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gofundme page goes viral as "spiritual teacher" asks for funding

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https://www.gofundme.com/spiritual-journey-and-travel-fund



My name is Bec G. and I'm raising money to support myself on my travels and spiritual journey around the world. As I travel, I want to help people realize their own dreams and show them that anyone can follow their passions and make the life they want a reality.

I am a spiritual teacher, life coach, reiki and crystal healer, artist, YouTuber, traveler and writer. I love sharing these gifts with people and often want to just give them freely to anyone who can benefit from them. I believe we should all have the opportunity to have the things we need at our finger tips, whether or not we have the money for them. So, I want to be able to give freely, without worry, to people who have less or just need a helping hand for the moment.

My dream is to be able to travel the world, helping people see the beautiful potential within themselves and to help them along the way, any way I can. I want to empower people to follow their dreams, learn self love, create their own reality and express true soul expression!

I have many outlets from which I like to share what I have learned and experienced through my own journey and travels, so that I might help and inspire other people to do the same; These are readily available to all people through YouTube (Soul Journey), Instagram (We_Create_Our_World), Periscope (SoulJourney333), etc. for free!

I have set up this go fund me so that anyone who feels I have helped them in any way or would like to be apart of what I am doing and would like to help me fund my travels back to Australia (where I would eventually like to create my home base.) and around the world, they can do so. :)

This money will be used to sustain me while traveling, writing my book (about my personal journey), creating an oracle deck (something that has brought great clarity to me on my journey), putting out videos on my YouTube channel, creating my art and giving back to the communities wherever I go. I really want to get to know all people, from all walks of life and really understand them and give them hope and a helping hand if and wherever I can. I want to also document their stories on my YouTube channel, so they can have a voice and more people can understand all different kinds of soul perspectives. I want to show people, around the world, that we aren't really all that different and that we are one people, not separate. But also show the amazing color and uniqueness as well! This series is call "Soul Journey Interviews" and I have already started this project, you can check it out on my YouTube channel "Soul Journey".

Eventually, I would like to help bring communities together to help one another and to bring more unity to the planet through love, abundance, connection, art, and expression of all of our unique souls!

I'm not exactly sure if you can call this a business plan, but I know my passion is connection and helping people see the beauty within themselves and to really give hope to people. I see the true beauty within everyone I walk pass and I want to reach out and show them what I see. I want this to be my job!

I, myself, am currently low on funds and working to get on my own feet. But I have always been so blessed by other people with kind hearts, who have helped me get by when I was really low and I am so thankful! Those same people have been my biggest supporters for following my dreams and I want to do the same for others. When I publish my book and other projects, I hope to increase what I give out ten fold. But it's all a process and we all have to start somewhere, so I'm starting here. Giving what I can and growing in the process.

Whether you donate or not, thank you for taking the time to read about what I'm doing and please share the love in whatever way you can! If you do donate, a million times thank you for helping me realize my personal dreams and helping me to create many platforms in which to build up our fellow human beings and all beings on the planet.

Many blessings to you all and peace to you on your journey!

Bec
Help spread the word!

I was immediately struck by several conflicting base emotions.

How about you?
 

Skellig Gra

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Fuck off Bec G. I bet she lives in Williamsburg.

Can't knock the hustle though if she can sucker people in to paying for her vacation.
 

Dylan Sexbang

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I always wanted to make a bullshit gofundme. Like be brutally honest with it: I need $130 for a new chair, please fund my ass. I mean, I've eeen Tumblr people ask for money to go to cons goddamit, why can't I get chair
 

CHC

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First lesson:

"A fool and his money are soon parted."

I shouldn't shit on GoFundMe though, it helped pay for an expensive surgery on my cat, saving his life and the wallets of me and my girlfriend.
 
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??

What is viral or unique about this? There are 50,000 other gofundme beggars who want people to pay for their vacation, cars etc.

Well I assume it has gone viral because I found it on another forum and there were already plenty of people who had paid money to insult her before it was on there.

If it hasn't actually met the threshold of having gone viral, then I wholeheartedly apologise.
 

Foffy

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Man, what a lot of wooley nonsense in her "spiritual" resume.

Reiki is nonsense.

Crystals? Vibrate on the fuck outta here.

I respect her views on giving and attempting to be of service, but so much of this screams "I want to do that in comfort, with the usual materialistic fun of the culture." At worst, she's pulling a Deepak Chopra-esque scam of feel good empty spirituality.

Having delved in "spiritual" (I hate this word because of the kookery of the above mystical nonsense...) people who usually are of service do so in poverty, because they believe the teachings usurp material desires. They don't even let the social constructs of money get in the way to allow people to partake in what they have to offer. These are true teachers, and if there was any legitimacy in Bec's perspective, I strongly question it. A Vedantist or Zen monastic she clearly is not.

Must I ask what makes this viral? I thought the only thing viral on GoFundMe was that a lot of people use it to actually pay medical expenses...
 

dave is ok

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I think paying 5 dollars to insult her is sadder than her asking for money for a hippie world tour.
 

sfedai0

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Looks like OP just wanted to get some donations going for this girl apparently going "viral"
 
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If I edit my OP to remove any reference to anything having "gone viral" will people be happy? I am sorry for throwing that phrase around without first conducting due diligence.
 

jblank83

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If I edit my OP to remove any reference to anything having "gone viral" will people be happy? I am sorry for throwing that phrase around without first conducting due diligence.

Not to dogpile on you, but who cares?

She wants to go on a trip. She's asking for money. A few people gave her money.
 

Moppet13

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To think, we have revolutionized pan handling so you can reach out and beg to millions of people all at once without having to even hold up a card board sign.
 

clarknova156

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If I edit my OP to remove any reference to anything having "gone viral" will people be happy? I am sorry for throwing that phrase around with first conducting due diligence.

Just for future reference $415 out of 10k in like 7 days is not "viral". It's "please will my family donate the rest??!!".
 

CarpeDeezNutz

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The ones giving 5 dollars to insult her likes those rednecks buying coffee at Starbucks and using Trump's name.


They sure showed her!
 
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