HUNA

Huna is a Hawaiian word first used by Max Freedom Long (1890-1971) in 1936 to describe what he called “the secret science behind the 'miracles' that ancient Hawaiian kahuna (experts) performed. It is part of the New thought movement.

Principles and Beliefs of Huna

Long wrote that the key to Huna is the concept of the Three Selves - the low self, middle self and higher self; or unconscious, conscious and super-conscious, which he called the unihipili, the uhane and the aumakua. Other Huna teachers also refer to the Three Selves but give them the alternate names of 'Ku', 'Lono' and 'Aumakua', or simply refer to them as high, middle and low without Hawaiian terms.

Serge King has articulated seven principles of Huna:

1. IKE (ee-kay) - The world is what you think it is.
2. KALA - There are no limits.
3. MAKIA (mah-kee-ah) - Energy flows where attention goes.
4. MANAWA (man-ah-wah) - Now is the moment of power.
5. ALOHA - To love is to be happy with (someone or something).
6. MANA - All power comes from within.
7. PONO - Effectiveness is the measure of truth.

Dr Rima Morrell has stated that one who truly practices Huna, has the ability to influence consciousness (2005). The consciousness is not restricted to human consciousness, but may include that of animals, rocks, everything in the world around us both seen and unseen, therefore can include gods and goddess (akua) and the spirits of the departed ('aumakua) who often appear in the form of animals. Thus Huna proponents claim that someone who practices Huna is a shaman who has the ability to create with consciousness and bring the world into being as he or she desires.

Long took syncretistic New Thought ideas and gave them Hawaiian names. One of the primary themes in his books is that the kahuna were not unique to Hawai'i. They were the Hawaiian version of an esoteric priesthood that was also found in ancient Egypt. Indian yogis, Christ and Buddha were adepts in these universal principles. Huna incorporates religion, psychology, and psychic science. It claims the ancient belief concentrated mainly on "positive thinking," that this belief was maintained and preserved in the islands of Polynesia, but lost to the rest of the world and contaminated by outside forces, and only recently has begun to resurface.

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