Reiki Fuushi Vol 2

Reiki ‘Fuushi’, Vol 2
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by
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REIKI 'FUUSHI'
Miscellaneous Reiki articles with unwritten (yet nonetheless important) subtext
[Copyright © 2006 James Deacon]
In traditional mentorstudent (senseideshi) relationships, an important element of the
teacher/mentor's role is to get the student to actually 'think' for themselves to
question [in a positive way] what they are being told (and perhaps more importantly,
why they are being told what they are being told) to develop their positive critical
faculties, not just to accept things as fact simply because someone else says it is
so...
In this EBook there is much that is fact, and much that is anything but.
[Of course, you will have absolutely no difficulty deciding which is which wont you]
There is also more than a little humour and satire in some of these articles, as these
two often provide a very effective means of circumventing the conscious mind and
just 'dropping' an idea in to the subconscious.
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REIKI: THE SPIRITUAL MEDICINE...
It seems that while more and more folk are becoming comfortable with the idea of
receiving handson Reiki treatment, many still find the whole concept of 'distant
treatment' something very difficult to believe in.
They seem to have need of some sense of tangibility to their treatment
[ which, I suppose, is only to be expected in a world where standard therapeutic
practice relies on various forms of physical intervention or manipulation, or on the
patient's ingestion of medication in one form or other].
In response to this, over the last few years a number of people have been
experimenting with novel and alternative methods of delivering Reiki to the client
when they are not 'facetoface' with the practitioner.
This has resulted in the creation of a number of related Reikibased products.
For example,
we have had 'Reiki Patches' (which you stick on your skin, much like you would do
with a Nicotine Patch)
and
'Reiki Essences' (based on the same concept as the 'Flower Essences' popularised
by Edward Bach).
And then there have been the socalled
'Homoeopathic Reiki Preparations"
[though as the basic premise of Homoeopathy is that the resultant preparation has
the exact opposite effect to that of the 'substance' on which the preparation is based
in this case Reiki Energy one wonders just what effect a 'Homoeopathic Reiki
Preparation' is likely to have! ]
Now, while some will no doubt admit that in Reiki there is always room for
creativity, many 'ReikiPurists' tend to dismiss such alternative forms of 'Reiki
Deliverysystem' as, at best, merely a novelty, and at worst, yet another new gimmick
by means of which less scrupulous practioners can improve their finances.
Personally, I like to believe that yes, while no doubt there are some who are primarily
'in it for the money', in the main it is a case of Reiki stimulating peoples creativity
and in the process, finding new ways of furthering the spread of Reiki's influence in
the world.
But then again, the great, anonymous "they" do say that there is 'nothing new under
the sun'....
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Care for a spoonful of 'Tincture', anybody?
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ON CHASING AFTER REPEAT REIKI ATTUNEMENTS...
ZEN AND THE ART OF REIKI : A parable
Usui Sensei is having a meal with a new Deshi (student)
DESHI: Sensei, can you please pass me the bowl of Tofu
SENSEI: You've got the bowl of Tofu in your hand
SENSEI (with Infinite Patience & Compassion):
You've got the bowl of Tofu in your hand.
SENSEI: How can I give you what you've already got?
DESHI: (uncertain of himself) But Sensei, I can't FEEL the bowl of Tofu
SENSEI: Relax, still your mind, trust in the Tofu eat...
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(Bad) REIKIJOKE HEALING ™
So, a Reiki Master goes into a bar, and across the crowded room he sees one of his
students: Raymond, talking to the bartender (and drinking a TOTALLY nonalcoholic
drink of course!). Raymond acknowledges his teacher's presence, and gestures to
the empty barstool next to his.
As he walks up to them, the Reiki Master can hear Raymond saying to the Bartender:
"... so I told him, if he kept on eating like that, he was likely to choke ..."
Sitting down beside his student, the Reiki Master eager to pick up the thread of the
conversation says:
"Choke who Ray?"
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FREE REIKI DEATTUNEMENTS!
We would like to remind all members of the Reiki Community about this
exciting new weekly event:
Free Reiki DeAttunements !
Yes, that's right DEAttunements!
Sick and tired of hearing about free Attunements ?
Wish you had never received those 64,841 different attunements (or should that be
'initiations') into nambypamby all sickly 'sweetness and lightworker' Reiki TM
Ashamed to say you were initiated into:
"We used to think it was Sai Baba but now we've discovered it was really some
OTHER orangeclad master with a cooldude Afro haircut" TerryMyReiki?
