From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Thu Mar 1 15:59:15 2007 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:59:15 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] News and updates... Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20070225133205.03d65008@mail.fire-serpent.com> In case anyone has not been reading the tea room.... since Sept, complications from my whiplash injury has been severely limiting my computer time, and is spelling a lifestyle change, away from spending 18 hour days at the computer. Sometimes I forget, and fall into old habits, then I hurt for days after. So, though it may seem like I abandoned this list when I went to Europe, in truth I am more dependent on my helpers than ever before. At the beginning I said I was learning to delegate and not micro-manage... now Goddess makes it an imperative. I have started writing emails to this list a dozen times in the past six months but didn't finish or send them because I could not get clear or focused. You all have been in my mind, I did not like to keep you waiting but I could do aught else. Sorry. I don't even know how many of you are still with me, and interested. If you have given up, I understand. I was occupied with sorting myself out... I've been through some pretty intense changes this past year and fell into bad resistance that hit bottom at Yule... but, I surrendered and now I am retiring from public session work, and training healers to replace me. I want to use the computer time I can manage to focus on writing and tending to FST. I want to do more travelling, to teach... but I am too fragile for it right now. For months I could not lift anything heavier than a tea pot, now I can manage a small laundry basket... the whiplash is complicated by a compressed disc from an injury a decade ago, and another at age 15. It is right under my bra strap, between the heart and power chakra so slouching at a desk is very bad... and it is difficult to maintain perfect posture if I am out of body, channelling or hyper-focused on work. The past two years has brought a sea change in my attitude about my work. I have always held the position that everybody is God of their own lives and nobody needs me to do this work. I do it because it is enjoyable and because quite frankly I am ADD grrl, really not very employable. This attitude theoretically protects me from falling into a hero trip, and reminds me to keep giving power back to people. I don't advertise much, because Goddess brings me people... more than I can handle, usually. I really don't make much effort to "sell" my work. Two years ago someone gave me a gift. He turned it around. He suggested that if people are benefiting ( holy testimonials batman yes there is evidence people benefit) then because I am a hermit, people who could benefit never even know it exists. They don't get an opportunity to say yay or nay... which made my attitude seem very selfish. Sat with the idea for two years... balancing the two chakras perspectives and finding the common ground. Realizing that I hit the limit of what this one woman show can do... well, quite a while ago! It came to a head this fall, on realizing I must retire from public session work, feeling burned out and wanting to chuck it all... and at the same time feeling like what I do is just not meant to die with my retirement. Goddess gave it to me, to share... One thing that has really come up is how much I have been sabotaging my work and holding things up to keep it small enough to manage myself. It seemed ok to do it, but now it just seems wrong. FST is meant to grow way bigger than me, and it being held back because I am ADD grrl control junkie Marlboro woman just seems not ok anymore... for that reason I am beginning a lineage. I have never been able to stick with one career for more than 6 years... ADD folks have colourful resume' ... but my spirituality is one thing that has always been of interest. FST passed its sixth anniversary last summer, the K-list it's tenth. Either I pass it on and let go of control, or it dies when I finally and fully burn out on it. The icon: Confucius leaving China. How the books of the Wisdom of Confucius came to be written: Confucius was on his way out of China, to retire to a monastery in Tibet and prepare for death. One of his students was a border guard whose job it was to make sure the treasures of China did not leave China. The guard declared that the wisdom of Confucius was a treasure of China, and would not let Confucius leave the country until he had written it all down to leave behind. It took years... I've been getting a funny but nice though odd image of myself becoming like Osho... the devotees would bring him out to talk every afternoon, then put him back in the box after... and the students would take the transcripts and video and make books and tarot cards and meditations and they built a whole luxe Kundalini retreat center around him. He died, and it didn't matter... the snowball kept growing. I am on some internet marketing type email lists... one link led me to a page of "top ten musts for every successful website" and I could not understand a bloody word of it. What the heck is XML?? I am the dinosaur, sinking into the tarpit. When we were videotaping the first FST videos, I was doing as I do when posting to the K-list: opening to the thoughts and questions of those who would read, through time and responding to that content as well. The K-list only has a few hundred people... but on the other side of the camera, through time, were uncountable thousands. It was quite overwhelming, I was drowning in Amrita so much I could barely speak around the flood. I had to reorient, and turn inward. When the course first opened I was disappointed that the thousands did not materialize, then as things got busier, relieved.... because I discovered a limit to what I could do. FST now gets more students some months, than it did in the first year... still, with no advertising but word of mouth and search engines. I did some work on K-teacher these past few weeks. There has been an ongoing problem with my email and the K-list quotas... I finally figured out that "800 emails per hour per domain" means fire-serpent.org, most of my other K related sites are in subdirectories of that. I have a reseller account, so I moved K-teacher to its own cpanel. FST is next... volunteers welcome! I also changed my email response form on K-teacher to redirect to a new guestbook-bulletin board. I have never been able to keep up with the mail it gets, now the healers in training can help out... the testimonials get posted