The Direction of the Galactic Free Press

will's picture

I want to discuss a few things with our readers and give people a chance to add their own input, the first thing being the status of our donations. We've had over 50,000 unique individuals visit our site in the past month. Over 50,000, that's quite a few people! You know how many people have actually donated? 13. 13 generous people out of 50,000. For the mathematically inclined that comes to .026% of our readers.

We're at $416 out of our monthly goal of $2,000, which we recently lowered from $3,000. We'd like to continue to make the Galactic Free Press our main "job" and have our readers assist us just as we assist our readers. However, with the way things are currently going we won't be able to pay our basic living expenses. Obviously something needs to change, so we're discussing a few options.

I don't much like begging for donations, but it's proven to be the most effective way by far of getting donations. I try to only put up donation requests once a month, as I don't want to make fundraising a major focus of the site. Here's this month's request: If you enjoy the site, please consider donating, if you don't enjoy the site, well what are you doing here? Our financial service, PayPal, offers things like recurring monthly donations. It would be great to get enough of those that I don't even need to mention donations anymore.

Other options would be to do things like put a monthly donation tally on our right-hand sidebar, or put up a banner that appears at the top of every page when we're running behind on donations. Neither would be my first choice, but it's a couple options we're considering.

Our last option would be to put up advertising on the site. Not really the way we want to go, but it's something we'd rather do than seeing the site not be able to pay for itself. The whole idea of selling portions of our site to the people who can pay the most does not sit very well with me. I'd much rather have the site represent a new paradigm of sharing and equal exchange instead of capitalism. I know most "free" sites feature advertising, but advertising itself is designed to create desire, and desire sure doesn't make people free.

Lastly, we're talking about changing the focus of the Galactic Free Press itself. We want it to focus more on our original writings and less on posting copies of articles from other sites. Don't worry though, we've got a new site that features articles from all of our friend's sites that we normally post up on the Galactic Free Press. It's also presented in a format that is, in my opinion, easier to read and much more appropriate for a newspaper. Here's a link to our new site, Awakening Daily: http://soundofheart.org/awakeningdaily/

 

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soulshn's picture

Deleting comments that disagree with your begging for money huh?

 

I have to agree with the deleted comment; reposting other's writing on a blog should not provide you a full time income so you don't have to work. If you don't enjoy it give it up and get a job. Journalists you are not.

It was deleted because it was

will's picture

It was deleted because it was spreading lies, accusing us of spending our donations on drugs and alcohol. I sure don't appreciate people spreading rumors. Apparently people haven't noticed our team has changed and things are nothing like they were.

And we don't just post other's writings, do you not realize that we write our own? I know you've been on our site for quite a while, how could you not realize that? It seems like you're conveniently ignoring things to support your point. There hasn't been as much written recently because I've been focusing on transferring our data between hosting services, fighting a huge amount of spam, and also creating a brand new site. So we write articles, do the technical work to keep 3 custom sites running, fight spam, run a facebook page and group, search all over the internet for articles which we read in full, then reformat them, often add pictures, then post them to our site. In addition to that, we respond to the various comments, emails and messages we receive from spiritual seekers asking for assistance. I also plan on doing a large amount of more work on our new site to make it more interactive and have more features. It's no small amount of work doing all this, it is a full time job, it's not just "reposting other's writing" as you assume.

And what are you still doing on this site? You have such a negative attitude towards this site, are you looking to see it fail? Remember when you said "If anyone is still hanging around here you are certifable"? Why are you still hanging around here?

Who are the GFP team members now?

AdiGaia's picture

since MG is in Crestone and FG isn't around...

I have noticed that things are nothing like they were before, at least outwardly which is all I've been aware of, and full disclosure and transparency are basic requirements, esp. when requesting funding...

I'm not interested in dirty laundry, just the above stated basic info...

My sense is that MG was the great magnet of the site's success and of its continued funding by members...

GFP is still a valuable site along with the new site...

Blessings,

Adi

Amerith, whom many here know

will's picture

Amerith, whom many here know as FG, is still around. So 2 of the 3 founding members of the Galactic Free Press are still here. And Isis is now part of the team too.

Greetings,

Monica Jackson's picture

Greetings,

First I enjoy what I learn here. I thank-you all from the bottom of my heart. Second. I don't have money to donate. I am living as best I  can at the moment and when extra comes in I will indeed put towards sites as this one. Thirdly, if this is what you want to be doing then do so. If it is too much then don't. Times are weird and uncertain we all are having to adjust. Please be kind to one another we are all changing and growing and we cannot fight and disagree here or anywhere if we are going to liberate ourselves and each other. It seems that those that want to  continue to hate and disagree are not willing to awaken and need our extra understanding. We don't have to like them but we can understand what they are going through. Information and how we get it will alter and change as we grow. Let us continue to be kind, understanding, forgiving, compassion and encouraging to one another. I know that is what I need right now, some kindness. I will continue to come by here and read what resonates with me and I have left a few notes. But if it comes to it and I cannot afford to be here I know that whatever Spirit wants me to know I will. Blessings and Light, MJ

  Will, always follow your

DeSwiss2's picture

  Will, remember that there are no mistakes only learning opportunities. Always follow your first mind.

