Life in a Box Chapter 9

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Can you do this without trickery? If not, stay tuned, because you can learn it.

At our Ishtar Festival in 1969, which was held in our small apartment with a group of about 20 friends from art school and city college, someone asked me if I could manifest a ball of light or energy or something, and I did it, and at that moment, someone grabbed up a camera and took this snapper.

Clearly, it’s a legitimate unaltered photo, and you can easily note that my furry friend “Spook” — so named by the CIA operative friend who gave her to me when he shipped off to a country that doesn’t exist — is staring in shock and ferile hunger at the light and wondering whether to attack it. She didn’t.

So what is that stuff, anyway?

I don’t know, and I haven’t tried it since. What’s the point? Some folks think it’s a trick and some folks think it’s magic and still others just don’t know what to think.

I can do without that.

The idea here is that you could put on a show, sort of like Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney used to do, but don’t do it in person, do it in virtual.

If you want to put on a show, get in touch with me and I’ll help you work out the details. Continue reading →

Life in a Box Chapter 7

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THE INFLUENZA — After Sandburg

  • The Virus comes on little cat feet
  • It sits looking
  • Over Harbor & City
  • On Silent Haunches
  • And then moves on.

I can’t think of a better explanation for the Corona virus than that little piece of 20th century poetry, one word changed from “Fog” to “Virus”, as you see but might not understand, lacking a foundation in your basic pre-millenium literary bullshit. Continue reading →

Life in a Box Chapter 6

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Here I am at our Winter Workshop — be sure to sign up for Easter Workshop!

Every quarter we have a special workshop, and in the winter (it doesn’t take a capital) this particular winter, we had a very special deep learning look at social media and how it can help us get out there to those in spiritual need.

Well, now with the Corona virus, we’re not only in deep need, we’re in double-deep shit, and we have perhaps some hope of surviving through the next few months by some miracle.

Well, miracle or not, you only have so much time, and you might as well use it to full advantage, so how about signing up for the Easter Workshop?

If you’re dead by that time, you can still attend, but it won’t be on your charge-card. All those who have recently passed are offered free rides when they wander through the rest of the amusement park we call “reality”.

By the way, did you notice that I’m dressed as an Egyptian Princess, but I’m standing in the snow with a sleigh drawn by a red-nosed reindeer whose name we can only guess.

The idea of showing you this image is to demonstrate how an image could be generated that would get some attention on social media, using it as a button.

You could generate lots of screenshots that could help you market things — just a thought — and of course, you’re more than welcome to use our beautiful Ashram setting for your selfies. Continue reading →

Life in a Box Chapter 5

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One way to make a living in a box is to write interviews with famous people. Although I knew the boys well and saw them pretty much every day for a couple of years, the Monkees were nowhere around when I interviewed their instruments.

The rumor was that they didn’t actually play their own instruments, and in fact, they didn’t. Most of the tracks were laid down in Nashville and they were on tour totally elsewhere.

All they added were the vocals, and it was that way for a long time. They actually finally got to play at concerts without double-up backups behind stage, but not for long and not until the very end, long after the series had ended.

So I set about to interview their instruments — what better witnesses could you get? The novel idea caught on, and from then on, that was my style of output, and I never did a live interview of a rock star again, although I produced hundreds of articles and interviews.

Just spell the name right, and they’ll let you publish anything. Continue reading →

Life in a Box Chapter 4

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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. Continue reading →

Life in a Box Chapter 3

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Well, heck, looka here. If it isn’t the old Norton Street Contact Orb! I made this back in 2014 as a backup in case for some reason Second Life failed, but it didn’t. It’s quite healthy, with over a million users a day, and double the number of landowners from last year.

Still, it’s a nice backup, eh?

Thing is, you’d have to learn, actually LEARN, how to use it, how to set up a base and most of all, how to defeat your online barriers, of which there are plenty, not the least of which will be your server.

If you have a stable IP, you might do better, and I’d strongly advise it anyway, if you ‘re planning to make a living online, which if you don’t do, you probably won’t live very long, as a result of illness or starvation.

What good is a payroll tax deduction if you don’t happen to be on anyone’s payroll?

Contact Orbs are great for staying in touch. You can use the text messaging already in place, or you can add voice with a number of different options for vocalization.

Most folks prefer the texting, and I’m definitely in that camp. Continue reading →

Life in a Box Chapter 2

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There’s only one absolutely safe way to attend church these days, and that’s in a virtual cathedral, of which we have several.

I have one working in the virtual ashram, but there’s a Godd™ Orb that you can get that has a cathedral space — as a matter of fact, you can get the Heaven version, which has a chorus of angels all around, from lower to higher choirs.

The online experience is slightly easier to manage in the ashram, because it doesn’t require a download or skills at online hookups.

As a matter of fact, in Second Life, the less you know, the better, in general. It’s build for total dum-dums like you and me. The smarter ones have to go to the back of the line.

So what can you do to make a living when you’re stuffed into a box?

To begin with, you’re not trapped and you’re not alone. You need to establish that fact in your overly taxed brain before going any further, so get into the ashram and find someone to talk to.

If you can’t find anyone to talk to, it doesn’t mean they’re not there. If you run into me, for instance, I won’t respond, because I’m typically busy doing something intricate and delicate in there, and need to concentrate on what I’m trying to do. Continue reading →