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INTRODUCTION TO SEIKI
Rocking back and forth, we celebrate one of the world’s oldest self-healing, rejuvenation, and spiritual practices. It requires no particular belief, understanding, or elaborate explanation and is available to anyone who is both courageous and childlike enough to do something so simple. Its basic principle can be articulated with these two words: Do nothing. If you have to think about what this means, you will miss its instruction. This is an invitation to plunge into spontaneity.
Moved by a strong, invisible current, we feel a dynamic, tingling energy throughout our bodies. It matters not what this experience is called or how any spiritual, philosophical, or scientific theory attempts to explain it. We are content and satisfied to feel it and be moved, letting go of all contrived habits that try to make life happen.
Even if you have just one authentic experience of being inside this current—really inside it—it is enough to transform your whole being. Falling deeper into the current without effort, the desire for power and control falls away. “Pow” and “kapow” are let go in favor of “be-here-now Tao.” Words now prefer flowing inside improvisation. The words, like you, want to be set free.
Jump into the river of seiki. You’ll know it when you’re there, for you will bob like a cork on water and rock back and forth like a baby held by its mother in a rocking chair. Stay there longer. Watch how other spontaneous movements spring forth. They are fascinating and will catch you by surprise—suddenly your interest in the performance of an effortless, moving, changing you is far more interesting than old habits of thinking.
Become enveloped by the current that has no need for the effort of mindful attention. Get out of the way and let life make you happen; allow life’s wondrous movement to grab hold of you and carry you along with it. Be distracted by life: distraction rather than attraction is the secret. Your mind will lose track of how you are able to constantly change. It’s exhilarating, renewing, even intoxicating.
Hold our hands and feel where the current takes us. Are you feeling a tidal wave of heat flowing from the top of your head to the bottom of your soles? Or is it flowing from the bottom to the top? Anything can be experienced inside this stream—anything except tiredness, sickness, worry, jealousy, hatred, malaise, loneliness, and discontent. The deeper you plunge, the stronger you feel deep empathy, connection, joy, and love. Let the motion be inseparable from this exalted emotion. Feel free to celebrate with all kinds of commotion! We are. Shout out praise and joy! The universe dances and sings inside of you.
It’s incredible what happens, isn’t it? The more you offer praise, the happier you become. You are feeding joy with joy. The celebration of life is returned with more life. This is how it has always been, though we have forgotten. Don’t analyze—go deeper and further into the stream. There you can only laugh and love. If you remain on the riverbank, you risk getting all dried up. That’s the aging you want to avoid. The fountain of youth is found inside the current of the flowing stream. Enter the timelessness that is always present for all ages.
One of the oldest cultures in the world, the Kalahari Bushmen, lives inside this holy river, even though they make their home in a vast desert. The samurai of ancient Japan knew how to swim inside this fluidic spontaneity, even though they appeared to have extraordinary control. Their secret is found in the constant natural movements of a child. Bobbing, rocking, swaying, and dancing, children are constantly moving. When they stop, largely because parents and teachers command them to sit still and stop fidgeting, their energy drains away. School becomes an impossible exercise of trying to stay awake. Do you remember? Unless you were totally engrossed in a project, the more quiet and still you became at your desk, the more likely you were to doze off into slumber. But when the bell rang you ran to the playground, full of instant energy. Where did that burst of aliveness come from?
The bell is ringing for you now.
Move and the world moves with you. Move and notice you are the change. Move and find that inspired words flow like poetry. Move and feel moved to love. The alternative is sitting still and drowning in the internal recycled chatter that tries to figure out how to get on board the ship to glory, the train to success, the flight to happiness. But you are already on it! Once you know that, you will feel the current inside and outside of you. You’ll find happy feet and a joyful voice. It will be impossible not to experience the thrill of being alive, even if you have only a day to live.
Welcome to seiki, the old Japanese word for the vital life force. We refer to it as the non-subtle life force because experiencing it is unquestionably obvious and so powerful that it can transform your life in an instant. If you wonder whether you have experienced seiki, you haven’t. Once you have met seiki, you know it and never forget it. Seiki invites you to take a stand for your life. It inspires you to jump—even take a somersault—for life! You deserve to feel alive and to be exhilarated, lightened, and transformed, unrestrained by sideline commentary of the interpreting mind. Move right now! Shout out loud: “Yes!” Have you ever shouted a whisper? Shout a whisper as loudly as you can: “Yes! Yes! Yes!” Say yes to life and life will notice. It will rush inside of you and be instantly ready to take you on an extraordinary ride—the journey of a life recharged with seiki, the miraculous and ever delightful non-subtle vital life force.
