Date: March 10, 2024 at 15:47:51 From: ao, [DNS_Address] Subject: Hawaiʻi ʻ78 Revisited
For Shadow.. because I think you care..
I have spent 45 years in Hawaii, and here the main thrust, the psychic journey, is the Hawaiians path back to their sovereignty. It's critical.
All that American noise, the DJT bs, is but a distraction from the root cause here. The rise of a race that almost was driven into extinction by Americans. A race that is the friendliest, the most loving, of all the races on Earth, that is rising again, seeking, yearning with every fiber of their being, for their rightful place under the sun..
Date: March 29, 2024 at 12:14:47 From: kay.so.or, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: Hawaiʻi ʻ78 Revisited
thank you, brings me to tears as i have long been angry at what has been done to them, and so many other cultures, i am part cherokee, and wonder how that came to be?? i wonder what happened those several generations ago that the native women married white men?
here is a song that 'came ' to me way back in 2000, thank you again ao ................... Living in a White Man's World
We’re living in a white man’s world, We’re living in a white man’s world.
The walls are growing higher, And we’re down below. Looking up at the heavens, Wondering where we can go.
They took away the sunsets, Covered up the skies, With smog and pollution So eagles cannot fly.
The streams and the valleys Are black like coal, No support left for life To keep all of us whole.
We’re living in a white man’s world, We’re living in a white man’s world.
And the walls grow higher And we’re down below, Looking up at the heavens, Wondering where can we go.
And the bars that hold them, Contain hate and fear, So they can’t touch each other, Or know who they really are.
We’re living in a white man’s world, We’re living in a white man’s world,
And the walls grow higher, And we’re down below, Looking up at the heavens, Wondering where we can go.
and we are seeing our trees torn down here for growers, and subdivisions, and more stores, fences put up so we can't even see our beautiful mountains!!
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Date: March 10, 2024 at 17:48:50 From: shadow, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: Hawaiʻi ʻ78 Revisited
...*tears and chills*...
Thank you, ao... Most beautiful gift I've received in a very long time, such deep soul food... Such power cannot possibly help but generate victories of highest humanity, regardless of how anything appears...
Here we call it chicken skin.. and that vid is overflowing with it..
The original Hawai'i '78 is by Brother Iz, and it endures as an anthem. Pearl Jam plays it and calls it a pray. My children were raised on it. It's in every Hawaiian's blood. Here’s the original..
That song invokes a time, Hawaii in the '70s, when the Hawaiians first rose up and said no more to the slow death path their culture was on. White man had come to the islands and instead of embracing them as sovereign took over the place and set about to destroy them as a culture. And, crucially, took away their language. They made it so it brought shame to speak Hawaiian, and Hawaiians were forced to speak English for generations otherwise they were outcast.
A being’s first language is a critical part of how their mind forms. The neural pathways created are for life. They determine who we are, our perspective, the way we reason, and experience emotion. Over the years Gary Snyder has expounded on the fundamental importance of one’s language.. most recently I saw his article entitled Language Goes Two Ways.. in which he sates.. Language goes two ways: it enables us to have a small window onto an independently existing world, but it also shapes how we see that world.
In other words our government attempted to erase a way of thinking. A way of experiencing life. They attempted to turn an entire culture into Americans. And, because of the incredible peaceful nature of the Hawaiians they let them, they didn’t overtly fight back. At least not until America drafted them and sent them to Vietnam. WW2 was different, Japan bombed us, and America defended and Hawaiians had very little to do with it. But in Vietnam America drafted Hawaiians, and taught a generation of them how to fight. Literally put it in their brains. And they came home and said no more.
The Hawaiians first act of civil disobedience was to occupy an island called Kahoolawe. Kahoolawe is a small island, just west of the southern side of Maui, that was, at that time, totally uninhabited and used, by the US military, as a bombing practice site. Literally they’d bomb the hell out of the place regularly. And the Hawaiians occupation, and the settlement that was reached because of it, gave birth to a renaissance that today is mind boggling.
One of the many conditions of that settlement was the return of their language. Since then, and more so today then ever before, Hawaiians are taught, if they choose, in what is called the Hawaiian Emergence Program. Literally in a setting in which only Hawaiian is spoken. And now generations of Hawaiians have been raised in their mother tongue. And they are beautiful and filled with pride. And one gets a sense they will reemerge as a sovereign entity, and we will figure out how to honor them and make a place in the islands for them to flourish. Though, at this point, it’s still just a hoped for dream, but it's inevitable.. you can see it in the faces, here it in their voices, in that video.
As I said in my OP, this is my blessing to witness. I am not Hawaiian, and as such the struggle is not mine. But my family came to these islands specifically following a vision that the Hawaiian people must regain their kingdom, and to live here with that vision in ourselves is essential. It is why I breathe. It’s not mine to know the details, but omg I love the view with every beat of my heart. And besides, I kinda think there’s some really higher end stuff going on here. The only clue I have seen, in physical form, is Hank Wesselman’s visions, as he shared them in his book, Spiritwalker. Which is at the link above.. and I recommend reading. I have met Hank, and I believe in his sincerity.. and if what he shares is even remotely real.. it says a lot.. a whole lot about what the future holds for all of us..
Date: March 11, 2024 at 15:09:05 From: shadow, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: Hawai'i '78 Revisited
Thank you for this beautiful sharing, ao, of your experience of witnessing indigenous Hawai'ians slowly reclaiming their cultural realities from how they were torn away by white men, and your wise emphasis of how profound the impact of one's Original Language is in the foundation of a human being's psyche... I've always been very dialed into the power of language, how it literally shapes how we learn, experience and navigate what "reality" is...and there aren't any words for how thrilled I am, knowing that Original Languages, in Hawai'i and in First Nations tribes here in the U.S., are returning so strongly into practice, for the lifesaving benefits and grace it will bring into the children's lives being reooriented to it...as well as the adults...
I believe it was Pamela who brought Brother Iz Kamakawiwo'ole to our attention when his beautiful version of Over the Rainbow rose in masse-consciousness popularity...and now, hearing his voice given to the Hawai'i '78 anthem reveals such depths of his heart and soul...
Their vision, your vision, is mine, ao... I will check out the book you reference above... I know without a doubt that the power resonating within these beautiful beings' voices, hearts, bodies and spirits will synergize the most beautiful victory for all things humanitarian and unity-conscious...and I'm just a little jealous of your front-row spot, there, such a privilege to witness...!!!
These victories will be rolling out for all humans, everywhere oppression is currently holding the human spirit in fear...and I celebrate them with massive anticipation... ;)
Date: March 11, 2024 at 16:03:40 From: ao, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: Hawai'i '78 Revisited
"Thank you for this beautiful sharing"
Yeah, well, it seemed a better place to put my energy this morning than responding to the noise on the more contentious forum.. and besides, I'd really love your take on Spiritwalker.. ;)
Date: March 12, 2024 at 09:27:36 From: shadow, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: Hawai'i '78 Revisited
Thank you for yours, ao!
A much better place to put one's energy, for sure, very nice chatting with you...
Realized I'd had a copy of Spiritwalker for years, had picked it up at a thrift shop, intended to read it but hadn't yet, so...I'm on that & will share impressions soonest... ;)
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Date: March 11, 2024 at 19:40:24 From: sher, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: Hawai'i '78 Revisited
I have his CD’s and his voice makes me weep while filling my heart with joy and longing, if that makes sense. I love his rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow “ . I bought Spiritwalker a while back and have yet to read it. Thanks for the reminder.