I can hardly breathe after reading your essay. I am mute, yet your words are my own and I scream them into the silence. I bow my head with gratitude to you... yes, we, I... hold the power to sound and repeat one word, clear and graceful with inviolate intent.
I've thought about moving to Hawaii, in fact I was planning on doing so in 2020, but because of the policies there, I decided to postpone and see if a spirit of freedom returns. Still waiting...
With a name like that people will take you for having Hawaiian ancestry. You didn't respond to that inquiry. I was there for 36 years, starting in 1965. My son is there now. I am deeply engaged with the effort to regain full sovereignty, and wrote a book on it, "LIBERATE HAWAI'I! Renouncing and Defying the Fraudulent US Claim to the Sovereignty of Hawai'i." There is a strong legal case (international law) for this. What the US gained in 1898 was merely control, via threat of force and subsequent occupation, not a transfer of sovereignty. My book explains why. Any questions?
Hi Jon, I don't have any questions for you. I didn't respond to your question about my name origins for a number of reasons. Because our past interactions have been grounded in caring and appreciative respect, I'll respond in the interests of preserving that.
My name was actually channeled in a deeply personal and spiritual process. It has nothing to do with Hawaii. Because I have encountered a number of people who have insisted on knowing what my last name means about my paternal line of ancestry, out of curiosity, I later researched the name as it is spelled to see where it has been adopted. In general, I have found the name to be very rare, even in the places where it exists. Hawaii is one of them, but it seems that it is more likely to be found in Turkey and the Ukraine. I presume that there are other cultures who also have the last name Kaia but use a different spelling, since it is a simple word of two syllables and comes naturally as a sound in most languages. Incidentally, in the case of Ukraine, Turkey, and Hawaii, none of these cultures originally used the Latin alphabet, so the spelling of the sound is ultimately incidental. With Hawaii in particular, the spelling of Hawaiian words was derived from American missionaries in the 19th century who might have chosen different letters. If they had done so, the spelling for my channeled name would still be the same as it is.
Ultimately, it is clear to me that all language and words are channeled in their origins, and I consider the continued adaptation and channeling of new words and language as fundamental to the human experience. In particular, I strongly believe in the right of people as sovereign individuals to claim their own names, whether they choose to remain with the names given to them by their parents, select another name from existing words that are meaningful to them, or to channel the name directly as I have done.
I have encountered many who bristle at the understanding of sovereignty, language, and naming that I hold as sacred, and as a rule, I don't enjoy speaking about it with others unless I feel called to, and if I have reason to believe what I share will be held with reverence and respect. It seems to be a widely held cultural belief that it is not intrusive to insist that others reveal the history of their names, but I do experience it as an intrusion on my privacy, as this is very personal and meaningful to me. In explaining all of this to you, I'm discussing something I would normally prefer not to, trusting that you will hold what I have shared with respect and care.
I am aware of Hawaiian history, and am well versed in history generally. It is quite clear to me that the US acquired rule over Hawaii through conquest, albeit achieved through economic domination, subterfuge, and administrative takeover. The mythology that the Hawaiian rulers, on behalf of the people, willingly acceded to US rule for their own benefit, is of course a propagandist device designed to quell unrest and cement power. Presumably, however, if the US had not conquered Hawaii, the Japanese Empire would have, and in that alternate universe, if Japan had won WWII, might still be Japanese today. Or if the US had won and taken Hawaii from Japan, would either have been incorporated as a state like it is now, or have been granted independence.
It is also quite clear to me that the entirety of the US was also conquered, sometimes in similar ways, other times through outright warfare. Indeed, there are few places on Earth that do not have a history of conquest that has shaped the current political and cultural landscape as it now exists. In terms of sovereign nations, the only example I can think of is Iceland. There are other islands, such as the Azores, which are still occupied by descendants of the first people to settle them (in this case the Portuguese), but are not independent in and of themselves, being ruled by the country those settlers came from (in this case Portugal).
I generally support the rights of a people to self-determination, and to choose to join a larger collective, becoming part of a larger whole, or to assert independence and break away from a larger collective they have been part of. However, since all the people living in a place do not always agree, it is a delicate matter to determine whether a simple majority should be enough to change the status of a place, or whether this kind of decision might be served by requiring a supermajority. In places like Puerto Rico, for instance, also conquered by the US at the same time as Hawaii, but existing in limbo as a territory for the duration, divides between the people and which option they would prefer has kept the island in limbo for a very long time.
