The brilliance of the Founding Fathers was in recognizing that people get their rights from God because each of us are a part of God. Then we, in turn, can delegate our responsibilities that derive from such rights as we have to some governmental entity to operate on our behalf. The key here is that under natural law, NO GOVERNMENT CAN HAVE ANY RIGHT TO DO ANY THING THAT I DO NOT HAVE AS A CITIZEN.

For example, I have a right to keep my house from burning down. Because I have that right I can delegate that right to a fire department along with other citizens because a fire department can do a much better job of dealing with a house on fire than I can on my own. I have the right to personal safety inside my sacred space so I can delegate certain responsibilities to a police department to insure public safety, or a military entity, etc.

There is a big difference between a right and a privilege. Rights derive from my sacred space as a part of the ALL THAT IS that is God. Privileges derive from my life within a society. I have a right to life. I do not have a right to drive on a public highway without a driver's license because that road does not belong to me. It belongs to our society and to use it is a privilege that derives from that society.

The predominant form of government in the world in their day was that of Royalty. In that kind of government, the idea of where rights come from is reversed. The king gets the rights from God, and then gives them to the king's subjects, as the king so desires. Even today that form of government is predominant throughout much of the world, especially in the Muslim world where the word "king" is replaced by "mullah" or "sheik" and Sharia law (which derives not from natural law, but is a body of religious law from these people's interpretation of the Qur'an.)

The Founding Fathers of America were products of the Enlightenment era that began in France. They were deists who have very little use for religion - especially Christianity. This comes as a big shock to what has now become the predominant culture in America.

Unfortunately, getting other people to behave in enlightened ways, and accepting enlightened values is not so easy. Today in our country, few people understand what our Founding Fathers vision was all about. As a result we have activist judges and legislators making laws that do not reflect America's founding principles, and administrators from the President on down who completely abuse the powers they were intended to have.

When the FDA raids health food stores to take supplements off the shelves, or police invade a community and take away ALL the children without any evidence of abuse, our government is NOT ACTING upon these founding principles. Because I have no right to tell you what kind of supplements to take, or how many spouses you can have, I cannot give such rights to any government. Therefore, the government cannot morally have these "rights" either. If they take them upon themselves anyway, our Founding Fathers said it would be at the peril of our country's survival and that is exactly what is happening.

These immoral laws intrude on our personal freedoms and upset the balance that derives from natural law. This creates a citizenry that does not trust their government and that is a very great danger and precisely what the Founding Fathers of America warned against.

I recently received several letters from friends who are wonderful people - but who are "born-again" Christians who cannot understand any other spiritual path other than their own. They are deeply offended by the popularity of what they are calling "The Church of Oprah" calling it the largest church in America. They are demanding that their friends stand up against what they consider to be the attacks of this "church" on God's church (born-again Christians) and God's work.

These people say Oprah is "misleading many" in a deliberate attempt to undermine our country, which they mistakenly believe was founded upon Christian principles.

As may be expected from anyone who "needs to be right" they are making Oprah "wrong" using all manner of untruthful remarks. The object is to create so much "noise on the channel" that well-meaning people can't hear her message for what it really is.

In that way these Christian fundamentalists are behaving no differently than Islamic fundamentalists ito brand those who won't subscribe to their "party line" as evil and enemies of the "true" god.

Of course those of you who know me know that Oprah is teaching a message through the vehicle of her show that I've taught for the last 20 years. Most of the people who have sent me this letter seem to be demanding that I take sides with them on this issue. Of course, I cannot.

I'm sure I am not unique in this regard. If you are also a person who walks a spiritual path that does not involve accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior, you have probably been subjected to the same kind of arrogant behavior too. That is why I feel the time has come for people who are on the path of consciousness to use this opportunity to defend Oprah and the ideas she is bringing forth into a world that is very much in need of this kind of Light.

Here is the header for the typical letter that is being forwarded around our country.

Subject: FW: Oprah Exposed - Listen Now - Our Country Depends On Your Help.

Oprah is misleading many. Please view this video and pass along to other believers so that they may be aware AND PRAY!!!! The forces of evil are trying to destroy our country.

My response to this letter is attached below. Please feel free to forward it to those you know. If they are conscious they will appreciate the information. If they are fundamentalists they need a wake-up call. It is important we support those like Oprah who have the courage to use their stature to tell the truth to a world in pain. Always remember that the Light of Reality is the only medicine for unconsciousness.

Dear Friend,

I reviewed the video you sent on the "Church of Oprah." I understand your concern and I truly respect your beliefs in this matter. However, since you chose to send me the piece I feel that it would be appropriate for me to respond as to how I feel about it. Please realize that as I share my thoughts on this subject, I do so with respect for you, and with the awareness that you did so out of your love for the people to whom you sent the piece, including us.

Perhaps you will remember that I have experienced two near-death events. These events were transformational events in my life, so much so that I left a job making the equivalent of a half a million dollars a year (in today's money) to work at delivering a message that has left my family in poverty for years.

I didn't do this lightly. It has not been easy. We have suffered greatly - in large part due to born-again Christians who feel threatened by the message I now share.

Lani and I have been scorned, excoriated, and persecuted beyond most people's ability to understand.

When we left our church a daughter we had taken into our home and were attempting to adopt through our church was stripped away from us. Up until the very day we decided to leave our church we were held up as "heroes" for being willing to take in such a child and give her all we did. After we announced we were leaving our church the so-called "Christian" social service workers couldn't get her out of our home soon enough. Nothing had changed. No abuse ever happened or was ever alleged. The only reason is that we felt we had outgrown the church and needed to walk what was for us, a higher path. After that announcement our former "Christian" friends and neighbors refused to even look at us as we passed them on the street.

I was eventually thrown in jail by another born-again Christian who was an Assistant District Attorney in Hawai'i. She also thought I was an agent of Satan because my message had attracted followers away from her church. She jailed me based on groundless allegations made by a man who was in prison on the mainland at the time for sexually abusing children. He claimed I had stolen money from him. A detective investigating the case proved conclusively that the allegations were not true. The "Christian" DA took his report and destroyed it, and proceeded to have me arrested anyway. That event consumed a year of our lives where Lani and I had to live on the porches of people and eat fruit off trees to survive. Eventually the truth came out and I was exonerated, but I never received an apology from that woman, nor from any of the other good "Christians" who helped her because they also wanted to rid the world of another "agent of Satan." Some of these "Christians" ran the local newspaper in Kailua-Kona. They printed her lies about me as if they were gospel truth. None of them ever called me to ask for my side of the story before they printed their lies. As a result, when people saw me in the local grocery store, or at a restaurant, they would yell at me across the room and ask me if who I was going to try to steal from next. They all felt completely justified in their behaviors.

