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English: Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by "laying on hands" and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive.
Hawayo Takata, a Reiki Master under the tutelage of Chujiro Hayashi (林 忠次郎, 1880–1940), lied about Reiki's history of development to make Reiki more appealing to the West. [16] To this end she made a relation of Reiki with Jesus Christ and not with Buddhism. She also falsely presented Usui as the dean of a Christian school.
A reiki practitioner who offers teaching is known as a "reiki master". [6] There is no central authority controlling use of the words reiki or reiki master. [28] Certificates can be purchased online for under $100. [29] It is "not uncommon" for a course to offer attainment of reiki master in two weekends. [30]
The term ascended master was first used by Baird T. Spalding in 1924 in his series of books, Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East (DeVorss and Co.). Godfre Ray King (Guy Ballard) further popularized this concept of spiritual masters who had once lived on the earth in his book Unveiled Mysteries. [3] [independent source needed]
The Ultimate Book Guides are an award-winning series of reading guides for children and teenagers. The guides are edited by Leonie Flynn, Daniel Hahn , and Susan Reuben and published in the U.K. by A&C Black .
The year concluded in California, where the Maharishi began dictating his book The Science of Being and Art of Living. [79] [80] In Rishikesh, India, beginning on 20 April 1962, a forty-day course was held for "sadhus, sanyasis, and brahmacharis" to introduce TM to "religious preachers and spiritual masters in India". [81]
An October 10, 1922 Birmingham Post-Herald article quotes Cayce as saying that he had given 8,056 readings to date. He recorded some 13,000 to 14,000 readings after that date. [8] Other abilities attributed to Cayce include astral projection, prophecy, mediumship, access to the Akashic records, Book of Life, and seeing auras, astrology and ...
D. D. Palmer founded chiropractic in the 1890s, [21] claiming that he had received it from "the other world". [22] Palmer maintained that the tenets of chiropractic were passed along to him by a doctor who had died 50 years previously. [23] His son B. J. Palmer helped to expand chiropractic in the early 20th century. [21]