CosmicWise

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Self-Value

Comment: Sorry but I can't help but feel there's something just a little morally wrong with the nature of your work. I mean, you charge people for helping them--isn't that like selling spirituality to others?

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Response: I sell my services as a Counselor of Divinity; this is my background and also what comes naturally to me. If I were to give away my services for free, I would then also have to make time to work elsewhere in order to earn the money I need to eat and house myself. There are not enough hours in a day to do both. Either I work elsewhere or I charge for my time as a Counselor of Spirituality. We simply cannot have it both ways.

It is my belief that people need what I offer far more than they are willing to admit to themselves. It is true that if what I offered were free, many more people would come to see me more regularly. Some out of sheer curiosity, while others for the gains & benefits they already know they would get. Yet, because I must charge for my services, those who would come regularly often restrict themselves to coming only when they are the end of their ropes and have become desperate enough to pay to have their pain alleviated.

The sad truth is that when people don't truly value a thing, they see no reason to pay for it. They will make all kinds of excuses and justifications for why they should not have to do so. And so, there are those, like yourself, who question the ethicalness of charging people for the dispensation of what they believe ought to be free for all, at all times. In this case, spiritual help. Yet, is not my time, my skill, and my effort as worthy as anyone elses? The fact remains that ALL of us must make a living to survive day to day and to judge some of us as morally wrong for charging for our time and effort is a completely ill-considered judgment.

We live in a world that charges us for eating and housing, and of all things, should these not be free to all, and yet they are not. If there is anything morally wrong in this world it would be this, but the fact remains that because personal evolution and spirituality are not as yet areas of life that the average person values enough to pay the price for, much less top price, as they would for the many vanity-related services available out there today (ie. hairdressing & name brand clothing) they question the ethics of the spiritually oriented services without considering all the ramifications of their opinion.

Demitra M.N.