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

A Lucid Dream to Mars -- thanks to Jet-Lag

Monday, Sept 2nd at 1:31am - I had returned from a 10 day trip to China the previous Thursday night and was still feeling jet-lag. I woke up at 11pm and recorded a dream and then went back to sleep. I was kind of awake so I tried to re-enter that dream I had recorded, which was in the city I was at in China. 

I went back to the street I was staying on and there I meet Josh, one of my inner guides. I  ask him where Emily was, who is my other guide. She appeared and said she was now Alita, after the robot girl in the movie I saw on the plane: Alita Battle Angel (I saw it 3 times on other people's screens while I was working on my computer). 

I asked them how I am doing which they thought was a silly question because they said that I knew the answer. They especially were pleased that I chose to return a call to my yoga studio about my playing my gongs for a restorative yoga class. This was a good move, they said. 

I decided not to ask about ailments this time but to follow my "Moon + Mars" lucid dream plan instead. I went to the Moon and saw many people there and offered to help one of them. She asked me where she was and I explained that she had died and how the Moon is a popular choice for many newly deceased and that she was now in a dream-like state where whatever she wished for would instantly appear. She wished for some fast-food and drinks and got more than she needed then wished them away. I told her to practice that and that someone else will soon come to help her to the next stage.

I then went to Mars where I was introduced to the multidimensional nature of that planet. We know the red planet as an empty 3rd dimensional reality. But it is mostly used by the inhabitants from other dimensions as a vacation destination. The 'tourists' I met mostly live in the 4th dimensions in which there are several Mars of different colors and color combinations, which I was shown. They mostly work on developing themselves on creating realities so they can advance into the 5th and 6th dimensions. However they are having a good time in 4th dimension so that development is slow. They also told me that Mars and Earth occupy the same 'space' in the 4th and higher dimensions, so it is very easy to change one's vibration to come to Mars and to visit its different forms. I briefly tried this with some success.

Because the people/beings I met are mostly based in the 4th dimension, they can materialize their thoughts and suggest that I try this. At first I think of sex but quickly decide that love, self love, is what I really wanted, so I fill my being with the vibration of love. I thanked my Mars hosts (who might be Josh and Alita now) as I decide to wake up and record all this before it becomes too much to remember. Through this lucid dream I was partially aware of my sleeping body and bedroom, which is why I call it lucid imagining.

(I found this in my "drafts" on Thanksgiving Day, which is why it is being posted long after I had had the dream and written it up.)

Mindfulness Eating and Weight Management

[UPDATED on 20 January 2016 -- The updated section is at the bottom of this post.]


In May, 2011, I wrote a blog post about how I used calorie counting and vegetable to lose 50 pounds (http://aalew.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-i-lost-50-pounds.html).

Since that time, my weight has gone up and down. I travel a lot for my work, mostly to Asia, and when I travel I cannot count calories. In addition, I want to eat the local foods when I am overseas, so I pay less attention to limiting my calories. I usually gain between 5 and 10 pounds when I go to Asia, and I usually lose it in a couple of weeks (sometimes more) after I get back to calorie counting when I get home.

For the past year, however, even my lowest weight has been somewhat higher than I would like it to be - in the range of 165-169. In part, this is because I have been traveling so much. But also because there were limits to how much I was willing to cut my calories ... until now.

More recently, I wrote about my three months in Taiwan and how I "discovered" Buddhism. After getting back to the US from my most recent overseas trip (two months in Japan), I decided to apply Buddhist mindfulness meditation practice to eating. I called in Mindfulness Eating. Soon after I started doing this, I learned that my daughter learned mindfulness eating in a mindfulness meditation class that she had taken a year or so ago. So I did not invent this, and an online search on "mindful eating" will bring forth a lot of articles and books on the topic.

Mindfulness, or mindful, eating with intention -- only doing one thing at a time -- only eating and not doing anything else. It is focusing on your food as you eat it, and not multitasking with other things (like reading a newspaper). It can help to turn off the TV and radio, and even to close your eyes if you are alone. It is preferable to not talk to other while you are chewing the food, though that can be hard, so I am careful not to go too far. Chewing is complete, as you savor and enjoy the changing taste and texture of the food as you consume it.

All I can say is that it works for me!  This past week, by using mindful eating, my daily calorie count has been under 1400 a day, and my weight has quickly plummeted to levels that I have not been at in about a year.  Today, I ate less than 1000 calories (including a granola bar), and I feel fine. It takes me a lot longer to eat my food than anyone else in my family, but I am eating only about half as much as most others. I am still counting calories, although I plan to stop doing that and just do the mindfulness eating once I reach my goal weight of 159 (very close to it now).

So, the lesson here is that Calorie Counting combined with Mindful Eating is an incredibly powerful way to lose weight. 

I have another trip in a month or so, and I will update this blog with a report on how it goes with mindfulness eating on the road....

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[UPDATE: 20 January 2016]

It has been a month and a half since I wrote the post above. During that time I have made a couple of week-long out-of-state trips, which have challenged my mindfulness eating and weight management -- as I totally expected.  Here is what I have experienced...

I gained weight. No surprise. The reasons are also very well known to me, and include:

• I was not counting calories (I never do when I travel)
• My will power to resist new and interesting foods was quite weak (which also always happens when I travel)
• I ate out a lot, which usually means foods that are tasty, but high in calories and salt

The one new thing was that I was trying to remember to eat mindfully. Again, my will power and memory to do that was not as steadfast as when I was at home. But at least I was doing it some of the time. I am now clearly the slowest eater in my family!

The result of mindfulness eating while traveling was that I did not gain as much weight as I might have if I were not being mindful. I can't say for sure, but I think that is true.

I have now been home for a couple of weeks from my last trip. When I first got home, I tried to see if I could lose weight using mindfulness eating alone. Well, mindfulness alone was not very successful for me. I managed to lose 1.5 pounds after a week being home, which could easily have been due to eating less salt. 

I came the conclusion that mindfulness is able to keep me stable (not gaining weight), but it was not enough to get me to lose weight at the rate that I am used to after I get back from a weight-gaining trip. 

So after more than a week of that, I decided to go back to the combination of calorie counting and mindfulness.  This accelerated my weight loss, as I expected, though I did get stuck at a plateau for 4 days -- those things happen.


I am now back to my goal weight, which for me means that I can stop counting calories and just rely on mindfulness eating to maintain that weight. Although I am just starting that, I feel confident that it will work -- until my next travel food adventure, at least!