First of all, thank you ever so much for supporting the blog in what the people behind the Reval keep saying is the last month, which never yet has turned out to be the case.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Evidently the wait is not over. Thank you for continuing to support us until it is.
No, we didn’t make our targets. But everyone has taken that on and shared the burden and so we stop the appeal here, with gratitude.
I’d like to take this time to answer a critic, if you’d allow me, whose email I reproduced yesterday in the Update. The tone of it and being accused of scamming people really hurt.
(But you can stop here if you wish because my reply is a little long. I use *** to allow you to take a breather.)
Beckow, I’ve been following this site since the beginning and have donated to the Hope Chest in the past but haven’t been able to shake the feeling that this has been a never-ending scam to extract money from some pretty honest and good people.
We offer all our product for free. We don’t sell merch. How are we scamming?
We speak of that which we know. It isn’t in my heart to scam anyone. The thought never occurred to me. It seems to have occurred to you.
Two things determine that we, like Buddhist monks, depend on your donations. The first is that the Divine Mother has asked us to. She said:
Divine Mother: You have agreed that you are on, can we say, the receiving end.
Steve: So our being [poor] is used as a means to get people to open up?
Divine Mother: To express gratitude, generosity, unity and to express what is valuable to them. (1)
The Mother uses “agents” but the money comes from her nonetheless, Michael says:
Archangel Michael: The provisions will come from a variety of sources and, yes, we will use you [as a “pipeline”] (2) and some human beings to help deliver [it] but that doesn’t mean it does not come from the Company of Heaven and the Mother herself. It does.
Yes, she uses vehicles and that is the way it is set up. That is part of the plan, for people to learn how to be generous without condition. This is the prelude. This is how your society is to work. It is the equality of sharing, of giving and receiving. (3)
The second is that I want everyone on Earth to be able to read the books we produce and that means everything we produce needs to be free. And that means, for that reason alone, we need to rely on donations.
I already know that Michael intends for the blog to be read by everyone:
Archangel Michael: The blog is an essential piece of that writing and stepping forward. As we have said, what you think of as traditional news agencies are like dinosaurs. So that will emerge. (4)
AAM: You may be very surprised. … We are all working not merely on the lightworker community, but on those who have still need to discover you [i.e., the blog]
Steve: What do you mean, Lord?
AAM: We are talking about substantially increased readership. We want the world to hear you. (5)
When I first heard that, I made a puddle in my runners.
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When we started out, the IRS was punishing lightworkers, anons, truthers, etc. It was decided that quoting financial terms would give them an axe handle to beat us over the head with and so we fell into a practice of never quoting actual dollar figures. Instead quoting percentages. We hoped you’d allow that.
Prior to retiring as a Member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, I was earning a six-figure salary. Living on donations has been challenging. Fortunately I have a monk’s desires and am not interested in wealth or possessions, which is why Michael says I’m being used later as a pipeline.
You’ve been using the same old formula year after year for more than 13 years now.
Formula? We make an appeal every month on the 25th, which allows us to have at least the first-of-the-month bills paid. It’s been a new phenomenon lately that we need to keep the appeal open past the first of the month. And we’re closing the appeal today, even though we haven’t made our minimum.
10 days before the end of every month you start flooding us with articles about how the reval is already to go and will happen this weekend, then lots of updates from Sky Prince saying the med beds are already in use and be coming to us all next week.
We print what is being said, no matter what the subject. I haven’t noticed that those writing about the Reval and med beds seem to come out only at the end of the month.
We post on it even though it’d be in our interest not to do so: Because some folks might say, well, if it’s coming, they don’t need my help. If we hadn’t had your help on all the occasions the Reval was supposed to be here, we would not be here.
Any number of the tricky ways that that you have used to get people to donate.
Tricky ways? I’ve written an appeal every month for the last decade. How many “tricky ways” can one use? Am I trained in “tricky ways”? Far from it. I’m trained in transparency, which I think is the alternative.
The nail in the coffin is when you stated that you had enough money to operate but still kept guilt tripping us all because you needed more money to pay your dental bills.
Yes, this was the first time I found myself faced with a really daunting bill. It cost beyond what I could hope to pay myself. I wasn’t sure how to handle it. In the end, the bill was greatly lower than estimated and I was able to cover it.
I personally have no other avenue to pay my bills than your donations and Canada pensions, which don’t even equal my rent.
Have you ever thought about getting a “REAL JOB” like the rest of us lightworkers?
I discussed this with Michael at a time when donations were not sufficient (Oct. 2014):
Steve: I don’t think I can take a job [because my writing would really suffer; it’d become mundane].
AAM: It is not intended that you take a job. You are already doing your job. (7)
And finally:
You’re smart. You play on peoples hope and trust in humanity. Some of the stuff you are currently posting goes way beyond belief and crosses into the realm of “TOTAL B.” It appears to be working because you still have enough suckers willing to keep you housed and fed month after month-year after year. I’d love to see a forensic (honest) accounting of how much money you actually take in every month. Grow up and pay your own way for a change, like the rest of the “Legit” lightworker community.
Wow. Do I feel discouraged. Writing books for free and relying on donations is me paying my own way. How many authors do you know who’ve written 135 books and posted them all for free? Kindle won’t even allow me to post them because we ask no money for our books.
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I don’t by any means think this correspondent’s feelings are shared by the vast majority of you. But this one took me by surprise and really hurt.
Thank you for allowing me to address it. We soldier on until the Reval or NESARA relieves all of us of financial concerns.
Then we begin to expand and become a global voice for building Nova Earth. Do you see the humor in me saying that? This 80-year-old man who retired around 20 years ago takes the blog into global readership. I laugh at the thought.
But we will do it. I’m already preparing for it by writing self-consciously for a world audience at this point, getting ready. It takes work to expand one’s reach that far.
So thank you for supporting us on this appeal and since 2009. And thank you for staying with us whenever it is that we begin a new phase, with ample Reval and NESARA finances to do the job right.
I haven’t wanted to say this because I don’t want to launch a thousand emails, but I’ll be hiring for the Michaelangelo Fund and the Golden Age of Gaia mostly from readers of the blog.
Who else would believe that I report to an archangel and serve the Divine Mother’s Plan? Who else could get behind a newsmagazine that claims the world can be made to work for everyone? (Simple. Ascend them to the higher dimensions where the world does work for everyone because everyone is immersed in love.)
Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for putting up with all the frustrations and disappointments of this seemingly never-ending darkness phase and still finding room in your heart to support “the messenger.” Blessings on you from us.
In service of the Divine Mother….
Footnotes
(1) Divine Mother in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, June 7, 2015.
(2) AAM: We know that your desires do not tend towards the physical. And of course that is one of the reasons why you are perfect for flow-through [pipeline]. You are not looking for planes and châteaux as we have talked about before. (AAM, Aug. 2, 2017.)
(3) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Oct. 2, 2013. (Hereafter, AAM.)
(4) AAM, Oct. 21, 2015.
(5) AAM, Nov. 21, 2014.
(6) AAM, Sept. 28, 2014.
(7) AAM, March 28, 2018.