World Domination!

Well, not exactly world domination, nor even an attempt at such, but a real attempt to spread the teachings of Reiki Jin Kei Do as far and wide as possible.

Now, I love this lineage and the teachings that it contains. I have learnt much about myself and other people and about life as a consequence of engaging with these teachings. I have also seen many others that have attended my Reiki classes gain great benefit from these same teachings and more than this, there are those whom my students have been able to help through working as highly competent and professional practitioners of Reiki Therapeutics.

Given this, I think that it is a good idea to relay the opportunity to learn the method of RJKD to as many people around the world as possible. There is no-one that could not improve not only their own lives but the lives of those with whom they come into contact through taking on board the methods and philosophy of this beautiful and very special lineage.

One of the ambitions for the Reiki Jin Kei Do book therefore was to make the teachings not only clear through the text that I put together, but also provide an avenue for readers to learn the methods themselves. This is why at the back of the book there is a Directory of Masters. The idea for the Directory was in place before I had any idea what the book itself was going to cover. The Directory was a prime motivation for putting the book out in fact.

The Directory is far from comprehensive - there are many RJKD Masters in the world that I couldn't track down, and many who have websites that I could have contacted but didn't bother as I couldn't read the language that the site was written in! What the Directory does contain is about 70 or so RJKD Masters around the world who offer training in this particular tradition. I can't, naturally, vouch for the quality of this training, but I do know that there is a high degree of integrity across the world in the delivery of these teachings. All I could do in compiling the list was to trust in Reiki to guide the process. This is what I think has happened, and it is right that this should be so.

There are many Masters in the Directory who are offering training in more than one country - for some, including myself, there are several. It did feel a bit like carving up the globe to build an empire in allocating territory and nations to various people, but nonetheless, the motivation was simply to spread the teachings as far as possible. In this, correct motivation, as with all things in Reiki, is of paramount importance.

Some have asked why not just provide a link to the lineage website rather than include all that information on different lineage Masters? I had considered this, but I think that there is a particular Western mindset that assumes that the whole world has access to the internet in the way that we have it in the West. This is very far from being the truth. In many countries, although internet access is available it can be very unreliable, prohibitively expensive, difficult to access and frankly a right pain in the neck. I know. Having lived in Egypt for three years, just checking email on a regular basis became a daily task of mammoth proportions at times, let alone surfing the net for interesting information on Reiki.

So the Directory is there. It is not complete and inclusion in it does not guarantee a quality experience for the student who might attend a class run by one of the listed Masters. But it is a start in compiling a world-wide comprehensive Directory of RJKD Masters. At least, wherever a reader might be in the world, for most they will simply be able to pick up the phone and talk to someone reasonably local about attending a class and joining the rest of us in this global Reiki Jin Kei Do community.