urban shaman
— the
fundamental principles
hili hewa
ka mana'o ke 'ole ke kukakuka — ideas
run wild without discussion ———————————————
The
principles and corollaries that follow represent a workable philosophy of
life and guide to the practice of urban shamancraft.
from "urban shaman" — a handbook for personal and planetary
transformation based on the Hawaiian way of the adventurer;
Serge Kahili King, Ph. D., Fireside Book, New York
- the world is what
you think it is
- there are no limits
- energy flows where attention goes
- now is the moment of power
- to love is to be happy with
- all power comes from within
- effectiveness is the measure of truth
- the seven
shaman talents
I was
told by my teachers that a very long time ago some wise healers got together
to share their observations on life and healing and to put them in a form
that could easily be taught and remembered as a craft.
Although they could have picked a hundred ideas,
they chose to express their wisdom as seven basic principles because of the
esoteric symbolism of the number seven.
These are essentially principles of manifestation, of the
the
seven shaman principles
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I learned the seven principles
in their Hawaiian form as seven individual words with many extended meanings,
but in order to teach this knowledge in Western culture I had to translate each
word into a basic phrase.
It soon became clear that the basic phrases couldn't capture enough of the essence
of each principle, so I added several "corollaries" for each phrase.
1st
principle -
2nd principle -
3rd principle -
4th principle -
5th principle -
6th principle -
7th principle -
hidden
or inner cause of outer events, and in many ancient traditions the number
seven represents this inner knowledge because it is made up of the numbers
three and four, which in turn represent the primal masculine and feminine
forces or polarities of the universe.
Not all traditions agree on which is which, however.
In Hawaiian the number seven is hiku, composed of two syllables
- hi, the feminine principle (meaning "to flow") and
- ku, the masculine principle (meaning "to stand firm").