Don't know what to do with all those Certificates you got with all those irresistible
'gratis' Reiki Attunements (especially the ones you got when you collected five
'principles' tokens from special packs of Kellogg's corn flakes) or the ones you
made with your children's favourite crayons to validate all those Selfattunements you
learnt from that 'Essentially Wicca in a Reiki Frock' book?
Do you remember the good old days before you got sucked into the dark and
nefarious cult that is Reiki?
before you became brainwashed into this "aw diddums Reikiweiki kiss it all better
there, there, there" mollycoddled mindset, that says you have to Reiki every little
thing that hurts that every little natural bodily sensation must be Reikied away in
case perish the thought you might actually feel any of the everyday aches and
pains that let you know you're really alive?
Well help is at hand.
With this new, tried and tested (well, sort of) process, you can be DeAttuned in
minutes say good bye to all those irritating and embarrassing attunements
Tell all those 'groundhogday' type reattunement junkies (who keep pestering to re
attune them over and over again just because they know you are a Reiki Master) to
go and take a flying chokurei…
Tear up those certificates
and wear your:
"I am no longer attuned to Reiki don't come crying to me cos you got a hangover
go bug some Reiki dogooder who gives a damn" lapel badge with pride
So, come on, what are you waiting for sign up today!
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Just add your name to the free distant DeAttunement list in the database section
(of the savemefromreiki@yoohoogroupies.con Group site)
not forgetting to mention which specific Reikis you want to be DeAttuned to (or
should that be 'from' English is my second language after all)
But PLEASE Remember you only need DeAttunement to/from each Reiki style
ONCE the only circumstance in which you will need a ReDeAttunement is if you
are stupid enough to get yourself reattuned to that style at a later date…
We are not here to cater to the insecurities of wouldbe Reiki DeAttunement junkies
who through their own inadequacies feel the need to be DeAttuned on a weekly
basis.
And remember, you aren't confined to requesting DeAttunement solely for yourself
and this is where the FUN starts:
D'you know a Reiki master (or practitioner of any level for that matter) who really
annoys you pretentious, holierthanthou, egocentric, moneygrabbing? (Yes I can
see that mental list growing exponentially as you think about it and take my name
off that list IMMEDIATELY!))
Well, just for the hell of it, why not add their name to the free distant DeAttunement
list .
Or, pick a Master who really winds you up but instead of adding their name to the
list, add all their students' names and watch the fur fly as the students demand their
'energy exchange' (i.e. attunement fee) back.
Another alternative, (allowing that you haven't undergone the DeAttunement
Process yourself) add someone's name to the list, then in a month or so send them
a fresh distant Reattunement give it a month, then add them to the list again, and
so on....
They'll never figure out why one month the Reiki Flows and the next it doesn't...
These are just a few suggestions I'm sure that you will come up with many more
novel (and I hope devious) applications for the free distant DeAttunement list .
Have Fun!
(Full Singular Reiki DeAttunement on the 7th Sunday in each Month)
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DISTANT REIKI
Just like Grandma used to do...
During a refreshmentbreak on the second day of a level 2 Reiki class I was
teaching, one of the younger students asked if we could talk for a moment.
She told me how much she was enjoying the course, and how she felt she had to
share something with me.
A little while earlier in the day, I had introduced the students to the idea of using a
teddy bear as one many possible forms of medium for delivering distant treatment to
a client.
This particular student explained how she had not wanted to interrupt the flow of the
course at the time (Brownie Points for that, I thought!), but that she was excited by
the realisation that her grandmother might well have been a Reiki practitioner, even
though the now very elderly lady had never ever mentioned the fact.
“Well”, she said, ”Grandma was always into herbs and natural cures, that kind of
thing, y’know; so I suppose she might have also done Reiki training – actually, come
to think of it, she might even have been a Reiki Master!”
She explained how, as a child, she had on several occasions, seen her grandmother
doing what she now recognised as a variation on the teddy bear proxyhealing
practice (her grandmother had actually worked with a small, plain, 'ragdoll').
“Now, I know you said Reiki can be seamlessly integrated into other therapeutic
practices – if a person feels the need – but,” she asked, almost hesitantly “do many
people actually use Reiki and some other therapy together for doing distance
healing?"
"I suppose it’s really a matter of what the individual feels works best for them” I
replied. “So, why do you think your Grandmother was trained to Reiki masterlevel?” I
asked.
