Amy Lamb
Your Spiritual Advocate Working for Spiritual Justice
For the skeptics....
02-21-2010
-For those who say spiritual workers who operate outside of an organized religion are snake oil salesmen, con-artists, and criminals allow me this discourse, for if you take the liberty to insult a vocation I love dearly, then I must assume you are a reasonable person who fairly hears all angles of a situation prior to attempting to destroy the- reputation of the business of spiritual work or spiritual worker.
I am a spiritual worker. I am here to serve. I happen to have strong psychic abilities. I don’t think I am special. I don't think I have a "gift". I think everyone has psychic abilities, and because I am here to empower people to create good in the world, I teach people how to make their own psychic abilities stronger. If I was a con-artist I would tell people that only I have this special gift and you NEED me to be connected to spirit and to communicate with spirits on the other side. But I don’t operate like this. I think everyone can increase and refine their extra senses and psychic abilities. Why is it good to develop psychic abilities? Because in order to increase your psychic abilities, you must increase the vibrational frequency of your emotions, thoughts, and body. To increase the frequency of the body, you must exercise, eat healthy foods, and be as fit as you can be. To increase the frequency of your emotions, you must continually strive to feel emotions of love and empathy, the two highest vibrating emotions (anger and hate are the lowest vibrating emotions). To increase the frequency of your thoughts, you must continually strive to have thoughts of curiosity, wonder, and inspiration.
Increase the vibrational frequency of the body, mind, and spirit in this way and it equals a non-violent physical plane. Non-violence is something I think most human beings strive for. Most people are goo, some are not. Increasing the vibrational frequency of all three has the side-effect of increasing your psychic abilities as well. My intent and what my work results in is that I help people to help themselves, help them to live better lives, give them concrete actions to take to increase the frequency of their mind, body, and spirit, and I do this all because I CARE about being a part of creating a non-violent physical plane.
If I am a crook or con artist, then so is every priest, minister, imam, pandit, and rabbi on the planet. The work that I do is intended to augment, or to be an alternative to, organized religion. Yet, I am a business owner, I have operating costs, and I rely on my good name and good reputation just like an organized religion does.
Why do people go to church? To feel more connected to spirit – to feel hope – to gain a sense of faith and trust that their hardships can be overcome – to get inspired to continue being good people in the face of adversity. I help people in the same way. Life on the physical plane is rough – we have diseases, and hatred, anger, crime, fear, abuse, poverty, persecution, torture, rage, rejection, isolation….this is why people seek solace and comfort in spirituality.
Why would anyone begrudge someone for trying to help themselves feel better in a world of pain such as the one we live in?
In most organized religions, the idea is that if we behave well in the face of adversity, a higher being will come to save and reward us. In my work, I teach that if you behave well in the face of adversity, plus take daily positive steps to change your situation, that you will create joy and abundance in your life for yourself. I teach that people are not meant to suffer on the physical plane – that we are meant to overcome the sadness and suffering and be happy now, that happiness is not reserved only for after our physical bodies die.
Whatever you believe, organized religions have bills just like STARCLEAR does. Every month, we have to pay STARCLEAR’s internet, phones, mobile phones, advertising, gasoline, recurring software charges, computer repairs, office supplies, laptops, and audio visual equipment payments, just to name a few of the bills!
If you think this is bad, think of what an organized religion has to pay for –mortgages on the church and the minister living quarters, cost to heat it all, car for the minister, food, gas, office supplies, technology, furniture. I simply cannot afford to pay those bills out of my day job paycheck, and neither can Jeffrey. Yet, I am compelled to assist people with their spiritual evolution. The only way I can afford to put myself out there to be able to help people, is to charge a fee for my services.
The fact is, what I do and what Jeffrey does helps people. They feel a difference after an encounter with us. They feel inspired and feel like they have a plan – steps to take – to change their lives. They have insight and hope. They learn from us about not only the spirit world, but about themselves and the people in their lives. People come away from clearings and readings rejuvenated and feeling alive again. If we didn’t get positive feedback 99.9% of the time, we wouldn’t offer our services. But the fact is that what we do yields positive results for 99.9% of the people we touch. So we keep doing what we do, and hope every month that we help enough people to cover our monthly operating expenses so that I don’t have to dip into my own paycheck that is intended for my mortgage, insurance bills, electric bills, and for clothing and food for my family.
