The other day when discussing my experiences and gifts, someone who practices Reiki, said that he had never met a male with the gifts of intuition I describe. He said he's mostly known women who operate in their gifts the way that I do, very few men.

Remember how I said that I don't know what to call myself, i.e. psychic, clairvoyant/audient, etc... Is there a term for a man operating with gifts usually held for females?

Any thoughts on this?????

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Let me ask around ...

anyway

I think being in touch with and open to your feminine side and intuition is not overly common in men. Our society hardly supports woman to be let alone men.

I think our childhoods and our teachers from that phase of life are a very important key to wether we develop our natural intuition or surpress it

Mach said:

When you say teachers are you talking about traditional K-12 teachers or guides of sorts?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

anyone or thing you call a true teacher

Hell I have learned great lessons from a lump of clay so ...
I wish our society would embrace true intuition and encourage our children to trust themselves more.

This thread is deep...

RenHoek said:

No it's not

Mach said:

Compared to any 100 other threads in GD, this thread is deep like Lake Tahoe!

Don't get me wrong, I get the gist of what you two are talking about having read my share of Castaneda and D. Quinn... but this thread is deep IMO...

RenHoek said:

okay then

Mach said:

I love that you refered to an object as a teacher because I consider music a teacher.

RenHoek said:

I resisted the obvious from your first comment. Aren't you proud of me?!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Proud... yeah that's it... proud!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Music for sure

I have been reading some things on male intuition since my 1st post. There isn't much on it really except how we highly discourage it in our boys

Mach said:

Intuition has always been very easy for me. When I was 12 my mother said I had a woman's heart. I still think this is true. I just found it very interesting that someone found me to be an anomoly as regards to the way that I express and use my gifts.

What is your Reiki experience? I am meeting this person tomorrow for dinner and I have no idea what to ask about Reiki because I still don't even know what it is

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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

why didn't we talk about this?!! wow hon... what kind of intuition do you have?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

again you are deeply in touch with your feminine side and that may come across as a "woman's heart"



I am a Reiki master my attunments were gifted to me by 2 Reiki Masters after 3 yrs of serious study and practice

there are 3 degrees or atunments

like
1 - Beginner
2 - Intermediate
3 - Master

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Reiki
http://www.asunam.com/asunam1.htm

WHAT IS A 'REIKI MASTER'?

Ask a number of different Reiki practitioners the question: "What is a Reiki Master?" and probably the most common answer you will get will be something along the lines of: "someone who has received the master level Reiki attunement."

However, Takata-Sensei said that in order for a person to be considered a 'Reiki Master' it was not enough to have received Master Level attunement and to know how to pass attunements for all three levels:

You have to have taught at least one class and thus have actually attuned at least one student...

In relation to Reiki, the Japanese term: sensei which is translated - very loosely - as: master, does not imply 'one who has mastered the art of Reiki', (nor for that matter, one who has achieved some form of exalted status - though many would have you think so!)

The word: sensei is actually a term of respect, which first and foremost means: 'teacher' and refers to someone who is part of a Teacher - Student (Mentor - Student) relationship

Translating: sensei as 'master' is simply akin to the way in which a 'school-teacher' is sometimes referred to as a 'school-master'.

And, as is the case with a school-master, ideally a Reiki-master is someone who (as well as having received the relevant attunements) possesses a good understanding of their subject, has a strong desire to help their students develop their own potentials, has respect for their students, (as well as eliciting the respect of their students) and also has the ability to inspire their students and to draw the best from them.

Mach said:

I think my friend is a master as well. Should I just ask any questions or do you think there is a specific line of questioning that I should get into?

I believe Steadwood is also a Reiki master

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I think you should ask him to explain Reiki to you in his words

Mach said:

Are you serious? Are all Reiki's healers or are there different gifts depending on the person?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I am serious

Reiki is healing energy ...

read
http://www.asunam.com/asunam1.htm

grimnt said:

Do you remember when I was telling you my story and that song came on that I had as part of a mix I was working on? You said I was one of the most intuitive person's you ever met. What did you feel when all that was being discussed? Did you get a sense of feminine energy, aside from the fact that I'm kind of not super macho man I mean did you sense femininity as regards to the things I was telling you about my experiences?

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Supa is your friend giving you a session/treatment ?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

you're right, I did... I guess I just didn't make the connection hon I'm sorry didn't think of your intuition in that light

Yes you definately have a feminine energy

Mach said:

No. We've talked on the phone for a while but tomorrow will be our first face to face.