The key to achieving a happy, meaningful, and fulfilled life is found in your relationship with seiki. When you are filled with seiki, you are able to mobilize well-being, awaken creative expression, and optimize everyday performance. We introduce you to the Japanese practice of seiki jutsu, the art of the non-subtle vital life force. Seiki makes you feel as alive as you can possibly feel.
Ikuko Osumi Sensei, one of the greatest practitioners of seiki jutsu, described seiki as “activated and strengthened ki,” made ready for empowered transmission and reception by human beings. Seiki is enhanced, concentrated, and supercharged life force. The practice of cultivating your connection with seiki is one of the most valuable gifts you can give yourself. Seiki jutsu enables you to encounter your true nature, and to be continually tuned and recharged to carry out your unique destiny.
People talk about “energy” all the time. We mention energy when we refer to the essential quality of a person, relationship, performance, situation, thing, or place.
“I like her energy.”
“This place has exceptional energy.”
“He drains my energy.”
“She has charismatic energy.”
“That music energizes me.”
“This painting has good energy.”
We like and dislike certain energies; we recognize good, bad, unusual, special, low, neutral, or high energy. But what do we really mean when we use this term, other than its being a comment regarding how we feel about something?
Scientifically speaking, energy is all there is. When Albert Einstein suggested that what we call matter is only energy that is moving slowly enough for us to perceive it as solid, this applies to us as well. Our brain, heart, guts, and skin are composed of electromagnetic forces in motion, all moving at incredible speed. The patterns of energy in our whole being determine the quality of our life. Our well-being is a consequence of our energetics, the vital life force or seiki that resides and circulates within.
When a musical performance carries the energized emotion to pierce your heart and soul, you know you’re in the presence of activated energy. Simply going through the motions with mere technique alone cannot enliven music. Whether it be art, sport, cooking, or everyday living, we desire our expression to be fully alive and charged with positive energy. Seiki is the current, vibe, and energy from which life flows. With seiki jutsu, you have the know-how to bring forth an energized life. Heart and soul will only arise when seiki is thriving within you.
Seiki jutsu is a unique self-healing, revitalization, and spiritual practice based on spontaneous expression. The transformative art of handling seiki, the vital life force, consists of:
Seiki jutsu differs from other movement-based practices in that it emphasizes spontaneity over choreographed form. Unlike most bodywork and energy-oriented therapeutic methods, seiki jutsu has no prescribed movements, preferred choreographies, or elaborate explanatory systems. It proposes that the spontaneous, natural movements of the body deliver and infuse its basic teaching and that, over time, the performance of these movements results in resourceful outcomes for the practitioner.
In 1928, Jozo Ishii of the Seiki Ryoho Kenkyu Jo (Seiki Treatment Institute and Research Establishment) in Japan published a book entitled “Essentials of Seiki Self-Healing Therapy,” arguably the first written account of seiki jutsu. Ishii reported research on how seiki jutsu could resolve body disorders, ward off illness, revitalize well-being, and promote longevity. Japanese practitioners have referred to it as the fountain of youth. It was also claimed to awaken and nurture creative talent and spiritual gifts. Some translated excerpts of this source text are published in this book as an appendix.
Seiki jutsu was well established centuries before reiki was developed and was used by the samurai. It is thought to have existed in the early times of Shintoism, perhaps as far back as the eighth century, and holds within it ancient Japanese shamanic ways of handling the life force. In addition to being a self-help practice, seiki jutsu is a healing modality that emphasizes hands-on interaction—skin-to-skin contact—and its experience leaves no doubt as to its presence. Seiki jutsu practitioners experience a wide range of electric-like sensations, from vibratory buzzing to strong convulsing waves throughout their bodies.
