Huna

Discovering Personal Spirituality: Affirmations and the Power Within

A user on Reddit went looking for a coven in Hawaiʻi and found something else entirely: a retreat promising that Kauaʻi is the "epicenter of Lemuria," a lost continent that, surprise, happens to be the ancient homeland of their "light ancestors." The furious, funny, and deeply necessary callout on Reddit exposes the racist esotericism hiding behind flowery retreat marketing. This isn't harmless hippie-dippie fun. It's a repackaged colonial lie, one that erases Native Hawaiians to sell a fantasy to people who want to "come home" to a place they've never been. The Reddit user is right to seethe. Claiming an unprovable myth to buy up land on an island with actual descendants is a sickening twist on the "aloha spirit.