From: tnishi@kansas.Berkeley.EDU (NISHIYAMA Tetsuto)
Subject: Re: interesting.....
Reply-To: tnishi@lsa.ncl.omron.co.jp
Organization: Omron Computer Systems R&D Labs 
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 08:32:32 GMT


In article <7373@chaos.DAC.Northeastern.edu>,
johnson@chaos.DAC.Northeastern.edu (Chris Johnson) writes:
|> 
|>      Hm, well, the way it was defined to me was that reiki meant
|> "universal life force", similar to the sanskrit "prana".
|> 

	I looked in some dictionaries but couldn't find anything that
	would fall under that meaning, but there could be something.
	I would need to look at the actual characters to really know.

|>      The store goes that around 1822 or so a Buiddhist monk in Kyoto
|> Japan by the name of Dr. Mikao Usui started to look for the method used
|> by Buddha to heal.  The way I heard it he enevtually rediscovered it,

	...?...interesting...but I don't know...it's possible, I guess,
	and if it's true and really does exist, it must not be a very
	popular form, otherwise I would imagine that I would have heard
	of it at sometime or another here in Kyoto.

|> "Reiki".  In his application he did touch his clients although many using
|> the method today do not.  

	It sounds more like the Chinese "qi gon" or "kikoujutsu" in 
	Japanese...a technique for controlling body energy flow...
	also used for healing.

|>      Now I guess the question is, have I been misinformed?  Is this
|> wrong?  I was thinking of taking a coure if that's what you call it.  I
|> don't want to spend the money on something that isn't going to work.  I
|> don't like being misinformed.

	I don't know if it's wrong ... I've never heard of it and I
	couldn't find it in the dictionary, but it could very well 
	exist...it's hard to tell because there are so many fakes out
	there that it's hard to trust the less popular forms of "healing".

	If you're really thinking about taking the course, I would be
	cautious...and I hate wasting my money on something that doesn't
	work and I hate seeing others do the same thing...if this method
	of "healing" is a form of healing that can supposedly be done
	without touching the client, you'll need a he__ of alot of 
	practice in controlling your own body "energies" to be able to
	"heal" someone, or practice how to convince your clients (otherwise
	known as hypnosis) that they are "healed", but all the money in
	the world won't teach you that, unless you're lucky enough to
	have the natural skills to do it.  Just too many con-men out
	there who use "time-honored Asian tradition" as a way to 
	convince people that their method is THE method...they collect
	money, give a couple of phony lessons, and then disappear...
	
|> 
|>      However I would like to be able to help with healing.  I guess it
|> depends on you definition of healing too.
|> 
|> Chris Johnson
|> Northeastern University

	Yeah, I agree with you...it definitely depends on your definition
	of healing...if you're interested in Asain methods of "healing"
	I would recommend the more popular forms, such as "hari" (acu-
	puncture), "okyuu" (application of heat to pressure areas), but
	seeing that this IS alt.backrubs, how about "shiatsu" (acu-pressure)
	which actually DID originate in Japan and is probably one of the
	easiest and practical methods...all you need are a couple of hands.
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