disempowerment

The thing that worries me about scientists investigating how praying and reiki work is that once they have found out, someone will turn the effect into tablet form and put it on the market.  Having done this they would   then proceed to disempower simple getting together and praying and the simple and highly effective laying on of hands. Just as the pharmaceuticals industry disempowered the simple use of herbs.

Things like praying, reiki, witchcraft and magic are gentle passive elements and are easily suppressed by envy, arrogance and spitefulness, especially by power hungry, money grabbing people and organisations.