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Should Lightworkers Charge for Healing? Spiritual Ethics, Money & Modern Metaphysics · Eye Opener Society

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  Hey everyone, thank you again for tuning in to Eye Opener Society And thank
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  you for joining me on this Monday's episode And sadly missing is Lizzie,
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  She has two children at home that aren't feeling well So she has the right to
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  go and take care of them So she will not be joining us on this episode,
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  However, she's here with me in spirit and in heart, as always.
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  She's one of the greatest people in my life right now because she's been so
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  helpful in life and working with this show.
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  She earns the title of co-creator because I like using words because they set
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  intentions. That's why I dropped
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  podcast from, you know, my show and I changed it to an actual show.
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  And I don't like to have her as a co-host. She is co-creator of my vision here at Eye Opener Society.
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  So anyway, I wish she was here because I think this opens up a good discussion.
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  And who knows, we could probably always have her on at another date.
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  But I wanted to talk about something that I seen. There was this constant debate
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  going on, and I don't like the arguing behind it.
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  I try to achieve some sort of peace in everything, but spirit workers,
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  light workers, people that have the ability to communicate beyond.
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  Now, listen, that's all of us.
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  It's not limited to just certain people. We all have those abilities somewhere
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  within us. does not have to, you know, mean that we all are able to tune into it.
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  However, I'm just specifically mentioning the ones that do have these gifts
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  and are applying it in life.
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  There is this debate as to whether if they offer their services,
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  should we be paying them?
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  And it's almost a comical debate because we are...
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  Allowing our egos into this discussion all the time.
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  So let me lay it out. Let's say you have discovered your inner ability to heal someone.
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  And let's just say you can heal their anxiety, just as an example.
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  However it is you do it, you meet this person, and you're able to actually heal their anxiety.
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  Going by whatever methods it is that you use,
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  And you do this for friends, family Maybe a few people across your life And
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  then you realize spiritually inside of you You want to help many other people.
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  So you start basically a practice or a business Or whatever it is and you set
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  rates based upon, you know, what you feel is reasonable.
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  I do not know, and I'm trying to remain neutral on this,
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  why people find this to be so outrageous and start discriminating lightworkers
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  or healers and saying that they're not real because they're charging money.
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  This is the debate that's going on. So what really is the issue with this?
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  Why are people so upset when someone has to charge a fee for a service being provided?
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  And why would they say you're not a true light worker because of that?
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  Now, I do get some of the things.
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  Yes, money is money.
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  We're living right now in a 3D world, and that's unfortunately where we are stuck.
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  Of course, our souls are above that, and we can transcend well above the third
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  dimension and all, and we do that through our healing and our light work and whatever it is.
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  However, our physical bodies are here in this 3D world, and it's all encompassed
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  through capitalism and money and whatnot.
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  So it doesn't make sense to say you will not charge Can you do it for free?
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  Absolutely Do some people do it for free?
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  Absolutely But we really need to put things into perspective First of all,
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  it's really not about money It does, it boils down to trust or vulnerability Maybe power.
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  Because people are seeking healers and spirit workers Whenever they're hurting,
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  lost, grieving Or they're desperate for some sort of meaning So once money enters
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  this conversation The fear now enters with it You know, am I being taken advantage of? Is this real?
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  Or am I being sold hope?
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  And then that fear turns into anger So,
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  Here's the thing. Are there people out there to scam other people?
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  Absolutely. I'm not going to deny that. There are people, and that's in any
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  business that you go into.
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  I take auto mechanics all the time because I've been so closely associated with
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  that in my life. Are there shops that charge reasonable prices and are completely
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  honest with their diagnosis and do the job correctly?
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  Tons of them, absolutely tons of them Are there shops that are taking advantage
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  of people, charging way more than they should And, you know,
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  are not being honest with the work?
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  There is, buyer beware You are the consumer no matter what it is,
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  even in the metaphysical world.
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  So when it comes to this idea of pure spiritual work,
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  It's almost a mythic belief that true spiritual work Should be selfless,
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  sacrificial, unpaid And detached from all material needs And there are some
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  people that believe in that philosophy And they follow that philosophy,
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  There's differences on every level,
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  However, that ignores one uncomfortable truth,
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  Spiritual workers still live in the physical world We have rent, families,
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  nervous systems, bills It goes on and on So,
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  you know, we can't really expect someone to give endlessly Without receiving
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  anything back And here's the cold hard truth You could take some people that
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  are Whether they're a light worker or whatever I'm going to go down very easily
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  to tarot readings things.
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  People for years have been doing tarot readings, and they charge,
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  you know, to do a tarot reading.
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  What are you paying for? Well, you're paying for that practitioner's time and that effort.
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  It's not easy for a lot of people to just always give free readings. And guess what?
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  If you like somebody who does tarot readings, sometimes if you follow them online,
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  they will sit there and give free general readings.
