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If
Ideas are potential realities and Gods on earth (healthy, energetic people like
us) ---make ideas real, then hold this idea.
Teaching
is better than merchandising. The former requires you speak and air, last I
heard, is cheap merchandise, easy to keep on shelf and needs no dusting. The
latter –actual selling stuff--- requires you have shelves, dust, take raw
materials, often costly and create items of value that must be housed,
displayed. The former is portable the latter is not. The Former has a thousand
percent markup while REAL MERCHANDISE at tops has 30% markup, taking purchase
costs into account.
So
what do you know that you could teach? Perhaps you feel the most valuable
training you could give would be something along the lines of Yoga and
Healthfoods, herbal healing. Psychological healing. Courtship studies. Singles
groups. You may not know this HOLISTIC field well enough to teach, but visit
your local healthfood store's bulletin board and you'll find someone who CAN
and who'd be glad to do the lecture if you facilitated a living room. It would
be good for attracting clients to his business, so why wouldn't he give free
seminars?
Or you
might be the teacher. Take the HOW TO BE A HEALER
SEMINAR. You’d be ready to start
work after doing so. It’s free. What do you know? Guitar? Cooking Thai food?
It's a start. Meanwhile, start reading those wonderful "HEAL Diabetes WITH
GARLIC, Cayenne" books. You don’t need a PHD to lead a living room group.
Of course you can find some new age Guru with “How Ginger and cayenne cured my
Heart Problems" pamphlet…you know, Auryvedic Food is your Best Medicine
type books they sell at the Healthfood store. Gurus like that abound in our
cities today. We find them in the WHOLE LIFE CATALOGUE type magazines in
healthfood stores. Call one up, get them to give the class chez nous. They’d
probably do it for PIE AND COFFEE!. Whoops. I mean tofu egg salad, hummos on
whole grain crackers!
Then,
concentrate on meeting new people in this HOLISTIC 'world' both at the
healthfood store and at local yoga classes. Get them to teach chez toi.
You
(and they) may not be more than a few feet ahead of your own students but teach
your knowledge, even if it's from a book or two, in a SHARING session at your
own home for a few years all the time keeping your eye peeled for an
inexpensive storefront venue (1000$ a month rent tops,) and always trying to
make pals with other New Age teachers whom you will invite to participate in
creating an educational, charitable New Age Metaphysical UNIVERSITY
(NAM-U) or Shambala Seminars, teaching your own students to be teachers,
healers, participants in the NEW AGE.
You have to
know your best audience in your area. It can be that your area has a college
crowd, as you're all near a university or maybe you're an agricultural region
with lower case barrio groups looking to move up in the world, or maybe you're
in a Bohemian, artistic, urban area where there's a vibrant nightlife and
summertime strollers. Maybe you have a suburban, yuppie, young family city
neighborhood. Or maybe you're out in the suburbs with older people around. It
really doesn't matter. In every one of these varied groups there's someone who
wants to learn. That's your bottom line. CURIOUS MINDS.
To attract
curious crowds, make your VENUE a shop for something related, massage,
perfumes, aromatherapy, bulk healing herbs, scented candles, perfumes, Angels
and crafts, artisanry, (mirrors, furniture, everything decorated with angels),
and offer sugar-free HEALTHFOOD cookies for 3$ a dozen, both to take out or to
consume on the spot with herbal teas or even high octane teas and coffees. That
gets you the 'stop-in' and chat daytime or nightime stroller crowd. Be prepared
to do tarot readings when people come in, too. Or charts, or make appointments
for outcall massages. Train a college kid to do massage, pass his license test,
then do the booking, credit cards and send the kid out and give him half.
Expand
slowly into a New Age Vitamin store. Use the word NEW AGE on everything, NEW
AGE massage, NEW AGE COOKIES, NEW AGE CLASSES. Such a business will allow
seekers like you to earn a living dharmically, (righteously) teaching,
banishing darkness from your clients' lives. This job will ultimately allow you
to leave humdrum jobs you're forced to have now. If you own property, be
cautious. I remember when a great Yogi friend of mine got sued for telling a
girl to go on a 40 day beet diet. With people so litigious nowadays, you don't
even want to advocate vegetarianism if you're sueable. Always phrase it, 'you
might find it interesting to try a beet diet.'
I
don't think you're ever going to become Ross Perot doing this business, so you
don't have to worry about being sued for your bank account, car or home. Or,
another way, create a UTAH corporation (see the article on SSA failing, need to
see to your own late life also at this website, elsewhere on main page index. A
lot there about Utah corps!). Then, nobody can sue you!
