Product Description

Reiki: The True Story is a comprehensive investigation of Reiki as both a healing practice and a lifelong path of spiritual awakening. Author and Reiki expert Don Beckett weaves together a new story about Reiki’s origins and its founder’s true vision. The foundation of this book is the teachings of a group of Reiki founder Makao Usui’s original students, who held their master’s knowledge in secrecy for more than seventy years.

After a general introduction to Reiki, Beckett presents a thorough history of the discipline (including the testimony of some of Usui’s students) as well as an in-depth manual for practice. The author rounds out his exploration with material from world renowned, contemporary Reiki Masters, Beckett’s own insights into the nature of Reiki energy, as well as information about the chakra system, yin and yang, and the Five Transformations. The book concludes with a chapter entitled “Beyond Reiki,” which bridges knowledge of Reiki with the lesser-known practice of Johrei. Thorough explanations coupled with cutting-edge discoveries about Reiki’s past make this a compelling volume for novice and experienced practitioners alike.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #555128 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-07
• Released on: 2009-04-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 229 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781583942673
• Condition: NEW
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Review
“In this book, we are invited to explore one of the great spiritual movements born in the twentieth century: Reiki. Don Beckett, unlike many writers on the subject, comes not with blind affirmations regarding the life of Reiki's founder, Mikao Usui. Instead, gathering the latest discoveries made about Usui, Beckett attempts to paint the most accurate portrait possible of a man whose life has been, until now, cloaked in legend. We now see Mikao Usui more fully, as a seeker of truth, concerned about human beings and the true meaning of a human life.

“Beckett describes in detail and with clarity many of the Japanese healing techniques associated with Reiki, as well as those used by the practitioner to increase his or her connection to the universal Source. Also discussed are the archetypal Reiki symbols, their inner meanings and uses, and the energetic empowerment procedure called Reiju, which is largely unknown in Reiki today. Also incorporating selected knowledge from other disciplines, Beckett reveals not just a deeper understanding of Reiki, but a holistic understanding of the energetic nature of life. This book is not only the exploration of a teaching, but the exploration of our true nature and the means leading to its discovery.”
—Karma Tsering, teacher of Reiki, Paris and Amsterdam

“In what is destined to become a classic work about Reiki, Beckett-sensei takes us on a step-by-step journey toward spiritual healing, which then manifests as tangible healing in all aspects of our lives. Having begun our own healing, our influence on the world around us—like ripples from a pebble dropped into a still pond—benefits everyone and everything. And we learn to focus our healing energy as needed. This wonderful book is your opportunity to be healed and to help heal the world.”
—Gyo Bo In Nichijo Fumon, Abbot, Fumon Shugyo-An (Hokke-Mon Shu Buddhist Tradition)

About the Author
Don Beckett, born and raised in Colorado, has also lived in Arizona, Oregon, Utah, Mexico and Bali. He currently calls Hilo, Hawaii home. He has been practicing Reiki since 1991 and has initiated others since 1999. He has also practiced various kinds of formal meditation for more than twenty-five years. A member of the Johrei Fellowship, Beckett maintains a complete website at www.johreiki.net that attracts thousands of teachers and students of Reiki.

Customer Reviews

Sure to be a classic, unlike any other Reiki book
Just when you think that there is no need for yet another Reiki book.

I must first comment on the quality of the publication itself. The book is printed on high quality heavy weight semi-lustre paper. It is trade paper book size with a very nice sturdy cover.

Well, Reiki: The True Story is not just another Reiki book it will soon become THE Reiki book.

What makes Don Beckett's book so unique?

The book not only explores the early known more factual based history of Mikao Usui (that could be culled from some of Usui-sensei's last living students and their students) it is also broken up into the three main levels of traditional Reiki (Japanese Reiki); Shoden, Okuden and Shinpiden.

He presents traditional Usui Reiki in as close to its original context as possible.

Beckett shares his knowledge, his thoughts and his intuitive approach in a very comfortable, first person voice that has a nice touch of humble authority on the subject.

I choose the word humble to describe his approach as he has much experience on the topic but also enough wisdom to not come off as a know it all expert with the final word.

He is always inviting the reader to think and intuit for herself, something I greatly appreciate.

Beckett's book will cause your Reiki vibes to stir right up and flow. He speaks with compassion.

It is difficult for me to write as elegant and eloquent as the author to how awesome this book is....but it really is.

This book,Reiki: The True Story: An Exploration of Usui Reiki will definitely be the text I will use in my own classes.

If there was but one Reiki book you would ever need to own it would bar none be this one!

Do yourself a favor and purchase this book I am sure you will not be disappointed. I own at least 14-15 other Reiki books.

One Love!

One of the best Reiki books I have come across
It is not often that I write any sort of a book review, and it is not often that I come across a Reiki book that I want to say complimentary things about, since most Reiki books in print are fairly dreary and lacking in content, I find.

But "Reiki, the true story" by Don Beckett does not fall into this category and is one of the few Reiki books that I can wholeheartedly recommend. This is a hefty book, running to over 200 pages, and is very pleasing to the eye. But what is important is its content, and there is much to commend.

Don has brought together from various Japanese sources a detailed and fascinating description of the story of Reiki: its origins and its practices at different times during Usui Sensei's life, and its journey to the West. It is easy to read, comprehensive, and brings out the similarities and agreements between the different sources of information, as well as the contradictions and the mysteries, things that confront anyone trying to get to grips with what Usui's original system was all about.

This is more than a history book, though. Don examines in detail the original practices of Usui Sensei's system, as described by the different sources, showing what was practised at the different training levels, and offers personal insights and suggestions for experimentation and further practice.

I found that I could not put this book down, and I believe that this book should be on the bookshelf of anyone who wants to discover what Reiki was all about, as a reference work and as a practical workbook.

I could have written this
This book resonated with everything I've ever known.It was so good I felt I could have written it myself.It is so sensible ,hopeful and simple that it was a joy to read.I would recommend it to all energy workers and the general public.