I fully support your efforts to advocate for Hawaiian independence as this question is debated. I myself am agnostic on the issue, since I don't live there and therefore don't have a stake in the matter. My hope is for the people of Hawaii to be the ones to decide. If I ever do move and settle there, at that time I will consider which option seems best and garners my support.
PS I am now in rural Maine on the property where I grew up. Overall a good place to be, but mixed on response to the covid phenomenon. I work on this daily.
Excellent piece! Thank you for exercising and stretching my mind. This and your previous essays feel like an offering of training wheels for me. To ride my own bicycle freely, without permission, has never felt possible to me, as the safety of remaining still and safe in my room of toxic shame is all I have allowed myself. Your deep thought and exploration is truly a beacon, and inspires me to try out my new “wheels” on my own.
You're so welcome Elise! The chains of toxic shame are so debilitating. I long for all of us to be liberated from them! And I'm so glad my pieces are of assistance for you on your own journey of freedom. We rise together.
Thank you for talking about abusive relationships and narcissism. This is a subject very close to me, due to personal experience, and it made me highly aware of the abusive nature of our treatment by authority in recent years.
Yes, I believe being able to see the societal authorities through this lens of abuse could be a very helpful lens for many to achieve recognition of the dynamic. I'm trying to find as many different lenses as I can, knowing that some will work for some and others will work for others. It's like building up inventory at a glasses shop, and wanting everyone to have access to the lenses and frames they will need.
Yahoo. Amazing as always Raelle. We are returned from our voyage across America (safe and sound and still on Ivermectin). We are now entering phase 2... analyzing our situation further and probably moving some time in 2022. There IS freedom in the USA. Thank God for that. We saw it with our own eyes -- 10,000 miles, 33 cities, and 20 states later. The people living where we do -- in the epicenter of the Network -- the Bay Area -- are living in a psychotic state of delusional fear. Although they are probably 90% vaccinated, they are the most fearful people in the USA. Love, Amy&Steve
Thank you Amy! And I'm so glad you had a great trip! Yes, it's so wild to be there right at the Network station. Amazing how the fear levels are amplified by region, where control systems are more integrated. It's been a long time since we've caught up! I'd love to reconnect and hear about some of your candidates for relocation.
Yes, thank God we did the trip because already, after 3 weeks back, the depression is settling in again. Our friends are falling away. Only the few unvaccinated will be with us. People around here are double-masking even though like 90% vaccinated or higher and the rates are very low. Did you know we met up with Teresa and Jay before they left? We loved them. We are now thinking of going on our 2nd voyage sooner than we thought... maybe mid March. Will spend time outside Austin (Austin itself is SF 2.0) near some NAAS folks that we really liked and then time in Greenville SC, which we really liked, but we only know 1 couple there. We also have friends in FL but Steve isn't hot on FL, but it's a possibility if all else fails.
Let's do a Zoom. So much to relate. I can see now that the only way to survive here would be to only associate with the unvaxxed-health-freedom-standup people. But we can barely stand it anymore after 3 weeks. We were so free and fearless when we returned only 3 weeks ago!
Anyway, lots to do now. Taxes, want to get my cataracts done if a doc will do it for the unvaxxed, get ready to be gone for 4-5 months... Another long drive around the country.
After this second trip, we will probably sell our place in the late summer/fall. What is there here with no friends? The truth is, they were already dwindling before COVID. We have nothing in common anymore with our old tech friends... Sigh. The beauty of CA is increasingly meaningless and it's feeling degenerate spiritually... it is so palpable. Must look forward!
We are around and up for a Zoom anytime. LOVE YOU. You are a bright light Raelle!!
Truly inspiring as a philosophic essay! Sartre would be proud to see this. He said "We are condemned to be free," by which he meant we have the ultimate freedom to say "no." We are not robots that can be programmed as long as we are human. Choice is at our very essence. I will forward this selectively to some who will appreciate it, and maybe some who won't. I would encourage you get get this into print so it can be used in schools that are not in mental lockdown. Thanks for this affirmation of quintessential humanity.
Outstanding! As are all your essays. Thank you, Raella Kaia, for your careful thinking. I believe you are making a positive difference. So keep on searching and sharing.
I can hardly breathe after reading your essay. I am mute, yet your words are my own and I scream them into the silence. I bow my head with gratitude to you... yes, we, I... hold the power to sound and repeat one word, clear and graceful with inviolate intent.
ENOUGH.
What a powerful response, thank you for sharing that! I love your phrasing: "clear and graceful with inviolate intent. ENOUGH." Very inspiring!