A
LIVING ROOM UNIVERSITY could be done as a charitable Foundation. That would be
up to your group. This is experimental teaching work, that aspires to prepare
your clients for the spiritual path while they live 'in the world.'
A
plus to this work is that it would give two people money: the teacher
who earns immediate money for his teaching efforts, and the STUDENT who is
inhaling all this info and revelations and who starts doing massage or herbs as
a career, and earns money himself and who quits working at McDonalds and then
moves to some town or city where he or she becomes a center of the area's new
holistic movement and does exactly what you're doing. Starts a SHAMBALA SEMINAR
of their own!
So analyze
what's outside your door. Do you have a University town there? That's where it
would really work. But NAM-U would work just as well with young marrieds, who
are looking for a moonlighting job. Or the stay at home mother who needs a
cottage industry she can do while the kids nap. But what's wrong with elderly
people who want these talents so they can sidestep costly doctors, or use their
free time for painting, impressionism? You know, most EVERYBODY can use this
product and that's usually the sign you can make some SERIOUS money!
NO CLASS SHOULD COST MORE THAN A MOVIE. We are dealing with people with limited incomes,
geriatrics, students, young kids, barrio people. Three hour Classes at Los
Angeles prototype school, The Learning Annex are 29$ minimum, very few are
uaround 50$. 7$ an hour session should be our maximum. If there are 4 sessions
to a class, it would be $28. The logic behind this is the following: we want to
deliver a punch to society. That is our essential ambition, not to make money. We
deliver a punch with muscle. To build Muscle takes oxygen but you can get that
from a green leaf; you don't have to eat fat, carbs and sugars. We don't have
to choke down huge CASH to survive.
MONEY
DETAILS: If you run the school, you get
a cut from all the teachers you let in. Teachers need some green energy, so we
give them 70% of the take from a class. If a class has 20 students at 7$
receipts are 140$ for that hour. 70% of that means l00$ for the teacher. The
teacher does not need a lot more for his hour or two of work as he lives
holistically. If a class nets him 100$ maybe he'll be encouraged to do l0
classes a month to survive, & spread his flyers around more regularly. If
he earns 400$ for a class, he doesn't have to work his buns off. He can give
two classes a month and feel plush and get lazy. We don't want that.
What's wrong with 7$ a ticket? After all, this is an informal class from a
human being. This isn't brain surgery.
Next,
if the school manager isn't the building owner then the bldg owner needs some
of the green energy, 20$ goes to him if he's not taking rent. The classroom
manager needs some and 20$ for that segment of his long day seems high as he's
present at l0 classes a day, so he could net a lot of money when things are
really humming.
The
employee-manager spends hours at the actual classroom location arranging
details. These include typesetting, arranging printing of and distributing ads
and catalogs, creating a phone voice mail box, answering call-ins, doing
mail-outs, hanging huge banners and flags on the bldg, also decorating the
space, or facilitating the seminars and also being a Lecture Agent. (THIS is
where some big cash is hiding. We'll get back to that in a sec).
The
school aspires to do many things: run seminars both at the school and at nearby
resorts. It will teach yoga, healing, and run workshops like the LEARNING ANNEX
does in my town. It will peddle (agent) seminars in other cities via a New Age
Speakers' Bureau, offering seminars, (professional, holistic, transformational,
informational or metaphysical) to audiences not only in your city but as many
lecturers' agents do, across the USA so the manager will be busy.
The
New Age Metaphysical University (NAM-U as Nam means truth in Sanskrit) seminars
would train in New Age careers and skills that are closer to people's SOUL
ABILITIES than the humdrum 9-5 job many people have today, or had,
what with corporative downscaling more and more NAFTA PREVELANT!
Another
spinoff future business might be a HOLISTIC WEB-site on the INTERNET which
would bring New Age information to the fingertips of cybertekkies with PC's on
an international level and attract them to coming to your town or your rural
retreat for a holistic vacation. You will get local inns, bed and breakfasts to
link to your site.
Besides
seminars, a possible other offering to local parents --to bridge the gap
between generations,--would be 'lay listeners.' Parents bring problem children
to NAM-U for an hour long TALK, but not be talked to, but LISTENED to by
surrogate parent figures, in regular sessions that approximate psychiatry, but
done by 'lay people' for affordable sums. (l0$ an hour comes to mind). Involved
is giving sentient 'feed-back' to the teen as well as creating a 3-way DIALOGUE
(eventually) with the parent. Highly innovational, entirely legal, and with its
affordability, much needed in this stressful world, this idea alone will give
Nam-U much media attention which will fill classes from the get-go.
