The goal of esoteric study is to discover the secrets of how the universe we live in actually works, so that we can live in harmony with it rather than feeling like we're fighting against the current all the time.  Know what I mean?

 In as recently as 190 years ago [about 4 generations so not that long ago] in Hawaii, like in many other countries, there were students who immersed themselves in the study of how people, nature and everyday forces related to each other.  In that part of the world, the "Kahuna" developed a science that mixed psychology and medicine together, which was so successful, it healed most of the physical and emotional ailments that people had.  In fact, mental illness was practically unknown.

  The Huna teaching of a Conscious Mind and an Unconscious Mind was so advanced that it took the western world until the 1960's to catch up!

    It is my intention to make these easy to use and profound tools available to anyone who needs them and is willing to respect them.  And we need to dig them up because there was a very real attempt made to bury them.  It's my aim to make them easy to understand and therefore easy to use in daily life, and strip away most of the dogma and misinformation.  Let me know if this site is clear and explains it well.

  A lot of Huna ws never written down - it was taught orally.  And it was illegal from 1820 to 1989, so it was usually only whispered about for fear of persecution.  But now the human race is struggling - global warming, pollution, warfare, fuel shortages, endangered species - and we need all the help we can get.  Maybe that's why there's been a resurgence in alternative and complementary practices in the last 4 decades.

  Huna lore was passed down from father to son, mother to daughter. Every family had a Kahuna - a wise old auntie or uncle who knew stuff.  Many modern day Hawaiians aren't interested in the old ways, and in many cases much of the Huna information that is freely available is "tourist tat" that goes home on the cruise ships with the flower leis and grass skirts.  Naturally however there are a few kumu left - teachers of dying arts that live and breathe their beliefs.

  The missionaries from Boston arrived in Hawaii in 1820, and much of what they encountered challenged their model of the world, religion and higher powers. So like the colonising forces of so many Empires they simply superimposed their laws and belief systems on the native islanders, and enforced them with threats of imprisonment and fines.  Only with the granting of certain laws in the US did the Hawaiians get freedom of speech, and freedom of belief back.

  As soon as I arrived in Kona on the Big Island I asked the taxi driver, a local Hawaiian, if all of this was true.  He just smiled at the niaive tourist from Scotland, and said "You're in the land of the brown now, and we rule."

  Some of the people who looked into Huna became obsessed with sorcery and other dubious practices.  Others saw past their own projections and uncovered powerful tools for psychological healing, herbal medicine and spiritual development.  In fact the Hawaiians performed the first autopsy on record.

 Kahuna simply means "learned one" - expert, specialist, Jedi Knight.  There were Kahuna of farming, childbirth, fishing, negotiation, and so on.

  Thanks to authors such as Max Freedom Long, Serge King - teachers such as Daddy Bray, Taneo Sands and George Naope [below] - and my own teachers Tad James, Adriana James and Matt James - I can now pass on what I have learned. 

  Listen - I've been sunburned under the pacific sun while drilling Hula steps with one of the world's last remaining Hula Kumu.  I've thrown gin and tobacco into the Kilauea volcano to appease the goddess Pele.  On my trainings I wear a nut lei hand made by native Hawaiians.  Cheryl and I got married by a Kahuna on a sacred site, and we dipped our toes into a fertility pond as bathed in by the Ali'i [royalty].  Young master Luke is the result.  I've supervised initiation ceremonies in Hawaii and everwhere I go, I take a set of lava rocks with me which were hand picked, washed in the ocean and blessed by a Kahuna.  I've performed Hula in traditional garb decorated with natural ink made from tree sap, painted by a brush that started and ended as a nut under a tree.  For some crazy reason, Huna is part of me.  And I've received permission to teach what I know.

  So this will not be a traditional presentation - if this was done the old way we'd be sitting on the beach, chanting in Hawaiian and writing on the sand before the tide took it away.  At Huna Now we'll use the internet, email, audio CD's, mp3 files, video and 21st century technology to make Huna available, simple and user friendly.

