There you are, and there you sit, in lockdown, not much to do, nowhere to go, just sitting around for days on end, months and months of this ahead of you, no end in sight.

So what can you DO with all this time on your hands?

Well, you could catch up on all those things you’ve been putting off, like the guitar practice, reading SlimeWars finally all the way to the end, maybe doing some new exercises, going to the Virtual Ashram, and of course, all our classes and virtual crowd gatherings in ZOOM and LiveStream and other online venues.

There are lots and lots of online things happening now, things that were only in the fringes before the lockdown, and they are suddenly acquiring an importance unguessed — they are the obvious sure cure for loneliness and isolation.

And of course, if there’s really nothing to do, gosh — you could run all those Orbs that you’ve been meaning to get to one of these days. Well, this is one of those days, so get to it, while the gettin’s good!

I’ve placed a few hot links in this blog to get you going, but there are hundreds more, and I’ve left it up to YOU to find them — I’m only going to give you a few hints.

By the way, it might interest you to know that I’ve just completed the finish layout work for Corona-Killer, my offering for the CURRENT emergency, and I’m already working on the game layout for the Emergency-to-Come, which is just around the next corner.

Everyone of sound mind and empathic construction wants to do SOMETHING to help in this crisis, but what can we little “Great Unwashed” folks do?

We have little to give, and we’re in no position to use money or power to help, so what can we do? What can we give? Do we have any powers at all?

Yes, we do.

Those of you who heeded my warnings over the past 50 years that this WOULD happen, although I couldn’t call the precise date, because it varies, will have mastered the Blue Line Academy course in World Creation, Maintenance & Destruction.

That’s the most basic course in Godhood you can take in this world.

Part of waking up is being able to create, maintain and destroy worlds, and you’d be better off if you were not merely competent, but excellent, and that’s rare.

Why? Because it takes a LOT of time, day after day, to master the skills of Blue Line, that’s why, and you’ve just never had the time, but now you do, so what’s the excuse now?

You’re running out of excuses, and the greater the crisis, the fewer excuses you’ll have at your disposal. At some point, you’ll have to face the music — work, or succumb to sleep.

I hope you will find the will to work, but most frankly won’t, because they’re still convinced that sooner or later someone will come along and scoop them up and carry them forward.

That just doesn’t happen.

There are a thousand reasons why it doesn’t happen, but the most vital is that it makes you weaker.

That’s a powerful argument. I would heed the warning, and that should embolden you to embark on some Orb adventures, which you can obtain by following the links — don’t forget to share these links with everyone you know and can reach!

So if you listened to my warnings, especially over the past four years, you’ll have several skills that can be applied both for simple personal survival and also to help others, which is the backbone of the Bodhisattva Vow.

But in order to help others, you can’t also be totally helpless. That just doesn’t work. You need to be bountiful and not yourself swamped by issues in order to be of real help to others.

You can’t be a worse mess than they are and still hope to help them, so SOMETHING’S got to change in your life, and that means get off your ass and get to work before you’re cut down and gone.

Like I said, if you paid attention and DID something about it, you now have the skills to survive and to help others.

