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Reiki: A Piatkus Guide (Piatkus Guides)

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I am a Master/Teacher of three forms of Reiki (Karuna, Tibetan, and Usui Shiki Ryoho), and a Seventh Facet Seichim Master.

I almost have enough certificates to paper the end of my living room (because I studied with many different Reiki masters), but I have placed the certificates in a mailing tube for protection.

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The chart on page 25 is incorrect. The Pituitary gland is associated with the 7th chakra because the hormones produced by the Pituitary gland regulates all of the other glands in the endocrine system. The Pineal gland is associated with the 6th chakra.

Page 26: "Ki is all around us. We naturaly absorb it every day through our auric fields and by breathing it into our physical bodies"

We also absorb Ki from the liquids we drink and the foods we eat.

Page 28: "The Chinese healing tradition has a 4,000 year old text called The Yellow Emperors Classic of Internal Medicine"

Why is she mentioning Chinese writings about healing when this book is supposed to be about Reiki? Reiki is a Japanese energy healing mmodality. FYI. The Yellow Emperors Classic of Internal Medicine was written 2445 BCE.

Page 31: "because your subconscious or higher self - that part which guides protects and knows all about you"

This is wrong. The subconscious mind is the database of all your memories. Your soul or spirit is the higher self.

Page 35: "No one knows the true origins of the healling system we call Reiki, but it was certainly in use 2500 years ago"

At least Ms. Quest didn't claim Reiki was brought to earth by aliens as some have in the past. This universal lifeforce energy has been around since the beginning of the universe, and people from all over the world have discerened this energy, and have called it by dozens of names over the millenia (Akasha, Ch'i (Qi), Ki, Mana, Nuwati, Orgone, Prana, Ruach are some of the more common names ). All of them use the same energy, but have different systems of accessing it. Sensei Usui did not discover the energy, but he did discover the system Reiki practitioners use.

Page 40: "Dr Chujiro Hayashi, a 47 year old retired naval officer, to be the next Grand Master of Reiki"

No one used the title "Grand Master" until Phyllis Lei Furumoto appointed herself to that rank.

Page 41: "In 1935, despite her illness, she made a visit to see her parents in Japan, but her condition worsened, and she was taken into hospital for the removal of a tumor"

Hawayo Takata did not have a tumor. She had Gall stones.

Page 50: " Oral tradition: The teaching of Reiki requires that the Reiki Master and student should be physicaly present together for the initiations"

This is not so. I have received and passed distance Reiki attunements, and I know for a FACT that distance attunements work! In addition; I have a stack of printed E-Mails of some of my students attunement experiences.

Page 71: " The course normally takes two days (or four sessions) amd includes a further energy attunement to intensify your inner healing channel - to as much as four time thar received with first degree"

This is NONSENSE! Science has not been able to prove the existence of Ki energy yet. So science certainly hasn't been able to measure something that isn't supposed to exist. A Level II Reiki practitioner can channel more Ki than they could as a Level I because in Level II they are given techniques to focus and calm the mind and calm the breath they were not given in Level I.

Page 76 - 77: "Even if you have little money to spare, and think you couldn't possibly afford to pay some of the larger sums required, I can assure you that if it is right for you to learn from a particular Master the relevant money will come to you somehow."

This is INEXCUSABLE! Money should NEVER be the determining factor if a person is to learn Reiki or not. I pass free attunements (in an attempt to balance the scales for bad things I did early in life). Some of my students have insisted on bartering something in trade for the attunements and knowledge, so I have accepted a pound of coffee, crystals, a personal natal horoscope chart, books, and other similar items. ;-)

Page 82: "One of these major effects, therefore is what is called the 21-day clearing cycle"

I don't know why people continue to perpetuate the myth of a 21 day cleansing process. I told some of my students about the cleansing process, and with others I said nothing about a cleansing process. Generaly; the ones I told about a cleansing process experienced one. Generaly the ones I did not tell about a cleansing process did not experience one. It is my opinion that people experience a cleansing process because they expected to experience one.

On Page 99 Ms. Quest delves into Feng Shui (Fung Schway).

Feng Shui has nothing to do with Reiki.

If you have questions or comments E-Mail me. Two Bears.

Wah doh Ogedoda"

This book is actually the first edition, and the Piatkus Guides series was cancelled back in 2000. However, this book is now available as a stand-alone title "An Introduction To Reiki", still published by Piatkus, but obviously with a new cover. It is a good basic guide to Reiki, particularly suitable for people who don't know anything about Reiki, or who have just done their first Reiki course. Because it was written in 1998 some of the information is now a little out of date - quite a lot of new information came out of Japan in 1999 and 2000 - but it is easy to read and easy to understand, and also offers a non-judgemental view of the different approaches and viewpoints in the Reiki community. Well worth reading.