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Chapter One
The value of patience, time and love
Close your eyes. Go ahead. Yikes! Okay, so maybe that’s not the best way to begin. How about this then, imagine you are far from wherever it is you are right now. Very, very far, out in the middle of nature, not a hint of modern day society is visible to you. All that surrounds you is wilderness, peace, and freedom. Now imagine there isn’t another soul around you for at least a hundred miles in any direction. There is no danger, no wild animals, just the sounds of nature. The sky is clear, the trees are green and you are walking through a field of waist high purple wildflowers, with the most beautifully relaxing aroma, you never even imagined before. You are slowly strolling, sauntering towards the sound of a babbling brook off in the distance next to the tree line. You welcome the breath of fresh pine smell from the trees into your imagination. You feel safe, you feel secure, and you feel what freedom is supposed to feel like for the first time since you entered this mad, mad world.
Now go ahead, take off your clothes. Not for real! Imagine you cast off your clothing, another barrier of civilization and society; a place that burdens you with rules and restrictions. Let your spirit soar as your naked skin tastes the freedom that nature has to offer. Lose yourself in the safety and security that you are free to be the person you want to be, and nothing can hold you back any longer. You reach the tree line, you see the babbling brook and your stick your toe into the water and without wondering what may happen next; you totally immerse yourself in the water. You have no fear, no inhibitions, and no restrictions to your imagination.
The feeling of the water crashing against your skin soothes you as you immerse your body in the soul cleansing current allowing yourself to clear you mind and reconnect with a part of nature you never before experienced.
You hear the sound of the eagle cry, and as simple as closing your eyes, and imagining, you transcend your own mortal body, and can see through the eye of the eagle. You feel you are floating, flying, soaring with the wind. You flap your wings, and now; you are the eagle. You circle around, feeling the power within you to feeling the joy and filled with the breath of life.
There is no greater feeling that connecting with nature. But we, as a civilization and society, immersed with our daily struggle for survival, forget how to appreciate the finer things in life. And all too soon, we may not have the opportunity to benefit from the natural beauty and the bountiful benefit our great mother earth provides for us. And with that tragic news, should you choose to accept it, or deny it as fact, here is your opportunity to follow the same journey to learn how to follow the path meant for you, and re-connect with the earth as it was intended.
Recently, I was on Kauai, in Hawaii celebrating the life of one of the most fascinating people I had ever met; Warren’s grandmother, Ethel. I was also privileged to meet Warren’s first love, Ian, and his beautiful beau, Kyle. Warren and I had learned of an amazing accomplishment of how Ian and Kyle saved sixteen homeless kids that were living under a pier in Santa Barbara, California. Ian and Kyle also learned how we were interested in starting a sustainable permaculture site together, discovering and experimenting with better ways to harvest and store rainwater and irrigate, enhance the soil and generate a bountiful year round harvest in order to solve many of the food production problems society currently faces. Encouraging the communities to embrace the land, and grow as our grandparents once grew. Ultimately, learning to be less reliant on government and commerce; learning to be self-sufficient, and self-reliant.
One hundred years ago there were no Costco wholesale stores, or Wal-Mart Super Centers. Our grandfathers grew our chickens, pigs and cattle while our grandmothers grew our vegetables and tended to the animals. That all changed with modern day warfare.
After the 1st World War, we lost so many men, that it became increasingly difficult to sustain the family farm, the stock market crashed, and technology advanced in the cities. More and more men moved or commuted to the cities to find work with the industrial revolution, as it exploded before and after World War I. The concept of the family farm no longer existed, government increased commercial farms, and production; changing the dynamic of self-reliance, and sustainability.
During the 2nd World War, the men were required to now abandon not only their farms, but their jobs at the factories in the city and go off to war, but now, the women were required to leave the family farm altogether, move to the factories in the big cities and take over the man’s jobs in order to maintain production for the ever growing and ever consuming society.
The homestead ceased to exist.
Technology started advancing beyond anyone’s comprehension, the population grew, and more important government expanded rapidly. As government grew, the people’s reliance on the government also grew. We as a society became reliant on the dramatic changes of our world, and had to maintain faith in our government in order to survive.
