dear Damemantis
As said earlier, your posts are opening me up to think for possibilities..... And one is to put reiki to tests in a scientific way... Even before doing comparisons, we would have to have clinical trials for general reiki style, irrespective of style... This is but only a start... Even if that i too take every reiki experience as a unique one, and imagining that doing reiki sessions, with several scientifically drawn laws in back of my mind, may restrict my level playing field, and may hit on my ego that i m not 'free' to experience a reiki session in a way i like, but to follow laws which are far 'above' my sweet little individuality, yet still i can't help but to appreciate the value of your thoughts...
Dr. hayashi was the first who instilled therapautic culture within reiki practice... He trained people within reiki with a solid clinical style.... This had great value... And this probably charted the future of reiki spreading within america....and you are sure following his footprints in trying to formulate specific statements as which style is effective for which problem... What we might have missed that you didnt mean to find evidence of 'just most powerful' reiki style, rather you always wanted to find which reiki style will be 'a best' in a given set of clinical conditions??
You are so right that reiki knowledge is constantly evolving... Suppose you happen to find yourself in a team of seasoned researchers, who are comitted, highly paid, and lot of resources at hand to do research, and lets say they formulate some laws after dilligent studies.... What i fear is that when such laws are made they generate a tendency within enterants and newbies to 'strictly follow' them in shaping up of their individual perceptions..... While this is very good for clinical training, it might cast some 'barriers' to experience spirituality within reiki..... This is all psychological tendencies....
Within spiritual climate, folks are just told to experience things, and preferably not the 'way' in which they should experience things... Individuals are given liberty to dig their own wells, and to draw conclusions themselves.... This is what we call development...and it operates by expanding perception through experiencing things, and not by studying pre-formulated laws in a textbook style....
I have tried giving some dimensions to non-scientific aspects of having laws within reiki studies... Hope this may be added to the list of variables too
But please dont let any of the comments offered in this thread to obstruct the force of your thoughts towards scientific research... You are a healthy addition to this forum
keep it up !
Warm regards, and lot of thanks too...
I anxiously wait as to how the ensuing discussions leap further
Salman