And so: be impeccable with your word, be impeccable with your word, be impeccable…. Being impeccable with my wordBeing impeccable with my wordsBeing impeccable with my words
Topic: correction material; Be impeccable with word
Be impeccable with your word, this one is really important for me. I really try to be impeccable, which means to say my truth as best I can in any given moment. And the most important part of this is the “in any given moment”, because the minute that I have a conversation with somebody, that idea or that word could change (0525) (cough)These five… these ….0540 These four agreements with myself have allowed me to look back and to…
0525-0605 (cough) These five… these ….0540 These four agreements with myself have allowed me to look back and to…
0612 das Ende dieses Films ist das Wort «humannness» auf 0612
Video 93Question 46, Day 4, Arizona, 0347-0450
When we make assumptions, often times what we are doing is filling in the gap of the unknown. And I believe that as Reiki Masters and I wanted to train myself to do this, that if there is something that I don’t know, I try not to make an assumption in order to fill in the unknown, but to just allow it to be and to see what happens. Well, of course in the early days I wasn’t very good at this and I made lots of assumptions. And now I trust that the number of assumptions that I’m making to fill in the blanks have lessened and in making those assumptions I feel like I have put other people in boxes or put on to people certain attitudes that maybe weren’t correct.
The one about “don’t take things personally”, that’s tough. Because in the beginning, especially in the early 1990’s I thought that the changes that were happening in different practices and the formation of new forms of Reiki were an affront to Hawayo Takata and of course I wanted to defend her. And so I definitely took things personally, if not personally also for Hawayo Takata. So I was a bit strict and a bit strong in those days and really confused because at the same time I really do believe that every person has a right to their own opinion and who they are. So even though my students differ in opinion and in theory from me I want to also say that I would defend their right to have their space, have their opinion and have their theory.
I’d like to start with “Always do your best”: I feel as Reiki Masters all of us do our best in every given moment. Often times it’s easy for outsiders to say “Well, why didn’t they… why didn’t she do this or why didn’t she do that?”. But it’s easy when you’re outside of the situation to see other options. Personally I believe that you and all Reiki Masters and myself included, always do our best in any given moment.
A few years ago I ran across a little book, it was the rage back then, called “The four agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz and I at first thought, well this is just like the precepts of Reiki and but just spoken in a different way. But then I started to realize that these four little phrases affected me in a different way, more directly maybe and with less questioning. So I’d like to share them with you because they have really made an impact in my life.The first agreement is “Be impeccable with your word” The second agreement is “Don’t take anything personally” The third one is “Don’t make assumptions” And the fourth one is “Always do your best” I feel as a human being that I’ve been able to use these in order to not only do my best and be sure that my communication is as best as I could be, but also to own my own humanness, my own understanding of situations and then realize afterwards that my best could have been better if I had known what I know now. So…
Berlin, 4.10.: Lieber Andi, für das Archiv ist dies nun der letzte Film und wir haben ihn als «Take 2» bezeichnet im heute geschickten Dokument (V5 Übersicht der Titel/u’titel).
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Apology / (Untertitel:) To the worldwide Reiki communit
den Seufzer ganz am Anfang -0007 bitte rausnehmen
This entire video 93 is a "correction" Phyllis insisted on filming and it relates to Video 81 - the most important video for me! She would like the word "articulate" substituted by the word "impeccable"...
He has played a significant role of kind of anchor in all these years and has provided either the activating force or the restraining force in our discussions and vice versa. About 10 years ago we got kind of tired of the polarisation that this was creating. So after 2 or 3 years of actually going to counselling together and trying to work out our differences, we came to this conclusion that we were just very different personalities and that we didn’t really want to change each other.his ideas of what Reiki was and what Reiki wasn’t stimulated me to really research my own ideas and vice versa….
So since 1992 and 3, we started this relationship until now, he’s been a peer and this particular relationship of peer has been very important for me. He’s a very different person from me, personality-wise, we have very different approaches to money, to travelling, to ….lots of different details like that, but our approach and what we are called to do in Reiki is the same. So we have had just amazing experiences working together. He is really clear that he is not a lineage bearer, anyway now, he’s 2 years older than I am. We don’t know if his position will be filled if he dies. He is very clear that he wants my position filled by one person when I die. And I don’t know really if that’s gonna happen. I would like to think that I’m open to any.. whatever comes up, with the energy of Reiki with the Master Body and with the community.
In 1992 we came together because he had had a feeling that he should step in and help me as the lineage bearer, as the Grand Master actually at that point. And I also had the same feeling. And we had not had a very friendly relationship for the last 2 years before this. So it was really reconciliation immediate that we came together and it was recognized by the Reiki Alliance as a community and so he became known as head of discipline and our office together was the office of the Grand Master. 0912 So.. (räusper) 0915
Is to do this reconciliation not for reconciliation’s sake but as a stepping stone to the next stage of development of this practice, and I mean practice globally. That is to be able to … develop into a practice that serves humanity and serves life. That’s very, very clear from the self-treatment of those individuals to associations and groups of people who do specific projects to the global community that actually votes and informs the government leaders of our times and that actually make a difference on a political and on a spiritual and on a mental level and the only way we can do that is to act together.
Topic: How would you like to be remembered / your legacy?
It is my hope that my legacy will be that I not only invited the Reiki community to move to a higher expression but to have guided it so that it became a higher expression of itself. And what I mean by this, and I don’t mean to be critical of where we are because every level of expression is necessary and needs to be lived thoroughly, And what we’re moving into as a community for me is a maturity, but it needs to what I feel like Reiki is asking of all of us is…
The activating force is the preservation of this system. The restraining force is about personality. If people were able to think about me not as a personality but as a part of this system that they practice, I am just as essential as the symbols, as the hand positions, as the initiation, as themselves as masters. We don’t understand what the dynamic is but I know that the dynamic is there. 0603 (nods her head) 0605 So …. ähm… Ya! 0611
0603-(0611) Andi: schön wie sie bejahend nickt und wohl ein guter Übergang zum Video 85 … allerdings ohne: «0605-0611 «So …. ähm… Ya!» Vielleicht magst Du hier schon schneiden, Du kannst aber auch ihr Nicken von 0611-0614 benutzen, wenn Du es gut findest
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Has anyone ever suggested to let go of Grandmaster and Lineage Bearer? / (Untertitel:) Is it possible to have a spiritual practice without a … still point?
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Andi: hier hab ich einen Vorschlag. Ps spontane Antwort auf die Frage (s. Titel) war ein konstantiertes «no» gefolgt von Gelächter und «short answer ’no‘ » gefolgt von weiterem Gelächter. Ich fand das sehr lustig. Was denkst Du, magst Du es reinnehmen am Anfang dieses Videoes? Du findest die Sequenz unter ‚arizona material / Day 3 / interview / canon / MVI 5738, TS: 0119ff (nach meiner Frage)
P: NO! (funny!)
Video 83Question 36, Day 3, Arizona, 1713-1828
Since then (laugh)… since then my life as Grand Master has been pretty mellow (laugh), So these are the three places when you asked me about forgiving myself that come up for me and that there’s obviously energy still there, and I think rightfully so. It’s…. these were times where in our…. in my community anyway.. in this practice that there were significant changes of development that happened.
So… Can I forgive myself? Well, yes. I feel like I have. Because I couldn’t go on if I hadn’t. And I don’t know what I could have done differently. If I knew then what I know now, it would have been a very different scene, and I didn’t.”Speaking about it helps, because I feel that I’m able to speak about it in a way that I don’t bring up my guilt and I don’t bring up feeling small and inadequate but I just bring up this overwhelming feeling of sadness that….. it couldn’t have been different. If that makes any sense. That I would have liked for it to have been different for everyone…. And it wasn’t.
Could I have done something different? No, I felt like I did my best. Unfortunately … (laugh) unfortunately my best was not nearly good enough. Ahhh… I was not prepared for this. If I have any regret in my whole time being recognized as the Grand Master, that’s the one. I never met Joop in person. I would…. Now I realize I should have several times met him in person. We only talked through attorneys. We never talked face to face. We didn’t go to court, it was settled out of court, so I didn’t even see him in court…. And I feel badly about that, because I feel like we only have the projection of who we think he or she or I was at the moment and it’s probably still present.
So I just, you know, at that point between my personality and my lineage bearer self I was crushed. And I just dropped it, just like that. And I left a lot of people high and dry in my own community. Some masters actually left Reiki because of this situation. My relationship with the Reiki Alliance has never.. I don’t think healed from this particular process, on my part, because I felt not supported, not recognized and not heard…. There has been tremendous misunderstanding that has come out of this particular four year period…. And… there is nothing I can say to … convince people otherwise. It was just assumption, after assumption, after assumption, that for me, especially with the Alliance members felt very painful because I realized, they didn’t know who I was, they didn’t know how much I thought for them and they didn’t know that I could see them and that I would be compassionate. So this was just a heartbreaker.
So we got into kind of out-of-court discussion about who own the trademarks, which cost both of us a lot of money and time and energy and … I’m sure agro… aggravation, sorry, it’s a slang (laugh).
Topic: Forgiving yourself? - Continuation of Video 82
They wanted to have kind of a physical “You can initiate masters and you can not!”, you know “You are not ready!” and “You are!” and I couldn’t have done that because it really, really for me was not my place to bless anybody to initiate masters nor to prevent them from initiating masters. But… and I opened Pandora’s box, I admit.. but I feel like it was now a good thing. I wish I would not had used the sledge hammer but perhaps the key (laugh). But I didn’t have the key then.
I spent a lot of guilty feelings around this because it was so misunderstood at the time. I felt like I hadn’t been able to really articulate what I wanted to and, you know, at some point I just had to say “I did my best and it opened up the space and it was a little ungraceful but in the end it accomplished what I wanted. And that was to dispel this idea that it was only me who had the power to initiate masters. That was really important for me. 1807… So
1807-1826 «So» – kein Abspann – verbinde mit Video 83
Video 82Question 35, Day 3, Arizona, 1607-1728
I made the speech and I said “you know, it is a master’s right to share their information and their calling as a master to any student that they feel is worthy. And it is up to you to prepare yourself for this step”. And I don’t know if any of the other messages have gotten through but the response was I had given away my power, I had… and I said “I haven’t given away anything. I had nothing to give away”, because this whole power thing was a misconception, you know, it’s not about giving away your power, it’s about sharing sacred tools so that a worthy student can step on the path of mastery and have their own experience of this. It’s not a… it’s a gift but in a kind of funny way. Because you know they are going to have hardship, challenges, confrontations… it’s going to take their life and totally change it. And… that’s a kind of funny gift I have to say.
A lot of people didn’t like what I was doing but they couldn’t say anything ‘cause they had given me and said “you are the person to initiate masters in this system”. And that would have worked, if the system had stayed small, had stayed local but it didn’t… it just… in 1988 people were being initiated all over Europe, in India, in Canada, in Australia. You know, it’s like “Really? I’m going to initiate all these masters? Forget it!” “I am not going to be an initiation machine, where people just send me their students, I initiate them and that’s it.
