Aloha kakou (Compassion to us both),

Huna realized, almost from the beginning, that many fine people had lost their minds in the exploration of the very territory Huna finds itself at home with. This, I think, is because people just fluctuate between not believing anything, and when that doesn't cover it all, then they believe everything! This can be fun, of course. Your Aunt might not like it, but she doesn't really like anything anyways. Huna trains one to Reality Check all "strange" happenings.

This is the Path of Huna. I believe in religious healing. Why? Because I've done over three hundred of them. I believe in the instantaneous healing of small broken bones. Why? Because I've instantly healed small broken bones over a dozen times. Because of that, I believe larger broken bones can be instantly mended by someone better than me. So can give it some slack. Once a small thing is reality checked, and found to be true, then another thing of the same category can also be, temporarily at least, believed.

I believe in the gods, some of them, the Huna gods, because one of them materialized in front of me and had a talk with me, in front of eleven of my friends! And then gods appeared to me in front of my mom, me and in front of my best friend Donl, me and a Sioux Holy Woman. If someone just came up to me and told me the gods existed, I'd just agree, to keep the peace, and walk away unaffected. If they told me that one had appeared to them, I'd think they were nuts. But if other people were also there at the time...well that is as reality checked as one can get.

If someone came up to me and said that a fire can gain intelligence and willfulness through prayer...and it can be walked upon and chose not to burn a person! I'd wish that were true and continue digging my ditch or whatever I was doing at the time. Anyone who believed it just from having someone say it, would be nuts, or at least I would have to be. But if they said that they had seen it themselves, it'd be a lot more creditable to me. And I have done more than that, but under the same rules, i.e. in public. Not only have I walked on fire in public, without pain or burns, under the protection of my Aumakua and the Huna Goddess of the Firewealk, Wahinenuiho`alani, but I have led others through it too. And I have helped train other na Kahuna who have done the same. So I believe that the Firewalk is possible. And now there are several fine na Kahuna I Ke Umu Ki (Priests of the Firewalk) in the Hunians. Kahuna Manawanui, Kahuna Ulana, and Kahuna Keonaona are fine examples who have also led Hunians and their guests through the fire-made-sacred at our annual Makahiki Celebrations. And these people too were unhurt.

When I bless the Kukui wood, it changes color. Not just for me, but when I bless them as gifts for others, they change color (over a month or so) for them too. Because they have changed color for more than a hundred icons, I believe they change color from my blessing. But when I screwed it up, was sick and all at the time of the blessing---nothing interesting happened. There was no change of color! And because I have researched it, so far, I believe that I, and my mamo (descendents) whom I have initiated into the ability to do as I can do, as far as I know, we are the first people in the history of the world to do that.

When the people I give them out to, the Kukui Bearers, touch these blessed shells to anyone's open, bleeding, agonized wound---the wound instantly stops hurting and bleeding, and the skin moves over and seals the wound. In a small number of cases from all over the world, there is no wound left. Blood all over everyone---but no place for the blood to have come from. If it weren't for all the blood, there would be no evidence that a wound had ever taken place.

If someone told me, that they had heard that such things were real, Huna, properly, would insist that I hold off on any belief that it was so. For that is the way people lose their minds. But if someone came up to me, whom I felt I could trust, and told me that they had actually done this themselves, and had a Ki`i Kukui to prove it, and other people had seen it happen. Then fine.

So while it is fun to play outside the perimeters of the herd, watch yourself too, and don't get lost. It can be dangerous out here..."Reality Check" everything until it is proven to you. Once established as true and not a delusion, or a trick from a spirit, some slack can be had. Remember the Law of Three: The first time something happens is just Happenstance, the second time is just Coincidence, but the third occurrence is possibly intelligent action.

A hui hou (CyaL8R),

Kahuna Lani