Why were we willing to go through all of this? Why would any sane person subject themselves to that kind of anger, suspicion, and fear? The reason is called Integrity.

In my two "deaths" I experienced God - in all God's glory. In God's presence I was loved beyond anything I could have ever imagined. My experience of healing in God's all-loving and completely accepting embrace is beyond the ability of words to describe.

I was embraced by the "Light" and in that experience I somehow knew this "Light" would be anything I wanted it to be. If I wanted it to be Jesus it would be Jesus. If I wanted it to be Buddha it would be Buddha. So I asked it: "Who are you?" In a quiet, all embracing voice the answer was; "I am you."

I was stunned! The realization of the truth of that statement was at once overwhelming and absolutely liberating. As I was able to accept the truth of that answer I felt myself waking up into another dimension that I can only call "Home." I realized when I "woke-up" that I was OK, I have always been OK, and that I will always be OK. The only hell that exists is the one we create here out of our beliefs that keep us separated from a complete awareness of our own Divine nature. It is these beliefs that keep us separate, in fear, and in pain.

In that experience I came to a complete awareness, far beyond the need for any sort of belief system, that the only definition for the word "God" that can possibly make any sense is that God is the ALL THAT IS. All things are completely made out of God for there is nothing else out of which anything can be made. That includes you, me, Oprah, every born-again Christian, every Muslim, every Jew, and everyone else. It includes your dog, my dog, my home, the mountains, the sea, the earth and the stars. It is all an expression of the ALL THAT IS.

I came to know that none of us can ever be separated from this ALL THAT IS except by our own unconsciousness. The belief that we can somehow be "unworthy" is an illusion created by men and the religions they invent to help provide answers to people who have become lost in this dream called life.

Nevertheless, these men and their religions are also a part of the ALL THAT IS. They too have their role in this world. That is why I would never presume to make anyone else's spiritual path bad or wrong. That includes yours or, as you are asking me to do, Oprah's.

As a result of my experience I now spend my life endeavoring to spread the True Gospel, the Good News that God is ALL THAT IS and consequently all things - including you and me - are Divine. I now know beyond the shadow of a doubt that no one will wind up in some imaginary place called hell for eternity.

To postulate that anything can exist separate from God is the same as saying that God is not ALL THAT IS. I cannot do that, no matter how disappointing that may be to my brothers and sisters like yourselves who are deeply and passionately intertwined in their proprietary belief systems.

I was once where you are and I understand how it feels to be there. I was a leader in and a staunch supporter of my church. I paid a full tithing, which amounted to thousands of dollars a month - even back then. However, I can truly say that I now understand Jesus and His work better now than I ever did before my experience.

When Jesus said: "Your Father and My Father are the same Father" and "What you see Me do you can do and even more" I now know what He meant. As a result of my experience I now feel far closer to Jesus now than I ever did when I was a part of the traditional Christian movement. I also feel far more able to truly Love all my fellow men than I ever did when I identified myself as a "Christian."

If these death experiences were delusions then anything I have ever experienced in my most awake experience in this realm of existence is even more delusional. If I have been deluded by satanic lies then I know my God will forgive me, because no one could ever make any other choice after having experienced what I have experienced.

The result of how I now see the world speaks for itself. I have no fear. I live in integrity with myself and others. I am at peace. I Love my friends and I Love my enemies. I Love the DA who justified her lies to put me in jail. I Love the social workers who took a daughter we loved as our own away from my family - never to be seen again. I Love my God and my connection to God with all that I am in ways that was never even approachable when I was a part of my "church." If that means certain born again Christians need to think I will be condemned to a place of eternal punishment then so be it. That is their path, their life lessons, their choice, and their consequences. I Love them anyway.

What I know for sure is that all these people will also one day wake up home. Everyone does - sooner or later. In that place we look back at this dream and can only laugh at any thought we could get lost or condemned to a place of eternal punishment. That is why I call my family the "What a Hoot" tribe.

Oprah has apparently come to these same conclusions. She is now generating the same kind of response as I have. This movie you sent out promotes the same kind of ugly, fear-based energy that has caused Lani and I to suffer so greatly.

When people need to be "right" about their religious convictions they need to make others who don't agree with them "wrong." That is an attitude that obscures the true basis of morality - which is the Law of Love, and replaces it with a phony standard of morality, which is based on proprietary ideas of "Good/Bad" and "Right/Wrong." When this happens all kinds of hurtful behavior can be not only tolerated but justified - and perpetuated.

This is the same kind of thing that fundamentalist Muslims do. It is no different. It is based on a need to believe in some proprietary "jealous" god who demands loyalty of those who would be "worthy" in that god's eyes or be condemned to an eternity in hell.

I cannot go there because I now see God in a much different light and I can't deny what I have witnessed. For me, belief is necessary only for that which is not real. That which is Real is something I can Recognize, and in that Light of Recognition, all the beliefs in the world become nothing more than a puff of smoke in the wind. Beliefs are a poor substitute for Recognizing Reality. They are only needed when by those who need to make sense of their world when they choose to live in the shadows of the unconsciousness that results when we deny our own personal Divinity.

We are all one. We are all connected in God. God contains time, time does not contain God. That means that we all remain connected in God for all time. Nothing else is possible. Any sense of separation is only an illusion. That is my reality and a perspective that I have personally found to be far more empowering and liberating than embracing Jesus as my personal savior.

As the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient writings now reveal, the idea of needing a personal Savior was never anything Jesus himself taught in the sense it is taught now. It was an idea introduced by Paul many years after the death of Jesus. Paul was an enemy to the rest of the apostles who knew Jesus personally. This little known fact can be surmised by a careful reading of the Bible itself. He himself talks about his "enemies in Jerusalem." These "enemies" were Peter, James, and John, and all the other apostles who considered what Paul was preaching to the Romans as complete blasphemy.

