Associated Press: Super-Cruise Ship U.S.S. Titan arrived in Prosperity Port today and, according to Captain Geoffrey P. Spaulding, she is here as the first Port of Call on her 2013 Cruise Around the Universe. You’re invited onboard to look around, and if you get tired of walking the decks, there are tons and tons of overstuffed deck chairs for relaxation.

As you explore SL’s largest and most luxurious cruise ship, you’ll find a great conversation pit with a side bar and again, comfort and conversation are the ingredients here. The gas fireplaces add a bit of warmth to those cool sea-breeze nights. At the piano bar every night are several celebrity musicians; check the booking board to see who’s appearing tonight.

You’ll find many excellent meeting areas all around the ship on every deck. Up to 15 separate group discussion areas are available for as many as 100 cruise participants. Next Port of Call is “L3-15a”. Tour hosts at the next stop will include Drew, Lee, Mata and many others who precede us to that location. It’s merely the next stop on an endless tour, but it is after all, an “L3″ grade environment, and takes some getting used to, which is one purpose of the flight training at the Academy every day.

The stern conversation pit is ideal for a small group discussion or leadership meeting area.

Jenny’s Cafe has plenty of room for gatherings, and a complete lunch counter with dispensers of all sorts of goodies. Jenny makes the baked goods, clam chowder, baba ganouj and felafel all by herself, all from scratch, using only organic pixels.

Wow, Oz Fritz is hosting his all-channel KGOD Radio DJ show from the disco belowdecks; Alice B. Toklas, inventor of the toke, is your flattie hostess and bartender of the evening.

And if that’s not enough, right next to the disco is a full capacity luxury video theater with overstuffed cushion seats. On screen? Gorebagg tv of course! On special occasions, the audience can watch live tv from this special viewing room.

There’s lots more, but the most interesting thing of all is what Captain Geoffrey Spaulding found when he opened the safe in the Captain’s Cabin. It was a piece of paper left by the previous skipper. The single sheet of paper had a scrawled note in the center. It read:

Port is Left; Starboard is right.

He replaced the paper for the next skipper and went about his duties. Since the ship is never booked to leave harbor, he has a lot of reading to catch up on, and tons of great videos to be seen on his giant plasma screen.

You are welcome to explore the ship; no area is blocked. Please respect the living quarters. It’s okay to go in and look around, but not to toss off your shorts, take a shower and lie down. It is the Captain’s Quarters, and no matter how respectable we might look on the surface, we’re all pirates! If you doubt it, visit Pirate’s Cove, available by teleport.

See You At The Top!!!

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Jenny at Cosmic Crossroads & Quantum Junction, where you can re-set the balances and character layouts across 30 different dimensions, if you know how to God.

How To God in Ten Easy Lessons:

It can’t be learned in ten lessons, hard or easy, and mastery is a long way down a very rocky road. But take heart, Pilgrim. The first step is always the hardest.

Step 1 — Show up.

Step 2 — Show up on time.

Step 3 — Get a clue what’s happening.

The other steps are not as clear-cut or quite so easy. I’ll try to provide a rough translation of the Higher Levels:

A sense of high responsibility goes with the God-thing. You’re running an Avatar inside a videogame. That’s your reality, buster or bustress…

To the Avatar, you’re merely a vaporous dream that vanishes at daybreak. Face it, the person in the mirror is probably the Real One.

So, O Reflection of The One, how do you plan to acquit yourself in the God business today?

Yeah, the God Biz is like farming, and like diary farming in particular; there’s a saying — The cows don’t know it’s Sunday. If you have no idea what that might mean, keep on truckin’, you got a ways to go just to get to “Start”.

You don’t even have to be God the Creator to get a real heavy effect from the local natives Down There on the planet “Whatever”. Generally, a newly discovered planet is named by its discoverer, except in the case of Percival B. Sheisskopff, the first amateur astronomer to realize that the sun, Sol, is “the nearest star”.

“93 millions miles away, and we can still feel the heat of the sun,” he was heard to say as he wandered off into the Great Gobi Desert in search of the Fountin’ uh Yout. Yes, “Yout”. In his Brooklyn grade school, that’s how it was said. Fountin’ uh Yout was the exact phrase.

Anyhow, you don’t even have to be God the Creator (ref: John Cunningham Lilly, M.D.; Simulations of God) to inspire awe, terror, fear and Vogon poetry waxing eloquently. All you need do is have “All-Quarters Maintainer” status, which is Archon 3, if you need to know, and move a building, yank a tree up into midair or vanish a luxury cruise ship in the blink of an eye.

It doesn’t take much.

See, when you exercise your admin powers, it looks to locals as if you’re God, a God or Goddess, or at the very least a son, daughter or personal agent of Mr. or Mrs. God.

To the general public, my friend Myron Coznowski is an engineer, but believe me, to other engineers, he’s no engineer.

Jenny at one of the messier and least agreeable Bardo Nimbus Stations, where one can find a secret teleport that leads to the Blue Radiation in a slightly higher dimension.

God comes from God-Duty, not from learning skills and acquiring powers. The skills and powers come with the job, but it behooves you to actually secure the position of God-in-Training or Bodhisattva-in-Training before you begin publishing an account of your unfinished journey.

Not that it wouldn’t be amusing.

Fact is, it might make some terrific reading. Sorry I mentioned it. Go right ahead and publish.

Godding is a job and, like any other job, you have to keep good hours, it pays a little by the hour and slightly more piece-work, such as miracle healing, levitation and gas relief.

Locals have it easy. Wake up in the morning, hear the ding-dong ring, go marchin’ to the table, see the same damn thing.

All-in-all, it’s better to be a Judge than a Miner.

See You At The Top!!!

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Super-Model Natasha Brilliantine at home; she is wearing a stunning award-winning evening gown by Leslie Ann of Grass Valley.

Yes, it’s time again for the first-ever Super-Model SL Haute Couture Fashion Expo, to be held on Labor Day Weekend, with CASH prizes for winners in several categories, to wit:

ORIGINAL DESIGNS — Gown, Bikini, Day Dress, Coordinates, Evening Wear

SELECTIONS — Even if you’re not a designer, you can enter our fashion contest as a Fashion Coordinator; your models will wear your selections, with prizes to be awarded in the following categories:

Best Vision Concept, Full Look, Best Balanced Look, Wildest Outfit, Totally Freaky & Weird Without Being Offensive, Most Off-World, Highest Radiation

FANTASY COSTUME BALL — Following the fashion show, there will be a costume ball. Everyone must wear some sort of costume other than their everyday Avatar. Judges will award a Grand Prize, Second Prize and Third Prize in the following categories:

Most Historically Correct Costume, Best Fantasy Theme, Strangest Costume, Most Expensive Costume, Funniest Costume, Scariest & Dumbest Costumes.

