My family and I bought a small piece of property on the Big Island of Hawaii, right in the shadow of the Kilauea Volcano. Most of the property was actually "a'a", which is a type of lava that is quite sharp and sticks out in all directions. It moves down from the volcano, sort of crumbling and rolling as it goes. The Pahoehoe is the lava that flows like rope, oozing along, making beautiful formations
One of the jobs of Pele, the being that looks after the volcano, is to create new earth. The Big Island of Hawaii is getting bigger all the time. Pele is continually adding to the island, making new land. The earth is also cleansed as Pele, who has a female valance, sends the lava down. As the lava flows, she burns away the old energy set on the land, and creates new pristine land. This sense of newness is what is most amazing when you walk out on the cooled lava flows. Energetically the flow creates present-time experience, washing away, burning away past experience and creating a new, fresh reality.
I walked far out onto the lava flow one afternoon, sat down and touched into the energy. I was amazed at how pristine it felt, how clean. There were no beings around. There was no old energy. It felt like a clean slate. It was so very, very healing, sitting in that energy, the lava stretched for miles in all directions. It was form, upon form, upon form of amazing Pahoehoe lava formation.
When I left, I felt cleansed, brought into present time, ready to take the next step in my life's journey from a pristine place. Little did I know the next step would be a painful little lesson in owning one's space.
What Pele does not touch for centuries, is the old land. Pele will cleanse the land, but leave little reminders of what once was. Often within a lava flow, will be an area that lava does not cover, these are like little forest oasis’s you can hike into. There will be trees, animals, and plants. It is a remnant of the past forest sitting within the new lava flow, within the new energy. Such a formation is called a "kapuka", meaning "hole", and on our property there was a kapuka where the lava did not cover the old land. The energy was vastly different there. When you stepped off the lava flow onto the kapuka you stepped back in time into the old energy set of the island.
was a bit cocky one day and decided to clean out some of the mangrove that grew in the kapuka so we might walk through more easily and enjoy the place more. I did not do any energy work before starting out, just took my saw and began cutting away, and pulling branches and trees out of the area. I began to notice a very strange feeling as I carried out my work. I was being beaten up by the land, by the place, by the energy set, but I still did not take the time to look at what was going on. Every time I cut a branch, it would swing through and hit me. I was getting scratches and bruises. Some of the ways the tree branches were swinging seemed to defy gravity. I would not have guessed they could move in such a way, it felt like there was another energy at play.
After a couple of hours, many bruises and a fair bit of blood flowing, I decided to stop and actually look at what was going on. I closed my eyes, turned inward, turned on my clairvoyance, and right directly in front of me, so close it made me jump back a little bit, was a being, a Warrior, from the old Hawaiian practice. This being was fierce. It was not happy that I was there. Its energy was very aggressive. This was not a being of light. This was a being claiming the space for itself. It was swinging the branches around. It was making sure that it got me as bruised and bloody as it possibly could before I did anything about it on an energy level. It wanted me to leave.
All my spiritual training had taught me not to be manipulated or pushed around by beings out-of-body. But this one was going to be a little bit of a challenge. The beings around Hawaii pull no punches. They can be extremely aggressive. There are many, many light beings, but there are many beings not working from a place of light that one may run across.
With this being staring me down, I failed to notice the other beings present. I would call them "deva" beings. They were small, they were nearby, and they were very excited about the idea of being in alignment and being in the creative process with me. Two things were going on.
It was very clear the Warrior being was not going to share the land with us and if it stayed, there was no way we could use that part of the property safely. So I knew I had to claim the area for us. I had learned many ways of protecting myself and it was time to apply this knowledge. A being-in-body with clear intent, using these tools from a place of integrity, is very powerful. This being was very aggressive, literally trying to push me back onto the a'a and out of the kapuka. The being did not go onto the a'a because Pele had cleaned this place. There was no room for this dark being on Pele's new earth.
I got a basic sense of where the back property line was. It was not very far, maybe 40 feet back from where I was doing my little yard work, which turned into much deeper spiritual work. I told this being that it was fine for it to be around, but it needed to respect our space and to stay back beyond the property line. I asked it several times, politely, if it was okay for us to cohabit the property and if it was okay for us to be around. It kept giving me "no, no, no". It was one of the most aggressive beings I have encountered. It was just stating threats that it was going to kill me. So I did a little demonstration of what I was capable of in order to own my space and to own the physical space as well.
After I demonstrated levels of energetic power that this being could totally understand, within seconds, it moved right back and was on the far side of the property line and would never cross it again while I was setting the energy there. The only message this being understood was a Warrior message, a message of force. That is the way with beings sometimes.
The rest of the day working, cleaning the extra branches out of the kapuka underneath the guava trees, was a pure delight. The deva beings that were in support were really enjoying the communication space and the creation space we were playing with, wanting to turn this area into a garden, and having a really lovely spiritual communication at the same time. They truly loved, as I did, the attention we were sharing back and forth.
By the end of the day, the kapuka was looking beautiful. There was more room to walk around, the dead branches were gone, leaving a lovely carpet of leaves on the forest floor. You could look up into the guava trees, and experience the delightful smell of guava whispering through one's senses.
As I worked, I noticed the Warrior was kind of hanging around at the back of the property. I said hello to it a couple of times, but it did not step foot across the line and I knew it would not, as long as I was setting the energy there, as long as my intent was there.
That night at the house where I was staying, I found myself sitting on the bed, talking to a lovely, big Hawaiian woman. I was telling her a little bit about this being I had encountered, and she said, "Oh, it sounds like a night walker. These are beings that still walk the trails and walk the old land of Hawaii. Some are beings of integrity, of light. Some are beings that are working from that darker place."
She continued: "Do you feel the energy in this house? It feels strange, doesn't it". I had noticed the house was not a very comfortable place. She said very simply, in a straightforward way, that the house was sitting directly on top of an old night walker trail. This trail went along the beach but also cut right up through this property, right up into the kapuka above. It was fairly obvious that the beings that were making the place uncomfortable were still walking through every night.
As I became more aware, it was really obvious why it was a difficult place to sleep, with the night walkers walking right through the building. They were still on their path. They did not care that the house was built right on top of it, and would walk right through the building all the time. It was no wonder this accommodation was always being rented out to foreigners. It was a very difficult building to live in unless one did some major energy work and redirected the night walkers. It could be done, but it would be a pretty tricky proposition.
I was glad we were staying there for a limited time and it was not going to be my problem to deal with. I just owned my space, situated my sleeping so the night walkers would not walk right through my body, and lived with it for the time that we were there.
Many people are familiar with the healer beings in Hawaii, but it was a very interesting experience to come in contact with some of the beings in Hawaii working from a different place. So if you are ever in Hawaii, keep a lookout for night walkers. They are a very interesting group, to put it mildly.
