No money exchanged hands in this training - they just had to work an 8 hour shift once a week for the duration of the commitment. Takata's successors spread the system throughout North America and parts of Europe. However, over time the teachings have become modified. Some teachers incorporate their own life-style philosophies or their healing modalities into their teaching, often without telling the student what they are doing. Some have created or adopted new symbols and mantras.
Some Internet sites publish symbols and attunement methods.
In the process of bringing an already changed version of Usui's method to the West Takata made further changes in order to make the system acceptable to a nominally Christian people. Dave King also witnessed several rites of the Russian Orthodox Church at the tomb of Boris Gudenov near Moscow and verifies that the rituals indeed correspond closely to those incorporated into several attunement methods taught in Western Reiki. The symbols passed on by Usui started off in life as part of Buddhist ritual. Their adoption took on the aspects the symbol had in its original context. The Deities at Mount Kurama are not the same as those selected by Usui for use in his system.