Perhaps an article on “lessons from the other side”.
a synopsis of Erik’s best pearls of wisdom

Good morning, Elisa. : D

The “Now Reading” section sounds wonderful. How do I access it?

Regarding a Huffpost article, there are so many topics worth your time and readers’ attention that I hesitate to suggest Reiki, but I’m going to. As a person who has drug allergies, chemical sensitivities, asthma and multiple birth defects, I welcome any EFFECTIVE treatment that avoids meds. I figure I have to limit the use of the few antibiotics I can still take to times when I REALLY have no other solutions, as the list of drug allergies keeps growing. I also find, once I’m experiencing adverse side effects and get around to reading the inserts that come with the prescriptions, that if there’s a negative side effect, I invariably experience it. A lot more people seem to be finding themselves in the same situation and are probably searching for help their bodies can tolerate.

NIH funded research has proven that acupuncture, meditation, massage, and hypnosis work for some things. I have found that acupuncture and massage temporarily help some things whereas Reiki HEALS things. I’ve also found that acupuncture HEALS some things. NIH also has information on its web site about Reiki that I think you’ll find valuable:

http://search2.google.cit.nih.gov/search?site=NIH_Master&client=NIHNEW_frontend&proxystylesheet=NIHNEW_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&filter=0&getfields=*&q=Reiki&btnG.x=16&btnG.y=19

Gabriel Cousens, MD and Reiki Master, wrote the Foreward to Paula Horan’s book, “Empowerment through Reiki: The path to personal and global transformation”. Dr. Cousens says Paula Horan’s “understanding is synchronous with [mine] which is that we are composed of more solid energy fields, which we call the physical body and less dense fields, which I call subtle organizing energy fields (SOEFs). These SOEFs are moving faster than the speed of light and also simultaneously slower than the speed of light, reflecting the multidimensionality of the human condition. These SOEFs act as vortexes for the faster than the speed of light cosmic energy to come into the body, which is slower than the speed of light dimension, and also act as templates for the structure and function of the emotional, mental, and physical body. On the physical level, when these SOEFs are filled with energy they become well organized. As part of a step down template phenomena, they create a well organized DNA/RNA system, which in turn creates well functioning enzymes, protein synthesis, and cell division. When the cells divide and function well, then the glands, organs, and tissues function well and we have health.” Paula, of course, writes for the average reader(LOL), but I knew with your medical background and knowleged of physics, you could appreciate Dr. Cousens’ hypothesis.

Paula says universal energy passes through the Reiki Master into the one receiving the treatment, and the one who is receiving the treatment decides (subconsciously) how much energy to draw and where in the body to send the energy. The Reiki Master is not drained by the treatment, and actually becomes energized because the person being treated will not use all of the energy that’s forthcoming. It is important for those who want to do Reiki to have been treated by a Reiki Master first so all of their chakras and energy pathways are cleared and can function to allow the passage of energy. We all get energy blockages and develop areas of stagnant energy, so it’s important for Reiki Masters to continue to do Reiki on themselves or have another Reiki Master do treatments for them from time to time.

I’ve been searching for solutions; things that will get at the ROOT of problems. Not salve that will merely give temporary relief, as important as that sometimes is. I’ve found that when some people reach a certain level of illness or pain, they cannot spend time on spiritual growth. Meditation and Reiki aid physical AND spiritual health.

By the way, Paula’s book also gives a brief history of Reiki, which is quite interesting. The book is only 150 pages, including many diagrams and charts so it is a quick read. I got into it again last night since I haven’t read it in years and wanted to be able to be whole-hearted in my recommendation. Now I have 6 books going at once, but they all have such valuable information. Wish I could just do a “mind meld”! : D

Excellent, Elisa! I did get into it. Thank you. i’ve read most of those books. Would love to read Biology of Belief if you would send it to me.

I still haven’t been able to get into the Forum. I worry about misusing your blog by writing so much. Some time when I’m with my daughter-in-law and have my computer, I’ll ask her to see if she can get into the Forum for me. She’s so much more computer savvy than I am.

I’ll ask my Guides if I should try to write an article for HuffPost. : D

mom2bzs, you know the history of Reiki? (I hope I do this VERY brief synopsis justice!) In the mid-19th Century, Dr. Mikao Usui, in Japan, was a Christian. He became Dean of a Christian seminary. His students said, “Jesus healed people and told his followers they would do even greater miracles than he did; teach us how to heal.” This sent him on a quest of many years, to many countries (Paula Horan gives more detail in her book), studying many religions, languages (such as Sanskrit) at many institutions of higher learning (including the University of Chicago), and studying many texts in their original languages. Tibetan scrolls document the travels of “St. Isa”, whom many believe is Jesus. Dr. Usui discovered Reiki in the Tibetan Lotus Sutra. He believed he found the intellectual information about how Jesus performed miracles. He thereafter had an incredible spiritual experience whereby is energy was freed up and he began teaching Reiki in Japan. He had one student, Dr. Hayashi, a retired naval officer, who started a Reiki school in Japan and taught a woman named Takata, who ended up bringing Reiki to the US. Dr. Hayashi gained great spiritual insight and foresaw the World War and that Japan would lose. In the late 1930s, he dressed in full ceremonial dress and announced to his friends announced that he was ready to leave. He then transitioned to the unfettered life. The Dalai Lama says many spiritually evolved people can live very full, long lives and, as elderly people, decide it is time to transition, and just leave painlessly while meditating. Apparently it isn’t uncommmon in Buddhist monasteries. I’m hoping that for all of us! No leaving at 68 from illness, Elisa! There’s too much love here for you to go. – Namaste! XO

Wow-weee! That was a fabulous experience, Elisa! I’m so happy for you. Your guides must have felt like you needed this experience. It will strengthen you many times in the coming years. It’s the kind of experience that Adyashanti describes in “Spontaneous Awakening”:

http://www.amazon.com/Spontaneous-Awakening-Adyashanti/dp/1591792916/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1281822060&sr=1-1

And the way Eckhart Tolle describes his “awakening” in his many books and lectures. You’ll reflect on this over time, I’m sure, and become more and more grateful for the experience. You’ve gotten a glimpse of how things “are” without the blinders of our physicality. I think we have to agree to a common view of reality in order to function in this world, and babies, who have just come into the fettered world, have to succeed in forgetting how things really are in order to learn the lessons they’ve come here to learn. We really are One, and, though time is something we create in this life to enable us to learn lessons and function, there really is no “time” as we understand it. Einstein DIDN’T prove there is time. He was working toward a Unified Explanation of Everything, and got bogged down and frustrated after E=MC2. Some physicists think he actually set science behind 100 years, and string theory is much closer to describing reality. they say we should think in terms of “spacetime” NOT “space” AND “time”. Delores Cannon, if you continue on and read all her books, regresses people who claim to have experienced being “water” and “stone” and various animals…just because we like to have experiences. We’re curious about everything and want to experience everything. Because of “spacetime”, Reiki can benefit past AND future lives. How wonderful! Have I gone off on a tangent?! – XO