Changing Reality: Huna Practices to Create the Life You Want - Softcover

King, Serge Kahili

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0835609111 ISBN 13: 9780835609111

Verlag: Quest Books,U.S., 2013

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"Reality is experience, and experience is reality," says Hawaiian shaman Serge King, speaking of Huna, the esoteric tradition in which he was reared.King emphasizes that all of us have the ability to shift from one world to another. The difference is that shamans do it purposefully, while the rest of us are unaware of it. He trains us to engage in the process consciously in order to expand our human potential. Among books on Huna, this one is unique for offering actual practices for changing our reality to create the life we want.

In a user-friendly, conversational style, King's chapters explain the four worlds of a shaman and basic Huna principles. Then, citing case studies, he guides us in how to change reality in each of the four worlds, bringing in ESP, telepathy, the perception of auras, telekinesis, dreaming, magical flight, and, finally, soul retrieval and the great power of healing.

"It sounds simple," says King, "and it is. The most difficult part is to accept the simplicity, because that means changing one's idea about what reality is. And that's what this book is all about."

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Serge Kahili King, Ph.D., holds a doctorate in psychology from California Western University. He has studied with master shamans from Africa to Hawaii and has trained thousands in his popular seminars. He is the president of Aloha International, a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading the aloha spirit of peace through blessing. He is also the founder of Order of Huna International, which teaches workshops in personal effectiveness and trains shaman peace-makers and healers to work in modern, urban environments. King is regarded as a kahuna kupua or master practitioner of the Hawaiian shaman way. He is the author of the world's largest selection of books on Huna, the Polynesian philosophy and practice of effective living, and on the spirit of Aloha, the attitude of love and peace for which the Hawaiian Islands are so famous. He also writes extensively on Hawaiian culture and is a novelist as well. For more about the author please visit his website www.huna.org.

Serge Kahili King, Ph.D., holds a doctorate in psychology from California Western University. He has studied with master shamans from Africa to Hawaii and has trained thousands in his popular seminars. He is the president of Aloha International, a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading the aloha spirit of peace through blessing. He is also the founder of Order of Huna International, which teaches workshops in personal effectiveness and trains shaman peace-makers and healers to work in modern, urban environments. King is regarded as a kahuna kupua or master practitioner of the Hawaiian shaman way. He is the author of the world's largest selection of books on Huna, the Polynesian philosophy and practice of effective living, and on the spirit of Aloha, the attitude of love and peace for which the Hawaiian Islands are so famous. He also writes extensively on Hawaiian culture and is a novelist as well. For more about the author please visit his website www.huna.org.

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Changing Reality

Huna Practices to Create the Life You Want

By Serge Kahili King

Theosophical Publishing House

Copyright © 2013 Serge King
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-8356-0911-1

Contents

Acknowledgments, 
Part 1 The Shamanic Worldview, 
1. The Four Worlds of a Shaman, 
2. A Short Review of Huna Principles, 
Part 2 Changing Reality in the Objective World, 
3. Knowledge Can Be Power, 
Part 3 Changing Reality in the Subjective World, 
4. ESP—You Can't Live without It, 
5. The Telepathic Connection, 
6. Telepathic Projection, 
7. Putting Your Aura to Work, 
8. The Reality of Telekinesis, 
Part 4 Changing Reality in the Symbolic World, 
9. Tripping through the Land of Dreams, 
10. Magical Flight, 
11. Purple Feathers, 
Part 5 Changing Reality in the Holistic World, 
12. Unity in Diversity, 
13. A Time to Grok, 
About the Author, 

CHAPTER 1

The Four Worlds of a Shaman

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As many readers know, I was reared and trained in a Hawaiian esoteric tradition that we call Huna. Abundant details of this tradition and my training can be found in my other books. Suffice it to say here that my adoptive Hawaiian family, the Kahilis, followed a version of Huna that is strongly linked to shamanic traditions around the world. The equivalent word for "shaman" in Hawaiian would be kupua. What follows, therefore, will have shamanic underpinnings. For the sake of making distinctions, the tradition I write about here can be called Huna Kupua.

Although I have written extensively on the subject of Huna in relation to many different areas of life, with this book I intend to go even further in its understanding and practice. And, no doubt, even more details about my life may be revealed.

A BIT OF BACKGROUND

One of the most confusing things to students of Huna is the way "Hunatics" (a convenient word coined by a student) look at the world. It confuses my students now and it certainly confused me as I was growing up in this tradition.