And finally what I realized was in order to dissipate this rumour, this misunderstanding, I needed to just open the doors. Because the doors were already been pride open by other masters who were initiating masters already,
So in keeping to this feeling of doing my best at the time, I think that when I was… in the mid 1990s when I was going through this trademark thing, I had some regrets but I couldn’t have made a different decision, at the time, in 1983. I just couldn’t have, it was not to be done. Another decision that I made, that people… that seemed to be a very big deal in the Reiki community, was in 1988 during the first Reiki Alliance conference in Europe in Friedrichsdorf. I made a very important speech. And unfortunately… I wasn’t…. I wasn’t able to be articulate and to be accurate in my word. So people misunder….. people misunderstood me, they interpreted this speech really differently and … than I had imagined they would and … I did my best. So basically this … the whole thing that it came to was that I … that I had listened with growing dismay about people saying “Well you’re the only one who has the power to initiate masters”. And I would tell them “You’re wrong. This is not about power”.
0802-(0809) Andi: der Satz sollte sein: «You should trademark Reiki» (“0802 You should tra….. you should trans…no… 0807 you should trademark Reiki. 0809)
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Regrets? Have you forgiven yourself? / (Untertitel:) Finding the „Yes-Place“, Opening the door and Gratefulness
RV: MVI 3021
skiing! which is why I ticked Yes
Video 81Question 34, Day 3, Arizona, 0702-0909
And I have told my students this as well, that if we differ in opinion it’s okay for me on one hand, I may not like it, I may not like you for a few days but I will fight to the death to make sure that you’re right to disagree, or to have your own opinion more accurately. It’s preserved because that’s our inalienable right as a human being. I also feel that, whether or not I like it, I’ve made assumptions and whether or not I like it, I not always said what I really needed to, because of my shyness or because I feel like I won’t be taken seriously. So there are many different relationships that I have that I don’t even know I have, out in the Reiki world and also relationships where I know that I’ve transgressed. And for all these times when you feel that I’ve transgressed, that I’ve entered your space unwillingly and uninvited, where I’ve offended you in some way, where my … where my loyalty to my master has caused you pain because it’s different from what you have learned is Reiki, and that has given you pain, for all these things I want to ask your forgiveness because it wasn’t my intention, it’s not the way I hold you and everyone has been a great teacher for me. And without you I wouldn’t be who I am today.
0730-(0830) Kamera geht zu Händen und zum Gesicht ….??
she asks for forgiveness!
a possible end to the video?
Video 81Question 34, Day 3, Arizona, 0537-0702
But when I went to other countries and I didn’t have knowledge of their language, I didn’t really understand their culture and their cultural priorities, I realized that I often offended people or as they say here in America “was kind of like a bull in a China shop”. I just, you know, blundered my way through being an American, not really understanding that I might be offending people. So there’s that part of me, being human. And then there’s the other part of me, which just is shy and sometimes not wanting to put myself on the firing line, which I think all of you can understand. So I have more courage these days and I also have more understanding about where other people come from, that I feel like everyone is doing their best. Everyone follows their path of Reiki and even though I may not like it or I don’t agree with it, I will fight to the death for your right to have your own path, because for me that is the gift of Reiki and the gift of this path.
So anyway, I realized though when I was taking this language and trying to speak it that I really had to get into the mind set of German, you know and of being German. I had an apartment in Hamburg and I really loved North Germany as a part of the country. And I was feeling very at home there. So it was easy for me to kind of slip into this German part of myself, I would call it.
So a few years ago I was introduced in this little book called “The four agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz and I really recommend it to all of us who practice Reiki because it’s a really great way to … measure and to take assessment of our own humanness in human relationships and in the relationships with the planet and everything else as well. And I …. these four little phrases run through my mind, always do your best, don’t take it personally, do not make assumptions and be articulate with your word. I try to do that in my own mind. And of course, being a human being, when I do my best I often don’t do what other people want or expect. When I don’t take it personally, sometimes people think that I’m cold or I don’t care. When I don’t make assumptions, it means that I don’t assume that somebody is hurt, I don’t assume that this is being taken the wrong way or I don’t assume that it actually affects people, which is actually not usually accurate (laugh).
Again, this is a… my problem because I know the question isn’t going to be asked, it’s just so weird for me to just say “I’m sorry”, you know, like where does that come from and what am I sorry for and you know there is that whole thing. So I’m just trying to formulate a starting point and then where to get to from there.
Berlin, 4.10.: Lieber Andi, dieses Video hast Du gestern tontechnisch von «articulate» auf «impeccable» gesäubert. Wir haben uns gestern entschieden dieses Video 81 nicht (!) mit Video 93 zu verknüpfen sondern zwei Takes zu machen. Im heutigen Email und angehängten Dokument sind die entsprechenden Titel / U’titel vermerkt.
0000-0005 kein Vorspann, da Forsetzung von Video 93
0043-0211 Dieser Teil beginnt von Neuem nach 0211
0005(-0043) Kamera geht von Händen zum Gesicht
Bei 0041 ist ein Bildschnitt .... und der folgende Para hat sie am nächsten Tag korrigiert?
RV: MVI 3020
I don’t believe that she actually changed the teaching that she received from Hawayo Takata. She might have added to it, but I don’t feel like she changed the actual teaching, because she was a really dedicated student. She did what her heart and her education and her being really needed to do for Reiki. And I will never call this dissonance. It wasn’t comfortable for me for sure. I didn’t like some of the things she said about me but about what she did, she followed her path and I did the same thing. And so did all the other masters that Hawayo Takata taught and initiated.
Was this an act of dissonance or an act of surrender? You know… I mean… I think it’s a bit of both actually myself. And I have to say that I never… I never said, or if I … if people understood that I said, I just want you to know that this is misunderstood, but I never said that Barbara Weber was not ever…. introduced as the successor to Hawayo Takata. Because I believe that it was totally possible. Before I came into Reiki, Barbara Weber was her pride student. She was educated, she was a great organizer, she doted on my grandmother, she wanted to further all of my grandmother’s wishes, which she did, totally. She helped her record a book that she wanted to write, she made it possible for Reiki to become a household word
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Is dissonance among Masters and practices inherent in the system? / (Untertitel:) Usui and Haysashi, Takata and Furumoto, Furumoto and Weber….
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0056-0057 (räusper)
MVI 3019, 5726 cannon – though it is a diffent question she connects the answer to her previous statement about tradition keeper.
Video 79Question 32, Day 3, Arizona, 0824-0940
So I believe that in our folk-art tradition that it is very important for the good of our society to maintain these traditions. So that’s one example that I can give you and in another year, after contemplating this with other masters and other beings, I assume that I would be able to be more articulate about other aspects of tradition keeper.
The master gives you a few simple steps, you practice, practice, practice and then through your own practice and mentoring of your master you become a developed student. This part of the tradition is for me a human tradition. 0712
0712-0727 «It’s like: I had a privilege to accompany very good friends of mi.. (hiccup) excuse me (pause) 7:24 I had the honour to ‚ve … 0725 (rolls her eyes)»
And none of these roles have a hierarchy, there’s not one that’s more important than the other. Then there is the student, so we are all students of Reiki. I really understand that we are all interconnected, that we are connected on many, many different levels and that as a student of this practice we get to further our own studentship while teaching, that’s part of the dynamic of being a master, is that we are a student and we teach at the same time. So we become.. this dynamic works in us all the time in a very beautiful way. 0455 (räusper)
A mentor is something that as a quality and an aspect of mastery that from the very beginning we are asked to be mentors, for instance somebody else’s student comes to you and says “I’m lost, I just moved here, I need to have a Reiki master. Could I come and sit in on your classes or whatever?” And so you become their mentor.
And there are many other aspects to initiator that we don’t even know because we haven’t actually sat down and talked about it or shared experience about it, but this is something that I really long to do. Soon!
Topic: 5 roles, Tradition Keepers of their own styles
The aspects of mastery or the roles of mastery, as I have spoken about earlier, are specifically for the practice that I teach and hold, Usui Shiki Ryoho under the lineage that I carry. If to generalize this to all Reiki masters, what I would offer is that these are aspects of mastery as I see them. And everyone has a choice of whether or not they’re willing to take on these roles. So I see that a teacher is one that’s very obvious.
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Andi: dieses Video ist schon mal überarbeitet und mit Untertitlen versehen worden (für SwissReiki): https://youtu.be/wIjk0t1zgp0. Für unsere Homepage gilt es den Vorspan zu ändern. Ich habe auch noch Räusperer, etc. gefunden.
0000-0006 (sigh) neuer Vorspann:
Tableau 1: „Question 26“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Reiki in national Health Care systems and Academia / (Untertitel:) Yes but…. And ideally in the front row together with allopathic medicine
This was already worked over for SwissReiki (with subittles).
Video 72Question 25, Day 2, Arizona, 0620-0733
I’m not a proponent of putting all the practices together and having one universal practice, that is not going to save the day. What’s going to save the day is for us is to be respectful with each other no matter what.
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Video 72Question 25, Day 2, Arizona, 0121-0301
Whether or not those people in practices that are named Usui Shiki Ryoho recognize me as the Grand Master, my passing and the succession will affect their practice to a certain extent. Not because they want it to but because it just is so, I believe that and it will affect… as it will affect all the other practices that call themselves something else. Mainly because a lot of people have founded their practice in resistance to me. And if you found a practice in resistance to me then I hate to say it, but you are as connected to me as those who feel like they are connected to me.
Topic: What do you mean by "THIS system"? / GM, LB of Usui Shiki Ryoho? Continuation of previous Videos 70 and Video 71
I have this idea that this practice is like a heritage seed.from which many of these came. So whatever happens to this system is going to affect the other systems of practice, the other forms of practice. And that’s okay because we are all interdependent anyway, I mean it’s obvious that we are. 0103 And ähm …
0040-0041 (Geräusch und Phyllis erschreckt) Andi: nur wenn’s geht und was geht
0103-0121 And ähm …1:05 whether or not they recognize me as their lineage bearer, which of course they don’t or they would be in this practice, then… well that’s not quite true, so I have to go back.
Cannon MVI 5163
make one Video with the previos 70+71? or one on itself: USR styles and styles coming from Japan (Jikiden)?
refers to Reiki "returning" to Japan as a reaction to USR/Takata...
Video 71Question 24, Day 2, Arizona, 0551-0804
So I’m very excited by this process and… excited because it expands my awareness of my own life and what I’ve been doing all these years.
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Video 71Question 24, Day 2, Arizona, 0316-0439
So when Paul and I formed the Office of the Grand Master I thought it would be clearer if I were also be referred to as a lineage bearer. Now whether or not one person will be able to be the Grand Master of this practice Usui Shiki Ryoho in this lineage … I don’t know.
0339-0352 Andi: da hat es einen eigenartigen Schnitt … man sieht es visuell (s. 0344) und der Text auch. Wenn Du da ein Originalstück einfach findest, gut und recht, sonst schneid wie hier angegeben raus («but what I’ve, we’ve been talking about is that every 0344 ….OK, let me see where I was … 3:52)
Video 71Question 24, Day 2, Arizona, 0128-0316
So then as Grand Master I believe that there are several different aspects of Grand Master which we are starting to articulate now which is very interesting. And one of those aspects is bearing the lineage, is actually the lineage bearer.