Don Wright, former teacher of Ericksonian hypnotherapy at the Esalen Institute and aikido practitioner, describes his first experience of seiki, which was administered by Bradford Keeney: “I felt like I was floating and wanted to move my body with speed and precision. All of my senses were intensified. I recognized this condition as being similar to the ki activation that I had learned to utilize in aikido training. The difference was that the intensity of this energy was magnitudes beyond what I had previously experienced; it was beyond what I’d ever imagined.”1
The following chapter, “Ikuko Osumi Sensei and the Lineage of Seiki Jutsu,” presents the foremost practitioner and master of seiki jutsu in the twentieth century. Ikuko Osumi Sensei received seiki from her aunt in 1935. Ikuko Osumi was spiritually inspired by stories about her ancestor from the 1600s, Eizon Hoin, who revived a shrine on Mt. Maki and was reportedly responsible for numerous miracles. Today he is honored as a kami (spirit) who protects the weak, maintains justice, and guards against fire. Hoin’s grandfather was the famous samurai Katagiri Katsumoto (1556–1615), one of the Seven Spears of Shizugatake. Osumi’s gifts as a healer and spiritual teacher were respected in Japan, and her clients included many renowned artists, national treasures, scientists, and leaders. Despite this recognition and her strong spiritual and cultural lineage, Osumi refused to accept offers to turn her work into a religion.
Two books have been written on Osumi’s life—The Shamanic Healer: The Healing World of Ikuko Osumi and the Traditional Art of Seiki Jutsu (by Ikuko Osumi and Malcolm Ritchie) and Ikuko Osumi, Sensei: Japanese Master of Seiki Jutsu (by Bradford Keeney), and she is referred to as a Shinto shamaness by author George Williams in Religions of the World: Shinto. In this book we present how Osumi taught this natural way of healing and revitalization.
In 1996, Osumi Sensei passed her lineage to Bradford Keeney and legally authorized him to oversee its teaching. We will discuss the origin of The Keeney Institute for Healing, dedicated to passing on the basic principles and practices of seiki jutsu as a powerful means of transformation and personal development.
BASIC IDEAS OF SEIKI JUTSU
The tradition of seiki jutsu holds that seiki is the vital force in nature and that it underlies all life and creation, from daily health to creative expression, actualization of human potential, and mastery of any form of performance art. Seiki jutsu practitioners propose that there is no need to seek an elaborate understanding of seiki, for any intellectual encapsulation brings unnecessary constraint. And more importantly, any presumed understanding of seiki may inhibit its evocation or felt presence.
Words such as seiki and vital life force are not limited to signifying physical energy and forces that belong to the laws of physics; they are also poetic metaphors that hint at the wholeness of life and how it can be experienced. Though seiki may be felt as an electrical force surging through the body, any reference to this experience as an “energy” or “force” is better taken as a holistic metaphor. In the same way that a person can poetically say that she has “fallen in love,” been “struck by God,” or “slain in the spirit,” seiki is a way of indicating heightened ways of feeling alive.
Seiki is present in other cultural healing traditions. Osumi Sensei proposed that seiki has benefited people in every corner of the world, although it is called by many different names and is exercised in many different ways. This relationship to the unspeakable vitality of living is found in one of the world’s oldest living cultures, the Kalahari Bushmen (or San), whose word n/om has a meaning similar to seiki. Bushmen regard the quality of their life as inseparable from their relationship to n/om, the dynamic underlying creation, change, and transformation. They will not utter the word whenever they are experiencing n/om, nor do they regard any exposition over the nature of its reality as relevant to having access to it.2 Similarly, the tradition of seiki jutsu postulates that the word seiki only points to the vital life force, while explaining little about it.
Seiki is believed to be in all of nature—from the atmosphere to redwood forests, from English gardens to architectural spaces, in jazz, ballet, and human beings. Wherever there is creation and life, seiki is present.
Anyone alive has seiki, or to articulate it circularly, life is made alive by seiki. When seiki is depleted, a person becomes vulnerable to fatigue, apathy, and even illness. The key to well-being and revitalization lies in replenishing oneself with seiki. The same is true for effective action, such as artistic performance, scientific invention, therapeutic intervention, or spiritual practice. Without seiki, all spiritual, creative, therapeutic, and self-help approaches are severely limited.
Though having seiki may experientially feel analogous to filling a vehicle with fuel, there is more to seiki than the amount of life circulating inside a system. Seiki is also a way of tuning the whole organism, a process akin to tuning a musical instrument. If a string instrument is out of tune, no profound music can be created on it no matter how much skill the musician may have. The instrument must be tuned in order for a performance to reach and deliver its utmost expression. The same is true for human beings.
The primary idea of seiki jutsu is that spontaneous, automatic movement of the body is a natural means of holistic tuning, which in turn enables seiki to flow unimpeded. The result is that one feels full of seiki.
