| Dialogs about Reiki are good, and keep Reiki fresh | | | | not directly to me, then to the universe in service or |
| and dynamic. About 10 years ago, I went through a | | | | tithing, or some other way. |
| very long time of disillusionment about Reiki, just as | | | | The various opinions on which is the best way, or |
| its founder, Mikao Usui did during his early days of | | | | the purest way, or the right way, to do or |
| healing and teaching using the Reiki energy. In the | | | | experience Reiki is old patterning moving up and out. |
| end, I was even more deeply committed to the Reiki | | | | Ego will always play a part in everything we humans |
| energy than ever before. The stories, the histories, | | | | do. But, masters know that the intent of the |
| and the people were only part of the path that the | | | | distance symbol is to bring us to a higher place, if |
| Reiki energy itself used to come to us. I could see | | | | even for only a short time. We can meet the divinity |
| that the core energy was the important thing and | | | | in another from the highest place in us, and know |
| always managed to come through, no matter the | | | | their absolute perfection, humbly allowing whatever |
| controversies and confusions. | | | | purpose the Reiki energy has brought us together |
| I was taught Reiki by two masters, one of whom | | | | for. |
| was taught by two other masters, one with a | | | | I have always been taught, and believe, and do my |
| "traditional" Alliance path, and one with a maverick | | | | best to pass on to my students, that it is not so |
| path. My second Reiki Master was very | | | | much about "mastering" the energy, as learning to be |
| non-traditional. His lineage was non-traditional from | | | | "mastered" by it. The true teachers are not the ones |
| Takata forward. | | | | in your lineage. They can pass on the energy to you, |
| I studied for several years during the 90's with two | | | | along with their interpretations about the energy, and |
| Reiki Alliance Masters. They were both beautiful | | | | the stories they have been told, but ONLY REIKI, |
| women, and though I respected their traditional | | | | itself, can actually teach you anything. It will take you |
| ways, in the end, took a less traditional Reiki path. I | | | | where you need to go for your greatest and |
| paid 10,000 units of energy for my Reiki Mastery, | | | | deepest healings. It is always there to help you |
| which I worked through with my master. I was very | | | | respond to whatever arises. It will gently lead you to |
| committed to my process, and to learning everything | | | | the truth of who you are, and if you resist, it will be |
| I could to enhance my abilities as a teacher. I | | | | there to comfort and guide you. |
| understand the reasoning of paying $10,000 and | | | | It is a miracle that Reiki has come to us in any form... |
| respect those who go in that direction. I chose a | | | | Those whose hands touched our crowns through |
| different path, or could say rather, that it chose me. | | | | attunements are blessed gifts, and are divine beings |
| I do not charge that much for my mastery classes, | | | | in their own rights. We are grateful, and pass it on, in |
| but make it very clear to my students that for the | | | | as sacred a way as we know... visions of bubbles or |
| energy to come through most clearly, it helps to give | | | | not, $10,000 or not, weekend courses or not, |
| a lot of energy in exchange (at least, 10,000 units) if | | | | published symbols or not. |