Prosperity

What is it?
Prosperity is different things to different people.
For the poor - it is having money.
For the weak - it is to be strong
For the lover - it is to have someone to love.
For the sick - it is to be healthy.
For the lost - it is to be wise.

Where there is a real or perceived lack (of any sort), "Prosperity" is that which fills its place. We can also say that "Prosperity" is a dualistic concept, one relative from person to person ("One mans' trash is another mans' treasure" as the saying goes). The quest for prosperity speaks to some of our basic human needs, but taken to extremes, can reflect imbalanced desires.

Materialism or Spirituality ?
"Blessed are the poor, for they shall inherit the Kingdom of God."
"It is harder for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle."
"The pursuit of Money is the root of all evil."

When we speak of prosperity, "money" is usually the first thought that comes to mind, followed by all those things we believe it represents... i.e. all those things we think it can buy: control, freedom, security, sexuality, love, pleasure, power, prestige, etc. And so, it is natural that the quest for prosperity (be it in the form of money or another object of desire) takes hold of us on a very primal level - all of which is controled by the "ego-mind". I am not saying that desire or material prosperity is bad (desire is a part of our human nature, and matter is the very substance of the universe), but if such a quest is taken to extreme - misaligned and inharmonious with the inner heart and higher self (which guides ones souls purpose in being), the ego-mind and its fixation on the attainment of our "object" of desire (and the fear of its loss), will take over our life. When that happens (and it can occur in degrees) our mental, emotional, energetic, and spiritual resources get tied up and held hostage (attached) to that thing. However, if we can release these attachments/constraints, we will free up a tremendous amount of resources that can potentially be put to a higher purpose (like for our healing).

Anything the ego-mind fixates on, be it the pursuit of money, or love, or power, or knowledge, or the next drug induced rush.... all these things, if we invest our life energies into, we are becoming attached to. And if any of these things are of a material nature, we are tethering our spirits into the material reality. And in this case, Jesus was right on when he said
"Blessed are the poor, for they shall inherit the Kingdom of God."  and
"It is harder for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God than it is for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle." If a person truly wishes to transcend the limitations of the material reality and delve in the Spirit, these are the issues you must face and the questions you must ask.

Creating Space & Flow
Like an enormous river, life is in a constant state of flow. The more powerful and wide the flow you can generate in your being, the more life you have. By removing the material blocks to this flow, you create more open space for the spiritual to flow in. 

"Blessed are the poor" 

The spiritual will only come in to your being when you have made the space for it.

What is preventing or blocking our full experience of space and flow is a deep seated fear and lack of trust in the providence of Spirit. The God of most people - that which is held up in trust above all else is money ("blessed are the poor"?). Many lives are spent in the pursuit, not of the spiritual but of this material and transitory commodity. By hoarding or storing most of our energies in the material, we become spiritually deficient (even bankrupt). The nature of this material energy is to congest, contract, or limit our spiritual energies. The polar opposite of this is "Prosperity", and "prosperity" is more than just having lots of money. In order to be prosperous, one must be "In the Flow". Energies in all its forms must come in and out on every level - there must not been any congestion or holding on in the slightest. Holding on comes from fear - a trait of the limited material ego-mind.

A very effective tool used in releasing the hold this material ego-mind has on you, is to release it in its symbolic form - as money. This is another reason why I ask so much for my healing work - it helps you open up your "Prosperity Channels". However, any time one opens up and flows in these ways, there are bound to be "growing pains" - it is not comfortable, but it is necessary if one desires to heal and evolve. "Blessed are those who give" is not just some saying but an observable and repeatable truth of the immutable "Laws of Prosperity". The form this expresses is through a time honored tradition seen in just about every religion known to man – and it is called "Tithing".

"Seek yea first the Kingdom of Heaven and all shall be given unto you".

Eternal Investment
Investing your time, energy and money in spiritual development and healing is an investment in your eternal self. All things in this world break down, change, decay... from the economy, the security offered by society and government, the friends and family around you, and of course our own bodies ("Store not your treasures where rust doth corrupt"). Conventional wisdom holds that we should invest our lives - our time, energy and money - in the pursuit of material wealth and pleasures, and in that they say we will find fulfillment, happiness and security. Many people are financially well to do, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are more happy or at peace with themselves.

