40. Men and Women, Yin and Yang
Innocence of the 80ies, truth versus fact and complementing each other
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There are more women in Reiki than men. Originally in Japan men dominated.
In the 1980s, we did everything according to our heart. There was something about that time that was innocent and was authentic.
Men have had many fields in which they could prosper. Reiki offers the potential to bloom for woman and find their own identity. This may be one factor why there are more woman than man in Reiki today.
In 1986, 1987 the Reiki Master community was testing their powers. ...lots of wonderful, magical things happened. But we did not have personal boundaries.
This liberty invites cult-like behaviour. Masters would have affairs with students. Dysfunctional relationships were the result. An inherent aspect in the Japanese culture is the respect for the teacher, whose role, too, is clearly defined. In the West such structures do not exist. Codes of Ethics are drawn up in the 90, the process of Mastery makes another step.
You have access to your truth and no one else does.
Dealing with Reiki it is important to accept that not one person dictates truth. To allow and respect each other's differences is prerequisite to embracing your brothers and sisters as Reiki Masters.
Truth lives on through the tribe and keeps the tribe nourished on energetic-physical-spiritual levels.
The pursuit of truth can be more intellectual, masculine or more intuitive, feminine. Ideally, they feed on each other. Over the years there has been friction. For long the story as told by Hawayo Takata has not had a solid foundation. This changed with research, particularly the discovery of Usui’s memorial stone.
The only truth that you need to be concerned about is the truth of your own experience. And don’t ever give that up!