As we see people the world over without homes (due to poverty or dictatorships), or losing homes (to earth changes and/or economics)...the idea of home is being brought to its most fundamental level:
Home IS the heart.
Having researched countless ways to live and love, I respond to ancient Hawaiian concepts. Not modernized Huna, but the ancient ways...
I have only been to Hawaii once, but immediately felt at home. The water enveloped me. Something grounded me. I loved it. I want to live there someday. Until then, it is part of my heart.
Of all places I've visited in the world (which hasn't been that many in truth) -- Hawaii resonated in a way I'd never felt before or since. Timeless. Ancient connection. Something...beyond...
I took brief notes from last night's broadcast on Coast to Coast AM. Some ideas were review, others new, and I added books to add to my required reading list. Summary as follows:
"There are 3 Sacred Directives: Called Kapu,
1. Love all you see with humility. - As you pass through life, encountering people, events and places -- come from the place of Aloha.
2. Live all you feel with reverence. - "Follow your bliss." - Joseph Campbell
3. Know all that you possess with discipline (And that which possesses you). Living, loving, knowing...
(From: Interview with Hank Wesselman, speaking of his relationship with Elder Makua, shared in the book "The Bowl of Light". This is an interview worth listening to, when you have quiet time...(Coast to Coast AM with George Noory - April 26th broadcast).)
I share this experience because it highlights my creative journey. Most of the time -- it takes years of living for purpose to come into focus for me. The convergence point.
Hawaii has been on my radar since listening to Elvis' Aloha in Hawaii album as a small child...
I also: -- Learned Hula at age 8 from my Nanny Winnie --- Went on a trip to Hawaii in 1998 -- worked with Ho'oponopono methods of forgiveness a few years ago and lately have shaman research interests...
Jen recently painted the back cover for our new book -- a star lady, with a bowl of light...connecting the Oonahnahmae -- a story all about inner light --- to a bowl of light.
Neither Jen, nor I, knew the Hawaiian legend of being born with a bowl of light. As you go through life doing unethical things, pebbles get put in the bowl, causing it to dim. In order to get your inner light back in the bowl, you dump your pebbles out. Simple, but not easy.
I have been researching in an attempt to find out what "Oonahnahmae" might mean in an indigenous toungue. It seems my focus was too small...I was paying attention to the word. Now I see the entire story is the meaning. People are their expression of inner light. Home is the heart. One in the same.
Hank Wesselman explains everything much better than I could begin to here. His connection with the indigenous cultures, anthropological scholarship and experienced teaching, engage the seeker within. We are: Unity. Inclusivity. Borderless. Connected.
P.S. - As I posted this entry, the quote on the side of our blog was:
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you
where there were only walls."
--- Joseph Campbell ---
If inclined, healing energies are needed around the world...we're all on it together.
As Hale Makua says in the video below:
As Hale Makua says in the video below:
"Only free people can come together...
The key to sovereignty is sharing...
Everyone in time, will become a healer...
The question always comes up; who are you?
When you discover who you are,
When you discover who you are,
the process begins..."
I always love the way Elders deliver information...so calm, yet slightly mischievous...
Wisdom Keepers have dealt with life angst, and offer compassion to all still working it through. We are lucky to live in the era of video as many Elders have left the planet. BUT none of us is ever really gone...
Aloha!
