How To Use The Pendulum

How To Use the Pendulum

By Max Freedom Long – [Mid-Summer 1951]

1. Make a pendulum or “bob” by tying a thread to a ring, button, wooden ball, medium size marble. A locket on a chain works well. Whatever you use should be about four inches from its end to where you hold it between thumb and lst and 2nd fingers. If right handed, use your right hand. Read more

Huna – The Workable Psycho-Religious System of the Polynesians

PART I

The Investigation of Huna and How It Came About

DURING THE past century investigations have been made of native magic in Africa, India and other parts of the world. Spiritualistic phenomena have been certified as genuine and studied painstakingly by over a hundred recognized scientists. Religions have been surveyed and the instant or nearly instant miraculous healing at Lourdes verified.

But from all these studies and efforts there has come nothing faintly resembling a definite basic system, philosophy, theory, or psycho-religious science which would explain, even in the most general terms, the phenomena of the various fields. In fact, investigations in these fields began to arrive at a stalemate several years ago. New discoveries have been conspicuously lacking. Read more

Huna Bulletin 74

The Huna Laboratory

March 15, 1952

For Huna Research Associates
Covering the experimental approach to the use of Huna
From Max Freedom Long
P.O. Box 2867, Hollywood Station, Los Angeles 28, California, U.S.

 

REPORTS ON THE EFFECT OF  THE POSITION TAKEN IN PRAYER

HRA C.L. of Omaha writes, “When I tried kneeling prayer, I found the position forced bodily tension, and that this interfered with the signals both ways, as it were. I use clasped hands, standing  [and] I get a terrific charge back usually (after making contact with the Aumakua), but it is different from the jolt when contacting and sending – cooler and quieter.”

HRA Mrs. W.A. reports from San Francisco, “Regarding the experiment with the position to be taken during prayer, I think each one must try to find the best position for himself. For me, the best position is facing north, hand out and up – a small dish of water to dip my fingers into and brush a drop or two across my face to impress the Aunihipili. I use the synchronization of the Aunihipili and Aumakua at the base of the spine as taught by the Theosophical Society – also have to believe.”

HRA Mrs. B.R.B., visiting this winter in California writes, “Did you know that Verne Cameron states (small book on the Aurameter, soon to be released by Meade Layne Publications, San Diego), that there seems to be a great step-up in the energy flow detectable with the Aurameter when, at prayer, the one offering the prayer stands with hands outstretched and palms turned UPWARD?” Read more

Huna Bulletin 73

Letters, Reports & Comments

March 1, 1952

For Huna Research Associates
Covering the experimental approach to the use of Huna
From Max Freedom Long
P.O. Box 2867, Hollywood Station, Los Angeles 28, California, U.S.

THIS IS TO BE A BULLETIN MADE UP OF LETTERS, REPORTS, COMMENTS, ETC.

ORIGIN OF POTENTIZING THEORY

HRA E.G.H. writes: (As to MFL and all Fellow Researchers) “The world does move – in reverse. Bulletin No. 72 is a masterpiece of evidence. I refer to the second paragraph, headed HOW TO POTENTIZE, outlined by Dr. Oscar Brunler. This is nothing new. It is straight Homeopathy, a science of healing by high vibrating medicines, outlined by Dr. Christian F.S. Hannemann in 1796, and offered as a textbook in 1810. I owe my life to Homeopathy and goat’s milk, hence my interest.

“The method used in Homeopathic pharmacies, of which there are long established ones in Baltimore, Philadelphia and St. Louis, to my knowledge, differs from Dr. Brunler’s ‘flower essences and water’ (not Dr. Brunler’s but MFL’s hasty way of putting this point) in that the act of potentizing demands ‘agitation’ and the diluting solution is alcohol and water. For mineral salts, ‘trituration in a mortar’ is substituted. One part of the salts is mixed with ten parts of neutral sugar of milk, and ground with a smooth pestle until a homogeneous powder results. For higher potencies, that process is repeated ad lib. Read more

Huna Bulletin 71

Another HRA Birthday!

February 1, 1952

For Huna Research Associates
Covering the experimental approach to the use of Huna
From Max Freedom Long
P.O. Box 2867, Hollywood Station, Los Angeles 28, California, U.S.

