The Esoteric Aloha Spirit

A Ke Akua! By your power and agreement, I declare: Open the Port.

—ancient Hawaiian invocation

Welcome to Hawaii, where every leaf, every rock, every person, every waterfall,the waves, the ocean, the beach, the scented trade winds, and all life is amanifestation of divine energy and brimming with Aloha for you.

In this place, this space, the reigning idea is that, as God sees us, no one isabove the other. So humans see God in every form, and in no form there is notGod's presence. Hawaii's secret of paradise is Aloha: "the breath of God is inour presence."

Aloha, the beloved greeting for hello and good-bye known the world over, is amany-leveled, truly multisplendored healing sound all by itself. There is in allcreation, in Aloha, a bigger, wider, more substantive presence of spiritualitythan we can, at the surface, see or know.

So say Aloha now to yourself. Savor Aloha, the traditional greeting. Generosityoffers you a scented white-ginger lei. You are the welcomed guest. Alohaoverflows with hospitality, flashes abundance, and offers beauty to all.

Thus, each person honored with Aloha feels loved, feels welcomed, feels beauty,feels warmth, and therefore feels joy. Emotions swim with delight; healingoccurs. The separation of strangers is replaced with the natural warmth of beingloved, being supported. When the plane touches down in Honolulu, the traditionis that beauties rush forward gracefully, singing Aloha, and placing leis aroundthe necks of newcomers.

More spirituality is going on here than is apparent to the physical eyes. ThisAloha welcoming ritual is designed to raise the vibration of the travel-wearynewcomer to these islands that are the most remote from any of the continents onEarth. Aloha calls forth, soul to soul, the spirit of generosity andhospitality. In knowingly greeting newcomers with Aloha, invoking the presenceof God within, automatically, the vibrations of the travel-weary visitor areraised, thus benefiting all. Harry calls this process vivification—revving upthe energy, raising good spiritual feelings. Is this a working definition ofHawaiian theology? Yes, partially, according to the Halau Uhane LomilomiLapa'au, Harry and Sila's esoteric school for creating knowledge of the spiritof healing-touch medicine.

Harry says healing is the inalienable inheritance of each human. Healingtransforms the person into an actual temple in which time, space, and willconverge. Each person is a temple. Then, knowing of such healing, each personcan say, "Lomilomi is a commitment to myself. My presence here is a sacredmanifestation from me to myself to shower gratitude, growth, and bliss to mywhole being. I focus to enter into and sustain my temple in the heart, thepu'u."

Swimming into the depths of knowledge requires healing of the cherished woundsand tantrums of the past, present, and future, all lurking within the body-mind-emotionalsystem of an individual.

You become the temple so that energy moves from the heart, and through the heartmoves the essence of your own light, your Uhane (see chapter two), your support,guide, and grace. You will begin each Lomilomi session with a receiver'sopportunity to commit to the experience by saying these words:

I commit the energy of certainty to the abundance and perfection of myintuition, as I am radiant in the light of Aloha.

Make this your own pledge.

So let us begin with the teaching. First: the symbol of Thundering Grace. (Seeillustration on page 7.)

This complex symbol pictures both God's grace and human's gratitude back to God.Not the God of our understanding, but to Hawaiian kahunas, God grander than ourability to hold in the mind. Light is another Hawaiian code word for God. Lightis defined as having a conscious connection to God. Light that feeds the human'scall for grace by sending Spirit, which regenerates and strengthens humans. Thatgrace is inalienable and freely given. That grace is the unmerited favor andlove of God. In turn, we feed the Light through gratitude, or the state of beinggrateful. The symbol pictures God's reaction to our call. This crosscurrent ofenergy generates grace receiving gratitude.

Time and Hawaiian Time

Here at the beginning, it is useful to acknowledge the Hawaiian way of knowingtime, which is so far across the sea from clock time. Hawaiian time, in theHalau, is vertical. Wherever you are, be it O'ahu, Minneapolis, or Toronto,living in the Aloha Spirit is living in vertical time. Having a Lomilomitreatment seems on the surface like a spa vacation for an hour. Yet people longto savor and continue the freedom and pleasure of their vacations or massageeven in the midst of the workaday world. Living in an awareness of the realityof vertical time can fulfill that longing.

What is vertical time? Vertical time means no deadlines, no fixed schedules.Vertical time means freedom, kindness, unity, humility, patience, alertness.Vertical time we all share with God. Healing may be outside our comfort zone orboundaries. If so, a part of those boundaries are linear time. If healing wereinside our comfort zone, we would already be healed. Thinking that a trip to theislands is a vacation to a destination is linear time. Believing that a trip tothe islands is an inner journey to wholeness is vertical time.

Harry: The ancient ones believed that all time is now, that we are each creatorsof our lifestyle and its conditions. We created who we are and everything thatbecomes a part of our lives. Any situation we might find ourselves in is broughtabout by us in learning the many pathways of life. Our situations are not theresults of a judgment of our actions. But who we become is caused by ourthoughts and choices.

To Hawaiians, linear time is the dream of commonality that all minds share. TheHalau Uhane Lomilomi Lapa'au is the journey of conscious partnership between youand your emotional body. It is the expression of the Hawaiians' premise andperception of the world around them—that we are in linear and vertical time.

We all live in the linear time. It is the watch on your arm determining yourschedule. Vertical time, on the other hand, is that connection with the HigherSelf. The Hawaiian knows, and we want you to know, how to emotionally invest inSpirit: the Au'makua, the infinite mind of you, the light of the presence of Godin you. (This will be explored further in chapter two.)

Garnette: The Greeks called timelessness "no-time" or Kairos. Clock time isKronos, chronological time. Working nine to five is linear time, then. Verticaltime...