Last
of all, in posh rich cities, there will be HOLISTIC DOMESTICS offered, also
training to your extant staff, also ethnic personnel, job-finder services
offered to recent imigrantes, students. Most upscale is the 'We train
your staff to be holistic' service for l00$ an hour. You go to their house and
train their gardener, cook, maid. Imagine this from the viewpoint of some
billionaire matron. Cute New Age people come to your home, teach your cook to
do vegie tofu, teach your maid to give decent massage, teach your gardener to
grow organic, deep mulch, high compost corn, spinach and beets!
LECTURERS
ARE US! The same team you can use with OM CORPS would be
your resident, in-city experts. They do it because they want to network. You’re
functioning as a PUBLICITY agent for them. This is the principle behind doing SUCCESS IN LOVE
SEMINARS with a local psychologist. She answers questions out of a
basket 2x a month as she earns her $ in private sessions and it’s big money.
You are just creating 100 girls a week who come for her to answer questions.
Next
IDEA, a New Age Metaphysical & Holistic PERIPATETIC ROAMING LECTURER
service, cum University with national-level Speakers' Bureau!. I have seen
LEARNING ANNEX type classrooms grow incrementally in every city where they’re
started! Not only will you 'JUMPSTART' the NEW AGE across the country, i.e. earning
huge good karma but you will also positively spark related Businesses in your
city, like holistic healers, Spas, metaphysical book shops, healthfood stores,
Work-Out gyms and New age food providers, cafes, food co-ops, vendors of
vitamin supplement products. For THAT REASON, all those industries will give
NAM-U Speakers' Bureau support, speakers, sponsorship and even venues perhaps
even becoming agents for the classes when local school or Ashram personnel
cannot do it.
SO
WHAT AND HOW? Pick a location on two
major boulevards' crossing, some old bldg near the busline. Or, I know a lady
living in the cutest Victorian home in a BIZ 3 zone, on the antique main street
of her Ohio town. She's thinking of doing the whole nine yards there, café,
classes. A huge hospital near them means thousands of workers, hospital
visitors and doctors on a break will want a holistic lunch.
Any
urban store front in an area that's gentrifying is good. Even a main boulevard.
Tens of thousands of people will pass the window in a day and see an
interesting bakery, café with a huge sign saying 'COFFEE/ ORGANIC COOKIES/
SANDWICHES in big letters. That gets them to get off the bus, or park the car
and come in. LEMONADE, whatever is seasonal. EMPANADAS, TORTAS, whatever. But
on a sign or banner below " NEW AGE SCHOOL HERE. GET INTO HOLISTIC HEALING,
EARN 800k per Yr." "Yoga here", "Do your Kids Need a LAY
LISTENER? " Or, "Are your kids such a pain you need a
Mediator?--LISTENERS l0$ pr. hr." EASY PHONE NUMBER so people who drive by
can call later. 555-1212.
At
this urban site, you will also want to offer food, beverages, holistic studies,
iridology, massage, Emotional Release Work Massage (Primal Scream or Tantrum
Yoga), Past Live Readings, where you regress the CLIENT to his past life. (I
can teach anyone how to do that in a one minute phonecall. You do not hypnotize
them.) psychological enquiries, transformational processes,, including the
'listening sessions,' also New age cooking and other 'how-to' classes. Many of
these can be in nearby living rooms, don't have to be on site.
NAM-U
is a space for teachers to meet, arrange, advertise, schedule, rehearse, explore
and HONE their teaching talents in before taking them on the road. NAM U is
innovational, without borders and perched on the edge of the ghetto or barrio, offering
classes to the clients, who've never been exposed to metaphysics before so we
aren't preaching to sophisticated big city yuppies only. We are preparing to
reach 'Everyman.' This will accelerate beneficial changes in a SECTOR of the
community which was ignored when the consciousness-raising movement came
around.
Your
city has an untapped army of angels that are ready to reach into parts of the
community in the barrio. When NAM-U teachers learn to teach with authority in
depressed areas, they can teach anywhere. The USA is a wide-open new market. In
LA, a very GURU-full city, competition is strong, so consider using LA teachers
to launch holistic studies on the other 49 states in communities that have
NEVER SEEN NEW AGE SEMINARS. Kundalini Yoga and EST type transformational
processes (not invented yet but germinating in many of us) could be launched at
NAM-U. There are limitless seminars to give: "Creation of Religious,
Ecstatic Poetry, as in the tradition of India" or the Course on Miracles
text, or Prosperity Seminars, New Age Music, Feng Shui or holistic health
seminars, and KUNDALINI or Hatha YOGA.