MEET OUR FASHION JUDGES:

Eminent Fashion Consultant & Editor of Ghouls of Fashion Frederick L. Beetlejuice, is just one of our many celebrity fashion judges, in three incredible fashion runway venues.

Speaking of Labor Day weekend — think a moment; we’re already near capacity, and just a short while ago, several folks weren’t able to get into a region because it was overcrowded, remember? We’re going to run out of room very fast, and we’re talking only a few weeks — yes, weeks — away from Labor Day Weekend, take note.

If you need professional help with your costumes or ball gowns or suits, ties, jackets, etc. — because, yes, there are men’s spots in the fashion show. The categories for the men have not yet been finalized, but in general, it’s for Best Concept and Best Presentation — you can get professional guidance from our staff of Personal Dressers and Costume Consultants. Just call or IM for more info.

Want to be a Super-Model in Second Life?

Don’t we all, honey? But honestly, you can! It’s really simple, made even easier by attending Jedrik’s Super-Model School of Really Super Modeling. You can find out the latest Second Life beauty secrets, how to adjust clothing on your avatar, how to choose Complete Avatars, how to mix & match and how to put on shoes!!! That last is the hardest to master, but worth the effort! You can learn to walk and wear the very highest of haute couture!

Super-Models will be developed in Second Life, meaning that they will have personalities, they’ll be covered by our own staff of papparazzi, and their every romantic or off-beat activity will be noted in our Official Gossip Tabloid Radio Show here at the Ashram.

We will eventually see a new breed of supermodel, honed for high performance on the Second Life Catwalk — otherwise known as the Runway, and sometimes just The Street.

Are You An Originals Designer?

If so, you’re in luck — you have a venue in which to present and sell your fashion vision creations. Check out our beautiful newly built Fashionista Red Carpet Runway. An original designer can win prizes and recognition at our runway shows! The best part is that you can sell the items as virtual mesh and actual textiles and fabrics! You get the best of two worlds!

So whether you design or merely select and wear, you are invited to participate in the Labor Day Convention Second Life Fashion Show, as well as all the other events we’re planning for the long weekend, from Thursday night through Monday evening. Should be quite a festive occasion, and I think we’ll see and hear some wonderful theater, dance and song.

If you are a poet, we’d love to hear it. If you write short stories, why not read them to us in your choice of several venues including a Medieval Tavern, a converted Railroad Car Diner and many outdoor spaces. It rains only rarely in Second Life.

See You At The Top!!!

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Leslie Ann at the Upper Crust Yacht Club during building session June 3, 2013.

Yep, it’s bulldozing and building time once again here at the Virtual Ashram. What I’ve done so far is to simplify and reduce the number of things encountered on the main level, placing them instead in skyboxes and platforms, available through teleport. What else I’ve done is to create a multiple-level terrain with water features. You should be able to walk the length and breadth of the ground level quite easily, although there may be a water break in there yet somewhere or other. If you find a problem, note the x/y/z coordinates and let me know about it, and I’ll handle it right away. Still ahead, adding buildings and some height via mountaintops in addition to what’s there already. You’ll find a variety of vehicle and boat rezzers all about the place; feel free to use them to your heart’s content.

Leslie Ann at Polly’s Pets, Pirate’s Cove in Prosperity Virtual Ashram. Leslie Ann is the kind of person that definitely keeps a parrot. One of these guys says “Oy Gevalt”, and Leslie Ann was hoping to score him as a shoulder pet.

Pirate’s Cove is mysterious and full of game stuff. There are zillions of things to do and to find out in Pirate’s Cove, and I doubt you’d find them all in a single day. One of the notable items is that you can destroy the entire town — well, maybe a few buildings — with the on-board ship’s cannons. The fort has the ability to fire back.

There’s a Widow’s Walk on the top of at least one of the buildings. Can you find it?

Leslie Ann at the Command Central area aboard Captain Nemo’s submarine, Nautilus.

The organ actually works, yes, and other things do, too. You can obtain a diving suit if you want to avail yourself of undersea treasures and such. You’ll find a large undersea environment as well, but I’m not going to tell you how to get in there. A few moments investigation plus some fancy thinking will tell the story. If you’re still stumped, ask, and I’ll take pity on you and tell you, but with just a hint of sarcasm. Think! How many submarine movies have you seen where someone goes in and out of the sub???

Leslie Ann at the Master Control Console aboard the Nautilus, June 3, 2013

There was this button that said “Do Not Press This Button”, so naturally, I did. A hand came out of the console and slapped my hand, then a recorded message issued from the speakers, “Do Not Press That Button Again”. Be really careful pressing buttons in Pirate’s Cove — almost everything explodes.

See You At The Top!!!

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“Your Name Here” Virtual Museum

Would you like to have a museum named after someone, yourself or someone in whose name you’d like to create a legacy? There’s nothing permanent about brick & mortar. You’ve seen many historical monuments go down, and more will do so as the infrastructure fails during the middle of this century. What will survive? Certainly the virtual spaces, hanging in soft, fluffy white clouds.

I would like to create a virtual museum — I’ve had the idea for many years, made something in GODD which because of server issues and large download and system upgrade requirements can’t be used for large multiplayer applications because people just won’t be able to get it or install it or use it.

So, in this time and space, I see the possibility of creating a permanent exhibition space for antiquities, modern art, historical experiential events, and more, and I’m looking for donors, supporters for it. What will it be like? Depends on the funding I get to work with. I’ll start with the items that have passed through my hands. There are some incredible museum builds available in Second Life. The hard cost for the first year to create a fully public well-attended virtual museum with LICENSED exhibits only, would be $15,540. You could donate all or part. Expansion of the museum would depend on attendance and continued support. The museum will be free to all, with donation jars placed thoughtfully and delicately.

Donors and Sponsors are needed. What’s the difference?

$25 — Exhibit Sponsor – one exhibit case with Sponsor’s name.

$100 — Hall Sponsor — One exhibit Hall is named after the Sponsor, such as: “Wilson Hall of Dinosaurs”.