There is a bad apple in every profession. But I know that most spiritual workers are legitimate, just like most priests and ministers are legitimate - and have a legitimate desire to help people, otherwise why would they put themselves out there for mass public consumption? The life of any spiritual worker is not easy. It is a lot of hard work.
And god forbid should you choose to be a spiritual worker OUTSIDE of an organized religion, for then you are a psychic or an energy healer and are subject to the hatred and scrutiny of those who would call us snake oil salesmen….
Amy Lamb
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A Spiritual Advocate's Writings on Justice in Spirituality,
Spiritual Work, and Spiritual Workers (Priests and Psychics alike!)
"Spiritual knowledge, healing energy, and power should never be an exclusive club that the incarnated control access to. Spiritual knowledge, healing energy, and power should never be something that only those with enough money are allowed to know of and use. Access to the resources beyond the physical plane YOUR BIRTHRIGHT. You don't need any other human to intercede between you and the divine.
Everyone has psychic abilities, everyone has access to the healing powers of the universe, and everyone has the right to develop their abilities at little or no financial expense. I want to facilitate that learning for people. I prefer to be called a Professional Spiritual Advocate because I advocate your right to freedom of knowledge and power in spirituality and I believe everyone can develop and use their psychic abilities for the purpose of creating movement up and out of anger, fear, and depression.
You don't need another human being to give you the power or to give you permission to access the knowledge, healing energy, and power of the spirit world. You don't need hundreds or thousands of dollars. You have it in yourself already. You just need to give yourself permission.
The spirit world is entirely unconcerned and unaffected by man-made rules and laws, including rules and laws created by religious leaders and spiritual workers. Recognize that choosing to yield to such rules and laws is a CHOICE that you make because you have the emotional need to follow rules in relation to spirituality during your time on the physical plane. Likewise, choosing not to yield to another incarnate's religious or spiritual laws will not result in punishment or creation of bad karma. " - Amy Lamb
Professional Psychic and Spiritual Advocate Amy Lamb
"I am a spiritual worker. I am here to serve. I happen to have strong psychic abilities. I don’t think I am special. I don't think I have a "gift". I think everyone has psychic abilities, and because I am here to empower people to create good in the world, I teach people how to make their own psychic abilities stronger. All the knowledge you need is within you."
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Time to Refocus our Resources, Time, and Attention
by Amy Lamb
07-10-2010
I just received the sad news today that a friend of ours, who has been living in a homeless shelter for 20 months, was denied disability income from our government after a 2-year ordeal through the court system. This man, our friend, has a diagnosed physical condition that prevents him from holding a job. In addition, because of the sad state of the US Economy, even when he would apply for a job in an attempt to help himself, he is competing against college-educated people who are out of work or who are working second jobs.
In the past 20 months, this man has deteriorated physically to the point where I can barely recognize him any longer. He is sick, skinny, his nails are falling off due to a fungal infection, his hair is falling out, face drawn, he limps around in pain. He sleeps in a homeless shelter in the ghetto of Milwaukee where they are fed food that is nearly spoiled, or past its expiration date. The “residents” are kicked out in the day time, even in the coldest days in winter and the hottest days in summer, forcing them to pass their time in the parks, in the bus stations, in the public library.
Our friend is sick and needs to see a doctor, he is not on the medication he needs and must go without. He has been on a waiting list to see a doctor for the past 3 months and there is no telling when his turn to see the doctor will come. These people cannot get jobs as most are physically disabled or mentally ill. Some are there in the shelter by their own bad decisions in life, that is true. But MOST, like our friend, are medically ill and cannot work.
Our US government doesn’t care. In this country we treat our animals better than our people. An animal in a shelter at least gets medical care and food and isn’t kicked out of the shelter in the extreme cold or heat in the day. What is WRONG with this country????
I learned this hard lesson long ago when I was homeless. I thought “Doesn’t anybody care that I am sleeping in my car, or sleeping in an abandoned shack in the woods?” The answer was no, nobody cared. When my daughter was born, I worked very hard, got my first college degree, but because of lack of career experience, only found a job making about $8 an hour. I basically worked so she could be in day care all day long. Our society is sick. Disgusting. I remember sitting, again, in the shelter, this time with a child and thinking “Doesn’t anybody care that a mother with a baby don’t have a place to live?” The answer again was no, nobody cared.
