Your Practitioner will ask you to give some idea about your problem (the detail is not necesary). Reiki can be channelled through the Aura so strictly speaking there is no need for the Practitioner to touch you. However, it can usually assist in the
attunement
process if she/he places the hands lightly on your shoulders. Many patients prefer to be touched lightly on other parts of the body i.e. arms/back/feet/ankles and hands. Your Pratitioner will ask you for your preference. Visitors' Questions during May 2002
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The following are Hai's and other spirits' responses to miscellaneous
questions recently posed by visitors to this web site or by personal visitors to our home.
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an extract of the response which they have received if we feel that it could also be of
benefit to others.
During a particular night a line of questioning from some of the visitors
present focused upon Atlantis and other past civilisations. Here is some of
what Hai said in response.
Q:
Do you know anything about any previous civilisations prior to
this one that might have existed prior to the last ice age on earth. I've
read books that say there have been previous civilisations and that they
were completely different from our existing one now and where they
communicated by thought. Do you know anything about this?
Hai:
Those civilisations which existed before you were not so advanced
as you would suggest, as what you have heard. The thought communication on
your planet has yet to evolve. Q:
Did the island of Atlantis exist?
Hai:
We have spoken of this before. You people have a facination for
this. Why do you have a facination for this?
Q:
Curiosity and "curiosity killed the cat".
Hai:
Curiosity killed several cats. Atlantis did exist, but you should
not hanker after the like of Atlantis. You should firmly ground yourself in
the Now, in the present, for it is the present which holds the seeds of your
future. It is the present which holds the seeds of all promise.
Q:
Q: Well, I agree with that. We do anchor ourselves in the
present, but we're also curious about the past, our roots and where we came
from. It is just out of interest.
Hai:
Hai: Best thing to do with roots is cut them off. (Laughter)
Q:
Could be quite painful.
Hai:
Undoubtedly painful, but best thing to do with roots is cut them
off. For roots restrict. Tree can't walk earth because of roots. Roots
restrict our growth. Roots restrict our freedom of movement. Roots restrict
our freedom of mental movement and spiritual movement. Therefore better cut
them off.
Q:
So are you saying by concentrating on what's gone before we're
restricting our future growth?
Hai:
By concentrating on what go before you restrict your vision of
what may come, of what is possible. You anchor yourself too much and restrict
your own freedom. We may apply this also to our own lives as individuals, for
just as a society may anchor itself in the past and restrict itself by these
roots as they are called so an individual may resrict themselves by being too
anchored in the past, too restricted by their roots, which restrict and
contain their freedom. Roots can be a great burden for people, would you not
agree? We have our personal history, but if our personal history is carried
around like a weight in a sack on our back this can greatly hinder us. It
can become great burden. It can determine how we see ourselves and how we
see our future and those around us. So we should look on each day as fresh
new day. We should look on world as if we look on it for first time. Fresh
eyes. Bright eyes. As if we see it for first time. And then we may really
truly fully respond, fully, to it if we see it for first time, as if for
first time.
The discussion then moved on to the subject of praying in relation to
personal problems.
Q:
If you are not quite sure which path to take in life will it be
easier if you say a prayer?
Hai:
Best to meditate, best to meditate on problem. Best to
contemplate on problem. Meditate on problem and answer come from within. But
also you may open yourself and make space for those who are in Spirit World
to come to you with their advice also.
Q:
So can a message just come into your head?
Hai:
Then you feel certain and a certainty about it. But you must
take responsibility for your own decisions as we say many a time. It is your
life at end of day. You must make decision. You may receive inspiration.
You may receive ideas and thoughts from others, just as you may receive
advice from your earthly friends, but you must make decision at end of day.
There are those who seek advice from relatives in Spirit Lands, but, not many
in Spirit Lands any the wiser than when they left earth life. (Laughter)
Question of the Month
Q:
You always say we should question what comes from spirit.
I recently read an artical which said you shouldn't question spirit but
always should go with any guidance unquestioningly.
Hai:
No, no. What do you think of this thing that was said. Q:
I didn't agree with it.
Hai:
Well you are right, are you not, for you are a wise soul. No, but
what he may be saying perhaps is that as when our own discernment grows, when
our feel for the ring of truth grows, we may acknowledge the truth when we
hear it, spontaineously, without having to think about it, without having to
think long and hard about it. We instantaineously know the ring of truth.
Where we know the ring of truth we feel it's truth. Then of course we would
wish to follow it without question. But I would say that always we should
question and test what is given to us with the conscience of our own hearts,
against the wisdom which we have built up in our own hearts, against the
wisdom we have come to accept from others as feeling right and true and just
and offering us the right direction for our lives both in this world and the
next. There are too many who say "follow me, I have the truth"; "No, follow
me, I have the truth; "That person over there is deceived"; "This person over
here is deceitful" and so on. We must accept responsibility for our own
actions, for our own choices. If we do so this provides the great hope for
the deliverance of humanity. For we must test all against the human heart,
against human love, against the welfare of all. You ask yourselves a simple
question. Would it be a desirable thing to have our eyes poked out? So we
form a question at this basic level and we come to the conclusion: this is a most
undesirable thing. It is a thing that we would find hard to associate with
love would we not. Therefore we form a judgement: we would never wish to poke
anyone's eyes out or have our own eyes poked out. But if you look through your
history, at the thousands if not millions of people who have had their eyes
poked out throughout the ages of your history, in the name of truth, love and
justice, we have a dileama, we have a contradiction to our basic judgement
based on our own understanding of human love and what is for peoples' welfare.
If we ask ourselves as a starting point always "what is promoting the welfare
of others and what would not promote their welfare/", we have wise judgments
which will follow from this. But there are those who start their deliberations
from other considerations, blaming those for not following their own path and
deciding therefore that such people should be punished in certain ways: "Such
people are not worthy. Such people should be harmed for their own good." Is
this not a contradiction to human love that some people should be harmed for
their own good? We cannot possibly reconcile this with human love. But there
are many who have advocated it throughout your ages. Your Aztec friend told
you "better to throw away, better to abandon all religion than to abandon
human love for your fellows." And this is an admirable precept of his. But we
would not of course criticize religions fundamentally. For at their heart
they have been based on love. They have promoted love. But it is in the hands
of men that they have been contaminated and distorted and have caused such
damage and untold misery. Q:
It would not matter about the religions being different if they
could all accept each other.
Hai:
Yes, this is so. They provide variety of opportunity, they
provide variety of path which may be helpful to people in approaching the One
Mind and finding their way. In the hands of men they become roads to hell. So
we must question all things, all religions and test them against the cardinal
principle of love. Q:
I have been thinking while you have been talking. How much
knowledge do you need in order to make a correct decision?
Hai:
You feel in your heart what you feel to be correct, what you feel
to be just and wise. The important thing is that you approach these things
honestly, with no self deception, with no attachment for end results for
yourself. If you approach such things in this way, with love in your heart
and the welfare of others in your heart, you will be doing the best you can.
This does not mean that we will never make mistakes. For experience advances
our wisdom does it not? We learn from our mistakes. We learn from our
experiences. And we must expect this process to carry on. We cannot expect
to be all knowing, omni-competent in all things. We are human beings and we
must do the best we can. But if we act, if we do the best we can in this way,
observing the principles which I have just expounded to you, we are doing our
best and we will not go far astray. Those who have gone far astray have not
borne in mind the welfare of others. They have attached themselves to their
own goals and ends. They have presumed to know truth and wisdom and promoted
their own version of it. In short they have been egocentric and attached to
themselves and not the welfare and love of others. Ego is the root of all
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