I thought I knew Reiki or at least I thought it was something else. I have practiced for over seven years and have been a "master" for the last five years.
After doing a search online I stumbled on an interesting web pages from people who claimed to have retraced Reiki to the original lineage of Usui. Apparently, Usui was neither Christian nor a University teacher as presumed by the Takata lineage. At first I was sad and mad, then it occured to me, maybe Takata had given the beautiful Reiki story a Christian twist to have it more readily accepted by a West still shocked from a Pearl Harbour attack?
Mikao Usui was a deeply spiritual man, according to Frank Arjava Petter. He committed his life to finding his spiritual truth and founded the Usui Do, or the Usui way. Healing with hands was a by-product. After all, a healthy soul heals itself and others. He never taugfht students the way we were taught and only used symbols when a student had a hard time feeling it. In fact, he did not have a hand system.
Strangely enough, or not, I lived in Kyoto, Japan and went to mount Kurama where Usui had his revelation. I was not aware this was his place of enolightment. It was a beautiful place.
I'll let you read more on my site if you are interested. As soon as I can, I will look more into a school that teaches a more closer to the traditional Usui-Do original philosophy. It was a spiritual teaching system, not a healing system.
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