{"id":227,"date":"2019-07-28T19:30:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T23:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleenmilner.com\/?page_id=227"},"modified":"2022-12-11T12:41:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T17:41:15","slug":"tera-mai-what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kathleenmilner.com\/tera-mai-what-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Tera Mai\u2122: What is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kathleen Milner, an American artist, author and natural\u00a0healer, trademarked a healing system called Tera\u2122, which incorporates\u00a0\u00a0Reiki and Seichem and other Universal Energies.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In February 1991, in her first consciousness-raising experience, whereby her physical body went into the Otherworlds, she met a Higher Being,\u00a0whom she later learned was Buddha. \u00a0Buddha built on the ancient healing energies that Kathleen was born with by simply adding onto the original Alliance Reiki Initiations. \u00a0(For example, Buddha eliminated the Hon Sha Za Sho Nen down the spine in Reiki III or Mastership, and replaced it with the Dai Koo Mio. \u00a0He kept the double Cho Ku Rays in the Tera Mai\u2122 Initiations. He also gave Kathleen Zonar, and shortly thereafter, Harth and Halu. It’s interesting to note that both Zonar and Halu include the infinity symbol and Harth and Halu, the pyramid.)\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
In the realm of Spirit, Buddha told Kathleen that the Reiki initiations he gave her passed on the healing energies of elemental earth, which came directly from Source or God. Buddha emphasized that the initiations he gave her were to remain\u00a0standardized, and that the initiations were not to be mixed into another\u00a0\u00a0system where other Reiki or manmade initiations were given or received. \u00a0This ensured the quality and purity of energy transfer; thus, from the initiate’s first Initiation into Tera Mai\u2122, he or she begins to connect to the same Universal Healing Energies that are in Kathleen’s natal astrology chart. \u00a0To this day, those properly initiated individuals, who follow Buddha’s Tera Mai\u2122 standards, are able to facilitate remarkable healings. \u00a0Kathleen freely shares her trademark only with all properly attuned Tera Mai\u2122 initiates, who are abiding by the aforementioned Buddha’s Tera Mai\u2122 standards.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
In 1983, Kathleen had taken the first two levels of Reiki with her local Reiki Master in Wisconsin. \u00a0In Helen Borth’s Reiki I class,\u00a0Kathleen learned how\u00a0to\u00a0use\u00a0the\u00a0energy\u00a0that\u00a0she\u00a0was\u00a0born\u00a0with\u00a0to\u00a0do\u00a0hands-on\u00a0healing. \u00a0In Reiki II she was shown how\u00a0to\u00a0use symbols in distant or absentee healing. Kathleen did NOT receive additional healing energy, so, she chose not to spent $10,000 for Reiki Mastership.\u00a0\u00a0Helen Borth’s first Master was Ethel Lombardi,\u00a0one of the 22 Takata masters. Barbara\u00a0McCullough, another Master of the 22, gave Helen the Master training. Although, up until then, Takata was the only one who had trained Masters in the West. So, Helen Borth became the first Reiki Master not to be trained by Takata. \u00a0Hawayo Takata died in the same month that Helen was initiated, December 1980!\u00a0
In 1988, after two car accidents, Kathleen was left at a standstill in her life and her body. Kathleen\u00a0was guided to attend a\u00a0Reiki Mastership class in Michigan (which was offered for a more reasonable cost), as part of a cleansing cycle for her own healing. \u00a0Margarette Shelton was her Reiki Master. \u00a0Margarette had studied Takata’s original Alliance Reiki system with the Ferguson’s, who were initiated and taught by Arthur Robertson. \u00a0Arthur Robertson had been taught by Iris Ishakuru, one of Takata’s original 22 Reiki Masters.\u00a0\u00a0
Takata’s original Reiki certificates included the phrase, Usui Shiki Ryoho. \u00a0So, her Reiki Masters had referred to themselves as Usui Reiki Masters. \u00a0However, Takata never trademarked any part of the phrase. \u00a0Herein the waters get muddy. \u00a0After teaching the Fergusons and others, Arthur Robertson made up Tibetan Reiki (which does not come from Tibet, but uses a Tibetan symbol for exorcism as the master symbol). \u00a0He also created Usui Reiki, which has nothing left of what Iris had taught him. \u00a0To further complicate matters, other people have made changes to Usui Reiki or made up other initiations, which they also called Usui Reiki. \u00a0And then there are people who take any one of these classes, change the initiation procedure, and give their initiations a new name.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
