Awareness

The Kahunas have several ways of perceiving reality. This follows the concept that we live in a multidimensional universe and that different effects and experiences can be achieved by shifting our focus from one dimension to another. The dimensions are thought to coexist, so that moving from one to another involves a shift in our attention.

The first level of attention would be our physical experience. This is our daily life realm, where sight, sound, touch, taste, feeling, and smell are taken in. This is an awareness is only considered partial awareness. This awareness has a sense of objective experience, separateness between objects, people and events.

The second level of attention, is our psychic experience. In this awareness there is objective experience, just not as defined, due to the fact one can communicate with the environment and influence it ,this would not be possible in the first level. Subjectivity is more important here, but it is used in a way that acts on the outer world. In this level of awareness one can use mental techniques to create objective events.

The third level of awareness, is a state of relativity. There is time, space, matter, energy, plants, animals that become relative concepts which are all interacting. This state is not action oriented , they are more information oriented. This would be a state where a kahuna could learn of the true nature of an illness, to shift to the second state and perform a psychic healing and shift again to the first and give herbal treatment or do a ritual to impress the one involve to heal.

The forth level of awareness, is of the mystical and universal oneness. This could be considered cosmic consciousness and could alter the way one looks at life and how one can act or can decide to act, it is subjective and cannot be used in a practical way. Example given by King is "if a Kahuna without any means of physical protection, were faced with a man-eating lion, he could use the second level to telepathically influence the lion to leave him alone, and he could shift to third level to determine why he allowed himself to get into such a situation and learn how to change this thinking so as not to do it again." As he shifts to the fourth level of awareness he would understand that he and the lion were united in the bigger picture of things and whatever happened would be right and good in the eyes of the universe. However, if he relied on that state alone, he would probably be eaten.

Take time to learn the 4 levels of awareness, for in Huna this is a most important understanding to learn.