“Well, it only just struck me a few moments ago”, she explained "I think she might
have used the master symbol mantra when she was working 'distantly' on the client. I
always remember, as a little girl, sneaking into her bedroom and watching her work.
Of course I had no idea then as to what she was doing – and I never let her know
that I had often watched her."
“You see, Grandma used to kind of halfwhisper under her breath – when she was
‘treating’. In fact, the more I think about it now, the more sure I am that what she was
quietly chanting was the mantra of the Reiki master symbol!”
The young woman was becoming very animated now.
”Yes, I’m almost certain that’s what it was!” she continued excitedly, "Each time Grandma
pricked one of the acupuncture needles into the ragdoll’s head or torso, she would repeat the
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mantra three times – though, because of the way she was whispering, I could only ever hear
the first syllable…"
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THE GANZUME
Mr Masahai Asaeda, a retired urologist from Kyoto, informs me that his grandfather
a Mr Tomohiro Fujikawa had worked for Mikao Usui as a gardener, some time
between 1923 and 1925.
He states that, as a leavinggift, Usuisensei had presented Mr Fujikawa with some
gardening implements including a ganzume or wooden rake which, according to Mr
Fujikawa, Usuisensei had performed a powerful reiju on in order to imbue it with
special therapeutic properties.
Mr Asaeda's grandfather had often recounted how sensei had told him that for as
long as he continued used the ganzume on a regular basis to tend his own garden,
his ornamental plants would always produce, beautiful, healthy, fragrant flowers, and
all edible produce from the garden would be unsurpassed for quality and flavour.
Mr Asaeda said that this had indeed proved to be the case and while his
grandfather had certainly been a skilled gardener, skill alone could not account for
the results he achieved.
Even many years after Mr Fujikawa's passing, local people still used to talk about his
amazing garden…
At present, the prized ganzume and the other gardening implements received by Mr
Fujikawa are on loan to the DaiNippon Garden Association as part of an exhibition
being staged in Osaka.
However Mr Asaeda has kindly sent me a copy of the exhibition pamphlet [see
below] which amongst the images accompanying a brief article on leaf, soil, &
sandrakes shows a photograph of the actual ganzume owned by Mr Fujikawa.
[For clarity's sake, I have added an identification sticker to each image]
Mr Fujikawa's ganzume is pictured centre, bottom row: identificationletter E.
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I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt thanks to Mr Asaeda for
sharing this information and photo with us.
I hope you will all agree that this is finally the incontrovertible proof we needed to
support the claim that ever since the early days
Rake E has regularly been used to help make plants grow strong and healthy...
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Incidental Note:
Aficionados of Japanese gardening equipment will of course be only too well aware that 'Rake
E' in the illustration above is not actually a ganzume.
In fact, a ganzume is not even a wooden rake, but rather has a narrow, and normally four
pronged, metal head.
[Unfortunately, at the time of doing the photoshoot for the 'exhibition pamphlet' mockup, the
only genuine ganzume my casting agents could locate apparently considered itself too big a
star (due to having had a walkon part in Tom Cruise's 'The Last Samurai' movie) to be
associated with such a corny, low budget spoof as this.
So instead, the part of 'Mr Fujikawa's prized ganzume' is actually played by an eighteen
pronged wooden rake, sourced from a local theatrical supply company in Boston...]
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THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE!
Dateline: April 2002 Amazing Discovery!
The Lost Diaries of Mikao Usui found by Reiki Master in Grandma's Attic
Note:
For reasons of a contractual nature concerning a number of network TV chatshows
and several lucrative publication deals, the Reiki Master in question does not at this
time wish her identity to be revealed. So, in the following news item, she will be
referred to simply as 'Miss X'.
'Miss X' informs us that in the summer of 2000, on a visit from Delaware, USA, to her
grandmother's home in Yokohama, Japan, it was by pure chance that she discovered
the lost diaries of Mikao Usui ( founder of the Reiki System of Healing ) while
rummaging in the attic for family photographs.
After a lengthy discussion between her agent and our financial department, 'Miss X'
told our reporter:
"The diaries ('Miss X' will not say exactly how many there are at this time) wrapped
in a newspaper dated 1923 were hidden in a niche beside a small skylight window
in the attic, where, judging from the amount of dust and cobwebs, they had obviously
rested undisturbed for almost 80 years".
'Miss X' (who admits that she cannot read Japanese neither the modern form, nor
the older style Kanji in which the diaries are apparently written), went on to explain
that, immediately upon finding the diaries, she instinctively knew what they were, and
she ran to ask her Grandmother about them.
