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It seems to me that Reiki is just another one of those crazy new-age concepts that a lot of foolish people spend their hard-earned money on. And I don’t know about you, but I can’t see how it could every work.

That’s a popular type of thinking about Reiki and alternative medicine in general. And it’s pretty appealing to the logical, scientific brains of our time. Except for one dilemma…Reiki does work and millions of people could say from personal experience that this is true.

So then the question becomes- as we sit atop our high horse in this, the age of reason- how does Reiki work? Or more to the point, why does it work. By all accounts it shouldn’t work. It doesn’t use any drugs. You don’t have to cut into anything or anyone. ‘Normal’ doctors don’t use it. I can’t see it with my eyes or hear it with my ears. So, sorry lady. I don’t believe it. It just doesn’t work.

Except that it does.

In fact, Reiki is an age-old Japanese method of healing and spiritual enhancement that has been around for centuries. (Hmph. All the more reason to be skeptical. I mean what did they know about medicine a thousand years ago?) Reiki uses a technology whereby you lay your hands on a person. (Put your hands on someone, you have to be kidding me. I’m a scientist.) It is as if you use your life-force or energy to move the stuck places in another person life-force. (Energy and life-force, what is this nonsense?)

Ok all of you scientists, let’s talk turkey. It now appears that science itself is coming up with an answer to the question ‘How does Reiki work?’ These scientists from the pioneer field of high-energy physics are throwing about terms like “subatomic matter’, ‘unpolarized’ and ‘vortex theory.’ As we hear all of this we get a strong feeling that there may be some kind of energy flowing in the human body. And that in fact this energy may be the very basis of life. But it is way too small for our meager instruments to detect. As we ponder this we have to question, so now who is living in the middle ages of medicine?

However, we can certainly feel this energy. And we feel it distinctly- such as the tingling, warm, pins-and-needles feeling that a Reiki practitioner has in the hands as he or she works on someone. We also feel it when we are practiced upon- like a sensation of warmth, or even cold, in an area of the body that is worked upon. (Hmph. You’re not just pulling my leg are you?)

Now let’s take a better look at who has been using this Reiki stuff. If we really put our minds to it, we may be surprised at what we find out. For instance, do you remember the old biblical ‘laying on of hands?’ I hate to say it, but that does sound an awful lot like Reiki. So maybe, when we look back to our past as a race, we can see that people in the days of old were not as dopey as we once thought. They had some kind of intrinsic knowledge, for instance, that if something works- don’t question, don’t ask why or how- just use it. I wonder sometimes if we can’t use a slice of their common-sense, old fashioned though it is to the Age of Reason advocates.

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