Reiki vs channeling divine energy

[Glow]

it bothers me they feel you need to be initiated by someone who already channels energy. To me there is just divine energy so it's seems dis genuine to act like someone has to grant you access to this energy and ability.....

I actually trip over that with most religions, someone always wants to feel they control access.

Hi Glow, I am a Reiki guy.  I think there may be a conceptual error on your understanding of reiki and the way it is taught.  There is no claim in reiki that it is the one and only way to access divine energy.  There is no attempt to control access to divine energy.  Indeed, the magic, the divinity of a reiki is that someone figured out how to bestow the gift of energy channelling upon other selves in the course of a single weekend!  This is an astonishing gift.  You can channel energy, wonderful.  Can you pass a copy of your gift on to me in 48 hours?  Please.  Because I love collecting these abilities.  And if you are willing to give me a copy of your gifts for even less than the $100 reiki costs, and with zero dogma of your own, then please, would you share?  Please PM me and we can arrange a time.

I am utterly serious.  If you can do this, would you please?

If you cannot, then learning reiki offers to teach you a method that (if modified for your own gifts) you may be able to copy and use yourself to pass your own gifts onto strangers too.  What better way to spread the light than to give such a gift widely and freely to all comers!  It is the Law of Squares in Action.  As you pass your gifts to another, and teach them how to pass them on as well, your gifts will start moving throughout the population and light will spread exponentially.  

We would all benefit.  

I balk at being told I need some otherself to grant me access to this divine energy.

There is no reiki teaching that blocks anyone from anything.  You know not of what you speak.  And a true Servant of the Light, a Service-To-Other person would use whatever way possible to spread the light, right?  Do you know that people recognize the word "reiki" now and when I offer to "give reiki" they will let me do it cold, because it is a known thing.  How do you go about offering your energy to strangers?  How do they get comfortable accepting something like "divine energy" from a stranger who declares he/she can do it?  Seems to me that you are deliberately limiting your Service by turning away from a recognized healing modality that is taught to hundreds of thousands of nurses nationwide.

Or is your divine energy more "pure" because you came upon it yourself and directly with spirit?  Is energy through another corrupt?  Less divine?  I do not understand such a thing.

Maybe I should suck it up and just see what I can learn from it like I do with other dogmas but am I just going to learn dogma? I dont like exposing my brain to dogma because we are all suseptable to imprinting of limiting beliefs.... Anyways I'd appreciate insight
Thanks

There are, like, five principles taught in reiki, and one of them is "honor your elders."  The others are so bland I can't even remember them.  Like "do good."  Sheesh.  You attribute dogma to an entire energy technique without spending even the two minutes it would take in an on-line Google search to know that such dogma does not exist in reiki.  

I do a half dozen different kinds of energy movement/healings.  Some taught.  Some discovered on my own.  Here is the magical divine indisputable genius of reiki.  It works effortlessly through me.  Literally, "Hands on, energy on.  Hands off, energy off."  

So if you decide to come down from your high horse of purity and try out reiki, you might find that while you send your own personally discovered divine light into another human being, that reiki will be right there doing its thing on top of and in addition to yours!  So that your healings are double what they used to be, your healings faster/stronger/more beneficial.

And isn't that what you want?  To share the Light?

"Come down from my high horse" really? ... Ridcaw it's funny I've always enjoyed your post but you really saw what you wanted to see in this post.

There is no high horse, you are very defensive though. Read it again, see if maybe perhaps all that was really necessary.
It wasn't for me because you assumed way to much about my feeling/perspective/ego.

My issue is not with reiki, not sure how you missed that. I've had sessions and been considering taking a class for quite a while. My issue is the consistent aserration that someone needs to be initiated. Classes I'm sure could give more ideas and inspiration, experiences of others but no one is giving me their gift as you say.

We all have this ability. Permission slips for the ego. What is being bestowed is the belief in the ability to do it. No one is passing a copy of of their gift to anyone because no one has this gift as their possession, no one lacks this ability, just the belief and understanding.

I guess you stated exactly what bothers me in the ads for these classes.
I will go eventually and gather from it what is useful but yeah I truly believe we are all energy, all one, no one more powerful or special than any others. im going to leave it there because I don't feel the need of some debate.

I certainly never intended to question reiki at all I was just hoping to feel out other ways I could make peace with what is essentially semantics, and yes it seems like dogma, having been a Christian for 20 years I avoid dogma as much as possible.

I do find often time learning systems can keep you from seeing the most natural path for you. I don't think their is any difference in the energy. I just really don't want other people's limiting beliefs imprinted on me.

Everything is exactly as the universe intends right.

Any way be well, and I'm glad you are helping people.