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affordable to the seeker. No scholarships were possible. I was waitressing for
a living at that time, and barely paying my rent. Reiki would have to wait.
Soon after, one of the men received his Reiki II training. We began to talk
for long hours about healing, and the high cost of this training was a frequent
subject. One of the men felt that the high cost was necessary, that it signified
a commitment, while the other saw things more my way—that healing and
healer’s training should be available to anyone who will use the experience to
benefit themselves or others. I felt that my job as a writer and healer was (and
is) to teach any method and give any information on healing that I had
available to me. Cost or compensation is not primary, and to me any cost that
puts the information out of reach is immoral. The men knew that any
information on healing I could receive from them would probably one day
turn up in my books.
When my friend with Reiki II training began trying to pass Reiki
attunements, though he was still a Reiki II and had not had the teacher’s
training of Reiki III, I asked him to try it on me. For several months he
refused. In January of 1988 the three of us decided to begin doing healing
together on the AIDS floor of a local hospital, and he changed his mind. I
received my Reiki I attunement at Candlemas, February 2, 1988 and it was
very evident that the attunement process had worked for me, despite the Reiki
II status of the man who gave it.
I felt filled with an energy I had never before experienced or dreamed
existed. I was filled with light and with love for all Beings. My healing
ability immediately strengthened, more than I had believed possible, and the
ease of using Reiki confirmed that this was the healing method I had been
seeking. If my hands had been hot in doing healings before, they were far
hotter now. I knew at that time that I wanted to teach Reiki, but had no idea
how that could happen.
We began our hospital healing work, a period of time that I feel changed
me from a beginner to a healer, and when my friend completed his Reiki III
training that summer I participated in his first teaching class. Because I was
still earning less than $300 a month and could not pay the class fee of $150, I
was allowed to attend and to receive the Traditional attunements, but was not
given a certificate of having taken the class. My friend supervised the chapter
on Reiki that appears in my book All Women Are Healers (The Crossing
Press, 1990), but would not teach me further. I began to teach the Reiki I