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Satya Japanese Reiki

LINEAGE: Mikao Usui, Toshihiro Eguchi, Goro Miyazuki, Mieko Mitsui, Takahashi, Toshitaka Mochizuki, Shingo Sakuma ...
Mieko Mitsui also took training with Dr. Barbara Ray.

ORIGIN: This is another branch of Reiki which originated in Japan.
It mentions Hayashi and Takata as having learned Reiki, but the lineage is Eastern.
The only Western influences came from Mieko Mitsui who also studied The Radiance Techinque.
The teachings are very similar to The Radiance Technique but with a simpler approach.
Satya Reiki is found most widely in India.
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Reiki in Japan

Mieko Mitsui spoke of a privately printed book, "Usui Reiki Gakkai" (said to be an academic text written by a mathematician at Meiji University, Tokyo) which supposedly talks about Reiki and a man named Usui.

Apparently Mieko herself actually received some training from a Japanese lineage Reiki Master: Goro Myazaki, who had been a student of Usui-Sensei's friend & student: Toshiro Eguchi.

She also reported that she had tracked down the home of Usui-Sensei's son's family, but that they refused to speak to her about Mikao Usui.

Mieko Mitsui's initial discoveries have, over the years, inspired other Reiki practitioners to carry out research into both the origins of Reiki, and also into its current surviving forms of expression in Japan.

For example, the German-born Reiki master, Frank 'Arjava' Petter has written a number of books on his research into the history of Reiki in Japan.

One-time 'Sannyasin' (i.e. disciple of the Indian Guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh - AKA: 'Osho' - 1931-1990 ), Frank, and his Japanese wife Chetna, began teaching western style Reiki in Sapporo, Japan in 1993.

On discovering that Frank and Chetna were offering 'master' level training and attunement, a great many Level 2 Reiki students (most, if not all of whom, one assumes, had been attuned by Mieko Mitsui), sought them out.

It seems to have been primarily via several of these students that the Petters gradually began to uncover snippets of information concerning Japanese Reiki, leading them to make contact with the wife of Usui-Sensei's grandson and later, a couple of individuals who, so we are told, had received Reiki training around the time of WWII.

It could be said that Frank and Chetna's research in to Reiki survivals in Japan took over from where Mieko Mitsui's research left off.

It was Chetna's mother: Masano Kobayashi who translated the inscription on the Usui Memorial at the Saihoji Temple (written in old the old form of Japanese kanji-characters) into modern-day Japanese, enabling Frank and his wife, Chetna, to produce the first (known) English version of the Memorial inscription.

Other western Reiki practitioners, including an English Reiki master named Chris Marsh, and a British-born Canadian: Dave King, have supposedly made contact with a number of Usui-Sensei's original students - including, so it is claimed, two Tendai Buddhist nuns - who, at ages in excess of 100, are still alive and well and sharing their memories of the early days of Reiki.

As more information began to emerge concerning the early days of Reiki in Japan - and also concerning its survival and development over the years, it gradually became obvious that there were numerous subtle yet none-the-less significant differences between what was now being referred to simply as Japanese Reiki and Western Reiki ( i.e. the system Takata-Sensei had learned from Hayashi-Sensei in the late 1930's.)

For example, Mieko Mitsui had stated that Japanese Reiki (as is the case with Barbara Ray's Reiki system) had more than the standard three levels found in Usui Shiki Ryoho as taught in the west be Takata-Sensei..