Her Grandma apparently somewhat confused denied all knowledge of the diaries
or how such documents which 'Miss X' assures us are in Mikao Usui's own
handwriting could have found their way into her attic especially seeing how that
part of the attic had been completely rebuilt in 1964 after a severe storm had totally
destroyed the side of the roof where the skylight is now situated.
However, as 'Miss X' went on to tell our reporter;
"I called on the assistance of a therapist skilled in the uncovering of repressed
memories, and as a result, after six weeks of intensive sessions of what (to use the
correct psychotherapeutic terminology ) is referred to as 'prompting and coaching'
Grandma's deepseated psychological block dissolved completely and she can now
fully remember the details of her early life as a student in the very first clinic Usui
Sensei set up before the RussoJapanese War. The clinic was in Nagano… er, no, I
mean.. oh yes that's it Nakano*"
[*Editor's note: The RussoJapanese War was 1904/5 at which time Miss X's Grandmother,
by our calculations, would have been only 3 years old. Also, it is known that Mikao Usui's
clinic in Nakano opened in 1924, having previously been located at Aoyama, Tokyo.]
'Miss X' explained that the Diaries are currently being translated into English by a
fellow Reiki Master ( for contractual reasons we will call her 'Miss Y' ) who has a
basic understanding of written Japanese.
"… she can read the menu in the sushi bar and everything!" 'Miss X' assured our
reporter, "Of course," she continued, "the important thing is that we get across the
'feel' of what UsuiSensei wrote more than going for a literal translation so if there
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are any problems in making sense of sections of the text even the occasional
complete volume well I'm sure we'll still manage to get the essential flavour across
I mean we're both very intuitive so we'll no doubt be able to instinctively know what
UsuiSensei would have wanted to say I mean it's not like we'd be 'putting words
in UsuiSensei's mouth' or anything or making things up, y'know."
'Miss X' states that she intends to publish the 'Lost Diaries of Mikao Usui' as an open
ended series of volumes the first of which, 320 pages in length, will contain the
translation of the first five pages of the first diary, along with the detailed story of
'Miss X's rediscovery of the documents, a scattering of nonspecific reminiscences
about the 'Early Days of Reiki' by her Grandmother, and will be heavily illustrated
with line drawings of hitherto unknown treatment handpositions, and numerous
sepia photographs of people, whom 'Miss X' assures us, knew Mikao Usui when he
was Personal Secretary to Emperor Hirohito.
[Editor's Note: That is the same Hirohito who, interestingly enough did not become Emperor
until after Mikao Usui's death in 1926.]
As a special promotional feature for our readers: preorder your copy of "Lost
Diaries of Mikao Usui Volume 1" today and you will also receive an exact
replica of that fabled '21st stone' that Mikao Usui threw away only moments
before his momentous experience in which he received the Reiki ability!
As you will read in the intro to "Lost Diaries of Mikao Usui Volume 1" at the very
moment Mikao Usui threw the stone away, an American Naval Officer, (who was
visiting Kyoto on a diplomatic mission, and had taken some time out of his busy
schedule to go on a sightseeing trip to Mount Kurama,) happened to be walking past
the spot where the somewhat emaciated Usui sat, and as the stone landed on the
path in front of him, he picked it up.
He had apparently called out "Hey Bud, watch it, that nearly hit me!" but seeing that
Mikao Usui was busy meditating, and realising he hadn't intended any harm, the
(unnamed) Naval Officer simply pocketed the stone, before carrying on down the
mountain path to visit the next shrine in his guidebook.
[ Editor's Note: the stone is now in the possession of Miss X's uncle ('Mr Z') ]
So take advantage of this special offer today!
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all major credit cards accepted.
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CONCERNING A NEW (OR NOTSONEW) THERAPEUTIC ENERGY...
I thought I would pass on the following info concerning certain similarities/differences
between the recently rediscovered form of ki therapy known as 'WhisKi', and good
oldfashioned Reiki:
1, While ReiKi is often visualized as a golden 'liquidlight', filling the body, WhisKi is
a light amber liquid, filling a glass.
2, ReiKi provides total relaxation and oneness with allthatis, WhisKi also provides
total relaxation and oneness with allthatis.
3, ReiKi brings joy and contentment at all times; WhisKi brings joy and contentment
until it wears off. Then one wishes one had imbibed ReiKi instead.
