Wise Secrets of Aloha: Learn and Live the Sacred Art of Lomilomi - Softcover

Jim, Kahuna Harry Uhane; Arledge, Garnette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1578633982 ISBN 13: 9781578633982

Publisher: Weiser Books, 2007

Synopsis

Harry Uhane Jim is one of the last Kahuna of Lomilomi, Keeper of the Deep Mysteries of authentic Hawaiian esoterica. He shares the secrets of this ancient oral tradition with readers for the first time in Wise Secrets of Aloha.

Recognizing that the world is in great peril, Kahuna Harry was blessed by the Halau Guardians who instructed him to share the true teachings and tools of Lomilomi for the practice of physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. He writes: "Now is the time to share aloha with humanity. `Aloha' means the Breath of God is in our Presence. It is time to reveal the profound Lomilomi secrets of the kahunas for personal and planetary peace."

Wise Secrets of Aloha is as simple as it is profound, as contemporary as it is ancient. It is true to Hawaiian esoteric teachings and available to all who bring the right attitude. Aloha calls. Listen in the the splash of waves, in the breeze-the air is filled with aloha. All the abundance, joy, and freedom from old wounds readers have ever yearned for can be found by adopting the aloha spirit.

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About the Author

Kahuna Harry Uhane Jim was born on Kauai fortyeight years ago to parents on both sides of the mystery. From the age of eight, Harry was mentored and taught by a succession of authentic Hawaiian Elders, the Kupuna and Kahuna. Trained in surfing, kayaking, and skin diving as spiritual, emotional, and physical routes to the Paa or the Transcendent Now, he went on to give healing treatments in Temple Lomilomi.


Beloved author Garnette Arledge had an intuitive flash when she fist met Kahuna Harry that she would work with him on a book. She had to ask him three times before the Halau Guardians said the time was right. She resides in Woodstock, NY.

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Wise Secrets of Aloha

Learn and Live the Sacred Art of Lomilomi

By Harry Uhane Jim, Garnette Arledge

Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

Copyright © 2007 Harry Uhane Jim and Garnette Arledge
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-57863-398-2

Contents

Preface, 
Introduction Calling the Wave, 
Part One Calling and Feeding the Aloha Spirit, 
Chapter One The Esoteric Aloha Spirit, 
Chapter Two The Triune Self and the Meaning in Aloha, 
Chapter Three Creating Space for Healing, 
Part Two Temple Lomilomi Techniques, 
Chapter Four Ha Breath: Grace Receiving Gratitude, 
Chapter Five Laulima: Laying on of Hands, 
Chapter Six Bone Washing: Releasing Cherished Wounds, 
Part Three Living Aloha, 
Chapter Seven The Path to Manifesting Life Abundance, 
Chapter Eight Lessons from the Hawaiian Workshop, 
Chapter Nine Lomilomi Healing Stories, 
Glossary, 

CHAPTER 1

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 is free of the clock, a vacation from boundaries to the bliss oftimelessness—God's time, not past, present, or future, but Pa'a, the now.

Harry: We call that now time Pa'a. Lomilomi, like surfing, is both a verticaland linear time experience. Both activities require the skill of navigatingpersonal emotions, while moving in unity with energy. The only navigationavailable to guide you is truth in the Spirit. The task of maneuvering aLomilomi treatment and maneuvering through the center of a wave requires theLomilomi giver and the surfer to receive information and grace from the HigherSelf. This is why these are both vertical and linear experiences.

A Lomilomi session is about the moments when a person's vibration is raisedvertically to that Pa'a, the now, that presence of God in us, for maybe two tothree seconds. Then all the rest of the session before and after isentertainment, anchoring the feeling of Pa'a, the now, into the person'sexperience.

Harry's Story: The Vertical Time Experience

"When I was eleven years old, I stood on a surfboard and went into the waves.And I felt oneness with God, time, the waves, the ocean, the sky, with all.Surfing became my religion for a while. I exulted in vertical time. It was no-time,yet vibrantly alive, and I was one with surfing. Hawaiians really valuethe emotional presence of our bodies in vertical time. Again I say, verticaltime is what we all share with God in the present. When we crack the patternthat causes illness, there is happiness in a nanosecond, in the Pa'a, the now.