The message of Jesus Himself was quite different than the Pauline message that now passes for Christianity in the modern church. It was one of recognizing our personal Sovereignty as a Divine Being. Neither the Romans nor the Jews of the time could tolerate such an idea gaining popularity. That is why Jesus was crucified.

By the way, this idea also happens to be the spiritual foundation upon which our Founding Fathers built America. One of the most common statements from the "Religious Right" is that they want this country to "return to the Christian principles on which it was founded." However, a little research into American history will show that this statement is an absolute lie. The men responsible for building the foundation of the United States had little use for Christianity, and many were strongly opposed to it. They were men of The Enlightenment, not men of Christianity. They were Deists who did not believe the bible was either the infallible word of God nor even an acceptable basis for moral judgments.

Here are some interesting quotes:

Thomas Jefferson:

I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth. SIX HISTORIC AMERICANS, by John E. Remsburg, letter to William Short

Jefferson again:

Christianity...(has become) the most perverted system that ever shone on man. ...Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus.

More Jefferson:

The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves...these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ.

Here's Thomas Paine:

I would not dare to so dishonor my Creator God by attaching His name to that book (the Bible). is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible. Accustom a people to believe that priests and clergy can forgive sins...and you will have sins in abundance. The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.

Finally let's hear from James Madison:

What influence in fact have Christian ecclesiastical establishments had on civil society? In many instances they have been upholding the thrones of political tyranny. In no instance have they been seen as the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty have found in the clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate liberty, does not need the clergy.

Even a cursory reading of the writings of people like Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, John Adams and many others will reveal that they did not see Christianity as an appropriate foundation for our country. In fact, they saw it as a potential evil to be avoided. That is why our Declaration of Independence begins with the words: "We hold these truths to be self-evident - that all men are created equal."

Each of us comes here with sacred space because each of us are co-equal parts of God. None of us are privileged in that regard - no matter the religion with which we choose to identify.

I'm sorry my dearest friend, but my view is that Oprah is courageously doing the same priesthood work that Jesus was doing when he was here. She is motivated by the same ideas our Founding Fathers were when they created our country. She is aligned with the idea that government gets its rights from the governed, who in turn get their rights from the God of us all - the God of Nature - the ALL THAT IS of which we are all a part. Her message from that clip you sent is basically the same as theirs, and mine. Delivering that message has always been the work of the true priesthood of which I see Jesus and our Founding Fathers to be a part. The truth of those ideas is the reason I do what I do now, instead of making millions by living a life that would be a fraud.

Unfortunately, as our Founding Fathers realized so well, people don't like being told that their connection to God lies in their very existence. They would rather not take that kind of responsibility for their lives. People would rather give their to a church, a government, or some other social organization that is willing to take it in exchange for the promise that they will be taken care of by that government or religion. Such is the basis of socialism, communism, and other forms of liberal secular thought that plague our nation today.

The tendency of people to give their power away to churches and governments is the true cause of the vast majority of the pain that has ever existed in our world. Our Founding Fathers knew it and wrote about it more eloquently that I am able to. Unfortunately, no one reads their words anymore.

There is no God that prefers Christians over Muslim, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus or Pagans. There is only one God, the God out of which each of us are made and in Whom we are all connected. Not until mankind overcomes its need to promulgate its many proprietary gods will there be peace on earth. That is why I, and I suspect Oprah, continue to deliver our message with those who have ears to hear and eyes to see.

Pain is not our enemy. It is our ally. Not until Christians and Muslims get enough pain will their hearts be softened to the point where they can embrace each other as brothers and sisters in the Light of Consciousness which is the only true Light of Christ.

I Love You,

Lono Ho'ala
Executive Director - Eagle's Nest Sanctuary
Where Ancient Wisdom Heals Modern Lives
719-687-2928
P. O. Box 7261
Woodland Park, CO 80863
www.hunawisdom.com

Last week the following letter arrived in my email. Perhaps some of you got it too. The person who sent it is a sister who I love very deeply. Although I haven't seen her for a long time, I have always felt very close to her. To see that she would be involved in passing along something like this is very sad to me, and one more evidence of the extent to which our political structure is being ravaged by people with lots of money and an agenda that is clearly not healthy for America.
Here is the letter:

Subject: Exploiting 9/11

Hi,

In a little over 48 hours, ABC is airing a five-hour docudrama on the 9/11 attacks. The movie was written and produced by a right-wing activist who fabricated key scenes to blame Democrats and defend Republicans.

It's so partisan that even Rush Limbaugh was surprised ABC decided to air it. And a FBI agent who was brought in to consult on the docudrama quit because, he said, "they were making things up."

Public outrage is mounting across the country, and ABC is now "mulling the idea of yanking the mini altogether." But we only have a little time to act. Can you help out?

Then the letter contains a link that takes you to the moveon.org website where the reader is asked to sign a petition calling for ABC to not air what they call "partisan propaganda on 9/11.

I am not a Republican - nor am I a Democrat. I am a spiritual teacher. My job is to stand above partisan politics in any form, and point to the path that leads to healing between political factions. What I know for sure is that healing doesn't live in a space where people deliberately involve themselves in efforts to make each other bad and wrong. That kind of behavior is rooted in unconsciousness - the home of suffering and pain. My job is to help people wake up from such places.

Unfortunately, the arena of American politics is becoming such a place. Increasing numbers of people are being seduced by emotional rhetoric into aligning with political groups who are less interested in solving America's problems than in gaining and keeping political power. These organizations are led by demagogues who need to make those who don't agree with them "bad", "wrong", and unworthy of power, so they can be seen as "right", "good" and worthy of such power. What is Real is that the power they want is yours.

The demagogue spirit is what Ho'ala Huna calls malu. Malu are spirits whose job it is to take away your power whenever you are unconscious enough to give it to them. Malu is a Hawai'ian word that means "life-taking spirit." Malu work in the darkness of unconsciousness where it is easy to create fear by presenting information that is not in Harmony with Reality. In politics, this process is often referred to as "spin." If malu can make us dizzy with all this "spinning", they can then feed us thoughts and feelings that are designed to create polarization, separation, and power struggles. As a spiritual teacher, my job is to help heal this dynamic wherever it exists.

