This video does not mean to discourage philanthropy or generosity. It is designed to help people in the spiritual and healing field to align with receiving money for their trade. It is designed to discourage people in these fields from confusing philanthropy and generosity with self sacrifice.
The idea that spirituality and money can’t co exist and that there is something ethically wrong with turning spirituality into a business is a sacred idea to many of us. We take it as so much of a truth; that we are unwilling to question it fully. In actuality, assigning value to your offering on a spiritual level is no different than assigning a value to an item that is totally unrelated to spirituality because the item is no less spiritual than your spiritual work is. Physical, material things are not separate from source energy. They are not separate from spirit. They are extensions of spirit. What does this mean? Money too is an extension of spirit; so it is a misunderstanding to say that money and spirituality is a contradiction.
Most of us who are dedicated to spirituality pour our own mind, heart soul, money and time into spiritual practice. We dedicate our lives to it in the same way that any other professional pours their existence into their trade. And so the question to ask yourself is: Do you value your dedication and your skills? Do you think highly enough of yourself or what you have to offer (your expertise) that it is conceivable that what you know could benefit and therefore be valuable to someone else? Also, there is also a little known fact… if you offer things for free, people doubt the value of whatever it is that you are offering. Charging money for things actually psychologically causes people to value it and take it seriously.
The most important thing is that we must stay in alignment with out own sense of integrity. We cannot draw absolutes about what is or isn’t right, what is or isn’t in alignment because right and wrong are human concepts that do not exist from source’s perspective. And, our alignment is always based on our perspectives and where we currently are vibrationally, and that is always different from person to person.
An important question to ask yourself is: Do you want to dedicate your life to spiritual practice and to providing others with the fruits of that dedication? Or do you want to work at a job that you do not feel passion for, just because you have been told and you have been telling yourself that it is more ethical? Is it really more ethical to make money doing something you don’t actually want to do like working and MacDonald’s than it is to involve money in your spiritual practice?
The bottom line is: You should be doing the job that you would be doing
- If you never got paid a cent for it and
- If you were so wealthy that you didn’t need to get paid for it.
But there is nothing wrong with earning an income to support your day-to-day life and the lives of those who depend on you while doing that thing that you love the most.
Receiving money for what you love to do is just a bonus. A bonus, which in today’s society is not just beneficial, it is necessary.
i was going to just reply to Livewithwonder and charklas response but i think i got something else to say about money as a whole and how i think we need a set number of some form…. im 20 and my idea of money has been warped since i was a kid my father dose old school joinery and wood work… he struggles coz people dont understand the amount of work that goes into things, and the scarcity of his skill level in the area…. now i live in Australia a place where u can get payed alot. for my age i should be on about 20 and hour. i am on 15 cash in hand with a single shift of about 4-5 hours. i also recive the doll of 190 every 2 weeks. now this mite seem good but all my other mates are on 500+.
ok now i am starting to build a crystal business, i do lapidery work, the first thing i notice is how cheap cut stones are in this country take a sphere for example. to phsicly create this you must cut a perfect cube. this is alot of work in its self. then cut the corners off then repeate will you have a roundish object then keep going then polish. now this prossess will take over 4 hours even for a palm sized egg. now lets say you are quite skilled and it take you 4 hours and u want 35 an hour. (time electricity grinding plates saw blade polishing paste plus all your equipment u already have. then u need a rock that u can create this from lets say quatz u are gonna need a large piece of quatz with no big fractures. this is gonna cost a bit, then there is your time selling that item. you see what i mean. this is alot of work so a crystal store can sell a palm sized crystal ball for 50 60 or even 100+
with that said im sure u can see my problem, you walk into any crystal store and ask them if they know of there local lapidery club and if they get any stuff from them (if u get a yes you are in a very rear conscious minded store) now most of u im sure love crystal and povety makes u heart sore. now most of all your tumbled and cut and even semi polished stones have spent alot of time in huge wear houses in Thailand or India where 1000′s of people spend there entire life enslaved cutting these stones for next to nothing sourced from raped lands and broken communities
now think of all the stones u see in your “Local Gem Store” and all the disharmonious NRG they have been around i dont care how good you are at cleaning a rock. if it has spend time in the hand’s of someone carving it into a shape that has been having some bad thorts u will not remove this they have focused more in the shape and feel of this crystal than u have combined with the mechanical buzzing for hours and hours then being left in a bucket in that room for god knows how long “you Aint gonna cleanse that unless u wanna put it back in the ground a a few years”
just think about this for a second if u buy crystals.
