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Hawaiian Healing: A Call to the Soul
By Gail Coffey, B.S. in Healtheology

Essene master/philosopher William “Pila” Chiles is a Vietnamese war combat survivor of an experimental program in marine guerilla warfare. Like many war veterans, he experienced what is now termed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). After unsuccessful treatments by Veterans Hospitals and private counseling—both of which focused on revisiting the cause—Chiles began to apply what he calls “simple Marine combat training savvy.”

In his words, “I had to discover and perfect my own, more effective healing modalities in order to even walk and chew gum...to function again in daily life, while ‘milking all the traditional goats’ along the way. And, as Gurdjieff would have said, ‘while making my own butter and cheese in the process.’”

Pila eventually found his way to the Big Island of Hawaii and was amazed to discover his ability to speak and understand the mystical Hawaiian language. Many poignant insights about his journey between traditional psychiatry and Hawaiian healing are found in his 1995 book, The Secrets and Mysteries of Hawaii.

	“The true, higher Destiny of Hawaii is to become a ‘lighthouse unto our troubled world,’ in this our most defining moment of greatest change in all history.”

Over the years, Pila’s book has achieved and maintained five-star ratings with Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble. It is available in eight countries; in German and English. Revered within the University of Hawaii Archives and the Hawaii Public Library System, it was inducted recently into the International Theosophical Society archive as well—as was the new interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

One of the more fascinating aspects of his book is his correlation between the chain of Hawaiian islands and the human chakra system. As a frequent visitor to the sunny Pacific, I was well aware of each island’s distinct energies, so his diagram and text made sense to me. Pila Chiles likens Ni’ihau (the tiny “forbidden island”) to our crown chakra; Kaua’i (home of the amethyst) to our third eye chakra; Oahu to our throat chakra; Moloka’i to our heart chakra; Lana’i to our solar plexus; Kaho’olawe to our spleen energies; Maui to our sexual chakra; and the Big Island (home of Pele and great volcanic activity) to our root chakra.

The book gives beautiful descriptions of the islands’ energies as they relate to our own energy centers, as well as how he intuited ley lines—and how they led him to and informed him of the islands’ power vortexes.

If, like more than two-thirds of people polled worldwide, you have a deep yearning to experience paradise, here is what Pila says: “There is more to the secret of why Hawaii is the ’living, physical symbol’ of what the human soul yearns for.” Pila contends that Hawaii holds “a key to our human puzzle” and has a greater destiny; that it’s far more than just a tourist destination and an escape for the rich and famous.

Gail Coffey is CEO of www.SharingWellnessInfo.com. AIHT invites you to enjoy an expanded version of her interview with William “Pila” Chiles at: www.aiht.edu/articles/default.asp