Getting
students and teachers OUT of non-dharmic jobs into TEACHING NEW AGE workshops
is a good thing, and not teaching just an occasional workshop, but learning to
do it several times a week providing communities with a regular schedule of
varied, exotic workshops all with a New Age flavor, done in many venues,
exploding out thru the city, state and country, facilitated by a LECTURE AGENT
in each city who need have NO TALENTS AT ALL OTHER THAN ANSWERING his own home
PHONE. Soon you'll have people in cities who graduated from NAM-U who could
earn a living as Traveling Teachers. They'd do a seminar in Phoenix, then one
in Ames Iowa.
And
later, the teachers themselves will relocate all over USA. TRAVELING TEACHERS'
LECTURE BUREAU would offer seminars, gatherings and classes THAT ACCELERATE THE
NEW AGE in new locales. Such classes would be different from other holistic
workshops or Learning Annex type groups that exist in some cities, in QUALITY
AND QUANTITY. First, they would bring the MOST advanced, high-tech, NEW AGE
solutions to healing the body and mind, avant garde solutions to standard
diseases/ body or mind disfunctions and human problems. 2) they would do it in
all the cities where there are now some yoga classes and healthfood stores, and
teachers, then 3.) expand to other smaller cities through corporative
sponsorship, i.e. local healthfood stores, yoga classes, etc. Best of all, 4.)
soon many teachers will leave and relocate, creating homes/NAM-U's and even
ashrams (communal living facilities) in cities that do NOT have a drop of the
NEW AGE in 'em. You don't, as teachers, so much force the chicks from the nest
as you inspire them to visit all the trees in the forest to try new fruits and
nuts.
Your
NAM-U headquarters supplies teachers, video/audio tapes, CD's and software, (8$
audio tapes, 3$ pamphlets, 30$ for the Course on Miracles books, videos, with
extant dealers handling this.) Such products are provided to/distributed by the
local on-site LECTURE AGENT (persons living in an ashram in another city) who
organize the seminar in that city, who get l0%. of these sales, as well as a %
of the seminars.
Your
central SCHOOL will send this collection of bright, educated healers,
psychologists, metaphysicians to lecture sites using one travel agent to get
consolidated discount rates. These teachers show up in the ashram-city,
equipped to give their WORKSHOP. For the local on-site agent, there's no need
to rent offices, or print catalogues. Your central NAM-U that you start first..
will supply flyers.
The
on-site agent is a seminar co-producer who earns 10% for finding the
hotel-retreat, gym, book store or healthfood store space and has the venue lined
up for the workshop. Perhaps extra helpers attend the event for free in
exchange for work finding site. A church or School auditorium works for a one
night lecture. A ballet classroom works for body work or yoga if everyone
brings a beach towel. In the target city, there is no office.
Al
the agent needs is a phone. The 'agent' works out of his home. The teacher
flies between these two points with his set of pamphlets, wheels and backpack.
Later, seminars, lectures or worshops would be given in VENUES that want them,
which ask the local agent for them. Imagine a posh, sunny resort hotels
in a rural area, or a cruise ship where people really have the leisure to 'get
into' these meditational studies. On-site manager selects the venues, private
homes, corporative settings, churches and other informal lecture sites,
including cafes and coffee shops. No location will involve CAPITAL INVESTMENT,
buying or renting a building as most businesses must do. No need to pay
employees: local facilitators have a vested interest in the field as they may
run a yoga class, a healthfood store, a 'Work-Out' gym or Metaphysical book
store. Often smaller lectures would be given in free or non-costly VENUES:
Chiropractic offices, the backroom of a cafe, or in a bookshop. It is also
possible to find unleased buildings that are centrally located, and use them
for a single evening. On-site agent may find some bldg. being built which is
carpeted & isn't rented to a tenant yet. It CAN be rented by the nite for
small amts. There, one could create a series of evenings until owner rented it.
Office requires very little investment: a phone, a voice mail service,
stationery, fax & then you can start setting up teachers and workshops
immediately. It's very minor investment as far as MOST businesses go, but there
is three way profit if it works. The lecturer makes a living. The
on-site agent makes a fee, and clients like spas, Hotels, cruise lines make
their clients happy, and maybe gets some of the revenue. If everybody rolls up
his sleeves, such a business could make money for New Agers and expand the
breadth as well as number spiritual people in USA. This will enable teachers to
give their full time to the New Age, not having to work day jobs. As the
Metaphysical, Holistic sector is legitimized, political clout follows. When
Congress next wants to vote vitamins out there will be a huge, informed,
well-heeled popular movement to stop them.