• SMM SKILLS — You should have mastered at least what I presented in social media marketing blogs, of which there are plenty on this site, which are being bundled into a book on social media marketing and site optimization.
• GRAPHICS SKILLS — Graphic skills to create exciting “click bait” buttons.
• GAME DESIGN — I teach several courses on game development and level design, and can help you figure out the right tools and delivery system for your game ideas.
• SURVIVAL FOODS — I’ve offered again and again to grow the foods for you, but you have to send money — we need thousands of dollars just to build the raised beds, and we’re starting seed sheds, but we’re running out of building supplies and help to build the things — forget about getting here to help at this point — for the moment, we’re on our own for building and repair, but change is coming fast down the pike.
• BARDO SAFARIS — You can help us grow our circle by bringing folks into our many gaming gatherings, among which is of course Diablo 2, home of the Bardo Safari. You can become a safari participant. They are led by our Master Class experts.
• MASTER CLASSES — These are ZOOM classes featuring what YOU happen to be an expert at or what subject you like the most. If you have no interests or skills in anything, perhaps you could learn some, and eventually earn an online living by teaching those same skills. If you’ve already invested some time and energy and effort into any of the practices I’ve offered, you have skills that are worth something to others, and from which you could earn a temporary livelihood while waiting for the restaurants to reopen, which won’t be real soon in most locations.
• COMEDY — If you took even ONE of my many comedy workshops, you’d have the skills by now to get some income with comedy. You can book ZOOM Birthday Parties and hire a clown or share a screen with you as a clown in Second Life — easily done and fun to experience.
• ASHRAM ACTIVITIES — You can be a coach, and you can ask donations — I’ll provide you with a TIP JAR just for you, if you establish an activity in the Ashram!
• ART — Again, if you’ve been paying attention, you’ve learned how to deal commercial art, such as Picasso, Matisse, Chagall and Miro, and you’ve also at the same time learned how to create art and craft objects that are at the level of professional, meaning that they’re good enough to sell in a shop — but we have no shops. So how to sell your art and crafts? Ding dang it, I done told ya! Social Media Marketing.
• BLOGGING — If I’ve done nothing else this decade, it’s been blogging, lots of it — I can easily write 20,000 words a night or more, if my hands work right, without more than two typos in the whole deal — I proofread as I go along, never look at the keyboard, something that today’s kids might find challenging — touch-typing is a lost art.
• PODCASTING — Podcasts and Video Broadcasts are easily achieved now — you need not be a major broadcasting network, nor do you need permission from the federal government to broadcast on the internet or release podcasts, although I’m certain the Republicans are working to bring that free speech to a sudden halt. They never stop attacking freedom, and you need to be ever-vigilant.
• JEWELRY — Sure, there’s nowhere to show it, nobody can try it on, feel the weight, admire the highly polished .925 sterling silver or solid 18k gold rings, but heck, I’m selling more jewelry online than I ever did at a booth, and I sold a LOT at booths!
• GAMES — You can sell games, play games, conduct gaming conventions, so much stuff to do with games and gaming! Organize a DUNGEON PARTY with the old-fashioned AD&D Dungeon Master. Claude and I will be organizing actual D&D Live Games including BEGINNER AD&D classes for those who have no experience with live board gaming.
• CHESS — If you’ve been following my line of reasoning, you’re real good at chess, and you can’t be beaten. That’s a recipe for an online market, if ever I’ve seen one. Ask me how to take advantage of this opening, if you’re REALLY good at chess, or GO, if that’s your passion.
• ONLINE GAMING — Barbara, Claude, Dokk and I have reps as pro gaming champions, and we’ve won lots of tournaments and online challenges. You won’t be able to beat any of us, but if you can come CLOSE, we can show you how to make a living playing online games, but you’ll have to work your ass off and be smart as Hell.
• LIFE COACHING — This is one of those things that, if you didn’t start out a few years ago, it’s really too late to get hold of it for this go-round. What you can do to help will be things you’ve already mastered, not something you’re still struggling with yourself.
• CHARMS — You don’t have a lot of money, none to spare for sure, but you CAN advise people, tell them about things that might help them, and one of those things for sure is the Godd™ Particle.
• BOOKS — You can direct folks to the book download pages where they can obtain our books, CDs and DVD videos. You’d be surprised at how many emails and comments we get a day about our books and how they’ve helped deal with this crisis.
• VIDEOS — Not only can you find QMV videos on youtube, you can help others find them and you can coach them on how to use them. Some coaches are asking donations, some are not, but soon will be, if the economic pressure gets overwhelming.
