Reiki question

[jkenn337]

Hi, ok so how do I get her out of these bad practices? Should I take time and pray a rosary everynight for her? Also, is it possible that the church of the nazarine has some radical ideas about God and Christ that may have somehow actually pushed her away from Christianity? I will eventually be able to talk to a priest, as I am working with the NFB president to get to Colorado hopefully in a month or less, I’ll be there. Oh and is it possible that her parents attitude towards Christianity is pretty much a fundamentalist one. When I approached them one time about confession and tried to explain it to them they did not get it…maybe I explained it wrong…But they said something like “why tell your sins to a priest -or some person- when he isn’t God?” Since I didn’t have a sufficient answer at the time and did not know where to look I left the subject drop. Also like many young people before we were married well we met in college and did things we probably should not have done and her parents response was pretty much just saying well “the bible says this or that”. I think the various people who appear on EWTN are in a much better position to explin matters of dating and things than her parents are. Also there are other things going on at their house problems they have–it appears to me her family at least there is a partially disfunctional one–so we really don’t associate with them at all since they have many problems.

Josh

I knew a woman who converted into Catholicism. She thought she could practice both reiki and be a Christian.
In the end she was so bound up in spiritism - communicating with different “masters” from the other side - that she thought she knew better than the whole Church combined and she soon fell away from (the real) Christ. She never comes to mass anymore and I think today she still practices these things …

I’d say: run away from this as fast as you can. The new age spirit is one of the most subtle evils that are infiltrating the Church today… especially in Europe…

I’d strongly recommend you and your wife read paragraph 2116 in the Catechism and the sorrounding passages too.

We know that idolatry in any shape or form was condemned by the first Christians. Placing your hope and trust in unchristian methods and forces is extremely dangerous.
I have heard many testimonies about people who were bound by evil spirits - I heard an eye witness testimony about a woman who could walk aross a river in the air and a man who was possessed who ran as fast as a lion next to a missionary’s car… I was told about people who lost a fortune over night because they accepted Christ as their Lord and told the spirits they had been bound by to dissapear in His name… These evil spirits were providing worldly riches, health and powers to people for a time, but they also robbed their souls and left them in utmost darkness removed from Christ until they broke down mentally and physically. I have seen a few people while they were being set free after they had been playing around with new age, TM, healing etc…
and exorcisms are very scary but helpful to see as a warning.

You can not deal with spiritual forces, control them and expect them to stay outside of you … they WILL end up dominating you.

Christ is the only Truth. Fix your eyes solely on Him.

Peace be with you and your wife.

 

[OutinChgoburbs]

Ok, you may not sit in the First Reiki Church of Des Moines of a Sunday. Nevertheless, Reiki is not compatible with Catholic Faith and Practice. And to quote fromtheir own site, there is no Christ. It is very general, and relies on people, not prayer.

It is not something Catholics should practice. And it does lead to other New Age practices, as evidenced not only by the OP’s wife, but others.

http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/zaltreligions.HTM

 

[jkenn337]

Hi, I wonder if the devil or other bad spirits like the fact that I am posting about these bad things my wife has accidentally gotten into on a catholic forum where people including myself can pray for her?

Josh

 

[jkenn337]

Hi, ok that explains it. since a lot of new age practices come from the East and Asia or Asia? I thought maybe Eastern catholics may have practiced Reiki or something like that. And I also will pray for my wife and I really hope she gets out of such practices soon. Also while at the Colorado Center the first thing or one of the first is going to find a local Church and go there and pra for her. After all if God and Christ can do more than Reiki can, I do not want anything to do with it! Also, I would not do acupuncture because I can’t understand how having needles put in you is pleasant? My uncle who is catholic is into alternative and nature based medicine. He recommended a book called healing foods of the bible. But my uncle does not do Reiki or anything like that. nor does he do acupuncture. Also things like the rife machine are ok to look into. they have nothing to do with religion they are purely scientific and the rife machine’s effacacy can be proven by anyone on here who knows about Physics and the properties of sound. Raymond Rife made a mistake though by not publishing his research in my opinion. Also, my wif took me to a naturopathic doctor who did something called muscle testing where he takes one of your arms and by using a resistance method, resistance to being able to push it down a certain number of times and then comparing it with numbers on a chart is able to tell if you have a virus. His diagnosis are very generalised though. well anyway, he told me to change my diet temporarily, that viruses feed off the sugar and other things in certain foods that are eaten by most people. So I ate a lot of things I hated eating such as vegetables, and bland flat bread that I bought on amazon. and after a week or so of eating only these things and taking herbal capsules that had garlic and things in them I got better. I later read that muscle testing is or has not really been scientifically proven. so I don’t think it was that. but perhaps giving up all of my favorite foods for awhile and eating things I really don’t like eating helped me get better?

 

[jkenn337]

Hi, yes I agree and I deleted the Reiki book she gave me off my computer.

