CUANDO EL DR. USUI MEDITÓ EN EL MONTE KURAMA. UNA APROXIMACIÓN AL ANALISIS DEL MITO DE ORIGEN DEL REIKI USUI EN BUENOS AIRES (ARGENTINA).

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationship between Reiki Usui's ethiological myth and the action guide that it provides to the Reiki Masters. The material was gathered during a fieldwork, carried out in some Reiki Centers in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires. The narratives of Dr. Usui's initiation in the sacred manipulation of Universal Energy, and the way he receives therapeutic power from "Light Beings", gives to the initiated a definition of their roles and the prescriptions about his/her behaviours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]