Fair enough. I think you might be on to something with the mix of origin of symbols being an issue in this. I've heard similar warnings with not mixing Yoga breathing exercises or postures with T'ai Chi breathing exercises or postures. I'm not a visual person, I don't draw or visualize the symbol the way many people do. I recite the word ( I took some Japanese language classes in school, and feel a pleasant connection with the flow of the language) out loud or in my head until I feel a certain harmonic energy to the word. Maybe that's one of those "filters" at work, in technique, one of the things that most students rushed through I and II in a single weekend haven't had the time to properly develop. 
Perhaps I was lucky enough to get a good teacher. She insists that people take at a minimum of 21 days of daily self healing before moving on to the next level.
I dunno. At what point am I allowed to be critical of something and say I have grave concerns about something? Is it after one person dies after receiving the technique? Two? Ten? I have ten cases of death that I can directly trace to occurring after receiving Reiki treatment. And I have dozens more of SUSPICIOUS deaths that SEEM to be associated with Reiki but don't have such a clean "cause/effect" that can be "objectively" traced.
And then there are dozens of cases of other health crises people have experienced after receiving Reiki that did NOT behave as typical "detox" or "healing crises" situations -- I'm talking flatlining, heart attack, stroke, mental or nervous breakdown, psychotic episodes, and more. This is culled from all the cases I've been gathering notes on over the years from a) my own healing practice as an intuitive counsellor, which put me in direct orbit with many Reiki practitioners and their patients b) corroborative experiences of other professional healers and c) cases and communications gathered from healers and holistic people I don't personally know that well from all over the world, but 90% of these folks I have been able to check out in terms of their credentials and so forth as being "legit" and knowing what they are talking about.
Dozens of cases, probably more like over a hundred, that seem to provide very STRONG negative evidence of Reiki being the DIRECT cause of some very bad stuff.
At what point, then, am I allowed to be critical and continue my "blanket accusations?" What further research must I do? How many more people have to die?
Just let me know.
What I mean in "blanket accusation" is that your numbers of "bad" incidents just seems small in comparison to the amount of reiki being done. There's something like 39 or 40 different branches of reiki up there (lets say 40, just for the round number) If each of those branches only had 5 "professionally" practicing members, you'd have 200 practicing members total. How many clients do you have for your practice? Multiply that by 200. I'll use my own number of 5 for people I work on regularly (obviously not enough to make a career out of, but I think I'm still too young and inexperienced myself to move in that direction at this time in my life). That's 1000 clients. "Dozens" and "hundreds" of cases that have "bad" effects just seems kind of a small percentage to me out of a thousand clients. If we add in people who do reiki non-professionally in the .... hundreds of thousands?.... we get a lot more reiki being done to make the statistical significance of "dozens" and "hundreds" of cases of "bad" stuff even lower.
Sometimes, people just die. That's a part of life. Could reiki have been a factor in it? Sure! I don't know the case studies... were any of instances where the person was ready to "transition" anyway, like old age, or seriously injured? Was that even mentioned as a factor? What qualifies a person for making that assessment? I know the system I use (which isn't mentioned above) states very blatantly a warning that reiki can instigate death in the elderly, terminaly ill, seriously injured or other persons ready to "transition". Sometimes, for some people, death is a "better" alternative than life.
Reiki doesn't work for you. That happens. I've refused to do reiki on people who have asked me for it, because their/my higher self says no. Some of these problems could be from a practicioner being less discerning. It hasn't worked out in the general 3D perception of "good" for some other people. Between the two of us we have listed a number of factors that could be the cause of that. But again we're talking about hundreds of cases out of hundreds of thousands of reiki sessions, 0.1%. It just doesn't seem that there are enough "bad" cases to justify saying that the whole system, in whatever of the 40+ forms, is tainted. There is enough to say that there should be some more discipline and discernment from the practicioners and even more importantly, from the teachers, and that people should be cautious and discerning. But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
So you have the Sanskrit critters (these are a very distinguishable group of entities; I see them in the energy fields of every person I've known who either received a Reiki treatment or who has been initiated into Reiki -- they tend to hang out and try to convince folks that they are "spiritual guides."
I can't speak for your experience. I can relate to it in a way. Like I said, I am not a visual person. I just don't perceive the various energies that way when I am in a sober state of mind. Instead, I feel a "tone" or "pitch". But regardless, I am aware of these "critters", though my "sensual" and therefore "conceptual" interpretation of "them" is very different. To me "they" feel a "lower" consciousness than that of the higher selves, but not something that I would consider malign or evil, simply ignorant in comparison. I was not aware that this consciousness traveled to people that are being worked on as well as initiated. I can see how that would be disconcerting, especially for someone who does have a consistent negative reaction to reiki. I will have to think on this more, take what limited visualization skills I have and find out if I can see them your way, but without the allergic reaction. Maybe a different perspective can give us both further insight. Have you spoken with others who sense and interpret energy visually about them?
