*Recordings of the sessions will be made available for a limited period of time to registered participants*

Saturday, May 28, 2022

２０２２年５月２８日（土）

ALL TIMES ARE JAPAN STANDARD TIME (JST)

9 am    Opening remarks – Justin B. Stein (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)

9:15–11:00      Panel 1 – Seishin ryōhō prior to Usui Reiki Ryōhō

Avery Morrow (Brown University) – Kondō Kazō, a Shinto Hypnotist and Disrupter of Japan’s Scientific Age

Yu-chuan Wu ( Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica) – Kanhō and Shinhō: Inoue Enryō’s Invention of Shinri Ryōhō (Psychotherapy) in the Late Nineteenth Century

Response: Kurita Hidehiko (Bukkyō University)

Lunch Break

14:00–16:00    Panel 2 – The Birth and Early Development of Usui Reiki Ryōhō

Paul Guillory (University of Hawaii) – Japanese Spiritual Healing, Psychic Healing, and the Issue of Causation

Olaf Böhm (independent researcher) – A Historical Perspective on Usui Mikao-sensei’s Experience on Mt. Kurama

Liad Horowitz (independent researcher) – Usui Mikao’s Reiju Ceremony in the Context of Esoteric Buddhist Initiation (kanjō) 

Respondent: Hirano Naoko (Waseda University)

Dinner Break

 

20:00–22:00    Panel 3 – Reiki in the Twenty-first Century

Justin B. Stein (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) – Reiki, Spirituality, and Healthcare in the North Atlantic

Luis Fernando Junqueira (University College London) & Renata Palandri Sigolo (Federal University of Santa Catarina) – The Introduction and Integration of Reiki into the Brazilian Public Health System

Jojan Jonker (independent researcher) – Reiki’s Second Century

Respondent: Ioannis Gaitanidis (Chiba University)

Organisers

Justin Stein

Kurita Hidehiko

EANASE

This conference received financial support from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), “Modern Buddhism and Folk Spiritual Therapies”, 20K00084, 2020-2023.