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Tokyo → Berlin → Tokyo
A German re-imports Japanese Healing Art
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‚Once your soul is tickled, you can’t forget it.‘
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… You’re just about to return back to Japan.
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At this, in fact, the year 1991?
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Yes, somewhere in August.
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The early 90s, brought economic growth and political change.
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Gorbachev ends the Soviet Union. The birth of today’s Russia and the end of the Cold War.
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Reunification of Germany. Iraq invades Kuwait.
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Nelson Mandela is released from prison ending the apartheid system in South Africa.
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And we are actually getting to the moment of your wife running the school, having a very hectic busy time, you and her,
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and that time when you got the phone call from your brother, when he says, ‚You need to do Reiki.‘
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So … take us through this time, the school, the busyness to about the time when Raj calls and says, ‚Come to Berlin.‘
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All right.
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So, of course, we can’t start there, we must start somewhere else to put it in.
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In perspective?
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In perspective.
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I told you earlier that I grew up with homeopathy and we had gone to healers, to faith healers when we were growing up.
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My mother had told me once that where she grew up, which is now in Poland, in Silesia,
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that they didn’t used to go to the doctor when they had a cold or something,
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but they would go to some lady or some shepherd somewhere in the village for healing.
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It was normal in that area.
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So, we also did that occasionally.
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We had somebody in Austria who was doing hand healing, we would go there.
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Not … It wasn’t a group thing, it was just some individual who was doing that.
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So, I was kind of used to that. I remember when I was 16, with a childhood friend, we were talking,
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and I was saying to her, ‚Wouldn’t it be nice if you could really do healing with your hands.‘ I still remember that.
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And she said, ‚Yeah, that would be cool.‘
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Then, it disappeared. The healing disappeared.
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Of course, when I wasn’t feeling well, in Poona,
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I would go to somebody who would do Shiatsu or acupuncture or something like that for healing.
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And then in 1988, one day I had a really terrible headache.
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Really bad. And …
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One of Chetna’s friends, this was soon after we met, was doing Reiki.
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She tried to give me some psychic healing that she practiced.
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She said, ‚Oh, maybe so and so, my friend can to it, she does Reiki. You know what Reiki is?‘
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I said, ‚It’s this Japanese healing thing.‘
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Okay, so she got the friend to come to our house, give me a treatment.
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She wasn’t putting her hands on the body, but was working on the chakras, off the body.
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I was thinking, ‚What a bunch of nonsense, this is her new age nonsense.‘
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And I didn’t enjoy it.
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I thought it was … weird, not serious.
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It didn’t look Japanese at all to me.
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I didn’t like it, and I didn’t do what I was hoping it would do.
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So the headache stayed, I went to the hospital across the street from the ashram.
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They had a pharmacy there, bought some good painkillers, took it and ticked off Reiki.
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This was my first Reiki experience.
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What I didn’t understand then is that when you get touched with Reiki, somehow it touches your soul.
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… it tickles. It tickles your soul.
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Once your soul is tickled, you can’t forget it.
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And even though maybe you’re not aware of it, I wasn’t.
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And then I started to look for somebody to teach me Reiki.
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Already 1988 at the ashram, there was somebody who actually lives or used to live near here.
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They were teaching Reiki at the ashram and I was thinking,
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‚It would be nice to learn, but why do I want to learn something that I didn’t enjoy and didn’t have a good effect?‘
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I didn’t understand myself, but I was looking. But it never worked.
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I found the teacher who was teaching at the ashram, her name was Simbani. I asked her, ‚Can you teach me?‘
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‚Yes, okay.‘
‚Do you teach in private?‘
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‚No, I don’t do private, only at the ashram in groups.‘
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I said, ‚Okay, when is your next group?‘
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… it never worked between us.
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We liked each other, but our schedules didn’t meet.
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Or the groups were full, or the groups were cancelled, or somebody got sick or …
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And then I forgot about it until one day in 1990 … either end of ’91 or beginning of ’92,
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Raj, my brother, called me from Germany, saying that,
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‚Hey, you know, Arjava, I think it would be good for you to do Reiki.‘
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We had started our own school in 1991.
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Your own language school?
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Own language school in 1991.
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We were busy with the teaching. You can imagine starting a business. Difficult!
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So. We didn’t have much time and I wanted to find something to do for myself, besides my daily meditation.
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So I thought, Oh, I didn’t know that you do Reiki, when my brother called.
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‚Yeah, I’ve been doing it for years.‘ And he said, ‚I really think that I must teach that to you,
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because I feel stuck and somehow I have a feeling that if I share it with you, I will come out of it … stuck.‘
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And I’m thinking, ‚What is he saying?‘ But he … I didn’t understand.
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He often said enigmatic things like that, that you couldn’t really follow. He has his own logic.
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So I thought, ‚What…‘ And he said, ‚What do you like that?‘
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I said, ‚Yeah, I would like to learn, but I’m just learning to do something for myself.‘
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He said, ‚Oh, maybe you will be teaching.‘
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‚Oh, no, I’m just doing it for myself.‘
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He was laughing and I’m thinking, ‚Does he see something or realize?‘, because he’s got psychic …
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‚Does he realize something that I don’t see yet?‘
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Anyway, we made an appointment. I came in the end of the year, end of December something.
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’92 I went to Berlin to learn Reiki in Berlin.
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It was very funny, because I was sitting on the plane and I bought a cheap flight through Moscow.
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I don’t know, probably with ‚lots‘ or something.
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Russian Airlines.
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So we had to stop over and I’m sitting there in the duty-free shop in the transit lounge, watching …
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Aeroflot.
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Aeroflot, Aeroflot.
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Watching Japanese women with a calculator.
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‚Oh, yasui! Yasui!‘ Cheap, cheap! And then their husband standing somewhere like this:
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(pantomimes a golfer)
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Playing virtual golf in the duty-free.
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I’m sitting and laughing to myself, ‚What am I doing? I’m a German who goes …
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who lives in Japan, who goes to Germany to learn a Japanese healing art, to take it back to Japan. It’s crazy!
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So, I had to …
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I had my good laugh there, thinking this situation is really ridiculous.
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But I went, I learned then Reiki 1, 2 and the teachers level in one week.
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I think probably it was four days or something like that.
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And I enjoyed what I learned and then took it back to Japan and the first person I initiated was Chetna.
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Okay.
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So, I taught her Reiki 1, and Reiki 2.
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When I showed her the distant healing symbols, she looked at it and she said, ‚This is wrong.‘
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I said to her, ‚What do you mean this is wrong?‘
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‚Half of it is missing.‘
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‚And there are some traces that are really wrong.‘
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I went, ‚But how could it be wrong?‘
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She said, ‚Don’t ask me, it’s wrong.‘
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And then…
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We were looking at the curriculum and seeing that there is no breathing exercise,
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no meditation, no cleansing, all the things that you find in an oriental healing art are missing.
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And I was thinking, ‚Something is wrong. Something is missing.‘
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So I started to doubt what I had learned from my brother.
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Translation: AI
Transcript: René Vögtli
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