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Well, so here is a very mundane example of this: so if you have a religion you actually keep record of your parishioners and I never thought about that as being something that would be one of the factors in defining religion. But it is, because you know all churches have their membership roles and they have their families and you know you can go back generations. But in Reiki, you know in the beginning, I tried to keep track of all my students and you know, send them newsletters and so on. I spent a lot of energy trying to keep track of them. But they just kind of faded into the woods, so to speak. And now with the technology it’s so wonderful, because they can actually find me, if they want to. And it doesn’t matter if I move three times since the last time I saw them, they can go on Facebook and find me, which has been fantastic and that’s happened.
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So.. one of the things that I wouldn’t want to do is to have to compile a role, like a list of all the people who practice Reiki. I mean, it would be kind of fun, probably, but it wouldn’t be something that I would want to spend a lot of energy on. So, that’s one thing. The other thing is that in religion what happens is that you end up having.. a set of believes or views of how life works and then that brings you to creating a morality and a state of ethics that you in theory live by. And one of the things about Reiki is that we do that, sort of, but that’s very loosely done and it’s mostly very individual. And so, you and I for instance, could have.. have had many of the same experiences, like the profound experience of giving someone a treatment and having your hands disappear into the other person and … or sending a distant treatment and actually having a conversation with someone or knowing that you’ve gone to their house, and… so you kind of look around and you go «wow, how did I do that?».
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