Cluster: Cultural Transfer

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Video 1 Question 1, Day 1, Berlin, 0000-0316
Topic: Insights gained at World Congress of the IAHR in Erfurt in September 2015
So it turns out that historically after the war or after World War II, during the age of what they call «modernization» (laugh) which is an interesting term… this.. the concept of spirituality and religion started to divide and they started to become two things, which is really interesting for me. So that was just something to be with that I was not quite settled with this concept that they are divided. I mean one can contain, religion can contain spirituality but somehow spirituality can not contain religion and it’s an interesting weave,  spirituality now is defined as a process of reforming your personality through.. stimulus that is brought to you by activities or believe systems or interaction with other people that touch your spirit or your soul. And.. so.. I find that to really describe my experience of practicing Reiki. because of this modernization process that’s happening in religion that people often describe religious experience as a spiritual experience and actually for scholars they are not the same. 
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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).

RV Editing: 04-1
International Association for the History of Religion

Justin Stein was a spokesperson who exemplified his thesis with the case of Reiki.
Video 3 Question 3, Day 1, Berlin, 0000-0245
Topic: Insights IAHR Congress - Continuation of Video 1 and Video 2
Well,  This one has become one of my favorites, because every word for me has an implication, like «let» is about surrendering, let Reiki teach you, so you know, it’s like that posture of letting is more like an open arm-posture than (closes arms) «okay, come on, you know, just try and change me», you know. 
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Hier wagt sie eine gewagte und vieldeutige Aussage: Doktrinen in Reiki.

Cultural Transfer

RV Editing: 06-1
bring together with Video 1 ff ?
in this video the viewer gets an understanding of Reiki is... (to Phyllis)
Video 4 Question 4, Day 1, Berlin, 0000-0302
Topic: Justin Stein's thesis
for instance some people have said “well, she made Reiki more Christian because she was teaching Christians” – but, this just drives me crazy but ähm 
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Widersprüchlichkeiten zwischen Takatas "Story" und historischem Fakt fangen an sichtbar zu werden.

Cultural transfer

RV Editing: 07-1 Translation of a Japanese practice across cultural barriers and generations, e.g. precepts, will be dontinued in 17-2
Video 4 Question 4, Day 1, Berlin, 0302-0520
So I feel like she did a wonderful job of translating not just the language but the culture. And he does a very good job considering how difficult it is to historically go back and rebuild history in this way. The other thing I like about Justin’s presentations is that he doesn’t have a Reiki attachment. He doesn’t need to like prove himself that he is like the fountain of all truth in Reiki. And it’s just so refreshing.   in his papers… that I’ve noticed anyway.   04:42  … in a way that feels like, «well, you know, I just have to sit with it for a while and after a while it will become easy… So this is a small but significant thing for me, because I always heard her say that she had been with Mikao Us…. no! sorry, with Chujiro Hayashi, her teacher for a year and maybe it was a year altogether. But she was in Japan for like 6 ½ months, I think, the first time when she learned Reiki. 
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here she admits that story and history are not always identical.
Video 4 Question 4, Day 1, Berlin, 0520-0711
I don’t know how it will be for, you know the other people in the Reiki community. For some people who are maybe a little bit less precious about the history than I am, it will be a relieve, because they’ll say «ok, so this is all based on facts, now I know I am not lying, so now I can tell the story, you know easily with more confidence». 
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Video 5 Question 5, Day 1, Berlin, 0000-0219
Topic: Archive - access?
, part of dissertation and another women, another doctoral student, Hirano (I don’t know her last name), she also presented a part of her paper and then there were two others, who presented papers that were  
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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.

RV Editing: 08-1
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
Video 7 Question 7, Day 1, Berlin, 0151-0459
(0257) So, then Paul and I started to do these Masters intensives together in 1993. And when we came to telling the story, I would tell the first part of the story and then he would tell the last part of the story. And so it was interesting to listen to him and see what he left out and what he said and so on. And what we realized was that information does not carry energy as well as story. So we left out the date she was born and we left out you know, all this stuff and just talked about “when she met Reiki”. (0340) I had this insight that, (0350) ähm (pauses) (0358)  
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2. Cluster: Reconciiation.
Phyllis zeigt Wertschätzung gegenüber Petter's Arbeit.

Video 7 Question 7, Day 1, Berlin, 0459-0748
because it is… you know the content of it is to teach the way the Reiki came into the world, the way that the practice emerged, some of the very fundamental principles of working with Reiki as an energy, some of the fundamental lessons of every Reiki student. And it is of course based on historic fact but it is teaching story and that’s where the magic lies. But for those people who actually want to have history, I think it is really important to have some kind of accompanying history that underlies or creates a foundation for the teaching story. I don’t firstly need it but I know that some people do. 
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Video 60 Question 13, Day 2, Arizona, 0546-0843
So here is one sect that says you’re supposed to chant and use language, the other sect doesn’t use language at all. But they don’t fight against each other. They just simply see that perhaps a student of one sect could go to the other because they advance and then they decide “oh, now I need to go and sit in silence” or the other way around. And the point is that they know that their service is to the student and his benefit. And this is the part where we in Reiki are not, we don’t have yet, we don’t serve the student, we decide that our practice needs to be big and important so that we can be big and important. And we are not paying any attention to the confusion and the disarray that this brings into a student. And so not only do they have to put up with that with their own disarray inside of themselves and their own spiritual practice and figuring out what’s going on, but then they have to figure out this whole other mess that is there. And for me the mess is an adolescent stage of development, which is where we are. 
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2. Cluster: Cultural Transfer