22 Jul 2008
Dear Peter,
I think I understand now your point. I agree with you with all my heart. But I have to add; Nothing is black and white. Important is the intention. As you said spiritually gifted people should always take care to stay with pure heart and intention. Even not only for materialistic reasons, some tendency for fame and name or power can also affect badly their gift.
I do believe that by abusing their natural skills, the source of their gift, the channel dries out. And at the end what they are doing is only imitating what they were doing initially honestly. If they achieve some good results after loosing their ability, I believe this is because of the pure hearts of their patients. But this is only my humble thinking. We must consider that these gifts are coming from sources of other dimensions which we can not understand with our limited consciousness. Other rules than ours are in charge.
I do also agree with Paul. My sincere belief is, that we are obliged to give something- whatever we can - in return when we take something. This is the universal law i believe. We should not create a burden on ourselves by only taking. Of course, the intentions and measures are important. The thousands of dollars which the famous so called healer mediums are charging from their patients are here off topic. In the village, the patient visits the healer with some simple product from his garden or stall, which is very much appreciated. In the city however it is of course the best to bring some money, as the survival of every citizen in the city depends on money. Just for now of course. I agree with you,Paul, the times when we have to return to simple bartering system in the cities seems to be close.
I myself and many friends of mine we had such extraordinary experiences by the late retired healer I mentioned before, who lived the simple life of renunciation with devotion to his work, that after his demise decades ago we never thought to try anybody else. We witnessed the pure miracles through his hands. Unfortunately he became in his last years mentally sick and died a very slow and tragical death.