Posted by Lani on September 29, 2000 at 21:50:08:
In Reply to: Re: Firewalk quote for Ed posted by Lani on September 28, 2000 at 23:56:23:
Aloha Ed,
You know, it isn't nice to just post some slam, then run away and hide and not make any more responses!
Anyway, just live your life the best way you can imagine! :)
So to continue:
Once it was discovered that "Firewalk" was just a metaphor for anyhting which required the immunity granted to the fire, IOW, that some things coould only really be done while in the fireimmunity grace, the Priests of the Fire (Kahuna I Ke Umu Ki) started to seek to discover the "envelope" of fireimmunity. Many practices came into being which the uninitiated outsider would not recognize as a "Firewalk", but is.
One of these comes from Fiji, and the Firewalk leader who introduced it into the American fire Priesthood just wrtote me this, upon my inquirey of what it was. It turns out, as I suspected, that it is the same process I am about to undergo in MY initiation into the Priesthood of the Fire the Kahuna I Ke Umu Ki.
These things are not exactly a secret, but they are insider knowledge. I'm sharing it with you so that you too are an insider.
David Willey denies. For IF he acccepted this and the many other things as Firewalks, then, once again, his thesis would be destroyed. Also in my last post to you I gave my POV that he is insane.
This is simply my POV. It is derived from the fact that he does things with fire which prove his thesis false, but refuses to consider his actions in light of his thesis. Which, to me, is at the very least irrational.
"Dear Lani,
It is arrow breaking. An arrow is placed in the soft part of the throat,
you raise your energy through focused thought and with the breath, then step
forward and break the arrow. The Fijian man who taught me how to do it said
it was used at times of transition, for example during initiation ceremonies
to adulthood,to affirm the capacity we have to influence our world. the bar
bending, which some students of mine developed, is a modern variation on the
same theme. They are both very empowering."
Probably the main difference between Firewalking on fire and Firewalking with an arrow at your throat, is that the arrow is reserved for the initiations of Priests of the Fire, and not offered to or spoken about to the general public.
Firewalks open to the public are done on fire. BUT the initiation of a Kahuna I Ke Umu Ki is very different than what might be imagined.
Well, let's face it, I'm scared spitless!
But four weeks from now it will all be over. I will have made it through, and held my shedualed Firewalk for the public, and a preceding `Awa ceremony for the firewalkers on October 17, 2000; or I will have failed to provide the immunity for the people who follow.
Man! What we do for our religions, eh?
A Hui Hou,
Lani