03. Access to Archives of Hawayo Takata and Phyllis Furumoto

The passing of Phyllis Furumoto’s mother, Alice Takata Furumoto, in August 2013 allowed access to documents from Hawayo Takata. Nowadays the “archive team” (Justin Stein, Robert Fueston, Paul and Susan Mitchell, Joyce Winough) has access.

In the years before mother’s death, the documents were ignored for different reasons but also in resistance to William Rand’s research and the fear of what the documents might reveal. Today, however, an appropriate place is being sought to serve all of the Reiki community.

There’s a whole history here of the development of Reiki from the time that Hawayo Takata died for not just the practice that I hold, but for Reiki, the global Reiki movement in general.