Mana
Mana is a term used by Fijian healers/shamans[1] to refer to what on the LP, we call Force.
Syncretic Terms
Force > Imagination, Mana, Miwi, Nu Shug, Orenda, Perspective, Prana, Wakan, Will, Yang, Zaki
Notes
"Mana is the fundamental spiritual force that is recognized in cultures throughout the world, akin to the n/ um of the Kalahari Zhu/ twasi or the wakan of the Lakota people or the chi of the traditional Chinese. But as with these other concepts, mana is hard to define. “Mana,” said one Fijian elder paradoxically, trying to explain it, “is mana.” Others say mana is the “power to effect,” or “what makes things happen.” One chief likened its action to that of electricity; it is something unseen but nevertheless powerful, even devastating."[2]
"The more powerful and sacred the site or person, the stronger the mana attached to it. Mana is a direct expression of the power of the Vu — the more powerful the Vu, the more powerful the mana."[3]
Footnotes
- ↑ Katz, Richard. The Straight Path of the Spirit: Ancestral Wisdom and Healing Traditions in Fiji. Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press, 1999
- ↑ Katz, Richard. The Straight Path of the Spirit: Ancestral Wisdom and Healing Traditions in Fiji. Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press, 1999 p. 20. Emphasis added.
- ↑ Katz, Richard. The Straight Path of the Spirit: Ancestral Wisdom and Healing Traditions in Fiji. Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press, 1999. p. 21.