Topic: What do you mean by "THIS system"? / GM, LB of Usui Shiki Ryoho? Continuation of previous Video 70
So a master for me has a least five different aspects. There is the initiator, the teacher, the mentor, the student and the tradition keeper. So when people say “I’m a Reiki teacher” my response in my head is to say, “Oh, I see, so you’re not claiming responsibility for being an initiator, for being a mentor, for being a student or for being a tradition keeper”.
0545-0552 «Yah..» (René: OK, within…. .??… yourself as a Grand Master for those fractions?)
0648-0645 kein Abspann – verbinde mit Video 71
Cannon MVI 5160 ends at 09:25 with "...fine for me."
Thereafter follows RVs question: lineage bearer and GM are one and the same – clarification? ends at 10:30.
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0000-0005 neuer Vorspann:
Tableau 23: „Question 1“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) “This” system, Usui Shiki Ryoho and fractions and practices from Japan / (Untertitel:) Alliance members do, some do not recognise Phyllis as Grandmaster. Fusion or Confusion? Respect!
0005-0014 «It’s specifically called…. (sighs) OK lets start again»
Cannon MVI 5157- Cannon MVI 5160
Ab 05:48 second question (GM for all of USR?) Make two Videos?
Video 69Question 22, Day 2, Arizona, 1606-1736
I’m very, very excited by this because … it gives me not hope but a way to carry this system forward into the future and I believe that not only the system but the whole of the global Reiki community.
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1500-1530: Kamera wandert auf Hintergrund und Phyllis ist nicht im Bild??
1531-1532 through another (schlägt etwas mit dem Arm) sorry (wenn es nicht reparierbar ist, lass es drin Andi)
Video 69Question 22, Day 2, Arizona, 1300-1459
So the succession process is a process and it is very exciting because last weekend… a weekend in February in Mexico a small group of us got together to speak about succession. And because my cancer is active again and I don’t know how many years I have of active duty so to speak, I feel time really pressing on me now.
Topic: continuation from Video 068 ...one individual as successor or group?
So the succession may of not be one person, I don’t know. It could end up being a group of people, but for sure the master body of this system needs to be able to open to another way of thinking and another way of being as masters, I would say a higher expression of mastery in order for the succession-process to be successful. And what I mean by successful is that it is done not without conflict because I don’t believe that there is a possibility of no conflict but I believe that we can see the conflict as a natural progression toward a creative resolution, reconciliation.And if they don’t keep that in mind, if they vote… if they want to take a vote by personality, then I will have failed. Because this position is not about personality, I mean, I would have lost, hands down if they would have taken a vote on personality, because my personality was a wreck. Reiki healed me. This having to force myself out of my personality idiosyncrasies to think bigger and to think, you know, more humane, you know, it made me this way. You know, I might have had leaning sort of. But y’know it made me give up a lot of personality distortions. And it’s not about personality…..
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1152-1145 Andi: Bitte diesen Satz einfügen; beachte: Du findest ihn wieder im folgendem Video (69) am Ende der zu löschenden ersten kanpp 11 Minuten; er ist dort unter 1057-1102
Cannon MVI 5155
was left out by Andi
Video 68Question 21, Day 2, Arizona, 1117-1153
So, whoever comes now, they have have what we call a millennial brain. They have to…. they have to be able to really see you know the globe and our world community as one.
1153-1157 kein Abspann – verbinde mit Video 69 (ab 11:02); Andi bitte beachte, dass an dieser Selle noch ein satz eingeführt werden kann, der dann den Übergang macht (zumVideo 69); bitte beachte Kommentar in der folgenden Entry.
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Video 68Question 21, Day 2, Arizona, 0528-0725
But we are working on … investigating what are the functions of the spiritual lineage? Is there an energetic essence called the Master Body? Which I have spoken about from 1985 or 6. I believe there is a Master Body. There is an energetic Body that includes all Reiki Masters and especially all masters in the system and that they carry responsibility for the system because they’re masters. And we investigate what is the process of succession? What actually happens energetically? You know, where will this succession go? And what I’ve realized personally for myself is that of course somebody is not going to apprentice with me and be the next me. Somebody is going to appear at the time that’s very close to my death and they’re going to be recognized as the lineage bearer. And this person will take Reiki a whole other step that I cannot even imagine.
So when I .. found out that I had cancer and the treatment for it was so effective and so quick actually, I feel like the Reiki community was alerted but we didn’t do anything about it. three years ago we started on these… having these weekends called succession weekends. And they were not about voting to see who the best candidate was, which actually people did come thinking that.
I didn’t know how the succession would work and that I needed to study it and I needed to really get the master community involved. I always thought that the successor would come from the body of masters that I had initiated, which kind of makes sense and it might actually be so. I have no idea. I don’t have a person in mind at all.
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Video 68Question 21, Day 2, Arizona, 0000-0208
Topic: Individual as successor or can it be a group?
The succession question for me had been one that has been foremost in my mind since 1983. And … of course back then I was so young, that I was gonna live forever, and we didn’t really have to think about it. But I did think about it because my grandmother’s death created so much havoc for all of us and at that time of course we were still in this conversation with Barbara Weber and I thought my grandmother could have been more clear and so on. And at the same time realizing how advantageous it was to have a restraining force,
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Succession of Phyllis Furumoto – an individual or a group / (Untertitel:) The concept of Succession, Spiritual Lineage and Master Body in progress
Cannon MVI 5153: RV: succession one person? Cannon MVI 5154
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Video 67Question 20, Day 2, Arizona, 0638-0841
Barbara took the stands of being the only one who had better training than us, that had received a… more symbols and so on and eventually said that she was the only Reiki Master that my grandmother, Hawayo Takata, had ever actually initiated, that all. the rest of us were not really Reiki Masters. So that put me and all of us into this question “Are we really Reiki Masters?” And that was the best thing that could have happened to all of us, including me, because I had to go inside myself and find this truth. You know, am I a Reiki Master or not? Do I feel like I’ve gotten what I need from my Master? And eventually the answer was yes. So…She pushed me in a lot of ways, some not nice. But I have to say and I said this at the time in the 1980s, she was the gift that my grandmother left me. She made me, forced me to go inside and find the strength that I needed to have this position. And to be able to nourish and have the community nourish this part of me because I believe that all of us initiated by Hawayo Takata had the possibility of being her successor. I mean, I don’t feel like I was special in the sense of I had more education or I had the right education or I had her bloodline or anything… that… that actually I don’t think had anything bearing on the case at all.
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0244 (Schnäuzgeräusch)
Video 67Question 20, Day 2, Arizona, 0000-0156
Topic: Barbara Weber versus Phyllis as successor to Takata?
But because there is another factor which is that the energy came to me and this Hawayo Takata had no control over. I believe that this was also true about Chujiro Hayashi. He might not have wanted Takata, Hawayo Takata, to have been the successor but he got where the energy was going and he surrendered to it. It wasn’t that I was the favourite of my grandmother, let me tell you. She wanted me to be very different. And she was not happy with me but she also recognized something inside of me, that I didn’t even recognize myself in truth. And….
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Barbara Weber or Phyllis Furumoto as successor? / (Untertitel:) Are we really Reiki Masters? A Grandmaster is recognised and grown.
0028 (räusper)
1003 (räusper)
Phyllis does not know of the Video claimed by Sikmonsohn.
Cannon MVI 5151: RV… Barbara Simonsohn
eos MVI 2953 …RV; Barbara Webber Ray… simonshon… grandmother on stage: webber ray-successor…
Cannon MVI 5152
I lived in Germany for five years and I lived in Hamburg, which is very close to Berlin and I had initiated a master who lived in Berlin, West Berlin, who was going to the East to teach classes, illegally. And so the Berlin wall was very real for me and I was there when it opened. I mean “opened” is a very accurate word, because it just opened. I thought to myself “I hope the world learns a lesson from this”. That you can put up an artificial wall but it doesn’t keep families from loving each other or wanting to be with each other, it doesn’t keep people separated. It just is an artificial structure that brings pain. And it seemed at that moment, because of the way that the wall opened that maybe we had come to another order of relationship in… between nations and between people in the world. And I have to say that after this there has been a kind of… in my opinion, a kind of back-stepping that.. and maybe it’s going forward and we’ve met another impasse. But somehow today, in 2016, you know we’re looking at countries in Europe building walls, literally building walls again, because they want to keep out their brother and sister who are starving to death, who fear for their life so much that they’re leaving their beloved homeland.
However, when I came to Reiki and then my grandmother died. It seemed instantly but it was a couple of years later. And then I was recognized as the lineage bearer or Grand Master of the system, her successor. I tried to listen to all the voices and somehow come to a compromise about what I should do and what should happen and what direction will we take and so on. But I started to find my own will and that was very important for me. One of the very first times that I had a difference of opinion with this group of masters was in 1983 when we were drawing up the foundation of the Reiki Alliance. And people really wanted to exclude Barbara Weber, because at that point she was saying really nasty things about us and ….being very righteous, I think that’s an accurate word. I wanted to include her… I was… I did not found the Reiki Alliance in order to have my own organisation. I really want this on the record! I wanted to found an organisation that would lift everybody up to a higher purpose so that we can all sit in the same circle. So I kept inviting Barbara Weber Ray and her… the masters that were her students or her masters actually to please come to the Reiki Alliance, so that we could have a place to sit and talk.
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Tableau 1: „Question 19“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) From Takata to building walls in 2016/ (Untertitel:) Sit in one circle and From the Berlin Wall to the global test for humanity today
the question following from the previous V065 ...
Phyllis gets emotional at the end when calling for solidarity for refugees. Call for reconciliation globally but I have not ticked Yes.
Cannon MVI 5149 and Cannon MVI 5150
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the story of 442 battalion she also told in Berlin.
Video 65Question 18, Day 2, Arizona, 0735-0858
So then Hawayo Takata eventually went back to Hawaii and during the war many of the people in Hawaii were put into internment camp or (0745) they were contained in their plantation … (räusper), exuse me. (0754) They were contained in the plantation housing areas. So Hawayo Takata somehow and it is said that she followed Chujiro Hayashi’s instructions, she was able to travel from island to island freely. And she gave Reiki treatments, she taught Reiki, she did a lot of things but that was very, very unusual for a Japanese person, either man or woman, to be able to leave their island of residence and travel freely, that was unheard of. Her family never were put into internment camps and my mother tells stories of taking cookies and treats to her friends who were in the camps. So there were camps in Hawaii.
0745-0754 Andi: Aus dieser Spanne folgenden Satz raussezieren»…internment camp or they were contained in the plantation housing areas.» (aus: «…internment camp or (0745) they were contained in their plantation … (räusper), exuse me. (0754) They were contained in the plantation housing areas.»)
(0856) (räusper)
Video 65Question 18, Day 2, Arizona, 0538-0735
So I don’t know how long she went somewhere… but she came back on an appointed day and Chujiro Hayashi kind of made a speech, a farewell speech to his students about what his predictions were, about Japan attacking the US and how they would be in war and what, you know, Hawayo Takata could do to save her family and herself and so on. And also he recognized Hawayo Takata as his successor by giving her all of his worldly possessions, that’s a very usual thing to do in Japan for succession. And then he laid down and in a little while stopped breathing and went into transition. This is what Hawayo Takata would say in her story. I won’t get into this but I believe that this… she said that this was the most … spiritual moment of my life. And when she said that you just had this feeling of this man, knowing that this was his time to die and knowing that he could actually choose it and that he did it. And I don’t believe it was through a suicide. Maybe some historian researcher will tell me otherwise but even so he still chose this moment. And in Japan that’s a very honourable death.