My thoughts on GFP / donations

lightworker.jason's picture

I have been a visitor of this website since around March 2013 as I believe I was guided to it by my spiritual guide(s). This website has been so incredibly helpful in my awakening and gaining an understanding how our world works through the past 14 months, and I personally thank GFP's contributions to my finding inner peace and happiness in life. I have watched this website evolve, as well as the visitors of this website evolve, and truly feel our galactic family brought GFP to us to help aid us while Earth was going through the most intense transitions maybe ever (and still continues to go through). Although the donations have lessened through the months here, I still feel like GFP was and continues to be a powerful tool for many of us to become more aware of the things around us, and self improve our lives. I think Will and the folks of this website are going to do more great things, and let's all enjoy http://soundofheart.org/awakeningdaily. It's a fun new website that shows all the articles we have grown to know/enjoy about GFP.
And as far as what the donations are spent on by this website, that's none of our business and let's assume positive intent always. We all deserve to make a few dollars to support ourselves, especially when we are helping other people. This website has personally helped me in so many ways, as I felt like a broken man 14 months ago and now live as a happy, content, and proud man truly in large part of this website's teachings and articles about self discovery.

'donations'

toonewewillreturn's picture

I donated a few dollars$$$

If there was only 12 others someone must have been donating ALOT each month

That was only how many had

will's picture

That was only how many had donated so back in May when I wrote this. We ended up having around 25 or so people donate by the end of the month.

'charity foundation'

toonewewillreturn's picture

pretty sure there is a loophole some companies use to get tax right off and such

should look into that ish

tips

toonewewillreturn's picture

In my opinion, this site:

needs to be far more interactive,

more about user content than copy paste news

people working with people

videos forums discussions

try to combine a few of these:

http://adamapollo.info/galactic_network/planet_earth/

craigslist.org

reddit.com

etsy.com

...and then make it an app. make money. settle as non-profit.

i agree...very helpful post!

AdiGaia's picture

in fact , one of the GFP people said something very similar in a post just a few weeks ago, and i've been waiting for something like this to show up on the site...

GFP has had a video chat room going for quite awhile, but i've not yet had the time and means to do it...  don't know if it's still happening...

thanks esp for this link http://adamapollo.info/galactic_network/planet_earth/

it looks really good...  i'll go thru it asap...

Adi

I have plans to make our new

will's picture

I have plans to make our new site far more interactive, though I don't have an estimate yet on how long that will take. I'd like to make it somewhat similar to Reddit, in that you can subscribe to certain categories and those will appear on your front page.  There's quite a bit of back-end stuff I'm still working on and bugs that are being dealt with before all that comes though. Plus it's a whole lot more work to develop, and then maintain an interactive site, we'll see how it all goes.

I've been busy with other jobs to make sure I can pay my monthly bills, plus working on Awakening Daily, so this site hasn't been getting quite as much attention as it used to.

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michael keuppens's picture

they devolope a software that accumulates money through frequency and binary matrix

Galactic Free Press

Michael Solstice's picture

I found it personally insulting that GFP would actually challenge my right to read the FREE press without making a donation. WTF? However, I am not surprised. I found the GFP  couple of years back when I was in a particularly vulnerable place emotionally and was searching for spiritual guidance. It looked good on the outside. I was a bit confounded that the two leaders were named Mother God & Father God and actually seemed to believe they were some sort of God. I enjoyed the people who joined together in the chat room and found most of what they shared very helpful. I was very excited to learn that we were going to gather for an amazing group meditation led by Mother God that was going to change the world. And god knows the world could use some changing. There were well over 100 people in the chat room and it looked like our ranks were poised to make a difference in the universe. AND THEN FATHER GOD SHOWED UP DRUNK AS A SKUNK AND BECAME DISRUPTIVE AND VULGAR and no one challenged his behavior and FG got a pass under the guise that we were all just way to serious. I dropped in a couple of times after that hoping to get over my disallusionment and finally sought solace elsewhere of which I discovered their were many more EGO driven new age sites than I could count! And most of them wanted money to joined their enlightened weekend retreat that was well beyond my veterans pension. Anyway, I recently dropped in again a few days ago and it looks like the duo that was sent by heaven to lead us all home have split up and the website is still wondering why no one is supporting its lifestyle requirements.  My suggestion is form a non-profit with some guidelines and oversight and fundraising opportunities. Otherwise, just enjoy hanging out with FG, Will and Isis and hope you can convince enough people to support your $2,000 month lifestyle sharing your point of view with those who are apparently only welcome if they donate. OMG now that sounds like a subscription site - you could try that! Best of luck spreading the news . . .

