HEALING ENERGIES “All we are is vibration.” - Kenneth Klee, Esq. By Kenneth Klee, Esq. MY FORMER LAW FIRM had a policy of sabbaticals for lawyers; for every six years of service, we received three months off. In 1983, I took a sabbatical and traveled to Europe with my wife. As we drove through France, Italy and Western Europe, I reflected on my life: “ I’m really blessed. I work for a great law firm, I love practicing law and I have a wonderful wife and two great kids.” My only complaint was the constant pain in my upper back and neck I'd had since I attended Harvard Law School. I promised myself that once we got back to the States, I would address it. YOU-TURN: Changing Direction in Midlife I'm a really conservative guy, so it was a bold step for me when I started getting massages. The massages provided temporary relief, but the pain would come back. A few years later, I took the big plunge and went to a chiropractor. Again, the relief lasted for a short time, and the pain returned. And then I actually tried acupuncture. It didn't permanently alleviate the pain either, but it did get rid of some allergies. Then in 1997, at a retreat at the San Ysidro Ranch, I signed up for something called Reiki massage, which is a Japanese form of alternative healing. Now, I'm what you'd call a healthy skeptic. I want to see things work and understand how they work; I want to know the theory behind a function or claim and be able to test it. But I'm also •not afraid to try things, so I thought I would give it a shot. What I got was not a massage but a hands-on session of The Radiance Technique, Authentic Reiki®. The woman never touched me physically. She put her hands around my head and on the front side of my body, and then the back of my body, And at the end of the “massage," I felt like I was floating. I asked her what she did and she said, “I patterned cosmic symbols to activate whole light universal energy in each of your atoms and as the goodness expanded, the darkness dissipated, and that's why you're feeling better." Whatever it was, it worked. Since I was feeling so much better, I asked her, “How can I learn how to do this?" Well, there's this teacher in Los Angeles I can send you to," she answered. So, at age 48, I went to LA in December 1997 and learned how to do The Radiance Technique® - and discovered that Reiki energy has several basic effects. It brings about deep relaxation, destroys energy blockages, detoxifies the system, provides new vitality in the form of healing, provides universal life energy and increases the vibrational frequency of the body. I took the first, second and third degrees of The Radiance Technique from a local teacher; I took the teacher training from an instructor who flew in from Florida; and I took the fourth and fifth degrees from Dr. Barbara Ray, who holds the intact keys of The Radiance Technique. And it was the very first energetic healing modality I ever learned. Healing Energies Ok, I can hear you saying under your breath, "Huh?" Believe me, I was skeptical, too. I mean, I started off life as an agnostic, but developed belief in God as a young man, not by any great awe-inspiring experience but by looking at the order of the universe and thinking this couldn't be random happenstance, there has to be an organizing principle. Eastern medicine, past lives and karma and all that stuff was just a lot of crap to me, and I didn't buy into it at all. I grew up thinking chiropractors were quacks. And like I said, I'm a conservative skeptic. If you looked at my resume, it would look something like this: Graduated from Harvard Law School in 1974 Practiced as a lawyer for Congress in Washington, D.C., for three years Became a member of the California bar in 1975 Went into private corporate bankruptcy law practice in 1977 Started teaching bankruptcy law an as adjunct at UCLA in 1979 Became a full-time professor at UCLA Law School in 1997 Started my own law firm in 1999 handling large Chapter 11 cases. So I'm your regular guy in a suit. I can see how some people don't understand it-if your frame of reference is your five senses and Western medicine and you only believe there's a physical body and that when you die, that's it ... to come to grips with things like energy bodies, souls and more than one life really challenges people at very deep levels. And it's understandable that a great percentage of those people would be resistant as opposed to being open-minded and intrigued the way I was. It's important to honor people's judgments and self-will and not to be judgmental about what people do. I've come across people who have had anger but didn't want to release it because they viewed it as a motivator and didn't want to let it go. There are billions of people living in Asia who have used these methods of healing for thousands of years, and if they seem to be doing all right, it's rather arrogant of us Westerners to think that our way is the only way. YOU-TURN: Changing Direction in Midlife I'm so left~ brained, so analytical-and it's not quackery or witchcraft, it's very real. And as I began to experience more and more of this and saw the healing properties of all these healing modalities and had physical experiences with these energies, it changed my whole worldview. After my "Reiki massage" experience, I was determined to know more. Starting in December 1997 and over the course of 14 months, I learned the first and second degrees of The Radiance Technique. Then, in January 1999, I was attracted to pranic healing after a visiting professor from Australia demonstrated it to me. This treatment clears and balances the body/mind/spirit's• energy connection. In various cultures, this energy is referred to as ki, chi or prana and represents the life force that