Morrnah Simeona

Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona (born May 19, 1913 in Honolulu , Hawaii ; † February 11, 1992 in Kirchheim near Munich ) was a kahuna lapaʻau (herbal healer) in Hawaii and taught a modernized version of the traditional hoʻoponopono in the USA, Asia and Europe.

Kahuna lapa'au

Morrnah was the daughter of Kimokeo and Lilia Simeona, both indigenous Hawaiians. Her mother Lilia was one of the last recognized kahuna lāʻau kahea or "priestess who healed with words". Morrnah was already recognized as a kahuna lapaʻau (herbal healer) in her youth, then was initially a naturopath with Lomi-Lomi massage and led her practice at the Kahala Hilton and Royal Hawaiian Hotel for ten years. Her clients at the Hilton included Lyndon B. Johnson , Jackie Kennedy, and Arnold Palmer . In 1983 she was honored with the title 'Living Treasure of Hawaiʻi' by the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaiʻi.

Ho'oponopono

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In 1976 she began the hoʻoponopono, a tradition of the old Hawaiians for mutual reconciliation and forgiveness to adapt to today's social realities, for example to offer the possibility that the procedure can also be carried out alone. In doing so, she made the secret kahuna prayers public. Both her Christian upbringing (Catholic baptized, Protestant parents) and her thirst for knowledge also led her to philosophical studies on India, China and Edgar Cayce . The syncretistic connection of the Hawaiian structure of the hoʻoponoponos with prayers to the Divine Creator (as the highest consciousness, religiously neutral) and the connection of problems with reincarnation and karma (the latter known in Hawaii, albeit under a different name), resulted in a simplification of the process in terms of time . In terms of content, it was expanded to a general problem-solving procedure, thus becoming a comprehensive self-help therapy. She had no qualms about reconciling traditional concepts with contemporary ones, although she was criticized for doing so by some Hawaiian purists. "Her system uses hoʻoponopono techniques to achieve active cooperation between the three aspects of consciousness or self, which she gave both Hawaiian names and the terms superconscious, conscious and subconscious."

She has lectured and given seminars on hoʻoponopono at the United Nations (1983), in a dozen states in the USA and in more than fourteen countries including Germany, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland, Japan and Russia; also at universities such as the University of Hawai'i and Johns Hopkins University , in hospitals, at religious institutions and commercial establishments. In 1982 she organized the First World Symposium of Identity of Man ( First World Symposium on Human Identity). One reporter noted, “There was something very calming and relaxing just by the presence of Simeon; and when she talked about teaching people how to free themselves from stress and gain inner peace, there was a natural seriousness in her voice. "

In order to spread her hoʻoponopono method, she founded The Foundation of 'I', Inc. (Freedom of the Cosmos) in 1980 , converted her Pacifica Seminars from the 1970s into a corporation in 1986 and founded Pacifica Seminars in Germany in 1990 . Simeona wrote three textbooks: 'Self-Identity through Hoʻoponopono, Basic 1' (128 pages), 'Basic 2' (to be used only after two years of practice) and 'Basic 3' (only after five years). Simeona recommended waiting for parts 2 and 3 to first develop deep respect for the Divine Presence through part 1 . In 1990 the English original of 'Basic 1', 8th edition, was officially translated into German and French and printed as a paperback version.

In the late autumn of 1990 she made her last trip with lectures and seminars through Europe to Jerusalem. On January 16, 1991 she returned to Germany, where she lived in silence in Michael Micklei and Yvette Mauri's house in Kirchheim near Munich , where she also died in 1992.

The Statue of Liberty

The plaster model of the Statue of Liberty now resides in the Capitol Visitor Center.