I believe that true, lasting and deep happiness and peace are found by following an "inner dream" - one that is greater than the little self.

Sacrifice

Some say that spiritual healing should be free, yet this is not entirely true - some personal sacrifice has always been and always will be a factor in the healing equation. Why is this so? To assure the greatest healing possible at all levels, your personal will or intention must be fully engaged and challenged. If someone is really willing to receive the most profound healing, they must be willing to give something of themselves to it.

Most people will not pay for something if they do not want or value it deeply. If you truly value healing, you will do anything for it. If you do not value healing, even giving it away freely will mean nothing to you, and you will not fully receive nor hold the energy. For the healing to be most effective, there must be a sacrifice, a giving out of something that has deep value to you ("in giving you receive"). I have found that the most powerful method to catalyze this happens to be the most repugnant to everyone in the material world - in this day and age, this sacrifice takes the form of $ money $.

All great journeys have required of the hero one great sacrifice or another (and by following the healing path you are a hero!). In this age, money is the common token of exchange, yet at other times and in other cultures it could have been anything of value. When someone came to the shaman for healing, they brought in exchange ones labor, animals, food, any precious objects, even ones own children (don’t worry, I don’t want your kids nor your pets. lol).

In some religious circles, seekers of spiritual healing would scar their bodies or perform extraordinary physical deeds - such as in the Indian "Sun Dance".

The penitent Christian would fast, carry a heavy cross, flog or even crucify himself (the later is still being performed in some parts of the world today!).

If the ancient Hebrew broke or “transgressed” from the “Law", they had to make a “sin” offering to the Temple - some offerings being in the form of precious metals such as gold (in some languages, money and gold are called "gelt", as in the Dutch “Guilder” - perhaps this is where the word "guilt" came from).

In the Christian churches of old, when a penitent wished to be expunged for their "sins", they would make a sacrificial offering to the Church.

In Saudi Arabia I witnessed two brothers trying to gather "blood money" to pay off the family of someone they killed in a traffic accident.

The common thread in all these stories is that the sacrifice of something one considers precious (like money or possessions or something) is somehow involved in the healing process.

Jesus
“As a sacrificial offering, God gave his son to pay for our sins”.
By giving up his physical body, Jesus certainly made the statement that God is worthy of our very lives. However, I think he also meant to say that there would be no more need for “blood offerings”. Remember, the Temples of that time were very bloody affairs, what with the constant sacrificing of animals, the acrid smell of burnt flesh in the air, and smoke billowing into the sky (how grim - not a place that would engender love, light and forgiveness, but rather fear and trembling). The law of the land was “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth”. You could (for example) have your hand cut off for thievery, or be stoned to death for adultery. But Jesus was all about love and peace, not bloodshed, killing or war. I am sure he saw enough of that and said “we don’t need to do any more, certainly not for the sake of religion”. With all that being said, I don’t think Jesus meant that we don’t make any sort of sacrifices in our lives for those things we hold sacred and dear, it’s just that “blood sacrifices” are not the order of the day anymore. I seem to recall Jesus saying that “it is as nearly impossible for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of Heaven as it is for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.” Think about it. He is speaking of the connection between money and spirituality - there it is in black and white, straight out of his philosophy. Interesting isn’t it.

No Comparison
Each healer has his own unique ways of working - one not to be compared to another. I am not Jesus, so please don’t compare my methods (and me) to him (besides, most of you only know him second hand from the books, so any comparison would be woefully inadequate). I am a unique soul and have a unique spiritual position and method of working. Some of my Higher Self’s ways may be similar to Jesus, other ways may be quite different. It is true that Jesus freely healed many souls, but he also lived in a different time and culture that had its own unique demands. Jesus also didn’t hesitate to ask of his disciples to go through many difficult sacrifices... that they give up their positions of power and wealth, travel to far off lands, endure terrible physical hardships and persecutions. What I simply ask of you is very clear and straight forward and (relatively) far easier to do – just pay for your healings. It’s that simple. There are no other hidden agendas.