So when you swim into the meanings of Hawaiian words, relax, have fun. Rememberthe less definitions, the more space. Emotional maturity is the fortitude toknow yourself better. Look into the home of your mind to see where you live.Your mind can direct the force of power of gratitude to your body. Say:

My body knows how to take care of this body. My body sends signals, pain andpleasure signals."

Preparing the Path

As we begin to explore this realm of Hawaiian body work healing, we do firstthings first. We prepare the path. We already have Aloha, the presence of Godwithin us, and we know we can move at will between linear time into the Pa'a,the now, of vertical time. Where do we find the path?

Opportunities are given to you in the space of the Halau. The tradition of theHalau is that touch medicine is learned in both vertical and linear time.Experience is based on the format. Therefore, be quiet and listen first in orderto find the path to healing. The way to see or feel and then know what is insidethe space of Lomilomi is through the traditional style.

Harry's Story: The Uhane Lineage, the People of Uhane

"I am in the lineage of the namesake Uhane. The second of four in Pa'a, the now,here, with this generation. The Uhane can be traced in the Kumulipu, an ancientchant of four thousand generations of history that is in the kahuna's keepingand that takes about three days and three nights of continuous speaking. TheKumulipu, in Hawaiian, means "genesis."

From the beginning of our group-mind intention to Pa'a, the now, the Kumulipurecords every clan of the original few people and the ancestral progression ofeach namesake as it has grown, then matured, then been completely destroyed inthe genocide. Hawaiians have been experiencing genocide since Captain Cook'sarrival in 1778.

The Kumulipu, according to the learnings I carry, is a chant that bends throughtime into a circle of completion. The genocide of the Hawaiian nationality isbemoaned as terrorism on the face of each native Hawaiian. The terrorism is thedestruction of our lands and culture. On the inside, found in the light of theHawaiian DNA, is the knowing that however much we are grieving this genocide, itproves our time here with the mother, Mauna Loa, is completed. We have achievedthe circle of perfection, which is what we Hawaiians came to this Earth to do.

The word kahuna is a verb, not a noun. The Hawaiian knows this because theHawaiian feels the Kumulipu inside. The DNA presence of the Hawaiian was, is,and will be the holder of the truth, until the truth seed is ready to expand.The culture has done too much and has had too much done to it on this Earth. Ourmother the Earth is Moana. The Hawaiian culture is dying, as will Mother Earth.Moana not only dies, but also comes to completion, to resolution, giving usfreedom to move through to higher or parallel fields of consciousness. TheHawaiian culture, like all circle-based cultures, is lovingly leaving us jewelsof ever-expanding knowledge.

I was born in 1958. In that time, there were three Uhane: me, my father, and mygrandfather—Harry Uhane Ekau Jim our namesake source. Grandfather was Uhane clanfrom Maui. He was Hanai, meaning that he was adopted by the Ekau Ohana (the Ekaufamily).

His birth mother, my great-grandmother, was Hina ha Uhane of Hana, Maui. Hername, Hina ha Uhane, is a tribute in the feminine context and means "the healingsister of Pele." Pele is known worldwide as the fire goddess of Kilauea. In thecanonization of the seven sisters of Pele, the Kumulipu accounts Hina, the grayone, the energy of the mist of the forest mountains. The underside of the Lehualeaf in the mountains is hina, a mix between silver and green. We know that therealm of the patriarch in the place of healing is the hina, the Ha, the breathof the spirit of the healing sister of Pele, that immortal being Hina Uhane.

But it is critical to understand that the name's tribute is not to thepersonality or deity of Hina, nor to the noun. The tribute is to the energy ofthe verb hina.

Harry Uhane Ekau Jim was my father's father. When my paternal grandfather wasborn, he was the end of the line. He was the only Uhane left. Then upon histwenty-seventh year he came to the island of Kauai, and my father was bornthrough his mother, Marilyn Manoi. I was very close to grandfather Uhane.