 And please;

"A ohe pau ko ike i kou halau"

which means "Think not that all wisdom is in your school" - including this one.  You may have studied Huna before and seen different methods or descriptions.  Think of it like the martial arts - all different, all claiming to be THE ONE, and all effective.  And remember that you can't teach anyone anything- people teach themselves.

 Ho'olu komo la kaua [Please join us]

Jonathan Clark

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Huna teaches that there are seven essential aspects to your ability to virtually guarantee you achieve every real desire you have and to optimise your physical health Only when all seven are in harmony – working synergistically – does your subconscious mind (your auto achievement pilot) pour out your unlimited potential almost without any greater effort on your part at all, and your body become naturally balanced, calm, and stress free.

     The reason you might have tried one or even many personal development methods and been disappointed with the improvements you were able to make, is that they tend to focus on only one or two of these seven essential aspects.  This is the normal "untrained" person...

     But it’s critical that all seven are introduced together. Then, and only then, do you see almost miraculous improvements happening from every direction.

Let me explain…

   You have three aspects of mind, and four aspects of body:

	You have a conscious mind (the mind which conducts all conscious acts and “on purpose” thinking)
	An unconscious mind (the mind that controls all subconscious activity within your body and the actions and non-actions that you find yourself taking or not taking)
	Thirdly, you have a Higher Conscious Mind (your connection to your spirituality and true unlimited and infinite self)
	You also have a physical body (obviously),
	Plus an emotional part of your being that will tend to feel intensely,
	A logical mental part of your being, that is rational and not affected by emotion
	And a higher, spiritual aspect.

    Jonathan realised that all these seven essential elements are what every person is made up of. Huna taps into the purity of each of the seven elements. That’s the secret that lies behind the quite phenomenal results of Huna...

Why you will have found most self-improvement methods haven’t worked for you

   The majority of counselling interventions, analysis, positive thinking and reading books are only Mental, Conscious actions. That’s only 2/7ths of the picture.

     If you’ve invested in counselling, analysis, positive thinking or you’ve read dozens of books, this is why they haven’t worked for you.

     Advanced change techniques like autosuggestion, meditation, Hypnosis and NLP tap into still just 4/7ths of the individual, by also accessing the unconscious mind and emotional body.

     If you’ve invested in meditation, NLP training and autosuggestion, this is why they haven’t worked for you.

     Psyched up, high adrenaline motivational seminars actually make you less effective by actually keeping you out of the very areas that would stimulate change. And they are emotional states that few people can recreate in their everyday lives, unless they spend more money becoming seminar-junkies.

     If you’ve invested in motivational speakers or listened to them on tape or CD, this is why they haven’t worked for you.

     Spiritual practices often only deal with the Spiritual aspect of the person and the Higher Conscious Mind. Again only 2/7ths of the picture. If they involve fasting, retreats or rituals then they activate four, i.e. the physical body and emotional body.

     If you’ve invested in spiritual retreats or New Age workshops, this is why they haven’t worked for you.

     Any of these methods taken in isolation leave you short-changed, unable to make the changes you hoped for. It’s like putting a tractor tyre on a Ferrari – you end up with an imbalanced car that is highly unstable, is difficult to stop, burns fuel wastefully, is dangerous to drive and will spend most of its time going in circles…

Here’s the answer...

   The secret -- almost the magic bullet -- that Jonathan discovered is a method that releases the potential in all seven aspects. There is now no fuzziness about it: if you ignore any one of the seven aspects then you will never succeed in creating the change, improvements, and freedoms (love, money, physical health, energy, passion, joy, friendships, intimacy) that you want.

 How Initiation Into Spirituality Creates Magical Changes In Your Personal Growth…

  As a teacher of esoteric studies, I have the honour of conducting Initiations once or twice every year.  This is an obscure and greatly misunderstood concept for most people.  Plus modernisation has gradually killed off many traditional rites of passage.

  Some everyday Initiations you may already be familiar with:

  Christening.  Baptism.  Bar or Bat Mitzvah. Induction into any institution.  Your first day of school.  University Matriculation Day.  Graduation Day.  The rigorous training of the armed forces.  The first day of a new job.  Joining the local Golf or Rugby Club.  The Freemasons.  American Fraternity Houses. The Mile High Club.

