Is “The Cult of the Skull” Mainstream Enough for the Washington Post???

June 28, 2016Uncategorizedcoin, coinology, ej gold, gold, gorby, gorebagg, jal, jewelry, marketing, silver, skeleton, skullgorebagg

gorby at his sales desk, Andromeda Sector Shoppe

There are skulls everywhere, and skull novelty items and decorative devices abound in abundance, as it were. It’s not just skulls, of course. There are also full and partial skeletons, and very life-like plastic reproductions of incredibly grisly body parts and even full alien and human bodies.

It seems that on every block, there’s a body shop that specializes in skulls. Well, whom are weem to disagreem???

I thought and thought about a name for the thing, and “Cult of the Skull” seemed the most mainstream, the least offensive and the most likely to agree with current events and popular prejudices.

In short, I may have made a slight tactical error by choosing “Cult of the Skull” as a typical Earthian/Human mainstream marketing concept you might find anywhere on eBay, Amazon or G-G-Google and his goo-goo googly eyes.

You might not be anywhere near old enough for that to be funny. Continue reading →

Wake Up, Stupid!

June 15, 2016Uncategorizedawakening, coin, coinology, dead, deadski, death, dying, ej gold, electric shock, ghost, gorby, gorebagg, skeleton, skelly, skull, spirit, spirit coins, waking shockgorebagg

Waking Up Is Hard To Do. — Waking Up Is Hard To Do; it’s a constant long-term effort that begins with a shock.

Wake up, stupid. That’s not to be read as “wake up stupid”. Everyone who finds themselves in the Work has come to it after a shock awakens them from robot life. By shock, I mean an electrical one. Sometime in the past, there was a shock, and that shock caused an initial awakening, an awareness of Being.

There are other ways of delivering that shock, not involving a joy-buzzer or a hairpin and an electric socket. We’ll explore one such way in a moment, but first, let’s assume that you did, indeed, receive an Awakening Shock, for some reason and in some way, however odd.

At first, you didn’t know what to do. All you knew was that you felt an empty ache — there was something you should be doing, learning, mastering, but what? Continue reading →

Money for the Afterlife and Beyond

May 28, 2016Uncategorizedcarving, cash, coin, ej gold, gorby, gorebagg, hobo, hobo nickel, money, nickel, skeleton, skullgorebagg

Hobo Nickel zombie skeleton skull on 1935 buffalo nickel — $250. Hobos used coffee cans filled with sand as worktables, and used real engraving tools when they could get them, nails or spikes or needles when they couldn’t. Press the “Read More” button to see the other images.

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