Reiki was founded by Mikao Usui a Christian minister in 1922.
He was asked by 2 students how Jesus did the miracle of healing and if it was possible to heal as Jesus did. Usui could not answer, so he set out on a lifelong quest to find an answer. In brief, Mikao Usui travelled to the USA to study, he learnt Chinese & he studied with the Buddhist monks. After going to a monastery and meditating with the head monk, it was decided for him to go to Mount Kuri Yama, there he had to fast for 21 days and meditate to seek the power of healing. On the 21st day a brilliant light appeared to Usui and bubbles all colours of the rainbow, then came a brilliant white light followed by Sanskrit letters, the secret formula of life force energy and how to make contact with it. They came to him one by one and Usui was commanded to memorise and remember each one and to preserve them. Mikao Usui passed on the secret of Reiki healing to Dr Chujiro Hayashi who then taught Mrs Hawayo Takata. Mrs Takata has been instrumental in spreading teachings of Reiki to the United States and Canada and then it became world wide including Australia.
He was asked by 2 students how Jesus did the miracle of healing and if it was possible to heal as Jesus did. Usui could not answer, so he set out on a lifelong quest to find an answer. In brief, Mikao Usui travelled to the USA to study, he learnt Chinese & he studied with the Buddhist monks. After going to a monastery and meditating with the head monk, it was decided for him to go to Mount Kuri Yama, there he had to fast for 21 days and meditate to seek the power of healing. On the 21st day a brilliant light appeared to Usui and bubbles all colours of the rainbow, then came a brilliant white light followed by Sanskrit letters, the secret formula of life force energy and how to make contact with it. They came to him one by one and Usui was commanded to memorise and remember each one and to preserve them. Mikao Usui passed on the secret of Reiki healing to Dr Chujiro Hayashi who then taught Mrs Hawayo Takata. Mrs Takata has been instrumental in spreading teachings of Reiki to the United States and Canada and then it became world wide including Australia.