automatically, and the board can grow into a searchable FAQ. http://kundalini-teacher.com/visitors/YaBB.pl Please help break the ice, login and tell a story? People are telling me they cannot post to all the boards but I have no idea why... In other news.... I need to update my payment processing system and members database for FST. Right now it is all by hand. I get an emailed registration - sometimes- not if they use a proxy server.. then wait for payment before adding them to the members list (copy & paste usernames and passwords from their email) via cpanel and emailing back their confirmation with a sig file. Sometimes I don't get a registration form, just a payment. Sometimes it shows up late, sometimes I email them asking them to try the form again or I email them another sig with the registration info. Some people sign up and never pay, but fewer and fewer, these days. My student database is the email box in Eudora that filters registrations by "to" and subject. Searchable. Handy.... but ... then as you know, in the sig file of the confirmation I ask people to add themselves to the announcement list. There has to be a system that would do most of this automatically... and for good measure, it would even send a friendly reminder when the year is ending... but not delete people from the member list because it is good that grads hang around the tea room to support newbies. Additionally, because I am retiring from public session work and I am training helpers to take over public sessions and I need to work out some sort of a client list database and payment system to sort out who goes where and give the helpers their commissions. Hey I'm back... sorta... in a limited way... :) Anybody here? If are, please update me on where you are at, what you were working on and how far you got with it. Thanks! Blessings... PS: I'll be hanging out in my chatroom tomorrow, on and off between noon and 4pm pst From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Thu Mar 1 16:52:34 2007 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:52:34 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] News and updates... References: <4.3.2.7.2.20070225133205.03d65008@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <005101c75c65$116fcb60$7b45fea9@heartjp2> Good to heart from you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" To: Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 3:59 PM Subject: [Helpers] News and updates... > > I also changed my email response form on K-teacher to redirect to a new > guestbook-bulletin board. I have never been able to keep up with the mail > it gets, now the healers in training can help out... the testimonials get > posted automatically, and the board can grow into a searchable FAQ. > > http://kundalini-teacher.com/visitors/YaBB.pl > > Please help break the ice, login and tell a story? People are telling me > they cannot post to all the boards but I have no idea why... Does it have some kind of permission setting? It maybe helpful to know exactly which board they couldn't post. > Hey I'm back... sorta... in a limited way... :) Anybody here? > > If are, please update me on where you are at, what you were working on > and how far you got with it. Thanks! Blessings... I was waiting on page design and content confirmation,,, I think,,,, But,,,, My computer crashed at least twice since then, and I had to install windows again to different hard drive.... Right now, I'm working on my Flamenco show that is coming up at the end of this month.Lessons and practices and working on patterns for my costume..... So, I am very busy but I'm expecting to have some time to help you with your stuff when I'm done with my show. Sachiko From rich at ulterium.com Thu Mar 1 19:29:50 2007 From: rich at ulterium.com (Rich) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 10:29:50 +0700 Subject: [Helpers] News and updates... In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20070225133205.03d65008@mail.fire-serpent.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20070225133205.03d65008@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <00ec01c75c7b$0cf67640$26e362c0$@com> > I don't even know how many of you are still with me, and interested. I'm still with you... some days more than others :p > I want to use the computer > time > I can manage to focus on writing and tending to FST. I wonder if any of the Dictation programs would offer benefit. Dragon Dictate is well known but I've no idea how well it is in practice. I've been thinking of it for a while since writing a lengthy report and getting wrist pains. > When the course first opened I was disappointed that the thousands > did > not materialize, then as things got busier, relieved.... because I > discovered a limit to what I could do. FST now gets more students some > months, than it did in the first year... still, with no advertising but > word of mouth and search engines. I found when I took a step back from the day-to-day business stuff and let someone else do the work, new, exciting, shinier things came. I was tiring myself doing too much before. Allowing someone else to take some of the load created a flow. Like I could climb higher and closer to consciousness by finding others happier to work at a lower vibration... Difficult to explain. Goddess brought more interesting things in the space that was created. It has been more fun too.... however this report pancaked me a bit... weekend rest is very due. > I have a reseller account, so I moved K-teacher to its own cpanel. > FST > is next... volunteers welcome! I'm happy to help on all these things. However with moving house and a busy spell at work, I suspect June ... can you wait that long? > If are, please update me on where you are at, what you were working > on > and how far you got with it. Thanks! Blessings... Sent you the archives. BB for K-Teacher I did ask you for the logon details. For list move as you prefer. I'm willing to invest in a dedicated server with fixed IP for work related hosting. If so then it's yours too. Don't know if you feel comfortable with this though. Review in June. r From gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com Fri Mar 2 02:14:07 2007 From: gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com (Gustaf Grefberg) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:14:07 +0100 Subject: [Helpers] News and updates... Message-ID: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9FA2BA4A@mail.starbreeze.com> Still here! Have had a crazy busy time with so many things. Video lesson editing ended up on hold for a bit, but in a couple of weeks I will be able to take them up again. :) > If are, please update me on where you are at, what you were working on > and how far you got with it. Thanks! Blessings... From druout at gmail.com Fri Mar 2 13:06:40 2007 From: druout at gmail.com (Hillary) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:06:40 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] News and updates... In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20070225133205.03d65008@mail.fire-serpent.