Ah, the internet's an amazing thing. One of the services offered at the Emmaus Centre is Holistic Indian Head Massage. (None of that reductionist, atomistic Indian Head Massage here!)If you look up "holistic indian head massage" on Google, you have to click through a couple of pages of sponsored adverts before you get to the search results. So there's obviously money in this. Should you be inclined to a career in HIHM, you can get a qualification from most up-to-date Universities and Colleges. You can, for example, gain an ITEC Certificate in Indian Head Massage at St Mary's, Strawberry Hill. It's all quite serious stuff. Here are the course requirements:
The ITEC Certificate in Indian Head Massage will be achieved with 4 days of attendance followed by the production of 4 case studies (3 times each), to be submitted to the examiner together with a 2-hour written exam paper and a practical assessment. You will also be required to undertake home studies of approximately 4 hours per week.That little lot should significantly reduce the chances that you'll accidentally poke someone's eye out. It is also reassuring to find that "Indian Head Massage can be performed without the need to undress." It apparently balances the chakras, too. Well that certainly sounds like a good thing. Who'd want to be going round with their chakrahs all wonky and out of balance? OK, I admit it, I haven't a clue what my chakras are. Off to Google again...
It seems we keep coming back to Reiki with this Indian Head Massage stuff. I find that the chakras are a part of the Reiki healing system. At the Reiki for Holistic Health website, they summarise it all neatly for us.First of all, to prevent you making a fool of yourself at parties, let me knowledgeably assure you that it is pronounced "chuhkruh." Ellie Crystal's metaphysical and science website tells us confidently that the commonly found pronunciation 'shockrah' is incorrect. (Boy, would I have looked stupid saying "chacra"!) And Ellie is a Psychic, Therapist, Reiki Master, Teacher, Author, Lecturer, Researcher and Broadcaster so don't even think of trying to make a case for the 'shockrah' pronunciation.
Basically, Chakras (Sanskrit for wheel) are Entry Gates of the Aura. The seven main Chakras are positioned on the central line of the body - they are located in the ethereal body and they express the embodiment of spiritual energy on the physical plane. You see, within the physical body resides a body double, a spiritual body, that contains the Chakras. They are responsible for your physical, mental and spiritual functions and they absorb and transmit energies to and from the universe, nature, heavenly beings, people and even things.
So, my advice to you is this. Don't go near an Indian Head Massager or a Reiki Healer. If you should chance to be within striking distance, keep your wallet safely in your pocket or handbag and say the prayer to St Michael.
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Many Irish retreat houses in Ireland are full of this new age c**p these days. Look up the Tiermann Spirituality Centre at Glendalough, Co Wicklow, run by a Kiltegan Father and Cross and Passion Sister. She offers Indian head massage and circle dancing as well. You can't hear yourself think for frogs (see below) and wind chimes. Mass is offered on a plank in a hut, sitting on the floor, using a crystal champagne flute as a chalice and a glass ash tray as a paten. I'm not making this up. This kind of thing is rampant in Ireland at the moment. Its come in during the last 10-15 years and its supporters say that it makes the Church more 'human'.
Chakras, shokrachs, goblins and gooks!!! It's all spooky stuff that should be left well alone. Who but the 'father of all lies' should play havock with people who are uninformed, simple minded (or steeped in self pride), gullible and/or susceptible to being led astray.
All of this stuff - and you will note that there is enough dodgy voodoo and hoodoo out there to fill dozens of libraries and warehouses several times over - is simply satanic driven 'fodder' to distract people from seeking and finding The Truth, the King of Kings and of the Universe, God made Man, Our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ.
Furthermore it bodes even worse for Catholics and Christians who should know better because by wasting time with this rubbish you are distracting yourself by your own volition from furthering your Catholic and Christian Formation.
And the Catch 22 here is that the more you entangle yourself in chakras, crystals, auras, wires, mirrors and smoke so as 'to become like gods' the more of a slave you become to the devil while at the same time losing the life of your soul and seperating yourself from God and Eternal Life.
Remember this life is the only one you have - you don't get a re-run.
Meanwhile there's a witchcraft shop selling spells, cauldrons, books for children (yikes!) and other unearthly paraphernalia not so far from here. Every time I pass by (as far from the window as the footpath allows) I recite the prayer to St Michael. Perhaps a good dose of salt blessed with Holy Water might help.
Forget the head massage, a good cup of tea is far more relaxing - and no doubt easier on the wallet!
A few years ago in moment of great weakness I did the enneagramme. It soon became obvious to me any connection between the enneagramme and the Christian faith was purely co-incidental. One of the most amusing parts of the experience was another priest and myself taking the mickey at what was going on and noone noticed! They took all our facetious comments seriously!!
The hightlight of the week was when they tried the dreaded circle dancing. I decided enough was enough and refused to take part. It was interesting to see how the "liberal" and trendy leader, woops facilitator dropped his guard and was very unpleasant about my stance on this
Anyway there was 1 good thing. I can get up and say I have done the ennegramme and from my experience it is complete rubbish lol
fr paul harrison
Best story I have from one of these gatherings was from Fr Mark Drew. Everyone had to pick a stone out from a bowl of stones and say why it was like them...
"This stone is like me because it can't see the point of this stupid exercise."
Recently I was speaking to a priest about the Enneagram and how I felt that both its occult origins and its downright wooliness should disqualify it from use in the Catholic Church. I also mentioned that Mitch Pacwa SJ one of the first Catholic priests to take up the Enneagram had since rejected it and was active in trying to discourage its use. In all seriousness the priest I was speaking to said, "well, yes, I guess he would say that - he is a Six". :-(
Occasionally, I have been asked what number I am on the enneagram or what letter I am on the Myers-Briggs. I usually reply "I don't know for sure but I think I'm a capricorn"
Mass is offered on a plank in a hut, sitting on the floor, using a crystal champagne flute as a chalice and a glass ash tray as a paten. I'm not making this up.
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