  In a new job, the Initiation may be simply learning the ropes, being taught procedures, where to put your coffee mug and what time the “in crowd” work till.  You usually get a special “tome” full of arcane laws and guidelines that no one really ever reads.  There may even be a joining fee.

  History shows that medicine, physics, chemistry, reading, mathematics, writing, astronomy and anatomy were all at one time “occult” secret arts.  In the modern world, you were probably initiated into most of those before you were 16 years old.

Definition from The Oxford Dictionary:

Initiation [v] – to begin and admit a person with introductory rites into secrets, mysteries or science.  Latin root “initium” means “to begin”.  So it’s a rite of passage ceremony, which signifies the transformation of an individual into a higher, more desired level of identity.

Initiate [n] – the person who has been initiated

  Imagine you want to join an exclusive members-only social club.  You can walk up to the building, but the people on the door will usher you away unless you’re a member.  However, if you have a friend who is already a member, you will walk up the steps together and will be given a warm reception.  Now you have access to higher powers [in this case the social, economic and prestige benefits of club membership] as well as the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual changes initiation brings about.

  Now if you don’t have a friend who’s already a member, the alternative is to keep going over to the club, getting your face known, trying to schmooze the doorman and occasionally peeking through the window to see what’s going on inside.  The way people do that is by reading books and trying things out haphazardly.

  Unfortunately enlightenment doesn’t come from books – it is experience alone that brings realisation.

  Initiation gives you membership, companionship with like-minded individuals and access to deeper and broader levels of insight and power.   In many systems, it is believed that many of your new contacts will be previous Initiates who are no longer with us.  Initiation gives you nothing in tangible terms.  Instead, it allows you to begin a particular system or practice.

Practical training involves:

·        Training the physical body – a regimen of toughening, strengthening and purifying.  This is usually achieved through exercises, breathing, and postures

·        Learning how to control your emotions.  Feel the full range of positive and negative.  Be able to accept and release the painful, and bask in the pleasant.  Never be at the beck and call of involuntary emotion.

·        Training the mind to focus on what you want and to eliminate the “noise”.  Train up the laser-like focus.  Develop discipline and single mindedness on your outcome.  This is one purpose for ritual and ceremony.  You’ll soon learn if you have the discipline to practice every single day.  Learn how to and consistently practice meditation – stillness of the mind

·        Conscious knowledge of logic and philosophy giving you the full range of thinking on all logical levels, as recommended by Aristotle.

·        Develop and utilise the imagination.  What the mind can conceive it can achieve.  All physical manifestation first requires the spark of creativity.

 

Science starts with reference experience data then searches for principles to explain it.  Experiment leads to knowledge.  “I’ll believe it when I see it”.  Proof is required to prove something is real.

Esoteric study begins with the guiding principles, then watches for reference experiences to back them up.  Knowledge leads to experiments.  “I’ll see it when I believe it”.  Faith is required to know something is real.

  A spiritual initiation is therefore the process through which a student is given access to deeper layers of knowledge and practice [often called secrets] by their teacher or mentor.

  In the worlds of mysticism and esoteric study, this is purported  to cause a fundamental shift within the person being initiated. The initiator, bearing a certain power or state, transfers this to the person being initiated. Symbolically this is a simultaneous death and rebirth, because not only is it a beginning, its also an ending of sorts as the student ascends to a new level. 

  Very often you would be given a new name, a magical name.  One of the many reasons for that was to reinforce the change in your identity.

  Fully initiated means devotion to the mystic, occult wisdom and contact with natural forces.  It also brings with it the Fraternity and comradeship with the group or “family” you are initiated into.  Because you don’t start off born with mystic, magic or psychic abilities – you have to learn and practice them.  The training and guidance is there if you’re willing to do the work. Unfortunately more people read about esoteric study than practice.  The real measure of a spiritual initiate is how they demonstrate it in real life, not their intellectual knowledge.  It’s what you do that counts.

