49. Barbara Weber or Phyllis Furumoto as Successor?

Phyllis Furumoto acknowledges that it is possible that Barbara Weber was to be successor. In many ways she was better positioned than Phyllis. Takata and Weber have a falling out with each other, so painful that Takata no longer mentions Barbara’s name.

Weber alienates many of the 22 Takata Masters. The process of succession is more than telling someone to be one’s successor. There also has to be recognition. Of the 22 masters initiated by Takata, a majority recognise Phyllis. And there is another factor: the successor feels an energetic transmission, which can also be perceived by others.

This Hawayo Takata had no control over. I believe that this was also true about Chujiro Hayashi. He might not have wanted Hawayo Takata, to have been the successor but he got where the energy was going and he surrendered to it.

This Grand Master’s “pilot flame” reinforces the young woman as successor despite her immaturity. Barbara Weber’s contention accelerates the ensuing growing phase.

She forced me to go inside and find the strength to have this position and to be able to have the community nourish this part of me because I believe that all of us initiated by Hawayo Takata had the possibility of being her successor.

It is the achievement of a community to grow its Grand Master.