Restoring the Ancient Culture of Mother in Hawaii

Hawaii Big Island

June 26 - 29, 2008

Hawaii's brief History of the last 1,500 years
In 1778 the English Captain Cook discovered the islands. He called them Sandwich Islands after his superior, Sandwich, the first Lord of the Admiralty. Cook became the first European explorer to set foot on those islands, opening the doors to the west.

At that time there were approximately between 300,000 and 400,000 kanaka maoli - native Hawaiians on the islands. Most anthropologists believe that the original settlement of Hawaii was by Polynesians who migrated northwest from the Marquesas Islands perhaps as early as 400 AD. Approximately 500 years later a second wave of settlers sailed from Tahiti, bringing their beliefs in gods and demi-gods and instituting a strict social hierarchy based on a kapu (taboo) system.

Hawaiian society was a highly stratified system with strictly maintained castes. Like medieval Europe and the other Polynesian nations, each caste had its assigned tasks and responsibilities. Not until 1810 was there a single king over all Hawaii with the reign of Kamehameha. Before then, there were a number of small kingdoms that divided the islands and they were often at war with each other.

In each of these small kingdoms, there was the king. Next in ranking were the ali'i or chiefs. Chiefs ruled over portions of the land at the whim of the king. Below the chiefs in temporal power, but often far above them in spiritual power, were the kahuna, or priest craftsmen. The majority of Hawaii's people were commoners (makaainana), subjects of the chief upon whose land they lived. They did most of the hard work and paid taxes both to the king and to their chief and provided some warriors for the chief's army. These taxes took the form of food, clothing and other products. Below the commoners were a numerically small group of people known as "kauwa" or outcastes. Little is known of their origins or of their true role in Hawaiian society, although they were believed to be slaves of the lowest order.

The Kapu System is what cemented the ancient social structure. Birth, death, faulty behavior, the building of a canoe, and many other activities were regulated by the kapu system, which permeated all aspects of ancient Hawaiian life. The Hawaiian temples (heiau) contained images which symbolized the gods. Commoners performed their own simple ceremonies to family or personal gods (aumakua) while the complicated religious life of the ali'i required the services of a kahuna in large temple complexes. In some temples, human sacrifices took place.

In 1791, Kamehameha united the warring factions of the Big Island and went on to unify all of the Hawaiian Islands into one royal kingdom in 1810. In 1819, less than a year after King Kamehameha's death, his son, Liholiho, abolished the ancient kapu system.

In 1820, the first Protestant missionaries arrived on the Big Island filling the void left after the end of the kapu system. Hawaii became a port for seamen, traders, and whalers. Throughout these years of growth, western disease took a heavy toll on the native Hawaiian population.

Western influence continued to grow and in 1893, American Colonists who controlled much of Hawaii's economy overthrew the Hawaiian Kingdom in a peaceful, yet still controversial coup. In 1898, Hawaii became a territory of the United States and 1959 Hawaii became the 50th State.

In 1983 Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii erupted and is still active today.

Ancient History
The Polynesians spoke of Hawaiki, a large island or continent to the west, beyond the ocean (Pacific). Hawaiki was said to be their destroyed homeland, and was deemed to have been a veritable Paradise before its destruction by a huge volcanic cataclysm. This cataclysm sunk away most of its land, and smothered it in cinders and smoke. The destruction of Hawaiki took place during a great war, just as was the case with Atlantis.

From the Ascended Masters' Teachings we learn the deeply spiritual connection of the Hawaiian Islands with the land of Mother, Lemuria, or as some call it, Mu. Hawaii's islands are actually the peaks of volcanoes formed over the past 6 million years or so. The Hawaiian Islands and the Pacific Islands are the remaining mountain peaks of the lost continent of Lemuria.

We have an extraordinary opportunity to gather together and anchor Being in the heart of ancient Lemuria. We here below may create an impenetrable light from our oneness with Being Mother here below, loving Father that we are one with Above. And through this light is formed a veritable tube of light that no man has the power to create or destroy. When we here below will through Mother the Light of Father, we are IS and Being that which we came to Be.

If you feel this calling to be a part of this work in Hawaii, come join us for a journey you will not long forget. Time permitting, we will visit the memorial site where Captain Cook was killed for the clearance of the records of Is. Lord Maitreya said about Captain Cook:

"James Cook, went forth from England to chart the seas in exploration and discovery with vision and with the sense of the mission of life that was all-consuming

Should you read the life of this servant in that embodiment, you cannot help but read between the lines that the training came from Sirius, that the experience beyond this world as the a priori given of his lifestream was the involvement of the soul in other explorations and discoveries beyond this planet, ratified here, even the ascertaining of certain necessary information concerning the stars.

Beloved ones, the scientific skill that evolved and the integrity of the soul are based upon the assignment of the Great White Brotherhood that the soul kept and fulfilled and that he went forward with, despite personal adversity, personal sorrow, and ultimate martyrdom in the very act of service."

If you have a few days extra to explore the island there is much to see and do. Hawaii Island contains 11 of the Earth's 13 climate zones and from coast to coast is an amazing coastline. North of Hilo receives 150 inches a rain a year and has spectacular botanical gardens, orchid and exotic flower farms everywhere and a lush landscape. Some call the island "Orchid Isle", due to the 100,000 plus species of orchids grown there.

There are waterfalls in abundance and thousands of Petroglyphs carved in the lava beds and of course the emerald seas and snorkeling amongst the fish!

For more information on this retreat, see registration or email: Shangra-la Mission. To reserve a space you must preregister by February 15th and register by April 15th. Broadcast is available on the registration page for those who cannot attend live.