6:05
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.
7:40
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…
8:01
But the globalization, just the effect of having Reiki students all over the world, in every country, from every language and so on…
8:12
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)
8:42
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.
9:23