Don Beckett Quick Facts

Don Beckett Quick Facts

Don at the August 2012 Chicago Expo

This was originally published here.

Main Areas: Reiki, Shinki, Jourei, Macrobiotics (http://johreiki.net) / HaMaKuA Publishing (http://hamakuapublishing.net)

Best Sellers: Reiki, The True Story: An Exploration of Usui Reiki / http://reikithetruestory.com [this link is no longer working]

Career Focus: awareness, healing, empowerment, Self-realization....

Really, I don't like the word "expert"! We're all just people, doing what we do, knowing what we know, being what we are....

I was raised on a ranch in Colorado, back in the days when there were still one-room country schoolhouses. I attended one of those for 2 years, until it was closed; then we had to go 10 miles to school in town. : ^ (

I grew up thinking I would be a graphic artist or a writer -- but got diverted into "Science" instead. I was blessed to be dis-illusioned of that idea while still in college. Then I spent 16 years practicing writing. Then got tired of words, and Reiki found me. A few years later, Macrobiotics found me; and Jourei, a few years after that. I practiced Reiki for 8 years before receiving my initiation as a "Reiki Master" -- which allowed me to initiate others. Immediately after that, a sequence of great serendipities began to unfold.

Reiki, Jourei, and Macrobiotics brought me back to writing -- first a website about all 3, and then a book about Reiki.

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Don Beckett, after growing up in the wilds of northwestern Colorado, received a Bachelor's Degree in Zoology from Arizona State University. He returned to Colorado, crossed the mountains, and lived in Boulder for 6 years. After that he spent 11 years in Oregon, and several short periods in both Mexico and  Arizona. Then, a few years at a world-renowned hot springs in Utah. He visited Singapore, lived in Bali for a while, returned to Arizona, spent 5 years in Hawai'i.

Beckett's favorite jobs, working for other people, have been: surveying highways for the State of Colorado, and washing dishes in a restaurant in Portland, Oregon. His favorite self-employments have been writing and working with subtle energies.

Don has been practicing Reiki since 1991, teaching and initiating others since 1999. In 2000 he became a member of Johrei Fellowship. In 2006 he was authorized to teach Quan Yin Joray. In 2010 he began teaching his own system of Jourei. Many of Don's students are in faraway places. They find him through his website Reiki, Shinki, Macrobiotics, and correspond by email. He also has taught many students in person — in the U.S., Bali, Romania, Turkey, Italy, and Serbia.

Don's latest project is working with the spiritual energy of Shinki ("God-energy" or "Source-energy"), through a method he co-founded with Dragan Pavlovic of Serbia — The Shinki Method.

Having noticed that reality can flow as well from Disease to Health as from Health to Disease, it occurred to him that reality would also flow not only in the direction of increasing age, but in the direction of increasing youthfulness. With this observation in mind, Beckett decided, in 2009, to start growing younger instead of older.

Recent Articles

Is Reiki a Channeled Energy?

"Alternative Medicine" — the Real Alternative to the Health Care Crisis

What is Happening to Reiki?

Seeing Western Medicine Accurately

Free Articles & Book Excerpts [broken links were removed]

What is Disease? What is True Healing?

What is Reiki?

Reiki interview [Reiki Lerarning Lounge]

Reiki Principles

Reiki Questions

Great Things About Reiki & Jourei

What is Happening to Reiki?

Reiki and Shinki

How the Shinki Method was Born

The Reiki Television Project

Reiki Mysteries and Myths

What is Jourei?

Reiju Empowerment

Reiju Experiences

Reiju Request

Behind the Scenes of "Reiki, The True Story"

"Alternative" Medicine -- the Real Alternative

Macrobiotics -- Yin and Yang

Notes from Earth (blog)

A Different Kind Of Beauty Treatment!

Reiki & Inner Beauty

The Key to a Lasting Relationship

The Nature of Male & Female

The Best Health Insurance

Letting Go!

The New Adam & Eve

The Multi-dimensional You

Don Beckett Books

Reiki, The True Story

The Fifth Sun

Other Programs & Highlights

One thing offered through my website, which I greatly recommend, is the receiving of an energetic empowerment called Reiju ("giving Spirit"). This is available to anyone, with or without Reiki experience. Reiju can be received once, twice, any number of times -- and is especially helpful when done weekly, or even daily. Time and distance cause no problem in giving and receiving Reiju. I do Reiju with many people, all around the world, every day. All I ask is that people be undisturbed, relaxed, and consciously receptive for 10-15 minutes.

