Huna & Ho'oponopono

Max Freedom Long (1890–1971) adopted the word “ Huna“ (Hawaiian for “secret/hidden”) in 1936 to name his reconstructed system, set out in The Secret Science Behind Miracles (1948) and later works.

He built it largely from New Thought psychology plus his own theories about Hawaiian kahuna.

• The three selves: unihipili (lower/subconscious), uhane (middle/conscious), aumakua (higher self) — a model closely paralleling New Thought’s conscious/subconscious/superconscious.
• Serge Kahili King popularized a later, widely-taught form of Huna.
• Ho’oponopono: the traditional Hawaiian practice was a communal reconciliation process led by a family elder or healer. Morrnah Simeona (1913–1992) adapted it in the 1970s–80s into an individual spiritual practice, Self-Identity Ho’oponopono; her student Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len carried it worldwide (amplified by Joe Vitale’s Zero Limits, 2007, with the famous — and unverified — “healing a ward of criminally insane patients” story).

A note on the evidence (important). Native Hawaiian scholars dispute Huna’s authenticity. The respected Hawaiian authority Charles Kenn — who knew Long personally — stated plainly that “while this Huna study is an interesting study, it is not, and never was Hawaiian.” There are no traditional Hawaiian sources using huna to name an esoteric tradition; the system is best understood as Long’s New Thought-based reconstruction, not ancient Hawaiian religion. Traditional ho’oponopono (communal reconciliation) is genuinely Hawaiian; the individualized Self-Identity version is Simeona’s modern adaptation. The Atlas presents the practice on its real merits while keeping the origin story honest — exactly as it does for the Kybalion and Castaneda’s “Toltec.”

Three selves. Mind is a system of subconscious, conscious, and higher self that must be aligned. (→ The Inner Creates the Outer re-impressing the subconscious.)

• You are 100% responsible. Everything you experience is, in some sense, “in you” to clean — the radical-responsibility core of Ho’oponopono. (→ The Inner Creates the Outer outer mirrors inner; Only Love Is Real meaning assigned.)
• Clean, then release. Repent, forgive, thank, love — then let the higher self resolve it; you don’t force the outcome. (→ The Inner Creates the Outer release to receive.)
• Mana / intention. Focused energy and clear intention carry the inner work outward.

Max Freedom Long — The Secret Science Behind Miracles (1948).

• Serge Kahili King — Urban Shaman.
• Morrnah Simeona — originator of Self-Identity Ho’oponopono.
• Ihaleakala Hew Len — global teacher of Ho’oponopono.

Huna/Ho’oponopono is one of the cleanest practical statements of The Inner Creates the Outer (the outer mirrors the inner — “clean inside, and the outer resolves”) joined to Only Love Is Real (you assign the meaning, so you can take responsibility for it) and The Inner Creates the Outer (release to the higher self rather than forcing).

Its three-selves model is a direct working of The Inner Creates the Outer (the subconscious can be re-impressed). It shows the Atlas’s “harsh about mechanism, gentle about person” principle in action: total responsibility without blame.

Grew from: New Thought psychology (the three-selves and mind-causation core); framed in the idiom of indigenous shamanism; the cleaning/forgiveness practice resonates with Christian repentance and grace.

Seeded: modern self-responsibility and forgiveness practice in the manifestation world; close kinship with the law of assumption‘s “it’s all you”.