To go back to Margarette. \u00a0Margarette had introduced a clockwise Cho Ku Ray that gets smaller to the initiation procedure. \u00a0Kathleen and her partner in the class, who practised doing the initiations together, found that the double Cho Ku Ray combination (drawing the clockwise Cho Ku Ray with the left hand and counterclockwise Cho Ku Ray with the right hand) produced a stronger, more balanced and effective way to energize symbols. \u00a0Again, Kathleen’s healing level of natural healing energy did not go up after being initiated, but she found that the double Cho Ku Rays along with the contractions and breathing techniques were an effective way to send absentee healing to others.\u00a0\u00a0She found that this same technique could be used to energize healing symbols, which were then sent to God’s Angels. Then Kathleen would ask them to further energize the symbols and return them to her for her own healing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Takata had taught the breathing and contractions but did not emphasize them. \u00a0This has been confirmed by the Zen monk \u00a0(one of the 22 Reiki Masters whom Takata initiated) when he took Beth’s Sander’s Reiki Mastership class. \u00a0(Beth was one of Kathleen’s original students, who took Reiki from Kathleen before her consciousness-raising experience.) \u00a0The Zen monk went on to state that what that Kathleen had taught Beth was identical to Takata had taught him. \u00a0This has also been confirmed by other Alliance Reiki Masters.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
As Takata did not emphasize the breathing and contractions, neither did Arthur Robertson, the Fergusons or Margarette. \u00a0When people began asking\u00a0Kathleen to teach them Reiki, she decided to stress breathing exercises\u00a0(kidney breath, white-mist breath and the colour sequence)\u00a0<\/em>in her classes. \u00a0She impressed upon her students the importance of practicing this procedure each day. \u00a0It was suggested that they use the procedure to send healing to the Earth, situations, people they knew or themselves. \u00a0\u00a0 Kathleen Milner experienced prickling fire energy in the palms of her hands after the Seichem initiations. \u00a0However,she could feel that\u00a0the energy was unstable. \u00a0August showed Kathleen the Seichem initiation procedure, which was both complex and lacking. \u00a0Kathleen could see immediately that the man who spent the night in the Pyramid was not given these initiations in his consciousness-raising experience. \u00a0Rather, somebody ‘along the way’ had received Alliance Reiki Mastership and then changed these initiations in an attempt to accommodate the energy. The only symbols were Seichem symbols that were identical to Takata’s Reiki symbols. \u00a0The only difference being that the Seichem symbols were slanted. \u00a0Even the master symbol, the Dai Koo Mio, was the same as the Reiki Dai Koo Mio. \u00a0 However, the clockwise Cho Ku Ray that got bigger was substituted for the\u00a0counterclockwise Cho Ku Ray that got smaller.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The problem being that Universal initiations; that is, those initiations that originate from Source or God, come about through Spirit in consciousness-raising experiences.\u00a0Not through man’s brain, be that knowledge gleaned in the library or in mediation. \u00a0Thus, Spirit told Kathleen NEVER to attempt to give these initiations to anyone. \u00a0Spirit also told Kathleen not to worry; that they would stabilize the fire energy. \u00a0When the process was through, Buddha gave Kathleen the Sakara (fire), Sophi-El (water) and Angeliclight (air) initiations.