31/12/24

2025

Two positive messages about the new year to encourage me although I am not mad into the astrology thing.

I started blogging with my own blog I remember in December 2006 and the blog I have today goes back to December 2007 - I backdated a few posts on this blog this year to before 2007. Anyway I have posted more on my blog this year (just over 1,500 times) than I have in any previous year with the closest next year being 2018 when I posted just over 900 times.

Neale Donald Walsch (56)

You have come here—to physical form, at this particular and critical time in history—to participate in the evolution of our species.
— Neale Donald Walsch (@realNDWalsch) December 31, 2024

I don't believe in the saying "Is fearr Gaeilge bhriste, ná Béarla cliste" - DJP

Posted within the last half an hour on Pol.ie

Naval Ravikant (69)

The timeless struggle between the people building new things and the people trying to stop them…@naval
— Navalism (@NavalismHQ) December 28, 2024

30/12/24

Logainmneacha Gaeilge ar Google / Irish-Language Placenames on Google (Nollaig 2024)

An-mhaith! 😊

Reiki is a pseudoscience?

I created a Vicipéid (Irish-language Wikipedia) page about Reiki yesterday or Réicí as it is called as Gaeilge.

A moderator on Vicipéid added a category of "Pseudoscience" at the bottom of the page and currently there are only 2 articles in the category including my one!

Anyway this got me thinking more and I have thought about it before so I posted the below post on a Reiki forum on Facebook. The forum has over 40,000 members!! :)

Update - the replies to my thread on Facebook can be read here

I don't practice Reiki often (and when I do I usually just do it on myself trying to go to sleep) so I don't think about this much - but I occasionally find it annoying the way Reiki can be described and sometimes defined by people who don't believe in it as a "pseudoscience".

Reiki is not a science so saying that is a "false science" should not be part of the lexicon I believe. I mean the word "science" should not come into it at all, whether from people who don't believe in Reiki and by people who do.

I have heard a couple of Reiki practitioners over the years making what sound like scientific claims but these claims do a disservice to the practice and fuel the "pseudoscience" arguments.

Reiki is a spirituality complementary therapy or in other words can I think be described as faith based. I for one believe it is real and not just because of faith but I think references to "science" / "pseudoscience" should be gotten rid of. There may be not be allegations of Reiki being a "pseudoscience" made if some practitioners of Reiki did not make what are not widely proven scientific (mostly medical) claims.

I for one have not heard any Reiki practitioners use the word science itself to describe the practice but making allegedly scientific / medical claims is the same thing.

My interest in Reiki is mainly spiritual. I do believe personally that Reiki can help with physical problems but I think this comes back to faith and that people generally who are willing to receive Reiki energy either have faith or are not generally totally closed to it. As Jesus said (not that I am saying again that Reiki can often work wonders):

"For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you."

(Matthew 17:20-21).

28/12/24

Sadhguru (141) on anger

From Sadhguru's book I am reading at the moment - the first of his that I will have read. :)

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Sadhguru (140)

27/12/24

Abraham Hicks (284)

# Esther Abraham Hicks

# Darren J. Prior

26/12/24

Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle (15)

Blog: "In order to stay on a recovery consistent course, as opposed to getting yanked toward relapse and trauma responses, we need to have a plan. Every day." https://t.co/UtpPc92xRF
— Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle (@DrDoyleSays) December 26, 2024

Neville Goddard (28)

Abraham Hicks (283)

J. Krishnamurti (372)

Hazrat Ali (2)

B. H. Lipton

Sadhguru (139)

20/12/24

Dr. Annette Ermshar

#Neuroplasticity, or brain plasticity, refers to the brain's remarkable ability to reorganize itself. https://t.co/WJCiMAfgJK #thursdaythoughts #DrAnnetteErmshar #psychology #Empowerment #onlinetherapy #community #selfcare #mentalHealth #mindfulness #learning
— Dr. Ermshar & Associates (@AnnetteErmshar) December 19, 2024

19/12/24

Neale Donald Walsch (54)

Just know this: You are a being of Divine Proportion, knowing no limitation.
— Neale Donald Walsch (@realNDWalsch) December 19, 2024

Carl Jung (89)

18/12/24

Will a policy of a new rail line between Letterkenny and Derry City be in next Irish Government's Programme for Government? - Steve Bradley, Into The West - Near FM (2024)

Neale Donald Walsch (53)

A genius is not one who creates an answer, but who discovers that the answer has always been there.
— Neale Donald Walsch (@realNDWalsch) December 18, 2024

Sarah Carey (22)

Sadhguru (138)

2 different takes on our carbon emissions in Ireland within the space of a week - Fintan O'Toole and Roderic O'Gorman TD (December '24)

Opinion:We’re heading for the second biggest fiscal disaster in the history of the State https://t.co/HwNCbupMoB via @IrishTimesOpEd
— Irish Times Opinion (@IrishTimesOpEd) December 17, 2024

https://t.co/mzauRXOUMy

Really positive news, but Ireland now stands at a significant crossroads – will political parties match their election rhetoric and ensure the next Gov continues the good work started by @greenparty_ie? Or opt for an easy life and squander this progress?
— Roderic O’Gorman TD (@rodericogorman) December 11, 2024

Nicole LePera (83)

Adults can’t hold other adults accountable. Accountability is an inside job. People change because they choose to, not because they’re forced, punished, or shamed.
— Dr. Nicole LePera (@Theholisticpsyc) December 18, 2024

16/12/24

Neale Donald Walsch (52)

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment. In order to feel joy, you must let it out.
— Neale Donald Walsch (@realNDWalsch) December 16, 2024

The feminist message of Barbie movie versus the reality of making Barbie dolls - Karol Balfe, ActionAid Ireland @ Near FM (December 2024)

15/12/24

Sadhguru (137)

There is no need to aspire to greatness. If you go beyond concerns of ‘what about me,’ you will anyway be a great human being. #SadhguruQuotes pic.twitter.com/DzFRuDhuD5
— Sadhguru (@SadhguruJV) December 15, 2024

Arthur Schopenhauer (25)

13/12/24

The Roscommon Women's Network and the CycleUp social enterprise - Near FM

Jennifer Payne, CycleUp

Thích Nhất Hạnh (72)

When we have enough insight, we are not caught by many difficult situations anymore. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
— Sampo Kaasila (@SpiritVisitor) December 7, 2024

12/12/24

Olltoghchán na hÉireann 2024 - Harry McGee, The Irish Times; Tom Brabazon TD, Fianna Fáil & Gaelcholáiste Reachrann - Near FM (12.12.24)

Neville Goddard (27)

Neville Goddard (26)

Naval Ravikant (68)

I think a lot of people take this attitude of how little you actually need out of life a bit too seriously though and don't look at the bigger picture enough - society, politics, international affairs, social justice, spirituality and spiritual growth etc.

I generally don't think about most of these things when I am meditating but sometimes insights and inspiration on these things comes to me in meditation.

One reason to meditate is to prove to yourself how little you actually need out of life.@naval
— Navalism (@NavalismHQ) December 12, 2024

08/12/24

Sarah Carey (21)

Great column by Sarah Carey in yesterday's Indo best read in full.

"there’s something particularly hypocritical about Mattel selling its plastic tat on the back of feminism while the women who make the dolls live and work in conditions we’d deplore."

Sarah Carey: Working and living conditions for women in China making Barbie dolls are far from empowering | Irish Independent