So many of us spend our lives searching for magically easy solutions to complicated problems.

One inescapable result of this is that there will always be people selling them.

And sometimes to make them even more compelling, they cloak their miracle solutions in the imagery

of ancient cultures to give them an air of mystique and superior enlightenment.

You can find one such miracle solution on sale today, on the island of Hawaii.

Huna is coming up next on Skeptoid.

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Huna, New Age on an Island.

Travel to Hawaii or visit any sort of New Age conference and you're going to be exposed

to Huna.

Huna is presented as, and believed by many to be, a system of secret ancient Hawaiian wisdom

that you can learn and gain insight, improve yourself for your life, or be more successful

whatever you want.

Key to its attractiveness to Westerners is its claim of having its basis on an enlightened

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