As it
is always a good idea to find services that can be highly paid for by the well
off, another POSSIBLE business in every big city is the HOME CORPS. With
a little OM with wings in the middle of the H and E. Imagine this ad in
an upscale magazine and forgive the names I used, my L.A. pals. "Create an
efficiently run HOLISTIC HOUSEHOLD WITH THE HELP OF GENUINE, NEW AGE HEALTH GURUS!
OUR "HOME CORPS" EXPERTS spend a few hours in your home
with your STAFF and turn them INTO DIET, MASSAGE EXPERTS. ONE VISIT AND
YOUR COOK, MAIDS & GARDENERS WILL TRIPLE THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES.
YOUR SERVANTS will LEARN TECHNIQUES guaranteed TO MAKE YOUR LIFE A
TENSION-FREE, HEALTH-PROMOTING PARADISE.
We
will TEACH your COOK to make MEALS IDENTICAL to the EXPENSIVE SPAS OF EUROPE
WITH THE RECIPES YOGI BHAJAN GAVE TO THE REKNOWN, NEW AGE COOK AKAHSA
KAUR, CATERER TO Michael Jackson, Barbara Streisand and other SUPER
STARS. IMAGINE HAVING THE MIND-BLOWINGLY MAGICAL 'MOTHER OF THE UNIVERSE'
MASSAGE TAUGHT TO YOUR MEXICAN MAID BY INTERNATIONALLY
KNOWN HEALER, SEVA KAUR SO THAT YOU & YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS MAY SHED ALL
TENSIONS, ATTAIN FRESHNESS, VITALITY, BLISS, WHENEVER YOU WISH. Your gardener
will be taught how to make you an organic garden. NEW AGE NUTRITION EXPERT SAT
SIRI of THE HEALING COTTAGE WILL TURN YOUR STAFF INTO HEALTH
EXPERTS, YOUR HOME INTO A BLISS-PROMOTING SPA. NOT FOR ONE DAY BUT FOR
EVERYDAY. TRY THE HOME CORPS. WE WILL RAISE THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF YOUR SERVANTS SO YOU
CAN ENJOY THE EFFICIENT, ENERGIZING PALATIAL HOME ATMOSPHERE ENJOYED PREVIOUSLY
ONLY BY EMPERORS." So it's TEACHERS for rich people's staff not maids
for rent.
ADVERTISING- HOME MADE
advertising copy done by you on your PC or by pro typesetters and printers at
discount rate, can be used on flyers, posters and in magazine/news ads --in
many cities at once and it can be done with the same ad copy, or 'flyer
technology', (type-setting, logos, ad-art) which saves money. Also, dream of
having a cable, then local, then national t.v. show that can promote your
Bureau's existence and events. Meanwhile, do cheap publicity putting ads on all
the local, community bulletin boards. A NAM-U Speakers Bureau should consider
other new ways of advertising. A 3 minute video on Cable Guide across the USA
saying "would you like a gifted holistic healer to speak to your
church?" or NEW AGE SEMINAR Posters on phone poles that promise Utopia,
with text written in a zippy, peppy, hyperbolic way. Nothing quiet. Very
splashy and 'sure of itself.'like "NEW AGE LECTURE on MAGICAL Herbs, Diet
and Food-combining methods that Reverse aging," and phone number.
AMA
won't bust any of these holistic businesses as long as you don't promote herbs
on the danger list, or promise HEALING of specific diseases. The AMA won't let
holistics use the word 'HEAL' or 'cure' in reference to disease if the cure is
herbal, vitamin or holistic. But one works around that.
Also,
every holistic health seminar carries a Caveat or warning, 'only follow this
regimen if your doctor OK's it.' As for SUING NAM-U, what does the owner own?
ZIP. So call me about this. LA, where I live, has so many wild technologies.
Beside the teachers and students of 3HO, Yogi Bhajan's grou, in L.A. where I
am, there's the Natural Resources Directory (a yellow pages for the New Age).
Los Angeles has many directories with thousands of New Age healers in them, for
mind, body, spirit, Philosophers, lecturers. WHOLELIFE TIMES, WHOLE PERSON,
AWARENESS, PERSPECTIVES, FREE SPIRIT MAG etc.
