Morrnah Simeona (1913-1992) wrote: “We can appeal to Divinity who knows our personal blueprint, for healing of all thoughts and memories that are holding us back at this time. It is a matter of going beyond traditional means of accessing knowledge about ourselves.”

The process that Morrnah refers to is based on the ancient Hawaiian method of stress reduction (release) and problem solving called Ho’oponopono. The word Ho’oponopono means to make right, to rectify an error. Morrnah was a native Hawaiian Kahuna Lapa’au. Kahuna means “keeper of the secret” and Lapa’au means “a specialist in healing.” She was chosen to be a kahuna while still a small child and received her gift of healing at the age of three. She was the daughter of a member of the court of Queen Liliuokalani, the last sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands. The process that is now brought forth is a modernization of an ancient spiritual cleansing ritual. It has proven so effective that she was invited to teach this method at the United Nations, the World Health Organization and at institutions of healing throughout the world.

How does Ho’oponopono work? Morrnah explained, “We are the sum total of our experiences, which is to say that we are burdened by our pasts. When we experience stress or fear in our lives, if we would look carefully, we would find that the cause is actually a memory. It is the emotions which are tied to these memories which affect us now. The subconscious associates an action or person in the present with something that happened in the past. When this occurs, emotions are activated and stress is produced.”

She continued, “The main purpose of this process is to discover the Divinity within oneself. The Ho’oponopono is a profound gift which allows one to develop a working relationship with the Divinity within and learn to ask that in each moment, our errors in thought, word, deed or action be cleansed. The process is essentially about freedom, complete freedom from the past.”

Every memory of every experience, since the first moment of our creation, eons ago, is recorded as a thought form which is stored in the etheric realm. This incredible recorder/computer is also known as the subconscious, unihipili or child aspect within us. The inner child is very real and comprises one part of the Self. The other aspects are the mother, also known as the uhane or rational mind and the father, the superconscious or Spiritual aspect. The three comprise the inner family, which, in partnership with The Divine Creator, makes up one’s Self I-Dentity. Every human being in creation, every plant, atom and molecule has these three selves and yet each blueprint is completely different.

The most important task for people is to find his or her true identity and place in the Universe. This process allows that understanding to become available.

The purpose of Ho’oponopono is to: 1) Connect with the Divinity within on a moment-to-moment basis; 2) To ask that movement and all it contains, be cleansed. Only the Divinity can do that. Only the Divinity can erase or correct memories and thought forms. Since the Divinity created us, only the Divinity knows what is going on with a person.

In this system, there is no need to analyze, solve, manage or cope with problems. Since the Divinity created everything, you can just go directly to Him and ask that it be corrected and cleansed.

In the area of problem solving: the world is a reflection of what is happening inside us. If you are experiencing upset or imbalance, the place to look is inside yourself, not outside at the object you perceive as causing your problem. Every stress, imbalance or illness can be corrected just by working on yourself. It is important to mention that this system is fundamentally different from other forms of Ho’oponopono. In traditional methods, everyone who is involved in a problem needs to be physically present and work it out together. In Morrnah’s system everything can be handled by you and the Divinity. You don’t need to go one inch outside yourself for answers or help. There is no one who can give you any more relevant information than you can get by going within yourself.

Morrnah especially recommended Ho’oponopono for those in the healing profession: “It is important to clear Karmic patterns with your clients before you start working with them, so that you don’t activate old stuff between you. Perhaps you shouldn’t be working with that person at all. Only the Divinity knows. If you work with a person and it isn’t your business, you can take on the person’s entire problem and everything associated with it. This can cause burnout. The Ho’oponopono gives the tools to prevent that from happening.”

Morrnah wished for our Western society that everyone would do things to reduce the stress. “Western people have great difficulty in putting the intellect behind. It is difficult for the Western mind to get a grasp of a Higher Being because in traditional Western churches, the Higher Beings are not made evident.” She continued, “Western man has gone to the extremes with his intellectualism it divides and keeps people separate. Man then becomes a destroyer because he manages and copes rather than letting the perpetuating force of the Divinity flow through him for right action.”