From these grandparents came my father, Harold Uhane Jim. His Uhane connects thelineage of the Manoi clan, who trace their Kumulipu to keepers of the mountainknown as Kahili. This Kahili mountain is on Kauai, near the south Koloa area,separate from Lihue crater and other mountain ranges. It is the place where thepeople Mu were received by Moana, where Mother Earth greeted these Pleiadians.Again, the tribute in the name Kahili is not to mountain the noun, but the verb,the energy, of the mountain.

I myself landed (was born) on Moana on the island of Kauai. If you ever landedon Kauai, you know you have come to a full and regal expression of Moana. Kauaiis the oldest in the chain of islands and the purest expression of the mind atpeace. She is an artist's palette of greens and blues that splash open yourbeing, all in a sensual envelope of perpetually vitalized air.

I came through this time near my father's twenty-seventh year on Kauai. Mymother, Janet Marie Desilva Jim, was born on Kauai and not with lineage to theKumulipu. She was the daughter of a couple from Madeira, also an island, off thecoast of Portugal. Her twentieth year gave her the third Uhane-to-be—me.

In my twentieth year, the last Uhane of his generation, Grandpa, passed. In mytwenty-seventh year came the new third Uhane of Pa'a, the now—our son KaponoUhane Isaiah—on Kauai through his mother Sila Lehua, granddaughter of Papa DavidKaonohiokala Bray. Their linage carries the kahuna seed on through to thekahuna, the Seeing Eye of the Sun. This kahunas' clan is the shaper and managerof the belief systems. Keola-Uhane David Jim, or the fourth Uhane, came to SilaLehua and myself in my thirty-fourth year—this one lands on the island ofHawaii. Now there are four Uhane.

There has been for four thousand generations Uhane in the seed (or the egg).This the Kumulipu recounts.

Our link—Sila and I—is five children: Keola, Keani, Kapono, Kala'e, and Leinani.Not all of the children are kahuna the noun, but all have kahuna the verb. Keolameans the one who holds health; Keani Kalaheiwa, the sweet breeze of themountain fern; Kapono, the rightful and balanced; Kala'e, calm and clear; andLeinani, heaven's garland.

I took the challenge to be a Lomilomi giver when I was three, although I wasyoung. By the time I was age four, family and friends were asking me to dohealing touch. When you take the challenge to be a Lomilomi giver, you willradiate healing. People who receive will feel better. Your power as a witness ofgrace receiving gratitude comes from the shift in your belief system. (This willbe explored further in chapter four.)

Kahunas do not tell how to shift the belief system into deep understanding, butinstead do Lomilomi. This is because kahunas don't want to hold you back fromembracing all of vertical time. When you find it yourself, you will own it.Don't tell, show; don't say, do. If kahunas tell, they divert you from your owndiscovery and your own ability to swim deep, alone with Spirit only."

I'o: The Hawk

To Hawaiians God is a verb, an action—not a noun or a name. Emotions, too, areactions. God's motive for creation is so that we can experience life more fullyand get to know ourselves better. God was motivated to create so that we mightfind/achieve the ultimate expression of emotional maturity.

In the Eastern religions there is no word for God, a concept so huge. In the IChing, to Hinduism ultimately, and to Buddhism, God is a force. To Hawaiiansalso, God is pure nondualism in the ultimate. For teaching purposes, the highestrepresentation of the ancient ones—so omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent—wasthe hawk, I'o, soaring over the highest volcanoes. Understand this, it iscritical to healing. Lomilomi empowers the God in you. Our job as Lomilomigivers is to be the witness of the receiver's work, to resolve and absolve.Everyone can experience the state of Pa'a, the now, vertical no-time. You havealready experienced it, but with Lomilomi you learn to enter it at will. Enterand exit into your Higher Self as you Lomilomi your life. You have thetechniques in you; bring them out. You have the capacity to trust yourself. Thisis what it takes to be a healer. I know every one of you, and I love you.

(Continues...)

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Edition details

• Publisher: Weiser Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1578633982
• ISBN 13: 9781578633982
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 150