You want sports in a no-contact world? Nothing could be simpler or safer than a virtual stadium, and that’s what I’m building right now in our WORLDWIDE Virtual Ashram, where anyone from anywhere can join us in our celebrations!
Little Jenny here is examining one of the bigger and more difficult performance venues — it’s the Ultimate Concert Stage which can be reached by “Green Globe” travel, just outside the Temple.
Jenny is a great judge of spaces, and she heartily approves the sports colosseum I’m working to build up in the Roman area — what better place to hold a sports event than in the Colosseum or one of the gaming stadia in the wealthier homes.
I have one of those, plus a grand sports colossus for auto and motorcycle racing.
You’d be well-served if I also mentioned that the motorcycle rezzer is now installed and you can use it anywhere — it poofs when you get off the bike.
Jenny is very fond of concerts — what young spirit guide isn’t? — and we’re planning a worldwide folk festival to be held in the ashram, with a limited public attendance due to the limitation on the number of Avatars we can have in-game, which is maximum 100, as I’ve mentioned before.
How about selling some “Wisdom Postcards”? Of course, nobody will be able to deliver them if they’re actual, but what about selling virtual cards?
I know, you can’t sell them for much, and it takes thousands of such sales to make a basic livelihood, so it’s one thing that historically is hard to work except as a side-hustle.
There are other ways to exploit those cards — you can offer them free on a site where you also offer things for PayPal funds, which are reasonably safe to accept, meaning that nobody touched the electrons involved in the transaction, at least not with the hands.
Handwashing doesn’t seem so crazy now — I wanted to point out that we’ve been advocating this type of cleanliness related to public exposure for years now, perhaps anticipating the future just a bit.
Okay, by 45 years. My warnings were a little too early and, as I said back then, by the time you see it coming, it’s already here.
This beautiful and peaceful Zen Garden is somewhere in the Ashram — can you find it? Here, it’s perfectly safe to gather with friends or meditate alone, either sitting or walking.
The effect is the same as if you were actually in the Zen Garden, because you ARE! Your Avatar is real, relative to its own world, and it has its own life there.
You can co-experience this extra life, and it gives you the opportunity to do things you can’t do in your “ordinary” life, the one in which you’re currently … shall we say, “trapped”???
I’d be practicing out of body, if I were you, and we have plenty of ways to help you do that, but you have to cooperate, meaning that you actually have to ASK.
“Touch A Rock” and other meditation practices are available from Uncle Claude — just ask him at the 9:00 am Saturday Builder’s Class, and he’ll instruct you or get you with someone who can show you the ropes.
Here’s my French model just outside one of my many fashion shops in Second Life, where you can spend actual money to get virtual clothes.
That also means that YOU could master the simple skills necessary to create your own fashions and sell them both in the ashram and also in the marketplace, which exists apart from the Second Life world, but is invoked from within it.
I’ll be glad to show you how it’s done, and we’ll be working to get me up to speed on ZOOM so I can respond to your questions and see how well you’re doing at art and music projects.
The whole idea is that anything you can do in “real” or “actual”, you can also do in “virtual” — they’re just different sides of the same coin.
Yes, it’s a multifaceted coin — brilliant cut, 58 facets, it’s the only way to build the core of a universe, don’t you think?
This is just one of hundreds of speedway and street-model racecars and luxury cars, including a Rolls-Canardly, which rolls down one hill and canardly (can hardly) get up the next.
The drive mechanism and wheel and clutch responses are by Uncle Claude, who wrote the software to operate the vehicle.
All I did was paint it.
You can get a totally unique paint job on dozens of different vehicles from a tractor to a truck to a fancy Italian race car.
I have pretty much every kind of vehicle at my disposal, and I can decorate them any way I like and yes, the bell bottoms are also from one of my fashion shops.
Yes, one of my fashion shops — I have about two dozen, which operate sporadically as the mood takes me, but they could be run full-time by someone and they’d make SOME money, it’s hard to tell how much anything can turn in this horrible global situation.
I just want to mention that, however Trump struggles to deny all responsibility for the mess, his decision to cover up the coronavirus is the singular cause of the degree to which the illness went and the speed at which it spread.
You can’t do this anymore — the shot was taken at the main mall, during a Reno Run. Oh, we’re still meeting and doing Reno Runs, but now they’re run in virtual, which makes them totally safe.
I’d like to see this same team gather again and pose for another picture, but this time in the Reno setup at the Ashram.
There were only 22 of us at this particular run, and that’s an easy number for the Ashram to accommodate, so feel free to set up something or find out what’s going on in regard to Reno Runs.
The risk factor is totally zero, unless you sign up for the actual gambling run — not sure how that would work, but I’m sure it could be done.
Remember that the whole idea of a Reno Run is to determine the odds, not to win money — gambling where the payout is in anything of value in Second Life is strictly forbidden, and there’s no reason to cross that line, where the game is the point, not the cash.
How about a virtual game in which you learn how to shift realities?
I made one back in 2014, but it was never released. Would you like it released now? Would you actually use it, at least once?
I want to make sure it’s worth the 200-400 work-hours I put into it before I embark on that long journey into digitization.
Digital Reality is very law-conformable and corresponds pretty exactly with “actual” reality bindings, which all occur on the FRAME, the inner core of any universe.
