How to sell your shit…back in the day, I’d never have used the word “shit” in any context, in any company, “mixed” or not, meaning men and women together in the same room, in which case, there were no “dirty” or “blue” stories, jokes, riddles, puns or gags.
These days, we’ve gone so far across the arc on the pendulum of Robot Life that we’re now in a world in which “shit” is GOOD, in fact, it’s the greatest, so I’m calling your Carved Coins “shit” and hoping that you now have a good plan for their production in your home studio.
What is the “shit” you’re trying to peddle, anyway?
It’s a Spirit Coin, a Bardo Challenge Coin, if you will, and it’s a formerly ordinary copper, silver or gold coin that has been carved to show a skull under the skin, usually by an exaggerated set of teeth, a bold jaw, an open eye-socket and a few upper vertebrae, while the pretty part of the face remains intact. The whole is polished and finished, blessed and packaged to sell or ship, but one fact remains, and this is what you’re really here on planet Earth to do:
At the first moment that you show a Bardo Challenge Coin of any kind to anyone, they will receive and feel a powerful shock.
The coin carries with it not only Shakti-Pat as a result of the Blessing, but also sports a stunning visual reminder of one’s mortality, of everyone’s mortality, in the form of a ruler, king, noble, lord or goddess of liberty.
This shock does not spread through the system. It is quantum, and hits the whole body-mind all at once. The effect is astounding, predictable and certain. The subject’s REACTION to that shock will be one of three possible results:
- They will run away screaming, waving hands wildly, thrashing the air around them.
- They will be vague and indeterminate, and want to chat about something unrelated.
- They will buy the coin and thank you for helping them to Stay On The Path.
So how DO you sell your shit???
Okay, in order to sell your shit, you have to know what it’s all about, part of which is trying to make a carved coin yourself, just to see how hard or easy it is, and I assure you that it is very industrial, even when it’s handled as Fine Art, as my coins tend to be.
You ought to have a sales kit that is LIGHT and EASY for one person to CARRY, that sets up IN SECONDS at an Expo, a trunk show or a street fair, and TAKES DOWN in SECONDS, so you don’t have to hassle with the stuff when you’re exhausted from the day’s sales efforts. Let’s talk more about this idea…
If that SALES KIT also can be carried as a three-dimensional portfolio, you can sell on the street, on the move or at a private gathering such as a Coin-Carving Party or a lecture at the local library, on the history and techniques of Coin-Carving as a practical hobby.
The SALES KIT should come apart and set up in a sales counter or a table-top display case such as the ones I offer for sale to our sellers — you pay the same as if you’d got it from the manufacturer or distributor, I just carry them for your convenience, or you can shop online for what you need.
There are plenty of displays out there, because there are thousands of failed businesses that just can’t hardly wait to sell their counters and displays, and when you decide to buy one or more of their display units, it then becomes part of your job to make sure that you don’t end up as a business casualty like they did, at the end of the day.
The primary focus is on the WORK of the coins, not the VALUE of the coins, so stop thinking about them as “coins”, and start realizing what you’re doing here. You’re carving a coin to reveal the TRUTH, which is that no matter how rich and powerful you are, even Kings, Queens, Emperors, Saints and Saviours must die.
Moreover, apart from a few Biblical freaks, nobody in a human body lives much beyond 100 years, and few survive to that point. It’s a short life, and for most people, not especially merry.
You can use your life to great purpose, but if you live only to please yourself, you won’t have anything left in the end but your bones, and they will soon also be gone.
So how DO you sell your shit?
Merely show the sales kit to people. Let the items sell themselves, don’t try to persuade or encourage or SELL the things. Just wait quietly and let the customer do his or her thing.
But before you can sell any of those items, you need to ACTUALLY LOOK at your sales kit, the one I prepared for you. Decide if you’re able and skilled enough and willing enough to devote the time and energy to making your own carved coins. If not, you can order them from me for resale.
You might want to combine my signature series with your own, and maybe you’ll find that several folks in our Work Circle make carved coins you’d like to sell and pass to others.
Examine each coin you’re offering for sale. Look at it under a magnifier to see the details and the color shifts, the dimensionality of it. Only then can you KNOW that what you’re offering is WORTH EVERY PENNY you’re asking, and more.