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20070225133205.03d65008@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <7ae535780703021306u3dc82692ta466b1121637a020@mail.gmail.com> Dear Angelique, As always I'm available to do what I can. Not sure how I can be of best help, though. I think the gateway site and the teacher site reach and help thousands. I'm not exactly sure what you are reaching for, and/or how I can help. My own personal priorities are 1. trying to keep up with the k-list, though there are so many good people on recently I don't feel compelled to reply as often. 2. Sooner or later to get the 2005, 2006 archives up. But I don't know how to download the basic data. And I know this has low priority. 3. Gradually, I'd like to go over past archives and add more threads to the site. As you know, Gil's health is not great, and medical things are causing time constraints! I see you've updated the teacher site! :)) Much love, Hillary -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sat Mar 3 02:32:00 2007 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:32:00 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] News and updates... In-Reply-To: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9FA2BA4A@mail.starbreeze.com > Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20070302131911.0326f948@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 02:14 AM 02/03/2007, Gustaf Grefberg wrote: >Still here! > >Have had a crazy busy time with so many things. Video lesson editing >ended up on hold for a bit, but in a couple of weeks I will be able to >take them up again. :) > > > If are, please update me on where you are at, what you were working >on > > and how far you got with it. Thanks! Blessings... Cool. The VHS version is in better condition, or at least the tape I looked at. A little washed out (overexposed) and one thin tracking line marching up the sides. I am considering getting it converted to DVD professionally, hoping a better VCR can erase the tracking line. From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sat Mar 3 01:11:45 2007 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:11:45 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] more news and about this list... Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20070302202359.0591f940@mail.fire-serpent.com> I got the problem sorted with the cron file from the calendar, sending emails every 15 minutes... it was a cron job going on fire-serpent.org looking for the missing K-teacher directory. Thanks Sachiko. Got the K teacher board sorted too... Sachiko came to the Helpers chat today and so did druid, in the end I re-read the codex again, but this time I got comprehension... for everyone to see a board, you select no usergroups. To limit, set what usergroups can do other stuff, like posting or making a poll. Maybe that makes no sense.... but it worked. So now everyone including guests can see all the boards and categories except one hidden one labeled Admin, but only registered people can post. I am thinking to change it so guests can post to the guestbook board, but I already had to delete a member who joined in order to post viagra spam... In the secret admin category there are two boards, helpers and lineage... for web helpers and healer trainees, respectively. I'm wanting to move this list there. I am going to delete the old helpers board, and maybe this list too, in a week or so to streamline things for my healing spine. One website to check for many different tasks. Email lets me down, and hard drives crash. For example, Sachiko lost all her mail and access info when a drive went. Servers seem sturdier, and info can be archived, board threads can be updated and revised indefinitely so it will be easier to keep track of ongoing projects. I hope! Please join the K-teacher board and when I see you are a member I will add you to the helpers group so you can access it. http://kundalini-teacher.com/visitors/YaBB.pl Sachiko suggested a big things to do list: I think I will assemble it in the form of starting threads... Please also start threads on the helpers board about whatever you were working on, if you are still with me.... :) The helpers board is the only one that allows attachments... make things easier. Thanks, ever so... :) Blessings... From sandracantu79 at hotmail.com Mon Mar 5 11:44:19 2007 From: sandracantu79 at hotmail.com (Sandra Cantu) Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:44:19 -0600 Subject: [Helpers] News and updates... In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20070302131911.0326f948@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: I'm still here. I was supposed to look at the references for the lessons for FST, I stopped and got distracted doing other things. Do you want me to do it? I know that you had started to do some of the references and somebody else was checking to see if they were good thru a script or something like that. anyway, It's good to hear from the group again. blessings >From: Mystress Angelique Serpent >Reply-To: "FST Helpers list." >To: "FST Helpers list." >Subject: Re: [Helpers] News and updates... >Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:32:00 -0800 > >At 02:14 AM 02/03/2007, Gustaf Grefberg wrote: > > >Still here! > > > >Have had a crazy busy time with so many things. Video lesson editing > >ended up on hold for a bit, but in a couple of weeks I will be able to > >take them up again. :) > > > > > If are, please update me on where you are at, what you were working > >on > > > and how far you got with it. Thanks! Blessings... > >Cool. The VHS version is in better condition, or at least the tape I looked >at. A little washed out (overexposed) and one thin tracking line marching >up the sides. I am considering getting it converted to DVD professionally, >hoping a better VCR can erase the tracking line. > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org _________________________________________________________________ The average US Credit Score is 675. The cost to see yours: $0 by Experian. http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=660600&bcd=EMAILFOOTERAVERAGE