Are you Hawaiian? Kaia sounds very Hawaiian. I spent nearly half my long life there and never have regretted it. Such mana! (spiritual power)
I've thought about moving to Hawaii, in fact I was planning on doing so in 2020, but because of the policies there, I decided to postpone and see if a spirit of freedom returns. Still waiting...
With a name like that people will take you for having Hawaiian ancestry. You didn't respond to that inquiry. I was there for 36 years, starting in 1965. My son is there now. I am deeply engaged with the effort to regain full sovereignty, and wrote a book on it, "LIBERATE HAWAI'I! Renouncing and Defying the Fraudulent US Claim to the Sovereignty of Hawai'i." There is a strong legal case (international law) for this. What the US gained in 1898 was merely control, via threat of force and subsequent occupation, not a transfer of sovereignty. My book explains why. Any questions?
Hi Jon, I don't have any questions for you. I didn't respond to your question about my name origins for a number of reasons. Because our past interactions have been grounded in caring and appreciative respect, I'll respond in the interests of preserving that.
My name was actually channeled in a deeply personal and spiritual process. It has nothing to do with Hawaii. Because I have encountered a number of people who have insisted on knowing what my last name means about my paternal line of ancestry, out of curiosity, I later researched the name as it is spelled to see where it has been adopted. In general, I have found the name to be very rare, even in the places where it exists. Hawaii is one of them, but it seems that it is more likely to be found in Turkey and the Ukraine. I presume that there are other cultures who also have the last name Kaia but use a different spelling, since it is a simple word of two syllables and comes naturally as a sound in most languages. Incidentally, in the case of Ukraine, Turkey, and Hawaii, none of these cultures originally used the Latin alphabet, so the spelling of the sound is ultimately incidental. With Hawaii in particular, the spelling of Hawaiian words was derived from American missionaries in the 19th century who might have chosen different letters. If they had done so, the spelling for my channeled name would still be the same as it is.
Ultimately, it is clear to me that all language and words are channeled in their origins, and I consider the continued adaptation and channeling of new words and language as fundamental to the human experience. In particular, I strongly believe in the right of people as sovereign individuals to claim their own names, whether they choose to remain with the names given to them by their parents, select another name from existing words that are meaningful to them, or to channel the name directly as I have done.
I have encountered many who bristle at the understanding of sovereignty, language, and naming that I hold as sacred, and as a rule, I don't enjoy speaking about it with others unless I feel called to, and if I have reason to believe what I share will be held with reverence and respect. It seems to be a widely held cultural belief that it is not intrusive to insist that others reveal the history of their names, but I do experience it as an intrusion on my privacy, as this is very personal and meaningful to me. In explaining all of this to you, I'm discussing something I would normally prefer not to, trusting that you will hold what I have shared with respect and care.
I am aware of Hawaiian history, and am well versed in history generally. It is quite clear to me that the US acquired rule over Hawaii through conquest, albeit achieved through economic domination, subterfuge, and administrative takeover. The mythology that the Hawaiian rulers, on behalf of the people, willingly acceded to US rule for their own benefit, is of course a propagandist device designed to quell unrest and cement power. Presumably, however, if the US had not conquered Hawaii, the Japanese Empire would have, and in that alternate universe, if Japan had won WWII, might still be Japanese today. Or if the US had won and taken Hawaii from Japan, would either have been incorporated as a state like it is now, or have been granted independence.
It is also quite clear to me that the entirety of the US was also conquered, sometimes in similar ways, other times through outright warfare. Indeed, there are few places on Earth that do not have a history of conquest that has shaped the current political and cultural landscape as it now exists. In terms of sovereign nations, the only example I can think of is Iceland. There are other islands, such as the Azores, which are still occupied by descendants of the first people to settle them (in this case the Portuguese), but are not independent in and of themselves, being ruled by the country those settlers came from (in this case Portugal).
I generally support the rights of a people to self-determination, and to choose to join a larger collective, becoming part of a larger whole, or to assert independence and break away from a larger collective they have been part of. However, since all the people living in a place do not always agree, it is a delicate matter to determine whether a simple majority should be enough to change the status of a place, or whether this kind of decision might be served by requiring a supermajority. In places like Puerto Rico, for instance, also conquered by the US at the same time as Hawaii, but existing in limbo as a territory for the duration, divides between the people and which option they would prefer has kept the island in limbo for a very long time.
I fully support your efforts to advocate for Hawaiian independence as this question is debated. I myself am agnostic on the issue, since I don't live there and therefore don't have a stake in the matter. My hope is for the people of Hawaii to be the ones to decide. If I ever do move and settle there, at that time I will consider which option seems best and garners my support.