To do this, I must point out that those who support and encourage this kind of energy, whether they label themselves as Republican, Democrat. or any other political flavor, are not loving America nor humanity, no matter how well-intended they think or feel they may be.

So, not as a political partisan but as a spiritual teacher I have a question for those of you who are tempted to support such a thing as this. How do you come to the conclusion that any kind of censorship is in our highest and best interests?

How do you think that Michael Moore would feel if those aligned with George Bush mounted a nationwide organized campaign calling for censorship of his movie Fahrenheit 911 before its release to the public? Much to their credit, when that movie came out, as much as they disliked it even people like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity rejected the idea of such a thing.

Moveon.org ? which is Moore's group ? says this ABC docudrama is full of partisan propaganda on the events leading up to 9/11. It claims this piece is both biased and contains elements that are inaccurate. If so, how are we to know if it never airs? Are we to simply take their word for it? Even if that turns out to be true, so what? How is that any different than Moore's movie? Are we to believe that it was not biased? Did it not do exactly what they claim this ABC docudrama does? Why is it OK to let Moore's movie air, but not OK to let the ABC series air?

Even if it turns out that there are gross inaccuracies in the ABC series, is it your opinion that people cannot be trusted to think for themselves? If so, who are the elite that we are supposed to let do our thinking for us?

We understand that Mr. Moore and Mr. Soros don't want us to let George Bush and his supporters to fill that role. Is it any more appropriate to let Bill and Hillary Clinton or their supporters do the job? Perhaps we should just trust Michael Moore or George Soros, the man whose money is behind this effort, to have an exclusive monopoly on what we all should think.

Personally, that scenario doesn't work for me. Ho'ala Huna teaches that Reality is self-evident. It is its own credential. Reality can be Recognized by anyone who doesn't have an agenda, and it works ? reliably and flawlessly.

Ho'ala Huna also teaches that the person with the consequences is the person with the responsibility, and the person with the responsibility is the person with the authority. Whenever this natural chain becomes broken - pain is the inevitable result.

What I know for sure is that the world in which I live is largely a consequence of my choices. These, in turn, are the product of my thoughts. That means what I think is my responsibility - not Michael Moore's, George Bush's, or anyone else's. I see this as a most sacred responsibility, and I will honor and defend my right to see, read, or hear what I want, when I want, and from whomever I want, and I will do the same for you as well.

No doubt there is a lot of garbage out there. There is much that is dark. But the dark serves its purpose because without it, the Light would have no meaning. Mr. Moore, I can tell Light from dark thank you, I don't need moveon.org doing that for me.

I cannot see how censorship ever works for any adult. When people are allowed to examine all points of view, sooner or later Truth emerges. It naturally rises to the surface. It doesn't matter whether the issue is political, religious, or scientific. In a free marketplace of ideas, the public wins and those who would do our thinking for us lose. That is a process that is rooted in the kind of Love that is Aloha because it works for everyone.

Because Truth is its own credential, if the material in ABC's docudrama is inaccurate, it will be obvious. If it is accurate, that will be obvious too. Only people who want something that does not belong to them have anything to fear.

It is most likely that this ABC docudrama will be a mixture of both. If the docudrama is capable of shedding any Real light on how 9/11 came to be, we all win. If not, we know who to ignore in the future. Either way that is our decision, not Michael Moore's and George Soros decision.

If you love whatever freedoms you have as an American citizen, don't be taken in by any effort to justify censorship. Such efforts are mounted and funded by those whose lust for power is matched only by their arrogance. Obviously, such people think you are either too stupid or too lazy to see what is Real for yourselves. You are not. As long as your mind remains open and your heart remains focused on healing you can see what is Real about anything.

Censorship is one of the most evil forms of political subterfuge. It is a necessary tool for those who would keep you from seeing that which is Real. That is why fascist dictatorships including the Taliban and other militant Islamic organizations, the North Korean dictatorship, and every other totalitarian organization including many religions employ its tactics. Censorship, in any form, is the absolute enemy of every person who wants to stand in Harmony with Reality.

Notice that those who call for censorship are those who are using fear to create unnecessary polarization. This process doesn't solve problems ? it creates them.

Love is the path that transcends polarization and restores balance. In Ho'ala Huna, we call such Love Aloha ? the marriage of Light and Life. It is clear to see that Light and Life are not compatible with censorship.

If you would have Freedom, and especially if you want to enjoy the life energy that flows from standing in Harmony with Reality, you must learn to reject censorship in any form, and learn how to do the kind of Love that is Aloha, instead.

As a kahuna priest, I see the job of a spiritual teacher as helping people along a path that is life's most incredible adventure. This adventure is a personal journey into higher levels of consciousness. Because what we can see depends upon where we are standing, such journeys are possible only when people are willing to move from perspectives that limit one's ability to see Reality, to perspectives that expand one's ability to see Reality.

By transcending limiting perspectives we experience growth in consciousness as being more awake. The goal of awakening is to step ever more deeply into ownership of one's Divinity which lives in the perfection of Reality, and all of which is constructed completely out of the Law of Love.

However, just because I am a spiritual teacher and someone finds me does not mean I am the appropriate teacher for them. Perhaps my role is simply to offer advice to people who are ready for such an adventure about how they can find a teacher that will work for them. Accordingly, here is some advice. Take it for what it is worth to you.

Perspective is vital

Not everyone sees life the same way. Many people see life as a place designed to test us to see if we are ready for a place with God in heaven or a place with the devil in hell. Others see life as a one-shot lottery where the goal is to enjoy oneself as much as possible because death is the end.

Each of these (and many others) is a perspective that illuminates a certain path through life. Each has many teachers whose service is to guide you along whichever path you have chosen.

Even within any given path, teachers often see their roles quite differently. Some see themselves as rulers, others as gatekeepers. Many see themselves as coaches, and some see themselves as cheerleaders. Some rely on a threat-based style, others teach by example.

Every one is perfect for their purpose. The key to finding one that is perfect for you is to discover your teacher's purpose. To do that, you must come to understand their world-view.

To me, life is about awakening. My goal has always been to be more awake tomorrow than I am today, day after day, for as long as I find myself ingrained in this dream I call my life. I know (because I have been there) that death is the ultimate awakening to a place I call Home. Home is a place of complete awareness.

