As research for a folklore project, I created a series of questions designed to gauge how energy healers perceive themselves, their place in society, and their cohesiveness as a group. This questionnaire is for practitioners of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies that use channeled energy as a main therapeutic tool, such as Reiki. If [...]
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Energy Healer Questionnaire
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged folklore, healers, questions, Reiki, subculture on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Boxes, Definitions, and the Danger of Being an “ist”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anthropologist, dogma, fear, folklore, folklorist, healing, judgment, new definitions, philosophy, placebo effect, religion on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t really want to be an “ist.” I don’t want to be stuck in a box as an anthropologist, folklorist, mythologist, hypnotherapist, religionist, spiritualist, or any other kind of “ist.” I think that this sort of division plays a big role in our inability to heal and move forward, both as individuals and as [...]