Just
for a hit of New Age Energy, try a class in Kundalini at 3HO (Healthy Happy
Holy Organization) which is maybe in your town, or nearby and you don't even
know it. They're everywhere but your teachers don't have to be 3HO to be worth
agenting. L.A. would send its healers to every city. What is also probable is
that many of these gurus would eventually relocate in these cities. NAM U would
be carrying the SPORES of the New Age to the boon docks. And why stop at Jersey
City? Why not Sweetwater Tennessee, Berne Switzerland, Hamburg Germany? And why
not link all your agents, classes, speakers not only by an association but by
INTERNET? A class in Jersey City could be attended by students in Europe as it
is taught.
Imagine
these SEMINARS: "How to Write/research and sell Articles about Holistic
Healing" "How You Can Become a Holistic Healer and make $800,000 per
year (on this website, by the way! So take it!) Without going to college."
Popular 18-40 year old themes like "LoveAholics Anonymous" or
"Success in Love Seminar." Imagine those words on a BIG POSTER on a
phone pole with an easy to remember phone mail box number.
Another
idea, flyers slipped into every holistic magazines at every healthfood store,
or small wall racks at healthfood stores and metaphysical book stores, filled
with flyers as LEARNING ANNEX uses. Healthfood stores flourish if NAM-U
flourishes as our coalition educates consumers, creates more purchased HFS
products, MORE CLIENTS. So, Healthfood Stores will let a lucite rack be pinned
to their walls.
POTENTIAL
CLASSES:
I.
HEALING CAREERS. 'Training the Trainer' type classes. Career empowerment.
"How to do Shiatzu Massage and earn l00$ an hr." "ROLFING"
or "LEARNING PRIMAL SCREAM, DEEP TISSUE EMOTIONAL RELEASE WORK
MASSAGE".
II.
JOB PREPARATION/LICENSING - There would be classes that help students pass the
massage license test. Teach people how to make money outside of the 40 hr. work
week doing alienated labor for big corporations which is fading anyway in the
recession.
III.
MENTAL EMPOWERMENT CLASSES: "NEGOTIATING IN RELATIONSHIPS"
"NEGOTIATING IN BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS." "HOW TO THINK YOUR WAY
RICH." "Prosperity Consciousness" "How to Get the Most out
of Yourself". Groups that do EST/FORUM like work. Negotiation with
relationships. "RELATIONSHIP TECH" or "LOVE TECH" "How
to Win in Any Discussion."
IV.HOUSEWIFE
CLASSES; holistic New Age food preparation, exercise, yoga and
start COTTAGE INDUSTRIES. "HOW TO HAVE A BABY" and 'THE DO IT
YOURSELF CHIROPRACTOR" with 12 standard body straightener positions or
kriyas. "How to Make Money at Home with Your Stove." "How to
Massage your whole family."
V.
TWELVE-STEP WORK, ADDICTION AND DENIAL but done NOVEAU.. As in "LoveAholics Anonymous" to help women and men stop choosing toxic
relationships and instead choose men who'll make husbands/fathers. Or real
addictions: "How to Quit Caffeine" or "How to Quit Alcohol/
Cigarettes/ Chocolate." No, scratch that last! How to Get out of an
Addictive Relationship". "Dealing with toxic parents/family/
children." "How to Conquer Insommnia". 'HOW TO GET FREE OF
SLEEPING PILLS' " Denial in relationship" "STOP MAKING
destructive relationships". "Over-Eating problems." And my
favorite, "How to deal with a Suppressive Monster" also on this
website at http://home.earthlink.net/~astrology
which you can click on. It's near the top of index.
VI.
HEALING SPECIFIC MALADIES-VISION
IMPROVEMENT, The Bates Method. Usually the Bates Method used by Aldous Huxley.
"THROW AWAY YOUR GLASSES." or "Midwivery/At Home
Deliveries" Or, "The HOLISTIC BABY" " Holistic Weight
Loss" "HIV: GO POS TO NEG in ten weeks". "How to Cure
Cancer w.Herbs, vegetarianism". "Reversing Diabetes";
"Fatigue Syndrome." "How to Cure mental problems in kids."
VII, HOW TO RUN A CHARITY. Easy online, Free web domain, Raise cash giving parties. FUN. Feed African babies in starving villages. Here is the CONCEPT. POWERFUL NAME like VULTURE SANDWICH. Read it! Live link! So is FUNDING WITH FUN PARTIES!
EVENTUALLY
such a peripatetic group of teachers could grow into: a national charity giving
fund raising parties around country, a
New Age book Store, a Healthfood store, a Massage or Holistic Ctr, with a
mega-lucrative OUTCALL MASSAGE PHONE SERVICE. (Name it HOLISTIC ROLFING/
ACUPRESSURE so you don't get guys calling asking, 'do you have a busty blonde?'
