TradCatKnight: Moving from a Healing Energy to the ‘Angel of Light’

 

 

In an interview with ReligionenLibertad, Eduardo, an ex-Reiki master, speaks about his experience with Reiki and the New Age movement. 
 

“I learned first-hand that the offerings of the New Age are not what they seem, that the supposed energies that they market to you are not energies, they do not come from the earth and much less from God. People don’t know what they are getting into,” Eduardo affirmed.

The most common way to fall into Reiki is to suffer some illness and look for an alternative remedy, often on the advice of friends, pseudo-therapists, etc . “What you need is a few Reiki sessions.” 

“ Reiki? … What is that?” 

“Reiki! Hey, man, it’s the best therapy for everything … It cures and improves all kinds of physical and psychological sicknesses. It can even help you die if your time has come. It’s like a therapy or palliative treatment …” 

Conversations like this, says Eduardo, bring many people to Reiki. 

No formation about evil 

“You look like an experienced poker player, and it turns out that you are (as I was) a total illiterate in religious matters,” explains Eduardo. “When you were little you were baptized, but you don’t remember it. You made your First Communion in white because your friends did. But you really didn’t understand very well what you were doing. And no priest in 12 years of Catholic school and catechism ever spoke to you about evil, Satan, the Devil … 

“They never warned you that you should not open the door to the Devil. To close it can cost months or years of prayer and things you never imagined.” 

And, thus, the person picks up a phone, calls and goes to his first Reiki session. 

The first hook 

“Reiki involves a Japanese technique of channeling energy for healing. They explain to you that you have chakras – energy points in the body – and they always tell you that the aura of your skin color is a little pale, which denotes disease. But you shouldn’t worry, you are assured, because they will lay their hands on your body and everything will get better…
 

“The problem is that at first this seems to be the case. You notice a false sense of well-being, a superficial healing of symptoms … This is the bait for you to think that everything is wonderful. You also think: Here I am, taking medication and destroying my liver when all this can be solved with an imposition of hands.” 

“The second step,” continues Eduardo, “is to get curious about how Reiki works and ask the master, ‘Excuse me, how do you do this? Is there something I can study?’ The answer is, ‘Nothing special, this can be done by everyone. You just have to take a simple course and past the first level and you will begin to channel energy. You start to notice it in your hands. From there you no longer have to come to us to do it here, because you can self-treat yourself.’ 

“The third step, if you are a little curious like I was, is to join the next course they offer,” says Eduardo. ”And don’t think you are going to find in these courses weird people, with social problems or with lives different from everyone else. No, the courses are filled with people of all ages and from all social classes – especially young people like me, eager to be able to heal others. Young people who don’t know that they are opening the door to the Devil.” 

Love, meditation and good vibes 

“You go to the course and a group of people talk about peace, love, meditation and good vibes … Positive energy for your life and the capacity for self-healing that the whole world has;   Read more »