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Recieved: 1999/01/02 18:57
Subject: [K-list] A Green Flash
From: Ckress
On 1999/01/02 18:57, Ckress posted thus to the K-list:
Bill Peay asked me to forward this message from him to this list:
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>Aloha El,
>
>Thank you so much for sending me an update about what's been going on with
the various Kundalini lists. Feel free to pass this along or post it to
the kundalini-l list for me, El, as I'm not a subscriber to that list at
this time.
>
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>
>Aloha everyone!
>
>Perhaps I should introduce myself to those who don't know me. I'm what you
call the WebMaster for the Kundalini Resource Center web sites on the
Internet. I have been and remain very much a "newbie" to kundalini energy.
I guess my kundalini awakening experiences came along about the time the
Internet was starting to gain momentum. So I, like most of you I imagine,
started surfing the Web to see what was out there regarding yoga, chakras,
kundalini, and the like. I was having fun learning how to manually write
HTML code and create Web pages, so I offered to Haakon Ueland to create a
Web site and "code" all the back material from his Kundalini bulletin board
into web pages. I thought this would be a good way to learn more about the
kundalini I had experienced, and help others along the way. Thus the KRC
was created. It started on the internet first in Hawaii, then was mirrored
in the mid-west US somewhere (which shut down after about a year because it
became too expensive for me to maintain). Then it was mirrired in the
Eastern US for free (thanks to Martin) and in Europe on Telebyte, again for
free, with hopes of adding a mirror site in Australia/New Zealand someday.
>
>Wonderful people started sending in articles, and Kurt Keutzer gave me
permission to repost his kundalini information which was on SpiritWeb at
the time. It turned out to be a real community exercise in mutual
education about kundalini, and I learned way more than I thought was
possible. I started exchanging e-mail and then links with others who had
sites related to kundalini, then tantra, yoga, religion, etc. I made
contact with a wonderful artist here on Kauai, Ralph Adamson, who has let
us use some of his inspired art work on the KRC site, too. It took about a
year to piece together what you see on the KRC today. This was back in the
1996-1997 time frame, I think.
>
>Anyway, somewhere in the middle of all this, Richard Satin began his
kundalini-l mailing list. I was starting to experiment with CGI scripting
-- that's where you can fill out forms on screen within a Web page and the
information is passed to a database. Richard's monitored list sounded
great, and a natural way of creating ongoing interactive dialog about
kundalini. The KRC was assuming more of a role of a hodge podge of various
background material, experiences, art work, etc., and an active list was
just what was needed. So, I wrote a CGI script on the KRC which
interlinked with Richard and passed him "subscribe," "unsubscribe," and
"post" input fields for people to easily get into and out of the
kundalini-l list.
>
>I hung out on the list for awhile in the beginning, but drifted away when
the message traffic got too intense, and often wandered way off kundalini
and onto other topics. I figured Richard had it handled as far as list
monitoring, and I moved on to other things, basically leaving the KRC and
kundalini-l.
>
>Sometime several months ago I do remember receiving a message that Richard
was no longer administering the list and that someone else took over that
duty, and that I should change the name on the KRC Index. I meant to get
to doing that, but it slipped by and, as messages often do, it streamed
right by and I never did the update. My fault. Sorry about that.
>
>There appears now to be some growth in the dynamics of kundalini mail
lists. That's great! In a message I received from El, she mentioned that
the KRC's getting tons of hits, and that it pops up high in the search
engines for "kundalini." I'm absolutely amazed - and happy - that
kundalini is gaining this much interest, and world wide, too! There's a
little icon of a graph I placed on the bottom of each mirrored KRC site
earlier this past year which leads to a statistics page, and you're right
El, there have been tons of hits! There's an HTML "trick of the trade"
that viewers don't see when they look at a Web page, but many of the search
engines do. It's called a META TAG, and the KRC pages are heavily seasoned
with them. That combined with the fact that the KRC has been around almost
as long as the search engines have been in existence probably accounts for
the regularity of high posting in the search engines.
>
>Now, about the kundalini list thing. I'm not sure what all is going on but
there's more than enough room for everyone to have a spot on the KRC
mailing list index page. As a temporary measure, I updated the mailing
list page as you see it now, but would be more than willing to expand it
whatever way is appropriate. Having read some of the pieces of messages El
passed on to me, it seems that what's missing is a good paragraph next to
each mailing list link explaining the purpose of the list, what kind of
topics are likely to be discussed, who's the "ListMaster" to contact for
more information, etc. Again, my fault. I've just plopped them up there
without any background info, and that may have folks confused.
