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For what it's worth...
I received a singular distance attunement near the beginning of December 2001. I went from someone who had received Reiki once to being a Master/Teacher. I never bothered with any of the symbols, as they seemed like mnemonics for things that were simple enough not to need an aid.
I come at Reiki from an odd direction. A friend suggested it, and I got it without having any idea what Reiki is or is supposed to be. I'm thankful for that because I'm quite suspicious of things like this from my studies of NLP and hypnosis. The experience was certainly vivid. I found someone offering the free distance attunement on the internet, and off I went, again with little knowledge of Reiki dogma.
I didn't feel any kind of a change (or anything at all) during my attunement, but when I asked a friend if I could try something (without telling them what) it was quite an interesting experience. Somehow I had this new ability. Will/think/intend Reiki on, and it was on. Moved on to testing distance Reiki, and then I attuned the same friend.
The friend didn't sleep for three days. He still mentions it as being on of the stranger things he's experienced. All kinds of deep seated psychological baggage got flushed at once, and he felt like a new man when he came out the other side. Quite a shamanic initiatory experience for him.
All in all, I figure the number of people I have attuned in the intervening interval at around 50. Their experiences range all over the charts depending upon the person and their own makeup. About 10 of them have told me they have also attuned other people, and I once met someone who had been attuned by one of my "students" and he told me about someone who had been attuned by someone he attuned.
I have studied up on "traditional" Reiki, and I think the added window dressing is bollocks. The thing that infuriates me the most is that Usui taught that you HAD to charge. I have never charged, and I never will. "None of them should profess any other thing, than but to cure the sick, and that freely" better fits my views. I find that there isn't much you can do to enhance or deter Reiki, whether it be using the stock symbols or making your own or forgetting them entirely. Their is nothing inherant to Reiki that requires payment.
Reiki has consistantly defied my expectations. In a way I don't have any more understanding of Reiki than I did after I received it for the first time. As much as I've tried to make Reiki not work, it still works. As much study as I've put into Reiki, I am no closer to understanding how or why it works the way it does, and I think I would be more comfortable with it if it didn't behave the way it does.
That what I know or don't know or expect or don't expect has no effect on Reiki doing what it does is itself the most irritating to me. I content myself that there are stronger more precise modalities out there that I can understand. Reiki isn't a tool, and I want it to be so that I can be a skilled user of the tool or even improve upon the tool.
I'll also add that I quite enjoy sneaking up on people on psychedelics and blasting them with Reiki.
Anyway, my Reiki journey has been quite rich, and it started with a distance singular attunement. I'll be glad to pass on the same to anyone who requests it. Perhaps some others around this thread are also down with singular distance attunement and we could get together a nice pool of attuners and attunees? |
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