[Gnosis5]

Another idea:

The volunteers who go to Haiti pay for all their expenses. I am almost 100% positive that their members pay for all their expenses while there. A good thing that could come out of it, at least if I were there supervising the operation, would be to teach each Haitian person how to likewise deliver a healing assist that is simple to learn, to apply, and to teach others. I would do that without any attempt to recruit them to the ranks of any organized religion or group -- they can respect themselves within their own group dynamics by providing a valuable service in a time of emergency.

In an emergency situation I could not see a Reiki practitioner or acupuncturist being of much use in propagating any simple healing assists or that being one of the aims of their respective societies.

Remember when one felt proud to be an American because we knew we could help the world? Remember the let down when we realized our leaders were leading us down a cruel path? For me it happened sometime during the Vietnam War.

When I volunteered during the firestorms in Southern California and I was in this hangar full of homeless people I uncovered the fact that some Red Cross officials overseeing their relief operations had stacks of woolen blankets in the back storeroom but were refusing to pass them out and I pointed that out, and then I assigned myself to keeping the woman's bathroom clean and stocked. Had a great time! I was just being myself, not the member of any particular society :-) Even the other members in my own group were annoyed at my being myself attitude :-) If you want to get relegated to the bottom of the heap (so they think) or "fired" (best thing that ever happened to me) or ostracized (I must be doing something right), just try being yourself, ha, ha, ha.

If you know of any group on this planet that would accept me as being myself where do I sign up?