The Enlightenment and Captain James Cook: The Lono-Cook-Kirk-Regenesis

By Janet Susan Holman

May all beings enjoy 'The Enlightenment.'

The Enlightenment and Captain James Cook, The Lono-Cook-Kirk-Regenesis, is a thoroughly informative and a deeply personal read. It is a fictionalized biography that takes place during Britain's 'Age of Enlightenment and Discovery' and it is highly 'truth based,' integrating the 'first written and compiled' Polynesian facts and mythology that includes the diaries and actual journals of the many men on board Cook's ships. No writer has better put together a more complete compilation of the facts integrated with mythology and told in novel form, giving the reader a bird's eye view of the action. She touches on James Cook and his co-relation with Gene Roddenberry's James T. Kirk and how it inter-relates with her own account of learned spiritual wisdom and her 'mythic writers journey.' She gives a personal account of her journey that was guided by the 'Aumakua' (Hawaiian and British ancestors alike) and Archangel Metatron, to create a feature film script about James Cook that led her on a spiritual pilgrimage where she encountered the truth behind, reincarnation, remanifestation, archetypes and extraterrestrial realities. She then made a trip to Sarnath, India and also discovered a link to Polynesia with the name 'Lono' (or Rono; the name Cook was referred to as when he arrived in Polynesia) and the 'Phurba Diety' in ancient Tibet.

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This is an important story that needs to be told and your writing is very good. See to it that the film gets produced.

Jagdish P. Sharma, Professor, Department of History, University of Hawaii at Manoa

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 23, 2008
• ISBN: 9781468533378

Janet Susan Holman

Janet began writing for publishing at the age of 21 at a US Army museum at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii where she was stationed. In 1990 she was selected to train as a script supervisor in the IATSE-MOPO #665, Hawaii's filmmakers Union. She worked with many leading industry professionals at that capacity for over 12 years. She then met a Hawaiian man who brought to her a, 'blessing in chant' from the Big Island that began to ignite her ambition to write a movie script about James Cook, after which she had many paranormal experiences including her realizations with extraterrestrial realities. She then attended the IBI Forum, (Ceo Space) an entrepreneurial business investment forum that prepared her for the journey ahead. There she met Mr. Nik Venet, (producer, Bee Gees, Linda Rondstadt) who adopted her project and gave her the courage to continue writing. Janet had an out of body experience in 1999 when Cook's replica ship (HMS Endeavour) arrived in Hawaii's port. She was given a direct message from Archangel Metatron: 'The script is not the healing itself, however it is the foundation upon which the healing is about to begin.' In 2002 Janet was recognized informally as a reincarnated Tibetan Lama by His Holiness the 25th Serkong Tritul from Tibet who asked Janet to come to his Monastery and become a nun. She was honored however felt she had to stay in Hawaii to finish her script. It was recommended that she find a 'phurba master' to give her 'proper teaching' by Her Eminance Lama Damola of the Sakya Lineage after she experienced a rare apparition of Dorji Grobolo. (Phurba Deity) Her journey led her to England and Sarnath India where she uncovered many interesting correlations to James Cook and the Tibetan teacings of: Guru Padmasambava, or Guru Rimpoche.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Preface

Kekiopilo Takes a Timeless Journey

Meeting Mrs. Kirkby

To Whitby with the Walkers

From War to Love

North American Coast

Journey into the Unknown

The Transit of Venus

The Return Home Through Darkness

The Arrival Back in England

Journey Back into the South Seas

The Adventure and O’Mai

The Resolution Comes Home

The Unintended Third Voyage

The Fateful Journey

New Zealand’s Enlightenment

O’mai’s House Of Cards

Hawaii And The Forbidden Kapu

Disaster In North American Waters

Hawaii’s Enlightened Guest Revealed

February 14, 1779-0600 Hrs

The Retaliation

Ancient Hawaii 16th Century,

The Rainforest

Author’s End Notes

Star Bulletin Nov 1999

Bibliography

INTRODUCTION

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man’s character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

—Mark Twain in Eruption

Captain James Cook was arguably a remarkable man of light and integrity who performed an amazing service to humanity by traveling to distant and far-off unknown lands that were inhabited by fierce and often truculent natives who often practiced cannibalism and human and other blood sacrifices. Considered to be savages by his English counterparts, the natives he encountered were often friendly and considerate, and Cook took to the task of exploring those native and distant lands with ferocity, enthusiasm, and brilliance, by taking a scientific party of advanced and educated and often difficult and antagonistic

Officers and unruly seamen with him to calculate and record every step of the way. In his home town of Whitby and throughout England and most of the western world, he is known as the foremost man of Europe’s Age of Enlightenment and Discovery.