On March 25, 1992, US Senator Daniel Akaka (D - Hawaii) delivered an eulogy for Simeona before the Senate, which was printed in the Congressional Record . He explains that she initiated the renovation of the plaster model of the Statue of Liberty, which stands cast iron on the cathedral of the United States Capitol (not to be confused with the Liberty at the harbor entrance of New York City). After she collected and donated US $ 25,000, the dismantled and damaged model was removed from the warehouse and returned to its original condition. It was given pride of place in the Russell Senate Office Building in early 1993, eventually in the Capitol Visitor Center , where, as Akaka noted, it serves as a memorial to Morrnah Simeona.

literature

• Cooke, Mary, Meanwhile, back in Honolulu , The Honolulu Advertiser (Feb. 13, 1974)
• Sifford, Darell, Could a Kahuna's liturgy have wrought these changes? Interview with Morrnah Simeona, Philadelphia Inquirer (Dec. 2, 1980)
• Brower, Nancy, She Solves Problems , The Asheville Times (June 10, 1981)
• Sifford, Darell, Spirit Healer: The Kahuna was convincing, but could she cure an allergy? Philadelphia Inquirer (June 30, 1981)
• Matsuda, Craig, Hoʻoponopono brings happiness, she says , The Miami Herald, Edition Broward (June 22, 1981)
• Scott, Nadine W., Kahuna to Explore the Ancient Ways, Honolulu Star Bulletin (July 7, 1982)
• Bowman, Pierre, Kahuna updates ancient practices , Interview with Morrnah Simeona, The Honolulu Advertiser (July 8, 1982)
• Cooke, Mary, A Kahuna in the Kitchen , The Honolulu Advertiser (Sept. 8, 1982)
• Health, freedom from stress, the Hawaiian Kahuna way , Carson City Nevada Appeal (Nov. 21, 1982)
• Five Persons Are Named as Living Treasures , Honolulu Star Bulletin (Feb. 12, 1983)
• Three health workshops stalted at Kalani Honua , Hawaiʻi Tribune Herald (April 13, 1983)
• Braxton, Virginia A., Hoʻoponopono, Ridding yourself of excess stress and Springfield Round-Up , Springfield News-Sun (June 30, 1983)
• Dye, Bob, Hawaiʻi Chronicles II: Contemporary Island History from the Pages of Honolulu Magazine , pp. 298–301 (Pitzer, Pat, Kahuna, The Keepers of the Secrets , Nov. 1984), University of Hawai'i Press (1997) ISBN 0-8248-1984-5 .
• Dusen, Jane Ann Van, A Way of Life , Interview with Morrnah Simeona, The Movement Newspaper, Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (April 1985)
• Young, Melinda, Creating peace in a hectic world , Manoa News (Oct. 1986)
• Morrnah Simeona, Kahuna Lapaʻau (obituary). In: Honolulu Advertiser , February 17, 1992
• Michael Micklei: The coronation of consciousness - a divine handing out through the Ho'oponopono according to Morrnah Simeona. Micklei Media and Pacifica Seminars, 2011, ISBN 978-3-942611-10-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Census, Fifteenth Census (1930)
2. ↑ Rodman, Julius Scammon, The Kahuna Sorcerers of Hawaii, Past and Present , p. 195 (Exposition, 1979)
3. ↑ Morrnah Simeona, kahuna lapaʻau , Honolulu Advertiser, p. C4 (Feb. 17, 1992)
4. ^ Dye, Bob, Hawaiʻi Chronicles II: Contemporary Island History from the Pages of Honolulu Magazine , pp. 298-301 (Pitzer, Pat, Kahuna, The Keepers of the Secrets , Nov. 1984), University of Hawaiʻi Press (1997) ISBN 0-8248-1984-5
5. ↑ Five persons are named as Living Treasures , Honolulu Star Bulletin (Feb. 12, 1983)
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Dye Bob, Pitzer Pat
7. ↑ Chai, Makana Risser, Na Moʻolelo Lomilomi: The Traditions of Hawaiian Massage & Healing , p. 47, Bishop Museum Press (2005) ISBN 978-1-58178-046-8
8. ↑ Michael Micklei, pp. 5-10
9. ↑ US Senator Daniel Akaka, In Memory of Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona , Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 102d Congress, Second Session, Vol. 138, No. 43 (March 25 1992)
10. ↑ Scott, Nadine W., Kahuna to Explore the Ancient Ways , Honolulu Star Bulletin (July 1982)
11. ^ Simeona, Morrnah, Self-Identity through Hoʻoponopono , 128 pp., Pacifica Seminars (1990)
12. ^ Simeona, Morrnah, L'Identité de Soi-Même par Hoʻoponopono , 128 p., Pacifica Seminars (1990)
13. ↑ ^{a b} Daniel Akaka