Quantum Entanglement Workshop & Clinic, December 2012, Learning to Sort.
Coin Safari is here. You can download it now on urthgame.com. Lemme clue ya: Coin Hunting is a legitimate thrill chase. It meets or beats your expectations for chills and thrills, because there’s a possible “win” at every turn of the coin. I mean this for both the Orb and also your daily practice, Zen Coin Sort and Zen Coin Search. Let’s take a good look at both subjects — for, indeed, they are two separate subjects, “sort” and “search”!!!
COIN SORT
This is what I do about 8-14 hours of, every day, in order to make enough search rolls to go around to all my coinology students all over the world!
In addition to being an extremely productive activity, COIN SORT offers the potential for very deep Moving Meditation, albeit it’s mostly the upper body that gets the exercise, but the back and leg muscles get a workout as well, if you do the Practice exactly as taught at the Academy.
Even on the Beginner’s Course, the rhythm and movements are introduced, so you get the “Coin Dance” effect right away.
It’s not just about breath and movement — there’s a special diet you’ll want to know about that will help you achieve those transcendent moments the very first time you try.
Running the Right Orb before you begin your Action Step makes a big difference in how your COIN SORT goes and what results you see.
Coin sorting means exactly what it sounds like — if you listen.
COIN SORT means NO LOUPE unless you need it to discern a date or mint-mark, but looky here; if you happen to spot what you think might very well be a double or variety of some sort or an RPM or whatever, of course you’d check it out right away, it’d be totally dumb not to check it out while you have it in your hand.
Efficiency will get you all the way there. If you hope to score bigtime, you’ll have to make it a business and go professional. That means handling a large volume of coin traffic, making up in volume what you might or might not have in skill. Luck is another issue, handled in the 60-second Magic Find Orb you ran before you started your COIN SORT action.
COIN SEARCH
This action is very different from the sorting action. First of all, you’ve got a 10x triplex jeweler’s loupe in hand, ready for action — this is your Weatherby .300 Nitro Express, your elephant gun for this safari. You’ll also be carrying a variety of other hunting supplies, and you have no bearers at the moment, so you can’t carry much.
As you go through Variety Wilderness and other domains, you’ll discover and collect a number of additional items that will help you to do better.
Coin searching is simple in itself — you look closely at a coin to determine if there’s anything of interest.
Sounds ridiculously simple; it should be easy, but when you try it, nothing happens. Why???
First of all, COIN SEARCH is simple, yes, but you have to know exactly what you are looking for, where to find it, and what it looks like to YOU under the 10x loupe.
This is all a matter of experience. There is no short cut, no substitute for experience personally experienced.
But you can help things along by taking a gentle slope learning curve, starting with the easiest things first.
I make it easy by having you separate the coins into specific dates and mint-marks in the first place, before you attempt to search the coins.
Searching the same date and mint-mark (if any) of 50 coins, one after the other, creates a field of “normality” which, when broken by some anomaly on the coin you’re examining, is easily differentiated.
What that means to you is that the variety coins is easier to see.
Oh, no! Don’t tell me I forgot to explain what a variety coin is. I asked you not to tell me that.
A variety is a coin that isn’t like the others, but is like the ones like itself, get it???
If you are unable to do the sorting part, because of currency restrictions in your country, you can still do the search part, by sending for search rolls with Training Coins — you get a reference coin that IS the very coin you’re looking for, and a roll of 50 assorted random coins of that date and mint-mark, if any.
You already have your “target coin” in hand; in fact, YOU OWN IT!!! It should provide a “Homing Beam” for similar coins, as well as a reference for you to look at to remind you of what you’re searching for!
Owning the coin already takes the pressure off — the ice is broken, no problem, no worries, just find another one like it. This reduces the importance of discovery, sure, but it also reduces the “standoff” effect, where you tend to push things, even good things, away before First Contact. I won’t go into the psychology of this, because it’s an obvious fact of life that we resist what isn’t happening in favor of what is.
That’s normal for all living organisms, and a few that are questionable in the “life” department but seem to operate as if intelligently, such as several nearby galaxies I could mention in the category of odd behavior and strange alchoholic content.
There are some interstellar gas clouds, notably the Magellanic and Horse-Head, that require anyone entering to be an adult with a photo ID.
There are as many searches as there are collection-buckets in your Trap Set, and more besides. You wouldn’t believe the sheer number of varieties available to find — but most of them are unknown, even to experienced hunters, because they’re newly discovered. Those are the ones we’ll be concentrating on most, once we get our bearings and our “see legs” (nautical optical joke alert).
Keep in the back of your mind that bringing the coins to market is an important part of the training. You may not be interested in the extra income, but it is a good measure of your success.
In addition, your new prosperity can make your work go better! You’ll be able to reach more people, introduce coinology to others — the more you know, the more you’ll do.
See You At The Top!!!
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