Hi Kahuna,
Sorry, normally i am in silence, but today i want share my feelings: if someone it's wrong or angry, and "you" or "me" not, and "we are healers", it's not "our" work to make feel another human being worse, we "need" be respectful, at first with us, and send compassion, understanding, empathy and good energy, It's our work like a healers, isn't?
And if someone it's wrong and make accusations, it's not our "trouble", is the problem of the others.
We don't need to continue the way, follow up, we need to know stop, and send healing-light, like a "good healers", don't you feel the same?
And my intuition tells me that in this Tribe, anyone is like Charles Manson, i feel is a strong comparison, and infact, the comparisons are never healthy. We learn sometimes about our pain or errors, and is enough.
Everybody is different, and have a unique story, some jurneys are more difficult and longer than others...
It's nice take care about what we seed with our words. Words are powerfull, to heal or to hurt.
We are One, we are like stars, we do our small-big work to create the Universe, i like take care about what i do with my big family.

Something important , you wrote: " The only way someone could believe that healers should work for free, is if they were suffering from brainwashing "
Well Kahuna.... i have Good-News for you ! ! ! : I'm not suffering from the brainwashing, and better, i 'm not the only one here!
and i don't charge any cent if someone ask me to help to heal himself.
People ask me like a healer, my degrees said i am, i know perfect the law of abundance, to give-to take,
I don't like call myself "healer". I am a student, and i will be forever, thanks never ends.
Always i ask for something that people usually have,to give, i ask for their best, and they bring me many kind of gifts, offerings, barters, somes are funnys, some are delicious, some help my walls, my teeth, some save my life too, and i accept happy! This are MY charges.
And like the wise words of Memengwaa "...maybe they can help with the plants in the garden! ".
Or they learn to have their owns plants...in the right moment, when they will be are ready.
I am very rich ! and i am altruist too, as many of my teachers was and are, many of my teachers have not charged for give me
their knowledge, I do the same, and to me, works, i choose my way but i respect if anothers charge.
How am i rich without charge ? i hear many times at day : "thank you , I love you, you are an angel, you give me the oportunity
to change my life", sweety blah blah blahs to feed my ego 8(
I know i am just their mirror, yes, i have love to give, I take and give many hugs, we share many hands and kisses, i see new open hearts, many clear tears of hope, and many big smiles to help take off some part of the big drama. Sweet. This are more of my charges. Yummy.
But i'm not an angel, i'm not perfect, only i try to give my best, my own experiences, i share therapies, techniques, includded in silence and distance.
And i see how many lifes change, not for me, was because someone trust and choose to open his soul, choose to change, choose to be responsible with his life, responsible with his health, is not me, just i use my tools, my good intentions, the love to come back to love themselves. This make me feel rich of bliss, and feels like a wink in my path, step by step.
Maybe if we share another way to feel the happines and gratitude with simple things, they start to feel bettter, infact to be more healthy, because they begin to feel how powerful they are inside.
And maybe, because the Universe give me another work to make money, all that i don't charge come from my other work ,
But trust me, I had to pay a high price for my kind of life, many tears, and I renounce to many things, but sometimes i like to use high-heels.
Now, i feel tottally blessed and in gratitude, and i work on myself a lot, to be ready to give something, to come back all that I have received.
Usually i live in South America, but i travel to lear about human beings, i know the most poor countries in the world and the most rich, and
i saw this: when more rich is the country, need more things to be happy ... and more brainwashing is the people.
I had the blessed oportunity to live with the Urus indians, the first time 15 years ago, on a floating island, without anything,
life is more simple , troubles too, and they barter fish for fruit, they heal the ocean, the sky, the food. Free. Simple.
The same was in the most poor places in India.
You ask : "Healing isn't service?", not, in many places healing it's a service from the honor, it's a mission.
And i saw an universal language thats works there, and arround the world : LOVE , is equal wherever.
Maybe Kahuna, Love is the drug that your hands and Kalona needs, i want some too 8-)
Love is a service???..... why not?! to me is a chain, a chance, an offering, is a Sacred Blessing.

Healing-Love to you <3, to Kalona <3 and for Everybody arround <3 like a chain <3 yes? <3
And peace !