OUR PHILOSOPHY
Waiwai
Post-Capitalist Futures.
We believe in holistic assemblages of wealths that are plural, non-dual and beyond the legibility of capitalist economies.
Like the waiwai of Hawaiian culture, these wealths include time, natural abundance, deep connection with human and non-human kin and creativity as some of the possibilities of a whole and wholesome life. The innocence of life force is sacred to our cosmology and is both protected and nurtured by this understanding of wealth.
We seek to dismantle extractive, dominating and violent forms of capital circulation and flow that constitute the current configurations and expressions of late-stage neoliberal capitalism.
Wa’a
Emergence.
We believe that life is always speaking through us. That ideas are alive and seeking expression through us.
That our sacred work is to clean and clear our human vessel so that we may more clearly hear the whispers of the multiple dimensions that seek to emerge through us as a collective being on earth.
We believe that the most fully realized life is the one lived in prayer and inquiry, in service to collective thriving and with a commitment to listening deeply and maintaining curiosity over any personal agenda or fears born of belief in scarcity and seperation.
Wahi Pana
Living breathing spaces of sacred earth.
We believe that the earth is a living, breathing entity with consciousness and intention. We see every human as a steward of their body and the other than human world around them in an animate relationality that is fully alive.
Rocks and salt speak as clearly as humans when we have the right ears to hear, and our work centers on this reconnection to multi-species languages of beauty and peace.
In these ways, each person becomes a steward of the sacred spaces where they live and tend the temple planet we call earth.
Pono
Right relations with life.
We trust the wisdom of plants and other non-human kin, the rocks and waters, the rain and winds to hold us in our sacred purpose and inquiries.
In our words, our thoughts and our actions, we aim to be in right relation with each other and all of Life. We engage practices and study that help us to recalibrate when we stray off course and fall into old patterns of extraction, violence and fear. We hold each other to loving account on this path of peace and unity.
Lokahi
Unity consciousness and the futures of interbeing.
Interbeing sits at the center of our understanding of Life and the human journey.
We know all beings as animate, with consciousness and purpose, and as fully entangled with our being. This entanglement provides a richness to the experience of living and it is the reason for our becoming as humans.
Aloha
Love at the center, futures of peace
We see Aloha as the shared understanding of the sacred life force in all that comes from Love as its source.
Aloha is practiced in Hawaiian culture as the sharing of breath in a greeting and recognition of the life force in another being. When we center love as the most potent force in the cosmos, we open spaces of possibilities for true and lasting peace to emerge.
We believe this is the purpose of our becoming human on earth.