Does anybody here know anything about Huna? It's some kind of mysticism based on Hawaiian folklore.?

Question

Some lady my wife works with says she follows "Huna" teachings. I read a lot about different religions and msytical teachings, etc., but I'm not familiar with this. She keeps doing some kind of unusal gestures, waving her hands in the air, and acting like she's in a trance. She does this when she's alone and stops if she knows somebody else is watching her. She also carries "crystals" (like some new age people have). Do the hand gestures, "trances", and crystals have anything to do with Huna teachings? I looked up some things about it on the Internet but I couldn't find anything about particular rituals or meditation practices in Huna.

I'm asking if Huna has rituals where somebody might wave their hands in the air and act like they are in a trance. So far, none of the web sites I looked up say anything about this, and none of the people who answered here have said anything about that either. I'm just curious if this woman is mentally ill or if this has anything to do with "Huna"--my wife says she looks like she's hallucinating. We both work in mental health, so we have seen people who are actively hallucinating. However, some religious rituals or meditation practices might look strange to people who aren't familiar with them. For example, I work with a Chinese lady who does Tai Chi at lunch time--it would look strange to me if I never saw it before. I guess something like that might apply to Huna, since it seems to borrow from other traditions.

Answer 1

To answer your question, there are many different “schools” of Huna.

Like one of the other posters said, Huna is controversial. Many Native Hawaiians understandably are upset that the haole’s are learning Huna in Western formats, rather than the Hawaiian traditional way of teaching.

Haole is the name the Hawaiians gave the missionaries and it literally means “no breath”. The missionaries didn’t breathe deeply – they didn’t breathe “Ha”, and therefore had no way of bringing in energy, or mana. After that, the name sort of stuck. The average Joe on the street is a haole.

A few schools do teach how to send energy (mana) and one way it can be done is by “waving the hands”. No different than that a Reiki practitioner holding their hands over a subject, or of a Therapeutic Touch practitioner waving energy through and out of the energy field of the subject.

The trance state this person is in is the waking state utilized by Kahunas, even today, and it is called hakalau.

Answer 2

There's heaps of stuff online about Huna.
www.huna.com
www.huna.org
google
wikipedia
yahoo search

You can do the research


Additional Info: Huna is essentially an occult practice. Occult doesn't mean she wont necessarily talk about it, just that it's not a mainstream religion.
It is quite possible that what she is doing is related to Huna, but I am no expert on this form. 'Hallucination' is not necessarily unrelated to the practice of Huna. It may be some form of communing with the spirits etc. Many occult paths use self induced trance and out of body experience to connect with the spirits or to achieve some other goal.
If you are uncomfortable asking her, then maybe look on Yahoo 360 or MySpace for people with Huna as an interest, strike up a conversation etc.
Obviously none of this is conclusive, but hopefully it will give you some ideas, and possibly a starting point.


ANOTHER UPDATE: There's a Huna thread at http://witcheshotline.proboards107.com/ where you can talk to practitioners and people who are knowledgeable on Huna.

BB
Greenman

Answer 3

Huna is very controversial, and regarded with skepticism and disdain by non-believers. Serge King is the self-appointed guru. Here is an excerpt from an article that he wrote:

Possibly the oldest form of the secret process is found in Huna, a name of convenience given to the very ancient esoteric knowledge of Polynesia. As a word in Hawaiian, ka huna actually means "the secret." Interestingly, this particular word has the connotation of something hard to see, not something intended to be kept hidden. The process itself is described in the Hawaiian proverb, Makia ke ali'i, ehuehu ka ukali (literally, concentration is the chief, energy is the follower), which I first translated in my 1985 book, Mastering Your Hidden Self, as "Energy flows where attention goes."

In other words, to achieve all your desires, keep your focus on what you want, and not on what you don't want, a version of the secret expressed frequently in the Seth Books by Jane Roberts. Other versions of the secret process can be found in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, in Buddhist and Taoist writings, in Yoga sutras and Sufi poetry, and of course in the works of more modern writers such as Wattles, Hill, Emerson, Holmes, and many others. One nice thing about the Hawaiian version of the secret is that it includes specific instructions for putting it into practice. These instructions can be found in the roots of a little-understood Hawaiian word, haipule.

Read more at: http://www.huna.org/html/secret.html

Answer 4

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Answer 5

there are some modern healing techniques based on huna teachings, but not actually a part of the tradition that go more in this direction

check out orion healing. or dna healing