HolyDay Healing Hawaiian Retreat—
Pu'uhonua o Honaunau

By Tobias Lars

There are places left on Earth today that still carry the vibration of our original 'Garden of Eden' which was an actual place, The Land of Pan (Pangea), the land mass that existed before earth's land was broken up into continents. These places around the globe are true remnants of Paradise, places that remind us of what it was like when we as souls first entered physicality on Earth. The experience of ease, peace, enjoyment was the original plan for Earth. Going to these places and imbibing the vibration still palpably present there can help us bring back this original blueprint of ease, comfort, enjoyment for us in our personal lives and for the planetary civilization as a whole.

"The Place of Refuge" — Pu'uhonua o Honaunau on the Big Island of Hawaii is one of those places still kept on Earth.

The etheric and physical vibrations in these sanctuaries on earth are a rememberance back to those places and times when we existed purely, innocently, openly, without need for strife, without stress, without having to harden, brace ourselves in order to survive. For those that can 'see' the etheric— finer electromagnetic vibratory emanations— when we 'look' at The Place of Refuge in Hawaii, there is an actual energetic atmosphere above it.

"The Place of Refuge" was a place where anyone could come and all would be forgiven. The ancient Hawaiian system of laws had many "kapu's" (taboos) and punishment had to be carried out according to law. But if the person could reach the Place of Refuge, the Kahuna priests would perform rituals and all would be forgiven. It was a "free zone," a Place of Grace kept for the community, a true Sanctuary.

Today "The Place of Refuge" is a National Park and protected for the future. Within the grounds there is a small protected beach where turtles come up next to some re-creations of houses that the native Hawaiians would have used. There are "heaiau's" (sacred altars), ancient fish ponds, black lava pools, and a palm tree grove from which to watch the sun set into the Pacific Ocean. Mark Twain reported in his Letters from Hawaii that the Keoua Stone, located next to an altar out on the tide pools, was the favorite resting place of Keoua, high chief of Kona.