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HeyHey everyone! BACKGROUND TO MY QUESTION: I have been trying to recover from an extremely fundamentalist Christian ("Xtian" or "Chrispy" for brevity) Culture. I was in music-leadership positions and even toured and worked for 4 churches, all of which were very normal for me but from my...

Hi all I've been lurking for a year and thought I would join the forum. I have experience of being taken in by New Age fraud and how easy it is follow cult behaviour. I lived in Glastonbury UK for five years, dropped out and became very new age. I learnt Reiki and 'qualified' and got Reiki I and...

Thought you might get a little giggle about this one. Just when I think I've heard the silliest woo... Ancient Rainbow Conscious Healing (ARCH) Sounds sciencey! Said in the context of saying it's much more powerful than Reiki, seems a weak argument. Skittles!:wave1 Get a healing by email...

A friend of mine linked to the following stating that there is scientific evidence of Reiki. "Reiki Really Works: A Groundbreaking Scientific Study" You can check out the summaries of the studies yourself here. You'll need to create an account but it's free and painless. The totally...

Is Reiki a religion? If so, what makes it one? What makes a religion?

One of my best friends is a firm believer in woo, and I have been ok with it so far. She doesn't spend a ton of money on woo-related products, and if something goes seriously wrong she does what needs to be done. My current issue is that she is considered a Reiki Master (from way before knew...

Love the article. The comments scare me though, of course. Oh whoops... Linky! http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2009/10/05/citizendoctors/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1136870/The-boy-11-tumours-sent-home-die--survives-grandparents-alternative-therapy-treatments.html It is published in other papers,where a UK doctor states he cannot confirm the story as the boy isnt a NHS patient,and states cancers can sometimes...

It's official - I have had an absolute gutsful of sportsmen and women claiming all sorts of ridiculous garbage has given them an advantage. I had the misfortune to win a copy of Wind Driven, the biography of the greatest women boardsailor ever, Barbara Kendall - 5 Olympic Games for 1 gold, 1...

Hi to all, this is my first post here, apologies if this has been asked before, but I can't find the answer. I'm sceptical to the core of my being, it gets me into all sorts of trouble really. A friend of mine has mentioned there is "scientific proof" that reiki has a measurable effect on...

My girlfriend pays for sessions with a Reiki Master. I am pretty open-minded about "alternative" healing treatments (I believe that acupuncture, hypnosis etc. can be beneficial) but this Reiki stuff seems like a crock to me. I am surprised at the lack of skeptical/critical information about...

Ok, so everytime my mother gets home from work she says "reiki" to herself so that she can get a place to park her car near her home (my town is crowded with cars and lacks sufficient parking space). Every time she says "reiki" repeatedly in her car while driving home she gets a parking space...

I'll have the sweet and sour Chi ball, please. http://cgi.ebay.com/Reiki-Distance-Healing-One-45-min-Session_W0QQitemZ280105488836QQihZ018QQcategoryZ102518QQcmdZViewItem I hope one of you skeptic jerks doesn't out-bid me. ;) Still reading the forums when I can, but busy with my new job, etc...

C'mon now...haven't we all asked ourselves this, at one time or another?

A local hairstylist/reiki master is now doing: Healing Haircuts (not really worth reading, just citing to justify quote) A beacon of hope to stiff-haired artists everywhere! Hummm. Maybe, it was due to this: Must be why we never see any stiff-haired constipated Japanese artists out and about.

A few nights ago I was at a small dinner party, and one of the guests arrived with a very pronounced limp. She told us that the day before, she slipped down a few stairs and jammed her foot on something. The whole thing sounded rather painful, and the aforementioned limp showed that she was...

My friend (let's call him A) - claims that he can tell if someone is a Reiki master by their proximity. He reports sensations of 'electrical energy', (eg pins and needles, tingling and heat), when in the presence of a Reiki master, whether knowing him previously or not. We have agreed to do a...

Does anyone have a link to studies debunking reiki?

Hi there, Im just wondering if any of you know if there has been any studies done into the veracity reiki. My mum believes in lots of new age... ideas, but ive been trying to slowly talk her into the idea that there is no science behind them, and that, if real, they would rewrite the laws of...

It was bound to happen. As I was wandering around the first floor of my library (I roost on the third floor, generally), I was stopped by a patron I used to help in my former department who wanted to know what happened to my neck. These days I am wearing a cervical collar, which I usually refer...

Oh great. The gymn in our office building is now offering the chance to lie down and have someone wave their hands over you... I mean Reiki sessions. From their info: Cost: 20 - 35 pounds. There are some things I really can't understand how people fall for. Anything that involves 'energy'...

A student in my "Psychology of belief in the paranormal" class sent me this article on local ghost hunters. Her email subject line: "paranormal or paranoid?" I am so happy. The story speaks of a haunted house, and what was done to investigate...

I was talking to one of my friends and she stated that she was going to some school to learn to be a Reiki "healer". I do not talk to this person very much due to geographic differences, so this was kind of a shock. Does anyone know of a good way to convince someone that being an 'energy...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1279&item=5558708238&rd=1 Have you lost touch with your universal life energy? Does your spirit need healing? The good news is that all this Reiki Master needs to know is your name and what it is you need help with in order to channel...

"The therapist places their hands gently, in a series of positions, on or over the body." "You can feel this heat coming through their hands. It's very calming and peaceful. It's almost like going into a meditative state." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4231061.stm A relation of mine who...

I am a "bright" prosecutor in a jurisdiction of approximately 80,000. Recently I discovered that there was a "licensed" counselor who offered past life regression therapy and Reiki, both of which are obvious bunk. The question I have is this: As a practical matter, would an...

My supervisor thinks that Reiki, homeopathy, aromatherapy and acupuncture are relevant in treating torture survivors This is my first thread – and I really need some help here. I work for an organisation which is helping victims of crime, many of who are torture survivors. We are organising a...

Here is the abstract: A phase II trial of reiki for the management of pain in advanced cancer patients Karin Olson RN, PhD, John Hanson MSc and Mary Michaud RN Abstract This trial compared pain, quality of life, and analgesic use in a sample of patients with cancer pain (n = 24) who...

Greetings, folks. I'm at it again, debating a (different) woo-woo on e-budo. (Where do they all come from?) After the no-touch KO debacle, which thread the moderator actually deleted because the woo-woo just descended into calling me all sorts of vile names (note that, unlike JREF, profanity is...