But then I reached the back of the book where there was a page
headed “Alternate Reiki Symbols (Usui Traditional Method.)” I had a
look at them and then I went back to the symbols that the “Reiki
Alliance” was teaching and compared them. Not only were they very
different, one of them, the “Power symbol”, was completely reversed.
Now that disturbed me in a big way! I had a sort of visceral
understanding of these symbols as being a Cosmic or interdimensional
language, or electromagnetic circuit diagram, and here I was seeing that
somebody had not only altered them, but also had even reversed one of
them.
If these symbols are, as I was understanding it, a sort of cosmic
microchip that can be installed in the body to enable a flow of energy
from other dimensions; if they are a “language” that “tells” the body
something in a deep, objective way, and then somebody changes them,
what are they now “programming”? What is being “said” to the body?
What are the circuits being routed to do?
I called Louise immediately and pointed out to her that she had
apparently “gone over” to the group that our Reiki Master had been
talking about, though none of them had ever been named by her. Louise
was not only dismissive of my concerns; she was actually
contemptuous of my idea that there could be a real problem here. As I
remember her saying: “If you believe they will work, they will! It’s all
a matter of what you believe. If you don’t believe they will work, they
won’t. If your spiritual development is weak or backward, of course,
nothing will work for you.”
MIAOU!
Wow! What a cut! Now I was spiritually retarded because I had a
problem with people altering symbols and maybe corrupting
information. Hmmm… how often has this manipulation been used to
jerk questioners back in line?
I didn’t buy it. My experience with Reiki had been that it was
something that was truly objective – it did not require “faith” or
“belief”. That was the truly unique and amazing thing about it. At that
moment, I decided that Louise simply wasn’t “getting it”. But I figured
that my initiation from her was still “good” even if she didn’t know
what she was dealing with. Surely the method of transmission was still
the same and worked? I decided that I would just use the Usui
Traditional Symbols and maybe experiment with the others to see what
they were really doing.
There was already a problem though, even if it took awhile for it to
repeat often enough for me to take notice: the heat that generally would
manifest so powerfully when I touched people seemed to have
dissipated and now, instead, I was actually feeling an “iciness” that was
of the kind that can be felt as heat unless you have been used to real
heat. I commented on this to Candy and she said that this was
“normal”. She said that our Reiki Master had told her that the body
“knows” what kind of energy it needs and when you have the Reiki
attunements the body will naturally send the “right” energy to whatever
person you are channeling it to. That seemed like a reasonable
explanation.
[...]
Q: (L) I have here two sets of Reiki symbols; which set is the correct or
most powerful set: the first set or the second? [Holds up two sets of
symbols]
A: The second set.
Q: (L) It says here that the ones you have identified are the Usui
Traditional symbols. Are these the original Reiki symbols as given to
Dr. Usui?
A: Close.
Q: (L) Are the Reiki symbols in the possession of [the Reiki Master in
Tampa] the correct symbols?
A: No.
Q: (L) Are the symbols that Louise is using correct?
A: No.
Q: (L) Is Louise able to transmit the initiation in a full and powerful
way as she claims?
A: No. V__ has strongest ability.
[This was an of off-the-wall comment about one of the other Reiki
students of Louise. It sort of surprised me.]
Q: (L) Does this mean that V___ has the strongest Reiki ability of us
all?
A: Yes. Candy has no ability. Crosses yours out.
Q: (L) Are you saying that Candy has been giving me Reiki that has
canceled my own Reiki out?
A: Precisely.
Q: (L) Is there someone I could go to for the correct initiation?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Do I know that person?
A: No.
Q: (L) Whom do I know that may know that person?
A: H___ D___.
That was pretty upsetting, to say the least! Not only to know that I
had taken my Second Level attunements from a Reiki Master who had
no ability to transmit them, but also that there was the possibility that
the corrupted form of Reiki could cancel out the beneficial Reiki!
What’s more, the person named as knowing someone who did have the
proper Reiki lineage was so unlikely that I was completely incredulous!
HD was an elderly psychic reader down in St. Petersburg who was a
friend of a friend of mine and I had only been to see her once out of
curiosity. She had made something of an impression on me because of
her ranting against Reiki as being a completely useless “New Age
Scam” because she believed that anybody who had “the gift” could heal
without paying big bucks to somebody to do “hocus pocus” on them.
So having the Cassiopaeans specify her in particular as a path to the
“right” Reiki initiation was bizarre in the extreme!
But, the whole point of all this “testing” was to see if the
Cassiopaeans really “had a clue” about anything, so I called HD the
next day, feeling completely stupid, to inquire if she, by some miracle,
knew a Reiki Master.
Her reply was funny. She said, “Well, you know I don’t put any stock
in all that nonsense – waste of money if you ask me! – But, yes, I do
know a couple of gals who swear by it. They are both Reiki Masters, so
let me look up their numbers and call you back.”
A little bit later she called me back with one name, SB. The second
Reiki Master had moved away, so it ended up that she only had a
connection to one. I took down the name and number and called to see
what I could find out.
As it turned out, the Cassiopaeans were right! This lady had the same
lineage as the Reiki Master who had given me my First Level initiation,
with only one added “descendant” between her and Takata. And, she
also had the same material passed to this line from Takata and knew my
original Reiki Master. She knew the same “stories” and “inside
information” that is held by this lineage, and so on. So, the
Cassiopaeans had a “hit”. I made arrangements with her to retake the
Second Level attunements to correct the “damage” done by Louise, in
her ignorance, and a year later I took the Master Level attunements
from SB. I can guarantee that when she did the job, the sweat broke out
again, and my “Reiki heater” was turned back on! What’s more, we had
still another set of Reiki symbols, different from the previous three I
had seen. I presented them to the Cassiopaeans:
11-19-94
Q: (L) Now, we went to the recommended person to take the Reiki
initiation, do we now, at this point in time, have the true Reiki
initiation?
A: Getting there. Must allow energy to solidify. Do you understand the
concept of imprinting?
Q: (L) Yes.
A: Then you know.
Q: (L) Practicing Reiki is the thing that will solidify the force?
A: Partly.
Q: (L) Are there symbols for Reiki that are even older and stronger
than the ones we have been given?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Are the original symbols in Sanskrit?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Where are we going to find them?
A: You are not.
Q: (L) And the Reiki Symbols we learned from SB are the closest we
can get?
A: Yes. Good enough.
Or most likely product no effect!
