Reiki Books

I admit: I'm only partway through reading the book, but when I reached the (apparently first) section that mentions deities, angels, spirit guides, animal totems and the like as "pranic parasites," I immediately came here, to see if others had the same reaction I did.

The book has a lot of detailed information, though upon first glance one would not think one was getting into such a lengthy dissertation on all the levels of spirit, dimensions, worlds, etc. Like another reviewer, I have yet to see much if anything on "chakra healing," and then when I got to the part mentioned above it stopped me short.

Basically, the author insists that in order to create healthy auric boundaries, on all levels and dimensions, one must take the "Three Commitments" -- casting out all unwanted nonphysicals from the energy bodies (good so far) -- and then "keep them" -- meaning never speak to, try to communicate with, invoke, etc., these beings ever again.

Huh?

Since the author includes angels, masters, avatars, and the like, I essentially hit a wall with this part. Angels have been a large part of my life for quite some time, having saved me more than once from certain disaster and even physical death. Never communicate with them again???

Not sure about the rest of the book, or even whether I will keep reading. But this bit has certainly given me pause . . . perhaps for good.

I bought this book because I thought it spoke of clearing the energetic bodies of residue from psychologically tramatic experiences and accumulation of exposure to negative individuals, programing, family karma, etc. through focus on the chakras. While the author makes much ado about karmic baggage and how chakra activation should involve clearing of karmic baggage, the exercises don't mention the clearing part. They only focus on tuning into the chakras on multiple levels of consciousness, which is fine - but don't call the book "Chakra healing".

Secondly, the author comes across at times as 'confused'. Although well versed in Hindu theology and philosophy, he quotes extensively from Christian texts and takes on a very ascetic viewpoint to spirituality that would irritate readers who have no desire to renounce the pleasures of the body and spirit. To top it all off, the non-physical beings that the author speaks of as requiring banishment from the energetic body includes spirit guides, totems, guardians and even deities. As a matter of fact, even the monotheistic concept of God is considered unhealthy in promoting condensed areas of karmic baggage. The only recourse for such 'symptoms' is to banish all such entities (which are nothing more than parasites attracted the prana of the Self) from the energetic body. The individual will then experience a lightness of being that is no longer tied to the individual ego. This is the first I've heard of deities being referred to as pranic parasites - exceptions to this, of course, are bodhisvattas and other characters of the Hindu pantheon. While the author is entitled to his opinion, the alternative - a non-theistic approach to spirituality - it isn't very attractive to me, nor does it provide me any incentive to incorporate the techniques into my practice. A personal relationship with deity is what drives me towards spirituality and here is this person calling such a relationship a karmic hindrance. As the author repeatedly promotes this view through out the book, I am unable to appreciate the book even for its technical aspects. Frankly, I find his tone a turn-off.

This is the work of the DEVIL and should be burned! I actually read this from cover to cover and its a sick story from a perverted mind. This is the coming of the end for humanity in an age of spirtually devoid of faith.

The book is unique. If you replace dotu with Satan and dotu's minions and contraptions with demons, and if you accept that much of our 4-D experiences have deeper consequences (in higher dimensions?), then it's not too far from Christianity. A Novel based on the character and his exploits would be...interesting.

As an acupuncturist, I was incredibly interested in acquiring this book, because I want to "percieve the energy pathways of the body". Unfortunately, after reading more than half of the book, I did not glean one bit of useful information.

this book looks atractive by its simplicity.
first negative point: no index [which would have been a very small effort]
have not seen anything "working" until now, as claimed by the writer.
would be beautiful if all that is claimed [ or even a small part]
would be usefull.
i doubt it, but i will try the suggestions again and again, even with all the negative experience until now [anyhow it can't harm]

Page 59 - "Profits or ethics?"
"businesses in the modern world especially in the wealthy developed countries of the West - are often more interested in maximizing profits than in being ethical, so many contemporary jobs do not fulfill the principle of harmlessness. For example, insurance companies spend a lot of time attempting to invalidate people's claims so that they only have to pay out in as few cases as possible. This of course causes much suffering (and sometimes harm) to those people who believed they had a valid claim, but who do not receive payment. It also creates bad karma expecially for the bosses and owners of the company, but to a lesser extent also for the employees.
I have worked in the insurance industry for over 30 years. I have never experienced an insurance company denying a legitimate claim.

