What is a Wayback Machine???

Most people don’t walk around in a necklace made with genuine antiquities, and most folks don’t know the difference between an antique and an antiquity, and furthermore, most folks don’t know that they’re even allowed to own a genuine ancient item.

Very few people have ever had the experience of walking around wearing something ancient, something worn in ancient times by someone who lived thousands of years ago.

Perhaps that person was you.

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Relics & Artifacts

Yes, we’ll get to the Relics and Artifacts in a minute. I just wanted you to take a peek at the video above, to get yourself prepared for what’s going to happen in the realm of antiques and such.

We used to call them “junk stores” — overcrowded, dry and dusty with undisturbed age, the objects lanquished in the darkness, waiting for a new owner and new life.

Sometime around 1950, those same junk shops switched signs, and became “antique shoppes”, with fewer items, better arrangement, and much higher prices.

There were, in the 1960s and 1970s, a smattering of shops that sold things older than antiques — those items that are 2,000 years old or older are now called “antiquities”, to distinguish them from “antiques”, things that are 100 years old or more.

Stuff that’s around 1,000 years old are downright Medieval, and are collected as such. Medieval things are generally at about neolithic or at most, bronze-age in nature. Continue reading

ZOOMSHOP – Medicine Wheel Chokers

 

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Museum Reconstruction of a 4500 B.C. Sumerian Lapis necklace.

The necklace in the photo above looks deceptively easy to acquire, but it isn’t. You can’t buy this necklace at any price. It is a “School Artifact”.

Relics like these can be reconstructed from ancient materials. In this case, note that the maker of all the lapis beads is the same, from the same workshop. This is not the case with beads acquired through the ordinary marketplace. Matched sets of ancient beads is exceedingly rare. Continue reading

ZOOMSHOP — Make Roman Glass Earrings

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Your GENUINE ANCIENT ROMAN GLASS BEADS are 2,000 years old, and were found in the Holyland, from a site not far from the city of Jerusalem. These beads could very well have been worn by one of the Apostles. Look on the internet for more information about Ancient Rome in the Holyland, and experience the Glory That Was Rome, by wearing your Jewels of Ancient Lands Holyland Roman Glass creations! Continue reading

All in a Night’s Work

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New Rome in the New Year, 2015

Last night I spent about seven solid hours rebuilding Rome, making it a walking experience, giving it some body & depth, and I got lucky with my building, so you can see it today, right now, in the Ashram. The major changes are on the ground floor, meaning along the River of Time. There are a lot of finishing touches that will be added as the year goes on, and Target Destinations will be my next short-term goal to get up and running.

See You At The Top!!!

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My Roman Holiday Pocket Mission by LeslieAnn

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Roman Holiday is a series of 78 images of LeslieAnn walking about Ancient Rome, 43 B.C.

These are a series of screenshots, a walkabout through Ancient Rome. I’ll be shooting a “My Roman Holiday” for YOU, with 30 Screenshots for you to describe or to which you might decide to write poetry — it’s up to you. Continue reading

Pocket Missions by LeslieAnn

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Jack Calisher outside his lumber mill, circa 1878.

Recognize this street? Well, you should. You died here in a gunfight in 1878, and that wasn’t the first or last time you died, but it’s an easy Past Life to remember, because the trauma was so strong. It wasn’t that big a deal to die — here you still are to tell the tale. “Death Row” was the name given to this Old West “Main Street” that saw over 100 gunfights in its day.

That’s one thing about death that people don’t generally realize. Death is not permanent.  In fact, death is so damn impermanent, it’s a pain in the ass, and I’ll explain why. You finally get the hang of a life you’re living, and wham! Along comes Death to wreck the show … but wait, weren’t you just barely crawling along, whizzing around in a wheelchair with a bottle of oxygen and a long clear plastic tube.

So how would you like to remember this death? You’d rather not re-experience a death? I don’t blame you, death is never pleasant, although it can be a great relief if you’re in terrific unbearable and unrelenting pain. Still, it’s not something we naturally seek, nor are we intended to. You’re here to do a job because you can. You were born with the ability to carry out your work mission. Whether you do it or decide to whack off for your whole life is entirely up to you. Continue reading