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The other thing that was interesting for me, was seeing how Reiki spread, e.g. in the Netherlands, the families – I learned this after I started going to the Netherlands to teach… So in my.. people in my age were born into families of often 10, 12, 15 children, right? So when they had family reunions there were like over 100 people there, I mean just the mother, the father, the kids and their kids, right, it’s kind of scary. And you can see this family structure in the families.. like if they moved more than 50 KM away from the parents‘ house, that was like a long way away in the Netherlands at that time. So when Reiki came there, one person in the family might, you know, happen to go to a Reiki class. And all of a sudden, you know, 50 of these people would want to go to a Reiki class. So Reiki spread rally fast in the Netherlands and I believe, that at one point was the most dense per square mile Reiki people, because the density of the population in the Netherlands and the density of how these families came to Reiki. So… and I saw the healing that happened in these families, that was really profound.
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This one woman whose brother was this truck driver actually, he was bit of an alcoholic. You know, she finally … their family took Reiki and she became a Reiki Master herself and she said “You know, Reiki brought our brother back to us”. So moving.
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Well it’s an interesting observation this whole male/female thing. And one of the questions that has been asked of me, I mean for years, is “why are there so many women in Reiki?” And at the beginning it was actually pretty male-dominated, it was men or it was even in the Japanese community.… it is also true in other cultures that quite often it was the men who began, initiators and the guys who were the pioneers and then the female and then the women followed (female is a bit too technical), so the women followed.
.. I saw that in the Netherlands, the first few masters in the Netherlands were men and then it got to be half and half and then it got to be more women….
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There are different levels of understanding for me about this… and they kind of intertwine, so I’m gonna try to answer this on at least on a couple of levels.
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You know, she had… I had this very strange experience with her which really was difficult for me because we went to Puerto Rico. The first time I ever heard about Reiki, ever knew what Reiki was or anything. And she had a Spanish interpreter and she could not get that Spanish was a language that needed to be interpreted so that people could understand her. So she would just talk and never make space for interpretation, she would talk right over the interpreter. I mean, it was really embarrassing for me. And I had a talk with her and she said: “They just have to deal with it”. And I thought “this is not respectful!”. I’m sorry, but you know I just don’t get this. And I just think about this situation when I’m sitting in Poland or Russia or Italy or Spain or the Netherlands or even in England sometimes, you know, or Australia. Australia was really bad because there’s this old saying about thinking that you speak the same language but you really don’t.
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Anyway, it was just really, really interesting for me to see that I had the personality and also my physical body was strong enough to do the travelling and do the global movement that I’ve been able to do with such ease. I really appreciate my body. And I really appreciate the difference between Hawayo Takata and myself. I didn’t make this global community, I didn’t spread Reiki, definitely not, but I kept up with it. And that for me has been a real amazing feed. I think..
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After Hawayo Takata died 1980, in the end of 1980, sorry….
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After Hawayo Takta died in December of 1980 some of her masters began to be asked to go teach in other countries. Wanja Twan, who came from Sweden originally and immigrated into Canada, went back to Sweden and initiated a Dutch master, a woman who was Dutch, excuse me, who immediately, literally went to the Netherlands and began to teach. Beth Gray was asked to go to Australia, Fran Brown was asked to go to France. I mean, it was an amazing process and Mary McFayden one of the very first students that she initiated was Brigitte Müller, who was a… whom she met in an ashram in California. Brigitte went back to Germany, took Reiki back as a 1st degree student and invited Mary immediately to come and teach and that’s such a beautiful story.
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Beth Gray went to Australia and she was a charismatic healer herself. And Reiki, I feel, gave her an opportunity to have a form for that healing along with a few other of the Reiki masters that Hawayo Takata initiated. And when she went to Australia, she found a waiting community. And who knows why these things happen, as in the story of Mary McFayden or Inger Droog who went to the Netherlands or Wanja Twan who taught in Scandinavia again.
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The Australians welcomed Beth Gray, she had somehow the right personality, which was very forward, extremely charismatic and extremely opinionated, I will use that word. Which was great, because somehow it fit into their society and they’re very strong in their opinions, the Australians. And they need to be, you know, they are in a very harsh environment, given, everything. And when they were… when Australia was first settled they needed to be tough. And that toughness still is there in the Australian culture. And it is part of their charm, actually these days.
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