Serge Kahili King - Changing Reality: Huna Practices to Create the Life You Want

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Copyright 2013 by Serge King

First Quest Edition 2013

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Cover art: Eye of Kanaloa , digital art created 2012 with MandalaMaker 2.0 software. Copyright KAStrick Designs.Cover artist Kathryn Strick, www.kastrickdesigns.artistwebsites.com . Kanaloa is the God of the Ocean in Hawaiian mythology. The Eye of Kanaloa symbol is said to be healing, as well as a shamanic stargate.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

King, Serge.

Changing reality: Huna practices to create the life you want / Serge Kahili King1st Quest ed.

p. cm.

Originally published: Volcano, Hawaii: Hunaworks, 2010.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-8356-0911-1

1. Huna. 2. ShamanismHawaii. I. Title.

BF1623.H85K55 2013

299.9242dc23 2012039106

ISBN for electronic edition, e-pub format: 978-0-8356-2116-8

5 4 3 2 1 * 13 14 15 16 17

Dedication

This book is dedicated to the Alakai of Huna International, who have committed themselves to spreading the Huna philosophy, sharing the Aloha Spirit all over the world, and helped in many ways to develop the ideas and techniques presented here.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

With deep gratitude I thank my wife, Gloria, who patiently made me eat when I needed food, skillfully distracted me when I needed a break, and willingly tried new experiments when I needed a subject. Thanks also to my agent, John White, who kept encouraging me to write this book.

Part 1

The Shamanic Worldview

Life Is an Adventure

Be aware of what you are and what you want to be;

You can turn your life around from A to Z.

Nothing is impossible; belief is all you need;

You dont have to trust to luck, just plant the seed.

(Chorus) Oh, Life is an adventure; life is all a dream;

Everything is flexible and not what it would seem.

Dare to give yourself a chance to do the best you can;

Plan the way to live your life and walk your plan!

When the world is getting dark and you are full of fear,

Remember to turn on the light and make things clear.

When you are unhappy and when youre full of doubt,

Fill yourself with energy and then begin to shout:

(Chorus) Oh, Life is an adventure; life is all a dream;

Everything is flexible and not what it would seem.

Dare to give yourself a chance to do the best you can;

Plan the way to live your life and walk your plan!

Theres a little secret thats as old as it can be;

Faith can make a mountain move and love can set you free.

So bless the world each morning, and by it youll be blessed;

Trust the power deep within and then expect the best!

(Chorus) Oh, Life is an adventure; life is all a dream;

Everything is flexible and not what it would seem.

Dare to give yourself a chance to do the best you can;

Plan the way to live your life and walk your plan!

Serge Kahili King, 1991

Chapter 1

The Four Worlds of a Shaman

A s many readers know, I was reared and trained in a Hawaiian esoteric tradition that we call Huna. Abundant details of this tradition and my training can be found in my other books. Suffice it to say here that my adoptive Hawaiian family, the Kahilis, followed a version of Huna that is strongly linked to shamanic traditions around the world. The equivalent word for shaman in Hawaiian would be kupua. What follows, therefore, will have shamanic underpinnings. For the sake of making distinctions, the tradition I write about here can be called Huna Kupua.

Although I have written extensively on the subject of Huna in relation to many different areas of life, with this book I intend to go even further in its understanding and practice. And, no doubt, even more details about my life may be revealed.

A BIT OF BACKGROUND

One of the most confusing things to students of Huna is the way Hunatics (a convenient word coined by a student) look at the world. It confuses my students now and it certainly confused me as I was growing up in this tradition.

When I was a teenager living on a farm, my father would sometimes talk about the crops and the animals around us just like the neighboring farmers would, and sometimes he would talk to the same crops and animals as if they were all intelligent beings who could understand and respond to him. Even though I learned to do what he did, it was a good while before I understood the process. There was a time when I found it difficult to concentrate, with all the conversations of trees, flowers, bugs, rocks, and buildings going on. Then, somehow, I learned to switch in and out of that kind of awareness without knowing how I was doing it.

During seven years in Africa, my shaman mentor MBala taught me to merge with the animals of the jungle after going into a deep trance state. I thought that the trance was the means of merging until I realized that he was able to do the same thing in the blink of an eye without going into trance at all. Obviously, trance was just a tool and not the thing that caused the shift in experience.

And my Hawaiian kahuna uncle, Wana Kahili (WK), taught me to go on inner journeys filled with wonder and terror and to see omens in clouds and leaves and furniture. Yet he also taught me to be very aware of my waking state and how not to see omens as well, for there are times when that can be just as important.