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So I taught in this one little town near Seattle, Washington and so many of the people there finally had Reiki after about 5 years. Because by that time there were myself and then a master I initiated who was also doing Reiki classes there and so on and the town at the time was maybe, I don’t know, 20’000 people. And they estimated that 5’000 people at one point had Reiki, that’s a quarter of the town. And she said, you know, if somebody falls on the street, the people run out of the shops and give the person Reiki. Or, you know, if somebody is dying…
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Or if somebody…
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Or if somebody is diagnosed with cancer then, you know, they just have the sign-up list, where everybody signs up to give this person Reiki every day, you know, and sometimes 2 or 3 Reiki treatments a day if they are open to it. So it’s this really beautiful community that was already had their community intact, some of these families have lived there for like 10 generations. And so they just took on this Reiki as a part of their communitive service. And their way of relating to each other as community members. And I found that to be amazing and I’m sure that that happens in lots of different cities, in neighborhoods, you know in little townships and so on.
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So the effect of Reiki on the general population feels as though it has different levels and it also demonstrates to me this …kind of ‘universal law’: that things are nested in within one another. So it’s like the individual is the center, and then the family, and then the city or township or the community and the world. And it’s like we see our practice fanning out, but also having profound effects coming back in. So one of the things that I used to say: in the beginning when people would say «well, you know, we need world peace».. this was in 1980s, and being a dyed-in the wool hippie, you know, everybody was talking about world peace, and I said «well the best thing you can do is to give yourself a treatment every day, because if you change your attitude in the way you are with people and that changes the way your family’s attitude is with their families and so on, then this is the grass‘ roots, that’s where peace really begins. And I’ve become much more… convinced that this is really one of the root powers of Reiki, the change of Reiki.
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And at the same time, now that people are really getting global…globalization… (0747) a really scary word because… (laugh)… yah, there is a little bit of history that I have to say about globalization, but…
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But the globalization, just the effect of having Reiki students all over the world, in every country, from every language and so on…
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This brings a whole other understanding of who we are as beings and our… our… and the group of us as human beings, humanity becomes alive, not just some word that we say. So in my webinars, that I’m starting to do, you know the chat comes up and (0838) (cough)
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As people are signing in, Rachel asked them to chat where they, you know, signing in from, and it’s like you know Boston/Massachusetts, it’s DenHag in the Netherlands, it’s Almaty/Kazakhstan, you know and Russia and America and everywhere. And it’s so cool! It’s this wonderful thing and this is making difference on the webinar. It isn’t just me speaking to people all over the world, I’m kind of used to that, but it’s the world realizing they’re listening together. And that is very profound I believe.
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Well, for me the idea of Reiki Home came when I was using Kenyon Ranch as a workshop-venue for myself. It was wonderful that it was only 20 minutes from my house. They owned it. They were running it. All I had to do was call up and make a reservation. And then as Reiki people began to come and attend events and workshops there, quite often they would say ‘well, we should buy this for ourselves, this is a perfect Reiki place’ and I don’t know what they meant actually, by that time. Some of them loved the charm of the old buildings and the natural feel of how the buildings and the whole ranch itself was a part of the landscape there. It also has a very serene energy, a very peaceful energy, I don’t know why but it does. And then I started to think about the nature of our Reiki practice and how we relate to the earth and (0132) how we relate to (0134) (räusper) excuse me, how we relate to (0137) other things, other than ourselves, other than human beings, and I’ve been thinking all these years that the reiki community has grown and grown and grown…
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…and if we would take one thing, like recycling, to heart and the whole reiki community would actually recycle everything to the best of their ability we can make a huge difference in our communities because it would mean that not just our families would recycle but then we would affect our neighbours, our friends, our colleagues – it could be a kind of world movement. But I could never get anybody interested in this particular project. (Laughs)
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So, I invited a friend of mine out who was … whose job is Resource Development. He is a person who does reconciliation with the earth and also with communities and with the nature of their relationship to the planet and so on. So, his history and telling of how the land was before I came to Arizona was amazing. These lands were grass lands and the grass was about this high (points) and when the cowboys, the settlers came through these valleys they realised this was great pasture for cattle. And as in the late 1800s as California started to raise cattle they started to do cattle-drives that went across the Southern part of the United States and into St. Louise and other places where they could ship the meat back to the East coast.
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So when they came through here the cattle grazed on the grass, they trampled it, they were in such numbers that very quickly the grass died because they didn’t have time to regenerate. And their …they also brought seeds from other places. So we got Mesquites trees everywhere and the land became defensive because it needed to be. So, cactus started to grow, there was less water feeding the top soil. So, it got drier and drier so the cactus came more and more. Now it is a very prickly landscape…
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So I got very enthusiastic about this and also that I just, when I tuned in to the ranch, and this is kind of esoteric, I just felt the ranch saying to us, as a group, “I need healing”. “I need..”, You know, it‘s been used as a … with horses and cattle, so it has been trampled on, now people drive all over the ranch in cars packing the earth and not letting the small creatures, the ants and so on live actually in the soil, so it is compacting this clay-sand mixtures, so then the plants have a really hard time to grow. So now it’s becoming just a flat like, cement like, surface which it shouldn’t be.
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All we would need to do is stop driving on this property for a year. And it would make a total and huge difference. There are natural berries that grow on the land that we could harvest, there are many, many things that could happen and at the same time I really feel that in our Reiki community it just seems like we’re all trying to make our living, you know, to be individually sustainable but I don’t feel like we can be sustainable until our system is sustainable. Until our reiki practice is sustainable. I just felt like we could create an income for our system and for Reiki maybe as a general practice. And the way we could do that is to benefit other communities that are also working on healing like a yoga community, therapy community, esoteric kinds of workshops that teach people how to work with energy, and so on. And that they would walk into this ranch as a venue and it would be a Reiki space, literally. The food would be cooked by Reiki people, the paintings on the wall would be done by Reiki people, the rooms would be cleaned with Reiki … people (laughs)
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