How is your "right" to read

will's picture

How is your "right" to read the press being challenged by not donating? It's all still free, what you said doesn't make much sense. We just haven't been putting much energy into this site lately, is it because of that you believe some "right" is being violated? People who don't donate are still welcome here, you seem to be confused about that. People who donate don't get any special treatment here.

And I don't wonder at all why our site isn't being supported, contrary to what you claim. I had a feeling that if we stopped promising that "ascension" would be coming any moment that the donations would slow down and the site would be less popular. Selling fantasies like that is good money, people want to hear that any day their problems will all be solved. I had a feeling switching away from that nonsense might alienate most of our readers, I was just hoping I was wrong there.

And with the whole "Mother God" and "Father God" thing, it was never intended that there would be so much focus upon them. It was supposed to help people realize that Everyone Is God. However, it seems very few people are ready for that kind of realization, and instead of attracting free and equal Gods, we started to get followers. "Mother God" unfortunately enjoys this sort of attention, she likes having her ego worshiped while claiming she's some Divine Being that's completely without any ego. It's a bit funny that the person with one of the biggest egos in the group is the person who tells everyone she has none. I don't find it very funny that plenty of people were actually fooled by this, there's a lot of people trying to imitate her believing that's how an "enlightened being" behaves. This is how new religions get formed, though hopefully it wont come to that. Privately, we told her she still had major ego issues, though she mostly just ignored us. She enjoys the power and control that comes with people believing she is "Mother God".

I'm glad Amerith (FG) drunkenly crashed many of those sessions, he never wanted followers. Whenever unhealthy relationships formed between MG and other people, he disrupted them. I feel he did you a favor souring your opinion of us. Instead of listening to MG's rhetoric, you went out and got a much more realistic view of the new age movement. That's great! Perhaps now you can better understand the dilemma we face here. Spreading fantasies and having some egoic leader to worship is apparently the recipe for success in the new age movements, at least monetary success. Telling people, "I'm Enlightened and I have all the answers you need" is a good way to make money. Telling people, "You're God and you have all the answers within" is a bad way to make money. I learned this first hand.

Because of this, I don't see it as such a negative thing that our site isn't getting much in donations anymore. In the current human world, dishonesty is far far far more profitable. I know how money is made in the new age movement, it's very easy to exploit people's hopes for profit. If we told people what they want to hear, our site could be even more "successful" now than when MG was running things. However, I personally don't measure success by such shallow terms as popularity and profitability.

And we're not going to do a non-profit, there's too many rules there and it would mean there's certain things we're not allowed to say on the site anymore.

We're currently setting things up so we're not financially dependent upon this site, so our financial state need not concern our readers anymore.

Some details the readers didn't need to know ;)

lightworker.jason's picture

I'm a little disappointed in the choice of words describing "MG" and "FG". Sounds like they were each frauds according to what is mentioned about them above, which is a shame because this website did help a lot of people with their positive messages.

I will continue to visit the new Awakening Daily website for the good articles, but will no longer subscribe to the GFP newsletter and will stop visiting the GFP website going forward.

Handle the Truth

Michael Solstice's picture

I think it''s important that we know the truth. It's unfortunate that some people can't handle the truth. Without truth there is no basis for trust and without trust.......

Thank you for providing good

lightworker.jason's picture

Thank you for providing good content on this website through the months. It was fun while it lasted and I wish FG and MG well. They did help a lot of people, and apparently know how to keep an audience interested and donations coming, from what you're saying.

Will,

Michael Solstice's picture

Will,

This is what I was responding to in your original post:  "If you enjoy the site, please consider donating, if you don't enjoy the site, well what are you doing here?"  I may have misinterpreted this but I took it to mean that if you don't donate then you are not welcome. Is that what you meant?

It's just asking people to

will's picture

It's just asking people to consider a donation if they enjoy the site and find some value in it. We get some people who don't seem to enjoy the site or the people who run the site (in fact some have commented on this very post) and I was kinda wondering why they even bother coming here...

cooperation with new methods to finance

michael keuppens's picture

crowdsourcing is a brand new way to finance non-profit organisations,besides you have to do an effort to

envolve in open-source technologies ,with research and development you can ensure from an income great enough for running,eventually you can ask some assistence from our friends of anonymous.In this time of growing energy,powerfull shifts we need to unite ,the hacktivists,the open-source researchers,the lightworkers and even the Divine Beings .This cooperation of seemly people from an other angle will result

in an frutty and furtile chaos of knowledge and experiences will work easily a New Form of Finance.If you pretend to speak in name of Enlightment it seems to me that to beg for donats is in a kind anaturel