Speaking the Language of Love: A Conversation with Kahuna Kalei‘iliahi
By Cynthia Sweeney
Our kāhuna, or our indigenous elders are our spiritual and physical connection with where we came from, why we are here, and where we are going. Kāhuna have optimism about our spiritual evolution on this planet and how well things are going, despite what we see and hear in the news.
Kalei‘iliahi is a “current kahuna” with an ancient message. She has a website and frequents Facebook. She uses words like “quantum” in explaining how she thinks and observes the world and muses that science is just now catching up with things the ancients have always innately known. She laughs and is moved to tears easily, and when she talks about the ancients, especially Pele, her visage changes: her eyes take on a dark glow, and there is an aura that commands attention and respect.
Born and raised on O‘ahu, Kahuna Kalei‘iliahi spent 30 years in California. Her home in Orchidland now is filled with fairies and photos and precious, sacred relics from all over the world. Her banyan tree, “Miracle,” plays a large role in her life. She says her connection to the ancients and a new energy, a feminine energy, is affecting us on a global level.
What kind of kahuna are you?
A Kahuna Pule. Pule is prayer, and more than that it means I make words that are holy, and these words help others to heal. Therefore I am a Spiritual Healer, using the power of the word to guide, love, and heal others in need of my Light.
All problems on the planet have a spiritual core; otherwise, you’re just treating symptoms. If you solve the spiritual problem, it’s more permanent. I’m an ambassador. My ancestors live inside me. I can see the light and divinity in people.
You were raised with Christianity. How did that affect you?
Hawaiians were forbidden to practice their spiritual ways, and Christianity had pretty much taken over as a religion in the islands. But a kahuna is born a kahuna and carries all the sacred knowledge and wisdom and mana in their DNA from their ancestors. It was part of my journey to discover what I had felt all of my life as a child—I carried something different. I knew it, just not what it was called until later. Now I know: I am a kahuna from a great lineage with a responsibility I carry with honor.
You spent a long time living in California. What were you doing there?
I was born in Kalihi Valley on O‘ahu. I’m a Hawaiian priestess born into this lineage. I did my spiritual work in California and made trips back to see my family and connect with the land. [California is] where I was needed. Not just as a Hawaiian who carries the beautiful mana and aloha that we represent: I’m the ancients’ ambassador. My role is to touch others with my love and to spread my sacred mana wherever I go. I also got to learn about many different cultures and meet many different people from all over the world. I was exposed to so many different spiritual paths, and I saw the common connection among all of us.
My teacher taught me to teach by example. So my work is by example, all of it. All of the trials and tests that I’ve been through, some pretty hard things in my life. All of it was for a reason. To strengthen me and to empower me into an even more compassionate human being because people from all walks of life come to me with all kinds of stories and pain, and I’ve been there, I can speak their language.
When I would do sacred ceremonies in California, people would come from their own cultures and I always asked them to do their own prayers and speak in their own language. It was so beautiful. The Hindus would do their prayers and people from France would speak their language. I would learn that these people all had a way to honor the creator (tearing up). It’s emotional to think about this because it was so beautiful. The love of God isn’t exclusive to anyone; it’s for all of us. And everyone had a beautiful way of expressing it.
What was it like coming home to Hawai‘i?
When I came back home, the ancients said, “Now people will be coming to you from all over the world and you will be able to speak their language. If they come from a different culture, a different religion, you will be the kahuna who can talk to them on their level. They will feel a bond and connection that you know them and understand them. And also by your love for them they are going to feel that we’re all just the same—we are the same.”
I saw the wisdom of why I had to be away so long, to meet the people I met, and the things I had to learn. I wouldn’t have learned it had I stayed here in Hawai‘i. I wouldn’t have known there was so much more out there. I remember the Dalai Lama said that he was grateful the Chinese government made them leave their country, because he would never have known there were all these different people worldwide—he thought there was only Tibet. And he would never have fallen in love with his human family. He would never have known. What a beautiful concept.
You say you don’t speak Hawaiian. How does this affect you being a kahuna?
I know enough Hawaiian to communicate. When I do my chants my ancestors come through me, it’s their voices that I’m singing. And that’s why people cry. I think they can feel the mana, the love, the sacredness, how ancient—it goes far, far back.
I communicate with my ancestors. They’re all around me. They’re the wisdom. They’re the ones who went before me. All of my ability, all of my profound wonderful gifts have come from them. I am their ambassador here to carry on what they said.
They said if I spoke all this information only in Hawaiian it would reach only a limited group of people. They want me to speak the English language because it’s a universal language that allows me to communicate with people all over the world.
So from that standpoint they were saying that you are current, we want you to be able to reach as many of the human family as you can that want to hear, because people are hungry for this knowledge—from us Hawaiians and indigenous cultures world-wide. People are going all the way to Machu Picchu to learn from the Incas from Peru. In Australia they’re trying to find the aboriginals. People worldwide are beginning to question that there’s got to be more than conventional religion and spirituality—maybe God is much bigger than we’ve been led to believe.
