Life and Reiki - A vibrational hypothesis.

As a scientist, all be it an open minded scientist, and Reiki Master I have naturally tended to combine both my scientific and mystical training in understanding how Reiki and life works for me, in order to develop a world view which I am comfortable with.

This has manifested for me as a vibrational energetic model of life, and as with all energetic processes is likely to evolve and change.

I offer this to anyone who reads it as A truth, not THE truth.Each individuals viewpoint will be different, but equally valid. If we all had the same view what a narrow and boring place would we live in.

Feel free to draw from this brief work what you wish, what resonates with you and your truth, and enjoy.

Reiki is a Japanese term which translates as universal life force energy. This system we know as Reiki has evolved from the teachings of one Dr Usui, who developed a system for accessing this universal life force energy for a purpose of self discovery, self development and healing.

This leads us to an interesting point, what exactly is universal life force energy? From the mystics viewpoint this is energy from source, Great spirit, the universal overmind, the energy of love, God indeed whatever term or label you are happy with as the supreme consciousness or highest energy in the universe.

Over the past decade or so scientists working in the fields of subatomic physics, cosmologists and the like have been investigating the depths of the universe and the inner nature of the atom to try and gain a working model, a mathematical model to explain what we experience as life. Many of these theories and models are falling in line with many of the mystical teachings on the nature of existence.

Before we continue into how I feel Reiki works I would like to look a little at the nature of existence as I understand it.

Many eastern mystics have stated for centuries that the world in which we exist is purely an illusion. Rubbish says the western technologically advanced materialist. Look at my new car, my house, feel it its solid its real I can touch it therefore it is real. I can see it therefore it is real!

Let us take each of these proof of reality in turn, firstly I can touch it its solid!

Lets take a closer look at this solid object, from a scientific viewpoint. The car is made up of metals, plastics, rubber, and other materials. Let us take for example the metal of the wheel which can be an alloy of several metals. If we take a look at an individual metallic element and indeed at a single atom of that material science tell us it comprises a number of electrons spinning around a nucleus. In between the nucleus and the electrons is empty space. If we look at the nucleus this comprises many sub atomic particles between which is yet more empty space. So the solid object is at least 90 % space. So for starters the objects we assume is solid is basically empty space. More to the point our physical bodies also comprise of compounds, which are made of elements, which are atoms full of Öempty space. Indeed the particles which comprise matter are not solid blobs of stuff but are in fact energy.

So our once solid object is on closer examination is in fact mainly space and energy. So each and every object we perceive from a tree, a car, a person, as star is in fact a spinning nexus of energy, an energy pattern if you will. The nature of the object and how we perceive it is I think based on its vibration, the more complex the object the more complex the range of vibrations which make up the object.

Taking the second materialistic proof it is not an illusion because I saw it with my own eyes. This lead to another interesting point, what is sight? One viewpoint is that light or other electromagnetic emissions from the object are picked up by receptor's in the eye which converts the emissions into electrical signals which are intern interpreted by the brain. We then identify the object by pattern recognition taught to us by our experiences in life. A child when first born receives these signals forms a pattern which is then labelled by parents and others around them. This pattern is a tree, this pattern of energy is a face, a person, your mother, your father etc. So we build up a mental map of the energy patterns and it is this that we 'see' every day.

But do we see the same thing? Take a simple colour say yellow this has a set frequency and we recognise it as a yellow thing. But is the yellow I see the same as you see. We may both recognise an object as say the materialist's car but is the image in my mental map the same as yours.

So could we know how another lifeform 'sees' the colour yellow? To do this one would have to overlay your consciousness over another and look through their eyes. But then it would simply be your consciousness using another set of receptors to perceive yellow and it would still be your perception. So what if we blend our consciousness with another in order to see what they see? Then it would be a blend of you and the others consciousness not either or so you would see an average yellow. So even something a simple as the colour yellow is just a label for a pattern or a vibration that we all agree is yellow.

The car is not an object but a complex pattern of energy we both agree is a car based on what we have been told as we grew up. In fact recent studies into our senses and brains have proposed that much of what we see might not actually even be there. We tend to have an overlay of familiar surrounding such as our houses locked in our heads. Our eyes do a quick sweep to see if anything has changed an re-map the image but don't take in every detail, so rather than perceiving everything in a familiar room our brain does a quick check to see if the pattern has changed if not it reverts to the established mental map rather than going to the effort of constantly constructing a new image.

