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  • Warning: Energy “Healing” and Reiki May Be Offered to You at Your Hospital

    12/27/2010 5:00:20 AM PST · by joiful77 · 58 replies · 1+ views
    Lighthouse Trails Reserach ^ | December 20 2010 | Editors at Lighthouse Trails
    According to an article written by the “guru” of Reiki, William Lee Rand, the popularity of Reiki (and other energy healing techniques) is growing by leaps and bounds and is becoming common in many US hospitals. “At hospitals and clinics across America, Reiki is beginning to gain acceptance as a meaningful and cost-effective way to improve patient care,” Rand explains. “Personal interviews conducted with medical professionals corroborate this view,” (1) he adds. Rand says that the general public is “turning with ever-increasing interest to complementary health care, including Reiki,” and according to one study, one in every three Americans has...
  • US Bishops release statement ruling-out Reiki (Full Text)

    03/27/2009 9:42:48 AM PDT · by NYer · 29 replies · 923+ views
    American Papist ^ | March 27, 2009
    Catholic Culture gives us the brief: In a document released March 25, the Committee on Doctrine of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops blasted Reiki, a practice developed in Japan in the late nineteenth century that has gained acceptance in some Catholic retreat centers and other institutions. ... The bishops add, “Some forms of Reiki teach of a need to appeal for the assistance of angelic beings or ‘Reiki spirit guides.’ This introduces the further danger of exposure to malevolent forces or powers.” [more from Catholic Culture or the MSM.]Well, I guess it's a good sign when I...
  • Volunteers find mutual benefit in helping others

    08/23/2007 9:52:57 PM PDT · by Coleus · 407+ views
    northjersey.com ^ | August 23, 2007 | AMY NI PAN
    Sunlight trickles in from the blinds as Lucy Spyer crouches and takes Hazel McGuiness' hand. "Do you feel anything?" asks Spyer. McGuiness hesitates, then replies, "Not really." McGuiness was born and raised in Elizabeth. Today, at 93 years of age, she resides in Brighton Gardens of Mountainside, an assisted-living community in Union County. Spyer, a volunteer from Toms River, is performing reiki, a gentle "laying on of hands," purported to be calming and healing. Ten minutes later, McGuiness says, "I feel warm." Dan Hausser, another reiki practitioner, lays his hands on McGuiness' knees. "I have to warn you, I'm not...
  • Occult Link Is Seen In A 'Healing' Method Spreading Through Convents, Retreats

    02/08/2007 7:55:35 PM PST · by Coleus · 14 replies · 589+ views
    Spirit Daily ^ | 02.08.07 | Michael Brown
    In case after case, centers run by nuns seeking ways to redefine themselves or raise money are embracing a spiritual method called reiki -- which is also sweeping through other parts of the Church -- and it is a lesson of why something is defined as occult (or "New Age").  We reported on this several weeks ago: the infiltration of questionable spiritual practices, of which reiki may be the most prevalent, in Catholic retreat centers across the continent.That propensity can be expected to increase as the number of nuns -- and their resources -- dwindle and as they feel...
  • Reiki teachers hit back at priest's Satanic warning

    09/05/2006 10:58:42 PM PDT · by Coleus · 3 replies · 438+ views
    Reiki teachers have hit out at a priest who branded the Japanese healing methods as the work of Satan, it emerged today.  Fr Tom Ingoldsby of the Salesian Order accused patients of the complementary therapy of “opening the door to evil and occult forces which have later side effects”. But the Reiki Federation of Ireland (RFI), which regulates the training and practice of the healing method, dismissed the outspoken cleric’s views as being rooted in ignorance and suspicion.  Father Ingoldsby made his remarks in his ’Fast Food for the soul’: in the Open Door newsletter, which is distributed free to...
  • Chancellor Defends 'Nude' Statue and Meditations With Potential Occult Links [Bishop Pilla]

    09/15/2005 9:29:43 AM PDT · by Diago · 20 replies · 955+ views
    Spirit Daily ___________________________________________Chancellor Defends 'Nude' Statue and Meditations With Potential Occult LinksThe chancellor of a major American diocese has defended the use of both yoga and a form of esoteric therapy called "reiki" as ways of enhancing prayer and healing in a Catholic setting -- a view that appears to be in contradiction of the Vatican.The chancellor, Father Ralph E. Wiatrowski, of Cleveland, says that the diocese does not officially propagate the practices but sees nothing wrong with elements of them. His views first came to light in a letter to a local woman who had complained about  use...