$500 — Wing Sponsor — One entire Wing of the Museum is named after the Sponsor or given the name of the Sponsor’s choice, such as “Dr. Jane J. Meredith Memorial Wing”, or “The Walter P. Nortensen Wing”.

$1,000 — Floor Sponsor — Each Floor of the Museum has its Sponsor and is named accordingly. Six Floors with four wings each are currently in planning.

$15,000 — Gallery Annex Sponsor — The legal name of the entire actual museum cannot be changed — it is a registered well-recognized museum — but the in-world virtual experience of the visitor would be that they would see themselves entering the, for instance, “Martha Miller Museum of Modern Art”. A museum of modern, ancient, and medieval world art is now slightly past the planning stage. There would also be a Tesla Museum, the Thought Experiment Museum and a few more I’m holding up my sleeve.

We will also need volunteers. You can operate in this environment as if in an Ashram, because all the requirements for Ashram space will have been silently and invisibly (to the casual visitor) placed there, including so-called legominisms, artifacts carrying ancient and offworld messages.

The museum would need guards, docents, exhibit managers, publicity and promotion, and permissions secretaries, as well as experts in all fields of museumology. Volunteers for this project should contact Claude or Jewel for details.

See You At The Top!!!

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Bunraku Puppetry Rides Again!!! – Yes, it’s true; everyone who was a member of the NABT, North American Bunraku Troupe, is invited to participate, and newcomers to the art are very welcome! You will learn how to manipulate a puppet in Second Life. Just as in so-called “Real Life”, the sound is provided by the “chorus”, or in some cases, might be pre-recorded, but the puppetry is always LIVE action! How is this done? Classes in Second Life Puppetry are starting right now at Prosperity Virtual Ashram. If you don’t know anything about it, this is the time to find out, and that hurdle is the First Initiation. We are actively looking for great puppeteers, and the troupe elders are very excited to have the opportunity to pass the art to the next generation!

What’s the importance of learning puppetry in virtual space?

The simple answer is, Earning Merit. How? In several ways; first, you’re learning to operate more than one Avatar at a time in more than one dimension at a time, which means multiple attentions, which you learn as you slowly increase the number, starting with just one Avatar in one other dimension.

Learning to operate an Avatar is an art in itself. In small, tight spaces, it’s downright impossible to maneuver without extreme skills. These you will learn in the MoveAct Code Course, which is the core of the Avatar movement training program.

T’ai Ch’i and other movement areas will help acclimatize your Avatar. Whether you learn or not, your Avatar does, and the indirect benefit comes to you whether you mirror the actions or not.

The MoveAct Code is really your Key to the Kingdom! Use it for the Benefit of All Beings Everywhere!

Take affirmative positive action on the Bodhisattva Path today! Ask about an Ashram Job!

See You At The Top!!!

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 – Vishnu Guru in the Aspect of Birthday Celebrations at Prosperity Virtual Ashram –

Hey, why not have Vishnu host your next Birthday Celebration at Prosperity Virtual Ashram? Would you like to book FAXL for your Wedding, Bar-Mitzvah or Birthday Party? You can! FAXL can appear LIVE at your event, and with TWO FULL SIMS, we can host as many as 200 avatars at a single event. Let me tell you the benefits to you and the ashram:

BENEFITS OF VIRTUAL ASHRAM EVENTS:

1. Use it Or Lose it –  What’s the point of having an ashram virtual or actual, if it doesn’t get used? An ashram is a place of serenity and safety to explore the Quantum Universe, called by some the “Inner World”. That doesn’t mean everyone sits on a zafu every minute of every day, and as a matter of fact, zafu-time is so low on the Merit totem pole, it almost doesn’t count, compared to the other things you could be doing to Earn Merit.

2. Merit & Advancement — You can earn Actual Merit at the Virtual Ashram. Merit Skills are acquired by constant practice. The Key Word there is “constant”. Most folks would prefer the Key Word to be “practice”, but it isn’t. Constant-ness is very important in our Practices.

3.  Widen Your Circle of Friends — You can invite folks who happen to be local to you to an actual party, and either before, after or during that actual party, you can log onto the ashram and meet your Ashram friends. There are several ways you can interface an actual event with a virtual event, and we can discuss these ways if you’re at all interested in this.

4.  God is Your Host – You can seem to have your choice of hosts. Of course, it’ll always be The Guru who hosts, but unless you ask specifically for a particular manifestation, you’ll be getting pot-luck — you never know how The Guru will appear next. Could even look like you. How many people can say that Elvis or Vishnu or Kali or Isis or Osiris or Harry the Giant Bardo Chickun hosted their Birthday Celebration? Ask about our Guru Manifestation Menu for choices!

5. More Big-Bang For Your Buck — The cost is significantly less than it would be if everyone attending had to leave home, hop on a plane, get a hotel room and rental car, and endure the harshness of today’s travel, to get to a single location, such as your home, for the party. At the Virtual Ashram, nobody leaves home, but we’re all there at the same time, in the same place, at the Eternal Crossroads called “Prosperity Virtual Ashram”.

6.   Slip-On Birthday Suit – Think about it…all the personal preparation for a birthday party, plus the party decorations, all the stuff you have to do just to get ready! Virtual Ashram Celebrations require no more preparation than a selection of which Avatar you want to wear! And there are plenty of outfits from which to choose! Ask God to help you with your appearance day appearance!

7.  God is your Party Planner — You couldn’t ask for a better agency than the Heavenly Host to help you make your Celebration or Event a memorable one that they’ll talk about for years to come!

8.  Miracles by the Minute – You want Miracles? In the Virtual Ashram, anything can happen, and one of those things is flying without a hang glider. That’s right, you can fly. You can also heal, and perform a very large variety of miracles, not the least of which is to experience the Crown of Creation, and other out-of-this-world spaces at the Ashram.

9.   Record Your Event – You can make a video of your Virtual Ashram Event. How is this done? Only God Knows. So ask! God will email you back!

10.  Your Event Counts as Meritorious Service – By scheduling events in the ashram, you are helping to “use” the space as it should be used, for the benefit of all beings everywhere!

   — Vishnu Guru singing “Happy Birthday To You” at the Crown of Creation Spheres –

ARE YOU A PERFORMER?

You’ll probably instantly answer “no”, but you’d be wrong, and you could qualify as a performer, appearing nightly at the Virtual Ashram and available for parties and celebrations and other events.

Everyone performs, even Vishnu, who might dance at your next Event. But everyone, absolutely everyone, performs in some way, generally all the time, all day and night long, with everyone they know.