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  And you could follow that all the time.
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  My practice, meditation, all right?
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  I'm going to go back and I'm going to, you know, follow this up with a little
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  something different, you know, outside the money.
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  But when I did the meditation coaching, it was my time.
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  It's nothing for me to write out or sit down and do a meditation session with
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  somebody. I could not charge a dime for that.
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  But when it involves time, time away from my real job, time away from possibilities
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  of making overtime, time away from my family, taking care of them,
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  where is, you know, what's going to fill that void?
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  So, this has become something I wanted to speak about because,
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  again, I don't think people are realizing something very crucial.
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  There's differences between charging versus exploiting.
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  We're not guaranteeing miracles. Are some people preying on fear?
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  Promising certainty when none exists? Well, yeah, again, this does happen.
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  And again, it boils down to buyer beware. You're the consumer.
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  You should know when you're being taken advantage of.
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  That's up to you. It's really not up to anybody else.
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  We shouldn't shut down the whole paid services or, you know,
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  just for the fact that you don't feel comfortable with somebody.
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  If you don't, you back out. You don't give them any money. But it boils down a lot to now.
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  Time, time happens to be currency now,
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  You know, they charge for their own jobs And we all expect fair wages So we
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  want to protect our personal time So energy work,
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  counseling, mediumship, whatever They're emotionally taxing My wife is an empath She can heal.
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  I know it. I've seen it. There's things she can do.
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  But the physical effects that, you know, take toll on her body,
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  that I don't think people realize.
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  And that taxing and that time should be somehow compensated for. It's not that.
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  She wouldn't do it for free. And often she does.
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  She's done many things for free.
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  But money is just an energy. It's an exchange of energy.
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  Can we...
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  Offer something else more than money? You know, should we offer a service for a service?
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  Absolutely. I see no reason for that. I see no reason for a sliding scale based upon people's income.
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  And I know many lightworkers who do that.
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  And again, they also, there's always a free side to them and then a paid side to them.
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  It all depends on how much time and effort is going to go into whatever the service is, all right?
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  So there is a big difference between generosity, accessibility,
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  and sustainability, all right?
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  Because, yeah, healers sometimes do offer free content.
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  Find those people. It's out there.
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  They volunteer, and sometimes they hold space in informal ways,
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  all right? But free work cannot be the only work or it's going to collapse under its own weight.
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  So going back to my meditation, it's the same thing. If I was doing meditation
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  practices, yeah, I could be generous to anybody. I could give free and I often did.
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  Even today, now with my practices that I do, I've been working with many people
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  for free. Just because right now I don't have an energetic exchange for money.
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  I have a full-time job that's providing that.
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  So now here is where it gets different.
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  Many people started bringing up Jesus Christ. And that's wonderful.
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  And they were saying, well, he never charged for his miracles. And.
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  If we go back to those days, I don't think Jesus really had to worry about paying
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  rent, paying taxes, paying for a car, paying for insurance, paying for insurance on his miracles.
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  He didn't have to worry about people suing him because a miracle didn't work out to their favor.
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  These are realistic things that have taken place through all these ages to the current time.
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  Many practitioners, sadly, they open up a shop to welcome people in for their services,
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  Well, how are they going to keep
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  that roof above their head if they're not charging for these services?
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  And then people bring up churches. Well, churches are always looking for donations.
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  There's always a donation thing going around all the time, especially in the Catholic church.
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  If you love going to church and you love praying and you love the sermons,
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  what happens when you go one day and the church has closed its doors because
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  there was zero money involved and they couldn't keep things open?
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  This is exactly what happens in real life right now We cannot just expect handouts all the time,
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  Absolutely If someone came to me really needing a service And like I said, I'm doing it now for free,
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  Come to me and I will talk to you I can help you But again, if someone came to me,
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  Whom I know is working and is making okay money and all, and they're expecting
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  so much from me, large sessions that take up more than an hour of my time, daily sessions.
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  If I decided to charge for that, I don't think I'm in the wrong.
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  Again, it's just for my time. That's all it is.
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  So, I want to bring up something else too, because Because again,
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  yes, Jesus Christ didn't have
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  all of these things that are in the modern world that cost money. So...
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  The thing I've always been against is these certifications, too.
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  It's one thing if you are an actual physician, doctor, you know,
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  an attorney or something.
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  You need schooling and you need something to prove it.
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  Now, here's the thing I'm going to say, and I haven't announced this yet,
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  but I'm in school right now for metaphysics.
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  I plan on starting a church myself.
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  So i wanted to have that schooling
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  that background because it's demanded now i've been
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  told before too when it comes to meditation alone somebody wants a certification
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  behind you some you know fancy you know thing behind you says you're certified
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  to do this but the thing is it comes naturally just like a healer again nobody
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  asked jesus christ for a certification.
