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1) I did a bit of reading on Dr. Karim. While there does appear to be some anecdotal evidence I could not find any rigorous studies that support his hypothesis. If you know of any please share them.

2) I have an immediate family member who trained as a raiki master. They told me point blank there was no point in giving me a treatment because I did not believe that it would work. This is a significant red flag for me since if it only works because I believe then it’s psychosomatic and not, as the raiki practitioners claim, them doing something with energy.

Sorry if my differing life experiences and opposing view points are making me an asshole again.

ArkonaFan 1mo ago 💬 1

He takes things personally, I don’t.

1)I have not looked for outside material on him. From his former student and American teacher of his system I’ve learned a bit. https://www.biogeometry.ca/biogeometry-hepatitis-c-research I’m sure independent sources could be found.

2.) I don’t know what to say about your family member. I took my first Reiki class less than 2 years ago. I don’t know if they are coping for not being proficient or what. You do not have to believe in it to work. I was taught, and karmically it’s better, to ask for the recipients permission. I’ve not seen that even suggested in any of the handful of healing systems I’ve learned about.

3.) At the time of my taking that class I had not ever experienced anything I knew to be “supernatural”. I now have a conceptual model that has many forces beyond the physical plane but nothing supernatural. So now I daily do energy healing and exploration of nonphysical phenomena. From checking which food is the most strengthening to doing Fung Shue by directly perceiving those elements and balancing them. Mostly still needing the pendulum like a magnifying glass as the perceptions are mostly quite feint.

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RedTailHawk 1mo ago 💬 1

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 💬 1

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

ArkonaFan 1mo ago 💬 1

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.