James Deacon's...... Reiki Pages..............................
www.aetw.org
(formerly: All Energy-Therapies Web)

+ + +

REIKI PAGES - MAIN SECTIONS








THE REIKI-MASTERS 'URBAN LEGENDS' QUIZ
Copyright © 2003 James Deacon

.

So, you're a street-wise Reiki-Master - you've practiced your art, initiated students, collected more diverse styles of Reiki Attunements and accompanying Certificates than you know what to do with; 'lurked' (in a non-threatening 'internet-speak' sense) on numerous Yahoo (& other) Reiki Group lists, read the books, watched the videos, bought the t-shirt (and the mug) - and now, if truth be told, you're bored ...

Well, why not spend a little time (that you would otherwise only be wasting giving someone a brief Reiki Treatment - or perhaps attuning them to the Reiki phenomenon) exercising your brain cells and testing your Reiki & General Knowledge...

[No prizes for correct answers - but possibly one or more sur-prises]

.

So:
Which of the following statments are factual
and which are purely 'Urban Legends' ?

  • Ostriches bury their heads in the sand
  • Reiki can do no harm (but the endless discussion of this topic can actually bore you to death…)
  • In 'Casablanca', Humphrey Bogart's character, Rick said: "Play it again Sam"
  • Reiki can do no harm (but concentrating on trying to draw HSZSN on the roof of your mouth with the tip of your tongue [Tibetan Style] while driving in the fast lane, might)
  • Hawayo Takata invented Reiki as a New Age Multi-Level-Marketing scam
  • A Chokurei is actually an 'Imperial Edict'
  • Elvis is alive and well and living in Scotland
  • Karuna Reiki is really TeraMai Reiki (only different)
  • TeraMai Reiki is really Patrick Zeigler's 'Seichim Reiki' (only different)
  • Elvis is one of Takata-Sensei's level 2 Reiki students
  • Reiki can do no harm (unless it is for your higher good, that is)
  • Any squiggle drawn by a Reiki practitioner is a long-lost original Reiki symbol
  • You don't need a Reiki Master to attune you to Reiki - Self-Attunements REALLY work (- just like 'pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps'...! )
  • Chakra Work is not a feature of original Reiki
  • Every magical, spiritual, mystical symbol that ever existed is a long-lost original Reiki symbol
  • Nero fiddled while Rome burned
  • Traffic Signs are long-lost original Reiki symbols
  • Reiki is merely a "lazy-person's" version of 'Cosmic Chi-Kung Healing'
  • Reiki is actually pronounced Lay-Kee
  • A Humo(u)r-Bypass is mandatory in order to be attuned to Reiki
  • Marie Antoinette didn't say "Let them eat cake"
  • There is no egotism in the Reiki Community
  • It's OK to be offensive and abusive to people - as long as you send them Reiki afterwards
  • The Gakkai teach Usui-Sensei's original Reiki system - nothing added, nothing taken away
  • No one would ever make up stories about the origins of Reiki - just to support their own fanciful theories
  • Usui-Sensei was a Christian Minister
  • Reiki is a 'Benign Viral Contagion' (it can be transmitted by touch, has reached epidemic proportions, and frequently mutates into new, diverse, unusual - yet none-the-less potent - strains)
  • Christopher Columbus discovered North America
  • Ascended Masters, Essential Oils, Crystal Healing, Wiccan Rituals and 'Fluffy Bunnies' are NOT original Reiki components
  • There is no egotism in the Reiki Community
  • Usui-Sensei learnt Reiki from a Tibetan Lama
  • Usui-Sensei learnt Reiki from a Peruvian Llama
  • Jesus was a Reiki Master
  • Reiki is from Atlantis and pigs have wings
  • John Cabot discovered North America
  • Original students of Usui-Sensei all live to be over 100 years old
  • There is no egotism in the Reiki Community!
  • Reiki always automatically knows precisely where it's needed (yet we have to channel it to specific people and direct it with specific symbols to specific intent)
  • Bill Gates is a Reiki Master
  • 14 Ascended Masters were arrested in a bar in Brooklyn after a dispute as to which one of them really invented Reiki
  • Usui-Sensei was a Tantric Buddhist (no, not THAT type of Tantra - the other, no-sex type: Shingon or Tendai Buddhism)
  • Running your own 'Reiki Business' is better than actually working for a living
  • Mel Gibson was born in the USA
  • 473 original students of Usui-Sensei have just been discovered frozen in a 1920's prototype cryogenic stasis chamber hidden deep under Mount Kurama
  • My Reiki is better than your Reiki
  • The DKM 'symbol' is not actually a symbol at all, but the Kanji characters for 'Big Bright Light'
  • Usui-Sensei was a Zen Monk
  • No one would ever make up stories about the origins of Reiki - just so they could write a book or five about it and live well on the royalties
  • You should always send Reiki to people who specifically ask you not to - after all you're a Reiki Practitioner and you know what's best for them
  • The Usui Memorial isn't a fake
  • Originally, Reiki was a Charismatic Discipline
  • Usui-Sensei played 'prop forward' in the New Zealand 'All Blacks' Rugby squad in 1908

.

.

So, how do you think you did....?

What - you want me to supply a Correct Answers List so you can check your score? Next you'll be wanting me to take your Reiki Classes for you!

OK, so just to get you started, here are a few Correct Answers:

Mel Gibson WAS born in the USA

A Chokurei IS an 'Imperial Edict' (but the Reiki Choku Rei isn't)

Ostriches DO NOT bury their heads in the sand

Usui-Sensei DID NOT play in 'prop forward' position in the New Zealand 'All Blacks' Rugby squad in 1908
(At least, he doesn't appear in the official Team Photograph!)



[click on banner]

THE DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INTERNATIONAL

 


[click on banner]


Reiki Pages
GUEST BOOK




REIKI-MASTERS
'URBAN LEGENDS' QUIZ

reiki books and music

reiki books and music

Site Built & Maintained by James Deacon. Copyright © 2002 James Deacon. All Rights Reserved.

Disclaimer: The contents of this site is for general information only. James Deacon does not necessarily endorse the methodology, techniques or philosophy of individual modalities detailed herein, and accepts no liability for the use or misuse of any practice or exercise on this site, or ones linked to this site.
reiki