Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, Seaweed, and Jesus Christ

Physics can sometimes be helpful. At present it holds that the entire Universe came out of a singularity (a microscopic dot in space-time) which has expanded to where we are today. They have calculated this by measuring various phenomena and plotting backwards to where it all began. With the present limitations of science and maths this results in the singular dot many billions of years ago.

I remember once watching a video by the well-known car enthusiast ‘The Stradman’. He had gotten his sports car stuck in a field in the middle of nowhere. He remarked: ‘Do you realise that all the sum total of my experience has brought me to this point?’

And of course, he was absolutely right. Whenever we think of an event, we find that there are all manner of cause and effect loops that have led up to it.

In this context, it’s quite possible for a university professor to have once been a seaweed, and you a worm, and me a cockroach. We’ve had time to be all three and far more.

Moreover, our physical bodies are made from the earth which is far older than humankind, and they will return to it and become part of something that’s older still.

This raises a problem when it comes to miracles. The question is ‘when did the miracle start?’.

Our traditional way of thinking all of Jesus’s ‘miracles’ were down to his ‘power’ in commanding various forces (such as fever or leprosy) to depart. In fact, those afflicted had faith that he would be able to heal them.

It was their faith (rather than Jesus) which did the heavy lifting. He simply acted as a catalyst by taking responsibility for their change of state.

Ho’oponopono is all about taking 100% responsibility. We have a faith in the process, as well as others who have gone before.

So far, so good. The question is however, when did the healing start? Did it begin when the ‘miracle’ was recorded, when it was measured, when Jesus was born, when the sick person was born, when the earth was created, or back at the singularity that physicists believe to be the beginning of time?

When you ask this question, you will find yourself with two possible answers. The simple answer follows our normal method of thinking. The healing started as soon as Jesus held out his hand toward the sick person. The complex answer must be that (via a system of cause-and-effect relationships too vast to calculate) the people, the sickness, and its cure, all started to occur.

We can, however, look at this differently. Suppose life begins now (with you) and past and future are both theoretical constructs (even if scientists can produce experiments to prove that a past existed). Might not all of the stories about Morrnah, Dr. Hew Len, ho’oponopono and Jesus not simply be within you now, and represented by memories and data?

This idea of your identity has been at the heart of ho’oponopono throughout the ages. 

That’s really the territory into which ‘deep ho’oponopono’ takes us. It’s not about getting a new car, or a perfect partner (both of whom will eventually seem to wear out). Rather it’s all about the simple miracle of sleeping when tired, eating when hungry, and above all creating your own personal version of time out of which all the stories of a past and future may arise (yet never be completed).