OUR H.R.A. BIRTHDAY HAS COME AGAIN

Cigbo, whose birthday it is in particular, has four candles on his cake. As he tells you in his letter, he is sending you each an index for the HRA Bulletins to the end of 1951. As you look over the index, I believe you will share my feeling that we have come a very long way in four short years. Not only have we made good progress in better understanding of the ancient Huna system, but we have gathered much related information from many sources. At the same time we have watched the rise of such things as Dianetics and have been able to take their measure quite accurately by comparing what they had to offer with the information which we have recovered from Huna. If, as in the case of Dianetics, there was left out a clear understanding of the Aumakua, of the manas, and of the functions of the three selves and their shadowy bodies, we could confidently expect that the system would still have to be worked over and the missing elements accounted for to some degree.

HUNA AND DIANETICS

These are in the same box in one respect, as of this writing. In both systems, we are trying for a working method of self-help and self-healing. In Huna, for four years, and of necessity, we have been trying to arrive at a working system which would be effective without a kahuna or someone to act in that capacity, especially to administer the kala or cleansing, and to help get the fixations up into the light and drain them off.

In Dianetics, the kahuna was replaced by the “auditor.” The auditor took charge of the work and pushed it forward energetically during the periods when the “pre-clear” was in a relaxed state called “reverie.” In passing, it may be noted that in all the cults and systems which grew up as a result of Quimby’s experiments and discoveries (see page 316 of SSBM), those which have obtained the best results in healing body, mind or circumstances have employed a second person in lieu of Quimby, a kahuna or an auditor. This second person is the “practitioner” of course and, as such, serves two purposes, the secondary purpose being that of keeping a church organization going and financed, also augmented by new members.

THE “SELF ANALYSIS” system described in the book under that title (by L. Ron Hubbard, price $2.50 post paid from Hubbard Dianetics Foundation, 211 West Douglas Ave., Wichita 2, Kansas) is, as the author points out, not a method of getting at engrams (fixations) or draining them off, but is a self-training method which he says will enable an auditor to work faster and better with one. The Aumakua and the mana-aka mechanism is included in no workable degree in this new system. It is based largely on aids to the stimulation of memory. I am not saying that this is not entirely worthwhile by itself, but what we all need is a method which will free us from the grip of our fixations, and we may need a priest, kahuna, auditor or ERA Kitselman’s “observer” to help us. Much more work in this part of the field is needed. What we should have is a Huna laboratory in which to run our own tests.

CREATIVE INTEGRATION

This is the title of what is called by Helen and Richard Curry (of 4581 Starling Way, Los Angeles 65), “An Immediate Method,” and this method applies also to the general problems seen by Hubbard in Dianetics.

The Hubbard methods are based on the assumption that the one great driving force in each life is the desire to survive and to help with the survival of the family or larger unit upon which the individual’s survival depends. Any threat to this survival, if it comes in one of several ways, may form an “engram” or complex. These are locked in with the energy that drives the man, and must be uncovered and rationalized to release the drive energy, correct various bodily and mental ills, and/or enhance the mental powers of the one who has been “cleared” of the subconscious blockings of normal action.

The “Creative Integration” method of the Currys carries the survival urge a step farther. We are told that the human being not only exerts himself to the limit to survive but, once this is seen as fairly certain, he has the urge to act in a creative way – to create something. The creative urge makes for originality. One does not copy the other fellow’s paintings, verses or weapons. One experiences a wave of the great basic creative something that is half power and half higher inspiration. The thing created is unlike copies in that it has a stirring effect on others. There is a contagion of released creative energy. An example is set up and the group imitates and shares the sudden individual growth. The na kahuna had a name for the inspiring entity. It was none other than a guise of the Aumakua, but in this aspect they called it “The god who inspires.” In their lives, the great instances of such divine inspiration were often in orations, dance or prophecy.

