Ok, now I have officially heard it all.

For anyone who does not know what Reiki is, it is essentially a form of ‘natural healing’ which involves a Reiki Practitioner placing their hands just lightly over the body of the patient in several different positions. This, apparently, can cure all types of physical and mental pain and problems such as grief or insomnia.

Now, call me a cynic if you will, but I struggle to see how someone stroking my belly would get me over grief. But anyway. Most of the web sources I looked into about Reiki say the patient can wear clothing (and even plaster casts) as the Reiki is so powerful that it can reach through your clothing.

But can it reach through a thick layer of pixels, a couple of PC monitors and a few thousand miles of cable?

One practitioner seems to think so. So, riddle me this, Batman. If Reiki involves someone laying their hands on your body, how is it that a certain person in world seems to think they can heal the REAL LIFE YOU by touching your avatar? Ok, so it’s fairly obvious that this is either another of those common cases of ‘I’ll tell you anything for a few Lindens,’ or it’s a weird fetish. Surely.

The classified I came across offering this service in world claims that the healer can use your avatar as a ‘link for distance treatment’. For 500L for 15 minutes of course. Now if I were cynical about Reiki in the first place, you can bet I’m pissing myself laughing at the concept of my pixels lying down on a table, being stroked a bit and suddenly everything in the world is hunky dory for the RL me. And there’s a few people offering this service too. Am I being entirely unreasonable in failing to see how, for one second, someone’s pixel hands hovering over my pixel body is going to send a transatlantic miracle via a series of high speed electronic cables right into my life? My modem is shuddering at the prospect.

What a load of bollocks. Surely.

Tags: distance headling, reiki healing, Second Life, sl reiki
Categories: Second Life

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