But I was the lucky one. I am smart, driven, and not encumbered by any mental or physical problems and was able to scratch and claw my way up and out of all of that. I was the lucky one because we were never in a shelter for more than a few weeks at a time. But my friend has been there for 20 months. I assure you it is a terrible place to be. People in the prison system get a better life the homeless do. In fact, that is precisely WHY some crime is committed – they will have a better life being locked up than on the streets.
If our government won’t take care of the least of our brothers and sisters, who will? Individually it is a hard problem to tackle alone. I don’t make enough money to support my friend. I’d go bankrupt and the people I can support on my income and me would all end up in dire straights.
So I ask you, aside from the government, what is the next largest force in this country that could help? Large corporations? But they won’t, as they are too greedy and too busy filling their executive officers’ pockets with more cash than a person really needs to live on, and also on returning profits to the shareholders, because, you know, the shareholders demand their cut of the profits.
So what’s the next largest force after that? Organized religions. There are more churches in this country than we can even count. Here are stats on churches in the US: http://hirr.hartsem.edu/research/fastfacts/fast_facts.html
Based on the statistics by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research there are an estimated 335,000 churches in the US. That’s 6700 churches per state. An astounding figure. People who go to church pay to have these churches in existence. If they never paid when the collection basket came around, the church could not pay it’s mortgage, electricity bill, food for employees, putting on spiritual classes, etc, and would have to close its doors.
What does any church REALLY DO? What does church members’ money go for other than to pay the church’s bills and to indoctrinate members and their children in to the hate consciousness and the ideology that you are not responsible for your actions? Some of them – many of them – champion causes against abortion and gays. Abortion and gays are NOT the cause of the problems in this country. And I say to those organized religions who champion this "cause", it is a fruitless endeavor to try to change people's minds about abortion or to try to make a gay man straight. I challenge the organized religions to do something useful with their recources. We need to wake up and instead focus our energy on the problems that genuinely need tending to. And I promise any true believer that if you hurt people with your words or actions, you will pay for it, and no, Jesus will not come down from heaven and magically absolve you of all your wrong-doings. I recall too much of my time in the spirit world to buy into this man-made theory.
Someone please tell me there is a church out there that actually helps citizens of OUR OWN COUNTRY (and not citizens in far away countries with a hidden agenda to convert and control)?
Someone please tell me there is one church our there without a hate-agenda?
Someone please tell me there is a church out there that does NOT put its energy and resources into being anti-abortion and anti-gays.
Someone please tell me there is a church out there that gives shelter to the homeless, REAL shelter that lasts all day long and feeds them good food and gets medicine and medical care for the least of us.
Someone please tell me that there is a church out there that embodies all these things - that cares not about abortion or gays, holds people accountable for their thoughts, words, and actions, and gives the people who are literally dying on the streets of the United States of America food, shelter, and medical care.
Anyone?
It makes me physically sick that so many churches focus their attention on pointless causes, ignoring that there are REAL problems going on every second. If every church in the US put their energy into helping the homeless men, women, and children who are literally dying in the streets of the United States of America, think what good could come of it? It would be profound good.
If you are a church member, please consider DEMANDING the focus be taken off abortion, gays, converting people in other countries, and DEMAND the focus be placed on helping our own people. We spend so much time and energy caring about what other people think or believe, and how other people live, standing in our own self righteousness and false sense of confidence that Jesus will save the true believers, that we have completely forgotten our true selves and have abandoned all attention to the people in this country who are sick and hurting and in pain because of how they have to live.
This is urgent. It is urgent that all churches shift their focus now.
Just think how uncomfortable you’d be if you were sick and needed medicine and couldn’t get it?
Just think how uncomfortable you’d be if you had to spend all day long in 95 degree weather in a park with no food or water.
Just think how uncomfortable you’d be if you were sick with a fever and in pain and had to spend all day in a bus station sitting up in a chair?
Just think how uncomfortable you’d be if you had to look for mold on your food before you ate it?
