23. Hands Like Waterfalls

Arjava debunks lineage myths, affirming Reiki's purity beyond tradition. Practitioners become living sources of nature, like waterfalls or sacred trees.

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Arjava reflects on the trap of unverified Reiki stories and ponders the impossibility of a foreigner being accepted into a traditional Japanese art.

He marvels at Reiki's purity which is beyond form or lineage and explores Shinto roots of healing, where nature itself is the sanctuary. Reiki practitioners, he says, become the modern equivalents – embodying waterfalls, trees, and springs.

We are the extended hands of some beautiful natural phenomena.