My Journey to Reiki.... Part 1

My journey starts when I am a young child of approx 5 yrs old...maybe younger as I remember my mother telling me stories of my Great Grand Mother, being a healer or at least healing farm animals. Great Grand Mother was neither a nurse nor a veterinarian. I must guess that was just a housewife ( I am NOT belittling any housewife...taking care of a house and making it a home is very hard work) and I am sure she worked in the fields also.....but when farm animals got sick they were brought to Great Grand Mother to heal....she would spend all night if necessary in the barn with the sick animals and the next morning all would be good.
I had heard this story many times as a youngster and as I grew older I wanted to know more so my mother I guess you could say finally finished the story by telling me that Great Grand Mother wanted to pass the ability on and keep it in the family....so she told the eldest of her grand children, an uncle of mine, that she wanted to pass it on to him as it had been done for a very long time....female to eldest grandson.....male to eldest granddaughter......as she prepared to teach and initiate (for lack of a better term), my uncle questioned what a certain knife was for and Great Grand Mother with out hesitation said it was to let a little blood flow from your scrotum........Uncle screamed and said no one was cutting his sack for any reason.....end of family of healers.....the ability to heal died with Great Grand Mother.......so this was also the beginning of my search through various religions and such looking for modes of hands on healing.....that is when I realized I had been doing minor healings most of my life......You know the instant grab with one hand if you hurt yourself and for some reason the pain subsides....this is pain transference or Magnetic healing........
All Creatures have the ability to heal themselves but we have been conditioned to not do it so we can pay doctors and chemical medicine companies to fix us up........

One day I told my mother that I had been searching for ways of healing like great grand mother and the only thing I could find dealt with Witchcraft....spells and herbs and herbal spells......Was Great Grand Mother a Witch.......My mother never gave a straight answer....she would only tell me that her grand mother healed animals and it had to be kept secrete from the ministers and such...................But we are Baptists, she would tell me.

I even brought home a book on Witchcraft and she did not throw a fit as I had expected...Hmmm........then I also remember a certain Baptist preacher that would come to our home and work with my Dad on the farm....he even witched for water when the land was first purchased and told us to make sure no one at church knew what he did...Hmmmmmm........



I just kept searching and looking.....by now I was in High School and we had moved into the hills of Arkansas....so I went to a couple of Pentecostal church services and talked with the ministers....of course every minister I ever spoke to told me basically the same thing.....NO one can heal...only God or Jesus Christ.......this did not deter my searching.....when I entered college I spent time with all sorts of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Christian Scientists, and a new thing called the Science of Mind (not actually a religion but a way of thought nor was it a cult)......but I had not found my answers and I decided that I would investigate the Witchcraft angle more closely......by now I was very disenchanted with Christianity.....I was so tired of preachers preaching one thing and doing what they preached against.......so I delved into Witchcraft like a starving person into a bowl of Chili...............