Hello Ajdin and M4RT1N,
I just saw this topic come through my email and wanted to offer my input about charging for spirituality.
When Adrian asked me two years ago to be the instructor to teach OBE and that there would be a cost for membership, I was very skeptic and reluctant. I felt exactly the way you expressed and that spirituality should be free. I still hold those same values and it will never change.
Now, your saying "but you are making money and going against your core values". What we don't see is that the time, energy, creative design, tools, network bandwidth, disk space, copyrights, creating the site, web site commercial purchased plugins, pdf manuals, books and the list goes on. Someone had to write and program all this and trust me its not free when your the developer, designer, and the teacher. The astral academy literally took Adrian and I two years to complete, organize ideas, and program a million hours of trial by error til we got it right.
Just like college to advance your knowledge and find a better paying job. In college you have to pay for books, the instructor's fee, course, transportation, the building to teach in, housing, food, electricity, and the list goes on. I think you understand where I am now coming from or at least hope so..

Now, there is a *right* way to place a cost on spirituality and a wrong way. The astral academy was $24.99 each month and the student could terminate anytime. This is a modest and realistic cost vs. taking advantage of people with their hard earned money. Just look around the internet and research the high priced psychic's, mystics, advanced projectionists asking for arm and leg. This is where I draw the line and it doesn't matter how much you know, advanced, super guru professional spiritual leader. It is a crime and people will buy into it for spiritual awakening - in my book it is spiritual rape.
My web site
www.invisiblelight.us is 100% free and there is two hundred hours of audio and video. Radio show interviews, experiments, documentation, instructions, statistics, etc.. To run this continuous costs me about $300. a year and the site has been live for the last 8yrs at no cost. Your more then welcome to visit, email me questions, my door is always open..
I am very proud of what I have accomplished with out-of-body experiences and it's research. Along with helping others for what ever their interest is with obe.
When I helped a woman who is blind actually experience an obe and could see, it was a gift and healing. Now, that woman can project because I invested my time creating and setting up all these resources that I expressed earlier from business standpoint. What Xanth and Szaxx wrote (Thank You) about
helping disabled, handicap with astral projection. It has to start somewhere as long it is modest way of going about it for helping others.
All the best and appreciate bringing this matter up in this thread.
David A. Warner