Just think how uncomfortable you’d be having to lug all the earthly possessions around all the time, holding them close to you lest they be stolen?
Just think how uncomfortable you’d be if you be if you had to walk outside in the icy cold winter for a mile to get to the library and hope you could hide there all day and not get kicked out, thereby incurring the risk of frostbite?
Just think how uncomfortable you’d be if there was never any joy in your day – no comfort – no good food, no comfortable place to lay down, no medicine if you even so much as get a headache?
Think what good could be done for the homeless if each church gave a mere $1000 per year of the money collected from all of us. $6,700,000 per state each year to help fund better shelters (that are open all day long in any type of weather) better food that’s not spoiled, and medical care and medicines.
Individually I can’t have much of an effect, and neither can you.
But collectively, via the churches, think of the huge amount of good that could be done per state, per city if the focus was shifted?
One of the times I found myself homeless with my daughter, I got desperate for shelter. I was working full-time+, but the cost of daycare ate up most of my paycheck. Daycare, gasoline, and some mac-n-cheese and milk was about all I could afford. There is no sense of shame or embarrassment when you are that desperate. All I had was an old car, my daughter, and all my earthly belongings in the trunk. I went around to many of the churches in my area. You name the denomination, I went there. Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, no denomination at all (just Christian), evangelical, etc. I knocked on the doors to each, I talked to every priest, minister, church leader, sat in their office, explained my situation, asking for help, offering to clean, cook, do anything in return for a place for my daughter and I to live. And you know what? Every single one of them pointed me to a grocery store shopping cart in the back with canned and boxed goods collected from church members. Like that does a hungry homeless person any good. I had no can opener, and even if I had one I had no stove to cook it on. It's cold and rainy outside, and a car is no place for anyone to live.
Organized religion in this country is pure insanity. It escapes me why church members don’t demand their church leaders turn the attention away from silliness like abortion and gays and focus on the REAL problems in this country.
Stop hating and start loving. Demand that your church changes its focus and does the same.
If you go to church, where does your money go? I know where your money goes. I have seen the financial records of many organized religions, as I once was an accounting software consultant for a CPA firm and helped many churches with their financial statements and records. I KNOW where your money goes. Other than feeding the Mothership and paying the individual bills of the church, it goes into hate-campaigns, converting people in other countries, and into educational courses that teach you and your children to be good people, but if you slip, no worries, Jesus will wipe your slate clean.
You have the power.
"An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" - Martin Luther King Jr.
I was born with a justice theme. I feel I must help people spiritually. I am a champion for spiritual truth and justice. I am compelled to right the wrongs in the world and to replace negativity with positivity.
I believe in all of us taking personal accountability for their lives above all else. No one is a victim to the physical world, all we have are experiences. You are in charge of how you handle and process those experiences.
Like any profession, and spiritual work is no exception, there are spiritual workers, psychics, religions, religious leaders, and spiritual organizations out there who are not in it for the right reasons. Know this. No one can take your power away unless you let them. My goal is to help people to realize that they are far more powerful than negative spirits (incarnated or not) and negative experiences.
Here are some examples of things I have seen in my client work that I consider to be spiritual baloney.
Item #1: Exorbitant prices.
One client paid $1500 for a psychic's assistance. The psychic's ultimate solution for the client was this: she told the client to bury a ring in the backyard and all her troubles would disappear. I had to break the news to the client that unfortunately she had to work harder and longer than she ever has in her life to make her troubles disappear (and then we mapped out a plan together). I see psychics charging ridiculous prices, yet they spend the entire time guessing about the clients life, and then back-pedaling what they guessed to somehow make their square-peg guess fit into the round-hole of the client's life. If you are paying thousands of dollars to gain spiritual learning, assistance, be cautious. You can develop your psychic abilities and get spiritual help at little or no cost.
Item #2: You are doomed, fated, bound by your bad karma, destined to suffer.
Another client told me another psychic said she was only a level 4 spirit (don't ask me what this means because it's not something I have found in my work to be true) and could never aspire to have any better a life than the crummy one she was living now, and was doomed to live out her bad karma. I told her I don't know anything about these "levels", but everyone has the right to be happy during our time in the physical world. Everyone has the right to progress spiritually, and be free and done with their bad karma. Do you really think the "other side" wants you to be miserable? No way! You are here to break free and find abundance and happiness.