So in conclusion what we see, touch and hear are simply interpretations of various vibrations of energy made by us. So from that view point life is an illusion.

So taking the viewpoint above, all of life is comprised of energy. Its form and its properties are a function of frequency. These frequencies of energy combine to form patterns of energy, which we in tern interact with and perceive as objects and lifeforms.

All that is, is comprised of the same energy, the energy which forms me also forms the desk at which I sit. So where is this huge pool of energy which forms creation. Did all this energy arrive at one point then explode out to form the universe? Has it always been there static unchanging?

More to the point what about the vacuum, what about the space between the electrons. If we can accept that this vacuum is not just empty space but is In fact an energy field, indeed an energy field of infinite potential it may go some way into offering an alternative viewpoint to creation, and one which works for me.

This vacuum in which we exist, is the same vacuum as between the atoms of our bodies in fact it is the underlying substrate of all creation. As an energy field this energy connects everything in the universe with everything else, a huge sea of energy in which we exist and from which is formed everything we experience.

Even given our 3d perception of vibration the lower the vibrational rate the denser an object appears. Take a material we perceive as 'solid' material, it is dense and has a low slow vibrational nature, if we add energy in the form of heat it melts, it becomes less dense, if we add yet more energy the vibrations increase and we get a plasma or gaseous form, add more and more energy and it vaporises. In fact if you keep adding energy it disappears or achieves a vibration outside that of our normal perception. Just because we cant perceive it does not mean that it no longer exists! So by altering the vibrational state of a material its physical properties as we perceive them are changed.

If the vibration of the infinite field is lowered in places then the energy will become denser, as it is lowered further and further eventually it will be of a vibration just outside of our normal perception, lower the energy yet further and we can perceive it. It is this field of perception that we have labelled as reality.

So we now have an energy field which we can experience which has formed or condensed from the void or the vacuum or the universal life force.

So all creation is condensed from this vast pool of energy. Each aspect of creation condenses out according to a pattern or a blueprint which dictates the frequency of the energy.

It has been postulated that God, the Supreme Being, is in fact all that is. God is in everything and everything is in God. If we can allow ourselves that the vast vacuum from which we are all condensed is not only infinite in energy, but is also conscious is that not a description of God.

So the previous chapter has offered a source for the energy which makes up all that we experience in life. What dictates its form? What causes the energy to condense into the patterns we see, into the events we experience.

Quite simply it's us! Our thoughts give the vacuum form, we call into existence that which our consciousness wishes to experience for our evolution.

The world in which we now find ourselves is a product of our collective thoughts, and our immediate environment is a product of our individual thoughts.

Puts another spin on maintaining a positive mental attitude does it not?

The paragraphs above goes some way into offering a viewpoint on where we and all of creation comes from. All that we perceive is condensed from the energy of the void and all of life is energy.

This does not take into account quite a large a mysterious aspect of us all and that is consciousness. I view consciousness as that aspect of us, which is within each of us which experience life through our senses. Our inner selves, the divine spark within, our soul if you wish.

At this point it should be pointed out that all of life is conscious, all part of the same energy field, part of the whole. Just because the crystal or the animal does not exhibit a human consciousness does not mean that it does not have a consciousness.

Consciousness is the key to experience. The more evolved or the wider our conciseness is the more aspects of life we can experience. Most of our experience depends on the frequencies which we can see, smell, feel etc. Or we can use instruments and equipment to broaden the frequencies we can experience i.e. infrared cameras etc.

In addition we can experience the more mystical aspects of the process of life by widening our consciousness by a variety of methods. Altered states of consciousness can be achieved by many methods including meditation, attunment, sound, movement, even chemicals such as hallucinogenic compounds.

As we evolve and our consciousness expands we are capable of experiencing much more than the relatively narrow spectrum of normal human experience. All of these energies are available to us but until our consciousness expands we are simply unaware of them.

By expansion of consciousness and thereby an expansion of the frequencies we consciously work with a number of abilities become available to the individual. This includes the ability to consciously channel energy to other energy patterns (lifeforms), to intuitively know or read the thought energies of another as in telepathy.

This so called extrasensory perceptions and paranormal abilities are inherently available to all humanity once a certain level of consciousness has been achieved. A few individuals are born with a suitably high vibration such that they can access these abilities from birth.

