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Jojan Jonker reconstructs the spirituality of a Japanese spiritual healing practice of the 1920s, Reiki, and places this in the Japanese socio-cultural context. Next he describes the development of this spirituality during its migration to North America (1930s) and eventually to the Netherlands (1980s). He argues that many elements of a spirituality belong to the practitioners' natural habitat and do not migrate with a given practice to other places with different socio-cultural backgrounds, and consequently the spirituality changes. Surprisingly enough, Western esoteric traditions influenced...

Reiki is allegedly founded by Mikao Usui in 1922. However, not much verifiable facts are known about his developing of Reiki. Usui remains veiled in enigma. But then, in 2023, "The Samurai Reiki Master" by Elizabeth Latham was published in which she makes a compelling case suggesting that Tokio Yokoi may have been the true progenitor of Reiki. Jonker now answers raised questions such as whether Yokoi acquired the requisite knowledge to develop Reiki, and whether there are discernible traces of Yokoi's influence within various Usui narratives as told by the Reiki styles Usui Shiki Ryoho,...