Josh

Hello,
Since my wife is into Reiki, I want to know if there is a catholic equivalent to some kind of healing energy that my wife could get into? Perhaps the Christian/catholic mystics which I know next to nothing about I only heard of them…Also, how can I address the role of women in the church and her belief that since priests are the leaders and bishops and the pope and such that women are just as important as men are? She also held and may even still hold the idea that God is not loving that he gets angry quick and is vengeful and will send you to hell on a dime! I myself think that she was given lots of isinformation by people in the Nazarine church if not by the nazarine branch itself.

Hello,
If I were you I would run from any Reiki or “energy” healing system. The mystics may have performed miracles, but certainly not as some kind of trick or a “technique” for their personal benefit. It sounds like your intentions are very similar to those of Simon the Magician (Acts of the Apostles). All true miracles are works of God, not due to any mastery of energy or such like.

As to the notion that God is always angry and vengeful, perhaps your wife would like to read Exodus 34:5-7. In this amazing passage the Lord reveals His name to Moses, and it has nothing to do with vengeance!

How about the Virgin Mary as an important person in the Church?

Yours in Jesus and Mary

 

[TLDenmark]

Dear Josh

This is a difficult question, because we are talking about something that appears to be very innocent and helpful. After all, why would a loving God not want us to be healing the afflicted? While I do not have much experience with Reiki as such, I do have a background in alternative spirituality. Perhaps you and your wife can benefit from some of my observations. However you must know that I am not talking about your wife as a person, but rather about what I perceive as common faults with much new age thinking.

New age thinking, tends to put little emphasis on universal truth or self-abandonment. It truly is a religion based on the individual self, resulting in a worldview where “truths” is something personal and “God” a pantheistic abstraction that dwells in each man. In such a worldview, there is a tendency to think that any revelation or viewpoint is equally true and good. New agers will mix different ideas, viewpoints, “gods”, etc., often ignoring apparent contradictions. It is spirit of experimentation, intuition, and trust of self, in reality more like magic than faith. As such it is extremely alluring to the modern mindset.

Christianity is built on a very different premise, namely that of historical revelation and a personal relationship with God. The Christian mindset is one of dying to our own self, being reborn into eternity trough the God that died and suffered for our sins. It flows from the realization that God is fundamentally Love, Beauty, Justice, etc., which is why all Good comes from Him and exist in Him. The Christian spirit is one of love, trust and humility, it is God asking us to believe in His power and convert to His ways. From this point of view, everything must be Christ centered and in conformity with the prayerful intention of “your will be done”. True Christian healing and prayer, would contain such characteristics.

As for what to do, that is a sensible subject. It is always prudent to ask advice from a priest, and praying is the best weapon God have given to us. However whatever you do, try your best to be a charitable witness to the Truth that is Jesus Christ.

God bless you and your wife
TL

 

[jkenn337]

Hi, I will certainly pray for her. It seems like she’s confused as to what spiritual direction to go right now. She did say if the pope had Mass in Reading, which he won’t, that she would go to it. And she doesn’tmind at all me watching mass on EWTN sometimes she watches it with me. I have the pope’s mass on right now but she’s upstairs with the baby. I really hope I can get this VR agency to pay for me to go to Colorado so I can learn the skills necessary so I can go to church and things. The rehab program here is not good because they only teach blind people the area they live, and not to problem solve when we want to go outside the area we are comfortable in, I don’t feel comfortable doing that. The NFB will help me change all that and therefore also get back to church and will free me from spending most of my time in and around my house and immediate neighborhood.

Dear Josh

This is a difficult question, because we are talking about something that appears to be very innocent and helpful. After all, why would a loving God not want us to be healing the afflicted? While I do not have much experience with Reiki as such, I do have a background in alternative spirituality. Perhaps you and your wife can benefit from some of my observations. However you must know that I am not talking about your wife as a person, but rather about what I perceive as common faults with much new age thinking.

New age thinking, tends to put little emphasis on universal truth or self-abandonment. It truly is a religion based on the individual self, resulting in a worldview where “truths” is something personal and “God” a pantheistic abstraction that dwells in each man. In such a worldview, there is a tendency to think that any revelation or viewpoint is equally true and good. New agers will mix different ideas, viewpoints, “gods”, etc., often ignoring apparent contradictions. It is spirit of experimentation, intuition, and trust of self, in reality more like magic than faith. As such it is extremely alluring to the modern mindset.

Christianity is built on a very different premise, namely that of historical revelation and a personal relationship with God. The Christian mindset is one of dying to our own self, being reborn into eternity trough the God that died and suffered for our sins. It flows from the realization that God is fundamentally Love, Beauty, Justice, etc., which is why all Good comes from Him and exist in Him. The Christian spirit is one of love, trust and humility, it is God asking us to believe in His power and convert to His ways. From this point of view, everything must be Christ centered and in conformity with the prayerful intention of “your will be done”. True Christian healing and prayer, would contain such characteristics.

As for what to do, that is a sensible subject. It is always prudent to ask advice from a priest, and praying is the best weapon God have given to us. However whatever you do, try your best to be a charitable witness to the Truth that is Jesus Christ.

God bless you and your wife
TL

 

[JustAnotherThou]

Contact your local priest. There are some Catholic healing masses available, your local priest is likely to know what is available in your diocese, he may be able to help you himself.

