Opportunity Knocks

Dearest Friends of the Heart and Spirit,

It is necessary, and a great idea, to pattern our service to Love as much as possible on the examples set by the great mastersages and spiritual luminaries of history. Because we want sincerely to do this, we have a policy of not charging for our email work, personal visits with students, telephone-work, lectures, seminars, tapes, cd's, and of making not a penny's profit on the books. (We sell them at exactly our cost.) We feel that spirituality is simply too precious to "buy and sell," as if it were a common "commodity." Spirituality is in another universe when compared with things of the ordinary market, such as apples, cars, and other material things. It would seriously degrade spirituality to put any kind of dollar-amount of evaluation upon it. Quite simply, it is immeasurably precious. It is not for sale at any price.

Even holding to these highest ideals, however, we must recognize the fact that we live in the twenty-first century. Things have changed quite a lot since the fifth century BCE (the time of the Buddha) or the first century (the time of Jesus).

One of the most serious, and ignorant, of errors is to try to "buy and sell" spirituality, thus making of it a common (but never cheap!) market commodity! This borders on true blaspphemy, and it shows no Love for the people, who must always "foot the bill." The truly enlightened of history come closer to hating rather than loving money and material stuff.

Still, our goal is the truly balanced and moderate perspective. We mystics see the material world, too, as "spiritual," as a "spiritual" creation of the great One, the one Mind. So, material things are also sacred; they have their place in the cosmos. But that place is not the place of God, and a person falls into serious spiritual psychosis if she starts to worship money-- that is, if she starts to put it first in her life.

The enlightened do not hate money, but they do hate the "Love of money." They see money as a necessary evil.

With that preface, the point of this letter: We try our very best never to burden students, clients, or friends with any kind of economic burden, and we are very sensitive to this. We are not like so many "ministries," who are gawdy and shameless in their continual grasping in greed. Some try even to revive the ancient Jewish law of "tithing," a law that was binding upon only Jews, in the Jewish culture, many centuries ago. The only law that exists in spirituality is that, if you give, a multiple of your gift will return to you.

We have a bright new opportunity that has arisen in Cincinnati for the very first time in history. Specifically, we have the chance to start a regular (weekly) radioprogram with the theme of true spirituality. You have probably heard the (usually) disastrous and greedy shows about religion. This show is nothing like that. It will emphasize true mind-transformation and renewal. This show is planned for a very popular commercial station, WCKY. It has a huge audience.

But we need sponsers to make it happen. So, if you have any kind of retail business, or service-business, or know of anyone who has one, and want to get your name and phone-number on the radio-- a superb form of advertising-- please get in touch with me right away. (We'd seriously like to hear from you by Friday, although you need have no plan; we just need to know who's out there.)

As any of you who listens to the radio knows, true quality and progressive programming is virtualy nonexistent. We want together to change that, but the operative word is "together." We are going to need your help, as an "underwriter" (sponser) to bring this great dream into reality. So, please do not hesitate, but act now! With your help, we can begin to change the world very soon-- as soon as next week!

Love,

Richard