Pele, the Goddess of fire and
the creator of the Hawaiian Islands
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A different kind of pre-Sunday School discussion was airmailed into my Facebook timeline yesterday:
by Paul Lenda
A long time ago, Hawaii was a mystical and magical place (and still is today in many ways). What made Hawaii especially magical in ages past was that there were shamans called Kahunas that lived on its emerald islands. It is said that these individuals experienced the true nature of Reality, in which they realized several critical, defining things. These principals were then later taught to others in order to help guide humanity towards a more fully realized state of being.
In the early 20th century, with the rise of New Thought, there was an individual by the name of Max Long who linked the teachings of the Kahunas to a theory of metaphysics he was developing. The result was the 7 Huna Principals, Long’s integration of the two.
THE 7 HUNA PRINCIPLES
IKE ~ THE WORLD IS WHAT YOU THINK IT IS.
KALA ~ THERE ARE NO LIMITS.
MAKIA ~ ENERGY FLOWS WHERE ATTENTION GOES.
MANA WA ~ NOW IS THE MOMENT OF POWER.
ALOHA ~ TO LOVE IS TO BE “HAPPY WITH”.
MANA ~ ALL POWER COMES FROM WITHIN.
PONO ~ EFFECTIVENESS IS THE MEASURE OF TRUTH
1. IKE — THE WORLD IS WHAT YOU THINK IT IS
This principle is essentially saying that our consciousness creates our reality. Our perception of reality is subjective and does not necessarily reflect the true objective reality– if such a reality should even exist. If someone thinks the world is full of deception, evil, and hatred, they will only focus their awareness on such matters and become completely blind to anything otherwise that would contradict this perception. Each one of us has the inherent power to transform our reality in any way we see fit. This power has the ability to transform not only one’s self, but those around them as well.
2. KALA — THERE ARE NO LIMITS
In an infinite reality, there is no beginning or end of anything, which signifies the limitless nature of all that is. Anything is possible and self-growth is likewise infinite. There is always a process ofbe-ing andbecome-ing. With no limits, anything that is infinitely possible can happen, is happening, and will happen, in its infinite forms. This is a concept that is simply too magnificent to be able to comprehend by a human brain.
3. MAKIA — ENERGY FLOWS WHERE ATTENTION GOES
Where someone focuses their attention, that is where a directed energy stream will go. Sending positive energy and healing hope will have a beneficial effect. If the contrary is occurring, the opposite will result. This can be magnified to show its effects on global consciousness. Quite simply, the more one can reach and maintain a genuinely positive mindset, the more helpful, kind and respectful they will be to their fellow human beings. This, is turn, will spread from there. The same is true of negativity. It all starts with the self.
4. MANA WA — NOW IS THE MOMENT OF POWER
The power of ‘now’ is monumental. Existing and living in the present moment does away with the stress of thinking about ‘what-if’ scenarios or reliving painful memories in an endless loop. All that is, is, and always will be as such. There will be complete inner peace when someone lives in the ‘now’ moment.
5. ALOHA — TO LOVE IS TO BE HAPPY WITH
Love is such a powerful state of consciousness. When love is experienced, it is a feeling true appreciation and gratitude. Whether it is for a person, tree, house, etc, or a simple thankfulness for existence itself, this deep experience of “happy with” is an simple feeling of interconnectedness with all that is, however it manifests itself.
6. MANA — ALL POWER COMES FROM WITHIN
The individual is the greatest power plant that exists. The mind is more powerful than it is often given credit for. With the power to create, destroy, restore, shift and change, anything is truly possible. Realizing the inner power that each individual has will empower that person to not only completely control their inner state of being, but will give one’s self the opportunity to share this power with others and create satisfying, symbiotic relationships.
7. PONO — EFFECTIVENESS IS THE MEASURE OF TRUTH
How effective something is in creating a positive and beneficial shift or change in someone or something is a good indicator of the genuine nature of something. It will give a better reflection between truth and falsehood– or rather, between truth and the ignorance of truth.
The seven Huna principles are a great introduction to the power of consciousness and should be able to transform your daily life into something far more empowering and positive on many levels. There’s such tremendous potential for each of us to make a difference not only in our own lives, but in the lives of every other person we know and meet.
The power is within you. Express it, with love.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
This is an article by Paul Lenda, a conscious evolution guide, author of “The Creation of a Consciousness Shift” and co-founder of SHIFT>, a social community focused on anchoring in the new paradigm and assisting the positive transformation of humanity. Visit his website shift.is and connect with him on Twitter.
