Distant Attunements
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 (02:08:32)

Posted by Cougar

Distant Attunements

The topic of Distant attunements is one that often brings heated debate. In the Distant Attunement, the process is done using the Reiki Distant Symbol and the attunement is sent to the recipient distantly.

Within the Reiki System, there is a Symbol used for sending Reiki Healing Distantly for those not physically present. It is routinely taught in Level II Reiki Classes (see Reiki Level II Manual for more details). It is my opinion that distant attunements are a logical extension of the distant symbol and the system of reiki in general.

Those who are advocates for distant attunements, having tried and tested the procedure on many occasions believe it is a logical extension of using the Distant symbol. They also believe that the attunements are as appropriate and powerful and confer the status of a Reiki Practitioner/Master as well as having them done in person. I have personally received many Reiki Distant Healings, and Reiki Distant Attunements and found the attunements to be a wonderful experience. They are energetically just like being done hands on in person.
Distant Attunements allow those who do not have access to a Reiki Master to receive Reiki. People like Joseph Running Wolf Sparti (founder of the Global Reiki Masters Association), Terri Ramacus (the about.com altmedicine guide) and Peggy Jentoft, were pioneers of using the Distant Attunement Procedure. Joseph Sparti, founder of the GRMA was also the Developer of the Singular Attunement Procedure and offers free Distant Attunements several time per year. More information is available through his site at Reiki.Net Terri Ramacus also offers free distant attunements to level I reiki through the About.com altmedicine site.

There are those that do not believe in Distant Attunements. Some believe that since Mrs. Takata did not teach them they are not part of the Usui System therefore, they argue that they are not traditional practice and therefore are a different "system" and not Reiki.

Some, like William Rand, (see his article on Reiki Distant Attunement at his site at www.reiki.org ) feel that distant attunements might work, but his clairvoyants feel that distant attunements do not contain all the "frequencies" of energy that the regular attunements contains. (Although how they could determine this I cannot imagine, especially there is no known or reliable method of determining the strngth or completeness of anyone's reiki. Perhaps they invented a Reiki-Om-Meter to measure the energy?) Clairvoyants that I know tell me that they have watched both Distant and Hands-On attunements and they see the same thing occuring in both.

So is this a case of my clairvoyants are better than yours?!! Or perhaps we might take into account that clairvayancy has never been the most reliable of practices. If we through intent do an attunement hands on or distant, then we should trust that the creator, the source of Reiki will ensure that everything is exactlty as it is supposed to be! Many people in the Usui/Tibetan schools of reiki are taught that the "reiki guides" do the attunements (this is not a belief held by the majority of reiki practitioners). If your teachings/beliefs are that the "reiki guides" do the attunements, is it not an inconsistent belief to think that since they do them that they can certainly do them distantly?

Fundamentally it has to come down to a question of evidence, proof and faith. Where is the evidence to back up claims such as these? That is the problem with making such claims when they are unprovable. I can make claims. For example, i could claim that the space aliens started reiki millenia ago, buy shooting humans with their Reiki Ray Guns which focused cosmic energy on them. In reality when you doodle when talking on the phone you are subconsciously linked to the space guys and they are giving you new symbols! And i can say that i know cause i channeled them while on the phone and they told me. Barring objective evidence, this has exactly the same validity as anyone's claims regarding distant attunements. This is more about faith and belief than anything else.


However, having said that, we must evaluate what evidence we do have. Countless thousands of reiki practitioners and masters have been attuned distantly. In the final analysis - barring any way to objectively measure the energy or process - we must examine whether or not they can do reiki. From what i can tell, and alot of people with much much more experience than I, The answer to that is yes, they can.

But isn't that exactly as it should be. In the final analysis the fundamental question has to be, "when a reiki attunement is done, who is it that is actually doing it? You the master, or Reiki the energy?" It is an important question because the answer to this question of distant attunements will be found in the answer to this question. We are channels of Reiki, not its masters. Reiki does the healing, so, it would be appropriate to state that therefore Reiki MUST be doing the attunement. That also explains why it doesn't matter what kind of attunement process is done and that they all seem to work. The intent of the Master and Intent to receive of the student seem to be sufficient.

Assuming that to be true, how could a distant attunement work any less than one done in person when we are just providing the Intent and the energy does the actual action?

I Personally think that it is logically inconsistent to believe that you can send distant Reiki healing, but not distant reiki attunements. My experience tells me that distant reiki seems to work as well as hands on. Some of the best and most powerful attunements i have received were distant.

Not believing in the possibility of Distant Attunements sets limits on the source. If reiki is from the one Source / God / Goddess / Creator / (fill in the blank) then you are setting limits on that source by saying distant attunements are not possible, or inferior. If energy (reiki) is available, it is available from the source to all on an equal basis, and I suspect with surprisingly fewer limitations than we currently place on it.

Lastly, no one attuned Usui. Mr. Rand in his article on his website regarding distant attunements believes that it is not that same and "something seems to be missing". He also states that there are some parts of an attunement that can only be transmitted by being with the "physical presence" of the student. That is an interesting theory, however there is one thing that would seem to belie that assertion.

That one thing would be Usui's own experience. Usui Sensei's story is that no one attuned him. "What" you exclaim? No "physical presence"!!!! how could that be possible?" It is said that Usui experienced a Satori, a moment of oneness, on the mountain. In that oneness, he experienced the energy in a mysterious way. He was attuned. If Usui Sensei, self attuned, then it was the energy that did it and there was no physical presence involved at all. If Usui sensei could trust the energy to have attuned him, can we do any less??