Does your church bookstore give books away for free or does it sell them? Mystics and theologians need to make a living like anyone else. If you are being sincere, I might suggest staging a protest the next time a nice little old lady wants you to fork over twenty dollars for another Kallistos Ware book.
Met. Ware give out a lot of information outside of books. He gives talks, lectures, and he does them without constantly teasing people about having some secret knowledge that you have to buy his book to uncover.
This is an obvious marketing ploy.
Met. Ware writes books on things like, how to live and Orthodox life, he doesn't have a monopoly on information and he doesn't claim to. You don't have to read Met. Ware's book to know what the Orthodox Church teaches or to learn about God. It's an additional source, not the sole source.
That's different from claiming that you have a monopoly on information, which is what this lady is doing. She's saying that God spoke to her, and told her things to tell people living in the modern age. Now she won't tell us what that message is.... we have to read her book to find out. And when she talks, it's to plug her book. Her talks are just her, "teasing" her book.
She gives out a bit of info... oh but you have to read her book to find out more.
No, it's got super scam written all over. She's not different that the tons of other people who claim to have special powers so they can get on Fox n' Friends and plug their book to millions of viewers.
She's building up a brand and a personality cult. I'm just waiting for her to start a "members only" club, where you can get access to the
'super secret' message God has for humanity.
Psssht. NO. This is about money, plain and simple.
Her name should be Goldman Sachs.