From that perspective all of Life becomes a mirror. Because our energy manifests as our world we constantly get the chance to see what is or isn't working inside by observing what is or isn't working outside. We are all awakening, bit-by-bit, day-by-day. Growth in awareness is an incredible adventure that has no end during any lifetime.

At some point in that adventure we all must cross one particular bridge that changes everything. This place is a defining moment for each of us in that we must leave behind our previous notions of weakness, sin, and personal unworthiness, to embrace a deeper awareness of our connection to the ALL THAT IS that is God. This is the bridge I call the bridge to Enlightenment.

For some of us it happens before that birth we call death, for others it happens afterwards. Whenever it happens we find we must overcome any notion of shame or blame in order to accept the Divine perfection of who we really are, as well as the Divine perfection of our life - however we might have created it to look.

This is not a simple or straightforward process. There are many diversions, illusions, and disappointments. One of the most critical is located on the way to the bridge. Some call it a trap. I call it a holding area. Whatever it is called it is a place where people become convinced they have already crossed the bridge - when they have not.

There is a large difference between mentally accepting the idea that you (along with everything else) is Divine, and developing a profound Recognition of the truth of that idea. Such a Recognition is an experience that humbles you to the core of your being.

As powerful as such a Recognition might be, even that is not enough. You must come to Realize that you are, in fact, Divine. Realization is what happens when ownership of your personal Divine nature becomes the backdrop of your entire existence.

Once you are there you can know it because profound peace comes to replace fear in your life. You may have your periodic bouts with things like sadness or even grief. You may become defensive or stressed. But once you are on the other side of that bridge you don't identify with the kinds of disempowering thoughts that normally come along with these things. You can afford to be patient and let them run their course. In other words, you cease to suffer.

Especially before actually crossing that bridge, no one can really tell you anything about where you are on your journey. This does not mean that people who are more awake than yourself can't see where you are. It is just that you won't be able to see where you are so you won't be prone to listen.

The degree to which a person is "Awake" is defined by the degree to which that person is unconscious, and by definition, wherever any of us are unconsciousness, we don't know it. That is why the biggest difference between a master and a student is the degree to which they are able to be Humble.

Unconsciousness is the birthplace of pain. We make choices thinking we know what we are doing when we don't. We drive too fast, drink too much, and get into relationships with people who don't have our best interests at heart.
We spend our money, time and energy on things that eventually bring us pain. We become motivated by goals that are untenable. All this and much more is what happens because we are unconscious.

Once in awhile it occurs to some of us that pain is what happens when we are not as awake as we thought we were. This is a most blessed moment. It represents the first true step toward the bridge that leads to Enlightenment. That is the gift I call Humility.

As we take our first few baby steps toward the bridge we realize at ever-deeper levels that pain is the result of choices we have made that are not in Harmony with Reality.

We start to see how many of these choices are extremely subtle in their appearance, yet very profound in their consequence. We become more willing to look at things from perspectives that are different than those with which we have become accustomed.

It is said that when the student is ready the teacher will appear. It is absolutely amazing how that works! As soon as we are finally ready to hear something, along comes a teacher.

They are always there. The trick is in being able to recognize them because they often don't come in the kind of package we are expecting.

In any moment your teacher could be the bagboy at a grocery checkout. It could be a minister at your local church. It could be a parent or a sibling. It could by your child. It could be a book that you pick up by accident. It could even be a television soap opera. It could be almost anything. The Universe is full of teachers.

You may be asking yourself, if that is true, why does anyone need a spiritual teacher? The truth is that no one really does.

Each of us is made out of God for there is nothing else out of which we can be made. Having personally been there twice in this lifetime I know that each of us always wakes up Home, no matter how deeply we have slept. No one ever gets truly lost. No one.

However, if the question is: "Why would anybody WANT a spiritual teacher?" the answer is quite different. Here is why.

Unconsciousness is the birthplace of pain. It is a little like being trapped in a dark box that is becoming progressively more uncomfortable. The door is locked from the inside with a combination lock. Unfortunately, the combination is written on the outside of the box.

If you have gotten to that point in your life, you will realize it might be very handy if you could find someone who is willing to read you the combination.

It is not that you couldn't make it out on your own - given enough time. You can. In fact - you will! It is just that if you can find someone who is both willing and able to read you the combination, you can spare yourself a lot of discomfort.

That is why you might want a spiritual teacher.

For some people this Realization leads to acceptance, while for others it actually leads to more resistance. That is OK. As the Borg of Star Trek are fond of saying: "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." The only question is how much pain you choose to endure before you get humble enough to ask for help.

Why do some people feel such a need to resist? Usually, the amount of resistance is directly proportional to the degree to which one believes that having a teacher means giving one's power away.

Many of us have experienced a lot of pain due to "spiritual teachers" who led us to places we didn't like. These memories are not easily forgotten, nor should they be. We become very unwilling to make that same mistake again.

Because there is always a certain amount of trust involved in a student/teacher dynamic, students who have problems with this are often overly involved in wondering how much they should trust their teacher.

Here is a key that will help you get over this. Your job is not to learn how to trust a teacher. The goal is learning how to trust yourself. Teaching you how to trust yourself is the most important thing your spiritual teacher can do.

The job of the kind of spiritual teacher I recommend is to help you make it across the bridge. To do that you will have to face a lot of inner places you won't be comfortable facing.

In Ho'ala Huna we say: "Growth and comfort seldom come in the same package." For those who are not ready to take personal responsibility for how they have created their lives it becomes exceedingly easy to equate a spiritual teacher who points you squarely toward those places where you need to turn on the lights with people from your past who led you into spiritual traps.

The best spiritual teachers will not allow you your "victim stories" nor will they allow you to blame others for why your life looks the way it does. Neither will they allow you to take any shortcuts - for long. They will place you exactly where you belong - at a place of full and complete responsibility for your life. They will do this whether or not you like it, or whether or not you will like them for doing it. This is Love.

That is what makes this kind of spiritual teacher - the kind you really want - so damnably irritating at times, but it is totally necessary if you are to make it across the bridge.

Once you make it across the bridge you will be the first to agree. Until then, you are likely to go through periods where the unbounded love and admiration you have for your teacher because of their wisdom and unfailing patience with you is matched only by the unbounded anger and hatred you feel toward them when you find you are face-to-face with one of your sacred cows you are expected to kill.