If you’re a salesperson, you perform to some extent to convince the client or customer that you’re happy to see them and that you’re safe to be with and that you have their best interests at heart, not just personal profit.

If you have a relationship, you perform, or lose the relationship. What I mean is, you accommodate expectations by using certain specific agreed-upon things you say, things you do, and especially body language and facial expression. It all goes toward making peace at home, and you do it every day whether you know it or not. If you’re in an abusive relationship, you can’t help it, you have to act and perform just to survive.

If you had parents, you acted plenty, to convince them that you were an obedient child, even if you snuck out every night and screwed your brains out from the time you were a teen and drank yourself into a blackout at school every day and gambled away your lunch-money and cheated on tests and other childhood experimental mischief.

Should you ever have had the misfortune of landing a day job, you perform — by which I mean downright politically-inspired, fear-driven acting — every day and the occasional overtime night or weekend.

If you play any instrument including kazoo; if you sing, act, read, dance, tell jokes or stories or both, or entertain yourself or friends in any way, you can learn to perform for the benefit of the Virtual Ashram.

If you’re a natural party or wedding planner, get yourself on the Event Planning Committee right now! We need your help, and it’s worth a ton of Merit!

If you’re wondering what all this talk of “Merit” is about, you haven’t been paying attention. You can remedy this immediately by contacting me and asking what the heck I’m talking about, anyway???

I’d like to see every resident of the Virtual Ashram do at least one “performance” thing every day, even if it’s “only” a reading. I want to thank everyone who courageously got up to perform on our first “test” day at the Ashram. It was really great fun, and several of you had us here on the floor rolling with helpless laughter!

There’s nothing quite so curative as laughter, often called “The Best Medicine”. Let’s have lots of it at Prosperity Virtual Ashram! Remember, it’s not about your Ability — it’s about your ReliAbility! And don’t forget to bring a friend!!! Participation is the Name of the Game!!!

Your Leadership wants to see you succeed; that means Earning and Applying Merit to Service Advancement. The more advancement you achieve, the bigger the jobs you’ll be trusted with!

It starts with something small. It always does.

Leave Jack Burton alone. You owe him a great debt. Oh, wait…this isn’t “Big Trouble in Little China”…ah, now I remember. We were talking about Earning Merit in the Virtual Ashram, eh?

Something small. Like playing guitar and singing. You find that beyond your skills and talents? You could take my guitar and folk-singing course on youtube, or you could find another skill that works.

Like what?

1.   Talking — A dissertation on any subject is welcome. You can ask your Event Planners how to set up a microphone headset and how to adjust your volume for public speech.

2.   Reading — A reading from any book would be just fine. Keep in mind that all performances are limited to 10 minutes per performer unless no other performer is in queue. Again, you can find out from your Event Planners how to go about scheduling and performing a reading, and maybe even get some good ideas of what might be good reading for this crowd! I’ve recommended a “Rumi Night” with a Sema Dervish Turn, which is available for Second Life.

3.   Dancing — There are some terrific dance scripts out there, and some of you can write your own probably better than most. All kinds of dance styles are there, and if you have trouble finding them, just ask our Event Planners.

4.  Animal Totem Ashram Guide — You get to dress up in costume, such as the giant chicken, and greet visitors and take them on a guided tour. You’ll need a working mike and headset and some flying skills for this job.

5.   Elvis Impersonator — Actually, any character you want to play, with any music you care to originate over your mic system. For details on how to achieve this, contact me directly or ask your Planning Committee. They DO know how, and it’s not obvious or easy. This is a rather advanced job, so take it seriously.

6.   House Comic — You’re good at telling jokes, stories, imitations, funny little skits and sketches. We’re looking for a few funny folks! If you’re one of them, you can get yourself booked every hour on the hour, if you want to. We have one great venue, and can build more! Don’t forget, we can accommodate up to 200 avatars at one time!

7.   Emcee — I’ve already seen evidence that we have plenty of good emcees at the ashram, so we should have no trouble arranging very full schedules of variety shows, eh?

8.   Cocktail Waitress, Hostess, Maitre d’, Tarbender, Waiter, Busboy, Whine Steward, Closeup Magician, Dishwasher & Cook — I thought that might catch your attention, and it did. I’m not kidding, there are ordinary jobs, like “doorman” and “tarbender” available at the ashram. No booze, just a bartender and rows of unidentified bottles that might be anything, even smart water.

9.    Town Drunk — Every newcomer needs a Town Drunk to inform them about what’s what, who’s important and who’s a shmuck, which cops and judges are for sale, and all the inside scoop on the local scene, which is us.

11.   Inarticulate Observer — The #1 Favorite !!! — If you can’t do any more than just plain log-on and let yourself be swept into the Virtual Ashram by the automatic action of your computer, this might be the perfect Ashram Job for you!!! Ask about the Big Opportunities available in this exceedingly tedious, boring and redundant occupation!!!

Keep your Avatar in the Ashram! — There are many benefits to keeping your Avatar in the Ashram, in total 100% Permanent Contact!!! See the forum for the many personal accounts of specific benefits of Perm Contact!

See You At The Top!!!

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A School Time-Line

I have in my sweaty little digits a rather aged piece of parchment; a yellowed typewriter sheet with very dated typing, done by an IBM Selectric with a sans-serif type-ball, sometime in 1975, and lost for all the intervening years until this very morning as is, when my hand landed on it, stuffed in amongst a pile of long-forgotten papers…. The paper has just dates and a few words of notation on the side. I’ll elaborate that with commentary. I have photos of all these events, and they’re free to see on ihddb.com…

JUN 1964 — BACK FROM THE WAR — There never was ASA in Vietnam. I was a PFC Clerk-Typist Trainee 006, stationed permanently at Fort Devens, Mass. Ignore the sripes I wore at Fort Ord where I was a weapons instructor.

You’ll note my MOS designation: “006″. That’s only one number away from the infamous James Bond, “007″!!!

Double O Six meant “Licensed To Seriously Annoy”. I returned to a civilian job as a Remote Reader, which I quickly abandoned in favor of author — I landed a job as a writer at a fabulous .25 a word!

AUG 1964 — LACC — I entered LACC with my Vet’s Bill Education Allowance. I ended up at Otis Art Institute, and the story is fully told in “My Otis Experience”, so I’m not going to take up a couple hundred pages here to tell it again.

