Reiki in the Great Pyramid

I originally wrote this on 23 July 1998.

                             Reiki In The Great Pyramid

Introduction

            Recently, my wife Elizabeth and I took a trip to Egypt, Israel and Jordan.  Part of our time in Egypt dealt with the pyramids, as one might expect.  I’m the sort of person who loves to experiment and I just had to try an absentee Reiki inside the Great Pyramid.  Fortunately, the Great Pyramid was open to the public when we were there and we had a chance to go into the King’s Chamber as well as walk around this most amazing of structures.

            The Reiki experience was interesting and I thought people would be interested.  Also, I would be interested in stories from anyone else who has tried it in or around the pyramids.  This document is divided into two parts.  First, I will detail our experience.  Then I will say a few words regarding my thoughts on the pyramids.  I do this so you will understand where I’m coming from and be able, therefore, to identify any biases which may have influenced our experience.

Our Reiki Level

            Elizabeth and I are classified as Reiki master therapists.  That means we have done Reiki III, but not to the extent that we are qualified to teach Reiki.  I am personally somewhat confused because I think some Reiki III courses teach you how to teach and attune others.  We did not learn how to attune others but did learn the master symbols etc.  We both started Reiki in 1994.  Ok, enough preliminaries.

Around the Great Pyramid

            Since the pyramids automatically instill a sense of awe and wonder when you see them, I expected something.  As I approached the steps to start climbing the Great Pyramid, I immediately felt energy to a degree I never felt before.  Energy just radiated from the structure.  My whole body could feel it.  In fact, it was sort of like walking through an energy barrier.  I could feel it everywhere.  The energy field extended for about 4 to 5' from the actual stone itself.  It was the most amazing thing I had experienced up to then.  (The King’s Chamber topped this, though).  The energy was everywhere.  There wasn’t a spot where there was no energy.  The energy field also seemed constant, not stronger in one place and weaker in another.  It seemed a stable, uniform energy field all around the thing.

            The other tourists around us did not feel this field.  Well, if they did, they certainly gave no indication.

            Finally, it was time to go inside.  The pyramids have a number of shafts, some only recently discovered.  Many lead nowhere.  The shaft open to the public leads to the King’s Chamber.  The King’s Chamber is a mystery.  It is an empty room save for a granite sarcophagus.  The first mystery is how that sarcophagus was carved.  Today we require a diamond saw to cut granite.  The second mystery is the fact that there are no tomb decorations or drawings of any description. 

            The chamber was called The King’s Chamber because it was thought to have once been a main burial chamber.  The Queen’s chamber, which also exists in the Great Pyramid, is misnamed.  Egyptologists assure us that no queen was intended to have her own chamber.  They believe the Queen’s Chamber, a smaller room, was a previous burial chamber meant for the Pharaoh.  At some point, the builders decided not to use that chamber and constructed a larger one which we now call the King’s Chamber.

            The shaft is long, narrow and somewhat steep.  You have to stoop almost double and climb up a very narrow tunnel.  Fortunately now it is well lighted.  Between the heat,  the number of tourists, and the narrowness of the tunnel, the climb is hot and thirsty work.  Eventually, drenched in sweat, we both emerged into the King’s Chamber.

            Personally, I have my doubts that this chamber was ever meant to be a tomb, although I have no idea what other explanation there is for it.

The King’s Chamber

            The energy field persisted while climbing the shaft.  When I finally made it to the King’s Chamber, I expected even more energy.  I expected something.  This was, after all, the Great Pyramid, the most mysterious and fascinating structure on the planet.  What I felt, surprised me.  As I entered the small King’s Chamber, the energy disappeared.  I felt absolutely nothing, not even the faintest hint of energy.  Elizabeth also felt this.  We looked at each other in amazement.

            As I said, the King’s Chamber is empty except for the stone sarcophagus.  The sarcophagus itself is not in the center of the chamber.  It is off to one side.  Imagine you are facing the entrance to the King’s chamber.  The sarcophagus is near the right wall.  The center of the chamber is simply empty air.

            The tourists milled about fascinated simply being in the most famous room on earth.  Elizabeth and I were so amazed at the lack of energy, we started feeling around the walls with our hands.  We tried being as unobtrusive as possible.  The Egyptian guide stationed in this chamber watched us.  Sensing I was performing some type of experiment, he directed me to the center of the chamber.  I stood there and still felt nothing.  I thanked him, shook my head, and continued.

            Eventually, I arrived at the sarcophagus.  I moved my hands over the structure and felt nothing.  I was just about to give up when, in one spot, I felt energy.  The spot was off center in the sarcophagus.  The energy was definitely there.  It felt like a column of energy, rising from below, within the heart of the pyramid.  My impression was of a column of energy.  I felt around again and found exactly the same thing.  This was interesting.  There was definitely no energy in the sarcophagus area except for that one specific column.  If the energy were solid, its shape would have resembled a stone pillar or column.

            I walked away interested, pondering what this might mean.  I asked Elizabeth to explore the area without telling her what I had found.  She did and came up with exactly the same findings I had.  Now this was really becoming a puzzle.

