Kids had such a transformative experience working with adults in the Craft Classes at Camp Woodland and Downtown Community School under the direction of Norman Studer during the 1950s, and when families worked together on simple craft projects and craft shows, it was like a bunch of gluons had suddenly bonded the family members into a blended and harmonious unity, and that’s exactly what’s needed in this world of pain.
I’m designing an entire LINE of metal-embossing kits, and I’ll tell you why — the new EK cutter is a piece of crap, although it does admittedly do the job, but it does it with four massive crimps in the sides, which eventually will roll out with pressure and persistence, but the additional effort makes the thing too time-expensive for the marketplace.
So I decided to set up a craft supply “factory” where I either make or encourage and teach others to make little circular foil bits for sale to embossers everywhere.
We’re making embossings that can actually be used in jewelry mountings, because our sizes correspond to the mountings without modification. We’re among the very few who make embossings on round foil disks.
The thing is, most metal embossing consists of cutting out squares or rectangles and rubbing some embossed design into the metal, as you’d take a gravestone “rubbing”. What we do is so entirely different from the mainstream that it should be called something else, something that reflects its fine-art nature rather than its craft values, but that doesn’t work for the marketplace.
What DOES work is non-selling, and that’s exactly what I have in mind — one person sets up an embossing club, to which maybe a half dozen people might come for a few sessions before quitting in boredom, OR you set up a challenging PROGRAM for them to try to tackle, with a definite end-point that provides them with some definite feeling of powerful accomplishment, such as a certificate or some sort of award, the motivational standard of high schools and churches everywhere.
It doesn’t matter much what the certificate is or what the award says happened. It’s something to put on the wall, and it does motivate everyone to some extent, although the power of the motivational force of praise has its definite limits, and I tend not to rely on it for serious long-term motivation.
For that, you need CHALLENGE, and the challenge has to be about something that is REAL, at least for your embossing club recruits, and a much more tangible reward than mere praise, and in this present culture, that would be MONEY.
Okay, so you make the embossing kits available at several rates. Let’s take, for example, an embossing kit that RETAILS in the store for oh, let’s say, $35 bucks, so here’s the breakdown:
- RETAIL PRICE $35.00
- RETAILER’S WHOLESALE COST $17.50
- DISTRIBUTOR’S COST $12.00
- JOBBER’S COST $10.00
You’ll note that the profit per item is radically lower for the distributor and jobber, but it’s more than compensated for by the numbers — the jobber can’t make it on fewer than a thousand units at a time, and the distributor goes by the case, about 144 units apiece, while the retailer might only have a half-dozen units on display or in the store, right on down to one single unit, or just a snapper photo printed from the internet, in some shops.
It takes money to make money, and you can quote me on that. I was the first to say it, back in Thermopolis, and I’ll say it again — it takes money to make money. You can’t beat the odds without trying, that’s for certain, and you can’t win if you don’t play.
Retailers take all the hits from customers, and that’s worth giving them the lion’s share of the profits, because it costs them the most to sell the item.
But what IS the game?
What is the game, really? Well, gosh, it’s not very complicated, and we’ll start at the beginning. The universe is more biological than anyone ever thought. The real question is, can inhabitants of a simulation become self-aware and aware of the nature of the simulation?
Add to that, and still carry on with life. Further, can individuals within the simulation become aware of the entire simulation?
Can they also become aware of the world containing and producing the simulation, and even further, the Beings and ultimately the Being, that produced the simulation that humans so quaintly call “The Universe” or, even more quaintly, “Reality”.
Only by piercing that veil can one become aware of the nameless, formless and limitless superconciousness beyond description, that Great Superconsciousness which is achieved through deep, matter and energy-transcending meditation.
The SuperBeacon will make that journey possible, and I would make it a point to have a SuperBeacon quietly and unobtrusively on hand at a craft session. If you’re asked, point them to the website for more information about it and its use in a craft class to open the avenues of Higher Inspiration and Angelic Influence.
So what’s the gimmick?
The “gimmick”, or whole point of the exercise is to get the students to copy my SIMPLE, ONE-STEP-AT-A-TIME Objective Designs into metal. They don’t have to be indoctrinated into some special belief system, or make the sign of the doodle on their chests or hop on one foot three times and whistle “Yankee Doodle” while spitting over the left shoulder or anything like that at all.
In fact, they don’t have to even “join” your club to make it work. My designs will trigger Higher Influence no matter what the maker thinks is happening.
Higher Influence means more people OPERATING UNDER DIVINE GUIDANCE, which is the whole ding-dang point, anyway, raising the consciousness of the entire planet wholesale, rather than person-by-person which, if you’ve ever met some of the Hell-World Beings in some of the rougher sections of town, is an impossible task for anyone.
Most of the Hell-Beings will need to be raised up, because they LIKE it down there, and nobody gets left behind, folks, nobody and, yes, you can make the extrapolation here that that includes yourself.
If you’re the very last of the Lower Consciousness Hell-Beings, I’m sorry, but your attitude is going to have to either change or be changed — we need this planet for the Federation.
Of course, if the Greys have their way, you’ll be joining the Space Mafia.
What kind of kits will be available, and how much will they be? The answer to that is, “as many kinds of kits as I can think of, plus any kits that are asked-for by enough people to make it worthwhile making them”.
How much will they be?
Hey, the first hit is free, right? The basic beginner kit is $35, and the pro kit is $35. Everything you need for either path is included in the kit, so you can start working with it right away.
Of course, you and your students will quickly run out of disks, because this game is totally addictive and they won’t be able to stop themselves, so you have a constant flow of disks that creates a small but steady income.
So where’s the money?
It’s always in the framing. YOU will have the technology and knowledge to provide a variety of framing solutions for their creations and, of course, your own works of art.
The club can organize a Christmas Sale as their first public effort, and I can guess that it will be a big enough “hit” that it will encourage the club to get into some spring and summer fairs, and make some cash to cover the cost of their new hobby, which in turn creates more challenge and more potential work-efforts and therefore more “fun”, which is NOT a crime — it’s a common belief that all real work on self must cause pain and suffering, and that’s just not true.
Some work on self causes pain, but not ALL work on self. Get real.
Metal Embossing is a form of Objective Prayer that, through Automatic Iconic Devotional Invocation causes “Special Attention”, activating the Being’s Higher Centrums, and that can lead to dancing. Beware.
There have been some comparisons of my concept of Embossing Clubs with Amway and such, but the major difference is that they’re selling things, things that, moreover, people are already convinced they NEED for the Dating Game and the Game of Organic Family Life, while we’re selling wholesale parts to create something that is mostly for the use of the invisible part of ourselves, and that’s a hard-sell, the hardest sell of them all.
Emboss To Grow Your Soul? Why not? Try it, you’ll like it. In fact, you’ll become an Embossing Addict, which can be used to replace a destructive habit already in you. Give it a try. You’ll be hooked the very first time!
See You At The Top!!!
gorby