4, ReiKi comes in numerous 'styles' and 'flavours' with some claiming to be
stronger than others; WhisKi comes in various brands and flavours with some most
definitely stronger than others
5, ReiKi can be safely combined with various other practices; WhisKi can be safely
combined with various other practices though driving isn't one of them
6, Some claim that 'Japanese ReiKi ' is purer than 'Western ReiKi; Everyone knows
Irish WhisKi is purer than Scottish WhisKi
7, ReiKi is sometimes translated as the 'Energy of Life'; WhisKi translates as 'Water
of Life'
8, Some folk claim ReiKi has links with Tibetan 'Bon'; WhisKi has links with
American Bourbon
9, A ReiKi Practitioner doesn't deplete his own energy, but a WhisKi 'practitioner'
tends to deplete his own finances
10, ReiKi acquired via 'attunement' or Reiju. WhisKi is acquired via the nearest
'bottle shop'.
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NOTE:
I will be updating this list of similarities/differences from time to time, based on further
research and experimentation.
Amongst other things, I am planning a pilgrimage to numerous WhisKi related sacred sites
[ in the vocabulary of the WhisKi art, referred to as 'distilleries' ] and a 21day mountaintop
meditation not too dissimilar to that carried out by UsuiSensei, except for one slight
difference:
Where UsuiSensei is said to have gathered up 21 stones, throwing one away each morning
to help him count the passing days, I intend gathering 21 cases of the aforementioned 'Water
of Life' and will be discarding 12 empty bottles each morning providing the noise of all that
glass breaking as it bounces off the rocks doesn't give me too much of a headache...
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Oh and one last thing, many people have been asking about the WhisKi symbolmantras.
When indulging in WhisKi practice, it is traditional to intone the sacred 'good health' mantra
before administering treatment.
For those of you as yet unfamiliar with this practice, an English transliteration of the single
word Gaelic mantra is as follows:
'slainte '
(pronounced 'schlaawncha' or if used as Kotodama: 'hlaawnha' )
The mantra should be intoned while raising the sacred vessel known as the " WhisKi g'Lass"
to the lips.
As with all mantras, the higher the number of repetitions, the greater the benefit accrued...
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THE REIKIMASTERS 'URBAN LEGENDS' QUIZ
So, you're a streetwise ReikiMaster you've practiced your art, initiated students,
collected more diverse styles of Reiki Attunements and accompanying Certificates
than you know what to do with; 'lurked' (in a nonthreatening 'internetspeak' sense)
on numerous Yahoo (& other) Reiki Group lists, read the books, watched the videos,
bought the tshirt (and the mug) and now, if truth be told, you're bored ...
Well, why not spend a little time (that you would otherwise only be wasting giving
someone a brief Reiki Treatment or perhaps attuning them to the Reiki energy)
exercising your brain cells and testing your Reiki & General Knowledge...
[No prizes for correct answers but possibly one or more surprises]
So:
Which of the following statements are factual
and which are purely 'Urban Legends' ?
· Ostriches bury their heads in the sand
· Reiki can do no harm (but the endless discussion of this topic can actually bore
you to death…)
· In 'Casablanca', Humphrey Bogart's character, Rick said: "Play it again Sam"
· Reiki can do no harm (but concentrating on trying to draw HSZSN on the roof of
your mouth with the tip of your tongue [Tibetan Style] while driving in the fast lane,
might)
· Hawayo Takata invented Reiki as a New Age MultiLevelMarketing scam
· A Chokurei is actually an 'Imperial Edict'
· Elvis is alive and well and living in Scotland
· Karuna Reiki is really TeraMai Reiki (only different)
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· TeraMai Reiki is really Patrick Zeigler's 'Seichim Reiki' (only different)
· Elvis is one of TakataSensei's level 2 Reiki students
· Reiki can do no harm (unless it is for your higher good, that is)
· Any squiggle drawn by a Reiki practitioner is a longlost original Reiki symbol
· You don't need a Reiki Master to attune you to Reiki SelfAttunements REALLY
work ( just like 'pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps'...! )
· Chakra Work is not a feature of original Reiki
· Every magical, spiritual, mystical symbol that ever existed is a longlost original
Reiki symbol
· Nero fiddled while Rome burned
· Traffic Signs are longlost original Reiki symbols
· Reiki is merely a "lazyperson's" version of 'Cosmic ChiKung Healing'
· Reiki is actually pronounced LayKee
· A Humo(u)rBypass is mandatory in order to be attuned to Reiki
· Marie Antoinette didn't say "Let them eat cake"
· There is no egotism in the Reiki Community
· It's OK to be offensive and abusive to people as long as you send them Reiki
afterwards
· The Gakkai teach UsuiSensei's original Reiki system nothing added, nothing
taken away
· No one would ever make up stories about the origins of Reiki just to support their
own fanciful theories
· UsuiSensei was a Christian Minister
· Reiki is a 'Benign Viral Contagion' (it can be transmitted by touch, has reached
epidemic proportions, and frequently mutates into new, diverse, unusual yet
nonetheless potent strains)
· Christopher Columbus discovered North America
· Ascended Masters, Essential Oils, Crystal Healing, Wiccan Rituals and 'Fluffy
Bunnies' are NOT original Reiki components
· There is no egotism in the Reiki Community
· UsuiSensei learnt Reiki from a Tibetan Lama
· UsuiSensei learnt Reiki from a Peruvian Llama
· Jesus was a Reiki Master
· Reiki is from Atlantis and pigs have wings
· John Cabot discovered North America
· Original students of UsuiSensei all live to be over 100 years old
· There is no egotism in the Reiki Community!
