There are horrendous things happening around the world and unspoken cruelty committed by people. In my view this happens exactly as a direct result of adopting distorted views of who we are, who others are, and how the world is. Resulting in an avalanche of Fear and the consequent are our responses to it. Destructive aggression!
The world is a beautiful place and we are incredible beings. When we move away from this Truth we suffer.
The real tragedy of this suffering is not only that we suffer. But we are in actual fact reinforce that which is the cause of our suffering and unwittingly energizing, increasing the focus charge of that which causes our suffering and this creates more causes for our suffering for myself and the world. The world is continuously being recreated by each of its componentes. I am a creative part of creation and I am the one who is responsible for my contribution of this creation.
The Ho’oponopono Shamanistic approach, which I have just come across, showed me how to dissociate myself from an illusion and return to my natural state. A state of alignment with the creative force of Universe that is within all of us and in everything. Another name for this creative force would be LOVE!

I have read this text and the comments below it a few times and the more often I read it, my mind takes over and judges it as being ‘too American’, like I really did NOT like The Secret, way too money driven and commercial. If you want to see an inspirational documentary, go watch Zeitgeist 2 (Addendum) free on Google videos, with subs.

I see it this way; The world, Gaia, our Goddess, our Mother, our womb of Creative expression and Nature, is out of balance, or ill… Hence/therefore I am ill as well (I got chronic Lyme disease and co-infections, causing me constant pains 24/7) If I feed, or give my thoughts and actions towards helping her Heal, helping purge the injustice done to our Mother, fighting what/who strips her of her beauty and health and bringing it all to Light, then directly(!) I will Heal myself as well, as I am part of Her.

I do realize that this is the opposite of what was written above, but that is how I experience is, as/so outside, as/so inside. :-) If I give I Am, if I stop giving, I stop Being.

As with most Hawaiian healing traditions each family almost had its own versions. The version of Ho’oponopono that I learned was a system of family dispute resolution which could be modified to be applied to any situation.

Serge King has some great articles at http://www.huna.org and I can recommend any of his books, particularly Urban Shaman, to get an understanding of the seven principles and how everything is connected to everything else. There is a simplified explanation on my own website.

Mahalo
Kahu

Hooponopono was a practice used in kahuna laau lapaau poo, a traditional native hawaiian practice of medicine, which uses hooponopono as a clearing the way, and a precurser to actually healing poeple of the medical ailments.

it was only done my a senior member of a freind form outside of the family along with discussions with the ohana kupunas.

i have witnessed the true hooponopono. it lasts about a week and involves all memebrs of the family. everyone even flies in from other places to attend this. hooponopono was done for many reasons, but the reasons were never small or trivial.

only the beleif that one was facing imminent death, either from a kahuna laau lapaau anaana, or another source of great distress. these are the real reasons you have a hooponopono.

all of this new age stuff getting mixed up with our traditional cultural beleifs is a whole lot of hogwash. PEOPLE HAVE PERVERTED THE HOOPONOPONO PROCESS TO BEING: OH I HAD A BAD HAIR DAY, AND I HATE MY HAIRDRESSER..LETS HOOPONOPONO. i THINK EVERYONE JUST LIKES SAYING THE WORD.

I frankly am appaled with the use of a sacred ceremony like hooponopono being used like this. it is part of the medicinal healing process, and the entire laau lapaau process. You cant just chop up the process into little peicves, trivialize it, and then put it into practice, because you all like the cute little hawaiian word attached to it.
You are not trained, do not come from the 40 generations and names of kahuna laau lapaau which is the beleif. You must be chosen, and trained properly for many years, otherwise it is beleived you may go insame, or cause death and disease upon those you are attempting to cure. You must also understand anaana thoroughly. and alsom these afflictions do not happen to poeple outside of the native hawaiian bloodlines. it is beleived that only hawaiians suffer these ailments, because it is the past family members that are causing it. hooponopono will not work for white poeple who are not connected to someone of hawaiian blood in some way.

Frankly i am appaled. Hooponopono is practiced by close family freinds who are appointed by kupunas, or elders to perform this ceremony for a particular family, and a partifcular family only. Hawaiians did not discuss anything to do with their private family matters with any one else, because they beleive in the system of aumakuas, or ohana uhane. family spirits that can become jelous and cause trouble.

you really need to understand that the ripping off of the culture by others and writting books and whatever..these poeple hacve done nothing for the hawaiian poeple who suffer in abject poverty at this time. you must never charge for your knowlege, or steal your knowlege.

please understamd, i am trying to educate you not scold you. if you want to know more about this feel free top email me and i will be happy to assist you. mahalo

greenforestwoman22009@yahoo.com

KISS…………….Keep it simple sweetheart is the way I will follow it then..