Key West Citizen Article, my interjected thoughts in bold italics:
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Sewage plant delay not affecting homes
BY TIMOTHY O’HARA Citizen Staff
tohara@keysnews.com
A delay in opening the Cudjoe Regional Wastewater Treatment plant has not kept people from moving into their recently constructed homes, Monroe County officials said.
Applicants have been required to pull permits for either temporary holding tanks or on-site systems as part of their building permits just in case the central plant or system wasn’t operational by the time they were ready to obtain a certificate of occupancy, said Christine Hurley, who oversees the county planning and building departments.
“That means we wouldn’t be holding them up on their certificates of occupancy,” Hurley said. “But they’d be required to actually install what they permitted as an alternate waste treatment system, which costs them more money.”
It’s not uncommon for construction trailers to use temporary sewage holding tanks and have them pumped out every couple of weeks at a cost of $250, Deputy County Administrator Kevin Wilson said.
The newly-constructed Cudjoe Key home, in which I stayed for several months until just recently, uses a holding tank prelude to being able to hook up to the new sewer system. The owner told me he was not able to get the holding tank approved by the county until he went to Tallahassee and spoke with the powers that be up there, who then prevailed on the county government to let him install a holding tank so his certificate of occupancy could be issued.
The county has also started allowing homeowners, where the entire Cudjoe collection system had been completed, to apply for new permits without an alternate system if they signed an affidavit indicating they understood that if the central system isn’t completed or operational they would have to provide an alternate system, Hurley said.
“This was an effort to save permittees money, because holding tanks have to be permitted,” Hurley said. “We may have to discontinue the sewer affidavits if FKAA makes the final decision they won’t start up the plant.”
In addition, Hurley was able to work out an agreement with the state so people who were allocated Rate of Growth Ordinance units needed to develop their property could delay construction by three years and not jeopardize their allocation, Wilson said.
The Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority and the county have delayed opening the treatment plant on Blimp Road on Cudjoe Key because they plan to further study the impacts from temporarily using four shallow injection disposal wells while a deep well can be built, which could take more than a year to permit, design and build.
The Monroe County Commission agreed to fund and build a deep well, which pushes the treated effluent thousands of feet deeper into the ground than a shallow well, after a report from Florida International University (FIU) professor Henry Briceno found “a connection between injection depth and surface waters may exist at the injection site.”
Well, I believe there was a little more than that found. When the “perc” test was done, the injected water bubbled right back up onto the surface, next to an old county landfill full of nice chemicals which had been sleeping quietly, but will not continue to sleep quietly if the 4 shallow injection wells are put into operation and stir the toxic waste dump up out of its slumber. Astounding, a “perc” test was not done at the very outset, before the design of the 4 shallow injection wells was even done.
Commissioner George Neugent has publicly voiced his concerns about delays in people moving into their new homes both at commission meetings early this month and on U.S. 1 Radio this week. At the last commission meeting, he requested county staff put an item on the July agenda telling the Florida Department of Environmental Protection the county plans to open the plant and needs to know if the agency objects to it.
Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s reply passed the buck back to the County Commission and Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority. DEP, of course, had approved the 4 shallow injection wells without first requiring a “perc” test. Perhaps DEP should henceforth be known as Florida Department of Environmental Pollution, because the 4 shallow injection wells are only one-half of this SNAFU. The other half is the massive use of E-1 grinder punps FKAA designed into Cudjoe Regional, which DEP approved, although neither FDAA nor DEP had much experience with grinder pumps, which have a history of breaking, and the low pressure transmission lines have a history of springing leaks and putting raw sewerage into the environment, and grinder pumps rely on electricity to work, and after a nice hurricane comes though the Keys there has been no electricity for up to 2 weeks.
The delay in opening the plant has Aqueduct Authority Executive Director Kirk Zuelch raising concerns about further degradation of water quality in Keys canals, because people are “flushing their toilets directly into the canals,” he said on U.S. 1 Radio this week.
FIU professor and Keys water quality expert Jim Fourqurean called Zuelch’s comment an “overstatement.” He argued that properly working septic tanks remove the solids, treats waste and removes the nitrogen. However, leachates do go into a drain field and could go into the groundwater and possibly a canal, he said.
Well, Kirk, if FKAA and Monroe County engineering staff and DEP had done a “perc” test up front, we would not be having this discussion right now, would we? Well, Kirk, I would like to blame your lips moving on you being a lawyer, but the truth is, FKAA and County Commission and county staff lips were moving when you were simply FKAA’s lawyer.