But how are you helping The Work? Simple. You’re turning the “It’s Time To Get To Work” sign ON in the people you meet MERELY BY SHOWING THEM THE COIN CATALOG. No purchase necessary to get the Message, but what IS the Message???
The Message is clear and simple: “Under Every Face Mask, There Resides a Skull”, or “Hail the Jewel in the Lotus”, or another way of saying that is, “Om Mani Padme Hum”. Never forget that this simple formula is the root of all creation.
Sometimes I give a real broad hint like that, sometimes I don’t. You know, you’re following a very ancient tradition when you carve Coin of the Realm.
My Carved Spirit Coins carry that message in one single moment of apperception. The beholder SEES THE TRUTH behind the Veil, just by LOOKING at one of my coins.
Like the Jester, and with the same possible results of being drawn and quartered, you’re forcefully reminding the King, with some humor, that he is mortal, and that, no matter how much land he rules, no matter how many people over which he holds dominion — no matter how rich, famous or powerful he is, he will SOON die, even if he lives to be 130. Every body dies, no matter what, and he will be no exception.
Of course, I’m vulnerable in the same way. The Establishment doesn’t like the lower classes to find anything that helps them get out of the hole.
When someone sees a Spirit Coin, from the very first microsecond they perceive it, they are confronted by this simple and undeniable fact. The only fate in store for that machine at the end of life is death. This is a very important point, and if you miss it, you just won’t ever get it.
When someone ACTUALLY LOOKS at a Spirit Coin, their consciousness WILL CHANGE.
Most people insist on saying, “IF I die”, when what they really mean to say is, “WHEN I die”, but try to confront them on this, and they’ll deny that they’re in denial, but they are. You will surely die, and only when you really, truly recognize that fact, will you have a chance to achieve any spiritual mastery and the wisdom to use it.
Of course, in the meantime, you can offer yourself up to the Work as a “carrier”, who is willing and able to get these Spirit Coins OUT THERE, into the right hands, so they can spread the vibration and with that vibration, establish a Spirit-Net.
What exactly IS the Spirit Net, and how does it work and what is it supposed to do? This is one helluva time to ask, but I direct you to my blogs and writings over the past decade or so for a very explicit and detailed answer to those questions and more.
In the meantime, you can offer yourself up to the Work, put your miserable empty futile life to some real use, and literally carve out a place for yourself in the Work by making yourself useful to the Work by introducing and helping to spread the Spirit Coins out into the world at large.
During the Middle Ages and anytime there were Inquisitions and Witch-Hunts and religious persecution, there were homemade magical and religious devices. The Establishment had more than its share of wealth, with which it fashioned reliquaries and other ritual objects out of pure gold, tons of it.
The People never had that to themselves, so they suffered along with Objects of Daily Use, such as a kitchen knife for an Athame, a ritual knife that isn’t meant to cut anything. Tibetans have and use in ritual several “knives”, which are often as not, made of carved wood.
I have several Tibetan ritual items from the old days, back when we lived and worked in Tibet, over a period of half a dozen lifetimes.
So once again, the Evil Land Barons, this time in the form of criminal Wall Street Bankers and wildly, rabidly greedy automobile manufacturing executives and Wall Street Brokers, together with SOME, not all, politicians, all conspired — and I use the word advisedly, and do accuse them of cooperative conspiracy in the form of spoken or unspoken secret agreements and understandings — to steal any personal wealth you happened to have accumulated over your working years.
Your personal wealth up until then had existed in the form of real estate values, which were deliberately driven down so you’d have to go bankrupt and/or allow foreclosure on your property, making you a much more money-productive person in the form of a “renter”.
You might also have had a stock portfolio, in which case, you’re a lot further behind than you were when you had cash in your pillow or under your mattress. Stocks went plummeting down to HALF their previous value, then when YOU sold your stocks to pay off your creditors, the stock prices mysteriously went zooming back up again BEYOND previous levels, but this time, without you.
They made your money worth half its previous value, then when you’re so broke you don’t know how you’ll feed the family today, they take away the last thing you have — a small stash of coins you put aside for a rainy day, and one day they WILL confiscate all your coins, all your gold and all your silver and all your copper and anything else that’s either nailed down or not.
