Dear Non-Contributing User,

   From its inception in early 1997 until January, 2005, nearly all the costs of the Soil And Health Library were paid for by me, Steve Solomon. After seven plus years of financing the library to the cumulative tune of about $7,000 I began to feel some resentment. About that same time I also realized that the library's content was not increasing as rapidly as it once had been. My negative emotions were burdening the library's progress.

   So I did a series of meditations, seeking advice from the Universe about this matter. And was given this answer: "insistantly and directly ask those using your library to contribute a small amount; a membership fee." So I am doing just that.

   If you had already made the small contribution I request you would not be seeing this letter. But you have not yet joined the library. You have not exchanged ten Euros for access to highly valuable information that has been painstakingly assembled and provided for your benefit. Consequently I feel entitled to give you a bit of my viewpoint.

   Let me first remind you that your request for a copy of whatever it was you asked for has not been denied. This is and shall remain a free public library because there are people who can gain access to the world wide web but who feel so impoverished that a donation of ten euros seems entirely beyond them.

   Your use of this library is being subsidized by the contributions of others. You are getting something whilst giving back nothing. This is an "out" exchange. I am entirely certain that if you wish to make spiritual progress in your lifetime then you must get "in" exchange with others. To get your "karma" in order it is probable that you in particular will have to overemphasize the "in" part of your exchanges because there probably have been many other instances in your past of being "out" exchange. My own past failures to have my own exchanges in balance is one reason I make and for seven years almost entirely paid for this library myself.

   So for your own sake please become a Contributing Member. Doing so will help you as a Being. Your contribution also helps motivate me, the librarian, to become more productive. That's the way this universe works. Your ten euros will motivate me to work harder and offer even more materials; Your ten euro contribution will probably give you access to a hundred euros worth of additonal information you wouldn't have otherwise have had access to. As it says in The Book: 'cast thy bread upon the waters and it shall come back to thee tenfold.'

   This library now collects more in membership fees than its operating costs. So I promise I will spend all surplus funds on obtaining information to add to the library and/or I will buy better equipment so as to scan, OCR and process these materials in a more rapid and effective manner and/or will add more actual in-print books to the growing collection of what is becoming a "real" physical library located in Tasmania.

   Please join this library and help it grow.  To join now, click the little PayPal button below. If you can not use PayPal, please send funds in cash by post to Steve Solomon, PO Box 524, Exeter, TAS 7275 Australia. If you send cash, be sure to enclose your email address and postal details so I can acknowledge receipt and enter your details into the membership database.

   Finally, might I point out that there is one other benefit to becoming a contributing member. I offer to chat about the materials in the library or the subjects it covers with any contributing member, using Google chat or via internet telephony, using Skype or G-talk. Contact me by email to set this up.

I am here to serve you,
Steve Solomon, Librarian

Ps—see our easy-to-understand financial statement here.