>
>It seems reasonable to me to have a list more-or-less dedicated to the
"newbies" to kundalini. Reflecting on my own experiences and search for
meaning, kundalini awakening is a pretty new, scary, and wonderful time. I
tried to capture a few personal experiences people were willing to share on
the KRC, just for people to read and think about, but an active list with
other "newbies" aided by some caring and supportive kundalini list members
would be great. The original kundalini-l list, if indeed it has 400
members, is probably on a much different level by now. That list could
also be represented on the KRC list of mailing lists, but with a solid
paragraph explaining what one is likely to find there. I have no idea how
to describe this list since I'm not a current subscriber, but would gladly
post whatever description the list members and/or list administrator thinks
is appropriate. The description should be handled through the list,
however, and one final paragraph sent to me that I can cut-and-paste into
the KRC for updating. I'll see if I can get something similar for the
other kundalini related lists, too, so someone wandering into the KRC
mailing lists area will have a reasonable idea of what they are getting
into. Sound fair?
>
>The original intent of the KRC, aside from a way I could try and personally
learn about kundalini to help explain my own experiences -- which have been
wonderful, by the way -- was to create a community forum for exchange of
diverse ideas on kundalini energy. The most recent addition to the site
has been the intertwining of the KRC with the IRCC, a sophisticated
database engine for automatic posting, hosted in Dallas, Texas. Through
this area I've tried to create a way individuals could answer a brief
kundalini survey, post a personal experience, or seek contact with others
interested in kundalini. It's self-running so I don't have to spend a lot
of time (which I don't have right now) posting this information manually.
>
>So, I guess by all this I'm saying that the KRC is, and always will be, a
work in progress. I'll be glad to network with the various list
administrators to post links to their lists and help draw traffic into each
of the sites. If our mutual efforts help people come together with a
better understanding of kundalini, then this will have been well worth our
efforts.
>
>Tonight is New Year's night, and I'd like to leave you with this wonderful
story: Today, January 1, 1999, was an absolutely perfect day here on
Kauai. The sun was beaming strong and a light trade breeze was blowing
throughout the day. This evening, my wife and I walked down into the
coffee orchard in front of our house (we live on the SW side of a volcano,
about a mile from the ocean and 400 feet elevation with nothing but coffee
trees between us and the water). We stopped at the first rising about 5
minutes down and I assembled a small temple with a few rocks. We each
carry a crystal with us throughout the day, and we placed our crystals
together on the rock temple, side by side and pointed toward the setting
sun.
>
>On a perfectly clear day in Hawaii, when the sun sets and the last tiny bit
of the bright yellow sun slips below the surface of a magnificent blue
Pacific ocean, the spark of sunlight racing through miles of water changes
the light from bright yellow to emerald green. We call it a "green flash"
and tonight's was exceptional. Green flashes are rare, because there can't
be a single cloud on the horizon anywhere between you and the setting sun
when the sun touches the water.
>
>To have a green flash on a full moon night is a real treat. Our crystals
were charged with sunset energy at precisely 6:08 PM Hawaii time, 1/1/1999.
At 6:11 PM the first of the two full moons for January rose from the
opposite horizon. Our crystals, charged with green flash energy were now
soothed by the empowering rising moon. We both looked on in awe.
>
>For me the green flash is like a cosmic kundalini awakening. The flash
starts with the seed of intense sunlight, much like the coiled kundalini
energy within each of us. The yellow sunlight changes to green at the
water's surface, and, within about 3 to 5 seconds, the green races up the
sky like a searchlight. The surface green slowly disappears, but the last
thing left of the sun is the green streak shooting from the water straight
into the sky, much like kundalini energy rising from the tailbone up our
spines. This green flash was followed moments later by nurturing moonlight
to make the experience complete.
>
>I'll never forget tonight's stellar experience, and it was all captured
within the energy plane of our crystals. A piece of green flash awash in
moonlight will resonate in those crystals, and my memory, forever. Now,
having shared this story with you, I hope you, too, will carry a bit of
green flash and moonlight with you wherever you go.
>
>Have a wonderful 1999, and we'll get these kundalini list pages fixed up
for you real soon.
>
>Aloha,
>
>Bill Peay
>
>PS. In case you didn't know, January, 1999, will have a blue moon (2 full
moons in the same month) followed by February with no full moon at all, and
then March with another blue moon (2 full moons). This hasn't happened
since 1915! It's a great time to be outside experiencing the cosmos, life,
kundalini, and each other! January's next full moon will be on the 31st,
and March's full moons will occur on the 2nd and 31st. <
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