Eventually you'll have a Mountain or Beach or Lake Spa and Farm, Rural Retreat
with Rent a Food Hall for weddings. You'll have a bulk Healing herb Mail Order
store, Fresh goat cheeses from your farm, RUN FREE EGGS, MAIL ORDER GURUS on
video tape, a CABLE T.V. HOLISTIC HOUR MAGAZINE, HOLISTIC CABLE CHANNEL, ON
LINE GURUS BY MODEM, a 1-900-HOLISTIC phone line, a community resource for employment,
like a job personnel bureau, a newsletter that would contain ADVERTISING for
mail order seminar tapes or Spa programs with an order sheet inside. This would
go out to a mailing list held in a CENTRAL DATA BANK. This data file would also
contain lists of all client organizations or private client/individuals, all
possible venues, all on site personnel or support techs, and of course the
names of the many talented teacher/lecturer/healers who would hopefully collect
& contribute all the data.
OTHER
IDEAS- Down the line, imagine your own
healthfood resort and rural retreat or urban clinic which could run farms 50
miles away to grow produce for your own restaurant. Imagine wonderful old age
homes for hippie OLDSTERS with goats and goat cheese manufacturing going on!
Apple cider presses! Range free EGGS, Organic tofu presses. Don't you just hate
urban old age homes? 7k a month doesn't make sense. Imagine a geriatric
community with a great restaurant, a Grocery Cooperative, a communal book
store/gallery/cafe bakery, making cheese, laying eggs, pressing tofu. I want to
go to THAT OLD AGE HOME! What a way to LIVE, not die!
Imagine
"CAFE NEW AGE " The SHAMBALA TEA ROOM
and MONASTERY which would also have a large room for seminars/ films/videos or
celebrations with many table/chairs so halls need not be rented for
celebrations. I can see the waiters now, yellow togas! Prayer beads so while
you're considering the pie or ice cream, they're doing bead mala rosaries, very
patiently.
PROFIT
& PERSONNEL AMALGAMATION IN THE FUTURE.
In olden days the big,industrialized cities had hot beds. Worker 1 came at
dawn, slept 8 hrs, worker 2 came at tea time, slept 8 and the last worker came
at midnight and slept 8. Same principle: It helps to make several salaries
under one roof, so where roofs are involved, let there be multiple businesses
as they attract one crowd which then is exposed to another game. Say people
seeking tea & pastries stay for the Lecture Bureau or classroom where they
learn NOT to eat pastries.
You
can make your NAM U center a model of how a food co-operative or cafe can spawn
this group of Consciousness-quickening businesses under one roof with a sharing
of costs. There's the NEW AGE SINGLES PARTY market. I've seen a LA SINGLES
party at a large cafe in Redondo, overlooking ocean at sunset, with a live jazz
combo. The venue and snacks were free as cafe got the bar tab and could afford
to be generous.
The
LA Singles founder, Jill, made $5,000 for that one party charging l0$-15$ a head.
Let NAM-U create NEW AGE SINGLES. Your Parties have holistic lecturers
featured, doing a 45 min. talk. MEMBERS get a lower price, l0$. Public pays 2$
more. Imagine 'Vegetarian Singles,' ---much needed as vegies don't want to meet
meat-eaters/ smokers, etc.
NEW AGE SUBJECTS: For a long time many students of New age methodologies
from Yoga, to Holism, have wanted to find ways to moonlite to the tune of MORE
PROFITS, a second biz, a second biz card, but are stuck in non-spiritual
businesses because we haven't found a way to make the spiritually rewarding one
pay off!
Having
a kind of LIVING ROOM GROUP, which to me, NAM-U is, will faciliate all the jerky kids in your
family becoming sophisticated, and all your STUDENTS BECOMING wealthy New Age
TEACHERS, even if they live in the sticks.
This
school will facilitate its participants, whether staff or teachers growing
emotionally, learning New Age disciplines and getting the benefit from them,
PLUS making some real cash. Seminars become lucrative when there is an 'agent'
who helps teachers get their ads/flyers made. Helping the teacher organize in
an easier and cheaper way occurs as one prints new flyers all the time. VOLUME.
ON
one level, the central facilitator or lecture agent is doing very little work
for a l0% or 15% fee, but the many gurus teaching and the volume of classes
will generate considerable money for the classroom or lecture BUREAU --- so
much so that it becomes a strong, self-sustaining entity.