· Reiki always automatically knows precisely where it's needed (yet we have to
channel it to specific people and direct it with specific symbols to specific intent)
· Bill Gates is a Reiki Master
· 14 Ascended Masters were arrested in a bar in Brooklyn after a dispute as to
which one of them really invented Reiki
· UsuiSensei was a Tantric Buddhist (no, not THAT type of Tantra the other, no
sex type: Shingon or Tendai Buddhism)
· Running your own 'Reiki Business' is better than actually working for a living
· Mel Gibson was born in the USA
· 473 original students of UsuiSensei have just been discovered frozen in a 1920's
prototype cryogenic stasis chamber hidden deep under Mount Kurama
· My Reiki is better than your Reiki
· The DKM 'symbol' is not actually a symbol at all, but the Kanji characters for 'Big
Bright Light'
· UsuiSensei was a Zen Monk
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· No one would ever make up stories about the origins of Reiki just so they could
write a book or five about it and live well on the royalties
· You should always send Reiki to people who specifically ask you not to after all
you're a Reiki Practitioner and you know what's best for them
· The Usui Memorial isn't a fake
· Originally, Reiki was a Charismatic Discipline
· UsuiSensei played 'prop forward' in the New Zealand 'All Blacks' Rugby squad in
1908
So, how do you think you did....?
What you want me to supply a Correct Answers List so you can check your score?
Next you'll be wanting me to take your Reiki Classes for you!
OK, so just to get you started, here are a few Correct Answers:
Mel Gibson was born in the USA
A Chokurei is an 'Imperial Edict' (but the Reiki Choku Rei isn't)
Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand
UsuiSensei did not play in 'prop forward' position in the New Zealand 'All Blacks'
Rugby squad in 1908. (At least, he doesn't appear in the official Team Photograph!)
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QUALITY TRAINING ASSURED:
an extract from Reiki Master Betty J. Hassenblatter's newsletter
So, you don't know your lineage, eh? Perhaps it would be helpful if you could find out
about it, but then again...
Quality Training Assured by Betty J. Hassenblatter
To the 60 students I have made Reiki Masters
It seems a couple of of you wanted to know about my Reiki what was it you called it?
oh yes thats right: 'Lineage' .
(I must admit, as I've only been teaching Reiki for just over two weeks now, I didn't
know what you were on about, so I've had to get a book from the library. Well, I only
received my level 1 and 2 attunements at a Tarotreading party on the Saturday, and
became a Reiki Master on the Sunday, and as I had never even heard of Reiki
before the Saturday and started attuning students on the Monday, I didn't really
have any time to learn about the more obscure and esoteric elements of Reiki like
this lineage thing)
So, I phoned Eunice, the lady who put the attunement on me (She said that as she
did not provide them, I should really make myself a Reiki Certificate, as a lot of
people like to see that sort of thing so as they know you are a proper trained Reiki
Master. She recommended I look on the internet as sometimes you can find
certificates to download and just fill in your details on them. She did also tell me that,
unless I wanted to mail the certificate to her, with additional stamps to cover its
return, I would have to sign it with her signature [or as close as I could get it] just to
make it authentic)
So, anyway, Eunice said she would email me the following details about the lineage
thing.
Apparently this is how we prove that we have received proper Reiki training, and that
the person who gave it to us had also had proper training, and so on back to whoever
it was that started the whole thing Eunice did mention the name but, I can't quite
recall it at the moment Mrs Alice Hayashikata, or someone ?