It is also true that when the teacher is ready the students will appear. What makes a teacher ready is not only a demonstrated capacity to teach the spiritual skills necessary to help a person find their way. Such teachers must understand this game to the point where they don't take it personally when their beloved students come to dislike or even hate them for a while.

As we say in Ho'ala Huna: "You can't Love that which you care about, and you can't be connected to that to which you are attached."

Questions to ask when looking for a spiritual teacher

Should you begin a quest to find a spiritual teacher, consider the following eight points carefully. While these aren't an exhaustive list, they will certainly give you a big head start.

1. What is this teacher's world-view? In particular, how do they see God and what do they see as the purpose of life? Is God "out there" somewhere, "in there" somewhere, or is God ALL THAT IS? Is life an opportunity to prove that one is "worthy" or is life a game called "Let's wake up?"



2. Does the teacher speak in terms of worthy/unworthy, good/bad, right/wrong, and fair/unfair. If life is about proving worthiness to you, you might not care. If not, you may want to ask a teacher who speaks this way how he/she reconciles these ideas with the Reality of a God that is the ALL THAT IS.



3. How does this teacher see their role in the student/teacher relationship? Is it one of loving service to you, or one that requires your servitude to the teacher? Is it one of assisting you to awaken or is it one of telling you what you must believe to be worthy? Is it one of helping you confront your pain or is it your job to follow the teacher so you don't have to feel responsible for your pain?



4. Does this teacher offer their credentials in the form of their degrees, titles, and designations, or do they ask you to find you're the credential in their message.



5. Does this teacher insist that you believe things you can't recognize to be Real or does he/she ask you to look from their perspective and honor what you see for yourself from that perspective.



6. Does this teacher demonstrate the capacity for honor and respect or do they abuse your trust by asking or encouraging you to mix your business with their personal pleasure. Unfortunately, this is a recurring problem with far too many "spiritual teachers."



7. Does this teacher have the ability to teach an integrated and effective combination of skills and perspectives? If so, how important is the role of prayer and Humility in their process? This is important to know for prayer and Humility is the name of the bridge that takes each of us to that place called Enlightenment.



8. Will this teacher be so likely to care about how you like him/her (whether the reason is friendship, money, prestige, or any other reason) that it will be difficult for him/her to give you a mirror of your unconsciousness when such is appropriate? Is this a demonstrated capacity of theirs or is this just something he/she claims to be able to do?

Finding a clear, wise, and patient spiritual teacher is one of the most loving things you can ever do for yourself. Such people can help you save yourself a lot of unnecessary suffering. More importantly, they can help you unlock realms of awareness you never knew existed. There is a world of magic out there, and the more awake you become the more magical it is.

There is a new movie out there called The Secret that is gaining a lot of attention - particularly from the New Age crowd. It is a compelling new presentation of an old idea that purports to be the solution to all of life's problems. According to the movie, this idea is a universal Law that when properly applied to one's life, will provide a reliable solution to life's most vexing problems. In their words: "The Secret is the key to everything!"

It supports its claims with lots of testimonials from some powerful people. Its production values are high. It is visually stunning and its sound track is perfect for its purpose. It even offers much that is truly valuable. It is the part that is not Real that causes all the trouble.

"The Secret" is all about the Law of Attraction. According to the movie, what this means is that whatever you think about and put your energy into directly corresponds to that which becomes manifest. While there is a perspective from which this seems absolutely Real - this "Law" doesn't work exactly as this movie suggests because the Law of Attraction must live in harmony with other Principles that govern our Universe - not the least of which is the Law of Love. Failure to take this into account is where this movie, as compelling as it is, gets very lost.

In spite of all the claims made to the contrary, the Law of Attraction doesn't work as the movie suggests. You can't manifest something just by thinking about it, wanting it, and visualizing it to be real. While these are critical ingredients in the process of creation, the premise fails to match up to Reality in two important ways. First, it neglects to mention other ingredients that are critical to the process of manifestation. Second, it fails to place the role of manifestation into a context that is in Harmony with the purpose of this process we call life.

These shortcomings were similarly revealed when I went to the official website for this movie at http://thesecret.tv/home.html which is (like the movie) a beautiful piece of work - professional, engaging, and very well done.

On this site is a link on the left hand column entitled "Questions? Need Help? Ask the Genie. So I typed in the question: What does the Law of Attraction provide when that which is asked for is evil?

The answer came back: "The law of attraction states simply that like attracts like. Whatever it is you are emitting to the universe on a consistent basis through your thoughts and feelings you are attracting back in direct proportion. What you think about, you bring about. These things show up in the form of manifestations in your life."

OK, that is actually a rather enlightened answer. Then I asked: "What is the purpose of work?"

The reply: "I don't have an answer to your question, and there isn't an operator online. Would you like me to email your question to an operator and get back to you?" My point is made.

To understand the Huna (Reality) of Creation, we must first begin by realizing that none of us live in a vacuum. Each of us is connected to everything else in the ALL THAT IS that is God. This ALL THAT IS, is complete, and lives in ALL TIME in a place of perfect Balance.

Because each of us is an undeniable part of this ALL THAT IS that is God, we are already complete. This being true, the process of Life cannot be about manifesting "stuff" that we have come to believe we "need." A person who believes that their life should be centered in the gratification of such "needs" is bound to be miserable.

This notion reflects the predominant misunderstandings about the nature of God and Life that are so prevalent in our modern world. It is also the reason why every effective teacher of "Self-Realization" must eventually get around to pointing out that the goal is transcending the illusion of "need" in order to find that place where each of us are already complete within ourselves.

Life is a game called "Let's wake up!" As Ho'ala Huna teaches: "The only thing God needs is a mirror"; and "Life is God's mirror." Because each of us is a part of the ALL THAT IS that is God, these statements apply equally to each of us.
Life is actually a dream in which we get to imagine that who we are is less than Divine, so that as we awaken we come to remember the magic and meaning of our Divine nature as part of the ALL THAT IS.

To the extent we are aware of our Divine nature in our dream we make choices that work to create a flow of life energy. To the extent we are in denial of our Divinity we create pain not only for ourselves but also for others.