The
office would be simple; one employee doing a 5 day week with a computer,
telephone and mail meter, in one's home which is already rent-covered. This
COULD be done out of your home or an employee's home. There are several
businesses to run: NAM-U, the Speaker's Bureau and Holistic Domestic Agency.
Ideally
NAM-U should be a non-profit, tax exempt educational foundation. It should
grant find. Fees paid to Bureau by students should be deductible on taxes as
the NAM-U Lecture Bureau. It's easy to create a tax exempt, non-profit
educational foundation. Any accountant or bookkeeper can do the paper work for
80$. A corporation costs another 80$in California right now. You register it
with the Secretary of State. Then you salary yourself as a corporative
employee. It could be that most of your students aren't in a tax bracket to
worry about deductions but it's a nice fillip when you are hustling students,
to say… 'your fees will be deductible for you.' Probably some pro-bono work is
required of your school if you go for this status. No problem. Go to local
prisons and teach a few classes. Done deal.
Any grant money that the school generates should be used for the pro-bonum empowerment or consciousness raising for prisons, reform schools and Parks & Recreation after school Programs for teens. But that's later down the line. For the moment, only ONE employee is required in Main office to track and interview teachers (gurus), to handle book work, administration, produce ads, art work, typsetting flyers and do accounting services. If an outside financier is used, he should get a share of profits. To attract one, write a prospectus. Out of every 3 people you give it to, one will invest.
A
friend of mine started teaching yoga in her living room, did so for years, very
little furniture there, plenty of space, folks brought their yoga towel. A rock
star lent her 150k to open in a big commercial space on the main boulevard of
West Hollywood. But she could have done it on 5k or so maybe. I opened my
store, Bazaar Folklorico on 10k of merchandise, 2k décor. This yoga space was
full for years. It’s famous, she wrote a book, had all the movie stars coming. GOLDEN BRIDGE. Recently she sold the whole thing for 13
million dollars. I hope she paid the rock star back.
So,
try this out by gentle, easy stages. Any business you love. Do it out of your
home. I'm not suggesting you create it today and run it all yourself. Make it
grow at a slow, organic rate, slow but sure growing as the numbers of people
attracted grow, but in your mind, always make it a group thing. In fact, send
an email copy of this very file to a few pals. Say, "Hey, why don't we
moonlight at this, see if we can get some big money one day doing this?
LEARNING ANNEX and LEARNING TREE in LA make millions a year. They're HUGE. It's
a dharmic business (meaning good for people.) It would be fun."
Then
slowly, get your group of friends together over cake and tea and discuss the
project maybe not for right now, but for SOON, to implement as you walk down
the years together. No hurry. When the elements jell, then you'll do it. If
they don't, you won't. But remember, there are gifts that such an enterprise gives.
A DELIGHTFUL and meaningful OLD AGE.
Eventually,
your central core of teachers will have a lot of surplus cash from this
enterprise and retire to a community farm together, with villas side by side
for each family. There they will create a wonderful county retreat where you'll
spend your old age bouncing your city grandchildren on the community KNEE, milking goats and keeping bees, and adding new talents and
new things you teach. People will come from faraway city for just a week-end
event there. People will rent your food hall to get married there and pay 5000$
for the catered wedding so build a big food hall and central kitchen.
"Build the field, they will come."
The great thing about this business is that you already have what could start it. A phone. A PC. A friend or two with knowledge or pretty merchandise or baking talents. You have that dream of huge income and world travel, the money earned in a work that sets your soul on fire so that you can quit the damn 9 to 5 that makes your soul doze. Go for it. Passion ensures you’ll make it work.
YOU
HAVE ALL the elements in your hands right now! You may have that cute
house zoned for Biz 3. Or does your AUNT MABEL? You may know a little about
something esoteric, yourself. Or maybe your aunt MABEL does. She knits, she
makes enchiladas, she grows organic spinach on her miracle compost. Your uncle
plasters, he can do faux wall finishes. Someone up the street does yoga.
Someone you know is a psychologist, can train lay listeners. Or make homemade
bread. A pal just sent me his recipe for bible
bread and he said it worked well. That’s a business which LA/ NY has nobody
else does. Go to my FOOD
INDEX and find that recipe. Bible bread is worth big bucks.
Make
a list right now of what resources you've got along these lines.
If
wealth, happiness and beauty count for anything, they could come from your
making this list and calling those people to your house for a little dinner
party soon.
P.S.
Include that dim witted teenager, those nephews and nieces as they're the ones
who will run this thing when you get too old. Plus they'll get a Life Education
out of the years you are building this business and may not be so dim witted
when they graduate from the SCHOOL OF YOU!
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