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15 Percent of US Hospitals Using Occult Practice

by Ray Yungen

Lighthouse Trails
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Posted June 22, 2009

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In a recent article in
Reiki News, it was revealed that 15 percent of all US
hospitals are now implementing the practice of Reiki. In
Reiki, a type of therapeutic touch, it is believed that the
ki (chi) energy (a supposed universal energy that flows
through all things) can be used to heal people. In the Reiki
News article written by Reiki proponent William Lee Rand,
Rand expresses a concern about a statement released by US
Catholic bishops asking Catholic hospitals not to use Reiki
because of its Buddhist roots. Rand tries to show that Reiki
is a scientific method that has healing results.

However, as Rand explains his views on Reiki, the discerning
reader begins to realize that Reiki is not scientific at all
but rather a spiritual approach. Rand admits that “Reiki
healing energy directs itself.” He says:

 “I was unable to direct it with my mind or will and realized
this wasn’t necessary as Reiki had its own form of guidance
that was superior to my own. This experience has been
verified by other professional Reiki practitioners and forms
the basis of one of the important keys to using Reiki: If
you want Reiki to provide the best healing experience, it’s
necessary for the practitioner to set their own desire, will
and ego aside, and allow the Reiki energy to guide itself.”

Author Ray Yungen, who says there are now over
one million
Reiki channelers in the US alone (a million in Germany
also), explains this “energy” behind Reiki further: 
“One practitioner describes the experience in the following
way:

“When doing it, I become a channel through which this force,
this juice of the universe, comes pouring from my palms into
the body of the person I am touching, sometimes lightly,
almost imperceptibly, sometimes in famished sucking drafts.
I get it even as I’m giving it. It surrounds the two of us,
patient and practitioner.”1

What is this “juice of the universe?” The answer is an
important one, given by a renowned Reiki master [Rand] who
explains:

A Reiki attunement is an
initiation into a sacred
metaphysical order that has been present on earth for
thousands of years … By becoming part of this group, you
will also be receiving help from the Reiki guides and other
spiritual beings who are also working toward these goals.”2

While this is not widely advertised, Reiki practitioners
depend on this “spirit guide” connection as an integral
aspect of Reiki. In fact, it is the very foundation and
energy behind Reiki. One Reiki master who has enrolled
hundreds of other masters spoke of her interaction with the
spirit guides:

“For me, the Reiki guides make themselves the most felt while
attunements are being passed. They stand behind me and
direct the whole process, and I assume they also do this for
every Reiki Master. When I pass attunements, I feel their
presence strongly and constantly. Sometimes I can see them.”3

A Christian’s initial response to this information might be,
“So what? I don’t travel in those circles, so it does not
concern me.” This nonchalant viewpoint would be valid except
for the fact that Reiki is currently growing to enormous
proportions and in some very influential circles. (It may
even be in your local hospitals, schools, and youth
organizations.) It is essential to know that many nurses,
counselors, and especially massage therapists use Reiki as a
supplement to their work. It is often promoted as a
complementary service. (ATOD, pp. 94-95).

In Rand’s article, he talks about a doctor who has been
largely responsible for the growing popularity of Reiki. Dr.
Mehmet Oz is “one of the most respected cardiovascular
surgeons in the US” who “uses Reiki during open-heart
surgeries and heart transplants.” According to Dr. Oz,
“Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients
and mainstream medical professionals.”5

Dr. Oz is a frequent
guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show. No doubt, she has been an
evangelist for Dr. Oz and Reiki treatments. Yungen discusses
this rapid growth in popularity:

“The reason for this level of acceptance is easy to
understand. Most people, many Christians included, believe
if something is spiritually positive then it is of God. A
pastor friend of mine recounted a situation in which a
Christian, who had some physical problems, turned to Reiki
for comfort. When this pastor advised the man that Reiki
fundamentally opposed the Christian faith he became furious
and responded with the following defense, ‘How can you say
this is bad when it helped me?’ [However], if something is
of God it will conform to the very cornerstone of God’s plan
to show His grace through Christ Jesus and Him alone
(Ephesians 2:7). Reiki, as I defined earlier, is based on
the occult view of God.”

This assessment of Reiki is beyond question. Every Reiki
book I have ever seen is chock full of pronouncements that
back up the point I am trying to make. In The Everything
Reiki Book, the following clears up any doubt about Reiki’s
incompatibility with Christianity:

“During the Reiki attunement process, the avenue that is
opened within the body to allow Reiki to flow through also
opens up the psychic communication centers. This is why many
Reiki practitioners report having verbalized channeled
communications with the spirit world.4 (from ATOD, p. 97)

Lighthouse Trails urges you to be sure to ask your own
health practitioner if he or she plans to perform Reiki on
you or your loved ones when you or they are on the operating
table or at any other time during health care treatment. We
are living in a society that has integrated occult mysticism
into every facet of life. The Bible gives a prophetic
statement about such practices (of which includes
contemplative spirituality), which should not be ignored or
taken lightly.

“And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in
thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall
be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the
great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all
nations deceived.” Revelation 18:22-24

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Notes:

1. “Healing Hands” (New Woman Magazine, March, 1986), p. 78.
2. William Rand, Reiki: The Healing Touch (Southfield, MI:
Vision Pub.,1991), p. 48.
3. Diane Stein, Essential Reiki (Berkley, CA: Crossing
Press, 1995), p. 107.
4. Phylameana lila Desy, The Everything Reiki Book (Avon,
MA: Adams Media, 2004), p. 144.

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