The practice of spontaneous movement is found in various therapeutic professions. For instance, hypnotherapists pay attention to ideomotor body responses, like a trembling finger or body twitch; these automatisms are believed to be conveyors of unconscious communication. Among movement therapists, spontaneous motor responses are used to help facilitate symptomatic release and trigger new forms of flexibility.
As a therapeutic application, what makes seiki jutsu unique is that it does not regard spontaneous movement as a technique serving a larger model or strategy of healing and transformation. With seiki jutsu, the movement is the whole process of change in and of itself. Automatic expression becomes the teacher, teaching, tuning, therapy, healing, spiritual practice, and goal all at once. Seiki jutsu emphasizes spontaneous performance that serves change. It is improvisational, interacting with all of the forces it encounters—including its own expression—to bring forth significant changes that inspire ever new expressions.
As a seiki jutsu practitioner learns to allow the performance of spontaneous, improvised movement to occur, she finds that the body awakens new repertoires of expression. What at first may be limited to rocking and other simple motions may later move into trembling hands, bouncing, a pumping abdomen, and swinging arms and continue into dance-like choreographies. This development and broadening of the possibilities of spontaneous performance mark the ways in which a practitioner’s relationship to seiki grows. As the performance becomes more complex and unpredictable, so does the practitioner. In other words, as movement possibilities grow, the person’s life grows as well, awakening more possibilities for bringing seiki-filled improvisational action into daily life, relationships, and profession.
Seiki jutsu teaches us how to access flow experience and be inside the moving stream of life. Here free movement also includes free speech, and the latter is regarded as another spontaneous performance of the whole body. There is no necessary mind-body dualism in this practice, as the production of ideas, thoughts, and speech require the body to produce and express them. Seiki jutsu brings forth more possibilities for voicing one’s discourse, as well as relating to it in ways that are not attached to any particular narrative or preferred interpretation of lived experience.
The more seiki you have circulating inside you, the more likely your production of sound will distance itself from everyday speech and move toward ecstatic sound improvisation. Under the influence of seiki you lean toward becoming more metaphorical and poetic, and you may even speak in rhyme—you’ll see several places in this book where seiki has urged us down this rhyming path.
PREPARING THE CLIENT FOR SEIKI
Although seiki jutsu as a self-healing and revitalization practice can be done without any professional assistance, it is initially helpful to have a master performer of spontaneous movement get you on track and in synch with these effortless motions.*1 The seiki jutsu master is like a performing arts teacher whose job is to help others find their own voice, movement, and way of participating inside creative expression. When a master of seiki jutsu spontaneously moves, a client can be inspired to start his own motion. Or a client can hold on to the hand or body of a master, whose natural movements can then be felt in the client’s body.
For example, the vibrating hand of a master can help activate the same frequency of vibration in the client if the client is ready and responsive to this transference of movement. Both seiki jutsu senseis (master teachers) and Kalahari n/om-kxaosi (Bushman traditional healers) use their hands, arms, feet, legs, chests, and whole bodies to send vibrations into the bodies of others. At first this is a means of helping jump-start an automatism in the client; later it enables rhythmic entrainment, “going on a ride” with another more experienced practitioner of spontaneous movement. When the client’s body allows the vibrations to precipitate her own movements, both bodies can become organized by one interactional vibration that orchestrates collaborative movement. Here the movement rather than the person embodying it is regarded as primary. The master practitioner has more experience “catching” the rhythm and movement and encourages the client to be carried into it through their interaction.
As the client becomes more familiar with spontaneous expression, there is less need for body contact, while paradoxically, more of this kind of interaction may naturally take place. A shift takes place where vibratory words, chants, and songs alone are sufficient to awaken automatisms and movement. Seiki jutsu refers to this stage of interaction as preparing someone to receive seiki. The Bushmen refer to this as helping make someone soft enough to receive an arrow of n/om. Each master practitioner has his or her own ways of emphasizing how to soften and make others ready for the reception of seiki. Keep in mind that the client already has seiki—anyone alive does, by definition—but the transmission of seiki (or the receiving of an arrow of n/om) refers to the readiness for a more intimate encounter with the vital life force and a greater capacity to express spontaneous movement.
