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?
WHAT LISTENERS GO THROUGH: OUR DEFINITION OF A STREPHON SAYS LISTENER
Listeners means one listener listening to one podcast, not one permanent listener listening to many podcasts. The significant number is what we have. Each podcast listened to. Some will listen to a whole series of podcasts and be more affected by the perspective and change of consciousness that they go through. Some will listen to one podcast only, get angry because their attitudes are pushed, and quit listening to any again. No loss . . .
The real definition of a Strephon Says listener is one who is flexible in perspective, personality and attitudes who wants to grow in awareness and effectiveness in life. Such a listener will take in many podcasts probably because these podcasts give new perspective on life and challenge a person’s defense system and rigid attitudes on all sorts of life subjects.
A true listener to these podcasts will also realize that any anger, or sleepiness evoked by listening to a podcast will indicate some trigger, trauma, or attitude in themselves that needs looking at and maybe changing.
In essence, Strephon’s podcasts act in some people as a wakeup call to become conscious and change. Thus people who know this and choose it will use the podcasts to change their attitudes and perspective on life in a consciousness process.
Some, however, will get angry and assume from their feeling angry, that they have to defend or attack. They will disagree, they feel, and that means a written attack on the podcast author. They will feel justified in either turning off or attacking. They may even try to be reasonable, but they will not take responsibility for their own stirred up reactions and instead assume that there is something wrong with how Strephon states his case. Thus they will then feel righteous about their being upset and attribute the responsibility to Strephon, called blaming, as if Strephon is causing their upsetness. Thus if Strephon is assumed to upset someone then he is at fault for upsetting others.
Thus some listeners will not take responsibility for their own feelings, whether being upset over something, or even being excited about something.
One listener wrote briefly that she was excited to find the same values in the podcasts that she wanted to live in her own life. This probably means she was already taking responsibility for her own reactions to things in life, including in personal relationships, and so could deal with in a positive manner what was being evoked in her by listening to Strephon Says podcasts.
Take responsibility, is the big message. No one else can help you not suffer in life, so you might as well learn to deal with your own suffering and heal it yourself by making shifts in your unreality to bring yourself in alignment with things as they are, whether you always like what happens to you or not.
Someone wrote me quite negatively, attacking my person. It is left on the site so anyone can see, since they posted it there. This is not a personality contest for me in being liked, respected or gaining followers.
It is a project to teach, to contribute to the betterment of the world through talks on consciousness and dealing with the world with values.
Thus, reporting with joy 200 listeners a day for the first time is objective reporting, like in the news, and a mark that people want what Strephon has to teach. Strephon likes this because it aligns with his chosen purpose in the world and further fulfills him in what he does best, which is as a teacher of consciousness about life and dreams.
Strephon Says podcasts are a further extension in the Now of what he has been doing for thirty-five years, which is teaching seeking students the ways and values of consciousness living. This is what you get as a podcast listener here. You may come to listen, as if your interest and curiosity is perked.
However, if you stay, you soon realize that you are not just listening for curiosity or information, you are becoming a student of the process. You come and listen to these podcasts to experience shifts within yourself of attitude and perspective, and thus can increase the value and effectiveness of how you live your life.
Just making things conscious. Numbers are significant, yet even more significant is the context within which they occur.
We have all sorts of people out there making numbers, including such horrible things as with some governments in the numbers of people they have killed, calling these dead bodies, enemies, terrorists, infidels, you name it.
We much prefer to generate numbers in this world that are a quantifying of values for the good of humanity. We leave it at that.
