On Being Asked to Join an Online Forgiveness Group

 A Holy Weekend in the Holy City (Charleston,S. C.)

(More on Ho'Oponopono)
 

I have contemplated this alot, Lisa Porter Ravenscraft, besides sailing with vets. on Friday, I spend alot of the weekend at the Charleston Unity Church. There besides going meditating for an hour at 7:30 Sat.and Sun. AM, I am taking a course both days on Soul Prosperity under our great minister Rev. Ed. "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all things shall be given." Forgiveness is the first purpose of the group. "Forgive and ye shall be forgiven." I am really concentrating on forgiving my mom, and it is working - "I apologize (am sorry), please forgive me, thank you and I love you. (Ho'Oponopono Prayer- see below)

 I have felt caresses on my arms and shoulder and a Seer has seen and heard her saying "I love and respect you son, and I was not in my right mind when I left you out of the will and I allowed someone else to influence me greatly." I have to keep repeating this Ho'Oponopono prayer over and over when I have judgements! It works because I AM forgiven when I forgive others! Thanks so much for asking Lisa Porter Ravenscraft!

 

Freedom from Karma

The site of the partially restored remains of the village of Koaiʻe in the Lapakahi State Historical Park of the island of Hawaii, North Kohala district. Beginning in the early 20th century, this village has been a center for lapaʻau

In 1976 Morrnah Simeona, regarded as a healing priest or kahuna lapaʻau, adapted the traditional hoʻoponopono of family mutual forgiveness to the social realities of the modern day. For this she extended it both to a general problem solving process outside the family and to a psycho-spiritual self-help rather than group process.
Simeona’s version is influenced by her Christian (Protestant and Catholic) education and her philosophical studies about India, China and Edgar Cayce. Like Hawaiian tradition she emphasizes prayer, confession, repentance, and mutual restitution and forgiveness. Unlike Hawaiian tradition, she describes problems only as the effects of negative Karma, saying that “you have to experience by yourself what you have done to others”. But that "you are the creator of your life circumstances" was also common knowledge for the Old as ʻohana knowledge: "things we had brought with us from other lifetimes".^[27] Any wrongdoing is memorized within oneself and mirrored in every entity and object which was present when the cause happened. As the Law of Cause and Effect predominates in all of life and lifetimes, the purpose of her version is mainly “to release unhappy, negative experiences in past Reincarnations, and to resolve and remove traumas from the ‘memory banks’.”^[28] Karmic bondages hinder the evolution of mind, so that “(karmic) cleansing is a requisite for the expansion of awareness.”^[29] Using her 14-step-process would dissolve those bondages.^[30] She did not use mantras or conditioning exercises.
Her teachings include: there is a Divine Creator who takes care of altruistic pleas of Men; “when the phrase ‘And it is done’ is used after a prayer, it means Man’s work ends and God’s begins.”^[31] ‘Self-Identity’ signifies, e.g. during the hoʻoponopono, that the 3 selves or aspects of consciousness are balanced and connected with the Divine Creator.^[32]
Different from egoistic prayers “altruistic prayers like hoʻoponopono, where you also pray for the release of other entities and objects, reach the Divine plane or Cosmos because of their high vibrations. From that plane the Divine energy or mana would come,”^[33] which would transform the painful part of the memory of the wrong actions in all participants to Pure Light, on whatever plane they are existing; “all are set free.”^[34] Through this transmutation in the mind the problems will lose their energy for physical effects, and healing or balancing is begun. In this sense, Simeona’s mana is not the same as the traditional Polynesian understanding of Mana.