Taking back the land has been an increasingly challenging phenomenon. We have spent the last 100 years polluting our land, our air, and our water. This is attributed to the basic fact that we want things bigger, better, and faster.
The 1950’s was a prosperous time for the United States of America. I can’t speak much of the rest of the world based on my perspective, but understanding the basic common fact of the new government highways, the “Holiday Inn” roadside hotel concept and the freedom and power of the automobile, which now provided families to spend their hard earned money on the road traveling and exploring America, and as more houses were built to accommodate our ever growing consumer society, ‘suburbia’ developed; communities of cookie cutter houses simply sprouted up surrounding the cities almost overnight.
Quickly, society in general gained a new sense of culture, ‘I want it because it’s new,’ and ‘I want it bigger, because it’s better,’ and most importantly, ‘I want it because it will save time.’ This way of thinking blinded us from the future, robbing us of our past, and forcing us to move forward without thinking of the damaging repercussions that the technology advancement may have on the earth we inhabit.
Nobody really cared much about the earth, or nature. Well, we might have, but it was such a big earth, how could anyone individually care about the earth? We were too consumed with cooking meals faster, restless in the grocery market check-out lane, topping off our gas guzzling machines, and spewing out toxins in the air and water, to care too much about anything except ourselves. It was a big government; surely there must be someone responsible for cleaning up all the mess we were making.
Patience. We lost our ability to work with nature and patiently let things develop as they should. With the encouragement of Ethel, and based on previous personal experience and encouragement of Ian, Warren and I had an opportunity to visit a Shaman Temple up in the mountains of Kauai. We spent two glorious weeks re-connecting with nature, and learning the Polynesian ways of the world. It was a positive experience that allowed us both to experience a unique and special bond with nature, as the universe intended. We experienced the power of “Huna’ first hand, and it stimulated significant change in both of our lives. It allowed us to reconnect with a common purpose, that allowed us to reconnect, rekindling a passionate fire that once burned brightly connecting our two souls as one. Over time, leading different lives on different continents, we drifted apart.
Huna is a powerful and transforming system of practices, teachings, philosophy, energy work and more. The word ‘Huna’ means, among other things ‘Secret’ and has only been used as the name of this spiritual framework in Modern times. The word ‘Kahuna’ can mean ‘keeper of the secret,’ but is more often defined as ‘expert,’ and could refer to an expert in any field. Huna is not a religion at all it is a remarkably freeing experience that expresses itself in every moment and action of life with great joy and in harmony with nature and the earth. The psychological insights alone are certainly among the most complete, effective and profound existence on this planet today. Practicing Huna can lead to a great joy and emotional strength and an awareness of the nurturing nature of the Earth. Over time Huna practice can lead to an amazing experience of wholeness and connection that becomes over time; your most natural state of mind and awareness.
Huna is often called a ‘Psycho Spiritual’ tradition and often classed as Shamanic. Huna and Kahuna teachings are not easily defined and can never be confined into any one singular definition. The Hawaiian language is complex and multi-layered as one word can have a multitude of meanings. This is quite important when exploring these traditions because one word may expand to conceal or reveal volumes of meaning.
Huna is primarily an experience rather than an intellectual pursuit. Although all aspects of self and reality are honored and harmonized, the mind, the body and the spirit are given equal weight and harmonizing the three of four selves (including the higher Spiritual realities, as well as the personal reality and outer realities and realms) is in many Huna traditions the harmonizing of the selves and is of major importance to their society.
I feel strongly that there are no ‘secrets’ now. I am assured that protection is a given and that harm will not arise from considered practice and study of these ‘secrets.’ That, as we as humankind evolve into the dramatic beginnings of the ‘New Age,’ we will all become once again able to connect with the spiritual realities and formerly hidden information at will. Historically, an initiate would be immersed in Huna from birth and would have acquired much experience even before becoming aware of it consciously. The Hawaiian language is deeply layered with meanings, and the full and complete understanding of the principles could take a lifetime of exploration.
