Notice the ecstatic feelings that begin to come to you as you continue the state.
Ho’okohi: Stay in this state for as long as you can. In fact, pay more attention to the peripheral than to the central part of your vision. 
Hakalau: Now, pay attention to the peripheral. 
Lau: “To spread out.” Notice that within a matter of moments, your vision begins to spread out, and you see more in the peripheral than you do in the central part of your vision. Kuu: “To let go.” As you stare at this spot, just let your mind go loose, and focus all of your attention on the spot. Ho’ohaka: Just pick a spot on the wall to look at, preferably above eye level, so that your field of vision seems to bump up against your eyebrows, but the eyes are not so high so as to cut off the field of vision. One meaning of Hakalau is, “To stare at as in meditation and to allow to spread out.” If you’ve never tried it before, right now, this technique can be a real eye-opener. The first step in cultivating the ability to rapidly access altered states rapidly is to learn a form of active meditation - Hakalau! In every system, one of the first things a Kahuna learns is the ability to access altered states rapidly, and it is having this ability that will often determine success. (Personally, we find this rather refreshing to find that in Huna we do not need to take massive amounts of mind-altering drugs as did some of our counterparts in other cultures because excessive drug use can lock you into the lower planes, and thus de-evolve the user.) So in Hawaii, other means were found to evolve the consciousness. Awa (kavakava) is only mildly hallucinogenic. Rituals, such as rattling or drumming, were also used to induce an altered state.īut, to be honest, Hawaii didn’t really have an effective substance for achieving altered states. Native Americans in dry southern climates used peyote. To achieve this, many cultures used drugs. 
Ultimately, we must reveal the finer planes of creation or levels of the creation, unseen to the normal eye must be revealed directly to the Kahuna. You see, in actual practice, a calm, centered state is just the first step. But that in itself is not really quite enough in Huna. Na means “quiet, calm, centered.” So some kind of ability to enter a calm centered state is what is necessary. But what kind of an altered state? The word Kahu-na will give us a clue. Throughout the world, all the ancient teachings agree - any Kahuna, Shamanistic, or magical discipline requires that the Kahuna be able to enter an altered state rapidly and at will.
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