Helen Curry has generously sent me a copy of their mimeo article describing their discovery of this theory and a technique to go with it. She writes (as of December 31st, last):

“I have just finished reading SSBM and like it very much. I am sending you a copy of a technique which I stumbled onto about five months ago. This technique, in Huna terms, establishes – it would seem – a condition whereby the Aunihipili and Auhane can contact and cooperate with the Aumakua. This is done without relinquishing free will. Strangely enough, it works even for people having strong guilt complexes. It does not work easily for people whose Auhane cannot contact the Aunihipili, in other words, for those people who have decided that the whole of the Aunihipili and/or body is evil, or for those people who have rejected the Auhane as evil. Perhaps the reason the Creative Integration (method of “processing”) works is that it demands action and stresses a positive purpose toward which the triune self can work.”

THIS METHOD is delightfully simplified. Instead of going into reverie and recalling any pleasant past experience, the direct effort is made to discover some past experience in which the rare moments of creative and inspired drive were experienced and something done, created, or produced. Once this type of incident is recalled, it is used as a springboard. The trick is to prime new periods of integration of the three selves in the way one primes a pump with a little old water to get a great supply of fresh water. I am anxious to see the Currys and A.L. Kitselman compare notes. Perhaps they already have. The inclusion of the Aumakua is inevitable, to my way of thinking, and once the proper approach is made, even in part, the path should be cleared of hindering complexes and the drives of those so aided should become normal, strong and creatively direct. With the normal condition of intercourse reestablished between the three selves of the individual, the psychosomatic ills should vanish as snow in the sun.

SOME NEWER PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCEDURE

A neatly printed 8-page pamphlet by Francis I. Regardie, D.C., Ph. D, which deals with his late discoveries and theories in the psychoanalytic field of approach. As always, Dr. Regardie writes with surpassing clearness and, as is to be expected from him, he documents his sources of information with most satisfying care. While Dr. Regardie has not included the Aumakua as yet in his theories or methods, I feel that he may in due time. (I must find his address, write to thank him for the pamphlet and suggest that he consider adding the Aumakua, for few are more familiar with the materials of the occult than he.) This method which he has worked out and has found to be effective, uses what we would call a “physical stimulus” – a very large one. The patient to be treated for fixation troubles is made to gag by using a tongue depressor. This causes a strong action of the diaphragm and stirs the Aunihipili to marked action. The nature of the fixations can, at least in part, be judged by the degree of repression or open violence of the regurgitation which is brought about, and the end result is an emotional reaction. Physical action is much to be desired here, and objects are provided which the patient may pound. Words are brought forth, submerged ideas aired, and the process of rationalization set into motion. This, by the way, is entirely apart from Dianetics, and the technique which is described was in use before L. Ron’s first book was published.

THE MECHANISMS OF LIFE

Sent to me this week by the author, Dwight H. Bulkley, of 350 S. Mills Ave., Claremont, Calif. ($2 from the author, 112 pages of offset printed reproductions of drawings and typed MMS reduced to half size.) This work has sold widely in type-sheet form and it is a pleasure to see it in the present edition. It tells, in condensed and tabulated form, all the various things covered in what we may call “Orthodox Hubbard Dianetics.” It gives most elaborate and exciting information from the fields of physiology, biology and chemistry – showing the reasonableness of the idea that a simple cell can remember what Mother said to Father in the prenatal or even preconception periods. As yet I have not had time to get out my magnifying glass and try to read it, but it looks most impressive. I have a hope that in it I may discover something to stand as the Aumakua, at least in a degree, in the processing methods which are described.

On the paper cover of this book one may read in the subtitle: “A preliminary release of discoveries inaugurating a revolution in the life sciences – with the physicochemical secret of life itself, mechanisms of integration, mind, memory, responses, psychosomatism, telepathy, and techniques for perfect HEALTH and SANITY.”

Whether the conclusions given are right or wrong, I may not be able to determine, but from a hasty glance through the pages and at the material offered, I anticipate delightful and informative reading when I can find a little time.

