When I was 25 I met friends I hadn't seen for five or six years. Loads had happened since I last saw them: they were married, had children and he had multiple sclerosis.
They also belonged to a new religion, created in Japan in 1962, called Mahikari. The main practice was spiritual healing, with a lot of Japanese style rituals, prayers and so on.
They told me that since they belonged there, his state as multiple sclerosis sufferer had stabilised and that he even had been able to stop medication.
I was not very attracted by getting into religious stuff, but I didn't want to be close minded either so I decided to give it a try. I joined Mahikari.
A few months later I was initiated, I received a sacred object - a medallion -
This medallion was a real problem. You were supposed to have it on you all the time, but it couldn't touch any part of the body lower than the navel, it couldn't be touched by another person and couldn't be wet either.
To take a shower, it was necessary to say special prayers to ask for protection, put the sacred object in a sacred box on the highest shelve of the house, say another prayer, go take the shower, then without wasting time, say a prayer to thank God for the protection and put the medallion back on. All the prayers were in ancient Japanese....
The amazing thing was that the spiritual healing worked. The moment of my "initiation", when I received the sacred medallion that had been consecrated somewhere in Japan, I felt pins and needles switched on in my palms
I started experimenting, with success. I remember a child who was crying because she had an ear infection - Five minutes of my hand at 20 cm of the ear and the pain was gone. A guy with a medical metallic device getting out of his leg - he had had multiple fractures was in great pain. Five minutes or so or my hands sending "divine light" ... and he was smiling. I had many similar experiences. It was like magic!
I even changed the taste of wine... It was really bad wine, the cheapest brand that my sceptical and atheist friends were drinking to get drunk when they had no money for weed.
I poured a glass, put it aside, put my hands around the bottle for about 10 minutes.... It did not turn into good wine but It didn't burn the throat anymore, like the wine left in the glass still did. My friends had to admit the difference was obvious. They remained as atheists as they were anyway, but I didn't care about that. I was really enjoying the experience!
I remained a member of Mahikari for about one year, but it was quite a pain in the arse to follow all the rituals, and the people in there were everything but wise.
The teachings, which were supposed to be revealed for the first time in the history of humanity, were just a rewriting of traditional esoteric or religious teachings. Nothing new.
The little chiefs really believed that they were as infallible as the catholic pope when doing their little chief job.... I heard a woman once say: "God is talking through my mouth, so shut up and listen to me!"...
One day I had enough. I profaned the sacred medallion. I opened it (something nobody should never do) I put the little consecrated piece of paper with a sign on it in the bin with the medallion and I was done with it.
However, later on I noticed that I could still feel the pins and needles in my palms. So I carried on practising spiritual healing or energy healing, whatever we call it, without any ritual or prayers in ancient Japanese. Sometimes, it works, headaches or belly aches vanish. However, long term conditions don't evaporate in five or fifty five minutes of hands imposition indeed... Those who expect that should remember that standard medicine doesn't heal you with one pill either.
One day someone told me that this experience simply unlocked a gift I had. Maybe. Today, many people do energy healing, with one appellation or another. Well, I do it as well!...
I even do it from a distance... (just ask!) Life is surprising!
