Kundalini, Karuna, and Usui Reiki

midwayislander wrote:This is probably going to sound terribly stupid and I'm ashamed to admit it but I really have no idea what Kundalini and Karuna Reiki are. I know what the kundalini is and I'm sure I can look places on line to find out information about both kundalini and karuna reiki but thought I'd ask here to get the real facts.
How do these two methods differ from Usui Reiki? Isn't Dr. Usui the founder of the Reiki system?
Thanks for educating me!

midwayislander wrote:This is probably going to sound terribly stupid and I'm ashamed to admit it but I really have no idea what Kundalini and Karuna Reiki are. I know what the kundalini is and I'm sure I can look places on line to find out information about both kundalini and karuna reiki but thought I'd ask here to get the real facts.

midwayislander wrote:
How do these two methods differ from Usui Reiki?

midwayislander wrote:
Isn't Dr. Usui the founder of the Reiki system?
Thanks for educating me!

midwayislander wrote:This is probably going to sound terribly stupid and I'm ashamed to admit it but I really have no idea what Kundalini and Karuna Reiki are. I know what the kundalini is and I'm sure I can look places on line to find out information about both kundalini and karuna reiki but thought I'd ask here to get the real facts.
How do these two methods differ from Usui Reiki? Isn't Dr. Usui the founder of the Reiki system?
Thanks for educating me!

Karuna Reiki

Lineage: William Rand

Origin:
Here is a description of Karuna Reiki by the founder, William Lee Rand: "I did not originally intend to create a new system of Reiki, but starting about 1989, I began being given non-Usui Reiki symbols which were claimed to have benefit. I filed these symbols away along with the attunement processes that were included with some of them and also begin experimenting with some of them. After a number of years, I had quite a collection and many of my students began asking me about these "additional symbols" and wanting to know if they should use them. In the winter of 1993, I gathered together a number of my best students many of whom were spiritually sensitive, to experiment with the additional symbols, try them out and decide which were the most useful. We asked for guidance and through this process came up with a set of symbols that seemed to have the best energy. We also experimented with an attunement process to go with them. Later I was guided in the further development of the attunement process and this eventually evolved into a new system of Reiki. Throughout the process, I prayed for help from the Higher Power and asked that I be connected to a healing energy that would be of greater benefit. I did not channel any of these symbols myself. They came from other Reiki masters. One of these masters was Marcy Miller. In 1995, I was guided to more clearly define the system and to name it Karuna Reiki which can be defined as the Reiki of Compassion... While some of the symbols in Karuna Reiki are the same as those used by other schools and systems, because the attunements are different and the intention is different, the energies that are connected to Karuna Reiki are unique to the system."

Degrees:
Both levels are taught only to Reiki Masters in one, 3 day class by the Center. 2 attunements, one for each level, 9 symbols (non-Usui), plus 1 traditional and 2 Tibetan symbols (names, meanings, usage) are given, Violet Breath, chanting, and meditation are included. It can also be taught as a practitioner training for those who do not want to teach.