JUN 1965 — KNX RADIO — I took a job at KNX Radio, a CBS affiliate, and ended up writing continuity for Bob Crane and Arthur Godfrey. It was on a wild and crazy day that I was called for by the station manager, to be the official photographer for Columbia Studios at Columbia Square, which had been dedicated back in 1938.

KNX Radio, a 50K AM “banger” at 1070 KH, was famous for airing the 1938 Halloween broadcast of Orson Wells’ notorious production of “War of the Worlds” that caused nationwide panic in the streets.

It was due to my job as mail-clerk in that place that I met and worked for Jack Benny, Bing Crosby Productions, George Burns, Edgar Bergen and others who helped me in my Hollywood career in the sixties.

JAN 1966 — EDGECLIFFE HOUSE — In January 1966 I made my first script sale, and right after that, got involved in animation production, mostly a lot of cheapo commercials, but there were a few bright spots in those productions with Forry Ackerman — sheer fun and merriment!

MAY 1968 — Compleat Enchanter FANTASY FAIRE, Los Feliz Blvd., Glendale; a converted antique shop on five stunningly landscaped acres right in the center of town — which I then converted slightly, into an antiquarian bookseller’s, specializing in First Editions and Incunabula (books printed prior to moveable type). At this time, the group meetings typically numbered about 30-35, varying only slightly, from meeting to meeting, depending on personal schedules. We met in the afternoons at 3PM and on Fridays we met at 7:30 PM.

We gathered in a circle on the champagne-pink 100% virgin New Zealand wool carpet I’d had laid down in the main room. There were still many signs of the antique shop all around, notably the fine hardwood trim and top-panels. It was a rich-looking space, and attracted a very well-to-do clientele. My best books in stock at that time included a subscriber’s First Edition copy of T.E. Lawrence’s 7 Pillars of Wisdom, Jonathan Cape, London, and a First Folio Shakespeare. I still offer antiquarian books today, from time to time, as opportunity allows. I don’t have much time to catalog and list, these days.

The books were displayed in shadow-boxes inset into the walls, reached from an access hall on the other side of the back wall, if you follow my drift. Naturally, I’d gone to the trouble to make certain that the lights used did not affect the books or bindings in any way, going so far as  to create a UV block on my front windows, the kind you generally see in the front of antique stores, the small divided sort of English style kind of windows. In the end, I painted them black, to block any light at all from destroying the books.

There were two important Medieval manuscripts in my stock at that time, both having come from my friend and bookselling tutor, Jake Zeitlin. One of them was an unpublished manuscript by Charles Stanfield Jones, along with a hand-written commentary by Aleister Crowley, the other was an alchemical manuscript dating around 1710-1712, which had some important Solomonic Keys and numerical tables. I sold the former, and kept the latter.

Two of our group members, Barry & Larry, were surfer kids, twins, and they always arrived — I’m not kidding — barefoot, having somehow managed to hitch-hike all the way from Seal Beach to Glendale, and somehow, from this uptight thoroughly tense town, these obvious hippie surfer dudes managed to get a ride back to Seal Beach. They came to meetings for about a year, and I was always astounded to see them walk in the door, just for the adversity they’d overcome getting to the meeting!

Ed Boast, a jovial and good-natured friend, whose RPG handle was “Arch-Druid Killane”, managed to cool out the Glendale police unit that crashed through our front door one mid-afternoon when 30 or so of us were seated on the floor in a circle in the middle of the room with a candle burning in the center of the room.

Flashlights played upon the faces of those in attendance. The fact that it was broad daylight and that the windows and doors were wide open due to the extreme heat of the Los Angeles midday sun into which mad dogs and Englishmen dared not tread, made no difference.

Everything was resolve to the satisfaction of the police when Ed explained that this was a Nazi Party Bund meeting. They went away smiling.

There was no reason for them to disbelieve this; my next door neighbor was a character name of George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, although I was unaware of it at the time.

The place got sold out from under us, and — probably because it was literally next door to Forest Lawn Glendale Cemetery, it got bought by a nursing home developer, and within months was bull-dozered and steam-rollered and behold! Yet another ten-block long by ten-block wide retirement & nursing home! They don’t call them nursing homes any more.

They now call them something that doesn’t sound so bad; I used to know what they’re called these days, but my memory isn’t what it used to be … but then again, it never was. Assisted Living, maybe???

AUG 1968 — Compleat Enchanter FANTASY FAIRE II, was on Sunset & Silverlake, Hollywood California. An enormous 125′ long, 35′ wide, 22′ high former furniture shop with antiquarian books, candles, incenses, meditation pillows, dhotis, sari, zafu and other New Age items, and a large Darshan Hall.

I divided the shop up into booths and opened it up to my art student friends as a cooperative art gallery. It might have been one of the first. Everyone contributed $10 a month to the rent. Our business phone was a semi-private coin-operated wall phone. Evidently the phone company didn’t trust us to come up with the dime at the end of the month.

SEPT 1968 — FAM Earthquake “Happening” featuring Ron Matthies, whose in-game handle was “Arch-Druid Tyrhon”, with the help of 60 or so Otis students — A staged art-happening event which generated over 1 million words-in-print, coverage through UI, UPI, Reuters, CBS, NBC, ABC news and all media outlets throughout the world. It was then that we rented Suite 1313 at the famous California Fed Bldg. on Wilshire Boulevard — it had the only heliport in town –  and we rented the entire suite for only $1,000 a month, giving us 16 offices, coffee break room, a giant reception area, and most importantly, an enormous and impressive hardwood-lined conference room, which we dearly needed for our press conferences. This is all described elsewhere, but suffice it to say that we had Huntley-Brinkley and Walter Cronkite “stringers” as well as local media and wire services up there on four memorable and well-published and publically recorded occasions, all related to art statements, related to my experience at Otis Art Institute, which is covered well in my photo book, My Otis Experience. The book is still in print.

Any full suite in the Cal-Fed Building would have run upwards of $30,000 a month — it was an entire floor full of giant offices and a fabulously decorated reception area, but nobody wanted to rent the 13th floor, except us…we thought it was fabulous, and wrote the check and signed the lease without a moment’s hesitation. Well, as my Dad Horace used to say, “It’s unlucky to be superstitious.” — we had great luck there, as a matter of fact!

It was at the Cal-Fed space that I connected with a real Hollywood character, a guy named “Saint Mike”. He never revealed his actual name, just as “Hobbit Pan” and “Pony” didn’t, and in fact a lot of our folks being street-folks and all, had “street-names”. Many were hookers, pimps, god knows what, but they came to classes and wanted meditation retreats, and I didn’t turn them away — Saint Mike was not a street guy, but he had a past that he wasn’t willing to reveal, and I frankly wasn’t interested. Everybody has a past, and everyone has something to hide except John Lennon and his monkey.