• MAGIC — If you’ve mastered the FOUR BASIC TRICKS of “Magic in the Mirror”, which is my book on stage magic and misdirection, and it’s still in print, and still available from our bookstore at a bargain price, or DOWNLOAD it from our book site. Find out more about our magic offerings by asking about them — it’s a new concept.
• COINOLOGY — Coins are dangerous things now — they’re the dirtiest things people can possibly carry, outside a garbage truck that’s been hijacked by a gang of racoons. I’d stay away from anything that requires shipping — it’s not YOU that got the package messed up, it’s all those hands along the way. However, you can market the DOING of coin search, of grading, all that, and you can SEE the result in ZOOM, so you know you’re getting your point across with your Coinology students. Of course, you don’t want to search current coins, just antiques that have been sealed up for decades, which would of course be Indian Heads — rather expensive — or Lincoln Wheaties, not expensive at all, especially for a bag of CULLS, which are the junk coins that nobody wants except maybe me. I like them and use them a lot, and have found over a dozen 1909s VDBs among them, plus an XF 1914-d that somehow slipped past the watchful eyes of the searchers before me.
• GOLD PANNING — Of course you don’t want to go out with a group and pan gold, even in the wilderness, even at a distance of a thousand yards — I know what you mean. So how about teaching gold panning via ZOOM? It’s easy to do, if you know how, and I do know how to set them up with the equipment they need and to show how to pan across the internet. For me, not a problem, and I can show you how to make this work even in the middle of the pandemic.
• HISTORY — If you’re a history buff, you’ll appreciate all the things you can do now, especially tours of historic places using antique photos and paintings and other illustrations that you either will collect on the internet or have collected or taken yourself in previous times. You can also use virtual backdrops for this purpose, such as delivering a lecture on Egyptian Religion while apparently standing in Karnak.
• STORYTELLING — You can use the GREENSCREEN EFFECT to create an atmosphere for storytelling in ZOOM or another venue such as LiveStream. Greenscreen effects can be shared with participants so they can also be “in” the same space.
• SPIRITUAL HEALING — Medicine Wheel or Spirit Healing can be performed powerfully and effectively over the internet, particularly when transmitting through ZOOM — it seems to work slightly better for clear signal than some of the others, like SKYPE, but they can all be used for spiritual healing.
• FASHION — Again, if you’ve been paying attention over the past decade or so, I teach classes not only in creating fashions and selling fashions online, both virtual and actual, in Second Life and in Zazzle and PAOM and Redbubble and Cafe Press and more — you wouldn’t believe the range of venues in which my products appear, and there’s no reason you couldn’t do the same.
• CREATIVITY — Once again I point out that I’ve been offering classes in creativity, and the Women’s Creative Workshop has been operational now for five years, waiting for YOU to join it, take it over, make it grow. I’ve written a four-volume book on women’s creativity, called “My Life as a Boy” volumes I-IV. Tons of ideas in there, lots of ways to survive this and offer help to others.
• SAILING — Sure, boating, sailing, even undersea exploration, all in the privacy of your own home, all in your favorite armchair, all virtual and all available at the Prosperity Path Virtual Ashram, which was established many years ago in anticipation of this global catastrophe and others to follow.
• FLYING — Why not fly a commercial passenger plane with 50 passengers to a desert island somewhere for a group picnic and festival? It’s totally safe, 100% virtual, and it takes place every day in the virtual ashram, so why not join us there today? It costs nothing to join Second Life if you don’t want to own land — and you don’t, unless you know how to market it and make it pay for itself — it’s expensive to own land there. We have more than enough full parcels to make flying fun, and plenty of FUN work destinations at every level.
• SONGWRITING — If you’re good at it, why not write some parody songs about Trump or whatever you’d like to speak out about? You can watch Pete Seeger, “Power of Song” about how he literally took on the great powers to clean up the Hudson River — he had no money, no voice — he had been destroyed by Senator McCarthy as “Un-American” because he had once been a member of the Socialist Party, which he freely admitted. Had he been a Nazi, he would not have gotten into trouble. If you want to know how to make money from songwriting apart from the record industry which sucks and is thoroughly evil, check out Randy Rainbow on youtube.com.

Offering help to others always depends on YOU being strong and brave and willing to endure thankless personal sacrifice. Once in a while, you’ll get a “thanks”, but don’t make your work dependent on it, because it happens seldom enough to make a point of it.

I can offer literally HUNDREDS of events, activities and studies for the duration of the crisis, however long that may last, but YOU need to figure out how YOU can survive this, and I’m here to help.

If you’re still stuck for an answer, contact me.

See You At The Top!!!

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