yeah, I guess most of what I need help with, is pretty technical. Thanks 
for your good intentions, but I really want only helpers on the helpers 
list. It is like, only stage hands and actors are allowed backstage.

>
>I wish you all the best, and good luck with the site.

  Thanks!

>I would like to hear more about the european tour though?

   Exciting stuff!! The tentative schedule is at
http://kundalini-teacher.com/tantra.html
and news will be posted to the Messenger list.
   Dang! I see I forgot to upload the new index page... the work never ends!


>
>God bless
>Tommy
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>1. Stuff & things... (Mystress Angelique Serpent)
>2. Text editing? (Kimberly)
>3. Re: Stuff & things... (Gustaf Grefberg)
>
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>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Message: 1
>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:21:07 -0800
>From: Mystress Angelique Serpent
>Subject: [Helpers] Stuff & things...
>To: Helpers at fire-serpent.org
>Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060313094559.03081a20 at mail.fire-serpent.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
>
>
>
>Heya:
>
>Sorry if it seems quiet around here... it is just that I am incredibly
>busy. March is half over already, and Europe draws near. Spring is making
>me hyperactive as usual and it is hard to sit still at my desk... but I
>still have a lot of website updates to do.
>I've been working on plans for Europe, proposals, content, wardrobe,
>flights, advertising, luggage, passport, etc..
>
>Despite feeling overwhelmed, I am really happy at the turn my work is
>taking. Excited about Europe but scared too. Lori getting back to me with a
>schedule was comforting, I am getting more confident that I will at least
>break even on the trip.
>
>The FST update is hard because I tend to read from memory and not
>actually see the content. I finally hauled out my old double-spaced
>hardcopy of the course, (a 5" thick binder!) and put it on a giant book
>holder on my desk, so I make notes there (sometimes in the jacuzzi!) and
>then paste the content into Word for editing, Canadian spellcheck and
>grammar... but then I end up adding more after I paste it into the web
>page, and then it becomes an issue of version control. I lose track of
>whether the word version or the web version is most up to date.
>The lesson I accidentally posted to this list was a draft version that was
>later updated.
>
>
>
>It is very slow going, every time I decide an essay is "done" I later
>get new inspiration, and with some of the essays I get a feeling that what
>I am adding actually belongs in a different lesson. My new "introduction to
>Kundalini" has a lot of stuff that might be better in the Serpents lesson.
>Sigh.
>
>I'm thinking it is better for me to just focus on the content, so I am
>saving the word docs and when there are many I'll upload them to the fscnew
>site, and hopefully someone else can add paragraph breaks and paste them
>into the lesson.
>
>Some of the new essays are so much better than the old, I am wondering
>if the new ones should be pasted into the live site as they are completed.
>b0b's post made me think perhaps the live site should be updated
>concurrently with the new design. I'm impatient to have the new site up,
>but there is still so much to do!
>
>Dreamweaver is a learning curve I just don't have time for, right now.
>I tried to update a lesson, (tantra/01cintro) and when I uploaded it, it
>was messed up. Sachiko, can you fix it? That lesson is meant to be called
>01stdyguid.html and you will find a file by that name that has the correct
>content, but I messed it up too!
>
>How do I tell Dreamweaver the local directory is a mirror of the web, so
>it doesn't download all the images each time I want to look at a file?
>Something to do with projects?
>
>The good thing is that some essays look fine to me and don't need
>editing... but I still have to add homework and experiences, and
>experiences links to them! Ack. So much to do!
>
>Sandra C: Adding experiences means searching the tea room archives for
>keywords of each topic, and deciding what posts have information that
>enhances understanding. If you will select posts, then I will go through
>them and choose one to edit and add to the lesson... I'm open to
>suggestions for that... keeping in mind that the finished update will
>become a book, I really need to be emailing the members whose posts I use
>in the lesson and asking permission. Not for the links to the tea room,
>just for the experiences area.
>
>I'm also thinking of eliminating the "Experiences links" box from each
>lesson and just adding the links to the bottom of the main experiences
>section. Changing the form at this point feels like going backwards... but
>I feel it would be smoother.
>
>Getting experiences from the K-list archives is a whole other deal and I
>have no idea when or how that will happen.
>
>Question: does it make more sense to have the homework box at the
>bottom, or below the experiences section instead of below the essay?
>
>With regards to the new right corner image... I sometimes get emails
>like this:
>
> >country = indonesia
> >body = Good Morning / afternoon / evening. Iam from Indonesia.
> >I followed rei ki tummo trainning. I don't feel kundalini energy as
> >perfectly yet. I want to my kundalini is growth without prolem. Someone
