Could someone please, tell me how to become A Pranic Heaer, I have taken Reike classes, but I also, am interested in other forms of heahing as well, please, write with any info you have. Hilda Rawn Clark <rawnclark@...> wrote: Dear Johan, >> I too have taken up Pranic Healing, and will soon be a registered Pranic Healer and plan to do it full time. << Good for you. :) >> First I would like to say that I do not think that Karmic debt is a problem for a healer. If I work on a patient I do so with loving-kindness and compassion. If the patients Karma is such that he must die, I will not be able to heal him at any rate. At the most I will be able to ease suffering. Karmic debt will then be positive for me. << We fear disease and fear witnessing another suffer, so we tend to think of illness and suffering as a negative things that must be obliterated as soon as possible and by whatever means available. However, from a perspective of Universal Legality, illness is a gift that is meant to teach us an important karmic lesson that we have not been able to learn in the absence of disease. A healer interferes with a patient's karma the moment they remove the symptoms of disease without assuring that the patient does indeed learn the lesson that the disease was meant to teach them. If the patient does not learn the karmic lesson then what the "healer" has done is taken away an opportunity for the patient's growth. That specific opportunity that the "healer" has taken away was the most appropriate way that was available for the patient to learn their karmic lesson. This means that the patient will still have to learn that lesson, either by other means or by a recurrence of the same disease that the "healer" has just treated. >From a Legalistic perspective, true healing occurs when the subject has learned the karmic lesson that the disease is intended to teach. So in effect, when only the symptoms of disease are eliminated and the lesson is thus avoided (albeit, temporarily) the evolution of the patient has been slowed or diverted. This does incur a karmic debt for the "healer". >> My charging money, and your TMO group not accepting money is less about philosophy, and more about practicality. << To my mind, issues of practicality are where questions of philosophy are the most important. Claims of practicality should not be used as an excuse to ignore philosophy. :) This would be the same as saying that the ends justify the means. >> I have spent a long time pondering the subject, and I have now started to charge money for healing. My fee is much less than other healers, and if the patient cannot afford, I do it for free. Most of my patients have a hunger for spiritual advancement, and I do sometimes spend hours with them, and I feel strongly that I cannot receive money for that. For me to be a great healer I have to heal on a regular basis. By that I mean full time. And working on my own progress is also a full time affair. I need not say more:) As healer I am rendering a service, and am entitled to compensation. I have very real costs as I have to travel. And the courses I take to become a better healer is not cheap. << Your decisions and the rationale you use to justify them are your business, not mine, and I'm *not* standing in judgment of them. :) >> The law also states that what you sow, so shall you reap. If the patient pays for healing, is he not more entitled to receive healing? << Why on earth would *any* one be *less* entitled to healing than anyone else? What you've just implied is that those who have money are *more* entitled to healing than those who do not have money. What about your statement above that if someone can't afford your fee you will treat them for free? Does it then follow that you will treat them less thoroughly because they have less of an entitlement to treatment? >> As TMO working group is a service you render after hours, and not the work you do, It would be inappropriate to make money. << That has nothing to do with our decision. >> If a patient does offer money, would it not perhaps be more appropriate to gracefully accept, and then donate the money to a worthwhile charity. Then the patient has been able to sow, and your group has incurred positive karma, as you have channeled the money for good? << To my mind, all that this would accomplish is a reinforcement of the capitalist ethic of "you get what you pay for". Instead, when we decline payment, we are promoting a different ethic that says there are folks who exist with motivations other than making a buck, folks who choose to give simply because they can and not for personal gain. It places our interaction on an entirely different footing -- that of simple human kindness and sharing. Kindness and sharing are actions that multiply positivity in the world. >> When healing for free one also has to be on guard as not to feel morally and spiritually superior to those who do charge. << For the TMO-WG, feelings of superiority have no place in our work and what others do or do not do has no relevance to what we do. Our healing work is not about *us* -- it is about our subjects. My best to you, :) Rawn Clark 11 April 2004 rawnclark@... rawn@... http://www.ABardonCompanion.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis http://E.webring.com/hub?ring=arionthebardonwe --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: BardonPraxis-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! 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