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  But right now, people want that. So now I go to school and I am training and
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  it costs money to get that certification.
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  Those same people that wanted the certification, I can't see them now coming
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  to me and saying, well, why are you charging?
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  Well, because you are expecting me to have something educational-wise in the
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  form of a piece of paper that's going to cost me money.
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  I need to make up for that loss.
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  It's just a sad yin and the yang. There's always going to be,
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  a force against nature. There's going to be people that don't mind paying and
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  there's people going to mind paying.
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  Then there's people that want to pay, but can't pay.
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  Pay attention to those people. Those are the ones that probably deserve a little
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  bit more leniency, a little bit more free services.
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  But again, not everybody should be expecting that. That's where I have a real problem with.
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  So again, yeah, when it comes to these certifications, when it comes to classes,
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  when it comes to Jesus Christ, there is no certifications.
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  There is no liability insurance, proof of training, a degree.
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  Jesus didn't need any of that. It didn't exist.
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  Everybody knew he had a gift of healing, and people today have that gift of
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  healing or intuition or whatever it may be,
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  if they choose to use that practice to help people, you should not be in a position
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  to tell them that they're wrong for charging for it.
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  They wouldn't be able to sustain their own life doing only that practice without
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  having some sort of exchange Change of something monetary.
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  Again, some work for bartering and trading of services, but not many,
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  because many of them are trying to live themselves.
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  So, my dear audience, I do not charge.
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  And if I do, again, it's going to depend on what it is you need from me.
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  I work with meditation. I work with grounding.
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  People come to me with all sorts of problems. They just need someone to listen to them.
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  What I have in me and what I'm learning, and it's very late in my life,
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  so things gradually have to be taught, self-taught from me.
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  I'm continuing my education now. I'm getting a certificate or a degree that
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  I'm going to be able to put up on my wall.
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  Whether or not I decide to charge people for that, well, that's going to be up to me.
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  And I'm going to be fair, non-biased, and I might have a hybrid system where
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  I'll do some things for free and I'll do some things where I charge.
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  And once I get my church established, everything's going to be done by donation.
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  And that's usually what I like to do is donation-wise.
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  You pay me what you feel you want to pay me,
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  whether that be an actual physical currency or if that's in the form of a service
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  that you could give me. I'm fine with that.
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  But I feel for all of the other practitioners out there that are trying to struggle and make a living.
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  And I just want to make this point very clear. Most of us are trying to get
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  away from these nine to five jobs.
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  And that's one thing we keep pushing to people saying,
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  Don't waste your life Doing something that you're going to That's going to Steal your,
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  You know Your fun out of life For all these years Waiting until you're way up
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  there in age To retire You know You've heard that story before We push you to explore something new.
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  To live by. And if you happen to reach inside of yourself and you happen to
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  have an ability that you can share with others,
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  and you choose to use that as momentum to get away from the matrix and start
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  doing things on your own, and you're charging for it, I feel there's no issue with that.
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  I respect everyone's opinion. I really do. And if you feel otherwise,
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  listen, I'm going to explain this.
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  Since we all have these gifts within us and you do not feel like paying for
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  these services, there's free things all over.
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  Just like meditation. You don't have to pay anybody to do meditation.
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  There's free stuff on YouTube and all these other social medias that you can
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  listen to. So is it personalized? Is it directed towards you?
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  No, it's not. Does it work? Absolutely. Not to the extent that you would think it should work.
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  But you have those options.
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  And if not, and you really don't want to pay for anything, and you really need
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  healing, learn on your own. I will stress this again.
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  We all, every single one of us, have these capabilities to heal ourselves and others.
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  We all have some sort of intuition. we all have some sort of ESP, whatever it may be.
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  We have to learn it ourselves.
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  And if you don't want to pay somebody to teach you to do it, then teach yourself.
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  Because here's the real true statement, the most truest statement.
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  No matter who you pay to heal, the healing actually comes from you.
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  The practitioner is a tool that's going to spread that healing energy.
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  But if you do not believe that that worked, it will fail.
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  So again, you are the true person responsible for everything on your own,
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  whether you want to pay for it or not.
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  You are still responsible 100% for everything about you, including healing and
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  including finding what you can do.
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  And then you decide whether you want to charge people or not.
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  I love everybody. I thank you for tuning in.
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  This is something I just wanted to share because, again, we all need to come together in some way.
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  And I pass no judgment on those of you who feel that you don't want to pay anything.
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  I still would like to work with you, even if it's for free.
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  I don't judge you for your opinions And we shouldn't be judging others Because
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  they decided to make a choice As to how they want to live out their lives Their professions,
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  And or how to give their power to you,
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  My name is Gary Dean This is Eye Opener Society Thank you for tuning in And
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  I hope to see everybody really soon I thank you very much.