Fourqurean, who has been conducting water quality sampling and seagrass monitoring in the Keys for decades, has argued against using the four shallow wells, but instead has called for waiting until the deep well is complete before opening the plant. He contended the treated effluent will be deposited into the four shallow wells in one highly concentrated area as opposed to the treated effluent now being spread over a much larger area where it can be defused, he said.
The claim of canals being contaminated by faulty septic tanks was validated in a 2004 study by The Nature Conservancy. The study found several Keys canals were being contaminated with sewage. The 18-month study showed that many of the tested canals contained high levels of enterococcus bacteria and low dissolved oxygen levels. Both are indicators of poor water quality. Tests also revealed viral pathogens.
“Our findings are definitive proof that human sewage has contaminated canals throughout the Keys,” Jody Thomas, director of the Conservancy’s Keys program said at the time.
With all due respect, back when the canals were originally gouged out of the fossilized coral keys, it was known that the septic systems and cess pits would leach, or drain, or flow directly into the canals, and it was known that would foul the canals. As was it known that many of the canals were dredged too deep, and were too long and crooked, and the tides would not flush out the canals. But what the heck? Progress (development) was king. Forward ho!
Rains may be washing sewage from leaky septic tanks and cesspits through porous limestone into canals or open water, according to the conservation group’s report. However, there is nothing to indicate that raw sewage is being directly dumped into a waterway.
tohara@keysnews.com
Key West Citizen Editorial, my interjected thoughts in bold italics:
A violation of the public’s trust
In the Oxford dictionary, “Fearmongering” is defined as, “The action of deliberately arousing public fear or alarm about a particular issue.” That sure sounds like what Kirk Zuelch, executive director of the Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority, has been doing recently — making outrageous and false claims, all to divert the public’s attention from the real problems with the Cudjoe Key Wastewater plant.
Zuelch wants to throw the open switch on the plant as soon as possible, dragon under the landfill be damned. According to Zuelch , the delay in opening the plant is causing homeowners to dump raw sewage directly into canals, which is blatantly untrue. He also stated that the delay is primarily the fault of those who have filed lawsuits against the agency over environmental concerns. But at no time has he or any member of the FKAA Board taken responsibility for the poor decisions they’ve made from the beginning that has landed them in this predicament.
So what if the FKAA is going to have to put in a deep well and wait for testing on the shallow wells before the plant can open. Had they not been in such a hurry to push the plans through in the first place, perhaps this court-mandated issue would already be resolved.
Unfortunately, the fearmongering is parroted by county officials, one of who [County Commissioner George Neugent] stated in a radio interview Friday morning that homeowners are not able to get Certificates of Occupancy to move into brand new homes because the plant isn’t operational.
Unfortunately for the commissioner, county staff said they have no knowledge of anyone waiting for a CO, saying they even have temporary solutions for homeowners without septic systems until the plant goes online if anyone finds themselves in this position.
The bottom line is that the public’s trust has been violated. The public has not been dealt with in an honest and open manner regarding the plant from the beginning. Until there
is definitive proof that the plant is safe to operate, until the shallow wells have been tested and the public can be assured that there is no risk of contamination, the plant should not open. No further discussion necessary.
Instead of making blatantly false and misleading statements over the airwaves, maybe Zuelch and staff should be spending their time assuring the public that environmental
safety and public health are their primary concerns.
Perhaps it’s time for a clean sweep of the FKAA board, starting with the director. Or have our elected officials become so inured to falsehoods and halftruths that they no longer
understand that those in positions of power over the public’s money are expected to be honest.
— The Citizen
Agreed, but darn! Why didn’t you on the Editorial Board also call for ouster at the polls of George Neugent and the other 4 county commissioners? Don’t let them hide behind FKAA. Don’t let them hide behind county staff. They called all the shots. They made the decision to go with the 4 shallow injection wells, and the widespread use of E-1 grinder pumps. The buck stops with them: your elected County Commission. I’m tempted to ask the Citizen Editorial Board, if it now wishes it had pushed me to beat George Neugent, when I ran against him in 2006 and 2010? Just joking. Wouldn’t surprise me, if the entire Citizen Editorial Board voted for Neugent against the only person who ever ran for the County Commission, as far as I know, who actually stumped for putting Mother Nature first, and second, and third, and development dead last. You can’t have it both ways, folks. You wanted development, you got it, and now you have this foul mess.
photo taken during the 2006 county commission race
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