— 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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