For more information on Reiju, please see:

• Reiju Empowerment
• Reiju Experiences
• Reiju Request

Another thing greatly recommended is the receiving of Reiki through our Distant Reiki Healing Circle. As you will see on the web page, this is recommended not only when symptoms of disease are apparent, but all the time. Reiki very effectively connects us to the real Self ... and our Healing Circle maintains that connection every hour of every day and night. This being the case, we do not ask for your conscious participation as a recipient in the Healing Circle -- only that you willingly allow the Reiki to "do its thing" (which it does best when we are most relaxed, during sleep!).

Please also check out our newest tool for Self-realization: The Shinki Method -- through The Shinki Method website, or the Shinki section of johreiki.net ... or The Shinki Method page at facebook. [most links do not work anymore - 6/2013]

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Don Beckett

One of my favorite thoughts is that ALL IS WELL. That we can never really go wrong. That any "mistake" we ever make shall be overcome. Life gobbles up mistakes, along with everything else, and digests All That Is, and turns it all into perfection. We're all on the road to perfection ... and nothing can cause us to go anywhere else, because there is nowhere else to go! There is no other possible destination!! (When I truly realized that, on a deep level -- I felt so-o-o good and so-o-o at ease, it cannot be described! : ^ )

This perfection we are unfolding is what Sages throughout the Ages have called Self-realization. Truly, that's all there is. That's the road we are all traveling -- and, along the way, our thoughts and beliefs and feelings give us great influence on the events and people and situations that come into our lives.

Mikao Usui, the founder of what is now called Reiki, called his method merely a method for achieving personal perfection -- which is just another way of saying Self-realization. We are all in the process of realizing our true identity as the One and Only, holographic Self....

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I mentioned (above) a great sequence of serendipities in my life. Many of these (since 1999) have involved my receiving of information originating in Japan, which reveals quite a different picture of Usui Reiki than the one presented by the Hayashi-Takata version for 70+ years. This trail of serendipities led to the writing and publication of an ebook, which grew through 7 editions ... and, most recently, to the writing and publication of a print book, Reiki, The True Story. For the story behind the writing of that book, please see the following interview on North Atlantic Books Blog.

I'll be presenting the book at the Body Mind Spirit Expo in Chicago in August 2012 ... and offering Reiki and Shinki classes the following weekend. I'd love to see you there!

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4 Favorite Quotes:
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1 attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson:

• "Souls are not saved in bundles."

2 from ancient China:

• "My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon."

• "Having no destination, I am never lost."

1 from an elderly man in a barber shop in the southern U.S.A.
(in a documentary film whose title I have long since forgotten):

• "Whatever you is -- BE that!"

Getting Started With Don Beckett

For a look at some of the more-personal, not-quite-so-tightly-focused aspects of Mr. B, you may enjoy his sporadic attempts at blogging: a.k.a. Notes from Earth....

Here are some favorites:

• Istanbul -- Day 1
• Istanbul -- Day 2
• Snapshots of Serbia
• Goin' to Bucureşti...!
• Meanwhile, Back in Bucureşti....
• The Magic of Mujdei
• The Country of the Heart
• Mele Kalikimaka!
• Violet Flame, Romanian Style
• Chop the Pig !!
• VIOLETA!
• Real Tomatoes...!
• Moon Over Mamaia
• Getting Back to Eden

And . . . here are links to his articles at YourTango.com.....

Contacting Don Beckett

You can find me on facebook -- here and here -- and on twitter. I'm also on a few more such sites -- which I don't even remember the names of, much less my passwords! : ^ )

SO ... PLEASE ...  my preferred method of contact is good-old, Neanderthalic email...! Please write to me via the email link at the very bottom of any page of my websites -- ReikiTheTrueStory.com / johreiki.net / HaMaKuApublishing.net. [links do not work anymore-6/2013]

I would put an email link here, if it were not accessible to spambots! (The links on my websites are protected from such critters.)