00:04:57.892 –> 00:05:07.439 So I had my doubts. Basically, I started to research not because I wanted to write a book to become famous,
00:05:08.339 –> 00:05:19.470 not because I wanted to make a movement, make a change, become this or that, nothing at all, zero, nothing, no implication,
00:05:19.470 –> 00:05:29.188 no aim whatsoever in this direction. It was just the doubts that were sitting on my chest, going like,
00:05:29.188 –> 00:05:34.142 ‚I like the Reiki practice, but the way it’s done …‘
00:05:34.250 –> 00:05:36.258 And you were teaching it now?
00:05:37.142 –> 00:05:44.395 After … So, Chetna was my first student and then afterwards I started to teach but I was really uncomfortable …
00:05:45.428 –> 00:05:49.000 teaching something that I haven’t got really in my heart.
00:06:34.690 –> 00:06:43.793 After a while, I found out that in 1984, almost ten years earlier,
00:06:44.235 –> 00:06:51.083 there had been a teacher of the Radiance Technique, Mrs Mitsui, Mieko Mitsui.
00:06:51.216 –> 00:06:59.675 She was one of the teachers of Barbara … working in Barbara Ray’s Radiance Technique.
00:07:00.000 –> 00:07:01.225 She…
00:07:01.225 –> 00:07:04.592 A Japanese lady coming from America, I believe.
00:07:05.000 –> 00:07:12.625 I don’t know if she was first or second generation Japanese, I don’t know. Anyway, it doesn’t matter.
00:07:13.000 –> 00:07:25.842 So, she went to Japan to teach Reiki and she taught only Reiki 1 and Reiki 2 in Tokyo, and I think in Osaka also.
00:07:26.550 –> 00:07:28.171 And …
00:07:29.929 –> 00:07:36.175 People who wanted to learn more – she came for maybe 2 years or 3 years –
00:07:36.858 –> 00:07:44.000 people who wanted to learn more were told that they needed a university degree, if they wanted to become a teacher.
00:07:44.283 –> 00:07:52.575 They needed to speak English. They had to pay $10,000. At the time was a lot of money in the 80s.
00:07:52.908 –> 00:07:58.942 And they had to travel to New York to do the training.
00:08:00.250 –> 00:08:10.858 All these things were impossible. Most people didn’t speak English, maybe 99% didn’t speak English.
00:08:11.400 –> 00:08:19.108 Then they had to have the degree, then to have the money, then to travel to the States, but that was too much. So nobody did.
00:08:19.475 –> 00:08:29.533 And they were waiting for 9 years for somebody to appear to teach teachers in the country.
00:08:29.533 –> 00:08:33.067 And that happened to be me, so I was not the first.
00:08:34.025 –> 00:08:37.108 The bed was made, but I didn’t know.
00:09:12.000 –> 00:09:19.000 So we started to teach, and as I said, my first student was my former wife.
00:09:19.658 –> 00:09:29.656 When we did the master initiation, and I taught her how to initiate others, she said,
00:09:32.223 –> 00:09:42.226 ‚This is too logical. We don’t think logically. This was made by a Westerner, I swear!
00:09:43.060 –> 00:09:48.350 I am sure, because we don’t think like that. It’s so structured, it’s so…‘
00:09:49.000 –> 00:10:02.592 Japanese people, they think in wonderful quantum jumps. All of a sudden, you think … ‚How did we get here?‘
00:10:03.742 –> 00:10:09.058 I love it, but it’s really not logical. It’s totally…
00:10:11.108 –> 00:10:16.408 No words, I don’t have words. So, Chetna said, ‚It can’t be.‘
00:10:18.267 –> 00:10:23.758 So we had this doubt. And out of this doubt we started to research more and more and more,
00:10:23.758 –> 00:10:32.808 and then people didn’t know about Reiki, or they said, ‚Oh, it’s this American thing‘, that at some point I just thought,
00:10:32.900 –> 00:10:36.925 ‚It’s all … The whole thing, it’s just fabricated, it doesn’t exist.‘
00:10:37.250 –> 00:10:42.092 And Usui sensei is a person who probably doesn’t exist.‘
00:10:44.592 –> 00:10:46.454 Sorry (gassho).
00:10:46.629 –> 00:10:47.817 I thought that.
00:10:49.000 –> 00:10:58.401 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 …
00:11:00.667 –> 00:11:04.758 did you go to Germany to do Reiki? Was it nice? We’d like to learn.‘
00:11:04.758 –> 00:11:12.542 So that was the first group of people in ’93, in I think April or something, I taught.
00:11:14.242 –> 00:11:18.625 A bunch of Japanese friends. I liked the teaching.
00:11:19.358 –> 00:11:26.975 I enjoyed it, but because I didn’t feel comfortable with the history, I left that part out. I said,
00:11:26.975 –> 00:11:38.263 ‚Okay, look, the history sounds like fairy tales to me. They say that Usui sensei was this and that,
00:11:39.038 –> 00:11:46.108 but I don’t think so, but I let you know when I find more.‘ That’s when we really started to look.
00:12:11.400 –> 00:12:17.517 but for the practice of Reiki, it’s not that terribly relevant to know the history.
00:12:35.000 –> 00:12:40.625 Yes, so I did it like that. Of course now I spend a lot of time talking about history,
00:12:40.625 –> 00:12:49.117 because my whole life is intertwined with all the historical research of more than 30 years.
00:12:49.567 –> 00:12:56.000 That’s what we will come to. That, of course, has been a turning point in your particular life,
00:12:56.000 –> 00:13:02.000 because here you are, early 90s, full of doubts, full of questions, you’re teaching.
00:13:02.225 –> 00:13:07.020 You have to blend out the history aspect because you sense that can’t be everything,
00:13:07.970 –> 00:13:17.000 and that eventually drove you to doing a lot of research, which ended with … or which started really
00:13:17.158 –> 00:13:21.833 with the publication of a very important book in 1997.
00:13:27.267 –> 00:13:31.900 In a way, I have the impression, please correct me …
00:13:32.400 –> 00:13:42.027 So, you’re now in the early 90s, and in a way you were the beneficiary of a situation,
00:13:42.861 –> 00:13:49.530 which that teacher you mentioned, Mrs. Mitsui, created,
00:13:49.530 –> 00:13:57.000 that you have all these Reiki Alliance people waiting to continue in Japan, these are Japanese people,
00:13:57.000 –> 00:14:05.000 and here you are now, and you’re coming back from Berlin, you’re teaching what you learned …
00:14:05.625 –> 00:14:16.422 How long did this go on? And how was your seminar this time, because later – I don’t know when chronologically exactly –
00:14:16.422 –> 00:14:22.000 there were some questions of Raj’s way, how he got into Reiki?
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13:49: I misspoke and Arjava corrected me on the next video A17: it is not ‚Reiki alliance‘ but the ‚Radiance Technique‘.
13:49: I misspoke and Arjava corrected me on the next video A17: it is not ‚Reiki alliance‘ but the ‚Radiance Technique‘.