When I was a teenager living on a farm, my father would sometimes talk about the crops and the animals around us just like the neighboring farmers would, and sometimes he would talk "to" the same crops and animals as if they were all intelligent beings who could understand and respond to him. Even though I learned to do what he did, it was a good while before I understood the process. There was a time when I found it difficult to concentrate, with all the conversations of trees, flowers, bugs, rocks, and buildings going on. Then, somehow, I learned to switch in and out of that kind of awareness without knowing how I was doing it.

During seven years in Africa, my shaman mentor M'Bala taught me to merge with the animals of the jungle after going into a deep trance state. I thought that the trance was the means of merging until I realized that he was able to do the same thing in the blink of an eye without going into trance at all. Obviously, trance was just a tool and not the thing that caused the shift in experience.

And my Hawaiian kahuna uncle, Wana Kahili (WK), taught me to go on inner journeys filled with wonder and terror and to see omens in clouds and leaves and furniture. Yet he also taught me to be very aware of my waking state and how not to see omens as well, for there are times when that can be just as important.

My father, M'Bala, and WK spent very little time explaining the phenomena they were teaching me to experience. They felt that experience is the best teacher and that intellectual explanation would get in the way. That was a good method for getting me out of my hard head and into my body, but having to deal with the doubts and fears generated by the nonshamanic culture I also lived in slowed down my learning considerably. In my learning and teaching, I have found that satisfying the intellect often lowers the analytical and emotional barriers to learning, allowing for a much faster assimilation of experience. So I spent years in nonjudgmental analysis of my personal experiences and those of other shamans in order to more fully understand what we were doing when we did what we did, so that it could be shared more easily.

The real starting point was WK's teaching that there are four worlds or worldviews (levels or classes of experience) that everyone moves in and out of spontaneously and usually unconsciously, but that shamans consciously cultivate. These are, in Hawaiian, 'ike papakahi (literally, first-level experience), 'ike papalua (second-level experience), 'ike papakolu (third-level experience), and 'ike papaha (fourth-level experience). WK's rough explanation was that these represent, respectively, the ordinary world, the telepathic world, the dream world, and the world of being. For teaching purposes, I have renamed them the "objective," "subjective," "symbolic," and "holistic" worlds. WK also said that all of these worlds are common to everyone, not just shamans, and the difference is only that shamans use them knowingly with purpose. He added that a lot of confusion in people's lives comes from mixing worlds in their thought and speech.

It was my aim to teach a lot of people in a short time about shamanic experience, so even with that helpful start, I had a great deal of filling in to do. Here is a brief résumé of that search and research.

THE SHAMANIC EXPERIENCE

What are we shamans (or Hunatics) doing when we do what we do? We speak with Nature and with spirits; we change the weather and create events; we heal minds and bodies and channel strange beings; we fly out of our bodies, travel through other dimensions, and see what others cannot see; and we pay our taxes, wash our cars, and buy our groceries. Is there a common thread connecting all these widely varying activities, or are they all just a bunch of separate skills?

There is a powerful clue in the first and fundamental principle of Huna. This principle says that "the world is what you think it is." Another more popular way of stating the same thing is that "we create our own reality." Most people who say this don't really accept it fully, because they think it only means that everything bad that happens to them is their fault; and many who accept it with better understanding limit its meaning to the idea that they are responsible for their feelings and experience and that, if they change their negative thoughts to positive ones, they will begin to attract positive instead of negative experience.

Shamans, however, go much further than that. We take that idea to mean that we not only attract experience by our thinking but we also actually create realities. By our assumptions, attitudes, and expectations, we make things possible or impossible, real or unreal. To put it another way, by shifting mindsets, we can do ordinary and nonordinary things in the same physical dimension that we share with everyone else. I repeat that shamans are not unique in doing this. Any apparent uniqueness comes from how we apply our abilities.

The way to change experience and be able to use non-ordinary abilities within a given reality is to shift from one set of beliefs (or assumptions, attitudes, and expectations) about that reality to another set. It sounds so very simple, and it is. The most difficult part—and it can be extremely difficult for some—is to accept the simplicity, because that means changing one's idea about what reality is. The definition I am going to use is very simple: reality is...

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• Verlag: Quest Books,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0835609111
• ISBN 13: 9780835609111
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• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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