In other words, the goal of life isn't to manifest an abundance of stuff. Instead, life is about awakening to our Divine nature.

If we look at the idea presented by this movie in this light, what do we see? The trailer states: "This is THE SECRET to everything - the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth: everything you have ever wanted." Its metaphor is that of Aladdin's magic lamp. Rub it and out pops a genie whose sole purpose is to "grant your every desire."

Is this an offer of self-gratification or Self-Realization? Which is more in alignment with the Law of Love? Is it more Loving to teach people that the way to deal with a need is own it so it can be gratified, or is it more Loving to encourage people to transcend the idea of lack by finding our inherent completeness in the ownership of our Divine nature.

The movie says: "Life is meant to be full and abundant." Is that true? As unpopular as this might make me, I don't agree. I say that if life was truly meant to be full and abundant for every person it would be, and how to find such abundance wouldn't need "The Secret" to reveal it.

On the other hand, if this dream we call our life is a game called "Let's wake up", then the goal of life is to be more awake tomorrow than you are today. If that is true, then pain is a vital part of this dynamic. Pain is our signal that our choices are not in Harmony with Reality. In other words, pain causes us to move from darkness to Light.

The movie is absolutely correct when it states that we draw to us that which harmonizes with our energy. What is not correct is when the movie states that our energy is the product of our thoughts. What is more Real is that our energy is the product of a process that begins with our perspective. Nor is it real that we can manifest great things solely through the efforts we can make through our marvelous, albeit very small minds. That which is big or great requires far more than mind power - not only to achieve, but also to conceive.

The process looks more like this:

1. Our perspective is like a lens through which we see our world. This is not THE WORLD ? it is simply our world.

2. In THE WORLD there is always a choice that represents the "win-win" Harmony that is the Reality of our Divine condition. In our world, unless our perspective allows us to see THE WORLD, such choices may not be visible to us.

3. Our thoughts as well as our feelings derive from what we see in our world. Without an ability to see outside the box formed by the walls of our unconsciousness, our thoughts and feelings remain ungrounded and unenlightened. Confusion and frustration are the result.

4. Pain is a signal that our perspective could use some elevation. How we do that is by reaching deeper into ourselves to find that place where Light lives. We can't do that by gratifying our supposed "needs." In fact, such an approach is absolutely counterproductive to the process. The only way to such Light is through the surrender that is Humility - and sincere prayer.

Nowhere in this movie did I see any mention of either Humility (the ability to be flexible in perspective) or Prayer (the ability to look outside oneself for inspiration and guidance.) Nowhere did I see the movie mention the importance of doing what we do in an attitude of Loving service. To me, these are major shortcomings that cannot be overlooked if one's goal is to avoid the pain that is sure to result from a Loving Universe that is perfectly designed to remedy such an oversight.

In spite of its claims to the contrary, this twist (as presented by this movie) on the Law of Attraction is not a new idea. It is a reincarnation of a very old idea that comes around over and over again.

Why it becomes popular then fades away is because that contrary to its claims, it doesn't work as advertised. Note that I am not saying that it doesn't work at all or that there is no truth in the idea. Instead, what I am saying is that while the idea makes a compelling movie, as it is presented here it is both unbalanced and incomplete. In fact, those who become convinced "The Secret" is the road to happiness soon find it is the fuel for their misery because those who choose to look for their happiness in their ability to create their future in their image create their present to be disempowered and miserable.

This is not idle conjecture or mere opinion. As a teacher of consciousness I often see those who are experiencing this lesson.

A few years ago there was another expression of this idea floating around the New Age community called the "Women's Gifting Circle." I sadly watched as many women who were on thin financial ice sent every nickel that they could beg or borrow to the person at the top of the list. In so doing they passionately visualized the abundance they were fully expecting to receive.

I knew one lady who took checks that had been sent to her business - added zeros to the ends of the amounts - and thumb tacked them on her ceiling above her bed and all over her house so she could see them and affirm the abundance she was expecting. (This same idea is depicted in the movie.)

Of course this "Women's Gifting Circle" was nothing more than an ordinary Ponzi scheme dressed up in New Age clothes. Like all Ponzi schemes, it HAD to fail - no matter how much any participant may have believed "The Secret" would work for them. No matter how diligently anyone might have applied it to this dynamic the Law of Love would not allow it to work.

The money this particular woman sent to the people at the top of her list was money ordinarily used to pay her bills had it not been for her belief in this idea. While predictable, the result was no less tragic. She lost every nickel AND her business, AND her car, AND her kids who had to go to live with her mother because she also lost her house.

This woman was reduced to living with a friend while she worked a job as a waitress and a second job in a Laundromat. It took the better part of two years to get her life back together to the point where she could support her kids and herself living in a place on their own. To this day she still has to endure the criticism of her parents and her ex-husband who ridicule her as an ungrounded New Age nut.

If "The Secret" doesn't always work with money - does it do any better with health? In my experience the results in this department don't seem to pan out any more reliably - for the same reasons.

In January of 2005 I found myself dealing with another woman in her late thirties. She had a loving husband, and four children ranging in age from 4 to 13. One day she noticed a change in the way her breast looked in a mirror. Upon examination she found a lump and became justifiably concerned.

She sought out a local "naturopath" who carefully explained that she could not afford to think "negative thoughts" about cancer. He did his "live blood analysis" (another fraud) and convinced her what she really needed to do was his parasite protocol (from the book The Cure for All Cancers), change her diet, and go home and visualize herself healed. To make sure her desire was sufficiently rallied behind her intention to heal (as if the prospect of death was not enough) she was told to do her visualizations and affirmations while sitting in front of an altar upon which were located pictures of each of her children and her husband.

I can assure you that this woman had a lot to live for. I can also assure you her motivation was as sincere and her technique was as flawless and dedicated as any ever contemplated by those who hawk this movie.

When she called me she was in a place of complete meltdown. In spite of following all this guidance, in spite of near constant visualization, healthy eating, and avoidance of what she called "toxic thoughts and emotions" cancer had spread aggressively throughout her body. She was dying. Each member of her family who had supported her in this decision was devastated.

