Huna teachings - book review

I've just finished Kahuna Healing by Serge King, something like ten years after I
first read it, and its like I've never read it before. Isn't that weird when it
happens - like you're reading a book that's the same inside, but you're in a whole different place?

Polynesia is a triangle that stretches from New Zealand, to Hawaii and then to
Easter island - a huge area with thousands of miles between islands - but which
enjoyed commerce, trade and exploration long before Columbus sailed across the Atlantic. The Maori for instance have ancient navigation chants that reveal sailing directions to Hawaii. There were Hawaiian kahunas, Tahitian tahunas and Maori tohungas.

It is suggested that Captain Cook arrived on Hawaii not by coincidence, but by
kahuna telepathic suggestion - so he landed just in time for a festival dedicated to
the god Lono. [The kahuna had their own Hawaiian pantheon of gods but still recognised one ultimate God]. There was a God, but there was no "sinning" against that God. There was no concept of "sin". There are natural laws, like gravity and you can't sin against gravity.

This telepathic suggestion is one of a number of startling feats that the kahuna were reputed to be able to do. Walking on lava, healing the sick. Unlike the Boston missionaries who couldn't do either. Yet the kahuna are [were] ordinary men and women who trained to develop abilities we all have latent within ourselves. Plus studying and practicing empowering beliefs and mental disciplines. [Its interesting that the author proposes that presently held beliefs seem to influence healing more than past memories.]

On Huna and physical healing - the body is an intensely energised thought form, a concept from the Higher Self expressing itself in the material world as a physical form, modified by the beliefs of that person's conscious mind, and maintained by the unconscious mind. I love that stunningly simple metaphor. There's the car factory, the driver, and the on board computer. Your body is the vehicle that you use to project your intention into the physical world, and the means by which you gain feedback from doing so.

The Higher Self creates the blueprint of the body and downloads that to the unconscious mind whose job it is to run and maintain that blueprint. However, it is continually subjected to the learned beliefs of the conscious mind. Any illness or disease is where these 3 minds are in conflict with one another.

A great place to see this effect is in the area of western civilisation and its beliefs about health. We're conditioned by the health & fitness industry that slim is desireable and healthy. Fat is ugly and unhealthy. But let's face it, you get thin people who are ill, and fat people who are healthy. Super fit athletes die every day, and chain smoking old codgers can live a century or more.

Disease may be the result of the conscious minds learned thinking patterns being in conflict with the unconscious mind's blueprint. Its not the MacDonalds burger that kills you, its what you think about the burger. [see also "Zero Limits" by Joe Vitale and Dr Hew Len]. Swine flu affects people more because of the media hype than the flu itself. Beliefs are the root of illness in Huna. Epidemics may have more to do with the individual's reaction to social proof then bacteria. Thus Huna includes suggestions and belief changes as a natural part of the therapy intervention. Faith in the cure leads to the success of the cure.

But kahuna were sought and followed not by reputation, but by their results. "Ye shall know them by their fruits". They were known for their proven abilities and knowledge, and didn't actually have to be of Hawaiian descent. Serge states that the knowledge is alive and operating today, but just isn't obvious.

There's a fascinating section on emotions, and Serge states that the kahuna see emotion as simply a flow of energy through the body. The sensation of guilt or attraction are much the same, but its the thoughts and self-talk that accompany the sensations that tell you what to call it. Try that one on! An adept kahuna can generate, direct, change or dissolve any emotion at will. That's why I say all NLP is Huna.

Most interesting is the discussion on "thought forms" - kahuna didn't recognise the concepts of a devil or demons, or wandering spirits of the dead. They classed these as man-made thought forms. The only demons are the ones you believe in.

On the matter of a client who is treated, and then the problem returns - the suggestion is that the client failed to change their thought patterns, and therefore the body simply went back to its learned way of being.

Overall I've thoroughly enjoyed re-reading this book and heartily recommend it. I read it years ago, and I'll probbaly come back to it years from now. And that's in keeping with a nice quote from page 70:

"The present is the fruit of the past, and the seed of the future"