Here is the brief summary of happenings and activities, more later
2004
Mill Street Gallery
Dale Myrberg – yoyo champ
Comedy Clinic (January 2004)
Hemispheres (November 6, 2004)
2 Silver Smithing Workshops (November 2004)
Gaming (07/18/04)
Workshops at the ashram on Sunday mornings
Art As A Game (August 1, 2014)
Perfect Service – E.J Birthday Event
CAM-Coins (8/15/04)
What Is Mastery (8/29/04)
Convention 2004
Online Multiplayer Bardotraining -D2
started after the convention 2004
IAJE painting
Interview with Stewart Davis
Publications & Shows
- Books – To Know We’re Loved
- DVD
- CD
- Jazz Art Event
- Websites
The Mill Street Gallery was open 6 -7 days a week, I know, because I was there with my buddy Nadija.
I got a camera that year, and so the images start this year.
The BIG thing: Life personal Bardo Training with E.J. Gold.
Mill Street Gallery – E.J. Gold Fine Arts
Main Street in Grass Valley
The Mill Street Gallery was open 6 -7 days a week, I know, because I was there with my buddy Nadija.
I got a camera that year, and so the images start this year.
The BIG thing: Life personal Bardo Training with E.J. Gold.
Mill Street Gallery – E.J. Gold Fine Arts
Mill Street Gallery, Main Street in Grass Valley
E.J. Gold was always in favor of, and when possible maintained, a public contact point and space in form of a gallery, restaurant or other type of shop, like the Brane-Power Center. After recovering from 2 surgeries in 2000 and 2001, IDHHB again maintained such a space, the E.J Gold Fine Art Gallery, better known as the Mill Street Gallery in Grass Valley. What matters here is the opportunity for contact with the school. Incredible coincidences occurred on a regular basis when E.J. was there. One of your jobs is to help customers give themselves permission to buy, but most importantly, any item bought is a souvenir of the interaction – and the customer is always right. The Gallery space also saw workshops, special guests and music music and more music happenings, lots of various art. The Gallery had an Egyptian phase, a jewelry phase, local artists phase, features Estate Art, parties, participated all the street fairs and of course, the big phase of the multi player online personal Bardo Trainings started here. After a few years we all had to recognize that times were changing, it was after 9/11 and finally in 2006, all contact and classes were shifted to town trip excursions and classes at the land and at Ben Franklin and the gallery was let go. Soon the online workspaces appeared. Please enjoy the various impressions from that time. The Gallery existed for about a year before I started working in there full time in November 2003. My earliest photos are from 2004, because that is when I got my camera, sometimes in April or so, maybe May.
We changed the gallery look many times, as you will see in the photos. There were many events and a lot of music.
You will find other photos of gallery happenings in the Workshop Chapter, Tattoo Fashions and the Online Bardo Training Chapter.
I had helped out in the Gallery for 3 weeks after the convention in 2003, and once I worked there full time, there was a lot of dusting. My own memory of a first happening was when Jimmy Accardi showed up for music. Or maybe I was just so excited to hear the “other” guy on all those CDs II had listened to.
June 2004
Egypt gallery – Marc pics
garden
July 2004
July 18, 2004, Gaming talk, E.J. Does cooking
August 2004
Art as a Game – 8-01-04
CAM-coins-8-15-04
What is Mastery – August 29, 2004, talk in living room
E.J and Jimmy
Drumming 8-13
Egypt-gallery
September 2004
Convention 2004
post con dining room – bardo training
gallery pics -coming soon
October 2004
Yoyochamp sometime that year
Halloween at the Gallery
November 2004
Hemispheres, 11.6
2 silver smithing workshops
December 2004
Christmas Party
and of course – more bardotraining
Multiplayer Online Video Gaming as a powerful Bardo Training Tool
In deciding which area of work to start with, actually, that was easy – I got here to California because of online video gaming and what happened in the course of it. Using this work tool literally changed my life.
During the December workshop of 2002, Diablo 2 LoD video gaming was recommended to us and for most of that 2003, the clan lol was having 2 games a day, at 7 am and 7 pm, either hosted by Claude of E.J. or both.
The use of multiplayer online video gaming began with the first major multiplayer game: Quake. Quake CTF and its successor Team Fortress were profound tools for bardo training and group work. This has been addressed earlier in the book. Unfortunately, as is the case with all online video games, there came a day when Team Fortress was no longer viable.
The convention 2004 marked discovery and use of a new online multiplayer game that would serve as a powerful bardo training tool for the next decade. In fact, it is still in active use in 2017.
A worldwide community of participants from many countries around the world continue to work live online with this method.
The late 20th century and early 21st century are a special time in history. There is a unique combination of factors including appropriate level of technology, social freedom and economic freedom necessary for this level of Bardo Training. It is the most incredible opportunity for any bardo traveler — never before available in human history.
E.J.Gold, being a unique combination of game developer and spiritual teacher, determined that the game Diablo 2 (D2) was well suited as a bardo training tool — especially for certain aspects of voyaging as a group.
Eventually, the term POG (from Pack of Green) became a well known
term amongst those initiated through this particular training tool.
A structured Bardo Training Course was first introduced in exclusive classes given in
the Mill Street Gallery by E. J. Gold and Claude Needham. As the course work evolved, a written manual was created which allowed the classes to be extended beyond any geography boundaries. This “Bardo Basics” Training Course has been translated into Spanish and Italian.
Online safaris (a safari is our name for a 2 hour structured class) have been happening several times a week since 2004. This continues even now.
During the eleven years (and counting) that D2 has been used, other games were explored and tested. But nothing has been found as yet that comes even close to D2 for useability in Bardo Training. The only exception to this desert of options has been the reemergence of Team Fortress. A new incarnation of Team Fortress is running with a new engine. But, at least when it started, it captured the essence of the original, thus making it an excellent tool for Bardo Training as well.
However, D2 safaris are the entry tool for serious online Bardo Training. The “Ladder Resets” of Diablo 2 worked perfectly with the ebb and flow of group participation in the safari experience. The demands of a new ladder were a perfect excuse for individuals to recommit themselves to their training.
The most intense ladder experience of this sort took place in the summer of 2008
during which Gorebagg climbed the new D2 ladder to become the number 1
assassin that season. Only those who were there will truly understand what that meant. To give you an idea, to reach number 1 Gorebagg had to reach level 99 first. Never mind the work required to climb from level 1 to level 98. The effort to required to get from level 98 to level 99 required over 10,000 Baal runs. If you know was a Baal run entails you have some idea. If not, then just consider that this took several months of intense cooperative effort from the collected community of online safari runners.
To those who where there, this form of Bardo Training safaris took a major role in their group work for a number of years – a challenge that is a fun as it is intense. This PoG
work has become an established form of Bardo Training at the Institute. PoG is short hand for Pack of Green. A moments glance at a Diablo 2 overhead map will reveal genesis of “Pack of Green”. Each party member is represented by a green cross. Thus when individuals travel working together they form a pack of green crosses. Or simply, pack of green. Hence PoG.
“This is Bardo Training as it applies to you and your particular and personal Bardo Run habits.
This is not a game, this is Bardo Training” says E.J.Gold. “The training is available to anyone who wants it.”
2 Silver Smithing workshops in November
December 2004
Perfect Service – E.J. Birthday 2004