[muir_redwoods]

"If people want to patronize New Age healers that should be their right, but they should not be entitled to have that New Age healing paid for out of public monies."

If public monies are to be paid at all (a position I do not support) upon what direct experience with Reiki do you base your opinion?

[toothfairy86]

In 1984, I was flying out to LA to see the summer Olympics. Also on the plane was a reiki practitioner who was being brought in to work on the athletes. Several people on the plane, including myself, were taking turns getting "treated". My neck and shoulders were stiff, so I figured, what the heck. Whatever he did worked for about an hour, until the time my cousin snuck up behind me at the airport and said "BOO". I jumped, my muscles seized up again and the relief I felt was gone.