FREE READINGS - MYTHS AND REALITY

By Lubomir Dimitrov MSc,

Professional Astrologer, Australia

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Joke: “A lady walks on the streets and sees her GP walking towards her. She immediately figures out that this is the perfect opportunity to obtain a consultation, without having to pay anything. So she meets the doctor, greets him cheerfully and after doing a small talk for about a minute, asks him with her most charming smile on her face: “By the way doctor, I have recently such a terrible stomach pain at times, it cuts out right here. Since we are already talking, would you be able to prescribe me quickly something that would help me?” The doctor immediately understands where this is leading to and while smiling very politely, kindly answers: “Of course, Madam. Would you like to take off your clothes first, so I can examine you quickly?”

As you are probably aware we are living now in the Age of Aquarius. Those of you that are familiar with this concept know that approximately every two thousand years or so, the conditions on Earth change dramatically in order to reflect the new energies that will govern the Earth for the next great period (More information on this topic you can read in my article “The Age Of Aquarius”,). Such transitions are sometimes very stressful for people and can lead to all sorts of problems until the adjustment is finalized and people begin to fully live according to the increased energies of the new times. And indeed, many ordinary people, who do not even consider themselves to be clairvoyants, can testify that their life and their perceptions have altered to a great extent in the last few years.

First of all the speed of time has accelerated considerably. It happened more or less subtly over the last decade, but it is a fact. Although we think that we still have 24 hours in a day, in fact we don’t! An increasing number of people find the task of managing their time properly extremely challenging, simply because the rate with which the time flows today is much faster compared to what it used to be a few years, and especially a few decades ago. This is most apparent in the lack of time we have for reflection, stillness of the mind and meditation. How many people can say that they have enough time to switch off totally from the outside world on a regular basis and that they can dedicate a few hours to simply ruminate on the experiences that they had? And yet, such rumination is absolutely vital, since without reflecting on the past we cannot properly plan our direction for the future. The reality in which we live today can only be properly understood if it is put into perspective. In other words, in order to glimpse properly ahead to the line of time that we call “future” we have to compare the point of time, which we call “today” with the long line of experiences that we call “past”.

When such reflection and meditation is properly conducted, we can understand the substantial differences between our time and the time that was operative only about 20-30 ago, not to mention the periods of time that go back thousands of years. This is necessary in order to determine properly where we are now, i.e. where we are coming from and where we are going to, from an eagle’s (and not from an ant’s) perspective. When we take this stake, it becomes apparent that the changes occurring with us in our time have a lot to do with the enforcement on all levels (spiritual, mental and physical) of the new energies of the Age of Aquarius. The times have changed and everybody can feel it, and yet a lot of people just love clinging back to their old concepts and theories that have clearly outlived their purpose with time. One such concept is the idea, which many people formed a long time ago that any spiritual services should be given to other people for free.

The idea about the free readings and the free spiritual services stems from the wide-spread conception about spiritual workers, in which one is inclined to imagine them as representatives of enlightenment, love, unconditional compassion and self-sacrifice. We tend to believe that if those people are really spiritual, then they are supposed to be encompassing all the qualities described above and therefore they should be willing to give us their advice, services and help without expecting anything back in return, i.e. for free. Another argument in favour of the free readings is that the clairvoyant, clairsentient or clairaudient abilities that these people possess are in fact a gift from God and as such they should not be used to make a personal profit. Such gifts, one may think, should be used for the common good of all people, thus any person who possesses such gifts should not charge for them, but should offer his or her services for free. The people who support the notion of free readings may also argue that there are many poor people out there that need spiritual services, but simply cannot afford them. It sounds logical that requiring a payment for spiritual services is effectively depriving those poor people from the chance to have some form of connection to the spiritual world. And finally, there is the argument that involving payment and money into spirituality is essentially evil, as we know that most tragic and evil acts on this earth are carried out for money.

All the arguments above, supporting the idea of free spiritual services sound convincing and solid at first sight, however the main question arises: “Is there such a thing as free lunch?”. In order to answer it properly we have to put the things into perspective and we only can do this if we see the direction in which the human evolution is heading with time, starting with the past and moving into the future. We have to examine what are the basic differences between the spiritual workers that operate in our times and the spiritual workers that operated in ancient times. When we read the New Testament in those parts that describe how Jesus walked around Judea followed by his disciples and performed his healings and miracles we cannot find any passage, which will suggest that Jesus actually charged the people that he healed for his services. So, it is logical to assume that this was done without the exchange of money, although people provided him with shelter, food etc. So, why can this not be done nowadays? The reason is that the times have changed. Jesus lived in the Age of Pisces. The Age of Pisces is ruled by the mystical, cloudy and spiritual planet Neptune. Neptune rules religion, self-sacrifice and attainment to higher worlds through imagination. Thus, the whole period of time, marked with the birth of Jesus until present days was discernible by a world dominance of religion in all aspects of people’s lives. The keyword for people’s development during this period of time was faith and that was the driving force behind all   major world events.

With the beginning of the Age of Aquarius, which started approximately several decades ago, the planetary ruler of the Earth became Uranus, which emanates completely different energy from his brother Neptune. Uranus is original, inventive and technically-oriented. He does not operate on the principle of imagination, but logic, intellect and rationalism. While Neptune says: “I believe”, Uranus says: “I want proof”, while Neptune says: “I will self-sacrifice for high ideals”, Uranus says: “I will implement the high ideals into technical tools”, while Neptune says: “I sense and feel”, Uranus says: “I think and reason”. So you see how totally different are these two planetary forces and so all conditions on Earth have been gradually changing in the past few decades in order to reflect this huge shift of the cosmic consciousness of our planet. With the rise of logic, intellectuality, technical inventions and the like, the primary driving force behind all major world events changed and so the faith was gradually replaced by the driving force of money.

