David,

> How do you know WHAT secrets adepts are keeping? You are
> assuming things based on nothing.
> Have you ever met an adept,
> taken an initiation from one?

LOL, you said yourself that all their secrets are there for the picking these days!

> How do you know there even is a
> serpent faith?

I'm referring to the Ancient Mysteries! Don't try to tell me that the Serpent doesn't play a major role in Paganism! Are you sure you're an initiate? LOL

> I've been with my teacher for many years, and
> the only "serpent" that ever came into play is the one we all
> have at the base of our spine-the kundalini shakti.

You call it what you like, energy was around long before someone came up with the label "kundalini" and associating it with a Serpent is peculiar!

> It's universal, no one is born without it, and it has nothing
> to do with evil or darkness--on the contrary.

I'm not saying it's evil, I've never said that! What I've always been saying is that it's primordial!

Rob