Just after his high school diploma and then he spent all the war years in Russia. He got heavily

injured twice. He almost died and then he spent three years in the Russian prison camp after that.

So he came back in 1947 and he screamed until I was 15 about. He screamed every night dreaming

of the war. Every night I would wake up from my father screaming from the top of his lungs.

They went through incredible times and when I see what’s

happening now in the world with the war in Ukraine and in the Middle East, I’m just thinking how

is it possible that we never learn? How is that humanly possible? Because I grew up with the

He said, ‚Yes.‘ 
Because I felt he was different. He was quiet and somehow centred in himself.

And I asked him, ‚Would you teach me how to do that?‘ He was a bit hesitant.

@Yannik: Das «He said yes» bitte ans
Ende dieses Merges stellen. Ich kann das hier nicht weiter aufsplitten
im Tool, aber der Fluss sollte sein: «I didnt really know what it was.
Because I felt he was different. He was quiet and somehow centered in
himself. And I asked him «Would you teach me how to do that?» – He said
«Yes»

‚Okay.‘ So I did. And then he taught me Raja Yoga for a couple of years. Between 16 and 18.

At that time, my brother left Germany on the hippie trail,

partly with a magic bus that went from London and Amsterdam to Kathmandu, 

overland and somewhere in Turkey he got off.

He made it through Afghanistan and somehow he ended up in Poona

To look if he’s okay, and if he’s okay … okay, good.

If he has found a place … My parents were amazing!

And if he’s not okay, see if you keep persuade him to come back.

So I looked around at the people at the ashram, and I thought, they really reminded me of those Zen kind of characters,

I thought, ‚I found my place, that’s it, I want to stay here.‘

I became his … Osho’s student, Bhagwan’s disciple at the time at the time.

His presence is overpowering! I have never felt anything like that before or after.

Australian man, Neha, one of my mentors. He was 20 some years older than me.

I said, ‚Look, I’ve been telling her for a year that I need help. And now …

One of her friends, Chetna, was consoling me …

And then I forgot about it until one day in 1990 … either end of ’91 or beginning of ’92,

I said, ‚Yeah, I would like to learn, but I’m just learning to do something for myself.‘

Anyway, we made an appointment. I came in the end of the year, end of December something.

’92 I went to Berlin to learn Reiki in Berlin.

But I went, I learned then Reiki 1, 2 and the teachers level in one week.

And I enjoyed what I learned and then took it back to Japan and the first person I initiated was Chetna.

When I showed her the distant healing symbols, she looked at it and she said, ‚This is wrong.‘

When we did the master initiation, and I taught her how to initiate others, she said,

I love it, but it’s really not logical. It’s totally…

and then people didn’t know about Reiki, or they said, ‚Oh, it’s this American thing‘, that at some point I just thought,

Then I kind of gave up, but I liked the teaching, I liked the practice, so there were a few personal friends of ours who said ‚Hey …

So I had my doubts. Basically, I started to research not because I wanted to write a book to become famous,

no aim whatsoever in this direction. It was just the doubts that were sitting on my chest, going like,

So that was the first group of people in ’93, in I think April or something, I taught.

I enjoyed it, but because I didn’t feel comfortable with the history, I left that part out. I said,

because here you are, early 90s, full of doubts, full of questions, you’re teaching.

So, you’re now in the early 90s, and in a way you were the beneficiary of a situation,

that you have all these Reiki Alliance people waiting to continue in Japan, these are Japanese people,

I didn’t know there was a bed and I didn’t know that it was made. 

Schon im Caption zuvor anfangen mit: "I benefited from that greatly. Like I said earlier, the bed was made." (00:27 …)

A Japanese lady coming from America, I believe.

And they were waiting for 9 years for somebody to appear to teach teachers in the country.

So we advertised in both of these magazines and then people from all over the place started to contact us and we were going like,

They come back next year and do teacher’s training. And there were some people who had learned from Mitsui sensei.

it’s not really what I could suggest to anybody. So I called Raj and said,

‚Hey, are there any new books on Reiki? Do you know anything? Because this guy, one of my students, wants to do a book on Reiki.‘

So then one day, I get a phone call from one of my earlier students. One of those people who had been eagerly waiting

So in the end she agreed, she called. Then the number … The first thing that person on the other side says,

So she calls one, two. I don’t remember. I think the third one. Finally the guy says, ‚Yes, we have him here‘.