Morrnah worked with her associate, Dr. Stanley Hew Len, who spent several years as a consulting clinical psychologist at the Hawaii State Hospital. He has had profound results by using this process with the most dangerous, violently “mentally ill” criminals in Hawaii. Yet he never talks to them, in fact, he never even sees them. He writes down their name and then just works on himself. He cleanses his judgments, beliefs, attitudes and asks the Divinity what he can do for the person. As those attachments and memories are cleansed, the patient improves. “The Divinity,” comments Stan, “says it is time to bring all the children home.” (05/08/09)
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James Howard Kunstler writes: Euphoria managed to out-run swine flu last week as the
epidemic-du-jour, with “consumer” confidence jumping and the big bank
stocks nudging up. The H1N1 virus fizzled for now, at least in terms of
kill ratio, though we’re warned it might boomerang in the fall with a
vengeance. No one was surprised to see Chrysler roll over like a possum
on a county highway, but the memory of their muscle cars will linger on
like a California surfing song. Here in the northeast, where Sundays
are not spent at the Nascar oval, the spring foliage reached the
tenderly explosive stage and it was hard to feel bad about anything.

For
now, the “bottom” is in — that is, the bottom of this society’s
ability to process reality. It may continue for a month of so, even
after the “stress test” for banks is finally let out of the massage
parlor with a “happy ending.” But events are underway that are beyond
the command of personalities. We’re done “doing business” in all the
ways that we’ve been used to, but we just can’t get with the new
program. …

All these epochal discontinuities
present themselves, for the moment, as a season of muted “hope” and
general apathy. The days are suddenly mild. We’ve resumed old and happy
habits of grilling meat outdoors and motoring to those remaining places
that were not blanketed with franchised food huts and discount malls.
We have a new, charming president with an appealing family.
Newly-minted dollars are flowing to the “shovel-ready.” The new bad
news is less bad than the old bad news (or seems to be). And the year
just past has been such a bummer that our hard-wired human nature tells
us that good things must be just around the corner.

Personally,
I think a lot of good things await us, but not the ones we’re expecting
– not a return to buying slurpees on credit cards. It will be very
salutary. (05/08/09)
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Joel Pitney writes: Is human civilization, with its cities, laws, technology, and endless forward momentum, a plague on Mother Earth moving us further and further from our indigenous, natural, Eden-like past with every progressive step? Or is it the most recent expression of an extraordinary process of evolution that has given birth to higher and higher forms of complexity, beauty, and inclusiveness with every leap forward?

At this point in history, when some say that things are better than they’ve ever been while others are say they’re worse than they’ve ever been, it seems like this deep rift between those who see our current trajectory as inherently positive or negative is getting more and more complicated by the day. And which side of the aisle you sit on with regard to this particular topic has a huge impact on how you will see and relate to our current predicament and to the future in general.

I recently came across a hilarious episode of The Stuart Davis Show that helps shed a comic light on this debate. Davis—a rock musician, comedian, and founding member of the Integral Institute—may be the integral world’s most entertaining personality. And the clip is nothing short of genius.

In a schizophrenic scene situated in an idyllic Colorado mountain meadow, “Techno-Progressive Stuart” dukes it out with “Eco-Spiritual Stuart” over the ultimate value of human civilization. Enjoy! (05/08/09)
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BBC Political Economic Insanity — The UN’s head of environment has been left “stunned” by the billions of dollars pumped into ailing companies following the global financial crisis. Achim Steiner told the BBC One Planet programme that he had fought for years to secure much smaller sums to tackle poverty and climate change. “We waited perhaps a decade to get $5bn ($3.3bn) to accelerate development of renewable energy,” he said. “We now see $20bn (£13.3bn) paid [to] a car company simply to keep it alive.” He said he was surprised that such huge amounts had “suddenly been found” to tackle the crisis.

Over $11trillion (£7tn) has been spent on bank bailouts in the UK and the US alone. Billions more has been promised in aid for struggling industries, such as automotive manufacturers.

But Mr Steiner, who is based in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, warned we are passing the bill to the next generation, and stressed that if extra investment is not found to tackle climate change, the bail-outs would be “a terrible waste of money”. Despite the urgency of governments to ensure financial institutions do not collapse, Mr Steiner urged the public not to be “sold the false story” of banks having to be fixed before worrying about other issues such as environmental protection.

If that did happen, Mr Steiner believes it would represent “the greatest political tragedy of the last five decades”.

In the interview, the Brazilian-born UN director also suggested the world’s richest countries could make huge inroads to tackling climate change by adding $5 (£3.30) to the cost of a barrel of oil - which he estimates would raise over $100bn (£66.5bn) to invest in new technology. “Are you really that worried about paying three cents more per litre of oil in order to reverse global warming - what would be the debate if we put it in those terms?” (05/07/09)
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