Saturday, March 21, 2020

Travel as a Spiritual Experience in Hawai'i - Channeling Ali'i Kai

Channeling of Ali'i Kai on 14 March 2020

– Recorded on the Hale’iwa Ali'i Beach, on Oahu's North Shore

(Unfortunately, due to wind noise the audio for a good part of this channeling is not good enough to post online. This was recorded about a week before most of the US, including Hawai'i, was shut down by the covid-19 pandemic. Things were developing very rapidly, however.)


Hello, Alan. Welcome to Hawaii.

This is a special place. Because it is so far from the mainlands that are on the edges of this single most important and largest entity on the planet Earth, the Pacific Ocean.

This presents spot is not quite in the center, but close to the upper left side, kind of like where the heart is located in the human body. That is where Hawaii is in this ocean. And just as the heart has that special meaning in the human body, so does Hawaii. People come here because they know that this is a unique place.

The land is very diverse on the different islands, each island has its own personality. The land is also very powerful on each of the islands. Together they form this complex and complete family of environment and culture -- physical reality as well as the spiritual realities. They all come together in a very powerful way here in Hawaii.

This is similar to, of course, many other places on the mainlands that surround Pacific Ocean. But different, as well, because it is the ocean that these physical landforms represent – they are manifestations of the ocean.

The ocean itself is an entity with consciousness, with intention, with reasons for doing what it does. It has an internal organizational structure within physical time-space reality. It is as Gaia is, which is a self-organizing principle for the entire planet. The ocean itself has its own self-guiding principles and organization that contribute to the entire planet. It contributes to and interact with humans, as well as all of the animals that are in any way connected to the ocean -- which means pretty much most all of the animals that are in the ocean and in the land areas surrounding the ocean.

So, when you're in this place, you have access to that type of power. People come here to appreciate, to learn, and to experience that full range of physical reality that is associated with the ocean, with the Pacific Ocean in particular, as well as the spiritual reality that is associated with this ocean. Most humans, when they come here for a visit, do not have that spiritual reality in their consciousness, but they are still experiencing it. They are getting to know it to some degree -- to varying degrees -- in one way or another.

As you have speculated in the past, this is one of the reasons why travel and tourism exists. It is so that people can, as humans, go to other places and experience the spiritual reality of those places. They are driven by the physical reality -- by that external experience that is sold through the travel and tourism industry. And they are driven by motivations for leisure and recreation, which are superficial motivations. But they are superficial only in a sense that people are disconnected from the deeper meanings of those experiences.

Now, sometimes, this is discussed in the tourism studies literature that you are familiar, with things like “liminal experiences” and “transformational experiences”. But for the most part, most of the people who travel are not aware that there are these deeper meanings to the travel experience. However, that does not mean that they do not experience those deeper meanings.

Those deeper meanings come out of experiences in any place and at any time. No matter what that experience is, whether the experience is interpreted as being good (positive and loving) or as being bad (negative or hurtful). All those experiences have a spiritually corresponding activation of some kind.

So, even though you and other humans are experiencing these on a superficial surface level, it not superficial in that they are not meaningful. They are still quite meaningful, but you may only be experiencing them on that physical reality level. They still reach deep down into a more spiritual and more multi-dimensional level of your existence and of your being -- that which most people are not aware of.

However, that is not a problem because over time they will evolve. (Of course “time”, as we often need to emphasize, does not really exist. Everything exists in the moment, and time is simply an expansion of beliefs into the future and into the past. For now, though, we are setting aside that idea and talking about this in terms of physical time-space reality “time”.)

People will evolve their inner being over time. Their inner consciousness will expand. And this is happening very rapidly these days. It has been happening rapidly for quite a while. (As your Joshua group has told you. We, the spirit guides here in Hawaii, are very familiar with your Joshua group. We have some overlaps with them. But we, of course, are existing in a very separate time-space location on your planet. We are exhibiting more of the properties and values of this particular time-place called Hawaii.)

Going back to what I was saying, people do evolve over time and gradually expand their consciousness. That consciousness expansion is happening extremely rapidly for people here in the year 2020, as you have been told previously, because this is the time for that expansion on the planet Earth.

Humans are part of that. It is totally beyond their full comprehension, as well as totally beyond their control, as to exactly how this is going to take place. What you see on the television and in the news articles that you read, that is really the human ego level of interpretation. At that human level, the best they can do is to simply respond. That is basically what they are doing.

Nobody really know exactly what is going on. They are doing their best to try to come up with solutions using traditional methods. And to some degree, those will have somewhat of an impact. But it is really a retroactive response; “We see this, and this is how we responded in the past, using models of the past, and this is how we are going to respond now.” Even though, it is somewhat unprecedented in how all this [virus pandemic] is taking place.