One meaning of the word ‘Huna’ is ‘Secret’ or ‘Hidden.’ This is in the sense of the sacred and were revealed or revealed themselves only after much care and preparation. Traditionally, a teacher would give hints and guidance that allowed a student to discover it for themselves. Then the teacher would confirm the understanding. These practices have been suppressed for many centuries and are now being revealed from the many places they have been kept safe.
It is very difficult to explain what Huna is, perhaps in part because of the tradition of secrecy, but mostly because it is better experienced than explained. Rather than relying on intellectual definitions, in most Kahuna practices wisdom is developed by practicing exercises, meditations, energy work, chanting, sacred dance, trance visualizations or other components of specific schools and families of the practices.
Most of my experience is internal and spiritual and goes beyond language. For me, and for many others, the magic works. We become happy, we become wiser, and we are able to manifest our dreams. We have an understanding of how it all really works. We are connected and embraced by the Earth and all the beings that live on and in our world.
I have read books and continue to study other schools and systems of Huna and have been fortunate enough to encounter practitioners of many paths of ‘Huna’ who have been extraordinarily willing to share teachings and insights. I have been told by some people who specialize in past life work that this is by no means my first encounter with these practices certainly the experience of ‘Huna’ has the feel of a lost treasure recovered.
The Huna way of life and philosophy teaches that the key to living a fulfilled life lays in the awakening and integration of your subconscious self, conscious self and higher self. It offers us a vision of life centered in love, a way of the heart with humankind, nature, and the divine as harmonious parts of a cosmic community.
This is not to say that the body mind and spirit are separate entities in the first place but the illusion of separation is often prevalent in ‘Western’ thought. A basic rule of Huna is distilled as ‘No hurt, No sin.’ Huna is universal in scope. Legend traces Huna among the oldest of spiritual teachings preserved and alive on this planet today, and is a treasure trove of practical wisdom and Spiritual insight.
Huna is centered in the here and now, and it deals with the mundane day to day reality in the physical world while also helping practitioners to reach states of great awareness and clarity. The practice of Huna produces results in personal growth, greater happiness and the ability to affect the environment in a positive way. The unseen forces that produce these effects are quite real.
The life force is called ‘Mana’ and learning to build up and use Mana allows you to do self-healing and manifest changes in your life. There are many schools of Huna. Huna practice does involve direct contact with spiritual guides and energies and great intuitive awakening. The use of chanting, breathing, meditation and natural forces are common to many Huna traditions. Some include initiation practices and attunements to the aura to assist the student in connecting with the spiritual forces of nature involved.
Huna has taught about the power of the subconscious centuries before the Western recognition of psychology and has effective therapy for many of the emotional and mental distresses common today.
Huna is wonderful for emotional healing. Huna practice leads rapidly to a real feeling of being blessed and nurtured by the Earth and development of qualities of heart and courage, and a grounded spiritual awareness. Some Huna schools include techniques for hands-on healing for dissolving emotional conflict, manifesting abundance and many other blessings.
Warren and I both consider ourselves ‘Christian,’ although we do not practice any form of organized religion. Our interpretation of religion boils down to the belief that since the beginning of time, each human occupant of the planet develops their own societal culture with unique belief systems, but that organized religions as demonstrated through the recording of time, has been the biggest cause of war and hate, as people generally hate what they do not understand. My own country was founded on the basis of religious freedom, and I personally hold a firm understanding of hate at God’s hands. This passage does have some relevant religious reference, which you may, or may not want to overlook as I rarely talk religion or politics. But the information is worthy of some reflection.
There are three key elements I will address that each of us should evaluate on a personal level; time, patience and love. I will reflect on all three.
The newest release in the Rainbow Reader color spectrum will be released on November 10th, "Brown: Reconnect" is available NOW for pre-sale on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B014WCBE9M
If you didn't meet Blake in the Rainbow Reader "Black: Secrets," last month, take some snuggle time for yourself and dive right in! Read like you have never read before!
After a brief break with "White: Educating Hayden," "Gray: Surrender," and "Black: Secrets," which were narrated primarily by Ian, Warrens first love, and how his timeline has evolved since "Moments In Time: Innocence," Georgie is back narrating Brown, telling his story about how all of these characters come to life and re-connect together with a singular and unique purpose. Everything happens for a reason. Believe it.
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