This is a reply that I posted on the ME website in response to someone who didn't understand why she had to go to a seminar to "get ME" (see quote below). I thought it would be interesting to share here.
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My observation is that as yet different healing/alternative modalities often seem to go down the route of becoming companies that generate lots of money i.e. Reiki, Melchizidek method, Louise Hay etc. I, personally, prefer the possibility of ME, or whatever you wish to call it, to be available easily for all. Freebies? Yes, of course I believe that this is essentially free! It is something that is innate in all of us, so I do not seek a freebie rather I feel in essence it is free! And as for effort, surely effort is counter-productive and stems from the deletive conscious mind as said by Richard!
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Actually, your payment is your part of an even exchange of energy. Let me illustrate this with an excerpt from the story of Dr Mikao Usui, the man who discovered (or re-discovered) Reiki.
"Dr. Usui hurried down the mountain to tell the Abbott all that had happened.
At the bottom of the mountain, he felt hungry and stopped at a home, asking for rice and tea. The girl who served him had a bandaged jaw, and Dr. Usui asked permission and placed his hands on her aching tooth. The pain and swelling disappeared, a miracle. The girl's father was unable to pay for the healing and asked that he be able to exchange the food for the healing (thus an equal exchange of energy had taken place).
After Dr. Usui returned to the monastery, he guided to go and heal the poor. After many free ministrations, Dr. Usui saw a beggar whom he had once healed. The beggar told Dr. Usui that he had returned to begging because he did not want the responsibility that his new life had brought to him. Dr. Usui was saddened and confused, and returned to the monastery.
The monks told him that he was healing only the body and not the spirit. Dr. Usui understood: the receiver must have some responsibility in the process. Dr. Usui had taken away that responsibility by "giving away" the healing.
An equal exchange of energy must take place between the giver and the receiver for both parties to benefit."
Getting back on subject, the energy that Dr Bartlett put into creating a transferable, repeatable system is the effort to which Rapier is alluding. For an even exchange between Dr Bartlett and yourself, where he is offering you his approach, you offer him in return your tuition. Your tuition represents a portion of the energy that you put into your job or business (to earn your money).
Your tuition pays for the approach that Dr Bartlett created so that we could access the energy we are calling Matrix Energetics in the way that he does, not Matrix Energetics itself.
You are correct that the energy is free and open to everyone. If, however, you don't innately have access to it and you would like to access it, you'll need someone to show you the way.
If you feel that the amount of effort (energy) you put into your job or business to earn your tuition is worth much more than the energy Dr Bartlett put into creating the seminar and puts into presenting each seminar, then it wouldn't be a fair exchange for you. But to say that he should make it easily available to everyone who wants it, isn't a fair exchange for him.
I would ask you to consider the possibility that not everyone would get it from a video on the Internet. Would that mean that mean he would have to create a new approach for those people? And what of the people who don't have Internet access? Furthermore, what of the people who didn't get it from his new approach? Wouldn't they feel as dissatisfied and inconvenienced as you do now?
I submit to you, for your consideration, the following challenge:
Attend a seminar and see if you feel the same way afterwards, because I truly believe you couldn't.
Aloha,