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Over the years, a significant portion of my friends have been helpless to resist the charms of New Zealand. The ones who returned only did so due to capitalist obligations from which they could not be released. But! It was still within their power to spread the Zealand pollen stateside, and a watchful tourist’s LCD seems to be an encounter with the Maori people–specifically, Maori healers who invoke a technique called Te Oomai Reia. From what I’ve read, it appears similar to Reiki (the transfer of energy) and Rolfing (the fascia releasing blocked energy & memories, how sobbing is likely), but people I know who’ve experienced a Maori healing say it verges on exorcism. As in, you might want to bring an EMF field tester and an infrared camera with you. A popular Maori healing site concurs–the blockages will be extricated; their method draws from “bush medicine” designed “for healing and removal of negative entities from a person’s energy” via restoring cellular memory to its original, harmonious state. The process will employ the healer’s hands, elbows, and feet in movements that include “soothing, stroking, kneading, friction, vibration, tapping and pouncing.” Pouncing. Well, I’ll have to say I’d be game. I’ve been riveted by Maori culture ever since the excellent ‘94 film, Once Were Warriors. Has anyone ever experienced a Maori healing?
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I haven’t, but having my cellular memory restored and harmonized sounds great!
posted by Tru on 6-28-2007 at 11:48 am
Doesn’t the new iPhone do all that? You would think so from all the hype.
posted by Bill T. on 6-28-2007 at 1:12 pm
I haven’t experienced any healing, but I”m ready to move to NZ today…anyone wanna come with me?
posted by donner on 6-28-2007 at 2:02 pm
If one of those ‘healers’ would care to make a million dollars google jref. A simple demonstration that they can cure anything would earn them a cool megabuck.
OTOH -it could be a nice message I suppose
posted by frankly on 6-28-2007 at 2:34 pm
That sounds like ’shamanic extraction’, google it for yourself. Having Reiki’d and been Reiki’d, and had full-blown emotional releases from Hellerwork that dated back to infancy (Hellerwork was created by one of Ida Rolf’s students), and done quite a few extractions from others, I would say that… you should go for it!! :)
posted by Robert Hopt on 6-28-2007 at 7:11 pm
If it’s anything like Jake Hiki’s pouncing then I’m out…
posted by elowsky on 6-28-2007 at 11:37 pm
You might want to try psychic surgery and other such nonsense while you’re at it.
posted by Bob Linn on 6-29-2007 at 2:22 pm
I reakon if you need to have somthing like this done then weather it works depends on how much you beleave in it.
For instance; if you beleave in meditating every day to make you calmer then it will work. if your being forced into it by a wife or parant then your negitive attitude and non belief will cause it to not turn out the way it should.
If you get maouri healing and it works then it is because you beleave in it.
posted by Alexia on 11-12-2007 at 2:38 am