From the time I counseled her until the time she died was about six weeks. As a result of my counseling she finally found peace. Her husband however was another story. He became so embittered he could hardly contain his rage. The last I heard he was suing this naturopath and doing all in his power to discredit the entire New Age movement in the community where they had made their home.

If understanding and applying the principles taught by "The Secret" don't always work to manifest money and health, will they work to manifest something easier?

I have known many people who decided to start their own businesses and use these ideas to manifest success. They affirm abundance, they visualize abundance, they see their businesses growing, and they see money being deposited in their bank accounts in larger and larger amounts. Unfortunately, what they don't do is notice that their business plan is flawed, their execution is poor, their marketing plan needs a lot more than creative visualizations, and their work ethic sucks. Bottom line: they fail - no matter how much visualization they do.

Yet, watch the movie and you will be assured by some powerful personalities that "The Secret" works so reliably and flawlessly that its discovery and application is the key to everything. It is said to be the reason why people like Beethoven, Emerson, Edison, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Ford and Einstein were able to accomplish what they did!

So why do such failures occur? According to the advocates for this movie unexpected negative results are the consequence of unconscious negative thoughts interfering with the process. As a spiritual teacher, I find this notion not only arrogant, but also downright cruel.

People who are searching for a sense of self-worth are not helped when they are told that a process that works reliably for everyone else will not work for them.

It is absolutely true that life has the potential is to be unimaginably abundant for each of us. But our world is far bigger than the vision conveyed by this movie. There is more to life than a two dimensional relationship between ourselves and a magic genie who exists to serve our every whim.

Life is not a magic slot machine. It is about far more than learning how to pull the magic handle just right in order to come up a jackpot every time. That is not the purpose of our lives. As Divine beings our happiness is not found by fulfilling desires, but by owning our completeness so we can give our gifts in an attitude of loving service as our Divine parents do for us.

There is no doubt that you will never grasp anything for which you are not willing to reach, that your experience will be created by your attitude, and that an unwillingness to accept defeat is a key to success. No doubt that to the extent Life is predictable, it is because Life is constructed according to Principles that work reliably and flawlessly.

But not everything is so predictable. That is because the Universe is capable of creating miracles. The entire Universe is a miracle! All of Life is an absolute miracle. The fact that any of us are even here is a miracle. Every miracle is personal. I am just like every other person in that I have experienced many miracles in my life. Each miracle has made a profound difference in where I am today. Many are the result of fervent prayer. Most of the biggest cannot be explained by anything I can remember consciously doing.

Such miracles happen because who "I" may think I am here, and who "I" Really am, are two very different expressions of the same thing. The big ME has a Divine purpose for the little "me." This purpose is rooted in Love. My job here is to remember that there is a higher dimension of "us" with whom we can communicate and find guidance. That is why life presents us with problems. We overcome them with insight that comes as the result of prayer and humility - not some "Secret" that purports to give me the ability to succeed in self-gratification.

For me the movie represents a misstatement of the Law of Attraction. It is not "everything." The Law of Love is bigger - far bigger. Nevertheless the movie is valuable in that it demonstrates how powerful and how important our attitudes and thoughts are to the process of manifestation.

The concept as presented by the movie is too linear. In this concept here is an "us" who "wants" things from the Universe, and "gets" them by applying a secret formula. Is this really The Secret to everything? Not for me.

To me, the Real Secret is revealed when I can wake up every day and ask, "what can I give," not "what can I get." Until that happens, no matter what I have managed to manifest, I've missed the point.

Lono Ho'ala
hunawisdom.com

Historically, the word "God" has meant many different things to many different cultures,

The word itself is derived from the Gothic root gheu; and the Sanskrit hub or emu, meaning "to invoke or to sacrifice to." In other words at a root level, the word "God" means either "the one invoked" or "the one sacrificed to."

There are other words that are often associated with "God." Divine comes from the Indo-Germanic root "div" which means "to shine" or "give light." The word "thes" as in theism, a-theistic, comes from thessasthai or "to implore." The Indo-Iranian word for deity is deva, the Sanskrit is dyaus (gen. divas), the Latin is deus, the Greek is theos, as well as the Irish and Gaelic which is dia. The common name most widely used in Semitic occurs as 'el in Hebrew, 'ilu in Babylonian, 'ilah in Arabic, etc.; and though scholars are not agreed on this, the root-meaning most probably is "the strong or mighty one." Then there is the whole Greek pantheon and other pagan deities like the Greek Zeus, the Roman Jupiter (jovpater) Janus, and Diana, the Old Teutonic Tiu or Tiw (surviving in Tuesday), and many other forms of pagan deities who are anthropomorphic in nature and like people, have proper names.

As a modern English word, "God" also means many things to many people. If the degree to which an idea is in harmony with Reality can be measured by how it works for everyone involved, then some of these notions are clearly more Real than others. Unfortunately, it is also true that mistaken beliefs about God have more power to create pain for humanity than any other preventable problem we face.

Each of us has a choice about how much pain we want to be responsible for bringing into this world. The life-taking choice is to defend unconscious and proprietary notions of God. These have the power to cause the collapse of civilization as we know it - perhaps even humanity's extinction.

The life-giving choice is to honestly examine our beliefs, no matter how sacred they may be to us, to see if they can pass muster in the Light of Truth. In this Light we can recognize that God embraces all people through all time - no matter what they might believe about God. If we can't see that, we must be willing to move deeper into the Light.

There is an ultimate Reality out of which our Universe takes shape. To see more deeply into it, all that is necessary is an open mind and the ability to be truly honest with ourselves - no matter what others may think, say or program us to believe.

No doubt for most people this is a tall order but it is not impossible. As people become more educated, irrational religious beliefs fall by the wayside. Today few people in America would still try to use Scripture to justify the physical abuse of a disobedient wife or moral abominations like slavery. Yet, there remain places in the world where this behavior is still commonplace and considered the hallmark of Â"the faithful."

No matter how fervently people believe in such outmoded ideas, belief can't make them Real. Education has the power to overcome belief.

Learning what is Real works because Reality is a reflection of God. That is why the only thing any of us have to lose by stepping ever deeper into Reality is pain. What we can also know for sure is that Reality is imbued with its own credential. Like the Principles enumerated in the opening paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence, its Truth is self-evident. In its Light belief is irrelevant.

As more of us choose to hold such Light, the brighter our future becomes.