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Title: Essential Reiki: A Complete Guide to an Ancient Healing Art by Diane Stein ISBN: 0-89594-736-6 Publisher: Crossing Press Pub. Date: May, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.77 (107 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential Reiki is truly essential for Reiki practitioners
Comment: Okay, so I'm not going to say that this is the only book you should buy. After all, there are a lot of good Reiki books out there. But this is one of the best ones. It presents Reiki with a simple and clear approach, truly a reflection of what Reiki is...simple and easy to do. So maybe Diane Stein was a bit overenthusiastic with her feminist and Wicca views, it's not really that distracting. Any intelligent reader can simply replace the "she's" and "her's" with "he's" and "him's" should one prefer to do so. And as far as Wicca, one can easily integrate Reiki into one's spiritual beliefs. Diane Stein is merely presenting one way of doing this and it just so happens that her beliefs are Wiccan. It's not distracting at all. One can learn a lot about all three levels of Reiki through this book. Diane Stein is a courageous woman and true Reiki teacher. Just like Usui Mikao (the founder of Reiki), she endeavors to bring Reiki to everyone. After all, Reiki does not only belong to the exclusive few whose primary end is monetary gain. Reiki belongs to all of us. We are all Reiki. It is our divine heritage. Diane Stein's book brings us one step closer to claiming that lost birthright.
Rating: 5
Summary: A truly Essential part of your Reiki studies
Comment: I read this book shortly after taking a Level One Reiki class and found it to be an amazing source of information and ideas. I have since then obtained Master/Teacher certification and highly recommend this book to my students. I do disagree with some of the things in this book but I feel it is important to read all points of view and make one's own decisions. There are many add-ins within this book that are mixed in with the Reiki information and for a newcommer, that might become confusing or misleading but that is easily remedied with further study with a Reiki Master/Teacher and through continued readings of other authors. From it's debut, this book has been controversial. Reiki elitists continue to speak out against this book in defense of their own methods as training fees are getting more affordable to the public. This book has done a great service to the public by giving detailed information about this wonderful energy and system! It can't make you a reiki practioner but it will help you learn about reiki. As far as distance attunements go, I have received them and given them as well as received and given in-person attunements and I can attest that distance attunement is quite valid and potent. Reiki has no limits, only people's minds have limits.
Rating: 3
Summary: Beautifully presented, informative, and nutty too
Comment: I've looked at a lot of Reiki books recently, and remain impressed by the excellent prose, page design, and typography of Diane Stein's book. Unlike most others, which seem to have been hastily composed in Microsoft Word and sent to the printer without so much as a spell-check, Essential Reiki is a well-balanced, inviting, and lucidly-composed treatise on the art. The illustrations too are clean and useful.
The content of the book, with regard to Reiki technique, seems impressive to me. Where Ms. Stein diverges from more standard practices, she seems to be good about saying so explicitly and then describing what the more standard practice is, if only briefly. There's a whole lot of information beyond the technique itself, on energy and chakra work for example, the value of which I haven't judged yet.
...And then there's the stuff that's off the deep end. On the one hand, she presents the traditional history of Reiki's origins that has apparently been shown to be false by several researchers. On the other, she presents "channeled" wisdom about Reiki's ancient origins and use by such figures as Jesus and Buddha and colonizers from a distant planet. It's a real shame to see such absurd material in a work that otherwise seems so good.
The polemic also gets to be a bit much. Ms. Stein goes on (and on) about the Reiki establishment and its practices of secrecy (with regard to the symbols) and high fees. I happen to agree with her somewhat that it's more important more people learn to heal, but let's just do it and not point fingers. In contrast to other readers, however, I found her turnabout treatment of gender interesting and stimulating. All she did was write with feminine as the default instead of the usual masculine. It really jumps out at you and points out how implicit sexism is in our everyday language.
I'm still looking for a teacher I feel a good connection with, and am still looking at books, but I must say I recommend this title for readers willing to work around some of the silliness.
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