Historical

The Japanese monk, Mikao Usui (1865-1929) is considered the founder of the Reiki method. His goal was to find the strength with which Jesus healed according to the Christian idea, too. There are various stories about the way in which Usui discovered the Reiki method. The most popular is the legend, according to Usui had a three-week time of meditation and fasting, a light vision in which he was the method disclosed.



Reiki spread to Tokyo and Hawaii to the continental United States. There are two different trends of reiki, which exist under the name Radiance and its original name Reiki. Reiki is in Europe, especially in New Age circles, very common.