Re: Frickin' Reiki People Still *** Me Off
The only way I've found to stop the spread of the contagion is either to avoid the person or to teach that person how to undo the Reiki initation and break off those ties and disconnect from the entities. Then their natural healing powers usually bounce right back and they get really happy and well again.
I feel like a geek to ask, but would you mind describing some methods you've experienced that helped "break the ties" to Reiki initiation? My initiations into Reiki level I and II happened about six months before my and my fiance's life fell totally apart financially, socially and professionally.
I had never been to a New Age bookstore before moving near Berkeley in '03, and was very excited to find a shop with big baskets full of crystals pieces with their metaphysical properties listed on little notecards, and books for sale on everything from traditional Mexican shamanism to feminist Goddess worship to cutting-edge ET channeling and David Icke books. All new to me! The resident Reiki practitioner was a man a couple years older than me (late 20s) who later told me that he was an ordained Minister of Melchizedek, and even said that if I wanted to I should go to a retreat in another state and I could be ordained too! He was very blissed out about it. He told me how he used to do mushrooms a lot, and was a pothead, but then got really into Indian mysticism, cleaned up, and had several open-eye visions of Buddha and Krishna during his meditations. He was very "into" Krishna and Ganesh, and had a friend who I saw give a talk on "using the energy of Kali(!) to obliterate the useless ego" at a yoga studio. Very dark eyes on that friend, a dark glare, a lot like Ben Stiller.
I came into his office a few times for Reiki treatments, which basically I didn't feel did anything for me. I was just beginning to suffer from chronic back pain from a mild scoliosis in the middle of my back, which has since turned into a "pain and short breath everyday for the past three years" kind of pain. Reiki didn't help with that at all. After a few $45/hour sessions, he suggested I attend his Reiki initiation, as then I could do it on myself and start healing others. The class was a mix of totally goofy, oblivious Berkeley college kids who also had never seen a New Age bookstore before, and a few middle-aged white folks with very tired faces, who told us about all the other classes they took. I recall one man who called himself an EFT Therapist, which I later found out doesn't take much since you can get the coursebook for free online and just start doing it for your friends. He told me all types of stories about how he helped Vietnam veterans, too traumatized to re-enter society, to break through their repressed memories and reclaim their shattered psyches.. all from a couple sessions of EFT! Well, it sounded amazing... although four months later, having done EFT several times a day and experiencing nothing more than the usual "subtle tingling" that I associate with so many New Age healing modalities, I could no longer believe experientially that EFT could have such an effect on people. Especially when I was aware of how difficult it is for survivors of trauma-based mind control to regain any of their memories, even after decades of therapy, it hardly made any sense that tapping the accupressure points could trigger any such release.
I'm getting sidetracked. I posted about EFT before in another topic. Point is, I was not very impressed with the Reiki crowd, and they extended no welcome to me either. I paid for the classes, got the Level I and II initiations within about a month of each other, and basically never saw the folks again and had no interest in going to the "local community Reiki circle" which consisted of the same four people in my class, and nobody else. Since then the Reiki teacher moved to Hawaii, where he told me that he was being initiated into the secret traditions of the Kahuna.
I feel as though my "ties" to Reiki have been broken, in the sense that I rarely think about it, I rarely think about my old teacher, and I have lost all interest in working to continue learning the system. But should I consciously be intending something to the effect of "All entities and energies aligned with Reiki are here-by cast out and disconnected from my physical, energetic and spiritual bodies on all levels of existence, throughout all points in time and potential."?
Or is there something more specific like "I here-by insist that Dave The Reiki Demon leave me the f*k alone, so mote it be!"?
This essay should be read as a "primer" by anyone thinking of taking yoga or considering taking it again. In my experience, when taking yoga, you have about a three week period during which the entities attached to the yoga ley lines (especially Hatha Yoga or "beginner's yoga") will battle for control of you. And you either fend them off and suddenly feel an aversion to going to class and stop going, or you sign on with them. There are no other choices.
Wow. Yep. Exactly. I intuitively came to this conclusion several years ago, and never wanted to express it to anyone because of the inevitable "ehh, you're just being a paranoid grumpuss". Well, this was just what I experienced, and I have tried to take yoga classes a few different times years ago, and have NEVER been able to keep up with it, even when in my head I was thinking "I really SHOULD go to the yoga class today, I'm all sore and I haven't excercised in a couple days.." but I just couldn't force myself to go.
Any impressions on Tai-Chi? I really like the idea of it, but again I took a class several years ago, and as soon as the class was ended my Tai-Chi practice stopped dead. It just felt like it "doesn't do anything", and when you start thinking "well... maybe I should do it for like a full hour, this time... maybe next time I'll do it for an hour and a half..." it feels more like a desperate WISH for it to work, rather than any intuitive "this is the right thing" kind of sense. I think this applies to yoga as well, I've known people who did yoga for HOURS a day, and they were extremely dysfunctional people, far from being what I would consider "healthy".
Tim
haha It ends with him being single again, divorced after five years of marriage, and having a flirtacious moment with a woman shopper at Whole Foods....til he notices the OM/sanskrit tattoo on her shoulder blade. She rounds a corner to the right and glances back to see if he's going to follow her. He turns left. 
