PELE’S WISH

SECRETS OF THE HAWAIIAN MASTERS & ETERNAL LIFE

AN INTERVIEW WITH SONDRA RAY

By Donna Strong in the
July August issue of Awareness Magazine

Sondra Ray has been working at the forefront of consciousness since she began with the rebirthing movement in the 1970’s. Acclaimed for her expertise in working with birth trauma, she is adept in using the power of the breath to facilitate profound change. Applying ancient wisdom in modern settings, she is a remarkable bridge between worlds. Sondra has produced fifteen books of inspired wisdom and led workshops and group tours around the globe.

Awareness: To begin, your newest book is called, Pele’s Wish; Secrets of the Hawaiian Masters and Eternal Life. This wonderful book is about ancient powers, principles and practices. Can you identify what a kahuna is, to start us off?

Sondra: A kahuna is a Hawaiian spiritual master. My original teacher is a kahuna by the name of Morrnah Simeona. A kahuna is first chosen by the elders when a small child, then trained to become a healer or to develop some other unique ability. They grow up to be incredible beings with amazing powers. The original kahunas knew the power to heal someone instantly, including setting bones with their hands. Kahunas also know how to control the elements, such as the weather, and how to keep sharks from biting people! They can perform what we would call magic.

Kahuna means ‘guardian of the secret’ and they know the secret to life…that thought is creative. All thoughts create results. In the old days, they didn’t feel like the masses were ready to handle this much power. But now, we all need to be kahunas. We all need to understand this. So they asked me to spread this knowledge, and I feel very honored.

Awareness: From the experiences in the book, it must have been mesmerizing to see what the kahunas are capable of and to see the potential that is within us.

Sondra: Yes, starting from the beginning of this assignment. It came as a miracle. I was in Hawaii, and was told I was going to write a book that would ‘rock’ the world. So I decided I had better go where the rocks are being formed, to the big island. This is the source — the volcano is going off and as the lava flows into the water it forms rocks. You can’t get much closer to real creation of land than that.

On the way there, I stopped in Maui and visited a kahuna I had studied with, Auntie Pua. When I told her where I was headed, she said she was going as well. “Wow! You would go with me?” She replied, “Oh yes, I have to properly introduce you to the volcano.” We went to the island and ended up in what is known as the Vagina Cave on the Hilo side of the island. Huge and amazing, it is shaped like the female system, with a uterus, ovaries, and fallopian tubes. It even has the vulva, all perfectly carved out by Madame Pele herself — the goddess of volcanoes. To go into this cave was one of the thrills of my life.

Inside the Vagina Cave, Auntie Pua began to see visions of all the elders, and when she told me, I started crying because they asked me to be the ambassador of aloha. What an honor. It took me two weeks to recover from being in that cave and receiving that assignment.