Item #3: Magic tricks.
Psychics who do magic tricks to manipulate the physical world. It's just that - a magic trick. NO HUMAN has such super-powers. Not Jeffrey, not me, not anyone. It is only by the grace and intervention of higher spirits (or "God", or whatever you like to call it), and hard work on the self, that true "psychics" are allowed to assist people with their extra senses. Likewise, no spell, rock, candle, or potion will bring you love, money, health, or success. Such things can help you to heal energetically and connect to spirit, but you have to do the work on yourself to bring yourself what you desire.
Item #4: Only psychics can communicate with spirits and people who have crossed over.
One client had been paying a psychic a large sum of money each month for 4 months because he wanted to communicate with his dead mother. This psychic told him the only way his mother would "hear" what he had to say was if he communicated through the psychic, since the psychic had super-powers to talk to the other side. I told him that that was not true and that all he had to do was THINK of his mother and she would hear his thoughts. I told him he didn't need a psychic to communicate with his mother - and I gave him a prescription for healing and balancing himself so that he would be receptive for messages his mother may be trying to communicate back to him. You don't need a psychic to play telephone to the other side - you can do that on your own right now, and if you work at it, you may become aware of the messages being sent back to you.
Item #5: Fear.
Typically this is found in clients who are heavily into an organized religion. Let me say - I am NOT anti-organized religion, unless it robs people of their personal power and causes them to put themselves through needless suffering. I see people who are afraid to even discuss concepts beyond the bible for fear of damnation to hell and not being "saved". We have STARCLEAR clients come to us in secret because they are looking for something beyond their organized religion, but fear the spiritual repercussions of deviating from the bible and from what their religion tells them to do. Do you really think God will damn you to hell for trying to live your best life and to learn all you can about spirituality and progress and develop spiritually? I can assure you that no higher spirit is mean or vengeful like that. We also get clients who have been told by their church that they are possessed because they have a history of mental illness, drug abuse, or criminal activity. Sorry, not all problems are "the work of the devil". We get clients who feel they have to suffer spiritual attack because it is their karma, and to practice the art of spiritual self-defense is wrong because it is "divination", which is against the bible. That only angels and Jesus and God can save, and if they don't intervene and save you, you must continue to suffer.
I simply cannot subscribe to this philosophy. If a criminal broke into your house in the middle of the night would you sit there and do nothing, hoping Jesus will save you, and that if he doesn't save you, then you were doomed to be a victim to the criminal? Spiritual attack is simple being attacked on an emotional level by a person without a physical body - do you really think you don't have the right to defend yourself because the bible says it's "divination" which is "wrong"? You'd call 911 and kick the criminal our of your house, wouldn't you? So too must you protect and defend your spiritual turf - stay strong - be a fighter - warrior - spiritually - take your power back. You won't go to hell, I promise.
Most religions seem to have so much in common. We all believe in the afterlife. We all believe in our immortal souls. We work with people from every religion, and with those who belong to none. The kind of work that we do is very compatible with all religions. The goal is to keep our spirits or soul, in the best shape possible, morally and energetically. Having a strong connection to God, or whatever deity you believe in, is a very positive thing, and we recommend it. We do not try to change people's belief systems, and only suggest that they become more connected and stronger in their beliefs. We help strengthen your connections, and help you deal with problems that may have occurred through negative emotional energies, or unhealthy spirits, that wish to interfere in your faith or life. It's possible that you have some psychic abilities. This is very natural. The work that we do will only strengthen your connection to the Angels and God. It's not a good idea to deny your natural abilities, but to use them and learn from them, and see how it fits in your life. Psychic abilities are perceptions, and it's good to be perceptive. That is certainly not a sin.
Genuine spiritual workers will empower you and teach you how to connect to spirit so that you can be your own psychic and spiritual worker and live your best life as free as possible from the constraints of the physical plane. Healthy religions or groups will not make you fear, nor will they dole out punishment to non-believers, nor will they take away your personal power by insisting you obey rules for little or nothing in return. Healthy religions and ideologies know that all spiritual concepts have value, that there is no "right" way. The way is "right" for you and you alone if it rings true for you.