James Cook’s accomplishments were beyond compare to any other navigator’s before or since his time, and his contributions and service to humanity are immeasurable. He is considered to be a hero in his hometown of Whitby, England, a quaint and busy seaport in North Yorkshire that is coincidentally one of Honolulu’s twin cities. He and his men often had to be away from home for up to as much as three years at a time, without essentials such as food and water, and they suffered the greatest of hardships that we could only imagine in today’s world of creature comforts. Men often died at sea, and every day they wondered if they would ever return to see their loved ones. Men became maddened and could lose their minds, and scurvy and venereal diseases all too often plagued their ranks.

Captain James Cook died an untimely death in the Hawaiian Islands in 1779 on February 14, St. Valentine’s Day, the day representing all-consuming love. Proving to have been a man of the utmost integrity and a noted and renown humanitarian, James Cook, perhaps the greatest navigator of all time, was not a god. He was only human, and Hawaiians of that time knew that and they were very enlightened in many ways. The prophesy of his return is what I call the Lono-Cook-Kirk Re-genesis, (parallel-past-present and future) and Hawaiians honored and expected his arrival. I generally tell people; whether you like James Cook or not depends on what you were taught about him or what side your bread is buttered upon. There was a revisionist history by American Missionaries that took place in the 1850’s that needs to be recognized. James Cook, on the other hand, was quoted in his journals as saying, Let any man censure my conduct, after an unfortunate incident when he had to kill several attacking and truculent natives in canoes in New Zealand as he and his men attempted to land their boats and replenish their much needed water supply.

After his untimely death in Hawaii many years later, there was a great influx of American and British missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands, which until that time were uninhabited by Westerners. Earliest migrations of peoples to Hawaii have recently been re-traced coming from places as far back as ancient Sumeria and the goddess ‘Inanna’ is in direct alignment with Hawaii’s goddess ‘Hina’ as are a few others that I have traced in India and even Tibet and outlined in this book’s conclusion. In the early 1800’s the Calvinist missionaries from America set out to take over the British missionary stronghold that had preceded them, and they used James Cook as their target. To vilify Cook would be sufficient, and missionary Sheldon Dibble began a full-on smear campaign by publishing books stating that Cook had allowed himself to be deified by Hawaiians when he’d first arrived. That was a very serious offense during that era of Christian authority, and it worked. Some of Dibble’s compilations are still being taught in Hawaiian schools to children even today. As a result of this action many Hawaiian people I have met seem to look at James Cook in a linear fashion often dehumanizing him. He has become a symbol of blame and all that is wrong. I have enclosed in the back of this book, a copy of Herb Kane’s (Hawaii’s foremost respected artist and leading historian) newspaper article entitled; The Other Attack on James Cook, that was published in the Honolulu Star Bulletin in November of 1999 when Cook’s 17 million dollar replica ship came to Hawaii’s port. I have written this book while intensely researching and re-researching the oldest compilations gathered and written by Cook and his men in their journals and I have integrated the mythology of ‘Lono’ especially compiled by Martha Beckwith in her book entitled Hawaiian Mythology. Martha Beckwith was the first scholar to chart a path through the hundreds of books articles and little-known manuscripts that recorded the oral narratives of the Hawaiian people. Her book has become a classic work of folklore and ethnology and the definitive treatment of Hawaiian mythology and to her work I am eternally grateful. There have been many later writings done by Hawaiian scholars in the 1870’s some being descendents of the royal line. It is not my intention to disrespect them; however we know that they were under the influence of Missionary Dibble and Christian Missionary influence. Their varied tales of Lono and Kaikilani seem to me to have been yet another lifetime of Lono or perhaps even their psychic visions in a compassionate attempt to help heal the past, present and future. I also integrated the mythology into the writings and journals compiled by Cook and his men and sent to me by Mr. Herb Kane, to obtain a well-rounded picture of what might have occurred upon Cook’s arrival to Hawaii. This book is my attempt to humanize Cook and give him a personality so that Hawaiian people might learn to love and respect him with their manao for his accomplishments and his choices most often made with integrity.

