• Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    If reiki(dot)org, which claims to be the international center for this malarkey training is true, they apparently say some different forms of it were around in the 1910s, but I saw absolutely nothing about it being ancient.

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      3 days ago

      Yeah, it looks like you’re right. Not sure what I read years ago. This is what Wikipedia says:

      Mikao Usui originated the practice in Japan. According to the inscription on his memorial stone, Usui taught his system of reiki to more than 2,000 people during his lifetime. While teaching reiki in Fukuyama, Usui suffered a stroke and died on 9 March 1926.

      So, apparently before 1926. Still, really far away from “ancient”.

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      4 days ago

      Why did you spell that with a “(dot)” and then include an actual link? The reason people use (dot) or (at) is when they don’t want software to automatically see something as a link or an email address, and yet you intentionally added a link.

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        4 days ago

        Because I am an idiot on some form of autopilot. I never type full links in comments but I definitely wasn’t thinking when I did that this time.