Ultimately, the only way to begin to understand Reiki is to experience it directly. With that said, the resources recommended here represent an excellent starting place for those seeking more information about Reiki and energy healing. These materials range from basic introductory information geared toward the layperson to highly technical articles from peer-reviewed medical journals. Enjoy!
by Susan Hayes
Natural Health,
March 2008
by Kathleen Doheny
Natural Health,
web article
Reiki -- Review of a Biofield Therapy
by Pamela Miles & Gala True
Alternative Therapies, Mar/April 2003
Reiki for Mind, Body and Spirit Support of Cancer Patients
by Pamela Miles
Advances in Mind-Body Medicine, Fall 2007
Science and the Human Energy Field
James L. Oschman, Ph.D. interviewed by William Lee Rand
Reiki News,
Winter 2002
Articles on Reiki & Energy
Reiki & Other Resource Links
Books on Reiki & Energy
by Pamela Miles
by Walter Lubeck, Frank Arjava Petter & William Lee Rand
Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis
by James L. Oschman, Ph.D.
A Practical Guide to Vibrational Medicine: Energy Healing and Spiritual Transformation
by Richard Gerber, M.D.
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•American Cancer Society Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies - Reiki overview
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•Integrative Therapies in Cancer Care - Keeping Control Through Cancer
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•Visit Mesothelioma.com to learn more about how mesothelioma patients are using Reiki as a form of palliative relief during cancer treatment.
“In a sense, all medicine is energy medicine. This may seem trivial, but it makes an important point. Any intervention with a living system involves energy in one form or another. ... Energy medicine involves understanding how the body creates and responds to electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields, including light and sound as well as other forms of energy such as heat, pressure, chemical and elastic energy, and gravity. We are interested in how the body produces these different kinds of energy, and how these energies can be applied to the body for beneficial effects.
... When physicians and scientists react negatively to the term energy medicine, they are forgetting that there are many medical technologies using different forms of energy for diagnosis and treatment. X-rays and MRIs fall into the diagnostic category. Passive measures of the fields produced by the body are also important in diagnosis: electro-cardiograms, electroencephalograms, electroretinograms, and electromyograms. Each of these diagnostic tools has a recently developed biomagnetic counterpart: magneto-cardiograms, magnetoencephalograms, magnetoretinograms, magnetomyograms, and so on. Every doctor has used an electrocardiogram, an energy medicine diagnostic tool we have had for nearly a century.
Modern researchers have developed the magnetic biopsy, the electrical biopsy, and the optical biopsy. Transcutaneous nerve stimulators, cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators, lasers, electrocautery, and pulsing magnetic field therapy are examples of energy treatment modalities that are part of conventional medicine. Controversial or not, energy medicine based on the use of medical equipment is alive and well in hospitals, clinics, and medical research centers. Reiki and other forms of hands-on healing are another form of energy medicine based on scientifically measurable energy fields emitted from the healer’s hands.”
James L. Oschman, Ph.D.
“Science and the Human Energy Field”
Reiki News, Winter 2002
Excerpt from “Science and the Human Energy Field”