> >told me, your picture could help to kundalini growth. If this is right and
> >if you don't mind,please send me your picture.
> >Thank you very much to your attention.I am sorry, if my english rather bad.
>
>Been getting them for a few years now. It kind of blows my mind to know
>people all over the world meditate on my photo to get Kundalini... just
>weird, but I cannot think of a reason to discourage it. People all over the
>world masturbate to my fetish pix, and I got used to that .. but it is
>still odd to think of people looking at me to raise K. like they do with
>Sai Baba or Grandma Devi.
>
>Anyway, in light of this phenomena, I think I'll use a different pic of
>myself for the new right corner image for the lessons. The videos have some
>lovely images with mudras I use spontaneously.
>
>Gustaf please select a few stills from the vids, when you edit them, and
>then I can mess with one in photoshop to add a fun aura or something that
>will fit the site design.
>
>I am also concerned that your editing the vids will interfere with your
>progress of the course. The vids were not recorded in the lesson order, and
>are not even labeled as which vids go with which lessons! I'm trying to
>take notes as I go, but I am getting hyper and spaced out from my own
>Shakti coming back at me! Whoa! I hope it doesn't overwhelm you, too.
>
>I'm not sure whether the magnetic tape is degraded or whether the video
>quality was not good to begin with, but I am seeing colour bleed on the
>videos. The worst is when my teeth flash bright yellow, picking up the
>background colour of the gold cloth on the chair. Really bad! Distracting
>and unattractive. Can this be fixed?
>
>There are a few people who are on this list who are not actually doing
>anything, and have not done anything. I appreciate the good intentions that
>moved you to join, but this is not a list for lurkers or voyeurs so please
>either volunteer to do something or unsub yourself. Thanks.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:26:06 +0100
>From: "Kimberly"
>Subject: [Helpers] Text editing?
>To:
>Message-ID: <005001c648ca$e40ae230$6501a8c0 at quilly>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>Hi Mystress!
>
>I have been lurking around the list for like a month or something now,
>and I haven't said anything yet. I was kinda waiting because I wasn't
>sure if you wanted to deal with the text editing yet for the lessons
>themselves. With all the other rearranging that you are doing (which I
>barely understand at all), I thought maybe it would be too much to throw
>that into the mix as well right now. :-)
>
>But, I'm here and would be more than happy to help with any text editing
>needs that you have for the lessons, or help organizing things into book
>form or both. whatever! Let me know what I can do or where I can start.
>:-)
>
>Blessings,
>Kimberly
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>Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:41:10 +0100
>From: "Gustaf Grefberg"
>Subject: Re: [Helpers] Stuff & things...
>To: "FST Helpers list."
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> > Gustaf please select a few stills from the vids, when you edit
>them,
> > and then I can mess with one in photoshop to add a fun aura or
>something >that will fit the site design.
>
>Gotcha. :)
>
> > I am also concerned that your editing the vids will interfere with
> > your
> > progress of the course. The vids were not recorded in the lesson
>order,
> > and
> > are not even labeled as which vids go with which lessons! I'm trying
>to
> > take notes as I go, but I am getting hyper and spaced out from my own
> > Shakti coming back at me! Whoa! I hope it doesn't overwhelm you, too.
>Well I've gotten pretty far into the course now, to the Empathy lesson,
>I don't think there are all that many left before the graduation
>classes. It's the graduation videos I need to watch out for (until I've
>actually done those classes, of course) And I'm sure it will overwhelm
>me a bit from time to time! But Goddess won't give me anything I can't
>handle in the end. :)
>
>And I will definitely need some notes to help me discern which videos
>that goes with each class, and any notes about any versions you prefer
>would be very helpful, too. LOL Shakti kick huh? Will have to do some
>thorough grounding before each editing session. Never thought I'd have
>to get grounded for that!
>
>
>
> > I'm not sure whether the magnetic tape is degraded or whether the
>video
> > quality was not good to begin with, but I am seeing colour bleed on
>the
> > videos. The worst is when my teeth flash bright yellow, picking up the
> > background colour of the gold cloth on the chair. Really bad!
>Distracting
> > and unattractive. Can this be fixed?
>
>It depends on if it only affects areas of the picture, or the entire
>picture. If it's color anomalities of the whole picture it's easier to
>fix. Vegas has a bunch of filters that can be applied before rendering,
>a lot like in Photoshop. I will keep an eye out for your teeth :D
>
>Namaste
>Gustaf
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From rich at ulterium.com  Tue Mar 21 19:42:42 2006
From: rich at ulterium.com (Rich)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:42:42 +0700
Subject: [Helpers] A small job seeks a volunteer
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060317002730.052605d0@mail.fire-serpent.com>
Message-ID: <002301c64d62$b1468380$6e00000a@clarityforms.com>

