Anyone offering valuable services ought to be compensated for their time and effort. Spiritual advisors, healers, and channelers are no exception. It shouldn’t matter if the service being offered is more of a physical or spiritual substance.
On the other hand, there are also activities and relationships in the spiritual arena that should never involve a transaction of money. An example is the teacher to the student. There’s a fine line in spiritual work between what one may accept payment for and what should never be sold as a commodity.
It’s difficult to broach this topic of money in the spiritual community because it ruffles feathers. Spiritual workers know that they deserve to make a living, and yet truth seekers are skeptical of paying for something that seems mostly invisible to the eye. So, what follows is an explanation of what services ought to be paid for and, alternatively, what should never involve an exchange of money. I hope the reader will find this to be a succinct and satisfactory answer on the topic.
Which spiritual services deserve to be paid?
Let’s first talk about which kinds of services it is acceptable to exchange money for whether you are spiritual or not. Doctors, lawyers, and delivery people all get paid for their efforts on the physical plane. Although they are healers, advisors, and messengers of purely material processes and systems, the services they offer are no less valuable than those who provide them using spiritual means.
Energetic healers deserve to be able to make a living if they are producing results. Spiritual advisors such as psychics should be able to charge ample money for their advice provided that it is usually good advice. Channelers and mediums offer invaluable communication between this realm and the next, and ought to be able to make a living by performing it.
Useful services deserve compensation.
Did the healer make your problem go away? Did the psychic make a difference in your life? Did the medium give you the information that you were seeking? If so, the efforts of these service providers deserve ample compensation. It is no different than hiring a doctor, lawyer, or messenger.
Did you get results similar to those you’d pay for if they came from more mainstream professions? Then, these services should be paid.
In modern society, we know that we should pay for more physical-level professional services without question because these people with more mundane jobs are deserving of a living — even when they make mistakes. For instance, if the doctor doesn’t heal you, you would still usually not think twice about paying for their time and effort. The same goes for lawyers, who will charge you money just to consult with you about your problem even if they have not yet tried to solve it. Our society respects these professions by allowing them to make a huge amount of money even when they aren’t actually helping us.
So, why aren’t we affording psychic healers and advisors the same compensation for their time and efforts, especially if they give us results that surpass those of doctors and lawyers in usefulness? We should reframe the way we approach spiritual professions.
What kinds of things should never cost money?
There are many people who would argue that spiritual services should never cost anything. The general argument is that the development of the soul is beyond material wealth. Anyone seeking this soul growth should not be deterred from it because of money. This line of reasoning is not wrong.
When a true seeker finds a teacher, their relationship should not be one of financial exchange.
On the other hand, human beings deserve to survive and thrive if they work hard to help other souls on their paths. Incarnated souls with a strong connection to the non-physical world must still exist on the physical plane, embracing survival needs, and therefore adhere to some of the rules and systems here. What I am trying to say is that spiritual light workers still need to pay their bills. And they should never feel ashamed of trying to do so.
A spiritual teacher shouldn’t be living in poverty. Yet, they will also know when to value a dedicated student and when it is inappropriate to ask for money. However, voluntary donations are still appropriate.
When you find someone who has valuable information and wisdom to pass on to you, and who has the ability to change your life, you should feel no hesitation in making a monetary offering to them, even if they aren’t asking for one. However, a real teacher-student relationship should not be based on money.
The teacher-student relationship is mutually valuable.
When you find a teacher, the relationship may begin with a monetary transaction. Perhaps you found them because of a service they offered that you valued highly, but you then crossed the line into their inner circle along the way. It can evolve into something more.
It’s a delicate situation. A true balance must be struck. Perhaps you will find your guru because they offer spiritual courses or other services. But as time goes on, you may find yourself in a position of dedicated tutelage by this person. A true master will know when it’s time to stop asking for money. When a true student of the path is found, the expectations change.
A true master values the student as much as the student values them, and will know when to stop expecting a monetary exchange. It becomes an energy exchange.
When it’s a service, a payment is natural. If you’re taking courses or participating in retreats that offer a valuable and consumable result, a transaction of money should be expected. But when the relationship has evolved to a new level, things start to shift.
What kind of relationship replaces payment of services?
As students become committed to the path of self-realization and development, a true master will no longer expect payment. They expect something far more valuable — the collective evolution of humanity.
A dedicated student who sets aside their ego for the betterment of the collective is more important than money and sustenance on the physical plane. The teacher knows that the student can assist in their work of raising the consciousness of others, which is very difficult to do alone. The true pupil can develop into a very wise master themselves one day, and this is what the master exists for.
So, be wary of any teacher who continually asks for money when you’ve reached a level of total dedication to your consciousness growth. Their organization may run on donations. Or, they may finance it through the kind of valuable services I mentioned above, offered to the public. But for the inner circle of students, the value is already given. The teacher needs their students just as much as the student needs the teacher. It is a relationship of perfect reciprocation.
The relationship of master to student transcends the need for financial transactions.
Without true seekers to teach, the master is nothing. To ask for monetary compensation would be misaligned. The student may still choose to use their wealth to support the teacher’s efforts and lifestyle. This is encouraged and aligned. It is an act of selfless gratitude and a recognition of the value of the tutelage — if the student has the means. But the master should never ask for such things.
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