The Amazing, Brilliant & Mysterious “Saint Mike” circa 1968 — photo by E.J. Gold.

Mike claimed to be a very high-level refugee from a well-known religious group. I didn’t believe him — it was Hollywood, and I worked in the entertainment industry, where bullshit is the Name of the Game — and I didn’t much care about his past or his disgruntle about some organization I had no interest in whatever. Like I said, everybody has a past.

It’s only recently that I was reminded that he was, indeed, a high-ranking member of the organization — I had forgotten entirely that he’d even mentioned it — and learned only a few days ago that he had actually been telling the truth, but I assure you that he was in this respect a Hollywood Anomaly.

And as I said, I don’t care about a person’s past, only their present and possible future.

We had no organization at this time, just a meeting place, keep in mind — Cosmo Street, which the group rented for $60 a month; Vic rented the downstairs shop for $10 a month.

Mike wasn’t interested in joining anything, but he came and lectured at Cosmo Street several times a week, and he was brilliant on any subject.

After a breakup with his girlfriend Joanne, he stayed as house-guest with Mata and myself for a few months, during which he wrote a number of songs, helped run the shop, wrote some beautiful stories, told some very strange and unusual stories about his life on the sea, then one day, met a girl and they left for parts unknown.

Saint Mike vanished. I saw him only once since then, sometime around 1980  — in Northern California, where he worked as a photographer. Brilliant and original, he had all the qualities needed to make a fantastic speaker, and he and Billy Whitefoot did bring in a crowd!

OCT 1968 — Compleat Enchanter Hollywood Boulevard — A very tiny shop, but right on Hollywood Boulevard, with about 1,000 passers-by an hour! Only catch, no place for Darshan, so we rented Fiesta Hall at Plummer Park for our Movements Demonstrations and Sacred Talks, as advertised in the Free Press — that was the only outlet available at the time for such event announcements, unless you paid for a display ad in the Times or Herald-Examiner, which ran about $160 a column-inch per placement, which meant one-time cost if you paid for a month in advance, otherwise $320 for a one-time placement. Today, you post on facebook for free. The only catch is, so does everyone else.

JUN 1969 — FAM Saints’ Protest March — A staged “happening” art-event, what would today be called Theatrical Blogging, perhaps. The Pope had dropped 40 saints from the official calendar, and we showed up at the unemployment office the following day and registered as miracle-working saints looking for jobs. Naturally, we got coverage, CBS, NBC and ABC were there, and we did some 50 hours on television, hundreds more on radio, and generated something on the order of 1,000,000 words in print, including photo articles about the event in Time and Newsweek, plus a published dialogue with the Pope — well, actually with “the Vatican”, whatever that means.

SEP 1969 — MMM — Magical Mystery Museum, a copycat name after the success of the Beatles’ album, “Magical Mystery Tour”, opened with a bang, on the second floor of a famous Hollywood & Wilcox landmark building right next to the Mayfair Riding Academy & Tack Shop — and we closed down just a few weeks later with a flutter and a gasp. Lesson learned?

Nobody goes upstairs to see anything. They never did, and they never will. Just at this moment, however, good fortune smiled, and our band got booked on tour until May 26, 1969, when we returned to Norton Street from a long, dusty and very tiring musical gigging road show. Our last gig on that tour was the last for the band. We gave it up when disco started to rear its ugly head, ‘way back in ’69…there were already worm-signs in the sand.

JUN 1971 — RED HOUSE — Thanks to Chris Javor, the Cosmo Street Group, Group 1 it’s called today, was able to relocate to Red House, a 100 year old hunting lodge built by author Jack London. Red House easily accommodated 70 people. We needed all that room just for ourselves, and needed even more on weekend retreats! The staff of 50 or so manned the three bookstores, coffee shop, thrift shops (only 2 of them at first, one in the heart of Crestline, meaning between the other four shops, and the other located at Dart Canyon, one of our newer properties). There was a small chapel open 24 hours a day on Crestline Drive, a large meeting hall on the main corner, and “Shradda”, a large living space for students above the thrift shop.

DEC 1971 — NEW HOUSE was purchased, and at a weekend retreat, Jeff Green donated his famous Hollywood bookshop, and the group voted to close the shop there and move the books up to Crestline. I advised against it, saying it would be better to select the books from scratch and sell the shop intact, but was voted down. I only get one vote, true democracy. So we were stuck with 70,000 assorted books, mostly fiction, non-fiction and other. We rented the local bowling alley; the owner wanted the bowling things taken out, so we undertook the task, with a corresponding reduction in rent.

The next day we opened the bookstore, with all the books installed on shelves, not a trace of the former tenant’s bowling alley, and the required dump-runs and disposition of equipment all handled well by the group, under the leadership of Group One admins. The Legend of the Bowling Alley Conversion lives today, spoken with silent awe at hootnannies everywhere. Laugh if you will, but it classifies as at the very least a minor miracle of cooperation and selfless tasking.

JAN 1972 — EMERSON HOUSE was purchased, and at the same time, we brought in a builder to make the important additions to the house on the lower hillside, where the huge porch had been. We weren’t able to use the porch, due to the excessive number of Red Smog Alerts, at 5,100 feet of altitute! It got so bad that eventually we left, in 1975, but at the time, we needed more room to house the weekenders and retreat folks, so we bought this huge three-story “country inn” and ran it as a bed-and-breakfast, with our wonderful staff to cook the meals, all taken at NEW HOUSE, which was only three lots away from Emerson House.

Epitaph for an Ego was composed by myself and Brad Newsom at Red House, and performed at my friend Bob Levinson’s “Fidelity Studios”, where I had done the “Hey, Culligan Man” commercials with Bob years before.

FEB 1972 — SLEEPING SUFI — This was a weekend event at Red House. There’s lots of information about it, and a recording, “Enterview” was made at this time. The recording says it all, and includes a group effort, “Spiritual Olympics” which was recorded in the Sleeping Sufi chamber by the staff and friends from UCLA and USC study groups.

MAY 1972 — HOLLYWOOD ROOSEVELT HOTEL — When we were told by UCLA students that nobody was running the Cosmo Street groups anymore, I asked for volunteers to do this chore — we currently had five groups a week. Nobody raised a hand.