            Later, after we left the pyramid, I believe Elizabeth solved the mystery.  If one lay in the sarcophagus in the direction pointed out by the guide, the column of energy would line up at about the knees.  But Elizabeth postulated that the direction most people laid in the sarcophagus was incorrect.  If you reversed your position, and placed your head at the other end, the column of energy should wind up at about the heart.  This makes much more sense because the Egyptians placed great value on the heart.  The heart needed protecting in the after life, and was the organ weighed by the gods to determine whether you were just or not.

            As I said, though, this realization came later.  I decided to try an absentee Reiki, not for any particular individual, but of the planet.  I moved to the wall opposite the sarcophagus and rested quietly for a moment.  There were so many tourists around that I was pretty much unnoticed, which was just fine with me.

Reiki in the King’s Chamber

            When I was sufficiently calm I brought up the thought form of the earth, and asked permission of the spirit of the earth to Reiki her.  I felt it was granted.  No sooner had I finished with the master symbol then an amazing thing happened.  I felt a massive surge of energy at my feet, rising up through the stones on which I stood.  It surged through me.  I had an immediate out of body experience.  It happened without any effort and more quickly than ever before.  One minute I was standing by the wall in the King’s Chamber.  The next, I was above myself.  It was as though I exited through the top of my head.  I was only there a moment.  I veered upward, unable to control my direction.  I went through the rock of the pyramid and out at its apex.  I soared above the Giza plain until Cairo became a small dot.  Higher and higher I went until I was pretty much at cloud level.

            At once, a panorama of the planet spread out below me.  I had only a little time to be amazed.  I moved along with the planet rotation but faster.  I rose high enough that whole continents appeared below me, some obscured partially by the clouds.

            My attention was particularly drawn to the oceans.  The ocean currents moved clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere.  Some of these currents moved in huge circular patterns, stretching for hundreds of miles.  The currents I saw were deep underwater.  The sky above mirrored the currents in the oceans and weather patterns were formed by these ocean currents.

            The ocean currents reminded me immediately of chakra in our body.  The earth, it seemed, was similarly endowed with chakra of its own.  As my view moved over South America, however, I had a very uncomfortable sensation in my body (or whatever was floating up there).  Something seemed odd.  As I looked I saw a current off the coast of Peru not spinning normally.  Instead of spinning counterclockwise, it was moving clockwise, but not in a circular pattern.  The movement seemed very ragged.  In fact, it was a very elongated vertical ellipse, but even that is not quite correct.  The ellipse was open ended so that there was no curve on the right side.  It was as if the current reached the top of the ellipse then, instead of moving back down, most of it left the pattern and went off in various directions but generally northward.  It is somewhat difficult for me to describe.

            This pattern caused corresponding disruptions in the sky as one might expected.  This particular current pattern looked tired, somehow, ragged, and definitely out of alignment.  I know that for about nine days out of every month, our body chakra reverse their direction.  I do not know why this is, but it seems a regular and natural thing.  I wondered whether the earth might have a similar cycle.  But this pattern looked sick.  If it had rotated clockwise in a circle or near circle I could have passed it off, but this current did not look normal at all.

            At once I was overwhelmed with a sense of fear and dread.  My consciousness moved into the ocean so that I was now on the water itself, out in the middle of the Pacific, far from any land fall.  I felt the urge to panic but I managed to fight it down.  The fear and dread were quite powerful.  When I recovered a more balanced perspective I rose once again.

            Then a symbol appeared in front of me.  It blazed into my consciousness.  If anyone is interested, I will try to render it digitally so people can see it. 

            When the symbol appeared, however, it was skewed, tilted quite severely.  The uncomfortable sensation in my body (or whatever was floating out there) was very intense.  I found myself squinting, trying to align the symbol properly.

            The effort was very taxing.  An explosion of sound and light danced in front of me and I felt I might lose consciousness.  Abruptly I was back in myself, leaning against the wall of the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid.  Only now I had a dull headache to remind me of my adventure.  The headache persisted for about 20 minutes or so after I exited the pyramid, then disappeared.  Even the headache was unusual.  It felt like something was trying to get out of the top of my head but was somehow bottled up and therefore increasing pressure.

The symbol out of alignment

            I believe the symbol was out of alignment because of where I stood.  I believe the ideal position would have been in the sarcophagus, so that the column of energy went directly through my heart chakra.  I honestly believe if I had tried Reiki in that exact position, the symbol would have been aligned  properly.  Perhaps I would not have had the headache.  Unfortunately, there were so many people wanting to get into the sarcophagus, it was not practical for me to try this.  It was really too bad.  I would have loved to try it.

            The fear and dread I felt when looking at the wayward current (probably a representation of El Niño), was based on the phenomenon itself, not out of misalignment.  Perhaps the symbol I saw could help in healing the earth. 

