Is Your Massage Therapist Inviting Spirits Upon You?

I had a counseling client in our Tampa officeget there energy from? " As a Christian counselor
recently (let's call her "Jill", not her real name) whoand deliverance minister, I would certainly say that
was a beautiful young woman of Go. Jill had spentthe healing power was not from the God of the
her life in the church and had recently graduatedbible!
from Massage Therapy School. I listened intentlyI was a volunteer at a Nursing Home here in
as she spoke of the doors for demonictown, and Reiki therapy is very prevalent there.
oppression she believed she had opened while sheThey hold classes every month to teach the
was in school.volunteers how to administer Reiki. One of the
Jill recounted how she became aware of the Newelderly volunteers told me that the next time I
Age infiltration into the school on the day theywas there she would channel the "Healing Touch"
had Reiki Training. Reiki (pronounced Ray-kee) is ainto me. My spirit recoiled and I told her, "Oh
spiritual healing practice invented in Japan in thethat's okay, I believe in the power of the Holy
1920's that claims that healing can come by layingSpirit for healing." She blurted out innocently, "Oh,
hands on or above a sick or injured person. Theythis has nothing to do with that!" I heard the Holy
believe that a Reiki master can draw universalSpirit speak loudly, "My people are dying for lack
healing energy into the person. Some of the Reikiof knowledge" (Hosea 4:6).
practitioners are expected to seek a spirit guideI asked one of the patients I sat with weekly if
as a spiritual master. As Christians, we need tothey had prayed Reiki over her. She sat straight
understand that walking down this road will notup in bed and said, "Yes, and I will never allow
lead us closer to Jesus!that again!" I asked her what happened. She told
During the class Jill was part of, they asked forme that she indeed received an immediate peace
volunteers who would like to have this healingand freedom from pain, but within hours it was
energy channeled into them. She told me half theback and seven times worse that it was to begin
class was jumping out of their seats because ofwith!
the descriptions used in reference to the processI read an article recently in The Healing Line,
were calming, healing, peaceful oneness.written by Francis MacNutt of Christian Healing
As my client described it, the volunteer ended upMinistries that the practice has been so embraced
in a fetal position rocking in the corner of theby many nuns in the Catholic Retreat centers that
room sobbing without consolation. At that pointthe Bishops released a statement criticizing and
the Reiki instructor admitted that many times youwarning against its use as a spiritual healing
will see that sort of manifestation after thetechnique.
energy is channeled in. Some people vomit, haveThe bottom line is this: if you are a Christian and
types of seizures or start crying as this girl wasreceiving massage therapy, just be careful who
doing. No one else volunteered after that!lays hands on you. Ask your massage therapist
Jill was well versed in demonic oppression and shelots of questions and always cover yourself with
knew this volunteer opened a huge door andthe blood of Jesus before allowing anyone to
there was no telling how many demons found amassage you. As Francis MacNutt so eloquently
new home in her. As a believer of Jesus and thestated in his article, "We have to be very careful
power of the Holy Spirit, her concern of coursenot to mingle the healing that we have in Jesus
was, "How do you know what kind of energy iswith any other healing powers." Amen!
flowing out of the Reiki master". " Where do they