So Lana and I got in the car and drove down the hill.

Mata was now in charge of Red House and the Crestline operation, and I’d gone back to Hollywood to get the groups started again. Strange phenomenon: nobody wanted to run the L.A. groups when I lived and worked in Crestline and Blue Jay, but suddenly when I returned to L.A. to do workshops and lectures on “the circuit”, meaning the local colleges and universities where we had Off-Campus Group activities, everyone suddenly showed up in L.A.! Go figure.

JAN 1972 — I had some friends who imported copper and brass items from Turkey, Iran and thereabouts, mostly huge, elaborately hammered copper and brass “samovar” and the occasional “hookah”, none of which were in working condition; they were antiques and far more valuable with the patina left on, and unrepaired. Anyone can tell you that an antique loses value if it’s repaired, even expertly so.

Ken Paulson built the beautiful redwood Persian-style doorway, and Toni, Mary and Claudia helped run the shop. Claudia did belly-dancing in the common mall, and we got a lot of customers in the shop as a result. She was a terrific dancer, and she and Al Rose were the very first to demonstrate my movements to groups.

JUL 1972 — On the weekend of July 4th, 1972, we took up residence and work at the Cherokee Office on Hollywood Boulevard, where we ran “Toad Records” and I recorded some old friends, Acid-Queen “Natasha”, and MoTown refugee Ruby Stoner, on my tandem 4-tracks with the state-of-the-art Langevin Mix Board. The Stoner tracks have since vanished, but the Natasha album, “Unicorn” managed to survive. I haven’t released it, pending locating her again for her permissions and, yes, I know the options, but I’m still hoping she’ll get in contact.

It was in July that we gave up the office and went on a motorbiking expedition across California. Returning to L.A. to connect with Joe and Rue Barron, our group leaders at that time — and also managers of a very famous rock group — we were contacted by Ray Walker and Sarah Warsher, who had been sent by Fritz Perls to find me and ask me to come to help him direct Cowichan in British Columbia. There were so many politics in that environment that it’s now impossible to sort out the facts.

I did end up directing the Cowichan Centre for Gestalt Learning in Duncan, B.C. and Vancouver; there were a lot of famous Gestalt and Primal people there, it’s true, but it wasn’t anything to do with me. I was there, fulfilling a promise to Fritz.

JAN 1973 — TRIUMPHANT RETURN — The Institute was technically bankrupt — The Crestline group had somehow failed to pay the mortgage for quite some time, and the electric, phone and gas services had already been turned off long ago. We were in British Columbia that year, and had known nothing of these troubles.

On our return, we bailed the Institute out, paid off the balance dues and put Peggy Smith in charge of finances; things ran beautifully, and it was once again time to expand our services and horizons. Thanks to many generous donations on a single Sunday, we opened the Kung-Fu Restaurant in Blue Jay, just a few miles from Crestline, in a very highly populated upwardly-mobile resort community on the way to Big Bear, a major ski resort.

We did well, under the directorship of Ellen Tisdale and with the enormous untiring help of Paco Ramirez.

MAR 1973 — RCA LIVE — It was at this time that we went to RCA to record the group, which had been practicing music for a month, to see if a rock group could really form overnight. These were, of course, all non-musicians who merely thought it might be fun.

One grueling month later, they were ready to record, in my opinion. My friend Al Schmidt and his legendary engineering brother Richie Schmidt, did the production at RCA studios in Studio B, a large and sumptuously equipped professional major-label studio.

Richie did the mastering, which has since been re-done by the equally legendary Oz Fritz. The album is called “Live at RCA” and we were lucky enough to have several uncredited musicans in the session with the noobies, including Jerry Jumonville, Jerry Garcia and a few others. We couldn’t credit them — it was a non-union session.

Of course, it sounds raucous and raw, because they had no experience in a studio, and it wasn’t intended for release. Nowadays, you can record yourself and hear how you sound, but then, you couldn’t. You had to go to a studio, and since I worked at RCA as a producer, I had access to the space, and RCA made us happy, a lot happier than my friend Harry Nilsson. His RCA experience was not so pleasant, but he tells the story better — I’ll post a video of our discussion on youtube at some point when I have a bit of time to hunt it down.

MAY 1973 — BLUEBELL — Now begins one of the weirdest periods of School History; the Bluebell Saga. I’ll tell it briefly: The group rented an enormous 7 bedroom house on Bluebell Avenue, Encino — the Beverly Hills of San Fernando Valley, if such a thing is possible.

The family who rented it said it would be okay to put in a garden in the back; they’d intended to do that someday, and thought it might be fun. It wasn’t. Grueling heat and lack of humidity makes growing anything other than citrus and artichokes almost impossible without serious impingement upon the local water system and, you’ll recall, there was a drought in California.

We raised stuff anyhow,  somehow getting enough water to the garden at the expense of the putting-green short-cropped bluegrass lawn out front.

When I saw the facility, it presented an opportunity to try something I’d been wanting to try for some time…isolation training, apart from the Lilly Floatation Tanks that we’d been using in our floatation centre in Crestline.

What this entailed was sort of a monastic retreat building — seven bedrooms did just fine, connected only by a multiple-channel television security system through which they could communicate with each other and the staff.

It was very well run — there are many photos of Lin Larsen teaching the basics and the huge group posing for photos. Nobody actually lived there — Lana and I were installed in a small apartment in Burbank, nearby, and folks lived in various spots around the area.

The Shakti Centre was close, also — it was on the corner of Ventura and Laurel Canyon. You couldn’t get a better location, and the place was jammed every day, with people taking Shakti! Movements Training and T’ai Ch’i from our high-level instructors; we’re now teaching the same things online at the Virtual Ashram.

JUN 1973 — CAMP MOZUMDAR — Mata and I posed for photos on this memorable day at Camp Mozumdar, which we were allowed to use for group retreats and such; Ange Abels and Ken Paulson made videos of Lin Larsen and the group in general there, and some of that footage survives today. We made several video films at that time, and they can be ordered. They are quite vintage, made with a professional news-gathering camera and recorder of the period. The image is jittery from time to time, and there are many glitches, but it is interesting footage.

AUG 1973 — NEW HOUSE — New House was fully purchased at this time, and we redecorated by painting the raw wood as the interior of a space-ship. At the time, it really seemed like a good idea. We restored it the next month. Note to Self: Don’t Ever Do That Again. New House was enormous, and we had many group meetings there. On one memorable weekend, we hosted 315 people there with groups from Beshara and SAT — naturally, Reshad and Claudio were there!!!

