Long before the rise of Atlantis (the legend goes) a race of people came to our solar system from a group of stars now known as the Pleiades. They called themselves the People of Mu, but were also know as Manahuna or Menehune, the "people of secret power" because of their advanced technology and psychic powers. They were a small pygmy-like people, with their own unique philosophy for successful living.

Once firmly established on Earth, they began to extend their knowledge to all humankind so that it would survive throughout time. Their language was Polynesian, traces of which are still found all over the world today, and their knowledge was Huna.

Huna is a philosophy of life that is at the root of all ancient cultures and spiritual paths. Free of dogma, it is simply the "'secret science behind miracles" or the hidden knowledge, deep within our souls, of who we are and how our lives can really work. Within the Huna philosophy, there are seven spiritual principles of life which explain the way the world works. These principles, which are universal and all-encompassing, go beyond our perceptions of reality, with a meaning much deeper than meets the eye. The seven principles of Huna (meaning secret, or hidden knowledge) are refreshingly simple yet very powerful, and can serve as meditations or chants for enhancing everyday life. The vowels are pronounced as in the Spanish language--a as in father, e as in prey, i as in pita, o as in mote, u as in duty.

1. IKE (ee-kay) - The world is what you think it is.

2. KALA - There are no limits.

3. MAKIA (mah-kee-ah) - Energy flows where attention goes.

4. MANAWA (man-ah-wah) - Now is the moment of power.

5. ALOHA - To love is to be happy with (someone or something).

6. MANA - All power comes from within.

7. PONO - Effectiveness is the measure of truth.

The Seven Huna Principles

1. IKE (ee-kay) - The world is what you think it is.

Positive thoughts attract positive people and events, and negative thoughts attract negative people and events.

Corollary: Everything is a dream.

Dreams are real and reality is a dream. The only test we use for a reality check is whether or not someone else experiences it. Hallucination means "your dream doesn't match my dream." "Reality" to a shaman is a mass hallucination, or a shared dream. If this life is a dream and if we can wake up fully within it, then we can change the dream by changing our dreaming.

Corollary: All systems are arbitrary.

All meanings are made up and the Absolute Truth is whatever you decide it is. What matters is how well the system works for you, not how true it is (which is an arbitrary concept).

2. KALA - There are no limits.

We experience two kinds of limitations: creative and filtered.

Creative limitation assumes the purposeful establishment of limits within an infinite universe in order to create particular experiences, made by God or our own Higher Selves. These enable us to experience life as humans on Earth (to play by that particular set of rules - breaking the rules changes to another game). Filtered limitations are imposed by ideas and beliefs that inhibit creativity rather than enhance it, like beliefs that engender hopelessness, helplessness, revenge and cruelty. They generate focus without the potential for positive action.

Corollary: Everything is connected.

The usual metaphor is a web of interdependence.

Corollary: Anything is possible.

All you have to do is believe. However, because you are not alone in the Universe, the degree to which something can be shared depends on the beliefs of others around you.

Corollary: Separation is a useful illusion.

Pure empathy makes you as helpless as the one suffering. Fear makes you lose sight of your role as dream weaver.

3. MAKIA (mah-kee-ah) - Energy flows where attention goes.

Meditation and hypnosis are simply different techniques for doing the same thing - refocusing your attention toward more positive beliefs and expectations. As stated, both are identical conditions of sustained focused attention. Those aspects of your present experience which seem enduring are the effect of habitual sustained focused attention carried on by your subconscious.

Corollary: Attention goes where energy flows.

Attention is attracted to all kinds of high energy intensity.

Corollary: Everything is energy.

Thought is energy and one kind of energy can be converted into another kind of energy.

4. MANAWA (man-ah-wah) - Now is the moment of power.

Karma exists and operates only in the present moment. It is your beliefs, decisions, and actions today about yourself and the world around you that give you what you have and make you what you are.

Thanks to memory we may carry over habits of body and mind from day to day, but each day is a new creation and any habit can be changed at any present moment - even if it isn't easy.

You select out of the immense resources of your gene pool those characteristics that best reflect your present beliefs and intentions. Your parents/social background have nothing to do with your present, but what you believe about them now and how you react to those beliefs does.

Corollary: Everything is relative.

You define "now" based on your focus (second, hour, year, lifetime).

Corollary: Power increases with sensory attention.

Many people living today aren't even here - most of their attention is focused on the past or the future. To the degree they diminish their awareness of the present moment, their power and effectiveness in the present also decreases.

5. ALOHA - To love is to be happy with (someone or something).

Love exists to the degree that you are happy with the object of your love. The unhappy part comes from fear, anger and doubt. To be deeply in love means to be deeply connected, and the depth and clarity of the connection increases as fear, anger and doubt are removed.

Corollary: Love increases as judgment decreases.

Criticism kills relationships; praise builds and rebuilds them. When you give praise you reinforce the good and it grows. When you criticize you reinforce the bad and it grows.

Corollary: Everything is alive, aware and responsive.

Your subconscious takes any praise or criticisms it hears to heart, even if its directed elsewhere, even if you're saying it. Each criticism separates you from and decreases your awareness of what you criticize, until you end up responding to a secondary creation of your own that may no longer resemble the original. When someone criticizes you, praise yourself to counteract it.

6. MANA - All power comes from within.

For every event that you experience you creatively attract it through your beliefs, desires, fears and expectations, and then react to it habitually or respond to it consciously. This does not mean that you are to blame for your abuse or injury, because you were probably not conscious of your negative beliefs, attitudes and expectations. It also does not mean the other person is innocent.

Corollary: Everything has power.

You do not have ALL the power in the world - everyone has the same power. The good news - you can work with these powers.

Corollary: Power comes from authority. Confident authority is the key to conscious creation.

7. PONO - Effectiveness is the measure of truth.

The means determines the end, not the ends justify the means. What is really important is what works.

Corollary: There is always another way to do anything.

Every problem has more than one solution. If the goal is important, you should never give up, just change your approach.