Hello all,
After much thinking I am not sure where I am going with this but I will begin. Interesting questions brought up by Roxylady..
I have never felt the need to try to send Reiki to someone dead. I do offer prayers for their transition. So, if you do try to send Reiki to a dead person and no connection is made I might assume the energy just circles back to the sender or goes out to the energy pool in the Universe. At death the physical life force energy leaves the body as no longer needed. We can also assume that emotional, spiritual etc. also leaves as no need to remain. I then assume that means there is nothing left for most energy work to be done on. The exception to me would be Shamanic practices.
Roxy you asked where does the energy go upon death. Do we really know? I assume it leaves and goes out and about and sometime, somewhere, somehow accrued karma is dealt with.
A long time ago I had posted some of this before. I was sending Reiki to Louise and at one point during her last day I felt many things changing. At first I sensed the energy going inward and then at some point the energy was being repelled. As I tried to smooth her aura it had holes in it and ridges, ridges that seemed very hard and bumpy/wavy. I seemed to sense her energy leaving her body and bright lights of energy traveled from her and upward which I assumed to the Universe/Heaven. Something told me to stop and that is what I did. Apparently there was no more need for "healing" energy to be sent or received. As Rebecca said the connection stopped. So, we stop.
After some discussion I later learned one of our members here did some Shamanic work to further assist Louise during her transition and/or after life.
I firmly believe that if anyone wants to deal with energy work with a dead person to leave that up to a learned and qualified Shaman as they are trained to do work in the other realms. We other energy workers are not. Just my opinion.
When my brother was ill with cancer some years back my first teacher suggested to me that I view a photo of him when younger and when doing energy work on him in the present to see him healthy as he was in the photo. So I did not attempt to change the past but to visualize him as healthy and whole once again in the now.
In the now we bring up past experiences/memories in an effort to clear ourselves of any negative baggage and dis-ease we still carry around that no longer serves us in an effort to heal ourselves. We each heal ourselves, energy workers only facillitate the energy circle flow. I don't feel a dead person has this energy flow on the planes we know of here at least.
As usual we are all here to learn. You have made me do a lot of thinking on these questions.
Donna