exists in all things. Of course, I wanted to learn more about that, too, so I attended classes taught by the American Institute of Asian Studies in Southern California. I became a voracious student of pranic healing, and after successfu.lly completing eight to 10 courses and working on numerous case studies became a certified pranic healer. Now I'm trained in and use about 10 other healing techniques as well: Pulsor Healing, Beyonder, Neuro Emotional Technique, Crystal Layouts, Tree of Life Healing, DNA/Theta Healing, the Sedona Method, Norri Healing, Xiang Gong, Invocative Healing, and by the time this book is published, I'm sure there'll be more! Five years ago, it became clear to me that this was something that was becoming not just a hobby but a serious hobby. I formed a 501(c)(3) California non~profit public benefit religious corporation called the Klee Ministry, where I conduct healing sessions and also teach classes such as feng shui, Pulsors, The Radiance Technique and Theta healing. I think my calling is to do some occasional teaching but mostly healing. I sat next to a reporter from the Los Angeles Times one day at a seminar and I told her what I did and invited her over for a healing. She was so impressed, she wrote an article about energy healing, and as a result of that article I got more than 200 calls to perform healings on people. But this is not my business; it's a hobby. I don't charge for my healing services, but I do accept donations to Klee Ministry. I do all of the Klee Ministry work by donation. People usually donate by cash or check, some a little and some a lot. For those who ask, the "recommended" donation is $200 for a two-hour session. So far, I have not taken anything out of the Ministry in the form of compensation. I use the donations to pay for healing classes and materials and to buy healing items like pulsors, crystals, candles, etc. That may change down the line if the energetic healing work becomes a full time profession. And if they can't donate, I suggest to them to say a prayer or at least have some energetic exchange. But if they do make a donation, I bless it to increase the good karma that resides in them. I don't give out supplements or herbs because I'm not a licensed herbologist. I let my clients know that I'm not a physician or licensed by the state as a doctor, I'm not going to diagnose their illness and I don't discourage anyone from seeing a physician. By law, energy healers in California have to have their clients sign a consent form stating as much. Several years ago, I became a minister of the Universal Life Church so I. could officiate at weddings. I am not recognized in all states, but being a minister helps support my healing ministry. I also became admitted to the Rabbinic program at the Academy for Jewish Religion, with plans to take classes including Hebrew. I wanted to learn Hebrew so I could study Kabbalah and actually read the original Aramaic and Hebrew commentary and have my own interpretation of it, because the Kabbalistic work that I've done is extremely powerful. I found-and still find.-it fascinating that a whole world can exist that is different than the world most people know. I keep telling my wife, "We don't have to watch The X/Files, we live it." I think science is going to establish the credibility of all this someday. The apparatus that can measure this energy just hasn't been invented yet, but when it is, it's going to turn the world upside down. YOU-TURN: Changing Direction in Midlife Other energy healers have asked me to work in their centers and share space, but-and here/s where the left part of my brain takes over-I'm writing a book on bankruptcy and the Supreme Court. Naturally, I am calling it 'Bankruptcy and the Supreme Court, and it will be published by Matthew Bender & Co., probably in 2009. I'm not going anywhere until that book's written.I find that working as a healer increases my energy. I do a limited amount of self-healing, go to a very gifted acupuncturist, see a massage therapist once a month and have sessions with a wonderful energy healer chiropractor four times a year. Occasionally I do self-healing, but not obsessively, I'm more involved with healing others than myself. Many times when I'm healing someone, I feel myself being healed. As for obstacles, I've encountered a few problems between my law practice and my teaching where I wanted to take various courses and wasn't able. But I think things work out in God's time, not necessarily my time, and when I'm ready for things they seem to happen. (Even when I'm not ready for them they seem to happen!) Some of my partners think I'm crazy, and who knows what this will do to my expert witness work. But I'll tell you, as a result of the LA Times article, I got contacted by a group of lawyers who wanted me for one of their cases. They had a client who was an acupuncturist on trial and they asked me to be an expert witness about the nature of the acupuncture business and the energy movement. My advice for people stuck on the crossroads of life is that we all have procedures that allow us to make choices-even if it's from the analytical side, writing a list of pluses and minuses and then prioritizing it. Or you can go inside yourself and look at your life now and consider your options. Alternate between feeling what it would be like to do one thing and what it would be like not to do it; you'll get a good indication from your subconscious and super-conscious about the direction in which you should move. Just imagine what it would feel like to leave your profession and do something else-really feel it. I was one of the last guys, I thought, who'd ever get involved in this realm. January 13, 2010 ~ Dr. Nancy Irwin ~ Reprinted With Permission