The human body is a mass of vibrations in a pattern which we know as our body. The densest aspects, the lowest vibrational energies condense out from the universal pool as the physical form.

Within that same pattern are other bodies or energies outside of the visible spectrum. As we mentioned everything is energy so our thoughts are also energy, as in fact are all our mental processes these energies taken collectively form the mental body.

Below our mental processes in vibrational terms are our emotions, these are often very tangible we feel hurt if someone attacks us verbally, or we feel great if someone directs love towards us. All of these emotions hang around us as our emotional bodies.

The mental, emotional and physical bodies are well recognised and are mentioned in many texts. Above these bodies are higher and higher vibrational bodies or energy fields or increasingly fine vibrations, these are sometimes described as etheric, or soul bodies and in the middle of this complex and beautiful pattern of energy is our condensed physical form.

The general worldview is of a physical body, and somewhere in that body is located the mind, and the soul normally deep within us. Where as the vibrational model of life above shows that the body is in fact the dense core of an expansive energy field. So rather than the soul existing deep within the physical body , it is in fact the physical body which is deep within the energetic field which is soul.

As we are aware the physical body is basically energy and so each of our organs are in fact energy patterns we associate or identify for example as a kidney.

A healthy kidney has a vibration and each vibration will be subtly different from another's. If the vibration of the kidney drops, the amount and quality of the energy manifesting as that organ drops and we experience disease.

As long as whatever process caused the drop in energy is removed then the energy level will slowly build up by drawing on the universal pool to bring the energy vibration back into balance with the blueprint. This is a natural process and we are all self-generating by drawing on this pool.

The healing process is, as I understand it energetic. Modern medicines remove the symptoms, and allow you to regenerate without the pain. A paracetemol does not cure a headache it blocks pain receptors so you don't feel ill but it is your bodies' ability to self heal which removes the cause of the headaches.

Alternative therapies work by flowing energy into the system to accelerate the healing process. Both systems have their place they achieve the same outcome using different methods.

Another difference is that most drugs are complex molecules with a range of vibrations not all of which are useful or even desirable as part of the healing process which can result in side effects. Pure energy healing tend not to have side effects as they are more in tune with the natural regenerative processes.

For a disease to manifest in the physical body there is a vibrational drop, as our physical bodies are just the densest component of our energy field condensed from the universal life-force field, then there must have been a drop in vibration in one of the higher energy fields i.e. the mental or emotional. Most if not all disease has it's root in the mental or emotional field.

Again modern medicines work on the physical body and if the root cause is not addressed then the symptoms can re-manifest. Modern medicine has observed that a patient who wants to get well and is active in their treatment heal much faster and more completely.

The previous musings have hopefully shown us a subtly different worldview from the conditioned viewpoint fed to us during schooling.

It shows us that each and every person, and object which makes up our world is condensed from a universal pool of energy which surrounds, permeates, and connects everything. It has shown that we are all part of one great whole, and has invited you to accept that the energy field is conscious.

It has shown us that our senses are limited and much of what many consider to be reality is limited by these sensory perceptions. We are condensed from an infinite energy pool with infinite vibrational possibilities and yet the only thing which exists for us is those few things that can be seen, heard, touched or smelt. By limiting our reality to these sensory perceptions we are missing out on so much of what truly is available to us.

But what has all this to do with Reiki? In the opening paragraphs I mentioned the translation of Reiki is universal life-force energy. It is one method, one of many by which additional energy maybe drawn from the universal pool or the vacuum in order to heal, and raise consciousness, and evolve.

A Reiki practitioner by process of attunment, which I will mention later, has the vibration of his or her energy pattern raised. This is a permanent process which opens new energetic pathways in our energy pattern (body) or enhances existing energy pathways, which allows energy from the universal pool to flow to others.

Energy always flows from high potential (fine vibrations) to low potential (coarse vibrations) in order to achieve a stable and balanced system. Put a hot cup of tea in a cold room and the radiant energy we label as heat will flow into the room until the tea is the same temperature as the room. Nature will always try to achieve a state of balance or equilibrium.

So by increasing his or her vibration the Reiki healer forms a localised high energy point (in comparison to our normal range of perception) in the universal field, the energy will then flow to lower vibrational areas i.e. the patient in order to establish balance and equilibrium.