Eunice also said something about how, many people try to play down the importance
of lineage, but that this is often because there are some 'anomalies' in certain
lineages things that some people might not really want publicised. [I must admit I've
no idea what she meant by this...]
So, for those people who were asking, here is my lineage, working backwards from
well I guess, me: Reiki Master Betty J. Hassenblatter.
[Along with the list of names, Eunice has even provided some details about several
of the other lineagers ( is that the right word?) including actual quotes from some of
the people themselves.]
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Reiki Master Eunice Foggis
"I received the 'combined level' single Reiki attunement by accident (walked into the
wrong tent at a Mind Body Spirit show thought I'd been queueing up for the five
minute shoulder massage!) I've never received a Reiki treatment and have no real
interest in using Reiki myself, but selling attunements does help put my son through
college."
Reiki Master Arleene MacEndry
"I added my name to an attunement list on a Reiki news forum at least I think it was
an attunement list (The forum was IndonesianLanguage, and as I don't speak
Indonesian it did have the word 'Reiki' in it though). I hope they understood my
request?
Anyhoo then I found a 300 word description of how to do the attunements in a
crystal healing magazine. The article was written by Bryann Jaycobs, so technically I
can claim him as part of my lineage, can't I?"
Reiki Master Briann Jaycobs
Briann says that he had dreams over three consecutive nights in which an unseen
figure, believed by Briann to be Reiki Master Peter O'Farrelle, attuned him to all three
levels, as well as providing indepth tuition in the various developmental techniques
and treatment practices associated with Reiki (On each of the three nights in
question Briann had consumed considerable quantities of bananas and cheese, and
had been avidly speedreading his way through a stack of Reiki books, directly
before settling down to sleep...)
Reiki Master Peter O'Farrelle
At first, Peter, who had never even heard of Briann Jaycobs, refused to associate
himself with Briann claims, but, after Briann offered to pay Peter for the 'Astral
training' he had received ( a sum above and beyond the 'going rate' for formal
training in all three levels), Peter suddenly relented, admitting that he did indeed have
the ability enter his student's dreams and train them while they slept. Peter now
dedicates himself solely to teaching Reiki in this way. He requires students to
prepare for his nocturnal training course by eating lots of cheese, lots of bananas,
and speedreading several Reiki books, directly before settling down to sleep...
Enoria Finkelstiene
"Principles? Really? Gee, its a good thing you mentioned that! I thought it was the
Five Reiki Principals y'know, like five people who were heads of different schools of
Reiki or something. So, these Principles then, what..."
Todd HamilltonKay
"Well, when people come to my Reiki classes, I attune them to Reiki obviously, but
as I am also worshiper of Renithratria: Lord of the Seven Prothrassean Hells, and
Right Hand of Satan I also perform an initiation to bind them as a servant of
Renithratria. Well, no of course I don't ask their permission, I don't even tell them I've
done it; though most of them usually figure it out for themselves when the 'signs'
start appearing..."
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Reiki Master Alberto 'Fingers' Posman
"Use Reiki? Whadda ya mean use it? Its just multilevelmarketing, right? (some folks
maybe call it 'pyramid selling', but its still da same thing) Ya find some stake money,
buy ya'self in, then away ya go: just place a few ads, they roll up all starryeyed, ya
just wave your hands over 'em, do that hui yin thing, blow on 'em then sell 'em a
certificate. Then they can go out do the same; an' hope they recoup their stake an'
something more on top before the market's flooded, the whole thing collapses an'
they gotta move on to the next town. I know Ms Sung talked about 'spiritual
principles' an' stuff, but I always kinda thought that was just additional sales spiel,
right?
What? No, ya kiddin' me straight up? Ya mean I coulda used it to get ridda my back
ache? I coulda saved a fortune in chiropractor's bills!"
Reiki Master Joely Ling Sung
"I was at a shamanic drumming seminar, run by Cary Fassenbascher's sister. The
whole Reiki Level 1, 2, & Master thing was just a freebie incentive really. An extra
halfhour course thrown in as a bonus certificate, when you signed up for the
residential, advanced shamanic drumming seminar. So remind me what am I
supposed to do with this attunement thingy?"
Reiki Master Rev. Cary Fassenbascher
"Well, being a very advanced spiritual person I mean, I do Tai Chi an' everything
when I heard about this Reiki thing and how you got to have this really cool title
(always wanted people to address me as 'Master') well, I just had to get the
certificate (oh yeah, and of course learn all that info about business cards, and
advertising for students, and stuff)
How much time do I spend treating clients compared with running Reiki Training
seminars? Treating clients.... let me see, I'm sure I must have done at least one
treatment? I did actually do a couple of selftreatments way back when I first became
a Reiki master, but, really I don't have time for that sort of thing y'know?