In the transmission of seiki, also called “giving seiki,” the client sits on a wooden seiki stool or bench while the master of seiki jutsu begins to awaken the seiki in the room; the master’s task is to amplify, heat, and thicken that flowing current and direct it into the client’s body. Classically, the seiki is awakened in the room by the practitioner making percussive drumming sounds, shouting, and whirling his arms over the client’s head. To the practitioner, the air above the client can feel like a honey-like substance ready to be spread on the client’s head. Traditionally, other people were not permitted to be in the room because it was believed that the strong currents of enhanced seiki can pull the life force out of their bodies, depleting and putting them at risk for illness.*2
As this frenzy of ecstatic expression hits a peak, the practitioner places his hands on the crown of the client’s head. At this moment, enhanced seiki travels down the spine of the client. When it reaches the base of the spine, where it is believed to be stored, it typically triggers a swaying motion. The client is then congratulated and told that she has received seiki.
There are times when seiki is so amplified that a client’s reception results in a startling, almost super-human performance of spontaneous movement. A professor in Japan, Dr. Burton Foreman, received seiki from Osumi Sensei and found himself propelled off the bench with his head touching the floor in front of him, only to be bounced all the way backward to touching the floor with his head in the other direction. Back and forth this went as if he were a gymnast performing what appeared to be prodigious movements. Here we see a similarity to complex kriyas known to some practitioners of kundalini yoga and familiar to Bushman n/om-kxaosi, among other ecstatic traditions.
The master of seiki jutsu eventually calms down the enhanced seiki and taps the base of the client’s spine to still the motion, or at least slow it down. At this moment the client is given instruction in the use of her seiki stool or bench and the daily practice of seiki jutsu as a self-healing, self-revitalization, and self-teaching method.
THE DAILY SEIKI EXERCISE
The daily exercise of seiki, traditionally called seiki taisou, helps maintain well-being and health, and contributes to opening access to the creative unconscious mind. Details for the daily exercise are outlined in chapter 4, “The Daily Seiki Exercise.”
As a practitioner gains competency in hosting spontaneous body movement, the exercise becomes a time for releasing tiredness and for bringing seiki into the body. As Osumi Sensei described it, “Seiki taisou gives rhythm to your body similar to the way music conveys inspiration through vibration.”3 As the practice develops over the years, new kinds of movements will spontaneously arise. What is most important is not being attached to any particular form of movement other than spontaneity—that which happens effortlessly and naturally.
In 1920s Japan, a popular hygiene method known as Self-Improvement Life Force Therapy included seiki practice. It was thought that “seiki stimulates the exhausted nerves of the body and causes a reflex movement in the muscular system,” referring to the automatic rocking motion that seiki inspires. Through this movement and the other spontaneous motions it triggers, seiki is known to instill health and help practitioners recover from illness, awaken a person’s inborn talents, and open practitioners to dynamic spirituality.
The daily practice of the seiki exercise optimizes and nurtures the instilled seiki, making it available for self-healing and revitalization. However, Osumi Sensei believed it was not possible to master self-healing seiki therapy without the assistance of a seiki master. As she stated: “As priming water is necessary for pumping a well, so is the guidance and practice necessary for seiki jutsu.”4 Once transmitted, seiki is believed to stay with the human being for his or her entire lifetime.
The human body hosts a complex weave of many rhythms; balancing those many rhythms contributes to building a strong foundation for and maintaining good health. The natural movements that seiki evokes can be seen as helping bring the body’s rhythms into a tuned alignment. Osumi Sensei proposed that a daily practice of seiki will help to dissipate the day’s exhaustion and stress. In the beginning stages of seiki practice, the rocking motions will induce a natural kinetic trance that will refresh and stimulate. Later, the practitioner will find that her hands start to touch and pat her own body as if they are administering self-treatment. This is when natural healing takes place. The practitioner will do this spontaneously as if her hands have a mind of their own. It is not uncommon for seasoned practitioners to begin to voice energetic sounds, chants, or songs as this work takes place. All of this expression is regarded as a consequence of the unfolding of seiki teaching.
USING SEIKI WITH OTHERS
As seiki is nurtured and deeply trusted in the daily practice, it will direct one’s life in unexpected ways. As the seiki matures within a person, she may be naturally led to enter into healing movement interaction with others. Typically this starts with one’s family members but may conceivably lead to becoming a member of the healing professions. Keep in mind, however, that the purpose of developing a relationship to seiki is not to become a healer or even necessarily a master of seiki jutsu, though that may occur. The latter are less a matter of will or conscious choice than they are something that naturally unfolds. Seiki jutsu does not value healing more than any other destiny or life path, and it will tune and revitalize your life and work and awaken your unique gifts whether you are a lawyer, musician, cook, parent, bartender, scientist, nurse, or factory worker.
