"A Japanese Tendai Buddhist named Mikao Usui is credited with discovering Reiki in 1922, after years of dedicated research and a twenty-one-day retreat on Mount Kurama, involving meditation, fasting, and prayer. Usui claimed that by mystical revelation he had gained the knowledge and spiritual power to apply and attune others to what is called \"Reiki\". The name Reiki derives from two Japanese characters rei' (meaning 'unseen' or 'spiritual') and ki (Chinese qi or chi, here meaning…