The alms bowl

an invitation to give

Now and then, no more often than once a month, I have walked my alms round online.

Today is such a day, please allow me to pause our usual daily content for this rather important invitation.

I’m asking for you to consider your support for myself, for Silentium, and for my other work online. Please give me your attention for a few minutes here, allow me to explain.

I have just one goal. Too help pull every person I meet who is drowning in the river of suffering that I possibly can, in any way that I can. To help those who are not at peace, to find peace. This is the why behind all of my work. When you support the work, this is what you’re supporting.

One thing I must make clear, is that I don’t seek growth for the benefit of financial support, I seek financial support for the growth of this, my life’s work.

My work here at Silentium, and elsewhere, such as the hosting of my weekly offering, The Silence, and now, with the building of an online contemplative community from the current foundations of my work (more news on that in the coming days and weeks), this work cannot run on empty. I need your support, to help keep the lights on, to keep my equipment maintained in good working order, and even something towards rent, food, and other basic essentials.

Besides the forming of a broader contemplative community, I wish to offer my silent offering, The Silence, more often, and I wish to add my meditative and contemplative music and wordless meditations to that. All of this requires funding to come further into being.

Today, at time of writing, there are over 1100 subscribers to Silentium. 1103 to be precise. Of these, 41 of you so far are paying subscribers. You are keeping the lights on here at Silentium, so that free readers can access the daily posts (although not the archive of 5 years of posts older than 7 days — this is available only to paying subscribers and founders, as is commenting, chat, and other forthcoming benefits).

If even just 110 (10%) of readers here were paying subscribers, rather than 41, it would more than double the overall income generated by subscriptions. Even more than that is needed, in order to maintain this offering in the long term.

So today, I am asking you, those readers who do not currently have a paid subscription to Silentium, to consider, what difference your paid subscription could make, not only to me, but more importantly, to the extent to which Silentium could reach, and to the quality of content I am able to offer here.

I need to upgrade my audio setup, in order to offer recordings of my meditations, which are currently not available other than in my online courses. Good microphones, audio interfaces, software, music, and soundproofing all have an overhead, beyond the other overheads of running Silentium, such as my writing time, time responding to comments and the email messages I receive, most days.

If you are already a paid subscriber, but interested in supporting me further, or by other means, then please also check out my donations page, or donate directly via PayPal here.

If you’re a free subscriber, please know that I love you, I care about you, and I support you, even if you cannot support Silentium financially at this time. But if that changes from your side, that would be most welcome too.

Thank you for reading, and for your support here, whether it is by paying, reading, sharing, donating, whatever the means, I am grateful for your presence here.

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