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cheese_sdc
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Can a Catholic who has received a reiki attunement and continues to practice energetic healing work receive communion?
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Ahimsa
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Sure. The reiki document is not infallible.
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cheese_sdc
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Interesting. Thanks!
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Corki
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Not relevant. Infallible teachings are not the only ones that Catholics are bound, under penalty of sin, to obey.
That being said, when it comes to Reiki, a lot depends on how it is practiced and what the person believes he/she is achieving. It is a dangerous practics, in part, because it is practiced with varying amonnts of “new age” nonsence attached. It is not an intrinsic evil, however.
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Harland
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What is reiki?
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cheese_sdc
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Interesting. Can you name one such?
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cheese_sdc
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Reiki is a system of energy healing, but which an individual is “attuned” to be able to receive and channel reiki energy to oneself and another individual for the purpose of healing physical and emotional harm or to promote general wellbeing.
The Reiki energy itself is defined sometimes as “Universal Energy”, Divine Energy, or as Life Energy, depending on who is discussing it. People of all different faiths practice Reiki, from Catholics, to Protestants, to Neo-Pagans, etc.
The USCCB recently put out a document stating that the practice of reiki is not compatible with Christianity.
I am hoping to determine if the practice of reiki, providing all other conditions are met (proper belief in the dogmas and doctrines of Catholicism) would be an impediment to receiving the Eucharist.
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gurneyhalleck1
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Sounds flat out bizarro. Might as well throw in a seance, some tantric yoga, ritual magik, the Loch Ness Monster and the holistic healer from Seinfeld that turned George into a human egg plant LOL 
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cheese_sdc
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lolSounds flat out bizarro. Might as well throw in a seance, some tantric yoga, ritual magik, the Loch Ness Monster and the holistic healer from Seinfeld that turned George into a human egg plant LOL
I don’t find it any stranger than believing a piece of bread turns into God.
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gurneyhalleck1
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I’ll take my Eucharist and you take the magic 8 ball, palm-reading, rhino horn powder, Oujia Boards, and Deepok Choprah how-to’s and we’ll call it even!
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I don’t find it any stranger than believing a piece of bread turns into God.
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loneviking
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You can laugh, but some of the stuff associated with Reiki works. ‘StillPoint Massage’, where allegedly the spine has a pulse that can be started/stopped and manipulated for better health is one example. I work in the medical field as a primary care provider and I’m well educated in western medicine. One day, two co-workers who were training in this area were talking about Reiki and this Still Point massage. I told them that the spinal pulse was probably nonsense or somewhere, somehow western medicine would have observed it. They said ‘hey, we can show you what it does’. I said ‘Fine, I like massage as I have back problems, knock yourself out’.
I still don’t know what they did, but it was very gentle touches up and down/side to side on my spine. All of a sudden it felt like someone turned a heating pad on in my back!
Not a bad feeling, but very startling…and relaxing. I had these two do a couple of more sessions on me, at different times with the same results. I don’t understand the science, but I can tell you that it works!
I still don’t know what they did, but it was very gentle touches up and down/side to side on my spine. All of a sudden it felt like someone turned a heating pad on in my back!
Not a bad feeling, but very startling…and relaxing. I had these two do a couple of more sessions on me, at different times with the same results. I don’t understand the science, but I can tell you that it works!
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kyria
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I have a reiki certificate. But I only did the first level. Then I got back into the Faith and also balked at the idea of doing the second level when I found out what it involved, symbols and other strange stuff. However I was feeling the Holy Spirit in my hands before I even did the reiki cert.
However I do like to touch people and pray. Many say they can feel the Holy Spirit flow through my hands, some can’t. Up to the Holy Spirit.
My advice would be to go to Confession and say you’ve dabbled in this. I have a belief that many practitioners and teachers might be into the kundalini stuff, which is not in my opinion of God. But that doesn’t mean you can’t touch people. I had always known the Holy Spirit wasn’t of me, but comes from God, but some reiki practitioners are a bit out there, have all sorts of beliefs and ways. What I do is when I touch people, which unfortunately I don’t do enough of, is to ask Christ to heal the person in mind, body and spirit, and it is up to God how he does this or if he chooses to do this, and I say the Our Father, Hail Mary and other prayers.
I don’t call this reiki as I don’t subscribe to the chakra stuff, or the crystals,etc. To me it is simply prayer and touch and it is of Christ.
Keep to Christ, know he is the source of true healing. Seek his source of healing when you touch people. Keep away from the New Age thinking and practices and stick with the Christian ones and touch is fine. The disciples touched people.
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cheese_sdc
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I’d rather not have those items - I won’t touch a oujia board with a 10ft holy water sprinkler. I’ve read some of Deepok Choprah and he’s okay. I prefer Fr. Anthony De Mello, SJ and C. S. Lewis.I’ll take my Eucharist and you take the magic 8 ball, palm-reading, rhino horn powder, Oujia Boards, and Deepok Choprah how-to’s and we’ll call it even!
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Ahimsa
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Anthony De Mello? Uh oh.I’d rather not have those items - I won’t touch a oujia board with a 10ft holy water sprinkler. I’ve read some of Deepok Choprah and he’s okay. I prefer Fr. Anthony De Mello, SJ and C. S. Lewis.
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GeorgeSword
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It is sinful to practice superstitious and occult things. Regardless of specific documents being binding or not, that much is binding. Reiki is the occult and certainly superstitious. Therefore, one cannot rightly continue to practice it and receive the Eucharist.
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rick43235
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Or a piece of cheese.lol
I don’t find it any stranger than believing a piece of bread turns into God.
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romesweethome
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no, the reiki practice is contrary to the faith and to the nature of God, especially the Holy Spirit. rsh
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Corki
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Sure, any of the disciplinary teachings. Examples are:
– the binding of the faithful to attend Mass on specific Holy Days. Which Days are Holy Days of obligation is determined by the local conference of Bishops and is not infallible. Failing to attend Mass on one of those days is still a grave sin.
– the fasting requirements prior to reception of Communion. Not infallible, changed frequently over the centuries, still binding under penalty of sin.
– attendaning Protestant services. Used to be a sin since it was prohibited by canon law (not infallible). Now, it’s sometimes permissable.
That’s three for the price of one.
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gurneyhalleck1
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How about the holistic healer egg plant guy from Seinfeld with the triangle? LOL
I’d rather not have those items - I won’t touch a oujia board with a 10ft holy water sprinkler. I’ve read some of Deepok Choprah and he’s okay. I prefer Fr. Anthony De Mello, SJ and C. S. Lewis.
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cheese_sdc
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Honestly, you’ve lost me, kind of. How can something be sinful at one point, then not at another?Sure, any of the disciplinary teachings. Examples are:
– the binding of the faithful to attend Mass on specific Holy Days. Which Days are Holy Days of obligation is determined by the local conference of Bishops and is not infallible. Failing to attend Mass on one of those days is still a grave sin.
– the fasting requirements prior to reception of Communion. Not infallible, changed frequently over the centuries, still binding under penalty of sin.
– attendaning Protestant services. Used to be a sin since it was prohibited by canon law (not infallible). Now, it’s sometimes permissable.
That’s three for the price of one.
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