I'll do it over the weekend. Please send me the summary.

Richard


> -----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.
> 
>    Anybody up for that?  Let me know and I'll send the template. Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
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From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com  Wed Mar 22 12:23:30 2006
From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:23:30 -0800
Subject: [Helpers] Stuff & things...
References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060313094559.03081a20@mail.fire-serpent.com>
	<4.3.2.7.2.20060321125903.04a92d48@mail.fire-serpent.com>
Message-ID: <003d01c64dee$7d5b79e0$0100a8c0@sachikojn>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" <Mystress at fire-serpent.com>
To: <Helpers at fire-serpent.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Helpers] Stuff & things...


> At 12:17 PM 21/03/2006, Sachiko M wrote:
>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" <Mystress at fire-serpent.com>
>>To: <Helpers at fire-serpent.org>
>>Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:21 PM
>>Subject: [Helpers] Stuff & things...



>>For the 03matgod essay, I wasn't sure what to do with the new link
>>so I left it out.
>>
>>Do they supposed to be added on popup link file?
>
> Yes.

It's been added to the file listed below at the bottom of the list.
http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/tantra/poplink/03matgod_p.html


>   Some work for you, Sachiko if you will...
>
>   1.) For "truth in advertising" we need the sample lessons for the
> preview, to be the old design, until the day when the updated course
> goes
> online.  You had them updated to the new design already, which is
> great,
> but too soon.
>    Good to have the updated ones ready for later. Give the updated
> new
> ones a temporary filename like 02matgodnew for now, so when the new
> /tantra/ pages go live they will be ready, and only need a filename
> change.
>
>    However, the old sample lesson pages, (find them on the live site
> if
> you don't have them backed up) can be updated by having the new
> essays,
> experiences and links   pasted into them,  and the new audio mp3
> files can
> be used.

I'm not getting this. Exactly which files are you referring to?
Please give me the path to the file.
(ex. http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/filename.html )



>    2.) The sample lesson pages need to be linked to each other,
> pretty
> much as they are in the live site. Right now in some places the
> "next" link
> on the new sample lessons you made goes to the tantra folder. The
> mouseover
> links might as well.. not sure. I was up till 7am working on them
> and I
> just got up, my brain is not really awake yet.
>

>    3.) I made a whack of new textbox header images for the preview,
> and
> have installed and uploaded them, but I made zero effort to shrink
> the
> filesize. They are photoshop max size jpgs. Not sure if they should
> be
> gifs, I left optimization totally up to you. Sort by date in the
> titles
> folder with the newest first and they will float to the top of the
> FTP window.

I've lower the quality little bit and kept the format as JPG.



>   4.) Flash navigation and preload array. The navigation mouseovers
> have
> not changed, though I think the links might need some tweaking.
> Could be
> some are linked to lesson previews with new filenames.
>   Hmm. I guess the old sample lessons will need the new filenames,
> or the
> flash will be out of date when the new course pages go live... and
> we will
> need meta files to link the old filename to the new, for people who
> have them bookmarked.
>   1tinyform.html already has the meta code and can be edited to
> become meta-refresh pages.
>
>   Anyway... the navtable for the preview pages can become flash
> anytime. I
> am pretty sure they won't change... and the preload array for the
> present mouseovers can be deleted.
>
>   Question: lately I have been surfing with activex turned off, so
> flash
> doesn't work. I foolishly reset my security settings on the advice
> of an
> antivirus site, and got annoyed at the approval popups.  Do many
> people
> turn off flash and activex, and do we need to allow for that with a
> browser setting sniffer and alternate text?