  This was repeatedly stressed by Dion Fortune who lived from 1891 – 1946 [real name Violet Firth] – a member of The Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn [a magic organisation formed in the 1880’s], prolific author, psychologist, Christian and psychic.

  She recommended an Initiate should be living a normal life and not be closed off in a secret order.  Remember where Obi Wan Kenobi lived?  You don’t want to become the eccentric weirdo in the woods!

  You also don’t want to be a “fair weather” devotee.  You know, the type who practices religiously on Sundays, but lets charity, forgiveness and moral fortitude slip a little from Monday to Saturday!

  An initiate’s mindset should be centred around the approach that he or she has been initiated into.  So no matter where you are, who you’re with or what you’re doing, you always have the method’s philosophy in the back of your mind.

  There are three Initiators in your path – the first great initiation begins with your birth, the second is from your teacher, the third and most important are the lessons you learn through your life experience and learning’s from Higher Self.

  The real question is the issue of authority – who is in charge, and what their intentions are.  This is often abused and therein lie all the horror stories you might have thought this article was about.

  And “as within so without”.  Be wary of the Initiate who has no money, dysfunctional relationships and emotional baggage.  The outer signs of the effects are usually the symptoms of the inner causes. If a person is lacking in the everyday world, they probably lack in the esoteric world too.

  Finally, know that many believe it takes three lifetimes to become an initiate. So the sooner you start the better!

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   After spending 16 years studying positive thinking, meditation, martial arts, Hypnosis, NLP, auto-suggestion, Time Line Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Huna, Feng Shui, Life Coaching, and almost every other approach to mind action that exists, I found that there are 7 critical aspects to making your life easier and attracting success, with the maximum amount of results in the minimum amount of time.

  Only when all 7 aspects are in harmony does your subconscious mind (your auto achievement pilot) pour out your unlimited potential almost without any greater effort on your part at all, and your body becomes naturally balanced, calm, and stress free.

   To begin with, you have several bodies, all connected together. 

1 Let's agree that you have a Physical body, the foundation upon which

everything sits - the vehicle that houses your awareness.  Remember, you're body's a temple, but it's also a nightclub! 

2 Above that is the Emotional Body, the seat of your unconscious processes and the source of your memories and emotions.  The emotional body is magnetic, and attracts people with similar emotions e.g. Anger management groups.  Protesters.

3 Next you have the Mental Body - the rational, thinking Conscious Mind, and usually with an area of interest or a field of knowledge that it specialises in.  The mental body likes stimulation, deep and meaningful discussion, debate and new ideas.

4 Last but by no means least comes the Spiritual Body, the super conscious mind and your connection with whatever is higher and bigger than you.  The Spiritual body attracts like minded souls, such as in gathering to worship, or a "calling", or you reading this book….

  Now here’s the second secret - you are of three minds.  Our ancestors used to teach this, as the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.  Ever wonder why it's in that order?  This trinity is present in every tradition on the planet.  The Pope's cross has 3 horizontal bars, the Cardinal's only two, and the Priests only has one.  Hmmm.  Or the Lovers Card in the Major Arcana of the Tarot Cards.  There's a man (conscious mind) looking at a woman (unconscious mind), but she's looking above him at an angel (higher self) which he can't see. 

 5 You probably know that you have a conscious mind, don't you?  The part of you that answered - that was it!  It likes experience, knowledge, mental power, analysis and rationality.  It also likes respect, admiration, significance and success. It's focussed on specifics, likes order and sequence, and it usually kicks in at about age five.  Unfortunately, it's also an expert in denying and avoiding pain. 

6 The Conscious Mind thinks, "I am".  But you also have an unconscious Mind with feelings, "I feel".  (The mind that controls all subconscious activity within your body and the actions and non-actions that you find yourself taking or not taking).  It runs your body, beats your heart, stores your memories, controls your emotions.  It's sometimes called the "body/mind".  It's like a timid animal with basic desires and a mental age of about five years old.  It adores food, clothes, security, sex, fun, the five senses and safety.  It has no words.  You always know you're really at the unconscious level when you have no words for the feelings you're experiencing.  Any time you criticise yourself, you're criticising your unconscious mind.   Society likes to keep you out of here - men are taught to be unemotional, therapists will help you manage your anger (rather than clear it up completely) and prescription drugs suppress your true feelings.  They're still there, you just can't feel them.  So the next time a red light appears on your car dashboard, just paint black paint over it.  It's still a problem, but at least you can't see it.

