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>Leslie Tuchman was visiting the Hawaiian Islands when she came across the concept of ‘hoʻoponopono’ in her Reiki class, introduced by her teacher as a word for
by cuboidGoat 8y ago
>Leslie Tuchman was visiting the Hawaiian Islands when she came across the concept of ‘hoʻoponopono’ in her Reiki class, introduced by her teacher as a word for self-forgiveness.
What is the world coming to when you can no longer trust the people with magic hands?
I knew a reiki master. He broke his leg and had pins put in it at the hospital. So, being a reiki master, he pulled the pins out himself with pliers and then used his reiki powers on his leg. He now only has one leg, after infection nearly killed him, but last I heard is still claiming to be a reiki master.
- ramy_d 8y agowow. I can't even imagine the amount of confidence you must need to think to even do that AND think it's a good idea. It must have been incredibly painful to do himself too (I'm guessing he pulled them out before his leg was even ready for such a procedure). Having had a few pins in my wrist I can not discourage this enough. wow.
- cuboidGoat 8y agoHe does also take a fair amount of heroin. That probably helped with the process.
- polynomial 8y agoThe pins are permanent?
- justtopost 8y agoReiki is the most popular psudoscience around behind acupuncture and chiro. It is amazing it, nor the abusive phenomenon of 'psychics' has not been regulated in some way.
- cuboidGoat 8y agoI have found a good way of getting people to question chiropody more. Explaining that I am not entirely sure that necromancy has a place in modern medicine, gets people to stop and ask me what I mean. I then have their attention to point out that according to the founder of the practice, the methods of chiropody were discovered by summoning a spirit from beyond the grave who apparently claimed to be a doctor. And therefore, either the founder is lying, or I am being expected to trust the motivations of some entity from the land of the dead that is capable of traveling between worlds and sees fit to present itself as a doctor, neither of which, on the face of it, looks like a good basis for trusting in a therapeutic technique.