We know from journalized compilations of Cook’s men and Cook that he did not allow himself to be deified and that in fact he and his men found the kapu moe (forced prostration ritual) to be most displeasing and objectionable. When Cook arrived in Hawaii, he was initiated into the Lono priesthood and revered in the same nature as the other high priests of Lono and high chiefs of that era. He wrote openly in his journals that he did not like the superior treatment he and his men were given, and neither did the other officers who accompanied him.

This manuscript is a result of 17 years of intense research and study and is based on factual accounts taken from the actual journals of Cook and his men and the earliest compilations of Hawaiian mythology.

While researching the events written about in Cook’s journals and writing the scenes for the movie script, I learned that Captain Cook had been highly influenced by the Quakers. I knew little about them, so I decided to do some research, which included attending a Quaker meeting in Manoa Valley on Oahu. When I arrived at the meeting and took a seat among the crowd, I couldn’t help but notice two darling little old ladies, most likely in their eighties. They were looking directly at me, smiling with joy, and one said to the other, There she is. I thought that was odd, and after the meeting when I introduced myself to them, they told me that they were from Whitby, England, the small coastal village in North Yorkshire that lays claim as Captain James Cook’s birthplace. I never saw them again, but they left a lasting impression with me as I continued the mysterious journey.

I then met a wonderful British man named Roger Potter, who was an Olympic bobsled gold medalist who lived in Hawaii, and he and I spent many hours conversing about Captain Cook. Roger then presented to me a small book about Cook written by the lovely Ms. Cordellia Stamp, whom I later traveled to Whitby to meet. She is an eccentric and wonderful woman in her eighties who is quite a marvelous character. We hit it off and she gave me a tour of James Cook’s birthplace. She has agreed to be a consultant to our proposed feature film.

In 1999 Roger and I were in Hawaii to greet the $17 million replica of the HM Bark Endeavour when she arrived in Hawaii’s port. Expecting its arrival, we were told that the ship would not dock unless it was formally invited by a Hawaiian group. We were quite concerned, as it didn’t get invited until the last minute, but it came to port at the Aloha Tower Marketplace, to be greeted by myself, Roger, and the president of the Marketplace and the ships CEO, John Longly, who fully supported what we were doing and our plans for a grassroots film. Quite different was its arrival in Hawaii from that in Whitby. Nearly 1 million people came from all over the world to Whitby England to greet her, while only 200 or so people showed up at the Marketplace for the arrival, which was poorly covered by Hawaii’s media. We were quite surprised at the absence of Aloha and the lost teaching opportunity that occurred. In Hawaii’s Maritime Museum at the Marketplace there is only a 3-by-4 inch picture of James Cook stuck in a back corner of the room. Quite a small tribute to someone who had made such great advances to humanity and was such a loyal and trusted servant to the cause of the enlightenment.

During that time, I felt as if my ship had come in and my Japanese hanai (or adopted) grandfather, Papa John Niino, whom I rented a small cottage from in Manoa Valley, took me to the home of a famous Hawaiian storyteller, where several Gelukpa monks were staying. It was very a beautiful experience. As the monks entered the property, on several acres on Hawaii’s North Shore, wearing their beautiful Tibetan headdresses and other regalia, they were chanting and invoking all the great Tibetan lineage masters by name and praying in the Tibetan language, while on the other end of the property marched the Hawaiian warriors, who were chanting their great lineage holders’ names in succession, wearing their Hawaiian regalia and praying in the Hawaiian language. All came together in the long driveway and greeted one another with the traditional head-to-head transmission, where their third eyes join and actually transfer their divine energies. It was a moving experience I shall never forget.

