Perhaps before I posted the previous article, I should have addressed the sacred cow in the room. I can’t charge money for Spiritual Advising. And I often feel resentful of people who charge ME too much money for Energy Healing, health coaching, etc. Ugh! Why?
That’s what I’ve been asking myself. And here’s what I’ve found:
My first and perhaps most REAL connection between Spirituality and Money was from my years in church. It was when the plate was passed around and people “tipped God” or slipped in their envelope containing their tithe.
I’ve never fully bought into how most churches handled the idea of the tithe. (The church I was raised in taught the way one should calculate their tithe different than most other Christian churches too. We were only asked to give 10% of our INCREASE.)
But what does the church DO with the tithes they receive?
Something about giving “to God” via a church always felt off in my body—too institutional, too transactional, too removed from real relationship. So instead, what would have been “tithe money” tends to move more organically through my life. Supporting small businesses. Buying something and giving it directly to someone who needs it. Responding in the moment rather than following a rule.
That feels closer to how spirit actually moves through me.
And yet, despite that clarity, money itself still carries weight. Tension. A quiet moral charge.
Because there is a deeper inheritance at work—one that didn’t come only from church doctrine, but from the stories, images, and exemplars I absorbed long before I ever questioned them.
When I look at the world’s most celebrated spiritual figures, a pattern appears.
Mother Teresa.
Gandhi.
Buddhist monks.
Mystics, saints, renunciates.
Again and again, spiritual fullness is paired with material simplicity—or outright poverty. The message is rarely stated directly, but it’s absorbed nonetheless: when one is truly full of God, one needs less money.
Scripture reinforces this impression. (And the church I grew up in didn’t pay their pastors, deacons, elders, and so on. All of the priesthood members held full-time jobs outside of the church.)
“The love of money is the root of all evil.”
“It is easier for a rich man to pass through the eye of a needle than to enter the kingdom of heaven.”
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
Add to that the dominant image of Jesus—wandering, unattached, living simply—and a binary begins to form. Even knowing there are other narratives of Jesus, including those that trace him to wealth and royal lineage, the version that lodges in the collective body is the ascetic one.
Holy equals simple.
Spiritual equals unencumbered.
Money equals danger.
At some point, this stopped being an idea and became a sensation.
I can feel it in my body when money enters the conversation. A subtle contraction. A hesitation. As if wanting more might signal a lack of trust. As if spiritual maturity should naturally dissolve material desire. As if God and money sit on opposite ends of a moral spectrum and choosing one requires turning away from the other.
I didn’t consciously decide this.
It arrived through repetition.
Through scripture heard without context.
Through reverence offered to those who renounced.
Through a culture that quietly mistrusts abundance when it appears alongside devotion.
And yet—something in me is no longer settled by this framing.
Not because I’ve resolved it, but because I can feel its incompleteness. The belief is there, yes—but it no longer feels entirely true in my body.
So this is where I’m starting.
Not with answers.
Not with conclusions.
But with honesty about the divide I inherited—and how it still lives in me.
Somewhere along the way, money and God became opposites in my nervous system. I didn’t choose that consciously.
But I can feel it now.
Perhaps what started with feeling Godbumps. Now, I am feeling more thoroughly from doing all of this dancing. Hmm
Somatic movement
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I’m encouraging those “over 60” to open to lifelong learning (observe and gently question their pre-conceived beliefs, aka ‘Programming’), become more aware of their thoughts and emotions, consistently move their bodies (too many are stuck in their heads and physically unhealthy), become strong, and resilient in spirit, soul, mind, body. And to question EVERYTHING!
Link to my YouTube channel where you can see the videos: https://youtube.com/@spiralsister
Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
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