I think you can have some note saying that there is Flash contents on
the page. I used to create flash detector embed on the page to sort
out view with flash viewable setting and not.

Flash detector can be created as easy as have HTML page with small
flash file with URL to jump to next page if the flash file was 
successfully
played, but if the flash file is not played then refresh tag of the 
HTML
will have those viewer redirect to other pages with instruction of
downloading Flash Player and enabling whatever the features needs to
be enabled.


>    5.) Not sure if I spellchecked all the pages. (They need to be
> spellchecked with a Canadian english spellchecker.)  Some pages are
> not
> done yet, notably the new front index page and the mintro page.  The
> cintro
> page has changed a lot, and the video for it gets moved to be part
> of the new lesson 01stdyguid.html
>
>     The new index needs to remain named something (not index.html)
> until
> the site goes live, so that the server file list in the
> fscnew/current
> folder remains visible to Helpers.

It's been changed to [00_index.html]
http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/current/00_index.html


>> >  I'm also thinking of eliminating the "Experiences links" box
>> > from
>> > each
>> > lesson and just adding the links to the bottom of the main
>> > experiences
>> > section. Changing the form at this point feels like going
>> > backwards... but
>> > I feel it would be smoother.
>>
>>I think that make sense more than having separate link box. It's not
>>big deal to elininating the experience box at all. I can do that as
>>I
>>copy&paste contents of each lesson.
>>
>>Just let me know.
>
>  So be it!

Done. 




From Mystress at fire-serpent.com  Thu Mar 30 22:55:50 2006
From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:55:50 -0800
Subject: [Helpers] Spring Fever, European Tour and April Chat Schedule.
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060329082516.04cc7ef8@mail.fire-serpent.com>


   Wow this past two weeks the Earth energy was really rocking! I know I 
spent a couple of weeks short of sleep, with very little appetite and 
feeling like 10,000 volts through a rusty wire.

   So, I thought to share some tips about how to cope with Spring fever and 
other high energy times.

- Drink water, lots of it. The high energy means your Kundalini is more 
active and your body will be cleansing, so support the process by staying 
well hydrated. Gatoraid!
- Omega 3 oils, B vitamins and calcium.  Help your body cope with stress, 
by giving it the vitamin and mineral support it needs. Calcium plays an 
important role in regulating moods, same with B vitamins. The omega 3 oils 
you can get from Flax seed, hemp seed, fish oils and evening primrose oils 
will help your nervous system to cope with the energy.
- Intense physical exercise. Exercise and sweat play an important role in 
balancing hormones and releasing toxins stored in the lymphatic system. 
Run, cycle, swim, work out!  Intense exercise can help with the insomnia 
and hyperactivity; a physically tired body will sleep even if the brain 
cannot seem to be quiet.
- Get some "green time."  Walk in the woods, sit with your back against a 
tree, relax at a riverbank or seaside. Take in the natural chi, give your 
stress up to Goddess. Look to nature to help you balance yourself. Walking 
can be a meditation all of itself, and give great insights.
- Get creative. Any kind of art or creative activity is great for releasing 
excess Shakti and karma. You don't have to be Picasso! Give yourself 
freedom to be very childlike: finger painting, playing with crayons or just 
scribbling colours on paper will help to calm you, and you can always just 
put the results in the fire- you don't have to show it to anyone.
- Spring cleaning.  Hyperactive, high energy times are great for letting go 
of what is no longer needed, and clearing the outside will help you feel 
clearer on the inside. Go through your closets, finding what no longer 
serves you to discard or give to charity.  Take a look around your home, 
does it really reflect your personality? This is not a time to decide major 
renovations, but some new art on the wall or a fresh coat of paint can do 
wonders to brighten your world.
- Gardening. There is nothing more grounding than getting your hands into 
the dirt, pulling weeds and planting spring flowers. Even if you live in an 
apartment, potting some spring bulbs and watching them grow aligns you with 
the seasonal change and can be very grounding.
- Be gentle with yourself. Step aside from judgments about yourself, your 
spiritual process, and whether you are attaining your goals in life. Accept 
yourself as you are in the here and now, even if you are feeling a little 
crazy!  Remind yourself, "This too shall pass."  If you are feeling stuck 
then give your stuckness up to Goddess, surrender all of your plans and 
schemes and wait without attachment, to see what Goddess gives back to you. 
Likely some things will fall by the wayside, and other things will return 
fresh and more interesting than before!

