08/19/2025
MY RESPONSE TO THE POSTS ABOUT THE EVILS OF REIKI AND ALL ENERGY HEALING.
There’s been a growing wave of posts warning Christians to stay away from energy healing practices like Reiki. I don’t practice Reiki and never have, but after more than 20 years working with Chinese Medicine, Qigong, and subtle energetic healing, I feel compelled to speak up, not to defend a system, but to question the fear-based thinking that reflexively labels anything outside of church-sanctioned practice as dangerous.
Let’s go directly to scripture. In Luke 8:46, when a woman touched Jesus’ garment and was healed, he didn’t say, “Who prayed correctly?” or “Who had the right theology?” He said, “Someone touched me, for I perceived that power has gone out from me.” This wasn’t metaphor. It was felt. It was physical. It was energetic. The word used in the Greek is “dunamis” which means force, power, miraculous strength. Elsewhere in the New Testament, the word “energeia”, from which we get “energy”, is used to describe divine activity working within and through a person.
What’s more, Jesus didn’t keep this ability to himself. He made it clear that others could do the same and even more. He said, “Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes in me will do the works that I do, and greater works than these shall they do.” That’s from John 14:12. This verse is often cited as proof that only those who “believe in Jesus” can access this power. But the Greek phrase isn’t about belief in a doctrine. It’s “the one who trusts into me.” This points to union, not allegiance.
And let’s remember this too. The popular modern phrase “accept Jesus into your heart” does not appear anywhere in scripture. Jesus never said it. The apostles never taught it. The early church never used it. This language showed up much later during Protestant revival movements in the 1700s and 1800s as a way to make salvation more emotionally accessible and personal. But in the earliest expressions of Christianity, following Christ wasn’t about reciting a prayer or adopting a belief. It was about entering a path of transformation. It meant facing your own inner fragmentation and allowing it to be alchemized by divine Light. It was an inner resurrection, not a theological agreement.
From the Gnostic understanding, Jesus wasn’t asking for religious devotion. He was revealing the path of inner remembrance, helping us recognize that we are not merely vessels of divine energy, but emanations of the One Light. He remembered this truth fully, and he invited us to do the same. The key to those greater works he spoke of isn’t about joining the right belief system. It’s the willingness to enter deep transformation. To face the parts of ourselves held in fear, shame, confusion, and conditioning and to allow those human impediments to be dissolved.
This doesn’t happen by thinking lofty thoughts. It doesn’t happen by listening to a sermon once a week. It happens through inner alchemy. And no, I don’t see any more Christians doing this than people from other backgrounds. It’s rare no matter where you look. But for those who choose that path, and who genuinely trust into the pattern Jesus lived, we come to see this: the Light is not outside us. We are not separate. We are not waiting for God to arrive. We are here to remember that we already are that Light in form.
And when we remember, healing no longer flows through us. It flows as us."
-Keith Coley