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0450 (räusper)
Video 65Question 18, Day 2, Arizona, 0204-0224
So they didn’t want their refined culture … represented by flower arrangement, tea ceremony, martial arts and those kind of things, they didn’t want them to be taken out into the barbarian world and destroyed, basically. So when I found this out I thought “well maybe that was one of the reasons why he refused her”, I don’t know. Even though she spoke Japanese as her first language, she was fully Japanese in parentage but she was born in Hawaii and was going to go back to Hawaii, that was very clear.
Topic: Takata’s role in the cultural exchange and the resistance she faced
Many people ask about the reason why Chujiro Hayashi didn’t accept Hawayo Takata as a student in the beginning. I actually have this question and it was kind of unanswered for a few years and then there was some understanding that came to me that in Japan…. during this time there was a lot of confusion and some of that confusion was about nationalistic ideas of Japan’s culture being exported to other countries and in the same way other countries’ cultures being imported into Japan, which was not actually welcomed because for the most part the Japanese considered everyone else on the planet barbarians.
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Takata’s central role in the cultural transfer of Reiki from Japan to the West / (Untertitel:) Hayashi saves Reiki to fulfil Usui’s dream that Reiki would touch the world
0031 (räusper)
0048-0056 (räusper, Augenverdreher) So, äh..
Patrick Lankau's question about achievement of Takata and opposing forces.
reconciliation west/Japan
Cannon MVI 5146 and MVI5147
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Video 64Question 17, Day 2, Arizona, 0246-0407
So.. in the sense of people squabbling about “I have the right Reiki” or “I have the only Reiki” or “I have Reiki from… you know, Krishna or whatever” you know all of this is working out the individual’s process and also it adds to this restraining and activating force on this global level what we call the .. what I call the global Reiki community. And Reiki is our reconciling force and I believe that when we are really ready to surrender to that reconciling force and are able to hold the creative dissidence that is happening right now, we are going to get something really great. So if we can imagine ourselves in a cauldron just being stirred by the great hand of Reiki…
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0000-0005 Fortsetzung von Video 63
this is in response to Don Alexanders question. It is the continuation of Video 063
Cannon MVI 5136-39, Cannon MVI 5143, Cannon MVI 5144, Cannon MVI 5145
… They stood up and gave me a standing ovation and I nearly fell to the floor. And some years after that I was in a master seminar with a man who was there and he said “you know, you came on the eve of the USSR breaking up because that was the only way legally I could go to Russia actually. And he said “here was this giant that had been brought to it’s knees and split apart and we had no dignity left and when you said that to us you gave us back our dignity and our desire to be a Reiki Master in the world.” And he said “we never even imagined that”. And he said “you gave us something to work for”.
So when I got to Russia I was told that I would have one day with people who wanted to be master candidates and at that time there were 2 or 3 Russian speaking masters and they had just be initiated but all the other masters initiating in Russia were from other countries and flew in and did classes and flew back out. And they were not able to ask for US$ 150 for first degree, they just couldn’t bring themselves to do that. So I was to address these master candidates and of course one of the big questions was about the money, US$ 10’000. So I tell you I did a lot of Reiki treatment on myself, I did a lot of nashing of teeth and I knew that I had to walk in there and say “you pay your initiating master US$ 10’000, I don’t care what they ask you, you pay it!” I went in and I said “you know, this system is like a recipe and I want you to know that I paid US$ 10’000 to my grandmother for my commitment to Reiki, for being a Reiki Master and at the time I had no idea why I was doing this, because I didn’t even know what that meant. And I said “over the years I’ve initiated many masters and I want you to know that whether you know it or not, you will be a Reiki Master in this system and you will be a Reiki Master in a world community and though you cannot imagine travelling outside of Russia, now, you will! And when you go outside of Russia, I want you to be the same, I want you to have the same commitment to the system, I want you to have paid the same money and I want you to be able to hold your head up and say I’m a Master of Usui Shiki Ryoho, just like you!
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0000-0005 neuer Vorspann:
Tableau 1: „Question 15“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Can divergence of beliefs of different styles be resolved? / (Untertitel:) Having unity is not having agreement. It’s about dignity!
Rajives question, Cannon MVI 5141 and Cannon MVI 5142
this is all marked because it ends in a very emotional scene with Phyllis weeping.
It can and has to be shortened.
Cannon MVI 5136-39
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0000-0153 Andi: dies wird nicht veröffentlicht.
Cannon MVI 5136 to Cannon MVI 5138 RV reading Rajive's and Don's letters. Cannon MVI 5137 - MVI 5139 discussion with Phyllis, Cannon MVI 5140 test (next Cannon MVI 5141 will be on Video 62)
Video 60Question 13, Day 2, Berlin, 0843-0847
and maybe they never had competition, I don’t know.
0842: Andi bitte zugfügen, du findest den Satz in MVI 5135 (04:54-04:58)
Left out by Andi, please add from Cannon MVI 5135 the following: 04:54 P: “and maybe they never had competition, I don’t know.” 04:58
Video 60Question 13, Day 2, Arizona, 0546-0843
This practice is only a hundred years old, give or take a year or two and… you know we are not there yet. You know, Buddhism is, you know…. In Japan now we could say it’s an 1800-year-practice. So in those 1800 years yeah in 1800 years of practice they figured out a few things, and competition is one of them.
Japan introduced Buddhism to it’s… brought Buddhism in kind of the year 536 or something. And out of that time many different… sects like SECTS of Buddhism emerged. They basically all practiced Buddhism in the sense that they take the words that… were attributed to Buddha and the methods that he used to attain enlightenment, they have approximately the same identification of enlightenment what the term means, but they take only a small portion of his teaching and one method to get there. And that’s the difference of all these sects. But they all know that they.. their foundation is all the same practice. And I would love Reiki to become that way because it means that there is no competition, there is no right and wrong, just different forms and different methods to get to the same relationship with Reiki, the universal life energy.
Topic: Would you go to a closed meeting with Rand, Petter, Ellyard?
I don’t want to necessarily be friends with them, I don’t want to learn their…. form of Reiki. I don’t want to teach them my form of Reiki, I mean I’m not… that’s not an agenda item on my part. So the question is more to the point why would we meet, what would be the motivation for us to go and it would have to be something pretty astonishing,
Cannon MVI 5134
The question came vrom Esther and Ikechukwu with the suggestion to do it in Africa
Video 58Question 11, Day 2, Arizona, 0000-0110
Topic: Reconciliation with researchers
Certain people bring out certain qualities in us, you know, when we partner with them and it’s really interesting, you know, we always polarize. So you know the more macho the researchers are, you know, and now I feel like Frank Petter and William Rand and some of the others have softened a bit. I don’t know if that’s really true or not but it feels like they have. So I feel less defence, defended and so you know it’s like this is part of the process it’s going to take to have us come together not particularly in the sense of being in the same room talking together but being able to use their data and find it ok and then… you know what I mean (0054) So.. (René in the back ground) Oh no! This is not on the record (Thassos: this was on record) … I’m kiding, I dont care. (Thassos in the back ground). (0111)
Hier erwähnt sie namentlich zwei ihrer Kontrahenten
0000-0005 neuer Vorspann:
Tableau 1: „Question 11“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Reconciliation with reasearchers / (Untertitel:) Softer on one side, less defensive the other
as a continuation of the Question about male/female (patriarchy)...
This will not be a video on its own ... only for the reconciliation Video.
Cannon MVI 5133
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0210-0336
this is to be deleted.
Video 57Question 10, Day 2, Arizona, 0000-0210
Topic: What would you still contribute to achieve peace amongst "factions"
I believe that movements like the Australian Congress (for whatever better word)… I believe that Reiki Home as it matures will bring these factions together in a way that is the right time. And then when we meet it will be able to be done in a way that people will say “well, that wasn’t so difficult! Why did we think that this was impossible?”. So I have to give up dying…. And probably other things in my personality that I can’t see right now. But I have to be able to make the space open for the conversation and I work on it myself.
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Bringing Reiki factions together – This film / (Untertitel:) A question about Sacrifice needs to be rephrased
0016-0028 (René: let me rephrase the question..laughter…Thank you … and the answer would be?) (0028) Andi: Ihr Lachen finde ich sehr schön nach 0016 und wenn Du das reinbringen willst ohne meine Zwischenrede, wunderbar. Sonst schneid bis 0028.
0058-0059 (räuspern)
as a continuation of the Question about male/female (patriarchy)...
This will not be a video on its own ... only for the reconciliation Video.
Cannon MVI 5127
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0225-0234 «So I’m fascinated (0229) by the times around Mik.. where, when, sorry ….»
0249 (räusper)
Video 56Question 9, Day 2, Arizona, 0000-0225
Topic: Men vs Women? - Continuation of Video 055
So, if we could generalize and say that this informational truth was sort of masculine and the feminine truth was from feeling then there would be a wish for me to bring these two together and it’t kind on my bucket list of things to do before I die that somehow these two will come together peacefully, not in competition but in understanding that they actually complement one another.
needs to be added to previous Video 055
Cannon MVI 5126 up to 5:05 from where the next question (Sacrifice?) starts for the next Video ie 057
Video 55Question 8, Day 2, Arizona, 1231-1432
And I believe that there is truth in that story, a kind of bigger truth that no fact can destroy. And that .. this concentration on fact has been a little misused, not.. I don’t think.. not consciously but through the motivation of saving people from the untruth, whatever that is… which I can’t go there myself… And the other things is that … I feel like there is a drive in some people and perhaps it’s more male than female, for having really solid foundation, really like mental truth, like I know this to be true (1338) (cough) …. and
1413- 1437 kein Abspann – verbinde mit Video 56 «However it is my… … because I have to say» (Andi: dieser Satz wird ganz neu besprochen im folgenden Video)
this continues on Video 56 ... partially repeating (seems Thassos hat to change batteries,Cannon MVI 5126)
Video 55Question 8, Day 2, Arizona, 1026-1231
Topic: story vs history
The Reiki story as is told by Hawayo Takata in truth… you know like in factual truth, I have no idea you know how factual it is and I never cared. But what I do get when I tell the story, not because I believe it, because I tell you in the first ten years I told that story because that’s what I needed to do as a Reiki Master. And when I saw what it did to the people who were listening to the story, I thought well there is something more going on here than I can perceive I mean as a young master I was just astonished by the effect the story had on people by the energetic transmission that came through that story.
she transgresses from the original question (Men vs Women) and addresses "historic fact vs tale"; it is almost as a metaphor for male vs female.
Video 55Question 8, Day 2, Arizona, 0753-1026
So when we would have discussions it wasn’t like “I’m right, you’re wrong”, it was like.. the end-sentence was “and this is what she taught me”. This is what I glean from her teaching. Well, how could you argue with that? You couldn’t, so you had to like open yourself and just allow that all these little differences were also a part of her teaching and that you could keep your own without being threatened by everybody else and welcome and embrace your brothers and sisters Reiki Masters you know equally even though we weren’t the same. It was a tremendous opportunity.
