This site is still alive!

One Moment of Stillness Reiki is still active and I am now back full time to keep it that way.  I am visiting the Message Boards two to three times a week to check for attunement and healing requests.  I hope to see you all come back and I will answer any questions to the best of my ability.  Please keep all conversations on the message boards.

Thank You and Namaste,


Erik

Welcome all of you New Members!

I am so happy to see some new faces trickling in and exploring the site.  It is entirely for you!  Please take advantage of the entirely free curriculum as well as the Message Boards to hang out and post Healing and Attunement requests.  Also take note that I certify at the Master Level and do Distance Attunements again, all for free as is the wishes of my Master/Teacher.  I continue the tradition with Love and Heart.

Please use the Message Boards for all of your questions.  I check them daily!


In Lovingkindness,

Erik

The History of Reiki

The True History of Reiki

A Research Project

We are collecting information on the history of Reiki. Most Reiki students are aware of the story of Reiki as told by Mrs. Takata. However, very little of this version of the Reiki story is documented. There are many stories that are circulated about Reiki, but with little evidence to back them up. We have created a file to keep track of the research people have done and are doing into the history of Reiki and its connection to other systems. We are looking for documented research that includes written records. We are also looking for any connection Reiki might have with other systems of healing, meditation or other religious practices. This includes the use of the Reiki symbols by others prior to their use by Dr. Usui. If you have this kind of information and would like to share it with others please send it to us. After we have accumulated enough meaningful facts we will be publishing a booklet to be distributed to all those who have contributed. We will also be placing the information in the Reiki News and at this web site.
We plan to update this information as more is accumulated. In this way, the facts, theories and ideas we circulate will inspire and help those involved in the search for the true origins of Reiki. One possible outcome of this is that a more meaningful and beneficial form of Reiki could be discovered/developed.
The True History of Reiki Explained

William has done extensive research on the history of Reiki including making a trip to Japan. He has visited Dr. Usui's grave and his memorial stone as well as gone to Mt. Kurama where Reiki was rediscovered. From this and other new information coming from non-western Reiki masters who are still practicing in Japan, we now have a much more detailed understanding of how Reiki was discovered and how it was practiced by Dr. Usui. Some of this new verified information includes:

• The Reiki organization that Dr. Usui started is alive and well in Japan.
• There never was a Grandmaster or lineage bearer.
• Dr. Hayashi was never in charge of the Usui System, nor was Mrs. Takata nor is any westerner.
• High fees and money were never a part of how Dr. Usui practiced.
• The location of Dr. Usui's grave and the Usui memorial.
• Pictures from Mt. Kurama and the Usui memorial.
  
  The revised and expanded book, Reiki, The Healing Touch, contains a detailed and verified account of how Dr. Usui discovered Reiki, how he practiced it. Extensive endnotes indicate where the important facts have come from. Thanks to the research of Frank Arjava Petter, author of the new Reiki book, "Reiki Fire" we now have a clearer understanding of the history of Reiki. Here is an article he wrote titled " Reiki, Who is in Charge."
  Since Reiki has come to the West, many practitioners have drawn parallels between the healing practices of Christianity and Reiki. This is but one issue in need of historical and metaphysical research. For more on the topic of Christ and healing, see this article by William Rand, "Was Jesus a Reiki Master?"
  
  Carell Ann Farmer was the fourth master to be initiated by Phyllis Furumoto. She was present at the first master meeting in 1982 and at the meeting that formed the Reiki Alliance in 1983. She has some very interesting things to say about what happened that pertain directly to the trademark issue and the validity of the Grandmaster title.
  
  Click here to go the the letter: Origin of Grandmaster Title
  
  Some interesting articles resulting from a recent trip to Japan:
  
  Discovering the Roots of Reiki
  The Usui Memorial 
  
   Article originally published here
  

Where to learn Reiki online for free

Below are two locations on the net that provide very good and thorough Reiki training for free.  I have visited them and checked out their curriculum and it is more than adequate to help you realize yourself as a healer.  Enjoy!


1. Reiki_On Yahoo! Group. This group is located at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Reiki_On/

Here you'll find an extensive Files section, including manuals and attunement certificates. This covers everything you need to know for levels I and II of Usui Reiki. Attunements are sent out on the first and second Friday of the month, and anyone can receive them. There are attunement preparation and meditation exercises, and you can ask the group members any questions you have during or after your training.

2. Peggy Jentoft of Solarraven Reiki. Peggy is a Reiki Master, and you can use her free manuals as a basis for your training. Her website is:
http://pjentoft.com/0Reiki.html

There is a Reiki Master manual (level III of Usui Reiki) here as well, and she provides links to other Reiki resources in addition to her own writings.

Reiki Symbols - their use and explanation

Here is a selection of the most common ways to draw the five Reiki Symbols and the numbered guidelines in place for how to draw them.  I personally do not think the order or the shape of the symbol but rather the intent of heart and the unified willingness and openness of both the healer and the patient are more pivotal factors.  Spirit is a language of heart not squiggly lines.  It will interpret and intuit your intentions irregardless.

Note that these symbols are used mostly in distance healings and attunements and the Raku alone is used solely as an attunement symbol.

Reiki instructional videos for self healing, healing another and attunements