I understand the value of discovering our gifts, mastering them, and offering them back to the Circle of Life in a spirit of Loving Service.
Of course, understanding is one thing while doing is quite another. Like everyone else, I require motivation to seek out and do that which I can see is in my highest and best interests.
I have learned that there are three kinds of motivations. There are motivations that move us into balance, and motivations that work to move us out of balance. There are also motivations that don't work at all. These are those motivations that live only in our minds - and not in our hearts. These kinds of motivations are simply useless inaginings - mere direction without power. Motivations must contain power to work.
I have discovered that if balance is the goal, a motivation powered by love results in a flow of experiences and behaviors that work. That is because true Love is the marriage of Life and Light. The Life is the power, and the Light is the ability to see how to use that power to live in Harmony with my world.
When my work is motivated by Love, I work with a genuine desire to be of service to my world. This works for my world as much as it works for me. The result is that Life energy flows and I experience that flow as joy, empowerment, and satisfaction. I feel totally safe and experience a sense of profound peace because I feel completely connected to my world. When I experience pain, no matter its cause, I remain far bigger than the pain.
There is another kind of motivation. This is the kind of motivation that happens when I forget to ask and listen. I lose sight of my connection my world. I make choices that are not the wisest. These result in pain coupled with an underlying sense of unworthiness that adds the dimension of suffering to my pain. When that happens I am already well along the path that leads through hell.
Because I am smart enough to see that kind of pain as self-inflicted, I don't want to make unwise decisions because I don't like that kind of pain. I got over my need to experiment with the hell-realms many years ago.
What is real is that I wouldn't make poor decisions if I were able to recognize better ones. (In this case, I define "better" as choices that are more life-giving, because they are more in Harmony with Reality.)
The bottom line is that to the extent I am conscious, I live motivated by Love, and my life works for me. To the extent I am unconscious I become motivated by fear, and my life becomes very painful.
As a very young person, I was taught the importance of being a "responsible" person. One grandfather had a rather large ranch and farming operation. The other had a plethora of businesses in the small mountain community where I was born and raised. My own father had both a business (several at times) as well as a small ranch.
As a family we were responsible for those businesses, as well as for my grandparents when they got to be too old and frail to take care of themselves. In doing these things there was never a question about "whether" - only about "how" and to a far smaller extent, "when." Being raised in this kind of environment I came to see how responsibility and power go together. This provided some important fuel for loving motivation.
I also saw how difficult an un-empowered life can be. I watched as people who had given their power away to alcohol and cigarettes destroyed their families and their lives. I also saw people give away their Integrity for money and thereby lose the respect of the community as well as their own self-respect. What I saw was painful and ugly. This provided even more motivation.
Then there is the motivation created by my own personal debacles. In Jesus' day, "sin" was a Greek word that meant "to miss the mark." If you can accept that as my definition for "sin", then I will easily own up to having sinned - sometimes in very big ways!
Over the years all this "sinning" created a lot of pain for which I am very grateful, for this pain taught me many valuable lessons. While it would be very hard to enumerate all the lessons I've learned from my "sinning", I can say that they fall into four general categories.
- Life energy flows where things are in balance. Whenever things are out of balance I can know it, because sooner or later my experience of my life becomes painful.
- Balance is the perfect nature of Reality. This is an extremely important lesson to me because it helped me to realize that if there is a problem, it has nothing to do with Reality because Reality has no problems. Problems occur when we aren't in touch with Reality. The fact that we exist at all is prima fascia evidence that Reality works perfectly!
If I have a problem and the problem is not with Reality, obviously the problem is of my own creation. Just as obviously, because I am highly motivated to avoid pain, I wouldn't create such a problem if I knew how to avoid it. The problem then boils down to ignorance/unconsciousness about that which is Real.
In other words, there is the Real World and there is my world. The first is completely impersonal and the second is very personal. Problems happen in those places where I am unaware of the difference.
- My world is amazingly sensitive to imbalances. EVERY place where there is imbalance there is some sort of pain. As I become ever more conscious, I awaken to ever more pain that has been hidden. This provides ever more opportunity for healing, more light and more life. In other words, Balance Works!
- When there is imbalance (as revealed by pain, depression, a sense of "lack" or disempowerment) I can never correct it by trying to "fix" something outside of myself. No matter how much energy I apply to the problem it never works. The more I try to control things "outside" myself the less "safe" my life becomes.
On the other hand, I can ALWAYS heal ANY imbalance by doing what it takes to change my way of looking at and being with my world. The more I find Harmony with Reality, the more life Works.