We figured out, in 1990 the Reiki Alliance figured out that they needed to have a code of ethics, because things were getting so bad. then the ethics, the code of ethics started to come in and people started to say “ok, let’s… you know… get some…. you know handle on this you know… let’s be mature about this”.
But the other thing was that we didn’t know what we were doing, we didn’t have any personal boundaries. We all had been given this gift of this connection to Reiki universal life energy and we found that we could do anything we wanted, literally. And you know, women and men would come to these classes, fall In love with their Reiki Master and the Reiki Master would say, well this is where Reiki is guiding me, right? So, you know, people would have affairs with their students, they would create very dysfunctional relationships with students
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0000-0005 neuer Vorspann:
Tableau 1: „Question 3“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Archive – Update / (Untertitel:) University archive and digitalisation
„What is the status with the Archive? Is there information which you find is thus far unknown … “revolutionizing” the Reiki world?”
She speaks about the Archive in Berlin which believe is better scene (Video 5)
Cannon MVI 5118
Video 49Question 2, Day 2, Arizona, 0156-0258
And I believe that this is what Takata said when she said “let Reiki teach you”. And I believe if we all came together and connected and discussed these questions we would further our own individual practices, our own individual understanding of the universe and raise the practice of Reiki in the world to… a recognized force in our social transformation.
Topic: Reiki Home: reconciliation styles and Nature - Continuation ov Video 48
We are incorporating or inviting or visioning that this will be a reconciliation place for all Reiki practices to come together. Not, as I said, not to teach each other our practices, not to convince each other who is right or wrong but to live in peace, to rally live supporting each other because I believe that.. what humanity is asking for is a way to get in touch with our human spirit and to be able to nurse that spirit just in a very simple way like we do with Reiki, our Reiki practice.where Reiki, the energy comes from and you know should we have oral tradition and have a master who stands in front and in person and initiates or is it okay to accept you know distant initiations and so on. All these questions, they really are the meat for some great conversations, not about finding out who’s right or wrong but to deepen our understanding of the universe and these questions Reiki is leading us to
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here she limits it to USR... in Video 049 she explicitly says "all Reiki practices" which needs to be included here (or reversely, some of her statments here must be combined with those on V049)
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0000-0005 neuer Vorspann:
Tableau 1: „Question 1“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) A project for Reconciliation amongst and with styles and with nature / (Untertitel:) Home for Usui Shiki Ryoho factions as well as all Reiki practices
0132-0137 Andi: Der Satz sollte sein: «how we relate to other things» (0132 how we relate to 0134 (räusper) excuse me, how we relate to 0137 other things)
In Berlin many of the questions were mine. In Arizona I had feedback from people everywhere.
Cannon MVI 5113-5117 (first part - second part is V049 which in turn is contination of V048).
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0000-0005 neuer Vorspann:
Tableau 1: „Question 46“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Phyllis alone initiates Masters and Letting go of this idea / (Untertitel:) Majority abdicated their right – Phyllis gives the right back
Historically this is an important development! But for the recon Video it is not very relevant (iother than e.g. Paul's anger which eventually dissipated).
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0000-0005 neuer Vorspann:
Tableau 1: „Question 45“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Calling to Mastery, Certification, Master Training / (Untertitel:) Preparation of Candidates
0005-0033 «Well, I’m a little distracted by another question.» (René… tell us first what the question is) (laughs and pauses) «I’m.. I believe .. and this pertains to both, so I’ll see I can wrap both o’them into it.»
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Video 44Question 44, Day 2, Berlin, 0000-0747
Topic: Trademark, Controlling alterations to system - Continuation of Videos 40-43
when we adapt a practice like Reiki that touches us in this kind of essence place of our humanness, then we want to protect it, to control it in the sense of, you know, making sure it’s not harmed, to be sure that other people don’t harm it themselves. We don’t want it taken away from us. However, people assume that there was a way to control the proliferation of the different of the different forms of practice. And I believe there was absolutely no way to control that.I mean, this started happening from the moment Hawayo Takata died or before. And I liken it to our human need to make things our own.
2. Cluster: ... Master Body
Auch die Dissonanz begann schon vor Takata, Barbara Weber und deshalb Cluster Reconciliation.
0000-0005 Fortsetzung von Video 43
0224-0230 (coughing)
Video 43Question 43, Day 2, Berlin, 0203-0421
So then, after I couldn’t think of another name and couldn’t trademark Usui Shiki Ryoho then I thought, well this is Reiki just telling me: “ok, you stood up to somebody who wanted to sort of… exercise control over a certain group of masters and it was good that you said «no”. And I appreciate the Reiki Alliance for supporting me in handling the costs of this particular law suit.And I feel like it was a good thing for us to do, for the whole Reiki community, because now…. in the… now people can not trademark Reiki and so it’s still… it’s the same, we still have freedom of use and… no one has to be the Reiki police. (laugh) ..
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0354-0359 (cough)
passage at the end of 02:49 implies that a true master makes himself available to students from anybody else (she says this elsewhere), ie the inclusive attitude of hers.
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0000-0013 neuer Vorspann: “
Tableau 1: „Question 39“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) «This System» – Form, Essence / (Untertitel:) Usui Shiki Ryoho honouring the lineage of Usui, Hayashi, Takata and Furumoto
RV editing: 25-2
Video 38Question 38, Day 2, Berlin, 0100-0204
And, y’know, at first with all these different forms I used to think that it was a betrayal of my Grandmother and her teaching, y’know, to stray from this form. (0114) But now what I’m seeing is that we just created (0117) we just created our own (0119) ähm… we created our whole ähm …(shakes head) (0131) we created our whole field (0134) of different forms of Reiki practice, (0138) so that people could enter however they came to Reiki and that people could find their way through Reiki. So then it becomes even a multi-level path, not just entering into one practice staying there for the rest of their lives. But having the … the ability to follow their impulse to other things.
Andi: der Satz von 0114 bis 0138 sollte so lauten: «But now what I’m seeing is that we just created our whole field of different forms of Reiki practice,»)
Video 38Question 38, Day 2, Berlin, 0000-0100
Topic: Australia, titles .. / "inclusivenesse" as in Buddhism - Continuation of Video 37
It isn’t that it it’s not painful. (0007-0011) (coughing) It can be confusing. And it can be thoughtless. But basically I think we’re moving into an era in which people see that there is a pathway and that my students will.. can go to another form and find what they are looking for there. And then there are other people who can come from another form and find what they are looking for here. And without this movement … what’s really important in nature is crossbreeding. And, y’know, it’s really important not to end up having a monologue.
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0000-0013 neuer Vorspann: » «Well, my real answer is, «I don’t know.» But I’ll back that up by saying other things (René: you don’t need to mention her name…) No, no, its fine.»
Tableau 1: „Question 37“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Australia, Titles and other lineages/ (Untertitel:) Spiritual- and Initiation Lineage, Recognition … and Inclusiveness
0155-0200 (cough)
RV editing: 23-2
there is controversial stuff here, even a "secret" (03:57) ... Just in case we are looking for "spice" for the recon video.
Video 36Question 36, Day 2, Berlin, 0213-0333
it was important for me to be able to hold the totality of what Hawayo Takata passed on as practice and know that the totality really was about the 22 masters and in all the different ways and variations that we practice. what I’m working on is creating something called, which is not just being created now, I mean, it’s already in existence but the… to create consciousness about something called the “Master-Body”. Which for me is this collective of all Reiki Masters and that whether or not you choose to be an active member of this body you add to the body energetically, just by being a master.
hier gibt es einen Blick in die Zukunft mit Platz für mehrere...
Video 36Question 36, Day 2, Berlin, 0000-0213
Topic: Circle of 22 and Master Body
My membership of this circle of 22 masters initiated and recognized by Hawayo Takata was very important to me. I felt that this circle held the energy of Reiki and the practice of Usui Shiki Ryoho up until now… And now there are four members of that circle still alive, that we know of. And Wanja has been not teaching for a couple of years. So now its Rick Bockner, Paul Mitchell and myself. We were the youngest when she initiated us all. And … I felt that as the Grandmaster, as the recognized lineage bearer that I was the spokesman for this circle. That in truth I couldn’t do anything to «change» the system or to alter the message without actually going back to the circle and somehow having agreement among us. I think that from their point of view I was doing a lot of things they didn’t like but most of the things they didn’t like I didn’t like either. But it was happening, and so what can I do? y‘ know, like all the change… all the different kinds of forms of practice. There was no way for me to control that. And… I learnt that very early on that, y’know, my job was not about control, because it was impossible to control people. I didn’t have the personality of a police person. So, there was kind of a joke about having Reiki-police
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Circle of 22, Usui Shiki Ryoho and Master Body / (Untertitel:) Totality of Takata’s Practice – The Master Body is the collective of all Reiki Masters
0128-0130 (rülps) «Excuse me.»
Video 35Question 35, Day 2, Berlin, 0000-0051
Topic: Origin of GM, LB, Succession - difference in treatments - Continuation of Video 34
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0000-0005 neuer Vorspann:
Tableau 1: „Question 34“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Origin of and thougths about GM, Lineage Bearer – succession/ (Untertitel:) Differences within the system
0222-0224 (burping)»… excuse me»
RV-Editing: 20-2
this video has plenty of potential, also controversy: Takata inherits house, mother inherited from Takata... The oirigin of GM, Lineage Bearer. But much is said elsewhere, Thus, marked only two passages. Come back to this if neeed be.
Video 33Question 33, Day 2, Berlin, 0408-0515
I believe that if we are truly masters, we’ll be able to understand that particular statement and actually support it, because I believe that it’s true. It’s a piece of wisdom that we came up with that was way beyond actually our mental consciousness at the time. I think we were wise beyond our years, so to speak.
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Video 33Question 33, Day 2, Berlin, 0000-0224
Topic: After Takata / Alliance's "equal in Oneness" - Continuation of Video 32
Well, I’m just trying to remember, if I can, if there is another motivation to put that in… it may be that that was a little bit of a defensive statement because Barbara Weber had put out that she was the only true Reiki master that had been initiated and that it was maybe from that standpoint that some of the people voted for that particular statement. I wanted Barbara Weber to join the Reiki Alliance, that was my dream and for all of us to work together. I would say that….And at that point, because we all practiced the same system it was really easy to say that, that “all masters are equal in the oneness of Reiki”.
Tableau 2: (Titel:) “All Masters are equal in the oneness of Reiki” / (Untertitel:) Origin and wisdom of this statement
RV-Editing: 19-2
This entire video has a lot of potential. Also of controversy (Hayashi left house... Mother inherited from Takata...) Phyllis points towards origin of GM, lineage, etc. Many things have been said elsewhere though.
