Hawaii Inside is about us and for us. If pictures speak a thousand words, videos speak volumes. Our collection of more than 2,000 public-domain videos tells endlessly fascinating stories in the authentic voices of our community. Dr. Serge Kahili King, urban shaman, leads us into the secrets of the kahuna tradition, while on a less exalted plane, Hotel Street Harry holds forth on the infamous war-time War of the Prostitutes. Every niche of our islands is rich in significance and story-telling, and no stone is left unturned.

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As a way of getting our feet wet (even with the ocean at hand), here’s a mind map (“WisdomMap”) of the history and culture of Hawai’i. WisdomMaps lay things out in a multimedia-rich environment that you’ll find fascinating… it’s history as you’ve never seen it! Here’s the home map:

The Pacific is our larger home. The Hawaiian Islands occupy the northern apex of the Great Polynesian Triangle, anchored in the far southeast by Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and New Zealand in the southwest. In addition to Polynesia, this vast ocean includes the island domains of Micronesia and Melanesia, stretching for thousands of miles. For the purpose of the Big Picture, here are our mind maps for the cultures and history of the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Australia. While collectively all of the Pacific islands’ territory amounts to but a relatively small land mass, the psychic expanse of the Pacific is immense, and its cultural and spiritual depth profound. The peoples of the Pacific and their amazing civilizations will always occupy an out-sized presence in our imaginations.

Hawai’i is one of the world’s best examples of a melting pot society. We know how to make it work. When everyone’s a minority, nobody’s in charge. We all get along pretty well (albeit with a sense of humor), and our community and way of life is sustained by both its Hawaiian host culture and by the cultures of people whose origins lie in places far, far away. We believe that Hawai’i has a future different from the one we presently contemplate (with mixed emotions). We hope to encourage new thinking and initiatives toward creating a new manufacturing economy and a knowledge economy in Hawai’i that will someday export to the world not only our own uniquely creative products, but America’s most valued product, its higher education. A patented technology now exists to make American higher education available to global learners everywhere, in their own languages, without requiring study in the United States. And it’s all ours. Imagine Hawai’i as a global knowledge center and visitor destination of a very different sort.