This book is a waste of paper. There are inaccuracies all over the book, and I found it infathomable that someone would try to pass off this information as being in any way useful to anyone. I am also a Reiki Master Teacher and Gendai Reiki Shihan.

It is part of the strength of Reiki that people who follow this master will probably still be able to do Reiki, but as someone to whom facts are important everything in this book is wrong. I have never seen a reiki book with so much folly.

Every symbol is named differently from anywhere else I have seen.
Every symbol is drawn differently from anywhere else I have seen.

He includes the symbols for what is supposedly 'Krona' reiki. It's actually called Karuna, and all those symbols are wrong too-i learned it from William, and am a sr. licensed teacher for the Intl Center for Reiki Training who developed Karuna)

He talks about the 12 most common Reiki symbols as if they are all equal. He does not even talk about their having been 4 original symbols, and that all others have been channeled by others since.

He tells students you don't need to recieve attunements for Reiki1&2..Also quite wrong.

There is no awareness anywhere in the text that the outlandish things he is saying are his creations, they are all presented as if they are accepted fact.

Unfortunately, the book is well designed, and looks authoritative. Astralog should have checked their facts before letting this one on the shelf.

I do know what im talking about.
I have been teaching Reiki for 10 years, and examined many Reiki books. I have spent time in Japan and spoken to Reiki masters there and meditated upon Mt. Kurama and seen for myself the origin of the Reiki symbols. I have spent a great deal of time in the last ten years talking to masters from other lineages about their symbols, about their understanding. This book shocked me.

Please don't honor this book by buying it.

This book is actually three other books put together. One on ayurveda (very short and generic), one on color-therapy and one on gems. Ayurveda is not related to any of the other subjects throughout the book.

I returned it.

The book is almost exactly the size of a CD jewel case, which is fitting, since all you are really buying is the CD. I didnt find much more information about chakras than I could have found in 5 minutes of surfing and reading online...let alone how singing bowls affect the chakras. Of the 48 advertised pages, a good portion are pictures. Being a glorified, hard-bound album insert it just wasnt as informative as I had hoped from this 'book'; more like booklet. The audio tracks seem nice however...

The author appears to know a lot about Tai Chi and QiGong. Unfortunately the book is not easy to read thanks to poor grammer, style, and general writing skilling.

examples:

1)The Chinese government sponsored a research group to study the effects that QiGong creates in the body. It is through this type of effort that our Western desire to have data will be satisfied.

2) Jim, after having been a runner for many years, was finding that although running was a joy and a passion, it was not helping his overall mobility.

I wish I could return this book.
Negative energy started rising while I was reading this book. Halftway through I have to stop because I felt my throat chakra stuffed.
Anyone has some knowledge of Tibetan culture should know Tibetan language is totally different from Chinese. "Wei Chi" is definately not a name for a Tibetan some 5000 years old. "Wei Chi" is not even a name for Chinese if you know how Chinese name works. Not necessarily all one-sylable words can make out to mean Chinese, and not necessarily all Chinese words can be chosen for naming. The book also at some place mentioned that Wei Chi was incarnated of some one from India 5000 year ago. This brought even more confusion.
It is true that we do not know the true origin of Reiki, but that doesn't mean we have to pay US$9.99 for a bowl of oriental chop-suey.
This is definately not a book for Reiki beginners or someone who just started exploring the world of Reiki. The one star is for Reiki teachers who can use this for contrast teaching.
I suggest the writers to do more study on the oreintal culture, especially Chinese, Tibetan, and Hindu, and of course buddhism which ties the three countries. I would also suggest the writers to study Reiki further. Some of the misconcption about Reiki mentioned in the book is not true Reiki, why a 5000-year soul who claimed to be the creater of Reiki symbols would have such human misconception?