Nobody listens.... That's why I don't write anymore blogs than I do. I "feel" all kinds of truths and enlightenments and encouragements to share FREELY with any and every body!!! ... that will listen, that is.
Nobody wants to hear. Its too hard. Too difficult. Too impossible.
So what everybody's saying without saying it is - It's too late.
Give up.
There's no point.
It's over.
Are there those who would gladly embrace the journey of enlightenment if someone were there to give a little guidance, a little nudge in the right direction....? If someone would share their wisdom and experience for them to glean from...?
I say yes, yes there are. I am one of those who would pursue the company of greater self expansion, but alas...... I CAN'T FUCKING AFFORD IT!
Which may lead an intelligent mind to the conclusion that "there's something wrong with them" because "they don't have any money" with which to buy "the fellowship of the enlightened"....
The argument, hands down, from The Enlightened is that they have to pay their way in this world just like everybody else, so they
must charge fees for all their services, as well as all their books, videos, cds, and web membership portals.
If I were serious about my journey of enlightenment, I would have money. If I don't have money, its my doing and no one else's.
Wow.
This is the message of "crumbs" I get as a "dog" sitting under the masters' tables. Bits and pieces of video or audio from meetings and gatherings recorded "illegally" by those who
could pay to get in, and posted on the internet. Snippets and excerpts from books - just enough to make you feel like you
have to buy it because it seems to be the answer you've been digging for!
I feel that this is BULLSHIT.
I know about evolution. I know that not everybody is - for lack of a simpler term -
on the same level... But I am not stupid. I know some people who absorb and learn and grow and genuinely appreciate their progress, having
never even realized that they indeed began to be spiritually nourished by someone near them.
There are those of us who are "called" to be teachers, way-showers, light-bearers.... Those who have an obvious impact on the people around them, those who go unnoticed and most definitely UNPAID for the gifts they have.
I am not stupid. I understand this world's need for money. I gladly accept it whenever offered!
(OK!!) But to watch people starve........ Just because they can't pay me.... To watch "my brother" and "my sister" suffer and struggle when I have exactly what they need inside of me.... but they can't pay me for it..... To withhold a blessing because someone can't pay you is wrong.
How enlightened are you to hold the truth hostage!? Only to release your "gift" for the right price...
Here is a list of some of the fees that this generation of Enlightened Ones Charge:
$195 for a
single workshop.
This one - not published, must call or email for rates.
Journey Expo - $80
single workshop.
I Can Do It! - Speakers include: Gregg Braden, Wayne Dyer, Doreen Virtue, Bruce Lipton - $175.
Online - $49 workshops.
$250 - personal reading.
One week retreat-like package $2,100.
$101 workshop (in Europe).
$497 private session.
$108 private session.
$80.
$280.
$75.
(private sessions are usually an hour or so)
Now.... I removed the names because that's not what this is about.
And having made this list, I looked up
the very people I admire and listen to!
I don't hate them, I hear great truths and encouragements from them!
But in my heart of hearts, in my gut, I do not feel ok with myself, or them, charging for what they do.
The "Business Model" I am leaning toward is like this: If you have money then pay me - here's the going rate for what I do. But if you don't have money, here it is for free!! Because yes, this world demands money from me just like everyone else. I am slowly working toward self-sufficiency so that
everything can be free. Until then, I take what is offered. And ya know what? Even with the "free" offer, most people always pay me...! And the rest don't even realize that my more famous or more successful contemporaries are charging sometimes hundreds for what I just gave them in the course of conversation... Free...
Another thing about many of the "awareness", "consciousness", "enlightenment" teachers is this.... They preach freedom from attachments and yet attach a price tag to everything. If they were so free of attachments, wouldn't they know that people would give them money anyway??
Most of them refer to the likes of Jesus and Buddha... I don't think I've ever heard stories of these guys charging anything. They had no technology and yet somehow, their message not only survived for thousands of years but reached the entire world!!
How can you put a price tag on truth and withhold it from those who can't pay for it..... ?
Not everyone with no money is a loser. "No money" is the way of the future.
You can have that little "prophesy" for free.....
John 2:13-17
13And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;16And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.17And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
