Reiki Symbol Potluck

I was revisiting one of my Reiki books. Just browsing through. I came across the Raku symbol. When I received my Reiki III attunement it was not taught to me. A copy of it was placed in the folder and the instructor went over it's name, but when we did attunements on classmates, using it was not part of the instruction.

Today, I decided to give it a try, to just play with it a while. I'm at the place now with Reiki that I better understand all the different branches of Reiki as people's attempts to make money. Not necessarily from a greedy place or any kind of mal-intent.

It's just that the proliferation of new symbols and flavors of Reiki left me wanting to "maximize" my connection. More and more classes as a way to become a better healer. In search of African-rooted healing symbols, a google quest lead me to Lightarian Reiki. It sounded amazing.

When I looked it up, it was like all the others, something that someone "received" intuitively. I'm in no way poo-pooing intuitive receipt of increased knowledge. I am questioning the need to package it as a "better" Reiki. There are Karuna Reiki folks, Seichem Reiki folks, and I'm sure Lightarian Reiki folks, all getting great and amazing results. I bet there are even incredible Usui Reiki folks doing amazing things.

But back to Raku...
Having looked around at all the various Reiki formats, I decided I'd try using the symbol even though I don't think I was "attuned" with it. Well here's what happened. The symbol danced all around me. It was up and down, almost like sweeping my aura clean and releasing attachments, old cords and out-dated connections.

Powerful! Does that mean when I receive published information on symbols of other Reiki forms I can do them without an attunement? What if I "receive" a new set of symbols? Will I and, more importantly should I, feel compelled to distribute them as a new and improved Reiki?

I am fully aware that I am in no position to answer those questions today. My higher self says I've still got lots to learn before the answers will be clear (we've been talking to each other a lot more directly these days). Which probably means the answer depends on many things. More importantly, it means what others do with symbols they believe they have received is none of my business unless and until the universe makes it my business. Right now, it ain't my business.

The Lightarian Reiki doesn't add new symbols. It holds itself above Usui and Karuna by virtue of intensity and connection to higher vibrations of the same universal energy flow accomplished through intention. Sounds wonderful to me.

Is that really something "new". Is it possible that any Reiki Master of any branch can do enough purification, healing and self-development that the Reiki energy becomes powerful enough to surpass the symbology of Karuna, Seichem and Lightarian Reiki?

And just sitting at the keyboard a while an answer downloads into my mind.

It isn't any different than my pursuit of the original Reiki attunements. On my own I could have increased my connection to universal energy. My healing powers, with intention, would assuredly have grown. What the Reiki attunements offered was a quickening of the path to spiritual and personal growth. Like a worm hole through space, you get to bypass a bit of the usual linear travel time.

Readers should keep in mind that I'm not even two months old as a Reiki Master. I haven't yet fully explored the minimum possibilities of Dai Ko Myo. Then again, I'm coming to terms with past lives in healing work, and inherently appreciate that all roads lead to spiritual Rome.

Even with an innate of understanding of that fact, I can't deny that in my dreams, I fantasize myself destined to discover an ancient West African symbology of universal energy.