Review: Essential Reiki: A Complete Guide to an Ancient Healing Art

Essential Reiki: A Complete Guide to an Ancient Healing Art by Diane Stein
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I read Essential Reiki, A Complete Guide to an Ancient Healing Art by Diane Stein. The author made a distinction between Jesus as a historical figure and Jesus as portrayed by the churches. She mentioned that the historical Jesus might have been a bodhisattva. She brought up a book Jesus Lived in India by Holger Kersten as her source. This was very fascinating! She included a lot of Buddhist information throughout her book and explained how Reiki was the reverse of the Enlightenment path in Buddhism. She mentioned how the Reiki symbols are Sanskrit--derived Japanese forms that are at least 2500 years old. She also distinguishes between traditional Reiki and her modern version of Reiki. For example, she included both traditional Reiki symbols and alternative modern-day symbols. Furthermore, she included non-Reiki symbols and the Antahkarana design, sometimes found on dinner plates in the Midwest. Her modern version of Reiki included stuff I've never read about before, including the Hara Line, Kundalini channels, Microcosmic orbit within the body, and the StillPoint in the neck. Her chapter on passing attunements is what convinced me that an attunement is a DNA trigger for a change within the body. Modern science has discovered switches for sequences of DNA within the genes that may activate with some type of environmental trigger. I suspect that the triggers are neuro-electrical in nature, just like an attunement. In addition, the author introduced the Stupa and the five elements and forms in Chapter Ten, "Reiki and the Path to Enlightenment." She explains that the Vajra scepter figure and/or the Vajra bell-shaped figure is an adamantine (e.g. diamond) and says that the Raku (e.g. lightning bolt) is the Vajra of Vajrayana Buddhism. She defines Vajra as the non-duality of mind and object, which reminded me of the Tree of Life and the Magician in the Tarot cards with respect to manifestation. I was fascinated once again by the importance of the Raku symbol as discussed by the author because it reminded me of the Lightning Techno-Shaman in M Terry Green's books. Moreover, the author hinted at ancient alien theories and only someone familiar with those theories would understand the implications that she was putting forth. Diane Stein's book helped me to make many connections between certain concepts that I thought were unrelated. I'm happy to have read her book even though there were parts I didn't like. Her book deserves a rating of at least four stars out of five.

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