Charities That Bribe

Today my Mum received an envelope from a charity. Inside the the envelope, personally to her, so sold on by another charity she probably does donate to, there was the usual gumph, and a One Decade Rosary and instructions on how to use it. The words were all varying on the theme of “it's your fault if you let these children down” - you know the usual rubbish they attempt to emotionally blackmail people with?


My mother isn't a catholic. In fact, like me, she follows her own path and doesn't need to be dictated to and controlled, or ask forgiveness of her sins!


What makes me really annoyed with these charities who use campaigns like this is THEY are the ones failing. They are so wound up in red tape, trying to invade countries and tell them how to run their services and/or government, dictating their own religion, and paying their staff HUGE salaries to do this. They spend most of their donations on other services. Each year a charity has to make public it's accounts on the internet through the Charities Commission website or on their own website. Have you ever asked for a copy to see where the money is going from the charity you support? Remember Charities are spending Public donated money and are legally obliged to let the public know where their money has gone!


I am a trustee for a charity and we are all volunteers. EVERY penny we receive into our bank provides the medicines required to save Mother's and Baby's lives, no-one takes a salary, we do not interfere with the countries government, we just show the hospitals how to save lives, where to get medicines from and fund them for a short while until they are on their feet. We are first aid and save lives without paying a single trustee!


So, what did my Mum do? She put a note in asking to be removed from their mailing list, packed everything into their own pre-paid envelope and posted it back to them. Unlike me, I would have put it all in a large A4 envelope and sent it back without a stamp, they would have to pay at least £1.50 on it's arrival, which may make them think twice about how they campaign people.


If charities did what they “say on the tin”, then maybe we wouldn't be so offended by their “emotionally blackmailing stealth tactic” fund-raising campaigns.


People will give if they want to, which was proved by the Haiti appeal, Comic Relief, Children in Need and Sport Relief. I believe the British are the biggest and best fundraisers and we will continue to do whatever we can to help those less fortunate in a positive and fun way. In the UK we love nothing more than a bloody good “Rally Round”.


My charity is:  http://www.hopeforgracekodindo.org

The Sly World of Reiki Attunements!

When I became a Reiki Practitioner I believed in paying for the service. My attunements were also hands on, in a group over a weekend spent with people chatting about how Reiki was working for us and how we were using it in our lives to help ourselves and others. I studied Universal Energies and went on to become a Master Teacher who uses these Universal Energies in every day life. I am also in favour of attunements through chi-balls and the call-in method which fits in fantastically with people's lives. Energy is energy and it will happily wait around in the universe for you to go grab it at a time that suits you. Positive manipulation of energy is a good thing!

What I do find interesting is the amount of attunements people now have, a few people I have seen on ebay are selling them for a couple of quid and yet probably haven't a clue what they are using or in fact selling on. If people are attuned into 100 different energy levels, will we run out of energy, symbols or forms of attunements soon? Are people just making them up to make a fast buck and sell them on to others for the same purpose? Yes, I have seen these too.

I have received some terrible, cheap, thrown together .pdf manuals that quite frankly my Laptop was embarrassed to open! Then there is the "after attunement service" - well when you have paid £6 for an attunement do you really expect an answer back from the person whom attuned you? No, you shouldn't, because they won't as they firstly haven't a clue what they have attuned you to, secondly haven't used the attunement themselves so have no concept of using it or anything about it's energy, and thirdly, they have your money........so what????

If you see someone in the UK with the words Dr, Reverend or any other title using it to sell something spiritual, it means nothing in the UK. It's just a title given by joining a group or church in the US......I know, as I have one........oh yes, it's amazing what titles I have that mean NOTHING!

Now on a more positive note, there are some serious people out there working with Reiki, you will find whom they are as they generally only work with one type of energy level. Those working with 60-100+ different attunements are still trying to find their path and I would say are quite lost on it too, or just make money from ebay! Use your gut instinct, you will know if someone feels right.

Don't be fooled, even the spiritual world is full of con-merchants into making money and they pass that negative energy on to you too!

Light, Love and Peaceful Blessings
Carolyn
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Extra Blessings..........

With the full moon over the last couple of nights and today we have sun and a beautiful blue sky it makes Imbolc all the more special. Although there are a couple more months left of Winter it's days like today that make you realise you are not just walking down a dark tunnel of winter with the tax man standing at the end waving a torch!!!

Bright Blessings and Light, Love & Peace to you all.