Photo: Ancient Fresco from Pompeii

Hello,

I thought to try broadcasting throughout the day on my Dream Share TV channel on justin.tv on Christmas Eve 24 and Christmas Day 25, maybe New Years as well going into New Years.

I broadcast from the Netherlands, which means six hours back to New York and nine hours back from here to San Francisco.

What will I talk about?

Some deep things such as the myths around Christmas and Jungian interpretations of such, doing mediations with the transition to a new year.

And giving true stories from my life like at former Christmas and New Year times.

Plus, just to be a presence with any of you who join to watch and hear, or to make your presence known in the chat box.

So if you want to include a connection with us as part of your Christmas and New Years transition time, feel free to do so.

Stefania and I will excerpt the 'good parts' for later browsing for any of you who don't make it.

I have connected significantly with certain people over the years and so I just thought it's a nice way to tune in and be connected. And meaningful and warm, something that does not always happen at these outer holiday times. Yes, we will include some things on The Dark Side Of Christmas, and something from my writings. Maybe some of you have something to share?

Those we have connected to have all contributed to how we have and are living our lives. So there is good energy there.

The live feed broadcasting is open to anyone from the public and we have functions on Justin.tv for controlling spammers and other objects out there in the unconscious universe.

So the best to all of you these holidays. I shall certainly be sharing a number of things from my life I consider important in a kind of informal style.

I have peeked in on some of my fellow broadcasters on justin.tv. They are almost all young people in their twenties unlike me at age 73. But that does not phase me because they talk and have fun and share themselves and interact with chatters. Some are not boring, depending what they have in the way of personality. I shall simply be broadcasting as another human being.

So I shall do the same. Just share and interact.

Please join me for a little while anyway. Sometimes throughout the day and evening here I will be online broadcasting. Other times maybe off resting, eating and being with Stefania. So you just have to tune in when you have some time and see what's happening.

Maybe see you there.

Wait what the New Year brings!

Don't ask for more than you can handle - ask to handle more than you thought you could!

Strephon

Strephon Kaplan-Williams
                                                                                                                         
http://www.dreamwork2000.com
http://www.dreamworkcircle.com
http://www.justin.tv/strephon
http://jesusnovel.dreamwork2000.com
http://www.creativewritingandwriters.com
http://www.thewritersinterface.com

formally from Berkeley, California

The Person Prayer

May the Greater Light shine over us.
May the climb back from the abyss make us real.
May the soft hand of our inner child calm us.
May the mirror of life light our souls.
May the joy of renewal  open us.

Let us affirm insight, courage and conscious love.
Let us affirm friends before enemies.
Let us affirm our commitment
To meet potentials and challenges to the full.

As we live, so shall we die.
As we die, so shall we have lived.
Amen, Shalom, Proost and Good Journeys!
From all to all.

We are happy to report that we have had almost 63,000 listeners and viewers to are over 100 podcasts in our first year. This is significant to show a large number of people interested in serious presentations and not just entertainment.

We will be able to see from this view of the statistics page of our top draws what people are most interested in as subjects and from Strephon's perspective on things.

It shows for instance that people are interested in the title: Loving Laurie. It's the first chapter that can be easily turned into an audio book and later a written book. Such a book is in the works after we have set up a new style of web pages that are geared to selling e-info product and not just giving away free reports, information and podcasts.

The statistics have proven that although Strephon at 73 is in retirement and so not an active force in any society, he is not without people who value both his delivery and his information about living life.

The first phase of this marketing test has been passed. People want what Strephon has to offer, not because he in an international expert or a big name, which he isn't, but because he is valued in what he offers now through the Internet.

Strephon has not published a major new book by a big press since 1991. He has written a number of books since then, but the marketing of serious information, rather than pop psychology, has become difficult for him and many other writers.

Strephon was advised in the eighties by a self-made millionaire consultant to go into pop psychology in a big way. This he refused so as not to waste his life in making money by watering down his intelligence and insights into the average intelligence and curiosity of the median culture.

Now with the birth of the Internet and these biggest publisher of information in the world Strephon Kaplan-Williams is committed this past year to take full advantage of reaching the right audience for serious and in depth inspiration and wisdom knowledge in spiritual perspective and depth psychology.

Truly, these are again exciting times for the world with a new evolutionary step possible in making humanity conscious of its true self and values.

Sidney Sheldon sold millions of copies of once-reading, popular novels, his avowed goal to excite the reader. More power to him. He died where the extremely rich die: in California: Palm Springs, retirement home city to actresses, directors, assorted rich novelists, and movie stars.

We have only fifty thousand listeners to any of over sixty podcasts. Our numbers are rising at more than 1000 listeners a week.

Could that be because we have something to say, because we speak to the soul of the world and its people?

We define the soul, not as certain religions do, but as your core being that you make conscious and live from in a life of value to yourself and others.