(speaks Japanese) 

‚It’s a beautiful grave.‘

‚And you must come and see it sometime.‘

And we went ,,, he took us there. And we arrived and suddenly I see this

the Usui Mikao was never discussed in our house. I know absolutely nothing. Zero. I know nothing.

One of the speculations there is … This incident – that there was a taboo around Mikao Usui’s name in his own family –

In other words, they’re using it … You have no idea why this was the case?

So, there’s nothing like that. We don’t know what the … we really don’t know what the issue was.

It starts with something that’s called Kokai Denju. Kokai Denju means public teaching.

He said, ‚Arjava, I have to tell you something.‘

den nächsten Satz bitte auch rein nehmen: "I went out for a beer with your brother yesterday, and maybe he had one too many."

Yes. I got that. So, your Reiki lineage, therefore, is a new lineage going through your friend Ageh?

From ’98. And your question was, ‚What did you do? How did you deal with that in Japan?‘

I called my students and I said, ‚There’s a problem with my brother’s Reiki lineage. We don’t really know …‘

As you want, yeah. Well, the chapter … the book came out and what you then experienced as a consequence?

I don’t give a fuck. Really, I don’t care.

Maybe also include the passage before this (12:05-12:12 «So I don’t give … OK … (mumbling) … Do I have to watch my mouth now?») @Yannick: Entscheide gerne du, was dramaturgisch sinn macht! <3

I don’t care at all for fame. It … is nothing to me.

However, I do keep you responsible if that kind of tenure then influences your students and your students go out

Because it was a reaction to always escaping. Perhaps this is it, but I’ve also asked my wife many times

Incredible. One time I was at a book fair. I think it was either with the ‚Reiki Fire‘ or the next … I think it was ‚Reiki Fire‘.

Maybe the viewers today, they don’t realize this was a time when the Reiki Alliance, or what one might call Western Reiki,

the Western Reiki was the dominant Reiki in the world. And of course, and I belonged also to that world, I still do.

It’s not because I’m great. I just stumbled into that. I tried to escape so many times. I tried to… say, ‚Okay, I’m getting out.‘

So it was an interesting, really an interesting situation. Suddenly I find myself in conflict on a personal level.

Okay, maybe some people found that egoistic. I don’t know, I suppose. But for me it was maybe a childhood …

I was not happy, because I was a bit heartbroken. So now, about 30 years later, I’m looking at my hands, and I’m going like,

So it actually drove me crazy, seeing the fact that what I had started to bring people together was pushing them further apart.

I asked him to do a constellation, a Reiki constellation. [See Video A67]

In the Reiki constellation, maybe we look at that latera little bit, there were some strange things.

I felt close to Usui sensei, but with Hayashi sensei, I didn’t know anybody who learned from him or anything.

Füge aus dem segment zuvor (A35, 06:48-06:55) ein: «one day, she took me aside and she said,» ‚You know, if you work hard, you can do the first part of the teacher’s training. It’s called shihankaku. Next year, in one year.

Actually, maybe the word Jikiden – and maybe it’s worth to elaborate, because very often non-Jikiden practitioners,

between what maybe we may have learned and what you will be teaching in the future? How will you be teaching?‘

‚I’m teaching what I learned from my sensei.‘ Not my own technique, like, let’s say, Hiroshi Doi. No judgment.

Again, you must wake up again. And you need a slap.

Insert also the following sentences "That’s beautiful. And Usui sensei made sure that we always keep that correct attitude to learn, learn, learn."

And it doesn’t give a false pretence, there is a singular unit.

Maybe the two, after all, don’t mix. Who said that?

Perhaps. But it is what it is. You do what you can, you do your best.

because when I spoke to Phyllis, she almost used the same words as you just did.

We would see. So I can’t really say anything about that. But I see your point. And this is something that Usui sensei,