Video 32Question 32, Day 2, Berlin, 1257-1453
This phrase “the spiritual lineage” came in the second meeting at Barbara Brown’s house when we were trying to put together statements of identity for this Reiki Alliance. And I still believe that these statements have great foresight and also a great challenge. I can’t say them right off hand but one of them says something like… “we recognize all masters as equal in the oneness of Reiki” and the Reiki Alliance members today still argue about this phrase. But I believe that all masters of Reiki are equal in the oneness of Reiki. It doesn’t mean we are the same and it’s very important for me…it was very important for me that this thought was a founding stone, a corner stone of the Reiki Alliance because I didn’t want anyone to feel that this Reiki Alliance was a like an exclusive club.I also wanted them to realize that “they weren’t better than”
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Video 32Question 32, Day 2, Berlin, 0731-0939
Topic: Foundation of The Reiki Alliance
Everyone there basically acknowledged me as a spiritual lineage, as my grandmother’s successor. And.. I remember the daughter of Virginia Samdahl was there and we had a talk. And she said “Well Barbara Weber is my master and I have great affection for her and great loyalty to her, but you carry something different and I can acknowledge you as a spiritual lineage”… well actually that … that wasn’t really coin, so I have to say “I can acknowledge you as your grandmother’s successor but I also acknowledge Barbara Weber as my Reiki master”. So in some way she was the first one that articulated this difference between – what I would call – the initiation lineage and the spiritual lineage, although that wasn’t actually named as such at that point…. Yeah, I think that’s true…The next year when we met, there were more masters that had been initiated by me by this time and other masters that had been initiated by some of the other masters of Hawayo Takata and… a few masters initiated by Barbara Weber…. It was there that we didn’t really mean to come together and find a name for this group but it just arose out of kind of an organic process. And I think that that’s true that in… if you have a group of people that meet with a certain aim, then you end up naming yourself. So this group founded the Reiki Alliance.
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0428-0546 (cough)…. «I really do feel better …(conversation) …of my mouth…. ähm
0623-0628 (cough)
0635-0640 (cough)
Toblerone = cutout for "making off"?
Video 32Question 32, Day 2, Berlin, 0142-0401
And then it was evident at some point that Barbara Weber wanted to be recognized as the successor. And I believe that it was somewhere in the late summer or early fall, but again I don’t really know for sure, of 1981 that I went to visit Barbara Weber and asked her if we could do this together. And she said no.There was another big question mark about a couple of master who had been initiated and I was surprised because it seemed like the had been initiated before my grandmother’s death which I was a little bit shocked about. But nobody would give me a straight answer. So I flew into Chicago to visit the Chicago masters and talked to them and I believe that I met everyone that year except for a woman named Iris Ishikuro, who was from San José and I never did get to visit her.Eventually I realized that the masters had not been able to mourn their teacher of pay some kind of ceremony, you know do a ceremony about her, so I organized this meeting in Habi Hawaii in 1982
wichtige Info für die Reiki-Welt: Phyllis wollte mit Weber zusammen arbeiten...
0347-0401 …(cough) (drinks)
Video 32Question 32, Day 2, Berlin, 0000-0142
Topic: After Takata's death - discrepancies and struggle for succession
After Hawayo Takata died in December of 1980 the master community was slowly informed about this.. about her death by my mother. And what I mean by slowly is that at first she didn’t call anyone, I don’t know for how many months. And then she was starting to go through my grandmother’s papers and compiled a list of people, because some of the masters who my grandmother had initiated she was not acquainted with and didn’t know. Others she knew from the conversations with my grandmother and because they came to visit my grandmother, in Iowa.As the masters began to be informed, many of them called me and recognized me over the phone in the sense that they said “well you’re your grandmothers successor, now what are you going to do?”. And it was a questions that I couldn’t really answer.
Hier, wieder, sieht man den Einfluss von Mutter, die Phyllis zur Nachfolgerin von positioniert. Neu für die Reiki-Gemeinde.
0000-0005 neuer Vorspann:
Tableau 1: „Question 32“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) After Takata’s death – discrepancies and struggle for succession / (Untertitel:) Original 22 Masters, The Reiki Alliance and “All Masters are equal in the Oneness of Reiki”
0133)-0142 (cough) ähm
RV Editing: 18-2
in Video 15 there is part about Barbara Weber missing but here (and later in Arizona) she talks about the same.
Mother's influence: she had favorite Masters (Video 30) and here she chooses who gets informed about death....
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0000-0005 neuer Vorspann:
Tableau 1: „Question 31“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Takata’s importance: preserving Reiki by bringing it to the Western World / (Untertitel:) Hands-on practice and ensuring worldwide accessibility
0053-0058 sort of ähm … what would she call it? …
0106 (räusper)
0155-0203 (cough)
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Video 30Question 30, Day 2, Berlin, 0000-0237
Topic: Californian crowd putting Takata on a pedestal (connects to Video 28?)
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0000-0022 Fortsetzung von Video 29 «Ähm… I think she objected to some of the ways Hawayo Takata had been …(pauses) start again.
RV editing: 16-2
can be a Video on its own or be added to Video 28.
Video 29Question 29, Day 2, Berlin, 0000-0112
Topic: Mother pushing Phyllis
Yes, it was my understanding that my mother really pushed my grandmother to see me. You know, she would… my grandmother and she would talk about Reiki and about the different people who had come to Keosauqua to visit my grandmother because at that point she had moved closer to my mother. Because she was supposed to be retired but I can’t imagine being retired from Reiki and that was true for grandmother. So my mother, even when I was there she would just say, “It’s Phyllis look at Phyllis, she is your perfect person!”And I would go: «No! I’m not your perfect person.» But in the end it seemed as though my mother saw something in me and in my connection, future connection with Reiki that I din’t see, for sure. And neither did my grandmother.
2. Cluster: OGM and LB
3. Cluster: Original 22 ...
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RVediting: 15-2
Video 28Question 28, Day 2, Berlin, 0430-0706
So in the end when I had cancer and I started… and I was living in the same town as her, I was receiving hands-on-Reiki like from 7 to 5 times a week, almost every day, not from my mother but from friends of mine and people would come in and stay for a couple of weeks and treat me and so on. So, she would never let me treat her but she offered to treat me a couple of times and that was very special…She said that she wanted to be a mother and that she didn’t want to take Reiki on as a career, so to speak. And I used to think that this was a kind of sacrifice, but I realized it was a choice of hers and that she made that consciously and I appreciated that.Now that she had passed, I feel much freer in what I can do in the public and what is… what I can open up to the public because I feel that I have… I have taken on some of her understanding of what’s private with my grandmother, the line between grandmother as a private grandmother and Hawayo Takata as the Reiki master. she will be held as a whole person, not just a Reiki person, but as a Japanese-American woman who did this amazing thing and dedicated her life and has touched the lives of people all over the world. So for me that’s an amazing story.
ein wichtiger Satz, der zeigt wie eingeengt sich Phyllis bis zum Tode ihrer Mutter gefühlt hat.
0707-0712 kein Abspann – verbinde mit Video 29
Video 28Question 28, Day 2, Berlin, 0233-0430
As she grew older, she grew very possessive of her mother because… I feel that she understood my grandmother’s passion for Reiki and that is was sort of her destiny to be this person in Reiki and at the same time, I don’t know if my gandmother would have been a different kind of mother, but as a mother she was… well, they didn’t have an easy relationship.
It took a few years for me to understand that my mother had been with my grandmother during the time that she met Chujiro Hayashi and began to practice Reiki. And what I understood from her was that she had been initiated in 1st degree with Chujiro Hayashi. And then that was it. She didn’t do 2nd degree. And for most of the time in our relationship from 1980 when I became… understanding about being a Reiki master, she was not happy with the way that Reiki was being taught, that it had been changed through the culture and that we didn’t respect it.we didn’t talk about Reiki because in the end, you know, when I got older and more mature in my Reiki understanding… for her, Reiki was something private, it was not a series of phenomenas, it was… it was something that was practiced without.. being surprised in some by how it worked.
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0307-0311 (coughing)
Video 25Question 25, Day 2, Berlin, 0000-0154
Topic: Vocation and What is "Healing"?
As I was enjoying my skiing and my wonderful life as a ski bum, I turned 30 and … when I was having my birthday party I realized that I needed to find something to do with my life, a vocation. And I went through all the jobs that I could think of and nothing actually fit. Little did I know that my mother calling me later on that fall and asking me to travel with my grandmother next summer, the summer of 1979, did I know that that would be the answer to my question, you know, about my own vocation and what I would do with the rest of my life.
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0346-0347 (Coughing)
Video 24Question 24, Day 2, Berlin, 0000-0334
Topic: Skiing - transformation
When I was 25 or so I was taken up to the mountains of Colorado by some friends of mine who wanted to go skiing So I took lessons, private lessons because I didn’t want to be in a class full of little kids. And the instructor said, «I don’t wanna teach you today. It’s the worst time to learn how to ski because there is so much powder on the beginners slope that you’ll just always fall down.» I said, «listen, this is my only day, this is my last 50 Dollars, I’m going to learn how to ski!» And somehow, even though it was pretty upsetting sometimes, just falling and getting up and just falling and getting up, it kind of captured me. And luckily for me they had friends in other ski areas that could get us free tickets. So I started downhill skiing and it freed me, it freed my body so that I could actually move effortlessly and that freed my spirit somehow. It was really an amazing transformation.
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Coming of age – Free spirit / (Untertitel:) Skiing leads to Transformation of Phyllis, Disabled and Master Candidates
RV editing: 10-2
continues from previous Video 23 but it is a Video on its own.
Video 23Question 23, Day 2, Berlin, 0612-0851
So that’s how I went out into the world with this idea that I was not, I was not worthy to be a friend of anybody, I saw myself as very ugly, as having very little to offer people. And that I had friends was kind of a miracle. I didn’t really understand why I had friends. And that they just happened to me and that when they happened my parents would take care of.. would be there and they would take care of whatever was going on. And because of this hip thing that I had, which I can’t really explain, because nobody ever explained it to me,
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0000-0005 neuer Vorspann:
Tableau 1: „Question 23“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Protected Childhood, Schooling and Teens/ (Untertitel:) Fatal car accident changes life
RV editing: 09-2
this continues from V 22 but can stand on its own.
Video 22Question 22, Day 2, Berlin, 0646-0938
And then in school – because this was right after the war – people were not happy with having a Japanese child in school. And the teachers were extremely weird. Mostly, the prejudice and they kind of hateful experience I had in school were from teachers. They would… the kids would tease me about being Japanese and I would, of course, fight for my self. And … I was the one that got her mouth washed out with soap. Or, y’know, got to stand in a corner. Or.. and the other kids never had any kind of retribution from the teachers.It was only when I was 64, if you can imagine, and found out that I had a metastasis from my breast cancer.And so that my girl friends from this time, I’ve met them when I was 4 when I moved to Keosauqua, three of them came and we talked about my relationship with my mother which was very fraught and my family life back in those days and who they saw I was during that time. And it was a revelation, really, I mean, this was really true reconciliation.