When you read a Sidney Sheldon book, or a John Saul book, or a Dan Brown book, you don’t get any wiser about yourself or your life.

The contrary usually happens. Like the philosopher Gurgief said, most books are written to keep you asleep so that you never wake up to the realities of life.

We here at StrephonSays.com put our efforts into waking up to life as it is and dealing with everything that comes our way in the context of purpose and life meaning.

If you are on a similar life journey, if you want to wake up to life as it is and not be fooled anymore, you will appreciate this.

We are as poor as a synagogue mouse, but we have not chosen money to write to because then we would not live a life of creative purpose and meaning.

50,000 listeners is a lot of conscious people living their lives in the world and having an influence.

Millions of unconscious people bowing out to money and the sins of unconsciousness are worth nothing to the humanity of the future.

Their numbers are large, yet they count for nothing.

Our fifty thousand people, and climbing, is our way of saying, “Hello, world! Wake up please! Save yourself if you can. If a better world is not to be, at least live a better life. Each one of us counts if we are conscious, if we are practicing a life of purpose on a daily level. Hello, world!!!�

Thanks to all of you who support this effort, talk about the talk, walk the walk, have a wisdom influence with your friends, make choices that count sometimes in the real world.

Thanks to all of you!

Strephon and Stefania

Over 43,000 Listeners Achieved - Report January 1, 2007

The predicted growth-rate was for 30,000 listeners by the end of the year. We started at zero on April 16, 2006. Stefania and Strephon celebrated this achievement in their New Years Eve toast and talk as the Dutch fireworks banged away outside.

Success And New Website Coming

Now we have the experience of success like this we are quickly switching for 2007 to implementing a new website organized around two areas of subject matter: Writer's Interface Writing Tools, and Expert Psychology. The sub-branches will be many subjects in both fields.

What does our success so far mean for 2006?

The goal was achieved of seeing whether there was good interest in the style of presentation and the ideas that Strephon has taught his students for years, and written into several books now not exactly in print that much.

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Listener-Viewers Give Strephon A Resounding Round Of Applause in confirming his podcasts and broadcasts, just started last April, 2006.

When asked how he explains this growing popularity, Strephon Kaplan-Williams winked one eye slightly and said, "What we have here with the podcasts is the world's people voting for something serious, don't we? People are searching! They don't want to be just entertained. They want food for thought. Honestly, with the advent of computers and the Internet I think world IQ is significantly rising."

"But why you?" Strephon was asked. "There are plenty of professors around and other writers who can speak wisely."

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At the end of September 29 this year we had 14,079 visitors. So in one month we increased by over 6000 listener-viewers. Our new level of  2000 a week new visitors did not last, or we would have over 8000 new visitors at the end of this month.

Fluctuations can be due to subject matter as well. Strephon podcasts and vodcasts what he finds of value to humanity, whether others want these subjects or not.

The increase of 6000 for the month continuing to December and then January 1, 2007 means that we should have 32,000 visitors by the end of the year.

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Yes, on September 16 we reported we reached 10,000 listeners, a significant breakthrough then. Now with 7000 new listeners in one month the prediction is that we will have around 28,000 to 30,000 by the end of the year, and a year on from that we could have 7000 times 12 plus 30,000, or over 100,000 listeners.

Some listeners are repeat people, of course, but even when repeat listeners it shows that these people are learning something important for themselves each time.

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We are happy to report we are getting an increase now of 2000 a week. In September 22 we had 12,080. Now on September 29 we have 14,079. Thus in a year's time we will have had at this rate 100,000 listener-viewers. The outreach of meaningful pod-casting continues. 

-Strephon and Stefania.

Our first vidcast has 329 viewer-listeners in one day, as the chart shows here from our web host: libsyn.com. We can't keep doing reports at this rate, but it keeps to our commitment to provide a living record as we develop.

We remember that our central purpose for these podcasts and vidcasts is to provide a spiritual, or meaning-centered, presence on the Web so that people can have the choice in what they choose for enhancing their lives.

-Strephon and Stefania

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11,053 Total Listeners Today: September 19, 2006, total with 212 listeners for the daily average. September 14 we had broken through to over 10,000 with a rate increase of 1000 in five days. Seems this rate increase is again five days.

Thus at this rate increase we should have at least 14 times 1000 or a total by the end of the year of 25,000 listeners.

Look for advanced podcasts for students who want to commit to a learning process in our School For Consciousness starting in 2007 by paying a small monthly fee and working on their learning project. We will content the regular free podcasts at at least one a week for everybody, and then have advanced learning also.

10,000 PLUS LISTENERS - September 14, 2006

Friday we broke through the 10,000 listeners level in 5 days since the 9,000 level, which took eight days to get to there from the 8,000 level, August 31 to September 8 for over 9,000. Thus we are doing better than 1,000 new listeners a week with some acceleration happening. We post figures to have a record of how it works in the hurly-burly days of podcastings' beginnings.