We can observe this in any aspect of our lives. Every single product that we buy and every single service that we use, operate as a business in the new Age of Aquarius. Every single man or woman living on this planet needs a shelter where to live. They can either pay a mortgage to the bank or they can rent. In either case they deal with businesses. The lucky few that own their property still have to pay rates each year to the shire. The shire is again a modified, government form of a business. In contrast, people in ancient times did not necessarily have to do that. Today we cannot imagine a house without electricity, running water, garbage collection and so on. For all these services we have to pay separately to a number of government or private businesses.

In a spiritual form we do not need to eat in order to sustain ourselves, but when we are incarnated into a physical body this is an absolute necessity. Since we need food on a daily basis we need to pay to the businesses that provide us with food – supermarkets, restaurants, cafeterias and the like. We also need clothes; hence we pay to a number of other businesses in order to obtain those. We need to make a phone call – we pay the telephone company, we need to drive the car – we pay for petrol, we need a cup of coffee – we pay the coffee shop etc. The list goes on and on. It becomes quite obvious that our lives to a great extent revolve around spending money and connected with it is the necessity to make money.

If we compare our lifestyle today with the way people used to live in ancient times, we will see a huge difference. Although money did exist as a form of payment even back then, in the Age of Pisces money was not the primary diving force behind human’s behaviour. Back then a lot of people lived in closed societies, where they produced most of the services and products they needed for their survival. For example, people used to work on the fields growing crop or they had farms with animals. Because they lived in big families the combined efforts of all the members of the family were enough in order to produce the bread, the milk, the eggs and the meat necessary to sustain all the members of the family; they rarely needed to buy any other products from outside of their enmeshed mini-society. And even when this was absolutely necessary, they rarely paid for it with money, but rather using a direct barter – for example they exchanged one hen for a new shirt, or they exchanged two goats for a farm cart and so on. It is essential to understand this concept properly, because it is of paramount importance. The lives of the people in the Age of Pisces were not ruled by money as it is today, but by faith and religion. The souls of the people living at those times were strongly directed towards the spiritual and they rarely had time to notice the miserable (by our standards today) material conditions in which they lived

However, in the Age of Aquarius almost every single aspect of our lives is ruled by money and denying this fact would be imprudent and foolish. If we state today that we can simply ignore the power of money and that we can disregard it and rise above the powerful force that it exercises on us in every single aspect of our lives, then we are simply fooling ourselves and we are not in touch with reality. Anyone who believes that he or she is so spiritual, and/or so enlightened that money has no effect whatsoever on their lives and that they can simply disregard this area of their lives altogether, acts like an emu, which hides its head in the sand. Only few very wealthy people can say that they have overcome to a certain extent the sheer necessity to make money or to be cautious about how they spend their money. Even then they have to know how to invest and manage their money properly in order to keep the cash flow coming, which is a prerequisite of their sustenance.

While it is clear that the power of money has become the primary driving force in the life of people in the new Age of Aquarius it is still possible to use this force positively. So instead of hiding away from the problem, or not acknowledging the problem altogether and/or living in denial, we have to do exactly the opposite – we have to study the problem, gain more understanding about it and resolve it with the power of our intelligence. In the beginning of this article we stated several arguments that are used by the supporters of free readings and free spiritual services. The first of them was that if somebody is really spiritual, they should be an embodiment of enlightenment, pure love and compassion and therefore we can expect them to do things for us for free. This probably could hold true back in the Age of Pisces, but it is a totally outlived concept today. Even if we imagine that the most enlightened spiritual being lives on the Earth today, incarnated into a human body, the very nature of the physical reality on the Earth will force him to pay bills in order to sustain his physical body, unless of course we imagine that he lives somewhere isolated in the forest, wearing a fig leaf and eating fruits from the trees!

Thus, the very idea of practising whatever type of service for free, (including the spiritual services) into the epoch in which we live today is obtuse. The reality of living into a physical body demands that we pay our bills on every step of our existence in order to simply be able to exist. Thus, even the most enlightened spiritual being living on Earth in a physical body will need to pay for his or her accommodation, electricity bills, food, clothes etc. At the times of the ministry of Jesus, people provided him with shelter, shared their table with him and so on, which is again a form of payment. Today this is done by the exchange of money - cash, checks, credit cards, EFTPOS and the like.

So if we assume that some extremely enlightened, spiritual being is incarnated into a physical body today and lives among us, then we have to acknowledge the fact that he still has to pay his bills. As a highly evolved being he will be able to perform excellent work by healing people, work as a medium, astrologer, clairvoyant or giving people directions in life. However, if you do not pay him for his services and expect him to do this spiritual work for free, then he has to find himself a job in order to sustain himself (possibly as a waiter or a dishwasher). Then when he comes back home tired at the end of the day from a full day’s work, he won’t be able to give you your free reading, which you so much desired in the first place, because he has to rest and prepare for another long day at work tomorrow. Or, if you want him to do what he does best (i.e. giving readings, consultations and helping people) then you have to pay him for his services in order to support him!

In other words, spiritual services have to be regarded and treated just the same as any other services and businesses. Any business depends on its customers and can only survive when enough people pay for its services, and so spiritual services operate exactly on the same principle. If you need them, you have to support them. Otherwise they will die! More about the rising need of spiritual services in the New Age of Aquarius and how to discern which of them are positive and which are negative you can read in part 2 of this article.

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