   High energy times often coincide with the Wiccan wheel of the year. This 
article might be too late for Ostara spring fever but the next high energy 
time will be Beltaine (May1) and the Summer solstice (June 21) so make a 
note in your scheduler to read this article again then.

--------------------------------------------
The Fire Serpent Tantra World Tour.

    I have always enjoyed travelling and seeing new places and people. What 
better way to see the world, than to be invited into the homes and 
countries of people who want me to visit because they appreciate my 
work?  If I can do some workshops while travelling to cover expenses, then 
so much the better. That's my dream.  I'm taking this show on the road!

    Europe May 14-June 22 2006
   The schedule for my European tour is not completely booked yet, we are 
still working out some details, but for sure I will be doing Fire Serpent 
Tantra weekend workshops in Sweden 10-11 June and Utrecht, in the 
Netherlands 20/21 May.  I am also planning to visit Amsterdam, the UK and 
possibly Belgium. I'm really looking forward to this trip, it is exciting!

    The rough schedule is up at
http://kundalini-teacher.com/tantra.html

    If you live in the European Union and would like to take a workshop, or 
host one, please contact me so we can set it up. I will also be available 
for  sessions, Shaktipat, tummo initiations, and I would be happy to speak 
to your community or group about the Kundalini process, and living a 
spiritual life in the material world.

   Many thanks to Lori in the UK for her assistance co-ordinating the tour, 
and to Bobby in Utrecht, and Gustaf and Kimberly in Sweden for graciously 
agreeing to host the FST weekend workshops. The tour simply could not 
happen without them.  Bravo!

   If all goes well, I am looking to tour Asia in the fall. Stay tuned!

   -------------------------------------------------------

Chat classes.

   I took a few months break from hosting the chat classes, but I'm back at 
it again, here is the chat schedule for April 2006.  Recommended class 
preparation can be found here:
http://kundalini-teacher.com/meditations/grounding.html

Monday April 3, 2006 at 5pm  PST,
Repeated  Friday April 21 at noon PST.
Topic: Discernment, and the Heart Voice
     Opening the heart chakra is the way to access the body's built-in
truth detector and navigation system. Participants will get heart
chakra and entity clearing, to clear the way so the "still small voice
within" may speak.
Recommended advanced readings are:
http://kundalini-teacher.com/guidance/heart.html
http://kundalini-teacher.com/guidance/discern.html

Friday April 7, 1PM PST
Repeated Monday April 17, 5pm PST.
Chat Workshop: A Trip to the Void
     The Void is classically defined in Western and Eastern Mysticism as 
"The infinite nothingness from which all things spring." It is a higher 
vibration of non-duality, a place of emptiness, yet consciousness... 
reverence and power. Meditating in the Void can be excellent for problem 
solving, or getting inspiration on some creative endeavor.
     Attainment gives specific spiritual gifts that manifest as a subtle
yet definite change in physical perceptions. Nothing will ever be truly 
dark to you again... We will travel to The Void together, but we will each 
be alone when we get there... such is the nature of non-duality...  you are 
always alone in The Void. No time, no space, no "other". If you astral 
travel to some place and it has critters... it is not The Void.

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

     Cost is $25 USD ($30 CAD) per chat workshop. Visit
  http://kundalini-teacher.com/lessons/chats.html
for the PayPal link. Please specify the time and date of the workshop you 
plan to attend.
     The chatroom is at http://fire-serpent.org/chat/phpMyChat.php3.
Register a username and password to get in, and wait in the main room.  I 
will create a private room for the event and invite you to join.  For those 
hailing from various time zones, consult my local time clock on 
http://kundalini-teacher.com/appoint.html

I am open to suggestions for topics, and times/dates for faraway participants.
  ---------------------------------------------------------

   Hey, if you are still with me, thanks for your attention.
   May Goddess shower blessings of spring upon you!


Mystress Angelique Serpent- Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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