What the Ancient Secret of Hawaii Tells Us about the Pre-Memorial World
By Sacred Voyages 14-04-2026 23
Places on Earth are those that have a weight that cannot be measured on the map. The locations where it almost looks like the land itself recalls something even more ancient than written history, than language, than even the myths that humans tell of their own origin. The Hawaiian Islands are one such place. It is almost as if they arise in near-perfect isolation out of the depths of the Pacific Ocean to the center of a mystery which has occupied explorers, spiritual seekers and researchers for more than a century the legend of Lemuria.
The concept of the existence of a large civilization in what is now known as the Pacific basin is not a new one. It is generations older than the New Age movement, first occurring in the geological and anthropological arguments of the nineteenth century, as geologists attempted to describe how similar species and cultural patterns could be found on landmasses thousands of miles apart by an open ocean. The solution thus suggested a sunken continent which they named Lemuria, or Mu, was later abandoned by the scientific mainstream community as plate tectonics provided superior explanations. Never did the thought die away. It was re-enlivened in the religious life of the aboriginal Pacific people, in the channelled literature of mystics, in the silent belief of visitors to Hawaii and who, although they cannot tell why, feel that they have visited the island before.
What is in fact claimed by the Legend.
The most popular versions of Lemuria Hawaii have the islands as the mountain tops of a sunken continent - the mountain tops of a lost civilization that once dominated millions of square miles of the Pacific. This version, Lemuria was a culturally-advanced culture that existed prior to Atlantis and ancient Egypt, and that existed on principles of energy, harmony and collective consciousness that are now forgotten by modern civilization.
There are various traditions about the Lemurians. There are descriptions of them as androgynous, which are tall and used to communicate using feelings, not words. Others call them in touch with the natural world, with the land, with the ocean, with the cycles of the moon and the stars, with no monuments but with residues, with the DNA of the people who lived there, with the sacred places, with the specific quality of energy which the sensitive people come to feel when they visit some places on the Hawaiian Islands.
That some part of this comes down to history, mythology, or metaphor, there is something fascinating in any case, in the native Hawaiian tradition itself, which rings in some way that is difficult to all disregard. The Hawaiian philosophy of mana - spiritual power that permeates everything animate and inanimate as well as other locations of sacredness - indicates the worldview where the land is not a passive object, but a participant. The old songs of the Kumulipo, the Hawaiian creation story, relate worlds that pre-existed the human world, levels of existence that pre-existed the islands as we know them today.
Energy of the Islands
Visitors to Hawaii who are conscious of the Lemurian tradition, have frequently testified that some places appear to have a certain quality of presence - a sense of something older at work under the surface of the visible landscape. Many refer to the Big Island as the most vigorously active because of all the active volcanoes and unshaped rough terrain that is currently in the process of forming. Maui and especially the slopes of the inactive Haleakalana, the name of which roughly means House of the Sun is linked with clarity, vision and dissolution of what is no longer useful. The eldest of the main islands, Kauai has something of the profound stillness and some might term it as an ancient female power - lush, primordial, unhurried.
All the above is immeasurable using instruments and that is what is attractive to those attracted towards it. The usefulness of the Lemuria Hawaii connection to the seekers, who believe in it, lies not in justifying a geological assertion. It is in what the structure provides as a prism: the right to listen to the land as something sacred, to not go to these islands but to listen to them, to listen to what comes out in one when the everyday buzz of everyday life subsides and something more is heard.
What Searchers Find Here, as a matter of fact.
Those who go to Hawaii to find what the Lemurian mystery points to, are not, in the main, seeking evidence. They seek experience--the sensual actuality of identification with something beyond the individual past. And Hawaii, though of whatever geological origin, is conspicuously so.
The sea here is not such as any other. The size of the sky high up there, above the cloud line on Maui or the Big Island, generates a certain type of awe, which restructures something within the chest. Silence of old-growth valleys of Kauai is not silence but the full silence - the kind that is occupied. The Big Island with its volcanic scenery, makes it all too real that the Earth is alive and alive, that creation is not a one-time event that occurred a long time ago but something that is present, underfoot, and in constant motion.
To most of the visitors, what starts as intellectual interest in the ancient civilisations ends up being personal, a clash with their depth, their lost dimensions, their connection with the sacred. This meaning of the legend of Lemuria is more of an invitation to recollection than a history, since the something has not been lost but covered over, as the frenzy of contemporary life has hastened.
Coming Here with Intention
There is hardly a distinction between a Hawaiian vacation and a Hawaiian pilgrimage, which is purely internal. The islands are alike in any case. The difference is the nature of attention you will offer - the readiness to be influenced, to slow, to allow the place to do what it does and not just marking places on the list.
Going to Hawaii with true spiritual purpose cannot be achieved by merely making reservations and a hotel. It involves knowing what islands and what places are congruent with the type of inner work you are prepared to engage in. It needs directions given by individuals that are aware of not just the geography, but also the underlying currents that circulate in these islands. It needs a container - a structure of experience - which will enable transformation to occur as opposed to mere tourism.
Sacred Voyages was constructed so that it could be on such a voyage. The focus of spiritually conscious travel to some of the most energetically charged places on the Earth, such as the Hawaiian Islands, Sacred Voyages matches each traveller with experiences that are not only going to impress, but also change something. Be it the mystery of ancient civilisations, the curing nature of volcano-scapes or merely the feeling of the places bearing the answers that you have been seeking, Sacred Voyages knows that the way you travel is as vital as the place you travel to.
