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Again, wrong. It's not personal. It's called dealing with resistance in pursuit of a noble goal.

There are people, including many innocents, suffering and dying in this world because of egotistical charlatans masquerading as pious. People claim adherence to traditions that espouse the Golden Rule, yet almost no one gets the Golden Rule, including you.

Every religion teaches a variation of the Golden Rule which tells us that it's important and humans suck at it. If you haven't had an enlightenment experience, the easiest thing to point to is a lack of adherence to the Golden Rule.

As for the requirement of belief, science spends billions of dollars every year controlling for this crazy, inexplicable phenomenon called the Placebo Effect. It's almost like belief matters or something...

wymike 1mo ago

Belief does matter, the human brain is extremely powerful. We try to control for it to understand what is causing the effect.

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ArkonaFan 1mo ago

For both of you I guess. I never said it didn’t matter. I said it was Not a Requirement for Reiki to work. Belief may correspond to lack of resistance to the treatment. It can indicate that a person is karmically in a position to receive. It can indicate that the person is going to unconsciously contribute to the effect themselves. Belief is not a required component for Reiki.

RedTailHawk 1mo ago

Yeah. I wasn't trying to correct you on that. I've experienced Reiki from a position of neutral belief and that experience very much pushed me into the "Reiki is legit" camp.

I brought up the Placebo effect because wymike keeps banging the captain scientist drum pretty hard and seems to think that belief is not a valid variable which is a demonstrably absurd position to hold.