THE HISTORY OF REIKI IN THE 20TH CENTURY

Reiki is a very ancient. healing method, rediscovered at the turn of the century by Dr. Mikao Usui in ancient Sanskrit texts, after a long and dedicated quest. The texts contained the intellectual knowledge necessary, but Dr. Usui had to undergo a near-fatal three-week fasting meditation before he received the healing empowerment of the system. Dr.Usui founded a Reiki clinic in Japan, and taught what he had learned to several other highly evolved Japanese gentlemen. In the thirties an American lady, Mrs. Hawayo Takata, was cured of a serious tumour at the Reiki clinic. She decided to dedicate her life to Reiki and asked to be trained by the Japanese Masters. At first they refused, but seeing her earnestness, eventually Dr. Chujiro Hayashi agreed to instruct her.

Just before the second world war Dr. Hayashi completed Mrs. Takata's training and told her to take the knowledge to the West and to preserve the tradition. Mrs. Takata created 22 Reiki Masters in her lifetime, and shortly before her death she also instructed her grand-daughter Phyllis Lei Furumoto. Meanwhile in Japan, some Reiki masters survived the war, and there are Japanese lineages unconnected with Mrs. Takata.

Traditional Seichem Masters claim that their knowledge is derived from the same ancient Sanskrit texts where Dr. Usui found the Reiki information.

Tera-Mai is the registered trademark of Kathleen Milner (USA), author of Reiki & Other Rays of Touch Healing. Originally trained in traditional Reiki and Seichem, Kathleen then had a series of consciousness- raising experiences where she was shown updated attunement procedures and symbols for the Reiki and Seichem attunements, more suitable for the raised vibrational frequency of the times in which we live.

The Tera-MailM healing system provides standardised attunement procedures to connect students to the various rays for healing and personal growth. Tera-MaiTM masters are required under the terms of the trademark not to perform attunements from any other Reiki or Seichem system, as combining systems like this has been found to disrupt the flow of energies in the master. The Tera-MaiTM trademark was set up to protect and maintain the integrity of the attunements.

These attunements are still being upgraded by Spirit from time to time, in line with the increasing Light energies coming in to the planet nowadays. Therefore all registered Tera-MaiTM Masters are required to adapt to the changes as they are brought in from Spirit via Kathleen Milner.

THE REIKI PRINCIPLES

JUST FOR TODAY DO NOT WORRY JUST FOR TODAY. DO NOT ANGER HONOUR YOUR PARENTS, TEACHERS AND ELDERS EARN YOUR LIVING HONESTLY SHOW GRATITUDE TO EVERY LIVING THING Dr Mikao Usui received these principles in a mystical experience while meditating.