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n One morning, awakening from a deep sleep, Kathleen Milner found herself in a different type of consciousness. \u00a0Her astral body was half in and half out of her physical body. \u00a0When she opened her eyes, it was like looking through a cut-glass crystal bowl. \u00a0This experience had happened to Kathleen once before; so, she wasn’t frightened; she just knew that she had to go back to sleep. \u00a0However, Spirit wanted her to remain in this state for a short while. \u00a0It was in this in-between space and time that Buddha added 2 more colors (one of the colors\u00a0being rainbow), and 2 more symbols to the Tera Mai Reiki initiations. \u00a0Buddha told Kathleen that the 3 Tera Mai Seichem initiations would still pass on the 3 Tera Mai Reiki initiations. \u00a0In addition, the 3 Tera Mai Seichem initiations would pass on the first levels of Sakara (fire), Sophi-El (water) and Angeliclight (air). \u00a0Kathleen was told to use the Tera Mai Reiki Lineage because that is what the Tera Mai Seichem initiations were based upon. \u00a0But to call the initiations Seichem in order to honor the man who had spent the night in the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid. \u00a0\u00a0 In Tera Mai Seichem each of the elemental healing rays exists in its own right, although they can and do work together in different combinations. \u00a0This process is not controlled by the healer; rather, this and the entire healing process is\u00a0in God’s Hands, in the hands of God’s Chosen Angels and other Higher Spiritual beings. \u00a0They use the healing energy that the healer is channeling to bring about changes in the physical. \u00a0In this process they release ‘negative’ energies and initiate positive change. \u00a0It is the healer’s job to focus on the healee, the Angels and the process, AND to ask the healee, the Angels and Higher Spirits questions when it is appropriate to do so.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n It goes without saying that it is also any healer’s responsibility to maintain a high standard of personal ethics and honesty.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n In Tera Mai Cahokia the full expanse of all 4 elemental healing rays are woven in etheric tapestries of vibrant colors. \u00a0Each Elemental Ray remains true to its own nature. \u00a0Each Ray also becomes an integral part of a great whole.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Gisela Hammerstein and others feel that it’s Kathleen’s integrity and determination to live up to Buddha’s assignment that makes Tera Mai a strong healing system. \u00a0She has done this in spite of severe criticism. \u00a0Kathleen feels that it is the many \u00a0properly attuned Tera Mai initiates, who marvel at the healing miracles of Tera Mai and who have kept Buddha’s Tera Mai standards, that are Tera Mai’s pillars. \u00a0The impossible has a likely probability of becoming possible through Tera Mai!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n There is a long involved process in obtaining a trademark. \u00a0All information must be truthful. \u00a0Heavy fines are applicable in the case of false information or violations of the trademark.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Tera Mai’s trademark is on file in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. \u00a0Here are the details:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n International Class: \u00a0<\/strong>041 A.<\/strong>Universal Initiations come to this earth plane through a great consciousness experience.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Native American braves used to go through what they called a Vision Quest, in the hopes of having such an experience. \u00a0The Vision Quest \u00a0consisted of depriving oneself of water and food for days, and at the same time, performing strenuous physical tasks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n These extreme efforts could produce death, severe dehydration, or insanity, or the brave might consciously enter the Otherworld of Spirit.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Merely consciously going beyond the Veil was NOT considered a successful Vision Quest.\u00a0\u00a0The brave’s ultimate goal was to enter the Otherworlds consciously, meet an ascended master, and have that great being bestow a Gift of the Spirit upon him. \u00a0Then when the brave returned to the Earth plane, he was able to demonstrate his Gift and use it for the benefit of the tribe. \u00a0These Gifts might include healing, \u00a0psychic abilities, the ability to shape-shift (early English settlers were astonished at the shape-shifting abilities of some of the Crow medicine men), etc.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n When I was in the Sitta Ashram (a one-story home) in Los Angeles, the ceiling suddenly became cathedral size and a great being filled the space.