OCT 1973 — BURBANK — Lana and I hosted a group from the Shakti Centre, and we organized a number of activities, including the first Bunraku performance. It was decided to find a retreat center in Los Angeles.

AUG 1974 — ALEXANDRIA HOUSE — Finally, we concluded negotiations on Alexandria House, in the Wilshire District, a very beautiful area, right near Reshad’s new centre, by “sheer coincidence”, only two short blocks away! We helped Reshad organize a number of Jamiyats, held at our old haunts, Fiesta Hall at Plummer Park in West L.A..

It was at this time that I did “double-bills”, appearances with a number of friends, notably Reshad Feild, Claudio Naranjo, Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche, Chogyam Trungpa, Venerable Thich Thien-An and many others. This starts my public phase, and I spend several hundred hours on radio and television, with Barbara Birdfeather, Julie Russo, and my special wondrous friend, Amanda Foulger, who tolerated my 10 minute radio mime routine on KPFK. There’s never been another broadcaster like her.

Amanda Foulger, KPFK circa 1974, photo by EJ Gold.

MAY 1975 — SALE OF RED HOUSE — We moved to our present location; Red House was sold in a bidding war between three buyers, Kung-Fu was sold and became Kathy’s Country Kitchen, a vastly more successful enterprise as a grease-joint than as a health-food restaurant, although we had done very well there. But nothing beats hot, rancid bacon-fat.

Well, that concludes the content of the “lost letter”. Hope you enjoyed the little romp through history.

See You At The Top!!!

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Persy in a vulnerable spot on the streets of London in Second Life — caution is required.

Naked or Nearly Naked on the Streets of Hong-Kong? It happens all the time, but most of the time you ignore the inevitable sense of extreme and imminent danger, because you’re trained by life to ignore it. If you didn’t, you’d be paranoid-nuts beyond belief. Oh, you already are? Okay, then this dissertation is for you, so read on…

Any time you go out the door, you’re in much more danger than you are if you just sit around the house, right?

If you guessed “true”, you’d be wrong. Most accidents happen around the house, and the fact is, there’s no reason why an airplane or a meteorite shouldn’t come crashing through the roof right this very moment!

Okay…the fact that it didn’t happen right then is no proof it couldn’t have happened right then, see?

The short end of that stick is that The absence of something does not prove its non-existence.

Most good math, chemistry and physics comes from that realization.

When you enter the internet, you might think that, because you’re sitting behind an anonymous avatar and you’re tucked away safe and sound in your own den in the safest middle part of your very own home in which your bank is a silent partner for the next 30 years, you’re safe.

Well, let’s examine the situation:

You’re on the internet. That means that everything about you is now known by anyone who possesses the power to obtain and analyze that information. Even my kids can find out who you are and where you live just by you existing on the internet. They could, but don’t. My point is that you don’t need to be a power-possessor to have access to very critical information; anyone with the desire to do it can do it.

So the answer is, don’t be on the internet.

Might as well say, “stop breathing”, because you are on the internet in so many ways, you don’t have a clue how high into the zillions it runs. If you are one of the last holdouts against cellphones, smartphones and the wide variety of pads and such out there, you might perhaps not be on the internet directly — that is, if you have also avoided owning a PC, Mac or Linux, and you haven’t got a digital tv set.

Oh, but there’s more. Your refrigerator, if it’s recently purchased, is on the internet. So is your wall clock, your wireless devices and every operating detail in your home, office or den.

The fact is that you are wired. You can’t avoid it. Your house lighting is or will soon be wired. Air conditioner, heater, toaster, oven — heck, you get a text message from your fridge not to forget the half-pound of butter and the broccoli for tonight’s dinner.

Pacemaker, emergency beeper, lost-person finder, all are on some form of internet connection.

How about your shopping? Even if you don’t have a computer at home or office, when you shop, all the calculations are done on some cloud on the internet, and all the charges and banking business are done there, too.

Oh, you still walk to the bank, and snail-mail your deposits? Good for you; you’re one of the very last. You can tell historians all about it when they find you quivering in the bushes.

Amazon is a book store; nothing bad could happen there.

Oh, yeah? Since when is it safe to hang around the book stacks in the library? It isn’t any safer to hang out in a bookstore than it is to loiter in an underground garage, but it does look safer, if appearance is anything to go by, and it isn’t. Part of being street-wise is to see accidents coming toward you a block or more away.

Getting street-wise doesn’t happen by sitting at home.

On the other hand, unless you get curious, bored, lonesome or just plain stupid, you won’t be in danger on the internet as long as you go about your business with due diligence, and don’t get seduced into “trolling” around the internet, commonly called “browsing”.

Shopping is different.

When shopping on the internet, extreme caution is advised, even if you know and trust the seller, because in the digital world, weird accidents happen all of a sudden. Your entire trust fund could be wiped out by one failed digit.

Going to the Ashram, is it safe?

So long as you stay on the straight path, it should be fine. Go to the Ashram, come straight back. It’s when you stray, when you wander off the path, that you can and do get in trouble.

Even so, an avatar who knows his/her stuff is easily able to outmaneuver any wise guy on or off the planet. You’ll learn the Bardo Maneuvers in Angel Flight School and you’ll learn the Basic Dodges in our group T’ai Ch’i classes every morning at 7 AM PST, open to all Ashram residents and guests.

Are walk-ins welcome in Prosperity and Prosperity Ashram?

Of course. If you have any questions, and you run into someone who can answer them, fine and good — if not, write your questions down and bring them to the ICW on Saturday or Sunday morning  — don’t know about the ICW? Find out about it — finding out about things is the First Initiation.

See You At The Top!!!

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– Lady Persephone (we call her “Persy”) at the Temple of Ganesh, Prosperity Ashram –

The Temple of Ganesh…wait a moment, I’ll post another shot of her, closer to the Shrine…

Yes, well, like I was saying, the Temple of Ganesh was a major project. The building itself took me about fifteen seconds to rezz up, but it required a month’s work to find the right temple, and get it installed properly, on a working farm … the crops actually grow, and you could sign up to help grow, harvest and store or sell them. We also have cows, horses, pigs, ducks, chickens, goats, dogs, cats, rats and other assorted furry critters here on the Ashram Farm, where the Ganesh Temple is located…here, I’ll give you the address — you have to be in the Ashram part of the Ashram to get the right location — it’s 135/29/1251.

See You At The Top!!!

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