The Price of Spirit.

What does it mean to be a healer? This is a question I have been asking myself ever since I found an interest in the healing arts, as well as the awakening of consciousness. After two years of deep transformation, I find myself wondering how I can share this beautiful wisdom and love with other people, that others might be able to experience the similar awakenings.

In western society we now find a variety of healing arts popping up. They seem to come and go as quickly as fashion trends. Many of them are supposedly connected to ancient traditions which have been adopted to fit the western mind (Reiki, Yoga, Shamanic Practices,etc), while others are creations that have been birthed out of the western mind itself, such as quantum healing and a wealth of new age practices.

There is so now much "Fluff" around the idea of being a healer, people have come up with all sorts of elaborate systems that are supposed to help one heal or become more enlightened... I've seen interdimensional travel classes selling for $500 a session, and "Certified Shamans" who spent thousands of dollars on week long retreats and online classes. We've taken something that is supposed to be sacred and turned it into everything else in our society. We've become so distracted by all of this Shiny new-age enlightenment that we've forgotten the true purpose of what we are doing, and disgraced the Spirit upon which all these "Ancient" traditions are based.

Regardless of which particular modality is in question, it would seem to me that the ultimate goal of healing is to put the other person in a position where they are capable of healing themselves without the aid of something external. So in reality, is it really our job to "Heal" anyone? Perhaps we are simply meant to catalyze a transformation.

There is now a tremendous market which has been created for various forms of "Healing". Almost every healing practitioner I have met claims to have the ability to provide either some powerful form of healing or transformation, yet so very few are willing to provide these services for free. Isn't the awakening of the collective consciousness dependent on more people realizing their true nature and their own innate divinity? Why are we charging people for this knowledge and healing? Why are we discriminating towards people in this way? Why are we selling "Energy"? Do we own energy? How can you put a price on Spirit...?

When confronted with this, everyone seems to hide behind the idea of an "Equivalent Energy Exchange", stating that there must be an equal exchange of energy between two people. While it is true that one should not freely give energy to a being that is taking it for granted (thus resulting in at least one person being drained and depleted), it is also true that karma will inevitably balance itself out in the grander scheme of things. Many self-proclaimed healers have used this idea as an excuse to justify a sense of self-entitlement, as if the universe owed them something. There are many healers who consider their "Service" so valuable that they charge several hundred dollars for an hour long session, while simultaneously owning nice houses, driving nice cars, drinking lattes, and feeding back into the consumerist machine that is destroying the life on this planet.

It would seem to me that as long as a person is truly being receptive to a form of healing or teaching, as long as a person is willing to help themselves as much as you help them, this alone is payment enough. What could be more valuable than really helping someone else transform? What could be more worth while than another beings attention , dedication, and receptiveness?

From my observations, it would seem to me that most people who practice these healing modalities are still trying to live a luxurious life. If you make more than a hundred dollars a month, you are probably living several times more luxuriously than many people in this world. Any time you try to filter energy through an intention connected with material profit, something gets lost along the way. You can not transmit energy in it's purest form if there is a self-serving transaction involved. Energy in it's purest form is channeled freely out of love and service to the cosmos. Spirit is Eternal. Spirit is free for all beings. It is not something to be possessed, nor is it something to profit from.The need for such profound material acquisition is a self-created illusion that our society has become plagued by.

Those healers that do give away their services freely are often channeling some of the most potent and pure energy. The best "energy work" I have ever received has been given freely, while in the past I have bartered for other forms of healing and experienced almost no effect.

When we are still operating within the restraints of this old-paradigm mentality of consumerism and loss/gain, we are not healing anyone! All we are doing is feeding into a perpetual cycle of greed, entitlement, and victim consciousness. By creating a market for healing, people are encouraged to create a need for "Healing". Many healing practiconers allow themselves to become energetic-dumpsters for people who don't want to deal with their own problems. If someone is consistantly manifesting a problem for themselves, it's a lot easier to pay someone $50 a week to do "energy work" on them than it is for them to actually confront their own demons and take responsibility for their own healing.

Instead of trying to sell people God for Money, maybe we should be more concerned with really providing people with experiences that allow them to take responsibility for themselves. A real healer should be able to create a situation in which others are able to do the same things for themselves! A real healer should be to enable another to Transcend their self-created need for a "Healing".

There is no market in showing people how to be fully responsible, fully illuminated beings capable of healing themselves and manifesting beautiful realities. If people can heal themselves, they won't need to pay you to do it for them.... In this sense, I see the healing community selling themselves out to the same follies of western medicine.

So I ask this of you, if you are really capable of helping someone, if you are really capable of aiding people with transformational experiences, then make yourself availability! Provide these services for those that need it! Empower others to do the same! We desperately need more self-aware self-responsible beings on this planet if we really want to create a profound shift in consciousness. Extend this into every situation possible in your life. Help the guy next to you at the bus stop undergo a paradigm shift, Give a stranger a hug, find ways to assist all beings in their growth and development whenever it is feasible.

Helping others in their awakening process is one of the most important things that can be done - Does it matter if your directly receiving something from them in the form of some kind of payment? Who cares! The change that will be created in the world because of this service should be much greater than any material exchange.

Embrace Simplicity...

Let the Old Mind fall away...

Love for all beings...

In Lak'Ech, I am another yourself.