Message #14537

[Serena Duvet]

Please bring back the original name, Soul Searching Forum.  It's a much more evocative and emotional name than Spiritual Portal.  When you have a long time history with a name, it's a good idea to keep it ~ the Soul Searching Forum name is your "brand" and people that write here associate the forum with that name. 

There is a lyricism to the name Soul Searching Forum ~ it has a "ring" to it.  Spiritual Portal sounds flat, and generic. 

Please bring back the beloved name, Soul Searching Forum!   



The beautiful Lake Shrine founded by Swami Paramahansa Yogananda in Pacific Palisades, California

After several years of existence on the internet, The Soul Searching Forum had an identity crisis.  Far from subscribing to the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" way of thinking, the administrators began to tinker with the site, changing not only the color and look, but the actual name, saying that they didn't want to limit themselves to soul searching.  It's only a name, after all; people visit the site and do all sorts of searching and non-searching.  Soul believers and non-soul believers drop in here.  The "Spiritual Portal" is a misnomer, for me, as I believe that "Spirit" is everywhere - no "portal" needed!  But, there'll always be those who demand change and to fix the unbroken...  When will this site "find itself" again?  Who knows?  I'll go with the flow.  They won't drive me away with their damn blacks.  But I must say that perhaps that meditating cat's been staring at the tarmac of the highway a little too long...