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Video 22Question 22, Day 2, Berlin, 0000-0354
Topic: Family origin, childhood and first discremination
I was born with a cleft pallet and I had a speech impediment from when I was very small, obviously when I started talking. My first 7 or 8 years of schooling I went to a speech therapist.. I just hated my name because the sounds that were hardest for me were f, s, t and r …it’s all through my name, right. So I just thought that his was very cruel. (laughs) And eventually I asked my mother «why did you do this?» like «why were you so set on my being able to speak clearly?» And she said “because you are going to grow up and speak to a lot of people” And I went (shakes head), well, she is crazy
Ich habe nicht gewusst, wie viele Behinderungen Phyllis hatte (insb. Hüftproblem) und wie sie als Kind "unten durch" musste. Das stimmt mich ihr gegenüber schon mal versöhnlich. Gibt es ähnlich nochmals in Video 23, 7:12
0000-0005 neuer Vorspann:
Tableau 1: „Question 22“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Grandmother Takata, Parents Furumoto, Childhood / (Untertitel:) Family Duties, Prejudices and Reconciliation at age 64
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hier spricht sie über ihren Ehemann
0000-0005 Fortsetzung von Video 19
RV Editing: 06-2 (this is missing in Rv's transcript)
Video 19Question 19, Day 2, Berlin, 0406-0552
And then the energy of forgiveness and reconciliation coming in that same moment was astonishing, it was very moving for me and allowed me… I think they came at a time when it allowed me to divest myself of last ideas that as a lineage bearer I had to be perfect.I knew my grandmother wasn’t perfect, for sure. And ..it was always my big paradox or my big….dilemma of how to hold my grandmother as the woman that I knew she was and my experience of her as a granddaughter as another person of the planet and as a Reiki Master 0526 knowing she was not hum… ähm 0528 knowing she was not perfect and yet hearing how.. she was so perfect for everybody else.
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0251-0256 (räusper)
Video 19Question 19, Day 2, Berlin, 0000-0228
Topic: Reconcilliation, forgiveness
Well, it took me a while to 0010 (räusper) it took me a while to come to an understanding of forgiveness. Because what I did instead, was I just took the responsibility on myself. And so my hardest thing was to learn how to forgive myself. And it was one of the things that we… I believe inadvertently touched upon in our self-assessment workshops.
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Forgiveness; Understanding Circumstances / (Untertitel:) Forgiving oneself, Constellation Work and Irrevocable Damage
0010 (räusper)
RV Editing: 05-2
Video 18Question 18, Day 2, Berlin, 0615-0838
The woman that I was talking about … in my early Reiki life was part of a drama that I have created and that my husband and I have created. And I could totally understand her feeling so unsafe, that she just couldn’t be with me at all. And … and jet I really trust her teaching of Reiki, I trust … I know that she is dedicated to Reiki and dedicated the rest of her life to Reiki. So in that way, you know, it comes to this kind of question about success. It’s like…. was I successful as a Master? Well, yes, I was, but I wasn’t very successful as a friend and I wasn’t very successful in my own inner family relationships where she got swept up into it. And then…there.. at this point there is really no way to go back and extract ourselves from that and it happened. And sometimes there irrevocable… there is irrevocable damage that happened. And it’s good to accept that so and not have to… you know..lessen your own guilt by making it OK for you. But I think for her it will never be OK. And that is sad but it is true. And I hope that there are not very many people in my Reiki life where I have created that kind of situation.
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Video 18Question 18, Day 2, Berlin, 0000-0148
Topic: Do you think a RM needs a therapist ?
for my 1st degree students when they sit in the chair for initiation, they open themselves to me totally energetically. And that is a truly amazing intimate moment that will never ever be shared by anybody else. So that responsibility, that moment of initiation brings me to, I believe, to an energetic and spiritual connection with this person for a life time
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0647- 0651 «And ähm.. you know the» (räusper)
Video 16Question 16, Day 2, Berlin, 0302-0616
in the mid 80ies I remember realizing that I had lived a lot of my life at the mercy of other people and what they thought and my mother kept pointing this out to me but I had no idea what she meant at the time (laugh) what she was talking to me. But I realized that as a master and as a lineage bearer, as grand master if I didn’t feel a complete Yes in everything that I did, then I wouldn’t do it. That was my motto. And I still use that to this day. I don’t have to have reasons for it to be a Yes, because often there are no reasons. Because it looks like on the outside that I shouldn’t do it, but on the inside, if I say Yes, then I just do it. And my thinking is that.. if I make a decision for a Yes then I can always make another decision later because I didn’t… I can’t blame anybody else, And if you do it yourself , then you can always make another decision. And it’s really OK for me to go: “Whoops, I thought this was the road I wanted to take, and it isn’t”. So I’m backing up, I’m turning around … or I’m taking a detour or something else.
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0000-0008 Fortsetzung von Video 15 «..insults and painful situations and so on»
0221-0231 «that I didn’t see it 0223 (räusper) as being an adversarial or a…. «
0301 räusper
RV-Editing: 02-2
it can be adeed ot the previous one or as a separate video.
Video 15Question 15, Day 2, Berlin, 0750-1033
A few month after my grandmother’s death Barbara Weber declared herself to be the successor, or tried to. And people … the other masters that Hawayo Takata had initiated called me up and said “well I recognise you as a successor, now what are you going to do?” . And I went “Well, I don’t know”And she turned me down. I think it was a wise thing for her, it was all or nothing. And I feel it was also wise for me, I just didn’t know that. And then she started to…. and then she started to publish her Newsletter, saying she was the only true master that Hawayo Takata had initiated and so on.So another betrayal came about, but very quickly I realized it was the greatest gift my grandmother had left me, because if somebody had not challenged all of us, at once, then we would not have found this place in ourselves that was very clearly a master and knew that we were masters and that we were able to… go to that place of mastery and out of that place develop ourselves as masters. So she gave us a great gift, it was a very contrary gift, and at sometimes very painful because we all wanted it to be love and light and cooperation and everything. But, you know, I had lived most of my life through adversity, so (Laughs) .. it seemed pretty OK for me.
0818 For Andi: here an important part is missing, please let me know if you can restore or not.
1034-1039 kein Abspann – verbinde mit Video 16
Vor der roten Markierung sind jetzt ein paar Wörter neu eingesetzt, erscheinen kursiv
this passage here is interrupted ... but she crecounts the same episode and comments on Barbra Weber in Video 32, 33 and 67, 68, 80, 82
Video 15Question 15, Day 2, Berlin, 0516-0750
And then my grandmother died. That I felt was a betrayal, because she had told me that she would live until Christmas, that she would for sure be there for Christmas. And she died on December 11th I was really angry for a month or something because I felt that she had not kept her promise and that I would have done something really different if I had known that. But whenever I thought that I would always hear her words say “Reiki comes first” and then I would get even more angry because for me family duty was really the most important thing in my life at that point.
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0509-0515 (cough)
Puerto Rico also in V068
Video 15Question 15, Day 2, Berlin, 0000-0250
Topic: Betrayals
I feel that the largest sort of betrayal or injustice in my life was definitely not understanding the point of my going on this trip with my grandmother 1979. And that.. I mean people laugh and I think the think I’m joking, you know, the difference between, you know, a person who decided to quit everything and become a ski bum, because skiing really transformed my life on a physical level as well as lots of other levels . And then I went off in the summer to travel with my grandmother, a person that I didn’t really like, and I was really uncomfortable, we’ve had a really painful relationship with and at the same time I feel that somehow underneath it, Reiki was calling me, but I could only say that 20 years later, I couldn’t have said that at the time.And I really did think that I was going with her to carry her suitcases, make sure she didn’t get robbed or carry the money anyway and make sure she ate well. So… much to my surprise it ended up to be the initiation as a master and my first teaching on how to teach classes and so on. And my first understanding about what Reiki was for her. So, I felt betrayed by my mother who encouraged me to go on this trip, never saying “Well you know, if you go, you’re going to, you know, working with your grandmother and so on”. And then, when my grandmother initiated me, you know, and I heard this kind of funny like clapping-hand-noise, and she says “And now you can work with me”, you know, I really did have this picture of carrying suitcases, counting money and I never.. I never imagined teaching Reiki, because up to that time I didn’t even know what Reiki was. So….
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boundaries, transgressions, initiating own family.
0000-0016 neuer Vorspann «Yes, Oh Yah, the thing is that … our relationship»
Tableau 1: „Question 13“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Becoming friends with student / (Untertitel:) Boundaries, Hurt feelings and Reconciliation
0032-0036 Cough
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Video 12Question 12, Day 1, Berlin, 0939-1206
I feel like the economic piece is very… like we’re very attached to our economic health, whatever that means or safety, maybe. But some of the most profound and attachments that I have are attachments about who I am, who I think I am. And so those become actually more difficult than surrendering to Reiki and saying «Ok, Reiki if you want me to teach, you know, let me know». But I’ve had to go through transformational processes where a part of me that I believed so fervently was me had to die and something else had to come back instead. And those are actually in some way the most difficult because there is no physical, tangible counting of attachment, you know… you… you just get you’re attached and you don’t know how to deal with it, you can’t really give it away, you have to work through it. And so for me money is a great indicator of attachment, but it’s not the only one and maybe it’s not the most difficult.
There are lots of different stories like that but I feel that if people go in with the premise of understanding that mastery is about surrendering everything and that there are no safe spaces.
So about 10 years ago I had to go to her and say «You know what? I’ve really given up convincing you to quit your job (laugh) and I really want you to know that I totally trust you and I realize that in the message that you’ve been getting from me all these years is that I haven’t trusted you. And that was true. So I… if I trust my path then I have to trust your path the same way and so I just have to trust that this is what you needed to do. And I’m glad that you never succumbed to my will because then it probably would have been a disaster.» So this was an interesting insight for me as her master to support her process. She was willing to quit her job, she totally demonstrated it but then the universe came back and said «ok.. (laugh).. this is what you need to do now».
in the beginning like in the first 20 years or so I used to feel that it was my job to convince these people that they really needed to quit their job. So one of the women that I initiated in the late 1980ies, she was.. had a very good job at the government and she was ready to quit and she did with her job. So I initiated her, she started her Reiki practice and then, about 2 months later, her boss came to her and said «Want you come back, like halftime for a year?». I went: (looks aside) «This is a temptation» (laugh). But she did it anyway and then of course that expanded into a full-time jobshe was struggling with this piece where she felt like as a Reiki master she wasn’t successful because people didn’t come to her classes and so on. I said «Well, you know, you don’t have any space in yourself to hold the class and to hold a class of 15 you have to have a lot of space and all your space and all your energy is going into your work. So you either quit your work and become a Reiki master or you be a Reiki master while working, which is a really different energetic…. formula»
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Government employee - temptation... and how Phyllis became more mellow, trusting and woman did not succumb.
Attachments to money and the thought of who I was.
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Tableau 1: „Question 12“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Success in Mastery / (Untertitel:) Surrender and the Premise of no safe spaces
0032-0036 (cough)
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can be a video on its own (or together with V011)
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Geld beschäftigt die Reikiwelt, viel Neid besteht. Hier klärt sie und ist trasnparent über ihre Einnahmen. Erfrischend und durchaus versöhnlich.
Wichtig auch irhe Ausagen zur Verbindlichkeit eines Meisters zu seiner Berufung.
Wurde vorgewählt, fiel aber der Kürzung zum Opfer.
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Tableau 1: „Question 11“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Success / (Untertitel:) Numbers, Money and Commitment
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wird nicht für das Reconciliation Video benutzt.
Der Clustername wär Reconciliation - aber genauer ist der Titel: Reikis Verbreitung auf der Welt.