EARLIEST TO USE HUNA WITH DIANETICS WAS, so far as I know, Dr. Nan McCurdy, HRA and able psychologist, closely associated in her pioneering with her husband, Gordon McCurdy, M.D. and HRA, both of Florida. Already deep in the use of Huna when Dianetics appeared, the work of combining the two was at once tried out with excellent results. Dr. Nan introduced Huna at the recent Dianetics conference at Wichita, Kansas, and turned the thought of a number of leading auditors in that direction. There seems now to be a “gathering of the clans” in progress in which the findings of the most progressive workers will eventually be pooled to give us a more perfect method of handling fixations and other blockages.

THE BACH REMEDIES

Mentioned in Bulletin 70, [these] have caused much interest, and several letters have asked me what flowers were included in the list, and how one “potentized” a remedy made from a flower. My local pharmacist never heard of the remedies, and I have no information as to which flowers are included or where the 38 remedies may be purchased, or the charts to go with them.

POTENTIZING, thanks to Dr. Brunler, has been explained. The theory is that when a drug or chemical or flower extract – anything – is dissolved in water, its molecular parts are in some way changed, and the more the solution is watered, the greater the change that is brought about as the molecules in solution are more widely separated. Homeopathic remedies have long been made up under this theory, with poisons cut with water to the extent that one-to-a-million parts of potentization are not uncommon. Much chemical reseach has been done on the effects of “traces” of chemical elements or mixtures of them found in the natural state in plants or animals. In animal, as well as plant life, a “trace” of some substance may make the difference between life and death.

An experiment was carried out by Dr. Brunler in which he potentized a drop of blood taken from an aged and impotent bull in India, then injected back into the veins of the bull a dose of the solution. The bull was renewed in an amazing way and was put back to herd use for some further time. The same experiment was tried on an aged and dying man in England, his health and strength being brought back for more years of life. Dr. Brunler also tells of his experiments in potentizing certain chemicals for use as fertilizers, and of the amazing results obtained by the use of these in little more than “trace amounts.” He tried to interest manufacturers of chemical fertilizers in his findings, but failed. They wanted ways to sell more fertilizer, not less.

The farmers, on the other hand, who find that the land is poisoned by the parts of fertilizers which remain after the growth-stimulating elements have been used up, would undoubtedly be greatly interested in a system which would give better results and avoid the poisoning. In “organic” gardening, the trend is back to nature in so far as possible, but I do not know whether potentizing of fertilizing elements has been tried, although I have come to look upon the angle worms who throw up their little piles of earth on my lawn, with potentized interest. In fact, I have worried about them during the recent rains which have kept my garden beds and parts of my lawn covered with water. I noticed that some worms migrated across the walks – to what new place, I have no idea – so hope that they all were able to find the more sloping places where the soil would be less saturated and the chances better for the little fellows (who are so much like the subconscious, keeping below the surface, but pushing up dirt.)

REV. JESSIE CURL AND “HOO`LA”

These two have created much interest in HRA circles. Recently she and Mr. Curl have been in San Francisco and HRAS from miles away often braved the rains to attend the healing services. I have had a number of letters telling of the healing results. There are those who report no benefit, those who report some benefit, and those who have either had a complete healing or very marked betterment of conditions.

HRA L.W. reports, “we saw an instantaneous healing of a woman whose arm was crippled so that she could only move it forward a bit, but not back or up. She raised her arm up straight and also swung it backwards, and her facial expression was one of surprise, then joy. Another woman, with a foot condition so painful that she would not let anyone touch it, walked and stamped her foot hard on the floor.

“There were two sinus sufferers who obtained relief, one a woman whose face was swollen under her eyes from her sinus affliction. One stone deaf woman heard Rev. Curl faintly two times. All the healing was done very simply and there were many smiles exchanged, showing the influence of love.

“Rev. Curl had spent the whole day in healing and had not had time to eat. I am sure that those who saw her work would be glad to share their surcharge of vital force with Hoo`la. Would you suggest it in your next Bulletin? Rev. Curl looked so tired on Sunday Morning.”

(My comment: I have on my improvised prayer table at the Study, the picture of Hoo`la”and at each TMHG period I invite him to use some of the mana which is sent in and to do all that he can to help us with the healing. I have no way of knowing to what extent he has helped, but it may be considerable. A friend and her husband in Florida, reported that as soon as they placed 6 similar pictures in their home, and began to hope for help from Hoo-la their luck changed for the better and many good things came to them while health remained normal. The picture, as I explained in an earlier Bulletin, is a photo copy of a larger crayon portrait done by psychic sight of the spirit, by Frank Leah in London in 1950. My copy was presented to me. I do not know whether other copies are available, or at what price, but will ask next time I have the opportunity.