7   Many believe you have a third self, the Higher Conscious Mind also, with still more, higher functions, such as wisdom, order, justice, ecology, peace, truth, perfection and evolution.  (Your connection to your true unlimited and infinite self).  It looks down at you like a totally trustworthy parent gazing lovingly on a perfect child (you).  It creates anything that you ask for, (whether you dwell on good things or bad).

     Any of these methods taken in isolation leave you short-changed, unable to make the changes you hoped for. It’s like putting a tractor tyre on a Ferrari – you end up with an imbalanced car that is highly unstable, is difficult to stop, burns fuel wastefully, is dangerous to drive and will spend most of its time going in circles…

  Get all 7 in harmony, suddenly, in the most natural way, life starts to come together. Love starts to blossom. Money starts to pour in. Abilities start to sharpen dramatically and produce greater fruitage. Energy starts to rise. Health starts to improve. Coincidences start to multiply.  Try it and see!

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 The first aspect is your Physical body, the foundation upon which everything sits - the vehicle that houses your awareness.  Remember, you're body's a temple, but it's also a nightclub!  The Physical body is the language of biology, chemistry, physics, atoms, particles, the material. 

 Your physical body is the vehicle in which you are a guest.  How well are you looking after your vehicle?  It needs regular servicing and MOT’ing.  You need to give it lubricants, water and the fuel that suits it best.  You can’t put diesel in a car that runs on unleaded and expect it to run smoothly

 When you’re unwell it’s very difficult to concentrate, get things done, do even the simplest tasks and live normally.  To live life fully you need a level of health & vitality.  It’s not a should, it’s a MUST!  The statistics about mortality and morbidity rates are shocking!  Yet when you understand how your body works and you give it the respect and care it deserves, it will take care of you.

 Most medical metaphors are thick with references to warfare and battlefields.  Listen to the language – “boosting the immune system, killer T-cells, fighting the invading virus, eradicate the cancer”.  The biomedical model either cuts things out, burns them off or puts chemicals in.  Yet nothing in that model heals your body.  Your body heals your body.  (By the way, the third biggest killer in the US today, is the hospital)  The bio psychosocial model suggests that we have an immune system, which keeps the bacteria out, but that emotions and mental stress compromises it.  The micro organisms only become predatory when you’re out of balance.

 We live in a world where if you discover a new way of getting ill, you get to name it after you.  Crones’ Disease, Alzheimer’s’.  There are thousands of ways to be ill.  There’s only really a couple of ways to be healthy. 

 Pending Research - 30,000 case studies on cancer indicate: Person has a significant emotional event and has no strategy to cope with it, and thus obsesses/internalises it. This emotional trauma develops a brain lesion on the surface of the brain, which then sends wrong information to the corresponding organ in the body. Client develops symptoms within 1-3 yrs.  

 We can live healthy lives if we have good heredity, the body is allowed to recover well, and we keep negative emotions cleared out.

 First, get into shape physically, and take care of the vehicle in which you’re a guest, your physical body.  And have nice things, manage your finances (or come and do my weekend seminar “Your Money or Your Life”) and improve your health

 Wouldn’t it be great to be able to measure how well you’re doing in your personal growth?  I thought it would be really good to have a measuring device to tell you how it’s going.  To take part in your own self assessment of your four bodies and to find out how developed each one is, go to www.jonathanclark.org and do the Body Quotient test.  You’ll then be gifted some immediately useful downloads and a gift certificate from me just for making the effort.

Some thought-provoking questions for you to ponder:

• What gives you energy?
• What steals your energy?
• Are you willing to do more of the first and less of the last?

 Final Thought on Physical Body – IF your Doctor told you that it was critical for you to change your lifestyle for the sake of your Physical Body, as of tonight, what do you know you need to change?