PS I am now in rural Maine on the property where I grew up. Overall a good place to be, but mixed on response to the covid phenomenon. I work on this daily.
Thank you, Raelle,for this expanded explanation. I had no idea it was a private matter for you, and I appreciate your explanation. With aloha, Jon
Excellent piece! Thank you for exercising and stretching my mind. This and your previous essays feel like an offering of training wheels for me. To ride my own bicycle freely, without permission, has never felt possible to me, as the safety of remaining still and safe in my room of toxic shame is all I have allowed myself. Your deep thought and exploration is truly a beacon, and inspires me to try out my new “wheels” on my own.
You're so welcome Elise! The chains of toxic shame are so debilitating. I long for all of us to be liberated from them! And I'm so glad my pieces are of assistance for you on your own journey of freedom. We rise together.
Thank you for talking about abusive relationships and narcissism. This is a subject very close to me, due to personal experience, and it made me highly aware of the abusive nature of our treatment by authority in recent years.
Yes, I believe being able to see the societal authorities through this lens of abuse could be a very helpful lens for many to achieve recognition of the dynamic. I'm trying to find as many different lenses as I can, knowing that some will work for some and others will work for others. It's like building up inventory at a glasses shop, and wanting everyone to have access to the lenses and frames they will need.
Yahoo. Amazing as always Raelle. We are returned from our voyage across America (safe and sound and still on Ivermectin). We are now entering phase 2... analyzing our situation further and probably moving some time in 2022. There IS freedom in the USA. Thank God for that. We saw it with our own eyes -- 10,000 miles, 33 cities, and 20 states later. The people living where we do -- in the epicenter of the Network -- the Bay Area -- are living in a psychotic state of delusional fear. Although they are probably 90% vaccinated, they are the most fearful people in the USA. Love, Amy&Steve
Thank you Amy! And I'm so glad you had a great trip! Yes, it's so wild to be there right at the Network station. Amazing how the fear levels are amplified by region, where control systems are more integrated. It's been a long time since we've caught up! I'd love to reconnect and hear about some of your candidates for relocation.
Yes, thank God we did the trip because already, after 3 weeks back, the depression is settling in again. Our friends are falling away. Only the few unvaccinated will be with us. People around here are double-masking even though like 90% vaccinated or higher and the rates are very low. Did you know we met up with Teresa and Jay before they left? We loved them. We are now thinking of going on our 2nd voyage sooner than we thought... maybe mid March. Will spend time outside Austin (Austin itself is SF 2.0) near some NAAS folks that we really liked and then time in Greenville SC, which we really liked, but we only know 1 couple there. We also have friends in FL but Steve isn't hot on FL, but it's a possibility if all else fails.
Let's do a Zoom. So much to relate. I can see now that the only way to survive here would be to only associate with the unvaxxed-health-freedom-standup people. But we can barely stand it anymore after 3 weeks. We were so free and fearless when we returned only 3 weeks ago!
Anyway, lots to do now. Taxes, want to get my cataracts done if a doc will do it for the unvaxxed, get ready to be gone for 4-5 months... Another long drive around the country.
After this second trip, we will probably sell our place in the late summer/fall. What is there here with no friends? The truth is, they were already dwindling before COVID. We have nothing in common anymore with our old tech friends... Sigh. The beauty of CA is increasingly meaningless and it's feeling degenerate spiritually... it is so palpable. Must look forward!
We are around and up for a Zoom anytime. LOVE YOU. You are a bright light Raelle!!
Thank you for writing another excellent article, articulating so well my own thoughts and feelings.
Truly inspiring as a philosophic essay! Sartre would be proud to see this. He said "We are condemned to be free," by which he meant we have the ultimate freedom to say "no." We are not robots that can be programmed as long as we are human. Choice is at our very essence. I will forward this selectively to some who will appreciate it, and maybe some who won't. I would encourage you get get this into print so it can be used in schools that are not in mental lockdown. Thanks for this affirmation of quintessential humanity.
I love those sentiments, Jon, and thank you for your words about Sarte. And you're very welcome!
Outstanding! As are all your essays. Thank you, Raella Kaia, for your careful thinking. I believe you are making a positive difference. So keep on searching and sharing.
Thank you Sing! It helps to hear I'm making a positive difference. That's my intention!
Standing ovation, dear! Do post this on NAAs, as well! Bravo!
Hi Robin! Thank you! It is available on NAAS in the Society and Culture section.
I appreciate your appreciation! My aloha to you, Jon