Reiki Healing Labyrinth

This symbol came to me in a vision. In 1985, I was in a men's group in Austin, Texas. We were doing a group breathwork session on prosperity, and as I completed the process, this symbol and an open palm appeared to me. I recognized the symbol as being Asian, but could not see any more meaning in it. Afterward I couldn't remember the symbol accurately enough to draw it.

A few days later I was getting cranial work, and seeing my therapist was knowledgeable in Chinese Medicine, I asked him. He told me that it was a reiki symbol. I didn't know what reiki was until that moment; two weeks later, the family with whom I was living hosted a reiki teacher visiting from California. Reiki is a technique of opening channels for receiving and transmitting healing energy through the hands and through intent. The '-ki' in 'reiki' means chi, life energy. According to reiki tradition, these symbols are revealed only to advanced students by an instructor, or revealed in dreams. The instructor refused to show me the symbol I described to her. This symbol I have never since seen elsewhere, although I have seen similar.

Years later I met Alex Champion, author of Earth Mazes, and I realized that the symbol I saw in my vision was a labyrinth, then I was instantly able to draw it.

As you walk or run a labyrinth, the parts of your ears responsible for balance help stimulate the unity of your brain hemispheres. This reiki labyrinth symbol represents the brain, with its convolution, its symmetry, the brain stem and even the "Third Eye." Much later I found a similar symbol in Chinese Alchemy: The Taoist Quest for Immortality, by J. C. Cooper.

Numerologically, the symbol is drawn on a grid of 50 x 50; the axis of symmetry is equivalent to 13. There are 32 turns and one cycle equals 188 steps. Use this symbol as a mandala for meditation on the perfection of the whole physical body.

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