Blessings

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Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God, responds to biologist Richard Dawkins’ assertion that God does not exist in any form

English scientist Richard Dawkins ignited a fierce debate with his book The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)—which is, as its title baldly announces, a refutation in exacting detail of the existence of God. The controversy shows no sign of dampening; Dawkins views continue to inflame strong opinions on all sides about our relationship to science, society and religion. This comes as no surprise to those who have followed the distinguished career of Richard Dawkins—an evolutionary biologist long known as “Darwin’s rottweiler” for his rousing defence of natural selection. His 1976 bestseller The Selfish Gene advanced the provocative and now influential idea that instead of using genes to reproduce themselves, organisms— including humans—are actually being used to satisfy their genes’ need to reproduce.
Now Dawkins is back, this time asking readers to imagine that there is no such thing as the God we think we know. “If God created the universe,” he asks, “who created God?”
He targets our collective belief in the existence of God as our culture’s most dangerous attribute. “As a scientist,” Dawkins writes, “I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and not to want to know exciting things that are available to be known. It subverts science and saps the intellect.”
Religion, he adds, isn’t a reasonable explanation for anything. The embattled biologist dreams of a time when atheism is widespread and God has no role to play in our thoughts or our politics.
We invited Neale Donald Walsch, author of the bestselling Conversations with God, to respond to Dawkins. While Walsch is no more popular among fundamentalist believers than Dawkins, he draws different conclusions about the meaning of existence in a series of books that have sold millions of copies and been translated into more than 30 languages.
–The editors

God does not exist. So argues Professor Richard Dawkins in his latest book, The God Delusion. And he claims to have scientific evidence to prove it.
Should any of us care? Yes, because Dawkins is no ordinary person. He is an esteemed scientist from England’s Oxford University who has the ear of millions. I believe his argument that there is no God is a sad point of view which brings no benefit whatsoever to the human race. And that is why we should care. If the whole of humanity should ever adopt this point of view, I believe we will have lost our greatest asset, our greatest tool, our greatest advantage as we step more deeply into the 21st century.
However, Dawkins is not entirely wrong. The God of which he speaks—of which most organized religions speak, the God I call Yesterday’s God—does not exist. In The God Delusion, Dawkins argues that science and not religion, evolution and not intelligent design, hold the answer to the greatest mystery of the universe: life itself, how it came to be and how it functions, in all its physical forms. And I believe he is right.
It does, however, not explain life in all its non-physical forms. It does not explain miracles, or any other metaphysical experience, of which there is ample evidence in our world. In short, Dawkins has brilliantly told us what God is not, but has told us nothing of what God is. He assumes that since there is ample evidence of what God is not, then God itself does not exist. I don’t think the first position proves the second. Dawkins apparently does. And therein lies his disservice. I would have wished that a mind as brilliant as Dawkins’ would have gone about analyzing the extraordinary anecdotal evidence, available from any one of several hundred million people on the planet, of the existence of God… or of something, whatever name you want to give it, that even science cannot explain, but that shows up in the day-to-day experience of human beings as very real, very present, very reliable, and very useful.

I myself have had plenty of evidence of the existence of what I call “God.” I have seen from my own life that “God” is a power, an energy that can be used with consistent and predictable results. I agree with Dawkins that God is not a celestial superpower, vindictive except with those who love Him—in the way He wants and needs them to love Him. He is not a God that exists to judge our every thought, word, and deed, granting or failing to grant our requests and punishing or rewarding us at the end of our lives based on wholly unknown criteria. Dawkins has pulled all the stops to debunk that particular notion, to which I say bravo.
But I couldn’t disagree more with what Dawkins writes in his first chapter: “If the word ‘God’ is not to become completely useless, it should be used in the way people have generally understood it: to denote a supernatural creator that is ‘appropriate for us to worship.’” The opposite, I think, is true. Continuing to use the word “God” in the way people have generally understood it (as someone to worship) renders the word completely useless.
I believe in God because I have had a conversation with God, an inner dialogue with an essence and a source that has brought forth information I would never, could never, have dreamt of on my own. That conversation has made it clear to me that God is a process—the process of life itself—and therefore that the words God and life are interchangeable.
I feel the implications of this are staggering, earth shaking, paradigm-shattering. This is because everyone knows what is true about life. Everyone may not know what is true about God, but everyone knows what is true about life. What is true about life is that nothing stands outside of life. Nothing exists without life. We are the expression of life itself. So is everything around us. Even so-called inanimate objects are found, when examined under a microscope, to consist of particles constantly in motion. These particles and their movements are all part of life. Indeed, everything in the observable universe is life, in some form. The existence of life is confirmed by life itself. Life is self-referencing, self-confirming, self-sustaining, and self-evident. Life is the evidence of the existence of life.
Everyone alive knows these things. But look what happens when the word ‘God’ is inserted where the word ‘life’ appears. That produces this result:
Nothing stands outside of God. Nothing exists without God. You are the expression of God itself. So is everything around you. Even so-called inanimate objects are found, when examined under a microscope, to consist of particles constantly in motion. These particles and their movements are all part of God. Indeed, everything in the observable universe is God, in some form. The existence of God is confirmed by God itself. God is self-referencing, self-confirming, self-sustaining, and self-evident. God is the evidence of the existence of God.

These simple thoughts cause all the dogma and stricturese about God to fall apart. Everything crumbles. Not just a few of our beliefs about God, but the very basis upon which we have built so much of human society. It all comes tumbling down. The wonderful thing about this, the exciting thing, is that we get to recreate ourselves anew, and rebuild our human society—and a huge part of that process is our renewed exploration of the whole idea of God.
Taking such a journey would benefit mankind enormously, for in doing so, we acknowledge something in the universe greater than we are. Once that acknowledgement is made, we can use God to create our most desired reality. Until we acknowledge that life is God, we cannot use this power, not turn to God as an ever present help in times of need. That is to deny our greatest resource.
So, dear Professor Dawkins, if you are saying that Yesterday’s God is a delusion, you are right. If you are saying that God in any form, known or unknown, taught or untaught, understood or not understood, does not exist, you are wrong.

Neale Donald Walsch is author of many books on spirituality. His series ‘Conversations With God’ are the most popular. More information: http://www.nealedonaldwalsch.com