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Sometimes it seems that the only thing growing
faster than the Internet these days is the number of new energy healing
modalities found there. Each of the hands-on healing methods existing
only a few years ago now serves as a trunk for the limbs, branches,
twigs and leaves of this healing tree of knowledge.
Let’s look at Reiki as an example. Traditional
Reiki begrudgingly split into Traditional and Non-Traditional Reiki.
What was supposedly sacrificed in purity was replaced with affordability
and accessibility. Those who could not afford the $10,000 investment
could also now access this “Universal Life Force Energy”. Books, often
condemned as heretical, were published showing secret symbols and ritual
attunements not originally meant for the common person. After an
explosion of Reiki Masters and the resulting competition for dollars
brought prices down even further, we suddenly saw more branches growing
on the Reiki tree. Reiki Master/Teacher, Advanced Reiki, Usui and Gendai
Reiki, Medicine Dharma Reiki, Kwan Yin Reiki, Karuna Reiki, Reiki Plus,
Unlimited Reiki, Reiki and Crystals, Reiki and Grids, Reiki Toning, to
mention a few. Is energy healing experiencing a natural evolutionary
growth, or a synthetic extrapolation caused by the need to offer more to
budding healers hungry for hidden rituals, secrets texts and complex
symbolism?
Of course there are some valid healing tools that
are now appearing on earth at this critical time in our history, but I
am beginning to question the need for more and more fractionalization of
something that seems basic and fundamental to this entity called “Energy
Healing”. Becoming a Reiki Master was never meant to be the end of one’s
education or experience in healing. Life goes on, and the moment we feel
we have arrived at the pentacle of our achievement we have just died to
the spirit of life. Many years ago Bob Dylan said “He not busy being
born is busy dying”. But do these endless additions and revisions help
bring more life to our Reiki knowledge and practice, or do they somehow
miss the point of life’s organic nature and spiritual origin?
If I wish to own a cow, it is better that I do not
buy one that has been wrapped up for me in increasingly smaller and more
convenient packages. It is much too hard to accumulate all the
appropriate pieces and reassemble these assorted tidbits back into the
original animal. Even after much effort the reassembled cow would lack
the essence of the original, and probably not produce much milk.
I am only using Reiki, a fairly well known
modality, as an example. From my observations, it seems that something
similar is happening in other healing modalities as well, causing me
similar misgivings.
But aside from healthy skepticism, is there perhaps
something more to see than “too many classes, not enough time”? Is there
a reasonable explanation for the recent abundance of branches on this
most fertile tree? Perhaps there is some common ground, some underlying
essence in each of these chunks of the sacred cow.
The most obvious similarity in each energy healing
modality is the energy, the “Universal Life Force Energy”, and how to
access it. How hard is it to access this energy for healing purposes, or
even for our own daily use? If we surf the internet we will find
literally hundreds of methods to acquire, assimilate, manipulate and
project this most basic of Universal Energy. But what we really discover
if we dig into some of these systems is that we as human beings are
designed to access this energy naturally, just by virtue of being human.
We are designed from the DNA up to access and use this Ki (Chi, Prana)
energy in any way we desire. How could it be otherwise? This is “life
force energy” we are talking about. It keeps us alive. It is and should
be the most natural thing in the Universe for us to have total, abundant
and unobstructed flow of this vital energy coursing through our being.
What is the basic requirement for access to this energy? The basic
requirement is being human, naturally human. The term “Human Being” is
essentially not a noun but a verb; a human being human. The most natural
thing for a human being to do is to access and utilize Universal Life
Force Energy.
How does this energy act when we access it? It
seems to respond to our thoughts. How could it be otherwise? It makes us
healthy when abundant. It makes us strong if we extend it through our
mind and body. It helps promote healing when we give it lovingly to
others.
Tom Brown Jr., the author of many spiritually
oriented nature survival books, quoted his spiritual mentor,
Grandfather, as saying, “The distortion of truth lies in man’s quest to
complicate all that is simple and pure. Doctrines and ceremony are
argued, churches and temples are separated, and man strives to
complicate more. What should be is striving to bring back the simple
truths, unadulterated by man’s ceremonious crutches”.
Is
there something to be gained from the many additions and variations to
energy healing? Is there anything to learn from taking more and more
classes, learning more and more symbols and modalities? If we learn to
be more “naturally human”, the answer may be yes. |
