I am immortal. I am a spirit inhabiting a body. I have no name. My name belongs to my body and that is mortal. Every living thing is a nameless spirit. We call a tree a tree so there is no confusion when it needs to be identified for some useful purpose. Words allow us to fool ourselves and become arrogant while experience has the capacity to instill humility. We say that a person is a doctor or a thief when in fact all they can be is human and male or female. There is no such thing as a doctor. There is a person who practices medicine. There is no such thing as a thief. There is a person who chose to steal something.


What is the purpose of human life? I believe we can better understand that by determining the meaning of the words human and God. "Hu" was a pronoun for the divine presence, going back to ancient Hebrew texts so, the word human essentially means “divine man”. The original spelling of human is “humane”. I believe that humans become more humane as they grow wise over lifetimes which eventually leads to graduation and deification. Humans become angels and angels represent the highest degree of humanity. They also develop other virtues that depend on their humanity to blossom. They are compassion (aloha), righteousness (pono), service (malama) and a few others. The word God was originally spelled Gud and also meant “good” so, good and God are interchangeable words. Many of us believe that we become angels and/or go to heaven after we die. If this is true, then what is it we accomplish by doing so? Do we sit in heaven and watch God like we would mountain scenery? No way. That is a pass time for the weary not the inspired. Angels have free will just as humans do. Do you think a god-like being would just sit around when there are people to love and serve? Not likely though, they are blocked by a person’s free will. They will not help unless asked and don’t expect them to explain that to you. That would violate your free will to be ignorant.


What happens to humans that polarize to this process? They start to lose their humanity, fall into darkness and take pride in making other people miserable. They chastise others, find faults, steal, threaten, etc. They feel alone in the world while surrounded by people, that nobody understands them or wants to try and they have no real friends because they don’t really feel that they can trust anyone because they themselves are untrustworthy. Evil people think that everyone is capable of as much evil as they are and tend to malign the acts of others. They are suspicious and cynical. They may be thoughtful but, they are never truly generous.

As a spirit you have a choice to learn to develop a compassionate heart or an intellectual mind. One will make a difference to your immortal life and the other will help improve your mortal life. I suggest you don’t forsake either one but, to concentrate on developing compassion at an early age because that will stay with you and bring the one thing into your life that everyone wants and that is appreciation. That’s not to say that everyone will show you appreciation but, on a spiritual level they will remember you. The fight between good and evil is a fight between caring and not caring. Everyone without exception is along for the ride to becoming a humble enthusiastic servant of the light or an arrogant dismissive miser who takes pleasure in seeing others suffer and fail. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Aloha, Kahuna Lamaku.