The bottom line is that over time I came to discover that blaming my problems on someone or something in my world (or on the world in general) never brings the least bit of healing. Only when I take responsibility for where I am out of balance with my world do things "out there" heal. In fact, it is amazing how things "out there" heal. Each time I take personal responsibility to come into balance with Reality, healing happens "out there" in ways that I didn't even know were out of order.
Ultimately, what I came to Realize is not only that Power and Responsibility are connected, but also HOW they are connected. For me, Responsibility means doing what it takes to find Reality, then doing what it takes to live in Harmony with Reality. This is what I have come to regard as the true nature of Love. In other words, I have discovered that Responsibility and Love are nothing more than two words for the same thing.
In this light, I also came to realize that the kind of pain, ugliness, and disempowerment that is borne of irresponsibility (lack of Love) is both predictable and entirely avoidable. For me this has been my greatest motivation to do what I can to be Responsible, and perhaps the biggest reason why, for over 50 years, I have endeavored to do my best to live up to the awareness that Power and Responsibility/Love are inseparably connected. To me, that kind of awareness makes a person the most responsible/loving kind of human being.
As the years have passed by, as important as this all is, I have come to realize that there is another, even more vital dimension to this dynamic. I have come to realize the importance of seeing the Divinity in all things. I now Realize that I am, in fact, a Divine Being. As a Divine Being, what I do is co-create worlds with other Divine Beings out of our collective imagination.
By this I mean I have come to Realize - not believe - that each of us, including myself, exists as a vital part of an All Present Is-ness. Each of "us" are simultaneously here - in a world where time creates imaginary boundries - playing a game we call Life, completely and inseparably enmeshed in a world that is perfect and timeless. Like all lives, it is a Life that unfolds according to Principles that are simultaneously Perfect, and completely Impersonal.
So here I am, aware that I am a Divine Being, doing the best I can to be Responsible/Loving in my Life, while being conscious of the fact that I am interacting with other Divine Beings. In my way of looking at life, that makes me a priest.
As may be obvious by now, to me the word "priest" is a name for not only an occupation, but also a state of being.
Like all priests, what I do is deliver a message. To me, a Real priest is a person who delivers a Real message from a place of Divine Awareness.
Not all messages are the same. Some are more grounded in Reality than others. Because Reality works Perfectly, the ones that are more grounded in Reality work to bring more Harmony and Peace than those that are not.
My message is that all things are a part of the ALL THAT IS and therefore Divine. It is designed to do one thing and one thing only - and that is to remind those who want to listen to my message that who they are doesn't need saving, because who they are is Divine.
Because the Message I deliver is Real, it Works - reliably and flawlessly. My message never fails to re-empower people who are ready to heal. No belief is required. The only requirement is an ability to vision or actually "see" things from points-of-view other than those with which you have become comfortable.
My Message is both Universal and Timeless. It has been taught by many Real priests in many cultures in every era, so it is far beyond my being able to own in any proprietary way. The way I teach it however, has evolved out of my experiences of life - and death.
I have "died" twice in this life. Once from an electrical accident, and once from a heart attack due to damage sustained by my heart during the electrical accident. For those who are interested, these events are explained in detail in recordings of talks I have given to various groups. These recordings are available in the "Products" section of our website.
I have also "lived" during this life. I have been a part of and experienced events that I would be hard pressed to accept as possible had I not lived them. These experiences are my credential for the message. I am careful about speaking too much about them because while they are my credential, they are not and can never be yours. You must find your own. In other words the credential is always in the Message - never in the messenger!
Suffice it to say that these experiences have connected me with the Spirit World and our ancestors in a way that has been more magical than I could have ever imagined.
The result is the set of teachings I am honored to share with you as the sacred wisdom of Ho'ala Huna - Hawai'ian words that mean "that which causes an Awakening to the sacred Awareness of Reality."
If you continue far enough, you will discover that this Message is made of some Universal ideas that have the power to transform lives and set souls free.
While the ideas I'll share with you are profound, they are so deeply rooted in common sense that they are surprisingly easy for open-minded people from any time or culture to understand. Most people feel like the ideas I present are experienced more like a remembering of a deeply held awareness rather than something they have "learned." To the extent this happens I have succeeded in my mission.
Indeed, it is inside each of us where these ideas live. That is why my lineage of mo'o kahuna are fond of saying:
"I can't teach you anything you don't already know. The only thing I can do is remind you of things you have either forgotten or ignored." |