The healer in effect acts as a conduit or a step down transformer which condences the infinitely high energy of the universal energy pool into energy of a high yet usable frequency.

This high frequency energy then flows to the lower energy of the diseased organ etc, and raises the energy of organ as it reduces itself until it is balanced.

Our higher vibrational aspects hold a blueprint of our energy pattern or body in perfect health and the Reiki energy will re-establish that pattern of balance. This is another ongoing process, we are continually replacing all building blocks of the body our cells according to this template. Our cells are energetic patterns condensed from the universal life-force field so if more energy is made available by healers then this process will be accelerated.

During the attunment process the Reiki master will confer the gift of Reiki on the recipient.

This process can be achieved by any individual over years of study and meditation to raise the consciousness of the individual such that these energies can be accessed.

During the attunment the Reiki master will use sacred symbols and techniques to raise the vibration and the consciousness of the individual such that they can now access a wider spectrum of existence, a wider spectrum of the universal energy.

This process opens pathways in the energetic pattern we associate with our bodies and allow increased amounts of energy to flow, which may be used for healing or self-development. This process is permanent and once these pathways are open they will remain open.

This process is by no means a shortcut, just because the door has been open does not necessarily follow that the initiate will use the abilities conferred. Reiki is like everything in life, the more it is used the stronger and more powerful it becomes.

Once attuned to second degree Reiki the ability to 'send' or direct Reiki energy through space and time is conferred. This ability is not confined to Reiki and there have been many instances of positive healing occurring over distance by positive intent or prayer.

As we have discussed in the previous sections of this work, everything is energy. So our thoughts are things therefore our thoughts are energetic patterns. One way of visualising our thought forms or our intentions are as ripples in the vacuum or universal energy field. As we think about something these thoughts radiate out from us through the vacuum and impact both on our environment and on the lifeforms we direct it at. Our thoughts are vibrations, energy patterns and loving healing thoughts have a finer vibration than negative thought forms. Once these thoughts, these sponsoring thoughts arrive at the intended place they will start to manifest.

So consider well what you think about others. Our thoughts have as much of an effect as our deeds.

Have you ever felt that a loved one was trying to get in touch, or started thinking about a person only for the phone to ring. Been thinking of a friend and then they ring or turn up? These are just a few examples of us picking up on the energy of thoughts.

It is in this manner that healing energy, or loving thoughts may be sent through the vacuum.

Let us take an example of vibrations transmitted through a medium with which we are all familiar ..sound! Audible sound has a vibration and travels through the air to our ears where it is converted to electrical signals interpreted by our brain and experienced by our consciousness or soul. Each sound has certain vibrational characteristics and depending on magnitude its size it will travel a certain distance.

Thought forms (which is in essence what distant healing is - a healing thought) are of a higher vibration as so travel further but rather than through the medium we describe as air they travel through the matrix of energy of the universal life-force field.

A second degree Reiki practitioner will use symbols to boost or reinforce the positive healing thought form, and in addition the second degree attunment will of raised the consciousness of the individual so they can access these trancentional energies and concepts.

Now we reach the difficult one time! So much of our modern lives revolve around linear time, a thing which quite simply does not exist in the absolute way we imagine it does.

Time is a concept invented by physicists in order to divide their experience into increasingly small units!

Take for instance an hour. It is a unit of experience that we have all agreed lasts for a duration we label 60 minutes. Time is not a regular quantifiable unit because it is a measure of experience. An hour in the company of a loved one passes much quicker for us than an hour in a lecture or a meeting! Einsteinian physics states quite clearly that time is relative to the observer!

The pulse and movement of experience is cyclic in nature, day night, the changing of the seasons in never ending cycles this is the true nature of the thing we label time, over this pattern modern humans have put a linear scale we measure in the passage of days, months years and hours.

As I understand it time is a measure of our movement through the universal energy field.

The ability to send healing through time is easy because the scale we use does not exist, its just something we all agree on, and therefore assume it is real.

Past present and future simply don't exist, there is only now. What we label the past is our memory of experiences that we have had. The future a projection of what we intend to experience.

Reiki makes extensive use of symbols in its practice, at level 2 and above. In fact some of the comtemporary Reiki systems have many symbols in the toolbox.

Symbols are used in conjunction with sacred names or tones to bring about specific effects. In this way the symbols are acting as vibration keys to allow the practitioner to activate and use certain vibrational effects such as healing mental and emotional issues, as well as the physically manifest symptoms.