At this writing, Rev. Curl is in San Jose, Calif., but I expect her back in Los Angeles in time. Rev. Curl told me, at the time of our visit, that some people were so constituted that if they stood near her while she worked, the power was greatly augmented and the healing much better. “She worked on my sore left shoulder (one treatment) and the pain was less noticeable the next day and continues that way. W. had three treatments on his paralyzed cheek and during the first two treatments there was no reaction at all. On the third treatment he said there was a normal feeling in the cheek for a period of about 10 seconds. That was Sunday. Today, Wednesday, there is some kind of action taking place as there seems to be pain in the scar, which is directly over the injured nerve. I will report later on further developments.”

HRA Don K. reports, “During the first 20 minute private treatment by Rev. Curl, January 16th, there was a feeling of warmth in my left ankle in which the arthritic condition was centralized. The usual pain was greater the rest of the day, increasing at night and interfering with my sleep. On the 17th the pain was still sharp. About 10 A. M., approximately 24 hours after the treatment, while writing a letter, there came a sudden feeling of tingling through my fingers like an electric shock so sharp it caused me to jump up. I felt a sense of lightness and walked across the room. The pain was less than half of what it had been a few minutes previous. I could bend the left ankle farther each way without wincing from pain. By evening the pain was nearly 75% gone. Through the 18th the condition was much the same, but by evening there was a slight decrease of the remaining pain.

On the 19th I had another treatment, and by this time my friends who had heard of the treatments agreed that they had noticed a change in my walking and that I looked healthier and happier. On Sunday, January 20th I had very little pain. I attended Rev. Curl’s services at 8 P.M. and got a short treatment. Walked home in the wet without feeling a pain. Monday the 2lst, no noticeable pain upon arising and setting foot on floor. First time in several years. Up to 10 A.M. – at which time I write this -there is so little pain that it hardly is to be counted even if I bend the ankle sharply in all directions. Quote this as a testimonial if you wish, for other HRAs. I am so thankful to have been directed to Rev. Curl.”

HRA J.D., who was treated several times while Rev. Curl was in Los Angeles about a month back, reported by phone as of January 25th, that the arthritic condition beginning in the spine and causing much worry has completely gone. The painful condition in the hands has almost completely gone and she has high hopes of a complete and lasting cure in every respect.

HRA E.D. also treated about a month ago, was entirely relieved of a gall bladder condition and enabled to stop medication.

(Note: The two HRAs last on the list have also had TMHG and other help from HRAs engaged in healing, but both incline to give the lion’s share of credit to Jessie Curl and Hoo`la).

THE TELEPATHIC MUTUAL HEALING GROUP

This group work continues steadily at 3 and 7 P.M. California time. Many report no results. Many others report partial or complete healing of body or circumstances. Here is a letter from HRA H.D. of New York state, who began work with TMHG in August of 1950. It is one of the kind that makes my work of acting as the head and center of the TMHG so very worthwhile.

I quote. “I am tingling all along the Aka Circuit. You must receive it at your end of the line this time. And Cigbo, that dear little guy, words fail to describe him. He was adorable (in his Christmas message), although I don’t suppose he’d appreciate being called adorable, but he is. This last year has been remarkable in its changes, so subtle, so unseen, yet so real. The gloom has passed, there is harmony and understanding; my eyes are so improved. My son has finished his thesis and I am able, with the help of the Great Healing Spirit, to do the typing for him.

“He has been offered a fellowship in the graduate University of Wisconsin. My daughter is succeeding well in school and is the happiest, gayest mortal now. My husband is changed. There is no greater thing than the power of Love. A million thanks for your attention and your efforts.”

THE HRA BULLETINS HAVE BEEN HELPFUL

HRA George Wallace, writes, “It has occurred to me, Max, that you might like to know the effect – for good – you have been on one person at least, this past year. I am that person. I might say it this way. I have trained in the orthodox manner and have prided myself, smugly, on this. Your acceptance of the “ZNO” has completely changed my opinions on many things.

