Hi Reiki Friends
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Dear friends in the Healing Arts. This just in from Vic ... a bill that can effect Reflexologists, Reiki practitioners and other healers. There is a call for action at the bottom of this e-mail. Thanks, Laurie Sue
<< Memo From Rev. Vic --
This is from my friend Ellen Kahne. She is a major advocate of Reiki and
fights any laws to try and control it.
The bill she refers to would cause major problems for Reiki people as well
as Reflexologists and other "unlicensed" practitioners. If you can forward
to any of your friends and have them call protesting this bill it would be
very helpful.
Here is an extract of what the bill can do:
If you are a practitioner or recipient (consumer) of the following healing
modalities this bill affects YOU, as A8704 states: "INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO: accupressure, asian healing practices; Anthroposophy (Rudolph
Steiner methods); Cranial Sacral Therapy; culturally traditional healing
practices; detoxification practices and therapies; energetic healing;
flower
essences; folk practices; Gerson Therapy; Healing practices utilizing food,
food supplements; nutrients and physical forces of heat, cold, water, color,
touch, and light; healing-related kinesiology; Healing Touch; Hellerwork;
hergology or herbalixm; homeopathy; Iridology; Jin Shin Therapy; Mind-Body
Healing practices; naturopathy; polarity therapy; Qi Gong; reflexology;
Reiki
; Rolfing; Shiatsu; Trager Approach; Heawlth; Tuina; Yoga; or any
combination of such practices."
In addition to the drawbacks of this legislation as listed below, please
be aware that the bill, A8704, clearly states that this state legislation
supercedes U.S. constitutional protections and rights guaranteed by the 5th
Amendment under U.S. law if a complaint is received against any healer using
an unlicensed healing modality (sic, see above list). Also, "the
Commissioner may issue an ORDER DIRECTING THE PRACTITIONER TO SUBMIT TO A
MENTAL OR PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OR CHEMICAL DEPENDANCY EVALUATION." In other
words, if A8704 is passed into law, NY State spiritual and other unlicensed
healers (including priests, nuns, ministers who do laying on of hands
healing) may be forced to surrender the privacy of their medical records and
to submit to forced medical examinations in the case of any complaint made
against them to the state regarding non medical healing modalities which do
not harm!!
Please have anyone who makes a call drop me an email and let me know how the
calls where received. They do not have to be constituents of the
Assemblyman, just consumers or practitioners. People like Dr. Judy and
other notables would be most welcomed!
Thanks
I love You
Avi
Dear Vic,
I need calls (today and tomorrow especially) to Assemblyman Ed Sullivan's
Albany office regarding bill A8704, especially if you know anyone in his
upper west side district (and they can call his Manhattan office numbers).
Callers should politely state their names, give an address, if asked,
(especially important if they are constituents) and state their opposition
to the bill as unlicensed healers and/or consumers.
The bill A8704 is presently in the Higher Education Committee which Ed
Sullivan chairs. His telephone in Albany is: 1518-455-5603.
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