sorry for sounding a bit disheartning but this really REALLY needs to be brout into the NEW AGE light
now i have gone on a bit of a rant but this is (i feel) relevent
so in my stall i just want raw stones from locations that i know of or localy found stuff, or raw stuff i cut my self only in the clearest of head space’s
ok bring this all together they are stones of the earth and they SHOULD BE FREE. BUT since the dawn of culture there had been trade items i think the best known is gold, many stones where used as well known as precious and semi precious stones there value depended if the availability of the material and how good u where and scamming, you go traveling and everyone barters its just owe VERY YOUNG westen civilisation that finds bartering silly. people never wanna pay full price and everyone one wants a discount, everyone also want something for what they have done and if they can get more they will this is human nature not greed, (being stranded on an island with mates and eating more than your amount this is greed)
now our money system we use is FUCKED like FUCKING FUCKED it is so far from a true representation of money. its a digital number that is different in every country coz the west felt they where better a while ago and now china and other places and comming back with more money
what i find really funny is that even though im on the doll and have spend the past 5 years buying almost thing but party tickets drugs crystals and travel things i am richer that almost everyone living in these rich estates, they mite have jobs but only to support there lones life style ect. they cannot stop working (like my dad) or the bank gets them.
ok now to living without ANY money EVER(buy money here i mean like paper stuff) unless u are born into a family that lives in the bush or has dose done waht im about to say is impossible, now my younger brother of 18 in his word FUCKING HATES THIS WORLD…like just the people on it he is very closed minded but more open minded than almost anyone i know.
he gose to and from the family home to a permacultre farm where he is the most active worker trasforming some grass into a working food forrest. he was on the doll for a while he is off it now (we want him back on so he can pay for FULE) he has spenbd almost all his time and moneyin the last year and a bit researching and design his own working food Forrest so he can eat all the food he wants and NO he aint no vegeterian he finds this a stupid consept as he lives and works with them and can see that they have no where near the amount of energy or health that he dose. his garden is the perfect trapping and hunting ground. this is a connection to food almost noone can boste. now he has no friends and he chooses this life and in his eyes im almost just as bad as the rest of the world coz i still rely of the system and super market witch in tearn suports so much evil….
now i have written alot so to sum up if we are talking about spiritual advancement we are all very behind as we have not even understood one of the first impotent topics that is cause and effect. u buying a cut stone cheaply from unknown scorses can be supporing a ridiculos amount of povety and evil and also even down to your food. my sister wont eat any food me or my brother kill. i find this FUCKING STUPID as she eats so much meat that she had no connection too. so who is more spiritual here? if u think u are think again look at what u buy where u buy it where it comes from and how can u do better, plant your own food and raise your own meat the act of taking a life can be an intense spiritual experiance all of its own and the tatse is bloody orgasmic.
think thats all i have to say about this sorry for language only used it in moments of passion also i cannot spell
love and light to all
also Knowledge should be free only psysical items should have a price on them if u are talking about something and teaching it you should love it and the labor of talking about something u love, you should not get payed for this unless its scientific research or school teachers
this really interested me. You’ve seriously convinced me. I’ve thought about crystals before and thought “these tumbled stones can’t be as potent as when they’re in their pure forms”. Sometimes they even feel silly, like toys in the age of some New Age child. Where should I get my stones from then? Do you sell them online?
later in the future i will sell online but my advice would be 1 find a lapidary club, seach online for fossicking area’s, dig in areas that feel right, take that walk u have been putting off and keep you eye of the rock formations.
in my experiance just keep your eyes on the ground and call the crystals and they will come
You say it’s okay to charge money for spiritual knowledge because spirit makes up the physical. But you only know that because the spirit blessed you with that knowledge for free. And if the ultimate goal of spirituality is oneness then you cannot truly be the one unless you do as it does. Also, if you are seeking money that shows there is desire left in you. To achieve oneness it is okay to have one desire to attach yourself to the world, the big belly Buddhas used food. But desiring money inherently means you’re desiring something else as well, probably multiple things, because you’re gonna spend that money on various things. So, in my view, selling spiritual knowledge is counterproductive towards achieving oneness.
I have often reflected on the monetary system and its measure of value. Because of its nature, money carries a low frequency and is a separation between what sustains us and our actions. The exchange of our service for a medium such as money disrupts our relationship with our humanity.
Now, with that said, it becomes the observers responsibility to heal the relationship with money in order to facilitate a working relationship within this reality. It simply means that the conscious intent or the impetus of ones motivations center on the outcome and not the medium that gets you there.
Often when receiving a spiritual or natural practice, the importance of the healing is reflected in the patients value system. It is the internal dialog that will do the real healing in the end. Often, because of the relationship with money is so strong, a person will not feel that there is potency in a method of healing unless it is represented by their understanding of value.
Money is not a necessity. It as an idea from which society has given it power. People believe it to be a necessity because they fear living without it. Everything the people know involves the use of money, to live without it is to trod the field of unknown circumstances. All systems of thought are the result of mind, not spirit. I respect your viewpoint, but it will not end greed, it will not end poverty, it is not the way. When you put a price on a thing, you bow to the dollar. Despite however small the fee, the fee always comes first, and you end up showing the world that money is needed, and the message is secondary.
Well, I guess I can’t entirely disagree with you. It’s like the old Mexican standoff you see in Westerns where everyone has a gun pointed at each other. Nobody wants to really pull the trigger, but nobody wants to get shot either. There’s this tension there. Everyone there knows that the best thing is if everyone put down the guns and walked away, but who is going to be the first to put it away, and what’s to keep that guy from getting shot?
