The Shamans Mind: Huna Wisdom to Change Your Life 2020
by Jonathan Hammond
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Names: Hammond, Jonathan, Shamanic practitioner, author.
Title: The shamans mind : Huna wisdom to change your life / Jonathan
Hammond.
Description: Rhinebeck, New York : Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2020.
| Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020000478 | ISBN 9781948626217 (paperback) | ISBN
9781948626224 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Huna. | Shamanism--Hawaii.
Classification: LCC BF1623.H85 H36 2020 | DDC 299/.9242--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020000478
Book and cover design by Colin Rolfe
Cover painting: Plantas Medicinales by Anderson Debernardi
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Quote on page 152 from The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller copyright 2008, 1994. Reprinted by permission of Basic Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
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This book is dedicated to Serge Kahili King, Brian McCormack, and my mother.
Preface
This book is about becoming a finder and no longer a seeker.
Its about truly healing. Its about learning to love yourself; to think straight; to step into wellness, prosperity, and love; and to feel the inner satisfaction of these attainments to such a degree that the inevitable response is to give yourself back to the world. Imagine yourself so well, so full, and so supported, that you cant help but want to spread your good fortune around.
In every given moment, each of us has a glorious opportunity to release our self-limiting stories, learn to live from our true nature, and become the highest and brightest expression of ourselves. And I know of no better, more practical, or more effective system to guide you there than Huna, the esoteric knowledge and philosophy of Hawaii.
We are currently in the midst of an immense, difficult, and sometimes terrifying planetary shift of consciousness. We are on the brink of complete unsustainabilitywe cannot continue our current ways without careening toward destruction. The Cree tribe of North America speaks of a contagious psychospiritual disease of the human soula virus or parasite of the mind that is currently manifesting itself in the form of unprecedented conflicts and crisis on a global scale. This wicked spirit, which terrorizes and cannibalizes others, is called Wetiko or the Wetiko Virus. In Hawaiian, it is referred to as Eepa, which means deceit that passes comprehension.
Wetiko/Eepa is born of our disconnection from the natural world and it operates by covert infestation of the human psyche, compelling us, through toxic selfishness, to act against our own best interests by blinding us to our own insanity: destruction for profit, massive hoarding of wealth, allowing suffering without compassion, dehumanizing others, and recklessly exploiting natural resources.
Wetiko, however, is non-local. In other words, it doesnt have any substantive, material existence except in our own minds. This points to an incredible intrinsic power and deep personal responsibility within each of us to make a difference in this world by cultivating our own individual consciousness, by cleaning up our own mess and making ourselves so well so that we can have a positive influence on all of life, and on all of those whom we touch.
Quantum physics posits the Quantum Inseparability Principleevery atom effects every other atom, everywhere, because everything influences everything else in every direction and every which way in time. This means that everything we do matters; how we think and live has energetic reverberations that affect all beings everywhere. The microcosm of our individual selves is the macrocosm of the entire planet and beyond. There is no separation.
I can only guess that if you are holding this book, you feel a deep calling and personal need to be part of the global solution. And because we are all inseparably connected in this one universe, even the simple yearning to live our best lives contributes vitally toward this deeper intentionality. In the last fifty years we have become inundated with consciousness-expanding, esoteric wisdom from a host of indigenous and spiritual traditions, and for good reason. A contemporary spiritual movement, an army of light workers is being formed to prepare and fortify millions for the changes ahead.
This has already been prophesied.
The Quechua people, who live in the Andes of South America, call the time in which we are now living the Fifth Pachacuti. A Pachacuti is a five-hundred-year interval, and this particular one is an era in which, as the legend states, the Eagle and the Condor will fly together in the same sky. According to the Quechua, the previous two thousand years were dominated by the Eaglea visionary, but materialistic bird; one connected to seeing vast distances, the intellect, and the masculine principles of growth and movement. Over the last two thousand years, the Eagles influence was seen in the huge advancements and discoveries that took place in science, medicine, and technology.
But the Fifth Pachacuti, which we now inhabit, is a time when the feminine, spiritual, and environmentally-minded Condor will begin to dance together with the Eagle, restoring balance and harmony with her intuitive Earth wisdom. The Quechua believe that the Condor embodies such sacredness that she might not actually fly, but can somehow spiritually move herself.
In the Quechan prophecy, during the Fifth Pachacuti, the entrance of the Condor will come about with the help and support of those humans who espouse Earth-honoring ways, those who live in right relation with themselves and their environment, and those who choose to lean into the interconnectivity of all things.
And that is you.
The best way to fight the Wetiko/Eepa demon is to start by naming it. By naming it, we diminish its power. Then we can lend ourselves, through the inner rainbow light of our hearts and minds, to anyoneand anythingwhich, for whatever reason has lost their way or had their freedoms diminished.
We do this not only through the actions we take in the world, but by cultivating a consciousness within our own minds that always leads us toward choice, possibility, and the highest levels of inclusivity. The Hawaiians call this consciousness Aloha . The word Aloha is a commonplace greeting in Hawaii, and it is often translated as love, but it has great spiritual significance as well. In Hawaii, Aloha is considered an attitude, an ethic, and a means for change. It means to share life force with another, using the essence of love as an expression of our life force in order to further creation.