Even as we speak, there are many beings in spirit who are (anonymously and invisibly) working on your behalf, pulling strings and making miracles. It is a constant. There are Angels watching over you, Great Masters guiding you, Soul Mates loving you, so many Spirits healing you... yet most times, you haven’t the slightest clue (and that’s ok). I have asked and know that (on many levels) my own Spirit has also been very busy (anonymously and freely) working with and on many beings (and to be fair, I too have been worked on). This is one of the great mysteries of life - that it is all happening, even as we live and breath.

However, there comes a time when a balance must be struck, when as incarnated human beings, we must take a conscious and active role in our healing process, where we need to make a definitive choice to ask for and even (Heaven forbid) pay for such services. At these times, it becomes appropriate and imperative that we demonstrate to Spirit our gratitude and willingness to give back in a tangible material way. This is what your "Love Offering" "Donation" or "Tithing" to this work is about.

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The Game of Life

Our “will” is like a fixed amount of money, energy or power that we have been given to use in what we shall call “The Game of Life”.

For the sake of discussion, let’s say the initial amount comes to $100.

(The terms “power”, “energy”, “karma”, “money” and “will power” are going to be somewhat interchangeable concepts here).

Let’s say that the inventor of this game (called the “Creator” or God) has given us this will - this money - freely with no strings attached. Because it’s “free” to us and its quality is “will”, this gift is called “Free Will”.

When playing our game, we could spend that money on anything we wanted. But if we gave some of this money away, or bought things for others with it, at the end of the day we would always have that money magically restored to us and a percentage of that expenditure would be added to our account as an interest payment. This would thus boost our worth beyond the initial $100, as well as improve our “credit rating” (improving our “will power”). So conceivably, over time, if a person was generous, they could have accrued (been credited” with) thousands of dollars worth of “will power”, which we could also call “good will”, or we could even say “good karma”.

When playing our game, as I said, we could spend that money on anything we wanted, but there was no guarantee that what we bought would stay with us longer than one day. Someone else could take it from us, or it could leave on its own accord. The only way we could assure it staying with us (if we were so attached) would be to store it in a chamber in our basement (the subconscious). In order to keep that “thing” or “treasure” protected (i.e. to defend or “resist” against any invaders) and to keep it from leaving, we would have to use some of our money to purchase a vault (to be “safe”) and our “stuff” would stay stored there for as long as we liked... or until we went back down in that vault, took it up to the light of day and released it. However, with any “treasures” stored in any vault, there is always a door, and a lock, and a key, a few guards and guard dogs, a password or two, maybe even some booby traps. In addition to the cost of the vault, all these additional things cost you more money... and let’s not forget your monthly storage fees – you must still pay for that in perpetuity.

So of this money – your free will and power - you have just spent let’s say $5o or 50% of your money. The other 50% is invested in all these protections, what we could consider your “resistances” (I will get into more of what those resistances are in just a moment). But because you did not spend this money on others, at the end of the day your $100 - your original amount - is not being magically restored! In fact, your account balance is even dropping lower considering all your storage fees and such.

What’s even worse, what you stored inside takes money (energy) to access - there is a hefty entrance fee every time you go in (you have to bribe the guards and give the dogs food). Soon enough, it gets more and more difficult (and expensive) to access these treasures (perhaps these treasures are your “gifts”). And in time, you may stop going in altogether... soon you may not be able to recall your password, you would have misplaced your key, and eventually you may even forget that you had a treasure.

In the meantime, you are on the verge of bankruptcy – as most all your resources are tied in to this vault. You have less freedom (as in free will) to do anything with, for you are too heavily invested in your stuff and can’t leave it unattended nor can you let go of your (subconscious) commitments to maintaining it - even if you wanted to.

The only way to be restored to your original state and get back 100% of free will (and set you free), and in order to redeem your treasures so you may enjoy them again... all those protections or defenses or shields or walls – all these “resistances” inside you must be dismantled (which goes to show we should not hold on to anything, even something that is good – the costs of attachment are too steep).

So here you are - stuck. Who is going to undo all of this? You sure can’t do it. After all this time, you forgot your password, misplaced your keys, your guards don’t know who you are anymore, your guard dogs have grown into monsters, and who knows what sort of debris is filling up the passageways leading down to this vault in you (which has probably rusted shut by now). To undo all this mess will take a lot of money, energy, good will and good karma that you just don’t have at your disposal. What are you going to do - who are you going to call?

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