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Reiki Practice and Surrender
About this book
The authors discuss the religious spiritual healing practice Reiki, revealing components of it that help transform the message held by the alleged life-force called reiki energy into meaning expressed in efficacy for the recipient's body, mind and spirit. Components that are analyzed include but are not limited to, touch, symbols, initiation, and precepts. The practitioner's surrender to a combination of internal and external authority - with reiki energy being part of that - is a crux in Reiki practice and one means with which practitioners speak of beneficial effect. This work contributes to academic knowledge about how practicing a religious or spiritual practice may contribute to one's well-being and flourishing life. Moreover, it explores the question of the nature of Reiki in academic definitions of religion.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Data, theories, methods and methodology
- 3. Another field of expertise: sciences
- 4. Reiki and the field of Religious Studies
- 5. Reiki as surrender to authority
- 6. The dimension of ritual
- 7. The dimension of symbolism
- 8. The dimension of extra sensory perception
- 9. The dimension of human flourishing
- 10. Conclusions and reflections
- REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
- APPENDIX 1: MYSTICAL EXPERIENCES
- INDEX