I spent the entire night roaming the Ashram at each and every level, analyzing each area and noting which I need to do first and which can wait until some other time. I now have a full breakdown of the exact location of each and every meeting space and workspace in the Ashram and the number of prims available to deal with each.
I am happy to say that my Far West Region, which was strapped down to just hundreds of prims, has now a nice juicy 11,101 prims with which to work, and I’ll need every single one of them to do what I’m going to do there, upon which I’ll now elaborate:
3450 METERS IS THE CEILING —
Nobody but Cloister and Institute Admin above that level. Nobody. This is my work level, and no students are to wander into this airspace, not even by accident.
3201 METERS — DARK MALL & ENVIRONS
It is on this level that you will find the treasure of treasures in the way of profoundly impacting Bardo Spaces, and in particular The Dark Mall, the Raceways, the Hall of Heroes, Crisis Center, Fashionista Tattoo-Fashions Mall, and the ever-popular Drive-In Theater, and the central theme of the Dark Mall, GORBY’S PLACE and SCI-FI RADIO CENTER, where your Avatar can sit in on a LIVE broadcast.
2857 METERS — PARK AVENUE
It is here that you will find Busker Park, Ford’s Theater for live performances, The Empire Theater for films and television, and the InterDimensional Airport.
2001 METERS — MEDITATION CENTRAL
Here can be found Magickal Mystical Circles and all manner of gatherings; among the trees and lakes you will discover an intimate little circle just perfect for campers on a hike, and there is the outdoor T’ai Ch’i area and a really spacious outdoor concert stage complete with an enormous set of bleachers.
1601 METERS — TEMPLE ROW
Here you will soon find out why it is called Temple Row. In the Southeastern Region can be found the Work Farm, and in the Northeast you will discover the Temple of Ganesh. Some of the shops that were here in Gorby’s Plaza will be moved to shops in the Dark Mall.
The reason Gorby’s Mall was installed was that it was the second region we bought, and had no other, and the prims were too much to handle. All that is solved by having the Dark Mall where it is now, and moving Gorby’s Place to that location, which I tried to do six months ago, but as you know, I was unable to get into Second Life until a few days ago at the Shift.
Do I think it had something to do with the Shift? Damn right it did. Had I been online in Second Life during that time, and had I been “wired” and “connected”, meaning on the internet and active in the internet activities that were going on at that time, we’d be in a totally different universe with a totally different set of conditions. But we aren’t; we landed here, and this is the Right Place, Right Time, so enjoy it while you can, and use the opportunity to create better conditions for your Higher Work.
32 METERS — GROUND LEVEL
At ground level, you’ll find all manner of things; Grandpa Henry’s Diner, Red Miguel’s Restaurant Gallery & Guided Tours, and the Zen Garden. You’ll also find the entrance to Atlantis, New Orleans, Medieval Villas, Roman and Egyptian and Greek and Babylonian Temples and much, much more. To the extreme South West, you’ll find the Master Builders’ Area on Master Builder Island.
Folks have asked where I’m going to reassign things and put stuff and such. I can’t answer until I’m on the scene and actually doing it. I’m being pressured to apologize for my actions in the Ashram, but I’m not going to. I’m making it Law-Conformable so it will work better, and that has to be good enough for you.
I get gut-wrenched every time I find myself taking something away from you that you like and enjoy and work with and appreciate, but sometimes it’s like a surgeon operating, and you can’t operate on your best friend without wincing on his or her behalf at every cut.
I AM NOT RUDE
I explained in another blog why I don’t respond to text messages in the Ashram; it’s the same reason I don’t read my emails, I erase them, all of them. I’m busy. If you want to chat, do it with someone else, and I don’t know how to chat and I refuse to learn.
This brings to mind that in lectures or workshops, people love to text message irrelevant items, such as, “Like your shoes!”. Thank your lucky stars you have any shoes at all, when you get into a GODD level.
There’s no sense of fashion in GODD, it’s just business.
And that’s my point about conversation. I’m there in the Ashram to do a job, a big and complex and difficult and demanding job, and every second I spend chatting is time and energy lost to me.
It may appear as if I’m just hanging around in mid-air enjoying the artificial sunshine, but you can bet that I’m calculating something, and that takes math. My math head does not compute chat.
All this by way of saying that if you attempt to communicate with me, don’t expect a response.
I might say something into the mike, but tonight I was all over the place, from region to region and from level to level, so my audio blew up sometime along that timeline. By the time I saw the small group assembled in the Zen Garden, my mike didn’t work.
I stood there and thought about saying something, like “Good work”, but I don’t know how to use the chat function and, according to my workers here in the office, a future in which I know how to text chant online is probably not in the cards.
So I leaned over Marvette’s shoulder and said “hello” into her mike instead. Works for me. The thing is, I might not even do that, and I’m not apologizing for that. I just want you to know that I’m not ignoring you, I do in fact see you and acknowledge that you are there, and I silently thank you for your Ashram Service, but don’t expect any more than that.
Now, if I’m giving Darshan or a lecture, demonstration or vehicle training, you can expect more; I’ll be talking over my microphone at those times.
Actually, I’m conforming to a basic Cloister Rule, never engage one-on-0ne in private spaces with anyone, male or female. We travel in twos to avoid that one-on-one cramping that takes place in public. We have very kind and considerate methods of avoiding entrapment in social or sexual situations, and we use them whenever necessary.
It’s understood that folks with good intentions will not be offended by our refusal to take part in frivolous chatter or little harmless flirtations. In ordinary life, flirtations are a natural part of life; you do it just to keep in touch and keep your weapons sharp.
But in a Holy Ashram, it’s considered very bad etiquette to plaster scans of your nether parts or to troll the virtual streets looking for a trick, and I tend to discourage same.
On the other hand, I am definitely not counted among the prudes. It’s just about good manners and considerate behavior, and in an Ashram, your conduct should be the same as it would be in a Cathedral or Temple.
There’s a time and a place for everything, and the Ashram is neither the time nor the place for trivial things.
Yes, sex counts as a trivial thing. I can prove it. How many sex partners, total, have you had in your life? How many more do you expect to have, given your typical relationship history?
Haw, haw, and they say the Neanderthals died out.
Just got a message from Tiffany — she’s up on facebook again with a business only not personal page, with our photos all over it. I hope that SpaceBuddhaa will get the links out to everyone and maybe stick some link onto my facebook pages. Wow, Tiff looks great in her new modeling persona!!!
See You At The Top!!!
gorby