I just now finished Orb #30 — Tikal — for the Past Life Orb Cluster. Each Orb is differently decorated, but is the same architecture, to make it easier for the professional Runner or Coach to assess and run effectively & efficiently.
It’s all about the swing & sway, and that’s what the Coach’s job is all about — getting the Runner to feel comfortable and competent in the Orb Run.
But which Orb to run? Continue reading
For those fans of The Orbs, I have something a little new and different for your consideration — I’ve remade and redesigned the BardoTown Map, which now includes dozens of interiors, all of which you now STRAP TO instead of taking a TELE.
The effect is a short pause between maps, but it’s worth the wait, because in each area, I can isolate and magnify the effects — each map has the potential for its very own set of physics, math and probability, and I fully take advantage of that fact.
Accordingly, I’ve separated the interiors from the giant exterior OVERWORLD that is the BardoTown map, so the store interiors are now OUTBOARD ORBS, which is to say, something on the order of “sub-orbs” to which you can strap from the OVERWORLD map through a variety of doors, windows and other fenestrations of the architecture. Continue reading
The very first Big Breakthrough in POD — Print-On-Demand — technology was the ability to print food-safe edible ink on a sheet of safe, edible dried frosting paste. This isn’t the first year we’ve had this — it’s now a staple of the wedding trade.
In fact if you think about it only a moment, the printed disk of dried frosting is absolutely the counterpart to the Heavenly Host, when properly transsubstantiated, although we don’t use the Eucharistic Mass or anything remotely like it.
Still, the Catholics have got the right idea — you eat what you want to bring into yourself, and presumably that would include spiritual energies and healing powers and restorative vibrations, yes?
The idea is that you eat the body of God and this brings power, health and happiness to you, although a hell of a lot of good it did for God.
So what? Big deal. I don’t need no stinkin’ badge. What I mean is, go ahead and be happy, be wise and be elevated to a great height, but how?
You are what you eat. That’s what they tell you. What if that were literally true? What if when you ate a wafer marked “Courage”, you all of a sudden felt courageous?
Suppose you ate a wafer marked “Blessings”, would you expect to be and feel more Blessed? Damn right you would, and rightly so!
Okay, so how about one that’s marked “Winning”, what if you ate that and hit big on the lottery? What I mean is, would you donate 10% to the community? You don’t actually have to do that, it was an irresistible half-joke, because of course we welcome any donation and most importantly, your participation in our activities. Continue reading
In newspaper parlance, “Stop da Presses!!!” means that the reporter is running to his or her desk with a “scooop” — a news story that no other newspaper has got hold of yet. Well, that’s what this is. I’ll leave it to your imagination; dark, dank, cool subway tunnels with Old Gorby at your side, giving you kind, helpful instructions, such as “Watch it, meathead!” and “Is typing on a keyboard Kryptonite to your species???” and “Move it, Maggot, I haven’t got all darn day!!!”. Gives ya the willies to hear them drill sergeant commands, eh? “Gimme ten on the floor, mister!” There’s much more to this story…
Have you ever “just known” something that happened so long ago your present body wasn’t even born yet?