Symbols are representations of vibrations, vibrations that are conducive to healing and self-development. These symbols activate and work on levels of consciousness deep within our energy field in addition to our 'normal' waking consciousness.

The fact that these symbols have been used for many years, as we measure existence, means that their natural vibration has been enhanced and reinforced by successive generations of Reiki practitioners. Remember the effect of thought forms on our environment, so if thousands of healers world-wide are using a symbol for healing then the collective consciousness of all those using the symbol reinforces its vibration.

Intent is paramount in many aspects of our lives. As a healer the healing energies are ' switched on' by our intent to heal at some level. Symbols act as a focus for intent and this starts the process and the energy flows. So our intent can be considered the sponsoring thought form. How the actual mechanics of this intent manifesting in the perceived world are not totally understood. The following hypothesis goes some way to explain this mechanism.

One way of looking at Reiki symbols are as vibrational keys or energy gateways. These energy paths are present and latent in us all. Once attuned to a Reiki symbol we are consciously aware of the symbol. When we call the symbol to mind, that is we focus our intent on the symbol and its effect then the energy path is bridged and the universal life force of that vibration flows.

Once the practitioner has had the energy path opened during the attunment and been given the symbol then these energetic pathways are activated and so these healing skills are unlocked. Once these pathways are unlocked they are carried from existence to existence, and indeed are even amplified by repeated experiences and use.

The more you use it the less you use it !!!

The above applies for all of life's skills. Science has proposed that as we learn certain skills in life then a neural pathway is burned or etched into our brains by the neurone flow. The more we use this skill or practice it the more that neural pathway is used and reinforced.

These energy gates are opened at certain frequencies or levels of consciousness, as consciousness is raised or lowered so abilities come on line or go offline.

We have all experienced places which make us feel good, places which make us feel powerful, and places which make us feel uncomfortable.

As well as personal vibratory level, the base frequency of ones environment also plays a part and has an effect. High energies or fine vibrations result in higher levels of consciousness. The vibratory level of ones environment may be raised in a number of ways; positive intent, use of crystals, music, colour, incense, crystal essences etc.

Once raised if repeated often then this high vibration will be continually reinforced and the local environment will increase its base vibration. This reinforcement of intent goes some way to explain why healing centres, sacred sites, old churches and the like have an atmosphere. If a room or a space is dedicated to meditation or healing then such a sacred space can be easily created.

In addition to environment group consciousness also has an effect on our vibrational levels. If all the people in a room have a relatively high vibration, and the room is conducive, and the people in the space are focussed on healing, or even talking about matters of a fine vibration then the vibration of the group will spiral into finer and finer vibrations, with a resulting increase in levels of consciousness.

If the same group are placed in a low energy environment then the energetic cap or ceiling will be much lower. If the group can maintain a high vibration in that space then eventually the energy level of the environment will increase.

The other major factor is human group consciousness. We exist in a pool of human energy, the higher the vibration of each individual within that pool the higher the group consciousness of the human pool.

As we move into the next millennium the more humans who raise their vibration the higher the energy of the human race, as this vibration increases more of us become interested in matters metaphysical or spiritual. This in tern raises the vibration of the group which gives all access to higher levels of consciousness, and so on in an ever increasing spiral upwards. I believe this process is often referred to as the ascension process.

So we can and do all have an effect not only on our personnel evolution but also the evolution of the human raceÖ.keep up the good work.

The mind the intellect spends its time pondering, how does it all work, why does it all work, what's the meaning of life, what is all about. Why is an apple an apple?

The soul knows what it is all about for it is an aspect of the divine, it wants to gain experience of the things it conceptually knowsÖ...quite simply what does the apple taste like, smell, like, feel like?

Its is by combining the inner knowing with the outer experience that we achieve true balance.

In closing I offer the following suggestion, try not to get too involved in looking for the answer, in looking for THE TRUTH, there is no such thing as THE truth simply an infinite number of truths, held by an infinite number of consciousness all forged from the same divine consciousness.

Robert and his Partner Tania have been working in the spiritual field for a number of years.They are both practising Reiki Energy Masters and carry this into the creation of wands and other energetic tools. They live and work in the south east of England. Information on much of their work may be found at http://www.raven-reiki.co.uk and http://www.wandworkshop.co.uk