New Age Health Care - Way of Life Literature

Reiki is largely Hindu in its philosophy. It is described as
“an energy incomprehensible to the intellect which flows
through everything, transforming all realms of life ...
Reiki is oneness” (Horan, Abundance Through Reiki, p.
10).
Reiki is founded on the Hindu concept that God is
everything and man is part of God. One Reiki Master
says that “Reiki will eventually guide you to the
experience that you yourself are Reiki or Universal Life
Force Energy. ... you and I are that same Universal Life
Force Energy” (Abundance Through Reiki, pp. 9, 23).
Reiki is thought to open the chakras of the “astral body,”
which is a Hindu doctrine.
Paula Horan said that her Reiki teacher gave her a new
name, Laxmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth. He said to
her, “I am giving you the name Laxmi, because in this
lifetime, you will fulfill all of your desires” (p. 152).
The recipients of Reiki describe it as a powerful sense of
warmth and security, “a wonderful glowing radiance that
flows through and around you.” It is not only supposed to
provide healing but also to initiate the recipient into
higher levels of spiritual transformation. The
International Reiki Center says that “many people find
that using Reiki puts them more in touch with the
experience of their religion rather than having only an
intellectual concept of it.” This is the mystical approach
that bypasses thinking with an experiential connection
with God or the “higher power.”
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