“It has given me an objective to live for and a calm assurance that I am not entirely alone in my stand against evil forces and the ignorance of others. Better still, I am prompted to investigate, with resultant acceptance, the other great religions and philosophical systems. This is poorly stated, but it all adds up to a grateful attitude packed with excitement as I face the future.”

(Comment: Such warm praise as this is most encouraging to me and allows me to feel that what I am able to do to share the little I know of Huna and related subjects, is well worth the candle which I burn at both ends here at the Study. Hardly a mail comes in but I have a letter or two that warms the cockles of my heart, for student after student, often in very far places, write in the first flush of their discovery of Huna through SSBM to tell me how wonderful it is to find at last a system that helps to make head and tail out of the vast mixture of truths and dogmas in other systems – in other religions and psychologies. More than that, I often am given in turn the most priceless findings in their particular lines of psycho-religious testing and experimentation.)

A RARE GIFT HAS ARRIVED FROM HRA MRS. KINGSLEY TARPEY OF LONDON

In an earlier Bulletin I mentioned the fact that Mrs. Tarpey had for years healed by contact and had used the Bovis Biometer in diagnosis and in the measurement of radiations from objects as well as people. She also painted pictures in oils, blessing the healing power into the materials used. These pictures proved to have very definite and continuing powers of healing for those who sat and looked at them.

Mrs. Tarpey, unable to paint enough pictures to go around to those who, like myself, begged for one, set about experimenting to find what other thing would hold the healing radiations and be easier to provide. A certain kind of woolen blanket cloth was found admirable for the purpose, and she generously offered to make ready a piece of it and send it for our HRA testing and use. It came in the mail a week ago with this note:

“I am enclosing a square of the woolen blanket I am using in radiesthetic treatments. I irradiate the fabric by contact, and measure by means of the Bovis Biometer until the material seems to have ’soaked up’ as much of my quality as it can take. This piece goes up to 500 degrees Bovis. My own measurement this morning on what Bovis called the ‘psychie’, and Dr. Brunler calls the ‘Brain Radiation’ is just over 600 degrees. I test sensitivity by letting a patient hold an irradiated piece in the left hand while putting the right hand thumb point on the stud of the Biometer. I am sure you will have many ways of finding out what this way of sending the influence can do. I will try to think up other experiments to send you. I am deeply interested in all you tell in your Bulletins about your work.”

I am personally much indebted to Mrs. Tarpey, and am sure that the entire HRA membership will join me in my delighted thanks. I ran preliminary tests with the Bovis Biometer and found that when someone held the 8×10 square of gray material, their Biometer reading rose sharply. I am now waiting until the next visit with HRA Cameron to get him to run a check on my several tests with the Aurameter. The “ikonized” square of cloth seems to send out rays according to how it is folded. In a roll, it sends out a ray that pushes the tip of the Aurameter away strongly even at a distance of three feet. At the sides there seems to be a pulling force, and over the square when laid flat, there is a large and extensive aura structure. I am using it, together with the ivory ikon from HRA George Sandwith, and a specially treated sponge given by Rev. Jessie Curl (Hoo`la’s invention), in the TMHG to try to send out these additional radiations of healing to all those who have written a letter to go into the TMHG collection and have thus established an aka thread of contact for this use. The cloth itself seems to have a prickly feeling or tingle hardly to be expected even from a fabric of roughish, felted wool.

HRAs John and Nada Anderson, at whose place we held HRA group meetings for over a year, dropped in to join me at the afternoon TMHG period just after the cloth arrived. Mrs. Anderson is a gifted psychic and was able to sense a fine golden light around the ivory figurine, also a spirit of very high grade connected with it. The cloth and sponge gave no such impressions, but when the prayer action was under way and my hands and the objects were in contact with the letters in the box, she saw a very white light gather over them, and then many hands appearing above my own as if taking part in the healing work that was being attempted. She feels that we have a very fine and very strong force center here.

