“My name is ‘Iokepa Hanalei ‘Īmaikalani, but for the first forty-six years of my life I was called ‘Joseph.’
On January 30, 1997, just about everything in my life changed in a breath. I was no longer the person I’d always thought I was. I agreed on that date to accept my inheritance – and I did it on the strength of faith alone. I have learned how to ask, and how to listen for the answers in the wind and the waves, the rain and the clouds. I learned to wait patiently for my answers. I learned, gradually, to live as our ancestors lived: the Hūnā.
My Grandmothers said: “In every culture on Earth, God gave keys to survival. Hawaiians will return to theirs. It is about reminding every soul what they were given at the beginning of time.” My grandmothers are your grandmothers! People don’t know what they’re capable of. Hawai‘i is the place that’s been called out in prophecy – not Germany, not Alaska – it’s here. But our people don’t have a starting line or a finishing line. It spreads from here: bringing people together to acknowledge something larger than ourselves. I’m not a healer – I promote a return to Source. Huliau: The time is now.”
Inette Miller ‘Īmaikalani has been an international journalist and authored her entire adult life. For many years she has taught a writing workshop. She’d been a single mother for thirteen years, when on vacation from her family’s home, she met ‘Iokepa Hanalei ‘Īmaikalani. Their destined meeting took place at an ancient heiau – a sacred ancestral gathering spot – on Kaua‘i, at sunrise on Christmas morning, ten months after ‘Iokepa abandoned every scrap of material wealth for his “Walk of faith.”
She has written the story of her overwhelming immersion into the authentic kanaka maoli culture in the book: GRANDMOTHERS WHISPER: Ancient Voices – Timeless Wisdom – A Modern Love Story.
Inette and ‘Iokepa speak with Joanna about their powerful spiritual pilgrimage and life of service to the aboriginal Hawaiian people and land, the true freedom, the retrieval of our ancestral roots, the deep listening to the inner guidance, the reconciliation of the feminine and the masculine, …
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