Also, if you are not able to get to Mass due to your health problems, you can ask that a Eucharistic minister visit you on Sundays and a Priest can visit you in your home when needed for confessions or spiratual guidance.

 

[jkenn337]

Hello, my blindness is not a health problem. I was born premature in 1982 and something happened and I went blind–same with my wife. I’m 25 years old, she is 23 years old. I will be going to Colorado very soon anyway to the NFB center so I can talk to a priest while I’m there. Also, the reason why I do not feel comfortable going to church is not due to health. It is due to the fact that the ocupational rehabilitation agency in this state needs a major overhaul. They also need to hire instructors who are blind, and not sighted instructors. Blind people learn daily living skills such as travel, house management, and cooking from other blind people who have had it very very hard and had to learn all these things on their own. Unfortunately for people like my wife and I whose parents sheltered us which was not a very good thing, well, I need to be around other blind people who have families, hold jobs that pay $30 or more an hour, and who are successful. I refuse to work in one of those sheltered workshops for people with disabilities because I’m smart and can do better than that. That’s another reason why I’m going to Colorado to ultimately make a better life for my family, rather than living on the meager amount of money the government pays us each month. I want to be able to take my family on vacation and trips once in awhile. And if we join a city church, they will take trips also. And these things cost money. You can go to www.cocenter.org to read about the center and to www.nfb.org for more information. Perhaps I could get a job at beyondsight.com the store in Colorado that sells adaptive technology such as talking gps systems and much much more maybe I could work there and teach people how to use MobileSpeak pocket with the pocket pc or something like that. Technology and foreign languages such as Spanish are my favorite things. Mobile speak pocket is by a Spanish company called codefactory . www.codefactory.es . Blind people in Spain, I’m guessing they’re catholic, made the company and their screen reader that lets us use the touch screen of a pocket pc and provide speech feedback is excellent and genious!

Contact your local priest. There are some Catholic healing masses available, your local priest is likely to know what is available in your diocese, he may be able to help you himself.

Also, if you are not able to get to Mass due to your health problems, you can ask that a Eucharistic minister visit you on Sundays and a Priest can visit you in your home when needed for confessions or spiratual guidance.

 

[FCEGM]

Hi again, my wife is very much into Reiki the part where you send energy supposedly to people to heal them. Her sister’s husband’s mom got a Reiki treatment and said it made her feel lots better. But if Reiki has no basis in Christ then how can it work? Also is there a catholic equivalent that my wife could get into, that is Christ based?

Josh

Josh, you might find these two articles on Reiki and the New Age Movement helpful to you and your wife:

catholicculture.org/library/view.cfm?recnum=2929

catholicculture.org/library/view.cfm?recnum=7091

 

[JustAnotherThou]

Hello, my blindness is not a health problem. I was born premature in 1982 and something happened and I went blind–same with my wife. I’m 25 years old, she is 23 years old. I will be going to Colorado very soon anyway to the NFB center so I can talk to a priest while I’m there. Also, the reason why I do not feel comfortable going to church is not due to health. It is due to the fact that the ocupational rehabilitation agency in this state needs a major overhaul. They also need to hire instructors who are blind, and not sighted instructors. Blind people learn daily living skills such as travel, house management, and cooking from other blind people who have had it very very hard and had to learn all these things on their own. Unfortunately for people like my wife and I whose parents sheltered us which was not a very good thing, well, I need to be around other blind people who have families, hold jobs that pay $30 or more an hour, and who are successful. I refuse to work in one of those sheltered workshops for people with disabilities because I’m smart and can do better than that. That’s another reason why I’m going to Colorado to ultimately make a better life for my family, rather than living on the meager amount of money the government pays us each month. I want to be able to take my family on vacation and trips once in awhile. And if we join a city church, they will take trips also. And these things cost money. You can go to www.cocenter.org to read about the center and to www.nfb.org for more information. Perhaps I could get a job at beyondsight.com the store in Colorado that sells adaptive technology such as talking gps systems and much much more maybe I could work there and teach people how to use MobileSpeak pocket with the pocket pc or something like that. Technology and foreign languages such as Spanish are my favorite things. Mobile speak pocket is by a Spanish company called codefactory . www.codefactory.es . Blind people in Spain, I’m guessing they’re catholic, made the company and their screen reader that lets us use the touch screen of a pocket pc and provide speech feedback is excellent and genious!

I actually used to live down the street from nfb in Littleton. I lived in old downtown Littleton and miss it VERY much!!! NFB is one of the main charties that my family supports. My great grandmother used to work with them, well kind of, she worked for a disabled adults center and she would take the blind clients to NFB.
I guess my reason of suggesting also that you talk to your priest, is sometimes they can help in ways that most of us are unaware. For example we are looking into adopting, although the costs are difficult for us. I spoke to my priest last week and he is assisting us in finding funding. They can’t always help although sometimes you never know until you ask.
When you do make it to Colorado, I would suggest visiting St. Mary’s in Littleton, it is a wonderful parish and very friendly to everyone. The Archdiocese also has many wonderful programs.
I will keep you and your wife in our prayers.

 

[robert_ambrose]

reiki is another word for pantheism.