What Is Real

[Guest guest]

A female tai chi student in her late forties

shows up for class and tells the teacher she will watch

today but not participate because she hurt her ankle

working at home. The tai chi teacher, who also happens to

be an acupuncturist, asks the lady to show him

exactly where it hurts.<br><br>She points to the spot on

her ankle. He asks her to relax and places his hand

on her head for a few moments. A minute later he

asks her how her ankle feels, and tears well up in her

eyes as she exclaims in amazement that the pain is

gone.<br><br>What is real? If the teacher were a religious type, he

might have credited his faith. The tai chi teacher,

while he could have claimed to have channeled chi to

her ailment, took a simpler approach. He noted that

the sore spot on the ankle was on the gall bladder

meridian, and since that meridian travels across the top of

the head, he treated her pain by gently

pressing/massaging on an accupuncure point on that same meridian.

Looked like a miracle, but actually was easily

explainable (even if you don't buy or understand the

explanation)

[Guest guest]

& gt; & gt;<br> & gt; & gt;<br>A very young American

girl with and " incurable " brain cancer visits a priest

in Italy. After several sessions where the priest

lays his hand on the girls head, brain scans show the

tumor to be in remission.<br><br>In the East, a qi gong

master or healer lays his hands over the stomach of a

cancer patient. His cancer goes into

remission.<br><br>What is true? In the priest's mind and to his

followers, he is summoning his power through belief in God

to cure the sick. In the qi gong healers mind, he

doesn't care that much about God since he feels one can

hardly understand about such things, but he does know

through years of practice how to tap into the energy that

infuses all of life and to manipulate it for healing

purposes.<br><br>Which one is correct? Could it be that they're tapping

into the same source without realizing or acknowleding

it? Maybe the God the priest views as an entity that

watches all and desires to be prayed to, is the same

eternal energy force the qi gong guy taps into by totally

different means? Maybe they are 2 different things, but

both work. The point is 2 different people watch these

things and their reality is different due to their

belief system.<br> & gt; & gt;<br> & gt; & gt;<br> <br>The

cathoic priest and the qigong master have gotten similar

results because they have used the exact same method. The

only difference is that the qigong master is aware of

the technical aspects of the method s/he used, but

the priest is unaware of the technical aspects of how

he has increased the flow of prana/qi in his patient

and naively just attributes the healing to God; which

doesn't mean anything, since God is responsible for

everything. <br><br>The biggest difference between these two

is that the qigong master will be able to teach

others how to heal by giving very specific exercises

that will help others learn how to become healers,

qigong is a rigorous scientific method. Whereas all the

priest can do is tell others to increase their faith in

God. The result of this is that very, very rarely do

people become healers by beleif in God alone, yet there

there have been large numbers of people who have

learned to heal by studying the science of qigong.

[Guest guest]

You forgot to mention Reiki. Reiki is being

taught to many people right now. It is accessing either

God's healing power or universal life force energy

(according to your belief system) to heal people.<br><br>I

am not sure how this fits into the raw food diet

list but wanted to mention Reiki, which some people

call the laying on of hands.<br>Peace<br>Marlene