Magic, Fairy Dust and the Formless Realm

"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." — Pablo Picasso

Learn the rules.

Learn to break them.

It’s fun. It’s progress, and we see it in many arts and endeavours.

Take writing, for instance.

At first, we learn the basic requirements of a proper sentence (‘subject’and‘finite verb’).

Then we practise them.

Then we master them.

And then bam! We toss them out the window and get poetry, panache and flair.

We liberate ourselves from the rulebook, and we fly.

It's the same with other art forms, like painting or cooking. You begin by learning technique. You study styles. You study the masters. But to be great, you must evolve beyond that.

Take Picasso. He mastered classical realism, spent years experimenting with symbolism and post-impressionism, studied African art and Iberian sculpture, and only then developed Cubism.

So his breathtaking originality didn’t emerge outof a vacuum. Rather, it grew out of the form of his artistic predecessors.

Or consider a first-class chef. First, they learn the basics of preparing food. Then they master specific dishes and culinary styles. And only then, if they wish to become true masters of their craft, do theylearn to improvise and feel their way through a dish.

At this point, they learn to taste, sense, and smell their way through the process rather than following a recipe line by line.

And the same is true with healing.

Take Reiki, for example. In the beginning, you learn the rules: hand positions, symbols, pre-session rituals, etc., and when to use them..

And the same with your body and healing.

But the more you practise with Reiki, the more you begin to work intuitively.

In this way, the rules of Reiki are like a seed. They create a safe space—a foundation—from which something immense and magical can grow. Something thatmay bear little resemblance to the seed from which it came.

In such a state, you are no longer doing Reiki—you are being Reiki.

Here, healing becomes effortless, and you become a channel.

You move beyond hand positions and technique to become pure frequency, anchored in the infinite.

In many ways, Reiki practice is a movement toward the ‘Great Bright Light’ – the literal translation of the Reiki Master symbol's name. And this is not just an abstract concept, but something that can be lived and felt.

"To see the light" isn't merely a metaphor – it's a real experience.

This quest to move beyond form is also the essence of my Chi Activation healing system, and in truth, it lies at the heart of most spiritual traditions.

For instance, in Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Hermetics, practitioners often aim to ascend to a "light body," to transmute matter into light, into the formless.

There is a movement from dense to higher vibrations. And at the highest levels, vibration becomes non-physical. It becomes light. It becomes formless.

We see the same movement in meditation.

When we first begin, we are deeply aware of our thoughts, our breath, and our body. But over time, if the practice deepens, if we have a good session, we can move beyond all of that – into pure awareness, beyond ego into energy.

And yet, the best metaphor for this journey is not a line, but a spiral.

The journey is not linear, but one that circles back on itself. The master healer may return to the basic hand positions, but they do so with a deeper presence.

As mystics have long said, we are bipartite creatures: part form, part spirit.

And part of our journey in this material world is to infuse form with spirit.

So formlessness does not negate form; it enriches it.

Structure returns, but now it is infused with spaciousness, with a touch of magic from beyond.

With a kind of metaphorical ‘fairy dust’.

And that is what Reiki and other good healing modalities strive to do. They seek to bring the formless into form.

They channel energy, love, and cosmic intelligence into the physical.

In this space, healing is not something we do. Rather, it flows through us and becomes one with form.

So we might say that our journey in this Earthly, material realm is to venture into the formless and then bring its essence back into form.

For the formless realm is where much of the magic lies.

It’s where healing energy, intuition, and the like originate.

It’s where we enter the infinite and merge with the flow.

Conclusion

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." — Lao Tzu

In the end, healing is not something we do – it is something we become. We journey into the formless. We suffuse ourselves with its energy. And we bring that energy back into form./p>

We become a container that houses both Great Bright Light and form, and, as such, become a part of God incarnate.