Later that day in the home of the storyteller, I had another life-changing and profound experience. As I sat and enjoyed a cup of tea with a Hawaiian kupuna (teacher or elder), I kept hearing a tapping noise inside the living room. When I asked the kupuna what it was, she told me it was coming from the drum in the corner of the room. I peered at it intently and noticed that the tapping noise was indeed coming from the drum. Was it tapping all by itself? I asked myself, befuddled. The kupuna then explained to me that the drum had been placed on her mother’s grave for three days when she’d died and special ceremonies had been performed. Then the mother was able to communicate with her through the drum from the other side of the veil, so to speak. She had developed a complete means of communication with her mother, who was coming in through the drum and advising her. I was amazed, and then I really began to monitor my thoughts, having been made fully aware that my mind was being read. I also learned that the Tibetans can read minds. When I sat in their midst, many times I was shown by the great teachers that some of them had that ability, and later I developed it for myself after taking special empowerments. The ability, as with all of those of Maha Siddha (which means one with miraculous abilities), come and go, and it is advisable not to become attached. They are a great blessing, but they often become somewhat of a burden. After all, it is bad enough sometimes knowing what people are saying, let alone what they are thinking.

Also at that same time I experienced seeing UFOs above the home, which was perched on the side of a mountain, and the mountain itself was literally documented as moving an inch a month—so much so that the state sent workers to dig trenches as large as 20 to 30 feet in diameter and 15 feet deep just outside the home I lived in and a few others, and they then placed large iron and steel frames inside to stabilize the mountain. As a result of heavy rains, the home was at risk of completely tumbling into the trench. It was all very frightening and made little sense. I was taught to use the sacred languages and invoke the light of the Archangels and Ascended Masters and keep clear. I later learned that the crafts were most likely not of the highest integrity or from the Office of the Christ, or the Galactic Federation of Light. I also learned that Lono, (Longo) or Oro, or O’rongo, as he is known in New Zealand, is the protector of navigators and that his symbol is hidden in the wooden carved deities, concealed to the naked eye. It is the symbol of a large bird (Bird Tribe symbol and from the ‘Office of the Christ’), and ancient texts similar to the Sumerian texts found at Easter Island in the 1800s depicting UFO-like flying saucers were found in the region of Lono, just near the large mysterious statues there.

It was during that period of my life I also met one of the most beautiful and lovely Masters of Enlightenment named Chalanda Sai Ma. Ma had come to Hawaii to attend a retreat with the Ishaya Monks who gave a pure Christ teaching and meditation method. I did not know it at the time how much of an impact this beautiful young Indian lady would have on my life. She is now known as Her Holiness Sai Maa after having been given that title by the head of one of India’s leading Vedic Colleges. Her organization is known as Humanity in Unity and she is also a powerful advocate of interfaith understanding and cooperation. This is reflected in her collaborations and meetings with some of the world’s foremost spiritual leaders from all religious traditions.

In 2002 I was ‘re-cognized’ again as a former Tibetan monk by His Holiness the 25th Serkong Tritul, a Tibetan master who at that time asked me to come to his monastery in Taiwan and become a nun. I was honored however I declined the invitation to finish my work with the book and script and stayed in Hawaii. I often wonder what life would be like if I had gone with him. He gave me the name Deshen Tsomo (Oceans of Bliss). In 2003 I flew to England and took special empowerments and blessings and proper teaching, as recommended by Her Eminence Lama Damola of the Sakya lineage in Tibetan Buddhism after I experienced a rare and profound apparition of a Phurba and Dorji Grobolo. I was given the name Ngakmo Karma Khandro by my teacher there and also received ‘Dakini Empowerment’ and had an auspicious sign that I would meet my divine consort. (An empowerment that requires a consort to perfect) Just after returning to Hawaii I had many auspicious signs when I met my perfect teacher; Master Jonathan Ming Ji, a Chinese Zen Buddhist monk and master painter for over 25 years who is now an Abbot. Lama Domala gave me the name Palmo Yangdzom (Power of all Wealth). I experienced the apparition while practicing with a great Tibetan Bon Po, Phurba master, and Maha Siddha named Dorji Tsering and it was much to his surprise. He has a devilish sense of humor and the most beautiful and poignant and literally penetrating, blue eyes with miraculous healing powers encrypted within his piercing transmissions of violet light and after I had a meeting with him I experienced violet balls of light bursting forth from the top of my head for several hours during the middle of the night. For the next few days I had a most excruciating headache. Later he and I were surprised to find out that he and Captain Cook had the same birthday.

