What is the difference between energy medicine, as presented in the book by Donna Eden which you have recommended, and other healing modalities that used to be considered as psychic healing—such as chakra and aura balancing, either with crystals or energy, for example?
The boundaries between the various healing arts are becoming progressively less defined, and this causes confusion. What is the central spiritual issue here?
It is a fine line.
In a strict sense, all forces of an invisible nature brought to bear upon something or someone to change an outcome are of a psychic nature. The one exception is divine love.
Due to space limitations a detailed argument to show the all-pervasive presence of the psychic arts will not follow.
However, I will give a rule of thumb.
Any conscious or unconscious attempt to change the course or state of a condition—health, political, or spiritual—to gather power to oneself is a negative use of the psychic power.
Service to others in any field, to be a karmaless action, must be done with love and goodwill in the name of Divine Spirit.
This is a spiritual art. It depends in the whole upon a pure state of consciousness. Otherwise, there are karmic consequences.
Healers in any line need to learn the practice of detachment. No, that’s not to say coldness. True detachment comes from real compassion for others.
In reference to a book like Donna Eden’s Energy Medicine, I give a guideline:
One’s risk of incurring karma is not a factor if an individual tries her techniques only upon himself or consenting family members. This small circle may also include close friends.
Any time an exchange of money for services takes place, there is a karmic risk. A professional healer has the training to help patients in the right way. Thus, he incurs little risk. One does not want to load his own balance sheet with the karma of others.
A person who wants to make spiritual progress will practice karmaless actions.
Yes, the lines between the healing arts are ever more a blur, but perhaps the above guideline will clear up some of the confusion.
—Sri Harold Klemp