h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi there!
I found your article on reiki very interesting. Are you a reiki master yourself? I think that maybe people ought to be warned that there is a big range of fees charged for attunement and to be sure that the master is genuine and trustworthy.
Love and light, Cristal

Thanks.

Yes, got my master from William Rand years ago.

And yes, the fee system is ugly. However, I didn't want to get into "reiki politics." Also, the post is "edited". I don't recall how much... there may have been more.

This is essentially the short version of an into guide I had out. You can find the full thing at [URL removed by moderator], along with various personal rants including the ten grand issue.

I am also a Reiki Master, both Usui and Karuna. Over the years I have added things to my healing sessions and teach them to my students in Advanced Reiki 2. I make it clear that these methods are not reiki, but work well with reiki. The reiki energy boosts the effects of crystals and tuning forks well.

Personally, I did not pay large fees for my reiki training. I actually traded for my training. I have not as of yet charged for training students because at this point I am only teaching those who come to me with a real desire. I do believe though that the more people who are attuned to at least reiki 1, the better our world will become. There are many Masters who charge much less than the prices mentioned in the article. The training is no less just because you didn't pay huge amounts for it.

Another hot issue is lineage. This is a very Japanese consept that isn't doing well in the US as much as Mr. Rand would like it to be. I know that I am 8 or 9 generations down from Rand, but in moving seem to have lost the paper that names everyone. I, like many others, am not all that concerned about the names. But in the attempts to accredit reiki with western medicine I worry that the politics of reiki may end up discrediting many fine reiki practitioners. How do you feel about this subject?

(Please pardon spelling and grammer errors. I usually use spell and grammer checks)

Ack, my outside URL was killed. It didn't point to any offensive... oh well.

Reiki and mainstream medicine? Nope, just doesn't work. You see, both systems work in their fashion. But Western style science is a belief system that will completely reject anything that doesn't conform to clinical analysis. Under this model, entire mainstream fields are somewhat questionable. e.g. psychology is called a "soft" science.

Since the fifties Western medicine has been trying to figure out how acupuncture works. The practitioners will explain patiently about chi and the bodies' energy flows. The western doctors look puzzled, then call it electro magnetism or some yet to be understood response of the nervous system.

IMHO, if Reiki can be classified a stress reduction therapy, it's probably better off all the way around. Note, this is not be trivialized. At the very least, someone will feel relaxed and content after reiki. This cannot but help. I believe the aid can be more profound than this, but I will never be able to prove it so a clinician.

As to accreditation, on the one hand, it would be nice to have a skill set that is understood to be standard. However, I don't really trust anyone to set that standard. It's a little like censorship; who decides what we should be protected from? Who gets to say what is wrong?

Accreditation implies the establishment of an authority. I know this community pretty well, most are wonderful people. However, I still wouldn't trust them to feed my cat when I'm away.

as far as western doctors go, a man named Wihelm Reich developed a similar system, called Orgone therapy, which he claimed to be able to measure and direct to do such things as cure cancer. Partially at the urgings of th AMA, Federal Marshalls destroyed his laboratory with axes, burned all of his books and notes that they could find, and threw him in prison, where he died.