\u00a0\u00a0Later, he revealed himself as Buddha. In the initial consciousness-raising experience whereby my physical body was in the Otherworlds, Buddha gave me what he said had been missing from the Reiki attunements Takata brought back from Japan. He didn’t give me healing energy; there is plenty of that in my natal astrology chart. \u00a0 Buddha gave me Universal initiations from God that work. \u00a0These initiations are trademarked as a healing system as Tera Mai. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Another modern-day example of a consciousness-raising experience is a near-death experience. \u00a0BUT not everyone who has a near-death experience comes back with psychic abilities, healing abilities, etc. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n A.<\/strong>Buddha has only made corrections to the\u00a0Tera Mai Reiki<\/strong>initiations on a few occasions: The second time Buddha came to me, he substituted HARTH for ZONAR in TM Reiki I, and extended ZONAR to create another symbol, HALU, in TM Reiki III. Another time, he changed the name of RAMA to MARA, because he said this name connected more strongly to the Earth, and he added an initiation at the feet in TM Reiki II.\u00a0 Yet again, he substituted HUNG as the symbol used to seal at the crown for the first and second degrees, and the TIBETAN OM to be used to seal the crown in the third degree.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Buddha also told me that pure Reiki energy was elemental earth healing. On another occasion, Buddha altered the Tera Mai Reiki initiations slightly by adding 2 more symbols and 2 more colors to create\u00a0Tera Mai Seichem<\/strong>\u00a0initiations. These initiations have the full Tera Mai Reiki attunements, as well as initiations into the elemental healing powers of air, water and fire. It is these elemental forces that all healers, Shaman, magicians and saints have used throughout the ages to practice the ancient art of hands-on healing and other metaphysical Gifts of the Spirit. Buddha stated that the TM Reiki and TM Seichem initiations are now complete.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Kathleen knew that the energy level in the Reiki classroom had to be raised.\u00a0\u00a0So,\u00a0she\u00a0put\u00a0up\u00a0a\u00a0series\u00a0of oil\u00a0paintings\u00a0that\u00a0she\u00a0had\u00a0done\u00a0on the Holy Kabbalah around the room. \u00a0(Kathleen had been represented by Wright Gallery in Chicago before her car accidents.)\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Previously, Reiki Masters drank water and called in the energies before entering the classroom. \u00a0Kathleen began the practice of verbally calling in God and Higher Energies in the beginning of the class. \u00a0Many of her students had spiritual experiences;\u00a0that is,\u00a0they were able to feel, see or hear the\u00a0Spiritual\u00a0Beings coming in. \u00a0\u00a0
In June 1991, Kathleen returned to California and was guided to do an exchange with August Starr. \u00a0August received Tera Mai Reiki Mastership from Kathleen. \u00a0Kathleen received Seichem initiations and a symbol, which one of Barbara Weber Ray’s students had given August in exchange for Seichem Mastership. \u00a0August only knew that\u00a0\u00a0\u2018an unknown man’ had spent the night in the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid and had a consciousness-raising experience. \u00a0Afterwards, he gave Shamanic-type classes and that somewhere along the line, Seichem initiations had come about. \u00a0August had received these initiations from a woman who called herself Phoenix\u00a0(a.k.a. Kathleen McMasters).<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On occasion through the years, different men would call Kathleen to inform her that he was the man that she had written about in her books. \u00a0It was later that she found out that the man was Patrick Zeigler. \u00a0Patrick offers Shamanic-type classes that he now calls Sekhem.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Class Status: \u00a0<\/strong>active
educational services, namely, teaching and conducting classes on spiritual healing, hands-on healing and the art of harmonizing the natural energy in one’s body
Basis: \u00a0<\/strong>1 (a)
First Use Date: \u00a0<\/strong>1995-06-11
Fist Use in Commerce Date: \u00a0<\/strong>1995-06-11<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nQ.\u00a0\u00a0 What makes an initiation Universal?<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Q.\u00a0\u00a0 What has happened to Tera Mai since?<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n