Body-Mind-Spirit Paradigm - Genetic Emotion-Charged Unconscious Spiritual Symbols!: Tukudika Native Americans, Hawaiian Ho'omana religion, Filipino Kapwa (shared-identity)-Ginhawa, Modern Medicine - Dr. Koenig + Prism Paradigm Symbolic Energy-Filter model
Creators: name: Peck Jr, Charles
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Year: 2025

description: Among Native American cultures, there appears to have been a nearly universal acceptance of the concept of "spirit-life-force" intrinsic to the world, nature and people, pervasive in the Native American culture. For instance, the Sioux embraced the concept of wakd or mahopa; the Algonquin, the idea of manitowi; the Mahopa Shoshone used the word pukunt. Across the Iroquois tribes, the concept was referred to variously as orenna or karenna by the Mohawk, Cayuga, and Oneida, urente by the Tuscarora, and iarenda or orenda by the Huron. Orenda (or orenna) is an Iroquois name for a spiritual power intrinsic to people and the world. The world and nature were viewed as an eternal struggle of one orenda against others. The role of orenda was viewed in ways similar to the Judeo-Christian tradition (as well as Islamic) in which the Holy spirit was the source and force for prophecy, divination, miracles, blessing, prayer, and worship.

The T'boli had similar views. "Fu, the spirit of the land, has a dual character. At times benevolent, that Fu would help people especially farmers by blessing them with bountiful harvests or healing the sick member of a family, malevolent, in other times, that Fu causes illness and destroys crops. Understanding on the duality of the spirit's characteristics gives each T'boli reverence to the environment that extends to the different elements that communes with it. In fact, trees, animals, and water are not considered as mere elements but other spiritual [living] entities. 

This belief system guides them to commune with nature and all entities that co-exist from it. From this belief, they anchor their respect and regard to all things that exist. They conserve, protect, and manage their natural resources like how they treat their relationship to each other. They build and strengthens their relationship with the spirits by taking care of its manifestations, the things that exists, the physical world" [p.202 - Dancing With the Dreamweavers: A Narrative Discourse of the T'bolis of the Southern Philippines January 2021 Emmanuel Villoria Hernani, Ma Rosita Ampoyas Hernani, Delmo Amfan Dulay)

The Ho'omana religion actually recognizes three different types or levels of "spirit," which would be roughly equivalent to the Body-Mind-Spirit hierarchy of Pythagoras. The unihipilior spirit, or lower soul, equates with the 'physical body,' the uhane spirit can be understood as the 'mind,' while the 'aumakua soul would be the higher soul or 'spirit.' The word, 'aumakua, could perhaps be best translated as "utterly trustworthy ancestral spirit." It should be noted that, in Polynesian culture, as well as most other primitive societal belief systems, human beings had "souls" and folklore about the ghosts of deceased men or "spirits" and apparitions were frequently heard tales.
The Polynesian-Hawaiian religion was a dualistic religion in which for every force in nature there was a competing counterpart. While a person could achieve mana through righteousness (pono = right acts), a person could also obtain mana through war and violence. In their religion, Ku, the god of war and rulers, was balanced by Lono, the god of peace and fertility. Hawaii was unique in the Polynesian culture in the worship of gods. One author noted that Hawaii was a very rich island or territory and that wealth created a reason or justification for fighting – which might explain its unique characteristic of a religion with gods and goddesses. 

Furthermore, the body-mind-spirit paradigm is also found in the Christian Bible as well: "Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thessalonians 5:23). Also, in Hebrews the Bible states, "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart" (Hebrews 4:12). On top of that, modern medical science has recently revitalized the idea of body-mind-spirt. 
The Ho'omana religion actually recognizes three different types or levels of "spirit," which would be roughly equivalent to the Body-Mind-Spirit hierarchy of Pythagoras. The unihipilior spirit, or lower soul, equates with the 'physical body,' the uhane spirit can be understood as the 'mind,' while the 'aumakua soul would be the higher soul or 'spirit.' The word, 'aumakua, could perhaps be best translated as "utterly trustworthy ancestral spirit." It should be noted that, in Polynesian culture, as well as most other primitive societal belief systems, human beings had "souls" and folklore about the ghosts of deceased men or "spirits" and apparitions were frequently heard tales.
The Polynesian-Hawaiian religion was a dualistic religion in which for every force in nature there was a competing counterpart. While a person could achieve mana through righteousness (pono = right acts), a person could also obtain mana through war and violence. In their religion, Ku, the god of war and rulers, was balanced by Lono, the god of peace and fertility. Hawaii was unique in the Polynesian culture in the worship of gods. One author noted that Hawaii was a very rich island or territory and that wealth created a reason or justification for fighting – which might explain its unique characteristic of a religion with gods and goddesses.