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erated text in Mahayana Buddhism. Usui Sensei remained adamant that Reiki never be associated with any sect — religious or otherwise. Upon Takata Sensei’s return to Hawaii, she began training others; she kept the information secretive and exclusive by charging up to $10,000 for training. She told students all the Reiki Masters in Ja - pan died in World War II. Many died. Many schools of Reiki went underground. Eastern Reiki practitioners, the 2,000 students directly attuned by Usui Sensei, rejected all other Reiki practitioners and re - ferred to all other forms as Western Reiki. Takata Sensei’s Reiki classes defined a western style of Reiki that sped up the attunement process and streamlined training. Her ver- sion deviated from its Japanese origins by simplifying Reiki teachings, using treatments she found most effective, standardizing hand posi - tions, and emphasizing symbols — that many thought she changed — whereas Usui Sensei required students to receive repeated Reiki attunements and to spend more time in practice to help develop their intuition. Usui Sensei attuned students when the Reiki Master Teach - er considered them ready; it took a couple of years to achieve the level of Reiki Master with Usui Sensei. Takata Sensei must have felt pressure to change Reiki practices be- cause of American attitudes towards people of Japanese descent, like her, in pre- and post-Pearl Harbor. Although the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) had not yet become a state, they had been a U.S. Territory since 1898 and had western influences. In 1942, after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed an executive order to incarcerate people of Japanese descent. These tumultuous times may have contributed to the reasons that she didn’t use written training materials as Reiki became strictly passed down from teach- er to student orally, much like in the Yoga tradition before Patanjali wrote the “Yoga Sutras”. Mind you, Takata Sensei had received a written manual from Ha - yashi Sensei, and Usui Sensei had some written materials. She re - quired her students to burn the symbols they had drawn during train- ing at the end of each class. At one point, she painted over the word Reiki from her advertising shingle in Hilo, Hawaii, and opted for Ha - waii Health Studio, Nerve, Gland, and Shortwave Treatments . Takata Sensei called her method of healing “Usui Shiki Ryoho”, which means “Usui System of Natural Healing”. She attuned twen - ty-two Reiki Masters; and she treated, trained, and initiated others for the next 42 years until her death in 1980. Her granddaughter, Phyl - lis Lei Furumoto, who passed away in 2019, would further codify her method of Reiki as a healing practice for personal development and spiritual discipline in a mystic order. Present day, Reiki students de- cide when they should attend a Reiki class and when to achieve the next Reiki degree. Reiki and the CAM Classification Within current conventional medicine, Reiki is viewed as a com- plementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Alternative medicine became popular following the counterculture movement of the 1960s as a reaction to: societal attitudes changing towards chemical use and side effects in pharmaceuticals; sensitivity to other cultures’ more nat - ural healing practices, like Ayurveda in India and Acupuncture in Chi - na; and desperation by patients when western medicine fails. Reiki falls under the category of Energy Medicine. It works with the Bioenergy field, also known as an aura, and is used to treat various ail - ments; Reiki practitioners work with the Bioenergy field, considered continued on page 62
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