Seiki as a healing orientation has been called a “one-being therapy”5 because it transcends the dichotomy between client and practitioner. Both receiver and transmitter of seiki are found inside their moving interaction. Seiki jutsu is applicable to both bodywork and therapeutic conversation. While Osumi Sensei brought seiki into bodywork, we have introduced seiki to therapeutic conversation,6 the topic of chapter 6, “Seiki Conversation: The New Future of the Talking Cure.” The talking cures of psychotherapy, counseling, and coaching have largely been absent of any awareness of whether they hold or promote the vital life force. While therapists argue over theoretical understandings and clinical methods, it is rare to hear anyone ask whether a clinical session has any vital life force. A seiki-charged conversation brings life to a session and is directed by interaction with a client’s communications, both verbal and nonverbal. Like therapeutic bodywork, the therapist listens to the calling of the client to direct how to proceed.
A seiki-filled therapist, counselor, or life coach brings talk that inspires and fosters transformation of both client and practitioner. Here one does not know what she will say in a session until the moment she is inspired to talk. In addition to spontaneous talk, the manner of voicing words is also shaped by how the life force brings it forth. Free of attachment to therapeutic models, this practitioner is improvisational and ready to be moved by seiki. Seiki jutsu requires a mind that is ready to be filled and emptied as seiki calls it to act. This improvisational readiness has important implications for the movement-based arts, whether they regard themselves as therapeutic or not. Learning moves away from attachment to theoretical assumptions, sequences of choreography, and habits of performance and toward uninformed availability—the readiness for a surprise that can inspire performance. The movement from in-forming to per-forming, though perhaps better appreciated in dance, is less familiar to practitioners of therapy and healing. The latter professions are often entrenched in the replication of modeled procedures rather than improvisational performance. Seiki offers an empty-of-assumption availability, a readiness to dance with any emergent and passing form.
Some of the movement practices from Asia also suffer from pedagogies that first ask a student to memorize a form, practice it for years, and then hope that it will arise spontaneously in the future. The blind spot in this method is that it teaches non-spontaneity as a means to achieve spontaneity. The wisdom of seiki jutsu, Bushman healing, and other similar orientations is that they start at the end. In the beginning, the student and client are taught to be spontaneous. Though such an invitation invites paradox (being spontaneous in response to an invitation to purposefully perform it implies a self-referential contradiction), the masterful teacher and practitioner can arrange situations where free improvisation arises naturally.*3 This requires that a practitioner be spontaneous. And a client can, from time to time, allow herself to hold on to her teacher’s spontaneity and be inspired by it to awaken her own uninformed performance of natural presence.
Seiki opens the door to the mysteries of spirituality, healing, and wellbeing. The healers of one of the oldest living cultures in the world, the Kalahari Bushmen (or the San), have a strong relationship to this vital life energy. In fact, the Bushmen arguably could be regarded as the first masters of seiki jutsu. The Bushmen have long known that this non-subtle life force can awaken the most extraordinary experiences possible for a human being, what we call “the original mysteries.”
Over several decades Brad became recognized as one of the strongest healers, or n/om-kxaosi, among the Bushmen in southern Africa. He not only became deeply involved with the Bushmen as a healer, he befriended and conducted research with most of the elder men and women n/omkxaosi across Botswana and Namibia (see Bradford Keeney, Ropes to God, Kalahari Bushman Healers, Bushman Shaman, and The Bushman Way of Tracking God). Brad’s groundbreaking research on the Bushmen’s healing ways is honored at the Origins Centre, a world heritage museum in Johannesburg, South Africa. A mentorship in seiki jutsu necessarily includes what the Bushmen teach about the non-subtle life force and the amazing ways its mysteries are able to transform your life.
Whenever very strong seiki flows within you, it is natural for it to be accompanied by trembling, shaking, quaking, and an experience of ecstatic bliss. This transformative experience is an entry into numinous spirituality—the awesome presence of divinity that inspires you to tremble in awe as the source of life’s vitality surges through you. All religions and pre-religions initially recognized this ecstasy and regarded the mysterium tremendum et fascinans as the source of what can heal, transform, and revitalize. A direct contact experience with God or holiness will leave you unable to sit still and be quiet. It is so overwhelmingly thrilling and exhilarating that you can’t help but sing and dance. We hope that this book will give you the tools and the inspiration to make a visit every day to your own Life Force Theatre, where through your practice of seiki jutsu you will gain access to the flow of life force energy inside you and discover the joy of a life “performed” by seiki.