what is initiation of the body?

[shashar]

Thank u for this nice question which has assisted in reflection of ones own understanding. I share some perspectives: I feel that reiki attunement is a form of initiation.  The reasons one is drawn to reiki work is an opening of the mind to the idea of healing and invisible or perhaps spiritual ideas.  This opens the door and invites certain unfolding so for those who will this. The LOO also states that healing is a form of initiation also, although healing and initiation are not the same. It is also said that life itself is a process of (conscious or unconscious) initiation.  My personal experience was that in the months after the reiki attunement, interpersonal family issues started to arise. At the time I didn't know this but I think a healing crisis took place. A flushing up and out of chakra blockages in the aspect of relating with others. In hindsight this did produce personal growth but at the time felt awful - Like being melted in a cauldron. Also the Dark Night of The Soul, I have come to realise, is an initiation process and this is beautifully described in the book by that name by St John of the Cross.


In regard to the phrase ' initiation of the body', I read that less literally and so it seemed to make more sense.  I did this because:
1. If we are a 'mind body spirit complex',  these three elements are very intertwined in a way that perhaps we can't fully understand here in 3D. This is borne out by Ra s own response where they say to initiate the body you have to initiate the mind!
2.  As it says in ACIM "words are but symbols of symbols and thus twice removed from reality" or as the Buddhist saying says ' a finger pointing to the moon rather than the moon itself'.

I have studied ACIM (A Course in Miracles) and also think what is referred to by personality is ego as described in ACIM or third chakra blockage to use the lingo of LOO!  

In the sentence "when the character and personality which is the true identity of the mind is discovered..." If you were to take character and personality out of that sentence so that it read "when...the true identity of the mind is discovered..." , the sentence would still make perfect sense, in fact more sense and more overall understanding.

Spiritual understanding from various backgrounds tell one that character and personality have nothing to do with who we really are, they are part of the 'load'we can call ego, part of the avatar that we have in order to be a player in this 3D schoolhouse/rule set , our medium to work with and our work here is to dissolve/ surrender character and personality, one could venture to say...in order to be able to graduate?