Summary and Impressions

            I have no idea why the pyramids were built.  I can only describe my experience when I tried to Reiki in the pyramid.  I cannot help wondering, though, whether the pyramid helps magnify the energy power and focus it.  The energy surges I felt were incredibly powerful and I really did fear that misuse or misalignment could cause harm to the practitioner.  Perhaps God, or the Reiki energy/spirits cut me some slack because my intent was good.  I do think, however, that if I have the opportunity to try this again, I should really try it in the sarcophagus.  The energy in the pyramid is not to be trifled with.

            The out of body experience I had was the easiest and quickest I have ever had.  My training in this area is pretty much nonexistent and none was required here.  Once I stopped rising and regained my composure, as I floated above the planet, I had complete control.  I believe that, if I had wanted, I could easily have gone anywhere and watched what was happening in real time.  This is my impression, however, and as I did not do this, I cannot say for sure.

            Normally, when I have an out of body experience, I feel as though a lucid dream state is just as logical an explanation as leaving my body.  Things I see are often vague and shifting, as they would be in a dream.  This was different.  What I saw was solid, and unmoving.  It did not change like a dream would.  Details were extremely clear and precise.

My beliefs regarding the Giza pyramids

            I do not believe these things were built as tombs.  I am, however, not dogmatic on this point.  First of all, the King’s Chamber does not resemble any Egyptian tomb I’ve see, and I have seen several in the Valley of the Kings.  The chamber is empty, not only of furnishings, but of pictorial representations on the walls.

            A shaft, leading from the King’s Chamber, and descending approximately 75 stories has been found.  It is too narrow for humans to use and a special robot was constructed to explore it.  The robot came to a set of bronze doors deep below but was unable to open it.  At present, a Japanese company is engaged in making another robot which they hope will succeed in opening the doors.

            Egyptologists who hold the traditional tomb view of the pyramids – these constitute the great majority of Egyptologists – feel certain that a tomb lies behind those bronze doors.  I have my doubts, though.  According to the classical view, the pyramids were made during the life of the Pharaoh, then occupied after his death.  If this were the case, how then would they get the Pharaoh’s body into the tomb behind the bronze doors?  The pyramid would already be constructed.  I could understand if the tomb were made first, the Pharaoh placed in it, and the pyramid built above it.  According to the classical view, however, Egyptologists would have us believe the pyramid was constructed first, then the body of the Pharaoh was somehow placed into this tomb, 75 stories below the King’s chamber.  I suppose it is possible that another wide passage leads from the bronze doors to an entry point, both the shaft and entry point as yet undiscovered.  However, this is really starting to stretch things somewhat.

            In my opinion – and my claim of expertise is limited to an MA in religion, and having been there, the Great Pyramid has no characteristics of a tomb.  There also exists the question of how the things were built. 

            If you visit Egypt, you can look at the pyramids, then go to the Cairo museum and look at tools excavated from Egypt belonging to the time the pyramids were supposedly built.  One thing becomes obvious pretty quickly.  Those tools were not used to build the pyramids, let alone cut those blocks and fit them.  You do not have to be a genius to figure that out.  There is another, larger problem.

            In the classical view, the pyramids represent the golden age of Egypt.  The Middle Kingdom, then, represents a decline from the Pyramid days.  Then, after the middle kingdom, Egypt becomes occupied and the decline becomes a full retreat.  The problem with this view is that we should expect to see a gradual build up of civilization and the technology which goes with it, until the golden age, then a decline.

            But we do not find this in Egypt.  At about the time the pyramids were supposedly built, excavations show that people were just figuring out there was more to fashion than the loin cloth.  We also do not see signs of advanced irrigation techniques we see later in the middle kingdom.

            To build these pyramids in the classically described manner, at least a 100,000 member community would have resided in this area.  In the Middle Kingdom, supposedly after Egypt was no longer able to build pyramids, this could have been accomplished.  But I question whether this could have happened in the supposed Golden Age.  Why?  Because evidence (and you can see this in the museums if you go yourself) indicates a very low agricultural technology during this time.  As I said, irrigation wasn’t really used.  At best, the society was in transition from a hunter gatherer society to an agricultural one.  There is no way a hunter gatherer society, or a partial hunter gatherer society could support a more or less permanent settlement of 100,000 people.  It just cannot happen.  There is not a hunter gatherer culture in world history that can support this!

            Suppose there were no pyramids.  The evidence would then indicate a slow build up of civilization from about 3500 B.C. until it’s apex during what we call the Middle Kingdom, say Ramses II for example.  Then a slow and understandable decline follows.  There would be little problem with this except that even the Middle Kingdom temples defy our technology.

            But when you include the pyramids into your picture, this nice traditional progression gets blown away.  There is no way the civilization of 2800 B.C., given the technology that we observe through archaeological revelations, could have even begun to build these Pyramids.  Today, we are quite unable to build them!  I’m not even sure we could even transport the stones necessary, let alone cut and fit those blocks so precisely.  I’m no engineer, but I do not believe we have the capability.

            Although I do not know how the pyramids were built, nor why they were built, the evidence seems to suggest that tombs are not the answer.  My Reiki experience certainly indicates to me, that something else is going on here we have not yet figured out.

            I hope we do, though.  The Pyramids are truly fascinating and I would encourage as many people as possible to experiment and compare notes.