4:24
So we are… I am in the process of applying to the Japanese-American National Museum in LA, to see if they will take all the archives, and then they can take… and then people can go there who are doing research and actually have access. And.. there are still questions about different things that are in my possession, 0451 like my grandmother’s 0453-0457 (cough) like my grandmothers‘ certificates that were written by Chujiro Haysashi and …. do I put them in the archive? and … I am definitely putting them in the archive. But what kind of access do we allow for those kinds of things? So it’s… they are all interesting questions and I am learning more and more about archiving, probably more than I ever wanted to know. But this for me is very important because I look at my own live in Reiki and the boxes of paper that I have and the boxes of pictures that I have.
5:37
And I just go «well, now I have to start.. once we get my grandmother’s done, then I have to have a whole team come and do archiving for me, because I have transcripts of hundreds of… not hundreds, but many, many talks I’ve given over the years and little film clips and of course the video has become much more prominent now and thousands of pictures and…, you know, so the whole history, there’s a whole history here of the development of Reiki from the time that Hawayo Takata died and for me this is an important piece for not just the practice that I hold, but for Reiki, the global Reiki movement in general. Yah.
6:22

4:30
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…
5:11
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.
5:39
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.
6:15
One of the things that has been exciting for me in … now I go back to the archives and what I’ve said about going through my grandmother’s things, my mother actually gave me in 1980…something when my grandmother … after my grandmother died… that they will be, I hope, will be housed in the Japanese-American-National Museum in Los Angeles because it… 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.
7:07