You say you are a “current kahuna.” What does that mean?
My ancestors were all brilliant metaphysicians. They understood the quantum energy, how to communicate telepathically, and they passed all of this down through the lineage to the Hawaiian people, to the Polynesians. That’s why we were so good at what we did. We became brilliant celestial navigators. And we did things with the plants, we did things with energy for thousands of years because we knew how to think in a quantum way.
It was a different language they spoke, yet the information, the knowledge, and the wisdom is the same. I am a current kahuna because I can use the current language, and also communicate with the ancients. To put it together in the current terminology so I can speak to you about it.
Ancient kāhuna did not call themselves kāhuna. They didn’t need to. Everyone knew who they were and the elders knew them when they were born. The kāhuna went into hiding when it was forbidden to practice their spirituality. No one addressed them when they walked amongst the people so they would not be identified. My ancestors have told me it was now safe for the kāhuna and indigenous shamans all over the world to share the wisdom and knowledge to those seeking it. By addressing myself as a kahuna I am making it easier for people across the globe to find me. “It is time,” my ancestors have told me. I trust the guidance of my ancestors (even though many Hawaiians may not agree with me).
How does the female energy play into all of this?
That’s the best part! Finally. Finally we’re having this beautiful female energy, compassion and the nurturing, the soft energy delivered to the planet and awakening in the hearts of human beings. This is a time of the divine feminine on the planet.
This last Venus Transit was about the deliverance of the divine sacred feminine energy to the planet because it’s been imbalanced for so long with male energy. That’s why there were so many wars and so much fear and killing for so long. There’s going to be a time—and it won’t be that long, several generations from now—where the idea of war will be considered barbaric. We’ll have ended it.
And that’s why we’re here. That’s what we’re doing. The feminine energy is that energy that will allow for that to happen. There’s no female who wants to go to war, no female who supports the idea of killing. The idea of the feminine is compassionate, nurturing, life-giving. It’s powerful.
Have you noticed all the dictators falling away and all these things—that’s all beautiful; we did that, we created the light. All the young people are now the ones—you go on Facebook and it’s exciting what they’re doing. They have pictures with the Israelis and Iranians and Palestinians hugging and saying, “we want peace.” They don’t want to live in the hatred that their parents lived in for generations and generations. They’re done with it. Those are the new kids. Beautiful.
There’s so much good happening in this world. There are miracles and nobody’s reporting them. There will come a time when people aren’t going to be interested in watching the dramas and reality shows and the rock’em sock’em, blow’em ups and all this horrible stuff. Drama is an old energy concept. It does not suit the consciousness of an enlightened human being. A peaceful human being doesn’t need drama.
So it’s going to change. People are going to want a good news channel. And the young ones are going to say, “We’re tired of this. We want to hear some good stuff. Let’s make a good news channel.” And they’re going to report all the true miracles that are happening worldwide.
The internet is wonderful because it allows us to share the light and the love of God and reach people in a broader, vaster way than we could before. With all this light on the planet, we will not be able to have secrets. Secrets are kept in the dark, right? There’s so much light now. The internet is a beautiful example of light shining on the atrocities like those committed in Africa. Remember the killing, the rapes, and all these horrible things? Now the internet [is here] and everybody knows about it. If we didn’t have the internet, it would have continued for another 500 years. Now we’ll narrow it down to one or 50 years because now there’s going to be enough humans waking up with that compassionate feminine energy that says we’ve had enough of this. We won’t allow it.
Some people say, “What do you mean some things are getting better? You are crazy. You and your metaphysical talk and stuff. Look at the news. It sounds terrible!”
I calmly respond, “No. What you’re seeing is what’s been there all along. I celebrate that we can see it because now we can do something about it. Before we couldn’t see it, and we didn’t do anything about it and that’s why it continued. Like the Holocaust. That isn’t happening again. Atrocities committed in the world are being revealed so we can stop them, so we can bring our light, bring our prayers, and end them, and say, “No more.”
The other thing that’s happening with all this beautiful light is the financial system, how it’s falling apart because of lack of integrity. This is an example of how we can’t have secrets in this new energy. Businesses and corruption will be exposed, dictators are going out.
To me it is a grand time on this planet. We didn’t ever think this would happen. We really thought we were headed for Nostradamus’ prediction. We changed it. We’re changing it beautifully.
We’re all interconnected in some way—that energy field—we’re all part of this beautiful soup, and we’re all at the core good. We all want the same things, and we’re raising the consciousness to create that in a way that we never did before. How beautiful. This planet is becoming a brilliant bright star. ❖
Contact Kalei‘iliahi: Kaleiiliahi.com
Contact writer Cynthia Sweeney: sweeneywrites@yahoo.com