Additionally I had an out-of-body experience where I ended up in another consciousness time zone and was hovering momentarily on high above Captain Cook’s ships in Unalaska in 1777, when I heard the voice of Archangel Metatron speak to me with a direct message about the film script. He said, The script is not the healing itself; however, it is the foundation upon which the healing is about to begin. This manuscript was renamed The Enlightenment after a trip to Marton, England, to the home of my ancestors, and to the birthplace of Captain James Cook, and as a result of my journey I learned about the ‘Age of Enlightenment and Discovery and how Captain James Cook effected the world.’ I now call it the Lono-Cook-Kirk Regenesis, and it is meant to be taken as a mystery and an inspiration. This book is based on fact and has been deeply researched. The people of old England had scribes, they did not have cameras to document as we do today and they wrote down everything. The journals and other compilations used were the most original I could find especially in dealing with Hawaiian mythology and that is how I formulated my opinions. I was almost always shown through a series of auspicious signs that I was correct and I invoked the assistance of the Masters of Enlightenment to assist nearly every day of this ‘mythic writer’s journey.’ May it open your mind to new information and possibilities and fill you with love for all beings of all races, colors, and creeds, as it has done for me and may you heal your own karma. (Karma simply translates as action, and as you reap so shall you sew) The appropriate attitude is to try to understand the inner meanings and symbology of the story and how it relates to the past, present, and future for your own spiritual growth and the evolution of humanity.

It is my hope that your journey with this book will open a doorway or sacred portal through which you will travel to experience your own enlightenment. All the seeds are already within you awaiting the harvest. You are a child of God. May you be blessed with abundance, immeasurable wisdom, and good health throughout all of your lifetimes.

PREFACE

It was during the 12th century that a migration of fierce and great warriors arrived in Hawaii from Tahiti and set up the kapu, or forbidden system, and enslaved the common people that lived there. The invaders were led by the high chief Paao and were brilliant and crafty. With them they brought the stories of their ancestors, which included the teachings of Lono, the ancestral God of peace, prosperity and fertility, an abbreviation of Oro (O’Rono or O’Lono, the god associated with birds and the protection of navigators) and Pele the fire goddess of the volcanoes; Ku, the God of war; Kane, the God of fresh water and peace; and Kanaloa, the God of darkness and of Po, the underworld. These were their ancestral Gods that came down from the heavens and walked upon the Earth as men. They practiced religious rituals that all too often included human sacrifices of lower classes and wonderers. (except O’Lono of the Pleiades who required none)

In the 16th century in Hawaii, some four hundred years later, a kaula, or embodied seer, named Kekiopilo (translated means children of the coffee) lived on a mountainside in the tropical rainforest, up and away from his tribe who resided as commoners near the beach down below. Seer Kekiopilo had a vision and foretold the return of Lono or Lono-I-Ka-Maka-Hiki, Lono of the Pleiades, who lived in ancient Hawaii during the 8th century and prophesied his own rebirth. He told the people that he would return to Hawaii on an island bearing coconut trees and pigs and with dogs that have long legs upon which men would ride. The prophecy went on to say that when Lono returned, the kapu system would fall.

When Captain James Cook’s ships arrived in Hawaii in 1778, native chiefs were certain that he was Lono returning. The tall masted ships’ sails closely resembled Lono’s white flags, and his ship’s decks certainly were Lono’s altars. The two ships had arrived during the season of Makahiki, the season from October to February that was dedicated to Lono-I-Ka-Makahiki and was the season of games, feasting, and peace. In New Zealand, the symbol of O’ro was the birdmen who were the protectors of the navigators who traveled from shore to shore, and indeed Cook was protected by what he often referred to as a