48. From Hawayo Takata to Building Walls in 2016

Sit in the same circle; From the Berlin Wall to the global test for humanity today

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Alice Takata Furumoto calls her daughter “a lost soul” who seemed to use other people’s opinion to make decisions.

I married because my mother told me that I couldn’t live out of wedlock.

With Reiki this starts to change but it lingers into the early years when Phyllis Furumoto is already Grand Master. In 1983 a first sign of her own will: in opposition to the original 22 Takata Masters she insists that Barbara Weber is included. It was not to be. Nonetheless, Phyllis realises the importance of owning her decisions.

I needed to break down all these walls inside of me and listen to all my voices and come to a place where is was really YES.

By 1989 Phyllis is in Germany when the Berlin Wall comes down. She and her Masters can now go to the East legally. Hope arises that a new order between nations and between people is possible in the world.

But somehow today, in 2016… we’re failing our test of humanity … unless we follow the saying “if you have enough build a longer table rather than a wall”.