Just thought I'd share today's experience for what it's worth.
I Finally went for an attunement session today with the woman I mentioned in this thread a while back (reiki ann), since there is nobody round here without a William Rand lineage.
There were 4 of us as students. Two middle aged, self proclaimed spiritual women, the kind who hold tight to every apparition out of the normal as proof of their special gifted nature. They both stared hypnotically into Ann's eyes the whole time and seized any opportunity to talk about energy and angels. Then there was a girl my age who seemed a little more down to earth. It was worse than I expected, but I just grit my teeth and played nice with the group of people and 'master', through 6 hours of talk about angels, love and light, people in the spirit realm, world healing grid etc. I thought I'd just do my best to filter out the BS, pretend to go along, and get what I can from the experience. My rationale was that reiki is something objective, and that's what I'm here for, despite all the added fluff.
When going through the attunements I was relaxed, but still on guard and not able to sink deeply into any form of meditation due to the environment and people there. She said something about aliens having a connection with me (obviously benevolent space brothers) and that I would get a lot of 'scientific' ideas, and that I was "special" (I think she said that to everyone). I think she just sensed that I was not moved at all by the angels and dead dudes schtick, despite my attempts to feign interest, and so tried the aliens idea as maybe that seemed more like 'my style'. Though I guess maybe one who is trying to wake up is more likely to have some grey dudes watching over now and then.
During the attunements and practice sessions on one another, I did not feel a whole lot to be honest. Nothing, at least, that wasn't just nice brain chemicals stimulated by the relaxation, soft voice and music. The others reported seeing colours and other things. The teacher placed a great emphasis on seeing colours, as if it was the most important thing in the world. I didn't really see anything major, at least nothing that couldn't be explained by the effects of her constant suggestions that seeing colours is good.
I went with the younger girl for the practice session, and we both did it on eachother for about 10 minutes. We both found it very relaxing, but I didn't feel anything particularly special about it. The girl picked up some deep 'coldness' in my right leg, which the teacher then came and put her hands on. After the session she told me I had an entity attachment there, due to something to do with bad relations with my Dad. Totally out of the blue. She got this one right, as I still have periods of rage now and then when I think back about my dad's absolute narcissistic behaviour. Then again, many people do.
It was a seriously hard day trying to keep my strategic enclosure in tact while immersed in such a depth of new age nonsense, which left me quite drained.
So I am now apparently attuned to reiki. I don't feel much different at all, and I feel no heat coming from my hands. The girl I practiced on said she could feel it coming from me, but she may have been deluded or possibly lying to spare my feelings
. I have my suspicions that I have wasted my money, and therefore learned a lesson, but I will continue practicing the self healing positions to see if anything happens when I'm in the comfort of my own home and able to fully relax.