Space consists of location points — there’s nothing else really there. This is a useful bit of information if you want to make a living doing nothing, which is what you’re really selling if you’re doing digital things for actual money, which I am and I hope you will, too.
Learning to survive in a no-contact world is hard if you’re totally reliant on physical reality — you can do better, but you need to outgrow all the old habits and form new ones based on higher consciousness and ethics.
If you have a ton of industrial-grade pure copper ground wire around, you can form it into copper jewelry like the one-piece no-solder necklace that Tiffany is modeling.
Her armbands are also made of the same stuff.
How do you bend it like that, without scarring or marring the metal? That question is worth exactly $225, which is what I’ll expect you to spend on the ZOOM two-way workshop where you can learn this and other wire-bending skills.
With those skills, you could earn a living, as I have done since June 1959, when I began selling my jewelry professionally, meaning to people other than my Great-Aunt Sophie.
You’ll note that Tiffany’s nails are painted rather unusually — she is a nail artist and is going to have a tough time doing nails right now, unless she uses glue-on fakes, which can be created and shipped out.
Shipping should all be one-way as much as possible, from you to your customer, but you’ll also have some issues obtaining stuff with which to work, like supplies and replacement parts and such.
In short, there’s a supply chain behind everything you do that isn’t pure electronic, so you’d do well in this environment to make a living strictly from things you can deliver in virtual format.
Unless you get wildly lucky, you’ll never make a living from pixels alone, even if you’re Randy Rainbow and you have a billion subscribers and you can produce a new video every single week without stopping for about fifteen years, until your stuff starts to catch on, if it ever does.
You can contact me to find out how to set up your own standup comedy show, or a set of several standups, if you want to do a group show.
You have a number of options for how to handle this.
I can set up a ticket sales where the donations go wherever you may direct, including to yourself if you want to try to make a living as a comic — good luck getting more than the price for a box of dry cereal at any one time.
The only people who make less than jazz musicians are standup comics, although neither is likely to admit it.
Donation Boxes and Tip Jars about in Second Life and it’s easy for me to set them up to benefit a particular program or effort.
The whole idea here is to demonstrate and USE an alternate to organic gatherings, and the Virtual Ashram is the ideal place to show what can be done to preserve and ENHANCE contact between beings.
Why not take the opportunity of a lifetime — at LEAST two weeks of enforced vacation time — where you have to remain holed up at home, taking refuge where you stand?
And WHAT an opportunity!
You have the chance to develop a number of skills that you would ordinarily have no time to master but, thanks to the Corona virus, you do, until the emergency is over.
That may not be soon. Be braced for Bad News and, if you can use the time to develop your spiritual skills, the news won’t be bad, just tough to deal with.
Sure, it’s hard to just stay alive in this situation, and you might not be able to do that for much longer, but you can use every day you get to do what you can in that time.
Here, you’d be learning to manipulate matter and create things out of simple primitives, which sounds a LOT easier than it turns out to be, but you can master it with a little application and effort.
Your Avatar also learns as you learn, and this adds to the spiritual force of the action. In addition, Past Life issues are cleaned up, and that takes down the Past Life pain that can so easily slip into your daily life here on Planet Earth.
Here I am outside my tattoo parlor, where I sell the most amazing ink work you ever wore. The face mask tat is also my own design.
I sell these tats in my in-game Ashram shop, which I’m remodeling for our next Seasonal Grand Opening, where we party with hors d’ouvre and other finger-foods, all totally safely, and where we MINGLE in a tight friendly crowd, which is also 100% SAFE.
It’s all happening in virtual, and you won’t believe the things we can do in there!!!
Of course the tattoos are instantly removable, a major improvement over the organic versions.
The cost of a tat in my parlor? Usually just a few pennies, expressed in Lindens. I’m not allowed by Linden Agreements to give away any FULL PERM items, as stated in the seller’s requirements, so I put the minimum on it.
You can try things on in my in-game shops, which is a little trick that, if you hope to market digital items, you’ll really need to learn and learn well.
The whole thing is wrapped up in SEO Optimization and Marketing. You’re not just limited to Second Life — you can market things on eBay that you make or use in-game, such as experiences, tarot readings and more.
How you do this is you set up appointments and admission is charged when the client comes into the space.
Here’s an example of how you could market your skills in the Ashram — Leilajiva’s Tantra Dojo is a medieval castle converted into a meditation space, and you could have your very own, complete with donation bowl and personal signage.
An amazing number of things are possible, limited only by your imagination and courage.
How the dojo works is, you can have a class of a few or a few dozen at a lecture demo, or you could give individual lessons, enhanced by ZOOM feedback so you can see what they’re doing both with their Avatar and their organic body.
It isn’t limited to this one subject.
Maybe you’re an expert at making fishing lures, or creating cupcakes or event-planning, and you’d like to share that.
Look, in this situation, nobody would blame you if you asked for a donation for what you’re giving — it’s a time when having a regular job can’t happen for anyone, and that includes you, so you need to get over the reluctance to charge for your services, and go ahead and ask for a donation.
It can be a free-will donation, meaning any amount from one Linden up.
Keep in mind that it costs you more now to buy a single candy bar than it did to buy an entire meal for two at the fanciest restaurant just a few years ago. “Fairness” is not a feature of planetary life.
Stay tuned for the next chapter, where all will be revealed.
See You At The Top!!!
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