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Tableau 1: „Question 9“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Reiki spreads globally / (Untertitel:) People and Communities in the Netherlands, Brazil, USA, Russia…
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no reconciliation scences
Video 8Question 8, Day 1, Berlin, 0558-0813
And I found that to be really profound. And it’s happened in many other places in the world… And I also believe that in every country where Reiki has profoundly been practiced, which is now pretty much every country in the world, even Africa, that there is something shifting in the society.
I was having people come from the Netherlands and France and Belgium and the Scandinavian countries and so on to this place near Hamburg. And almost immediately what I heard form them was «well, it was really difficult for me to come here”. And I went, being an American: «why?». And they would say: «Well, I swore I would never come to Germany again in my life after the war».one of these Dutch guys who really touched me, he was big truck-driver kind of guy, you know, not very well educated and he had been driving all through Europe all these years. He said «You know, every time I came through Germany he just said ‚okay, don’t stop, don’t break down, I don’t wanna speak the German language, you know, I’m not into Germany». And he said: «You know what happened? … When I came this time I thought I’m coming home”…
Versöhnung auf der grossen Bühne: nach dem Krieg. Eine Vorstellung herrscht, dass Reiki dazu beigetragen hat, dass die Berliner Mauer runter gekommen ist. Das möchte ich so nicht in diesem Video erzählen. Aber wie Fremde Ihre Deutschablehnung loslassen, das ja.
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Tableau 2: (Titel:) Healing of Individual and of Society/ (Untertitel:) Reconciliation of WW2 wounds
0106-0114 (coughing)
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Emotional, Phyllis weeping. Strong statement that reconciliation is possible. Within individuals and within society.
Video 7Question 7, Day 1, Berlin, 0459-0748
And what I have done now in… recounting how she actually told the story and the things that I have changed of the story is things like this: she used to say «and he studied for 7 years, and then he went to the US for 7 years and he went so and so for 7 years, you know, he was the in monastery for 7 years». And I realised that the 7 year thing …But I realized that the 7 year thing is kind of a Japanese way of saying: for a… he did this for a long time… but they have to be kind of more precise or there is something magic about 7 years or I don’t know why… So it’s like not understanding the actual contexts of a lot of her way of tell you the story. These were changed into kind of «facts» just by dropping them. I call this a teaching story,
0532-0535 «oh, I should have asked some of the Japanese people.»
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Video 7Question 7, Day 1, Berlin, 0151-0459
it was not the story of four people but it was a story of Reiki and how it emerged through these people’s lives. Which was a good perspective for me because it really helped me when people started to add birthdays and you know, when people died and all this factual stuff… but it’s not about people. It’s about Reiki. And then…when the memorial stone was found was a really big thing, because that was the first real kind of substantial body of information, and lo and behold, what was on the stone collaborated my grandmother’s story. Well that was like «shuuu» relieve!
2. Cluster: Reconciiation.
Phyllis zeigt Wertschätzung gegenüber Petter's Arbeit.
0225-0227 «Hayashi.. no, Haw.. ähm..»
0251-0256 «Right?» …coughs
03:40-0347 «So then (cough) god..»
0350-0358) ähm (pauses)
Video 7Question 7, Day 1, Berlin, 0000-0151
Topic: "Teaching Story" versus historic facts
So… when.. in 1979 when I travelled with my grandmother, I first heard the story of Reiki, I just thought «… it’s only unbelievable». And.. because you know I had no experience of Reiki, I didn’t even know what Reiki was really, as far as to practice or the energy or anything. And I had to use other people as a kind of test to see whether my grandmother was like really crazy or if she was actually saying something that was a value to people. But people sat and listened to her and they were respectable people and you know, it’s like.. I just finally had to surrender to.. that she was saying things to people that I couldn’t relay to but these other people did, I mean, they were awestruck by this whole thing.
Das Spannungsfeld zwischen Takata (der Mutter) und Phyllis zeigt sich. Und dass Phyllis zu Reiki so wie die Jungfrau zum Kinde kam.
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Tableau 2: (Titel:) Unfolding of the «Teaching Story»/ (Untertitel:) Memorial stone collaborates Legend
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Video 6Question 6, Day 1, Berlin, 0000-0223
Topic: Archive - Continuation of Video 005
I can’t really use my mother altogether.. you know, I mean I was busy running around doing teaching and, you know, being my kind of gipsy-self. And these things were just stored in a box and I didn’t think anybody was really interested in, you know, it was not a big deal. And then, about 20, yes 20 years ago when William Rand started to do his research, he just really… all my little walls of resistance came up and I… I sort of ignored all this stuff that I had because I didn’t know what I would find and I was afraid of what I would find, I think, you know in all this stuff… or what I wouldn’t find, you know it’s kind it goes both ways. I’ve gradually become more willing to be more open with it and I think the door really opened when my mother died, because it was… I didn’t have familial retribution, then..
2. Cluster: Mutters Einfluss
Hier zeigt sich wie William Rand ein Dorn in ihrem Auge war und sie heute beginnt, sich zu öffnen - ganz im Sinne der Versöhnung.
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Video 5Question 5, Day 1, Berlin, 0000-0219
Topic: Archive - access?
ähm. I just spent 5 days in Erfurt at this conference called International Association of the History of Religions (kind of an awkward title for an association) and in this association there was one panel that was brought together about Japanese spiritual movements and Justin Stein, a doctoral student from the Toronto University, presented a paper thererelevant to the history of Reiki and the influences on Mikao Usui as he grew (0108) to aehm… as he grew to … (0116) develop the practice of Reiki as we know it now.So, this follows a whole process that I’ve been involved in in the last two, years, brought on actually by my mother’s death. There are a couple of reasons why: One was because when she was alive, it was very difficult for me to investigate and to go deeply into my grandmothers‘ life and so on because she was very protective of it. And the other part was that when she died, I had to go through, along with my sisters, all of her papers… and deal with them and we are still going through them. So I thought «well if I die, who is going to do this for me?» and the obvious place to start was with these boxes of my grandmother’s things that I had actually never looked into.
2. Cluster: Mother's influence.
Ein Vorwurf, der über die Jahre in der Luft war, war dass Phyllis die dokumente von Takata nicht frei zur Verfügung stellte. Sie würden helfen, Widersprüche zwichen "Story" und "Wahrheit" aufzudecken. Was die Reikiwelt nicht wusste ist, dass zum Einen Phyllis' Mutter Einfluss auf Phyllis hatte, bzw. dass die Dokumente in Mutters Besitz waren bis zu deren Tod 2012.
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Tableau 1: „Question 5“ löschen
Tableau 2: (Titel:) Access to Archieves of Hawayo Takata and Phyllis Lei Furumoto / (Untertitel:) Family possession of three generations
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she speaks about the archive in Arizona on V050, but THIS is probably better scene.
Naoko Hirano
The first entry may be useful as introduction even in Video 001?
In the 2nd entry mother appears and the difficulty Phyllis has had to open archives prior her death = yes
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0711-0713 «So..ähm.. «
0841-0901: «that Reiki is ähm… the presence of Reiki is becoming more……well, I want to say ”worthy”, but that’s not really the word…»
Video 4Question 4, Day 1, Berlin, 0520-0711
Justin said: «Well, you know, I have the the steamship manifest, you know, that shows when she arrived in Japan and when she left… so, you know, this is like physical evidence. So I went «well, hmm … OK». (laughs) And you know, what I find really amazing for me, is that (0544) in telling the Reiki story in… well (0547) in accepting the Reiki story and listening to it from my grandmother all these years and then it obviously, because Reiki has been so profound for me the history has gone into me, into this like profound sacred box or something inside of me. And it’s not to be changed. So when there is pressure to actually shift things a little bit, it takes time, I mean it’s not going to be «well, ok, it was 6 months instead of a year». It’s a very significant thing for me, because it changes the pace of the story for me.
He’s just doing his job as a scholar trying to get this paper together so that he gets his doctorate degree. And there is no hidden agendaAnd with that I can take in a lot of what he’s saying that can be confrontive
here she admits that story and history are not always identical.
Video 4Question 4, Day 1, Berlin, 0000-0302
Topic: Justin Stein's thesis
his paper is on …what happens to an oral tradition when it’s taught through a number of generations and it goes from one culture to another culture and the changes that happen within the practice. Is this… Why are the changes made? And is there a developmental process actually going on? And these kind of questions. And then.. so that’s the general kind of theme of his thesis. And then what he did, was he used Reiki as an example of that and especially the time of Hawayo Takata because she was the person who took Reiki as a Japanese practice, well actually Usui Shiki Ryoho, and then brought it to another culture and then within that (1:16) how did she… let me start again. (1:26) How did she translate not just the language of Reiki but the culture of Reiki? How could she bring the Japanese culture into the practice of Reiki at the times and the moments when it was important for the actual practice to be understood?
Widersprüchlichkeiten zwischen Takatas "Story" und historischem Fakt fangen an sichtbar zu werden.
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Tableau 2: (Titel:) Oral Tradition versus Historic Facts – Cultural Transfer / (Untertitel:) Justin Stein’s presentation at the World Congress of International Association for the History of Religion 2015
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0116-0126:» how did she… let me start again.»
0150-0154 (Cough)
0227-0232 «but, this just drives me crazy but ähm…»
Cultural transfer
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0335-0344 «So for me these two things that… I think that it’s not … «
Video 3Question 3, Day 1, Berlin, 0000-0245
Topic: Insights IAHR Congress - Continuation of Video 1 and Video 2
one of the things that define a religion is their set of belief systems and doctrine, we call it. And for Reiki I feel we actually have one, but nobody wants to call is that because it’s a very scary word. But… it’s a more simplistic kind of doctrine, like Reiki on, Reiki off and you know practice, that’s how you’re going to achieve any kind of further knowledge and so my grandmother’s little phrases that she used all the time, like «practice, practice, practice!» or «let Reiki teach you».
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soll Reiki eine "Religion" sein, eine spirituelel bewegung in der Sicht der Wissenschaftler? Letzeres.
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Cultural Transfer
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Video 1Question 1, Day 1, Berlin, 0316-0438
So I found that really interesting because it starts sorting.. making me sort out myself and sort these experiences that I have, so that I can be more comfortable in belonging to what is commonly termed a spiritual movement, that’s what they call Reiki, is a spiritual movement and absolutely not a religion because of the strict definition of religion.
Topic: Insights gained at World Congress of the IAHR in Erfurt in September 2015
I think the biggest and most profound revelation that I’ve had sofar in my time in Erfurt and listening to all these scholars talk about very detailed and sometimes very esoteric aspects of religion and of spirituality is that as my grandmother said, Reiki is not a religion and I’ve been confused about that in myself a lot and I realized that part of that confusion is that I was confused about what is spirituality and what is religion and weren’t they the same.
Ich lerne Phyllis kennen, bin neugierig, wie sie sich weiterbildet. In Erfurt gab es eine Konferenz zru geschichte von Religionen und zwei Doktoranden wählten Reiki als Thema. Sie hat den Ruf, nur die "Story" ihrer Grossmutter im Blick zu haben und resistent zu sien gegen historische Entdeckungen (die der Story widersprechen).
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Tableau 2: (Titel:) Religion versus Spiritual Movement / (Untertitel:) Insights from the World Congress of International Association for the History of Religion 2015
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International Association for the History of Religion
Justin Stein was a spokesperson who exemplified his thesis with the case of Reiki.
ein Testeintrag