The hobos during the Great Depression, when 50% of the people were jobless and homeless, took the famous Buffalo Nickel and used it to dispel some of the darkness. The government had made a dollar worth a nickel, and they found a way to make the nickel worth a dollar, one nickel at a time.
Of course, it takes hours to carve a nickel to make a dollar, but when you have nothing or next to nothing, it makes all the difference in the world.
If you were homeless right now, and you knew how to make a Hobo Nickel, you could pull yourself out of the gutter in just a few days.
If you’re lucky enough to have escaped the First Burn, let’s hope you don’t get caught in the next one they’ve got planned for later this summer. You might be able to help introduce the Spirit Coin, which is a potent reminder that grasping greed and control of others brings nothing but misery and despair, grief and turmoil, which is the recent history of this planet.
It wasn’t always like that, and there will be a third Golden Age — there were two already — but humanity seems dead set against it. The Spirit Coin brings Good Destiny and can alter the course of PAST history as well as future.
Join in this Great Adventure today. Coinology is here to save the planet! Remember that coin-carving is legal so long as you don’t try to fake it or claim that it’s something that it isn’t — in short, the intention behind the law is to prevent counterfeits, not legitimate coin-carvings.
By the way, you’ll note that I only carve coins that are no longer in circulation, that are no longer considered popular currency. They are in fact collectibles, and the United States Government actually makes collectibles that are not intended as currency or money.
Don’t let anybody bully you or scare you into a huddled little ball of protoplasm. You have every right to carve a coin, especially if you’re using it to make a Religious Medallion, which you are.
Certain Saints’ Medallions in particular MUST be carved out of an already existing coin, or made “from scratch” on a blank solid 24k gold token.
Note that ancient Jewish coins do NOT have portraits on them, never have, never will, thus I don’t PUT images on them, and tend not to use them for my coin carvings.
The greatest coin carving of all can be achieved on ancient coins and early Americana, English, Dutch and Spanish coins. I will soon introduce Colonials and Pirate Treasure Death’s Head coins to the marketplace.
I really like the images on gold coins, but prefer not to carve gold coins. I’ll make my own gold tokens and if I make a boo-boo, I merely melt it down, hammer it out and start again.
You can sell copper and silver Death’s Head coins almost anywhere, including a biker bar, if you dare. A couple of friends who fly the “Hell’s Angels” and “Straight Satans” colors really dig skulls and skellies, and tend to decorate themselves and their Harleys with as many as will fit on the available space.
Stand outside any tattoo parlor. You’ll sell a lot of skulled-out Kings and Queens. It’s there that you’ll find a voracious market for the Kennedy Death’s Head Half-Dollar.
Any diet clinic, spa or workout club will be friendly toward purveyors of Death’s Head coins of any kind, especially those which offer safe passage in the Bardos, if you’re standing in the right spot.
How about offering free candy? You’ll get a crowd around you, then you launch into your sales pitch, thusly:
“Are you dead and wandering in the Bardos? I have here, ladies and gentlemen, a fine selection of Bardo Challenge Coins that will get you where you need to go!!! Naturally, the crowd will press in closer, and hands will wave with credit cards and cash.
This is, of course, a Bardo Dream, but it CAN HAPPEN, and HAS happened to a few lucky folks who have a natural charisma that makes them good sellers, but it need not come naturally.
You can add to your SALES charisma, not to be confused with CONTROLLING charisma, which I DON’T recommend and don’t sell, by wearing any of my skull or skelly tokens in a heavy REAL ROPE 14k or sterling silver bezel.
Your sales will mysteriously improve when you actually WEAR one of the Bardo Challenge Coins as a medallion, on a heavy gold or silver chain.
Does it work? Read the testimonials, get one, then add to the testimonials already up online, and don’t stop there — tell a friend about this incredible opportunity that they have RIGHT NOW to take part in this powerful new spiritual movement.
CARVE a BARDO CHALLENGE COIN!!! The Wall Street Bankers turned your dollars into nickels, so YOU turn your nickels back into dollars! Don’t let them Wall Street Bastards get your goat. Remember the famous Latin Motto:
“Illegitimati Non-Carborundum” — Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby