The Developing Mind

The greatest handicap a person can foster within is a propensity to avoid critical thinking. I believe the American federal education system does precisely that; it encourages young people to avoid critical thinking through a binary system of right and wrong, rather than interpretive solutions; it goes further to convert the student’s mind into a [...]

Emotional Well Being through Radical Forgiveness

Holding onto old emotional injuries is an effective way to manifest physical disease. Forgiveness may release the pain, but comprehensive healing can only come through RADICAL FORGIVENESS: the realization that no wrong ever occurs, that the unfolding of experiential reality is inherently balanced beyond the human view, and that the concept of “victim” is a [...]

Why is classical Hawaiian music so significant to the lifestyle of the Hawaiian culture?

In a culture that has experienced so many transformations, expanding through assimilation and contracting under suppression, where language has been altered and often forgotten, where values have been buried with past generations, where a once strictly sustainable and natural way of life has become mere antiquity, there is one thing that lives on undistorted and [...]

On Happiness

The biggest contributor to unhappiness is some choice made in the past continuing to exude influence over the present. The biggest contributor to happiness is acceptance of having to make choices every moment. Agreements and beliefs can only serve to mask the symptoms of unhappiness; they cannot create happiness. Happiness is created moment to moment [...]

What Creates a Harmonious Society?

The deeper the sensitivity, the less need for morals. The stronger the morals, the less need for laws. The stricter the laws, the more need for enforcement. A harmonious society must in actuality evolve beyond force, lawfulness and morality toward individual sensitivity. No belief or agreed upon structure of behavioral form can exceed the effectiveness [...]