The planet is changing. People are opening up, becoming more aware, very rapidly. Almost every day that opening takes place at a greater level. And that opening is really what awakening, the planetary awakening, is all about.

That opening involves becoming aware that the human ego is not in absolute control. The human ego is a partner in all of this and has to recognize the greater, deeper, spiritual motivations and structural organizations of the planet – of things like the oceans – of the entire planet Gaia, and what Gaia is going through in the decision by to planet to achieve awakening.

Thinking of Hawaii as the heart of the ocean. How then, can someone experience that as a visitor who is interest coming to this land, this is small but significant land mass in the middle of the ocean?
To make the most of that type of a visit, of that type of travel experience, one needs to find space, to find times-space, within themselves, within their visiting time period, to open their heart and mind to the connection that is taking place through their very presence on the islands.

This involves an expansion of one’s awareness, which is done in a different way for each individual. By doing so, however, the experience is more meaningful and significant, and is more deeply ingrained, or perhaps just more ingrained in general, in the waking physical reality of the individual’s ego.

It is a matter of going beyond the ego, however. This can be done through meditation. But the meditation should have an awareness, an intention, to connect to the ocean, to connect to the depths and the significance of this great being, this great ocean being on the planet.

This great ocean is part of the personality of this planet, of the whole planet. The ocean is a huge part of the planet that most people are not aware of because so much of that ocean entity is hidden from view in the daily experience of most humans, who of course live above the surface of the ocean. The dolphins and whales and fish and other creatures who live in the ocean are much more closely connected to it. In some ways by experiencing [or imagining] their personalities, you can get a better feel for the personality of the ocean overall. So, meditation in this way is one way to achieve this. 

Another way is contemplation, which can be done while lying on a beach, sitting on some rocks, or climbing a mountain. Just sitting and connecting with nature in that sense – it is the connection. It can also be done by actually engaging with the ocean, or engaging with the land of the island. This involves doing some particular activities by which one gets completely absorbed in that activity -- things like snorkeling, swimming, and hiking, with the hopeful expectation, because you can't always force these things, of transcending the self, of transcending the ego.

There are other ways, such as breathwork and a number of different things that one could do. Taking part in ceremonies also has that intention. Traditional ceremonies, for example Hawaiian and Polynesian ceremonies, the really traditional ones, have that goal to connect with that spiritual reality that is always present and is always just as important as the physical reality that you experience.

This is my recommendation, my suggestions, for how you and other people, other tourists, other visitors, can best experience this special unique place of Hawaii.

So, that is our message to you. Keep the faith. Everything is good, everything is meaningful and has purpose.

Until next time – hope you come back to Hawaii soon.

Love you. This is Ali’i Kai.

Aloha. Goodbye.



Note: Ali’i = of Hawaiian royal lineage; Kai = of or near the sea

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Will COVID-9 Lead Us to a Better, more Sustainable World?

Following prompting by a friend, I wrote the following article on MEDIUM a couple of days ago:


How to Create a Better Post-COVID-19 World

Today, I added my two-bits to an email list discussion by tourism studies scholars on what tourism will be like in a post-COVID-19 world. A a couple of interesting points from the discussion, so far...

My point was that (1) it is too early to tell what and when a post-COVID-19 world will emerge, and (2) what it is like will depend on how deep the impacts are, and then how people respond to that depth, when it arrives. While I hate to be a doomsayer, I think the deeper the impacts, the bigger the more the world will be changed by it.

Some people think nothing will change, and that like other crises in the past, people will soon forget and travel and tourism will be back to the way it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. Other see things getting worse, even violent, as greed comes to the foreground during the pandemic, leaving lasting divisions and scars. Still others are like me, hoping that it will be a time of self-reflection and re-connection to our planet, leading to more Earth-friendly values and behaviors -- and thus greater Sustainability.

It is hard to find positive perspectives on the pandemic, as the popular news media are dishing up the scariest stories for their shock and advertisement value. Still, there are both opinion pieces and actual cases of places that are seeing remarkable changes in a very short period of time since the tourists have stopped coming. The best place that I have found for this is the Science and Nonduality (SAND) Conference page in Facebook.

My personal view is that there are multiple timelines that our consciousness, individually and collectively, can follow in the moment of global crisis for humankind (it is not a crisis for other beings on the planet). The timeline path that we end up experiencing, both individually and collectively. will be the one that we put our focus and attention on. So do what you can to ground your consciousness in love for the planet and for your fellow humans, so that the more positive world that we all really want can be made a reality.