May the world change for the better with more people living from values and not materialism and power-lust first.

-Strephon and Stefania

PODCAST REPORT - THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NUMBERS - 200 LISTENERS A DAY

Today, September 12, 2006, we broke 200 listeners a day! At this rate and going up, this would be 100 days by 200 listeners plus 9779 listeners so far or 20,000 listeners by the end of the year.

To compare, this is less than two months for the listener daily average to double. This means that listeners double every two months so that around November 15 we could have 400 listeners a day and by the beginning of 2007 800 listeners a day. It hardly seems possible because that says that in the new year there could be 30 time 800 or 24,000 listeners in a month. Is this also possible?

Does anyone read these reports to check our math?

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In one week we went from 8000 listeners on August 31 to over 9000 listeners on September 8, with a new daily average of 195 a day. This means that now we are increasing listeners at 1000 a week to bring us to at least 25,000 listeners going into January, 2007 16 weeks from now. If we only increase at 1000 listeners a week we will have at least 75,000 listeners by the beginning of 2007 which is a nice goal to have to get interest in a new book of mine which might come out by then.

What I cannot seem to figure out is the rate of acceleration. We started at zero 21 weeks ago. What is the rate of acceleration so that we can predict how high it is going to get?

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Today, August 31, is the day we went to 8001 listeners! What does it mean? On August 19 we went to just over 6000 listeners in four months from the start.

What does it all mean?

First, this is a plus for serious educational podcasts, competing with the university professors and popular writers to give useful information for living life to the public.

We are just starting!

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This chart shows some of our statistics for interpretation. Since we keep rising in numbers at an accelerated rate we cannot evaluate these numbers accurately. Maybe they are still interesting, and we shall draw some conclusions.


This chart does not show all our 32 podcasts for the first four months but it does show the more recent podcasts for up to two months. Day 2 and Day 3 mean the two most recent days, not counting today. Totals are total listener audience for the last four months, which shows a total now just over 6000 audience.

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Wisdom Podcasts is featured in iTunes directory as New and Notable under Society&Culture, Philosophy subcategory. Wisdom Podcasts is one of Strephon's blogs containing some of the Strephon Says podcasts dealing with wisdom issues.


Love, Sex & Intimacy is also featured as another New and Notable in Helath, Self-Help subcategory.

Strephon Says is featured in Health, Self-Help and is number 8 in the podcasts top of this subcategory.

Tao Of Now is first in Spirituality subcategory and forth in Religion&Spirituality category.
 


Strephon Says featured in iTunes - slideshow

The first four months: what do we have with our podcasts?

-Our daily average audience is up to 142

-Our grand total of listeners is 5538

Now for a breakdown analysis. We do this to see what subjects are the most popular. This could measure Strephon's growing ability to give talks also, but is more likely to be subject oriented. Listeners are more interested in the subject than in Strephon's delivery style, though of course delivery style is important.

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Today is the day we broke into the average of 100 a day. This in less that three and a half months. Our total so far since April 16, 2006 is 3695 total audience so far. This represents at least that many listeners to the thought of Strephon Kaplan-Williams, more people who have heard him than in several years of giving talks to the public and teaching. Of course when Strephon has been on radio or television he has reached more people, but these people are there for the program and not by choice. To download a talk of Strephon's you have to make a choice to do so and then to listen.

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This past month has seen a lot of activity with substantial increases. Stefania has put in many days getting us listed with various directories. Strephon continues to produce podcasts but has gone back to novel writing for the month of July. The new plan is to only do podcasts for about two weeks in a month and then the next six weeks are for novel writing. Doing both did not allow the total concentration needed to write the novel. But before the novel even, Strephon has been writing The Writer's Interface, which is all he is learning about organizing your novel using the best craft and research possible. This will soon go on sale on a writing software site: WriteItNow.com.

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We appreciate the gifts received today.


Oscar Muscariello sent us his articles and poetry, the CD with his music and a tape as witness for his life passion, Magic.

Thank you, Oscar! We will get to discover and experience your MAGIC.
As Strephon said, "the outer magic also reveals the inner magic of the spirit, and gives inspiration to children and adults as to the human spirit."

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Strephon Says Podcasts Are Working Well!!!
Congrats to Stefania and Strephon for the hard work and desire to succeed!

Our purpose is to reach the right kind of people who are looking for wisdom inspiration in their lives. Pod-casting has been supported by Apple.com for a year now, especially by its enormously popular directory iTunes. Apple is reported to have sold over 44 million iPods. We have only begun to reach the potential audience.

And thanks also to Ineke of Fotographica, Nijmegen who runs Journey Press and the www.dreamwork2000.com site.

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