The 4th Annual Huna Retreat at Oceanstone is completing itself. As much as my physical body is no longer by the Atlantic in Nova Scotia, waves of insight and discovery continue to flow. This is indeed, for me, 'ohana'...my family of choice.
Like the flow of water in the ocean, this wave has already begun to source the next. Momentum building. I know that April in Hawaii will be a flashpoint for the creation of something that has been calling to me for a long time. Kona will be the place where I meet, face-to-face, a part of my own Self-expressed 'destiny'.
Ohana...family of choice. All on a journey of Self-discovery, choosing to rest in the same place, at the same time, and explore what doing so awakens in each of us. We come together for three days; we engage in the Spirit of Aloha; and when it's time, we move out into our unique world's, an expression of the 'more' that we have become. Like the flow of energy through the body, we criss-cross at points of intersection and flow alone in the vast spaces of our own thoughts. It is all perfection, and we need but allow ourselves to be carried by its momentum.
Mana. Energy. It is not what I have, it is who I am. Mana in flow. The essence of energy is expression and the void of potential from which it comes. Are they really separate? Or is each expression but a sliver of the greater self? This time, at Oceanstone, the Higher Self Connection invited the collective Aumakua to be present with intention and engaged. In that moment, the 'pattern ehnancer' of this invitation left a deeper impression of potential. I can't think of any other way to say it. Perhaps it is not intended to be said at all, but only known in tissue. Hmmm....
Through it all, I was profoundly aware of the gift of the Hawaiian people of the Aloha Spirit to the world. In my words, the Aloha Spirit has become the notion of
"invite and allow'. An invitation as opposed to a command performance; an invitation rather than dogma or rules or expectations and the grace of allowing...of being without judgement and with the capacity to just 'be'. This simple notion has changed my life, profoundly and irrevocably. It saddens me deeply that so many of the Hawaiian people had to die that we might have this notion enter into our collective consciousness. They have not died in vain.
In reading the biography of the last Queen of Hawaii (Queen Liliuokalani), I was struck by this way of being that was free of currency and what it represents. The notion that we can live in a world view of abundance and trust that our lives will work. Perhaps the most poitnant moment for me was reading of Queen Liliuokalani's moment of insight that came too late: that as much as aloha was the essence of who she was, it was not so for these new beings in her Kingdom. Could it be that aloha has edges?
Emerging Futures is a way of living that has been inspired by The Three Selves of Huna. Combined with all that I've learned from the quantum sciences, this simple expression of 3 'islands' coming together in the flow of something greater has made magic and manifestation a possibility for us all. Such power in such simplicity. Not the power to do to, or power over anyone or anything...but power that allows us to access the full measure of the Life Force that we, all, already are. In that simple breath, we manifest our lives.
Mahalo to all who chose to be part of this ohana experience. As much as I have left Oceanstone, I know that you are all still with me. I welcome the thread of your life as it weaves with mine in the design of the life we share. And we all know - there is always more!
Aloha!
