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Summary: longing to read this
Review: simply i am trying to have it where ever it is available
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Summary: Essentisal Reiki: A Complete Guide to an Ancient Healing Art
Review: I have been a Reiki Master/Teacher for many years now and I love Diane Stien's book. All of my students love the way the she explains everything in such detail. All of my students also say that they can feel her love of Reiki in the way she writes about it. My Master/Teacher learned and got all of her degrees in Reiki from Diane and told me that she really is a very loving spirit.
To any future student of Reiki--I feel that this is THE BEST book to study from at first--then you can move on to new books.
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Summary: A Libertarian Approach to Reiki: lots of info, some flaws
Review: This book was the first text I read in my Reiki healing & teaching path. Having gained insights and information from experience and many other sources, I'm now in a better position to discern the quality of Diane Stein's contribution. This book opens Reiki up to ANYONE willing to borrow the book or pay [$$$] to buy it. Making Reiki more open and accessible was a great contribution, as Reiki is the spiritual life-force that we are all a part/manifestation of. However, Diane is a little bit too open to information sources such as the connections between Reiki healing and Jesus as well as the extraterrestrials. While those histories may be half-true, Diane seems to take them for granted as pure fact, like she does with the stories about Usui that have subsequently been disproved. She also recommends some chi exercises that may not be ideal for everyone. I recommend this book for it's openness & wealth of information and ideas, while I recommend reading other books to balance out some of the flaws in Diane's interpretations of things.
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Summary: There are better Reiki books out there!
Review: I am a Usui Reiki Master. Although informative in some areas, I found this book to stray too far from the traditional Reiki ideals and traditions. I also felt that the author interjected her opinion too often to make this a useful handbook for a Reiki student. I strongly disagree with Ms. Stein's mass attunements; giving attunments without instruction or information seems irresponsible to me. As I read that particular passage, I felt she was diminishing Reiki to some sort of "hippie fad" or something equal to face-painting at a carnival. I read it and tossed it aside, and have not recommended it to any of my students or others interested in Reiki.
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Summary: A Teaching Masters thoughts
Review: While a lot of acurate "new " information about the healing art of Reiki has been revealed by W. Rand and Frank Peters in recent years, I ask every new Reiki student to read this book prior to attending a class. The information is mostly accurate and insightful. Diane was daring when she penned this work, as no published book at the time revaled so much to the public about the inner working of Reiki and the attunement process. I honor her desire that Reiki shall never be lost again.
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Summary: Not as much about Reiki as about personal irritations
Review: I would not recomend ANYONE reading this book when they start learning about Reiki. Though she does bring up a few good points that others don't touch on, she more brings her own personal hatred of men and christians and as a forum to spread her views about religion and sexism. The book may be summed up in bsically, "Women can do reiki and the system that was devbeloped is to control people, and christianity is a bunch of lies, and oh, by the way, I guess men can do it too."
Be sure of your facts before attempting this book.
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Summary: Reiki, path of love
Review: Once I heard about Reiki, I started with reading Diane Stein's Essential Reiki, and found myself on the way of Reiki Universal Life Force Energy. Stein describes what Reiki is and Reiki levels very clearly. While you are reading this book you can feel the love she has put in, as Reiki in deed is a path of love.
Since the time I received my first attunement, Essential Reiki became a handbook for me, which I open and open again. Essential Reiki is a very detailed book that it is easy to find anything you wonder about Reiki. As I beleive that I am going to take my third degree attunement sometime in the future, I am reading the third level section in Essential Reiki that makes me ready, give me more details, open my mind and heart.
Stein, in this book, takes you to Reiki's world, and once you get there it becomes a lifestyle.
Everyone has got a way to decsribe him/herself. This is the way we choose. Thank you Diane Stein.
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Summary: Essential Reiki
Review: Excellent book! Some Usui Reiki practioners may be shocked to see the Reiki symbols revealed, but I thought this was an excellent reference book to review what I have learned in Reiki I and II and what I have to look forward to in Reiki III/Master initiation. This book also explained a lot of the spiritual changes that I have been going through since my initiation and practice of Reiki in the past two years. I highly recommend this book to anyone who practices Reiki.
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Summary: A gift of healing
Review: Diane Stein felt a desire tho help others to heal. She felt that touch had the power to heal, became aware of the practice of Reiki and wanted to learn the practice.Unable to afford the very expensive training by a Reiki Master from the traditional school she expended great effort to gain an understanding of the practice of Reiki, the ability to use the healing energy, and the ability to attune others so that they could use the healing energy. She wrote this book to share the information she learned and in the process irritated the traditionally trained Reiki Masters who believe that the symbols published in the book are secret and should not be published.There is a great difference between sacred and secret. The symbols used in Reiki allow the sharing of healing energy. That makes them special and sacred. To keep them secret limits those who wish to share this healing energy. I don't believe that the creator of all things prefers one group of people over another but loves all equally. The sharing of these sacred symbols is an act of great love. This book explains very throughly the methods and symbols used in the practice of Reiki and is an excellent reference book for the Reiki practitioner. Whether the traditionally trained agree with her methods or not, they do work and those who are not able to afford traditional training are able to offer healing energy to others. Every author writes through the filter of his or her own experience. Ms. Stein is openly feminist and Wiccan. I do not embrace either of these ways of life but can still value the information about the practice of Reiki that she has shared with us. I recieved Reiki I from a traditionally trained Reiki Master. When I wished to recieve Reiki II she seemed reluctant to give me that training. I was able to recieve Reiki II and Reiki III from a Reiki Master who was trained by Diane Stein. I am able to share healing energy with others and have successfully attuned others so that they can share the healing energy as well. This is a great gift. In all things we must decide for ourselves that which is our truth. There is truth in this book. You do not have to agree with all of Ms. Stein's beliefs to find it.
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Summary: 'naturally', the best
Review: this is the only reiki book i go back to time and time again. before i attained the level I attunement, and after reaching master level two years ago it remains the most complete book on reiki healing i have read. there is so little of the author/teacher's ego involved in this publication, many "healers" may find it unnerving. this is a woman who encourages becoming a healer for the good of the planet and ALL its inhabitants...not to simply hang out your shingle and make $. she also does not suggest nor require converting to her belief system to enroll in the course or ask to be put on a pedestal for her role in your certification! thank you diane stein!
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