I think it’s the same thing with money. Sure, you’re absolutely right, there is a better way, but who is going to take it? The only way that better way could possibly happen is if everyone decided at the same time, or at least a critical mass of people, to stop using money. Without that group, you stop using money, you starve. At least, that’s how it is with me and my family. I don’t own a farm. I don’t own a garden. I have no place with which to grow food. So, I get my food at the supermarket, and the supermarket doesn’t accept IOUs.
I really don’t desire to get political here, but communism has been tried in the past, and really the idea for the system is wonderful. The only problem is that people found a way to corrupt it. For a system without money to work, everyone has to be both on board and free of ulterior motivations. Call me a realist, but I know enough people to have my doubts on that coming to pass any time soon. That said, for the sake of society, I hope you’re right and I’m wrong.
Money is a necessity. Without it , we cannot survive. I sure would like to survive and so would most spiritual leaders. That’s not to say that money doesn’t hold the potential to corrupt us. There are plenty of people out there that could use help and just can’t afford it. In fact, those people arguably need spiritual help the most. When a business shifts their focus to making money 100% it becomes unsustainable because people usually see through that. Even the geediest businesses have to give back or else they lose business. That’s why McDonalds had the Ronald McDonald Foundation. But money is also why McDonald’s has the most artificial tasting food on the planet. It’s also why Starbucks stopped caring if they burn your espresso shots or not about three years ago.
Ultimately its a matter of keeping balanced. Take what you need, but no more.
The monetary system is not a necessity, it is an unnatural system of value that has been utilized by a low frequency consciousness to facilitate a controlled human condition.
I respect your opinion Teal, but I humbly disagree. Spirituality in regards to “giving and receiving” has NOTHING to do with the monetary system aka Money, coins, notes of ‘power’. An Individual as a healer does not “receive” the true reward from the Godhead/ Universe when charging money for healing. That, is the point.
Not to say that it is wrong to charge for healing sessions, an individual soul has their own path and can do whatever they choose along their pathway and develop slowly or quickly, or resonate on a high or low frequency, it is really up to them.
However, when it comes to the law of giving and receiving, ONE can ONLY provide the gift of giving. One can never expect something in return or the act of giving is tainted and no longer divine- by freely giving and not expecting anything in return, the Universe receives love and in-turn gives back to individual that acted in pure intent.
Again, charging for healing is not wrong, One can do what makes them happy or at least makes them think they are happy, but the act of charging money for healing is spiritually primitive and is not plausible on a higher state of consciousness.
Why charge money, or paper notes if you will of a corrupt and disease ridden system.. when one could share their beautiful gift with the All? As we all know, healing develops the One-Soul via the sacred law of giving and receiving; Now, would you really like to remove the development of the soul for some measly, third dimentional coins and pieces of green paper? Food for Thought.
Namaste,
Maximillian
How one associates with the monetary system depends on their spiritual condition. Once the individual recognizes the the roll of money and appropriates the proper value to its function, it will become easier to discern when we are operating from a low frequency and when our intentions are directed towards a higher vibration. This will determine the nature of any exchange, weather with money or not.
Money is not the issue, it is the value that we give it that determines its roll in our lives. The exchange of money is as clean as our intention.
Great video ~ very much enjoyed
I understand why anybody would put a price on teaching spirituality and life development skills. Their skills are being offered for an exchange just like any other business. As the modern spiritual community continues to grows the aspect of spirituality becomes less of an idea and more of a way of life like food and water, its a part of us. Who wants to pay for food and water?
Should something that is a part of us like food, water and our spiritual conscious need to be payed for? I do not think there is a right or wrong answer to this. If we do not want to pay for food within the connected communities we have (spirit science for example), we will make gardens and feed each other sharing our resources with one another. If we do not want to pay for a product that a business is marketing, we gather the resources and minds we have and create our own and share it. If we do not want to pay for a spiritual course, we come here and other great open sites to share and absorb the perception of our communities.
Paying for ones own ideas and methods of spirituality is just like paying for food, we do not have to do it but we choose to on our own whim.
I would pay for a spiritual course once in a blue moon the same I would buy an expensive dinner at a restaurant. But primarily and with passion I choose to take the resources I have within the communities we create and learn/ experience through each other as if we were living in the same village, feeding and helping our community without payment but because we are similar minded like family.
~ Hymne
What an insightful and helpful video, Teal! Despite my mature years I had recently been struggling with this issue and debating whether I would be wrong to start charging for spiritual coaching… an activity that in the past I had carried out freely, while pursuing a Civil Service career, but from which (as a retired person) I now wanted to derive some income to supplement my pension. Your clear and well-reasoned views on this have confirmed my decision to make the basic service free, but to charge consultancy fees for more detailed work. Thank you for this, and for the ongoing ‘catalytic’ work that you are doing!
good video, you tackled a hard issues with good practical answers.
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