Ethel Marelli
"I was originally intending to get my Reiki attunement from this video a friend of mine
was going to buy all you had to do was follow the instructions on the tape and the
tape itself would attune you but my friend spent the $500 on some beauty
treatments instead, so that was the end of that idea!
Eventually, received my Reiki ability by Distant Attunement from some Master in
India. Or rather, I thought I did! Seems the guy completely forgot to actually do the
attunement! I only found out after I'd already attuned Cary and about 6 other new
masters, and they had already started attuning students of their own. But then I met
Dean, and he said that because I had believed that I was a Reiki Master at the time I
attuned those people, it would be OK, and suggested I needn't bother disheartening
them by telling them about the mixup. Dean said he'd attune me 'retrospectively'
something about sending the attunement into the past so that would mean Cary and
the others were attuned afterall at least I think that was it? Dean was a great help;
he lent me a Reiki book and everything."
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Reiki Master Dean... (somethingorother)
Dean, who was very much into the whole Positive Affirmations thing (even though
he'd never actually had any discernable results from all his 10 years of 'wishing'), had
watched with interest an interview with a Reiki practitioner on one of the cable
channels. He thought Reiki would be something he'd really like to 'get into', but being
an 'I know best' type of person, and not really wanting to get caught up in that whole
thing of having to receive attunements, learn to work with the energy, or admit that
there might actually be something to be gained from receiving handson tuition from
a reallife, experienced Reiki Master, Dean decided that he would use the power of
Affirmations to instantly become an experienced Reiki Master himself (and while he
was at it, he would throw in a few extra affirmations to the effect that he had received
some Reiki treatments something he had in fact never actually done).
So lighting a candle, he sat down, affirmed that he was a Reiki Master, skilled in his
art and hey presto...
{Though, Dean now claims that a little while later about six or seven months ago
now he did infact also receive an attunement from an Andalucian Reiki Master
named Delores Maria Xavier, while working in a beachside bar in Torremolinos,
Spain]
Delores Maria Xavier
We are told that exCarmelite nun, Delores has very recently given up all involvement
with Reiki, taken a new name and is believed to be living in an 'EcoSpiritual'
commune somewhere in New Zealand.
After Delores Maria Xavier, so Eunice tells me, there is apparently a gap in the
lineage thing...
At least a couple of the links in the chain are said to be missing (O.K., so, Eunice
reckons it might actually be nearer to 15 or 16 links)
But apparently the other side of the gap the lineage goes back to a:
Dr. Hawayo Takata
Dr. Hayashi
and then to someone called... Mister Usui?
[Though personally, I don't know if these last three people (from their names it
sounds as if they might possibly be Japanese or something?) actually have anything
to do with this Reiki I mean, I've not heard anything about Reiki having any
connection with Japan.
Eunice seems to think Reiki was developed in Tibet by a couple of British Explorers
who were members of the Theosophical Society.
But based on my own experience as a Reiki Master (17 days, 21 hours and
counting? Yeee!), and what with all the
esotericy type techniques and stuff that makes up most of the Reiki course, I'm sure
it must have originated in the West: Europe somewhere with Anton Mesmer
perhaps he was into all that sort of thing always talking about something called
Universal Fluid I guess thats where we get the term Universal Energy?
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And in lots of old illustrations of people doing his 'Animal Magnetism', well it looks just
like how Eunice taught me to do Reiki.]
Well, any way, there you have it, my Reiki lineage and now, I suppose, yours too!
So you see, everyone who signs up for my Reiki courses can rest secure in the
knowledge they are receiving the fullest, purest training possible in this wonderful
practice that has been passed down for hundreds of years with care and integrity,
from one highly experienced Master to the next...
Best wishes
Your loving Reiki Master, Betty J. Hassenblatter.
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O.K. so the 'extract' above is fictional. Well, technically fictional
You see (and to me, this is the scary part), except for literally a couple of 'exaggerations' (and
I'll leave it to you to figure out what they are), everything in the piece is closly based on real
things I have observed and encountered over the years in my interactions with ('master' level)
members of the Reiki community, both face to face and online .
I have simply woven them together into a single tale, changing the names and other
identifiable information in order to protect ...
* * * * * *
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