Remember that thing I told you about what happened on the bus? I might as well tell it here This involves the experience I talked about in my thread in my signature. It's about the meditation I experienced. Until then I had never meditated and it wasn't that I was skeptical or that I didn't think it could be benefitial but more that I didn't know how so I dind't seek it out. But when we did these exercises, despite my hesitancy, I did the breathing and the counting down from 10 to 1 and instantly went into the meditations. Without hesitation I had visions. They came to me very easily.

The thing on the bus involves the meditation I had about my garden. The woman who did the presentation on finding our Joy had us do the breathing and the countdown. During the breathing part of it she said that as we counted down that we were to envision going down step by step and that when we got to the bottom we would be in our garden.

In my vision, when I was still at the top of the stairs If I turned from the stairs and looked back, I could see clearly the landscape before me. I was at the top of a hill and it was desolate. Nothing but just flat land and bare dirt. Pure desolation. The thing is though, that at the edge of the hill were tree tops and these trees filled this horseshoe shaped indent in the hill. But when I looked past the treetops to the water, all I could see was sky.

So we did the countdown and I saw each stair, one by one and when I got to the bottom my grandmother and my great aunt were there. Needless to say, I was shocked and I immediately started sobbing Here I am doing meditation for the first time and 2 of my most prized teachers were standing in my garden, tending to it until such time as I joined them. This garden was spectacular and at the end of the garden was the beach. This was a cove. And that beach is all the heaven that I've ever been to in my dreams.

So I don't have a lot of quiet/down time to meditate so I haven't really since then. Well I'm not sure if you are aware but there is this music project in the Music Non Prince forum that has turned into an exercise of my soul. One song in particular reminds me of a dream I had about the last day of the earth.



Well that song always reminded me about this dream, the end of the world and now it reminds me of my garden and the people that are in it. Part of this project for me has really been me thinking about my garden and my gifts and how music is such a big spark for what helps me to create and use my gift. A part of this mix is very relational to my cousin who was killed and as I have been listening to this song, I have been led to plead on her behalf to ask that my grandmother and my aunt be on the watch for her arrival at my garden.

It was on the bus on the way home listening to this song that I decided to meditate on that very idea. The song started and I began meditating and seeing/being at my garden and the way that I explained my meditation to someone, they said I was using my 8th chakra. I have a loose idea of what chakras are but I have no real knowledge as to what they are and how they are used or how to use them. When I meditate, it is almost like doing a backflip in a pool. I send myself up above my head, over behind me and then come through the center of my back. This is where I have my visions and where I dream my lucid dreams from. It is not seeing through my head or my eyes, it's seeing from my middle. I don't know if that makes sense or not. It's like having a reverse periscope.

So when I was listening to the song and meditating, I specifically went in search of my grandmother/aunt to tell them that my cousin will be making her way there and to watch for her and Mach, I experienced something I never have before. I really don't even know how to explain it with words but it was like mainlining emotion. I felt something and I had the sensation of tumbling forward and down but being caught at the same time and I honestly feel that I felt the presense of my grandmother/aunt inside me. It reminded me of that scene in Poltergeist where Carol Ann's spirit passes through her mom. It was so like that. It was a feeling and an emotion so pure and it hit me instantly and I cried from my guts. But it was so beautiful. It kind of scared me actually how strong it was.

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8th Chakra is the energy center of divine love, of spiritual compassion and spiritual selflessness. It is also the Chakra that holds one’s karmic residue – those energy patterns that one has held on to for more than one lifetime. When the eighth center begins to open up and expand, a new spiritual awareness is set in motion. The individual begins to sense himself as part of an extended community of beings. This Chakra is the gateway to other ideas, concepts and abilities which enable the individual to achieve advanced out of body projection, spiritual perception, and spiritual wisdom.

( located at the bottom of your feet )

Mach said:

Well maybe they were confused I think he said 8th. Is there one above your head? I really don't think I've ever felt anything with my feet though.

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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

7th


""I send myself up above my head, over behind me and then come through the center of my back. This is where I have my visions and where I dream my lucid dreams from. It is not seeing through my head or my eyes, it's seeing from my middle. I don't know if that makes sense or not. It's like having a reverse periscope.""

a lot of Shamanic journeying/trance/dream work is done in exactly this way it is your power center - your middle section

so you connect with spirit by leaving your crown ( above head ) and comming to your center from behind

Thanks your guys for sharing this. Reiki is sure fascinating. I have a lot to learn from people like you.

Hate to be a party poop, but...

"The strongest research conducted as of 2008 has failed to demonstrate that Reiki is an effective treatment for any condition."

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"there is insufficient evidence to indicate that reiki is effective as sole or adjuvant therapy for any medical condition, or that it has any benefits beyond possible placebo effects."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiki