I haven't commented too much on the Catholic bishops decree that their folks shouldn't be indulging in reiki. However in the interest of a little humor I give you an entry from the UnNews. My favorite part:
Reiki, claimed to be "spiritual healing without energy depletion", involves the movement of healing energy (known as ki) through the palms of the hands and is used as a treatment for ailments as diverse as hayfever and cancer. Reiki was developed in 1922 by Mikao Usui of Japan after he spent three weeks meditating, fasting and praying. It has thousands of practitioners worldwide, along with hundreds of thousands of patients who will testify to its effectiveness - however, it should be remembered that the vast majority of patients are hippies and hippies will believe any old crap so long as the practitioner has a few bells, a dreamcatcher or two and the occasional perspex pyramid hanging about in their surgery.
And now even the pope is embroiled in a new pedophilia scandal. Why does an image of a young Paul Newman from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof speaking the word "mendacity," keep popping into my mind?
(by the way, I borrowed the idea for this post from a Jikkiden Reiki tweet).
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