ABOUT ASTROLOGY

I have been corrected by several HRAs who are astrologers of long experience and who speak with authority. They all assure me that if the horoscope is correctly set up, and then correctly read, it is highly reliable. Manley P. Hall said once in a lecture on the subject, that he considered the score of hits about 50-50 with the good readings of horoscopes. I fear my own failures in reading my horoscope come from very poor reading. It is probable that I read expecting to find definite events in my progressions instead of general trends. How much there is that we need to know more completely and in finest detail.

MAY I TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY to express my deepest and most sincere appreciation of those of you who have been with HRA and me for the greater part of the four years since we began our work together. I wish there were some special form of recognition I could offer to show what your unwavering understanding and support has meant to me month by month and year by year. There are only a few of you, and there have been perhaps a thousand who have come and quickly moved on to other things.

On the list of those who have been aboard the good ship HRA for three years, there are many more, and these of you are almost as greatly appreciated. Of course, the length of time is not the real measure of the quality of the membership, and some of the most recent arrivals promise to be unfaltering pioneers to stand long beside us. So, shall I say that all of you who have gold stars due in your records as HRAs are, at this birthday time, extended my warmest greetings and renewed thanks. I have a strange inner feeling that we have just been passing some unseen landmark in our work together, and that something new and highly illuminating is on the way to us. Perhaps we will soon find ourselves beginning a new and broader phase of the research and testing. Last week I asked for a dream to symbolize what was ahead. I got one of clearest water – spreading far and wide.
M.F.L.

Huna Bulletin 70

Using the Aurameter

January 15, 1952

For Huna Research Associates
Covering the experimental approach to the use of Huna
From Max Freedom Long
P.O. Box 2867, Hollywood Station, Los Angeles 28, California, U.S.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE USE OF THE AURAMETER

The accompanying is a fine precision instrument for scientific experiments, and is guaranteed perfect and an exact duplicate of instruments I use for outlining the human aura and other peculiar emanations given off by the body, especially over diseased or inflamed areas, where a cone or rod of force is projected from the diseased spot to the distance of several inches.

To use this instrument, the handle MUST BE HELD LEVEL AT ALL TIMES WITH THE TWO SCREWS AT THE TOP. THIS IS IMPORTANT. Do not droop the point downward, but keep the handle level. Rotate slightly and slowly to bring the point straight with the handle. Now, with the instrument pointed to your left, approach the bulge of force in front of another person’s chest, and with your muscles set to prevent balancing. You must be careful not to offset the action of the instrument by rotating the handle to the drooping point. With practice, the point should be repelled toward you as you attempt to push the point to within 8 inches to 1 foot of his or her chest (adults) or at a distance of 2 to 8 inches from any other part of the body from the knees up.

The instrument is guaranteed to give satisfaction when used patiently and without prejudice. Many experimenters have used this and other instruments like it during recent meetings, and in every case they have been able to perform amazing feats. Remember, you must WANT it to work, otherwise you withhold the energy from your hand which must be transmitted to the instrument in order to give it a charge or polarity which causes it to respond to another negative or positive charge.

While this instrument is vastly better than the willow switch or fork for use in locating water, it is not designed for professional locating, and nothing can take the place of years of experience in the field. However, it will give years of amazing and interesting experiences, and it is suitable for endless experiments, and should enable you to make amazing discoveries in several fields.

I have found a normal rod of force extending from the left temple 6 or 8 feet, one from the left eye which extends from 22 inches to any length by concentration on an object, at which time the beam touches the object, even going through stone walls without impairment. I have found another from the chest, during stress of emotion, up to 20 feet long. From the back of the head, I find a triangular fin 20 inches long, a 14 inch triangle of force in front of the female sexual organs (adult) and a cowl shape over the male sexual organs (adult), also a beam which can be projected at will from the palm of either hand to a great distance. This, like the chest beam, requires 20 seconds to become effective, seeming to ionize or electrify the air in the beam and persists for 20 seconds after the energizing is terminated. All these beams and radiations seem to penetrate any substance except water, which diverts or reflects them, or another body which absorbs them.

From the shoulders and down to the hips, are triangular fins which I call “wings,” level on top and from 3 to 20 feet long, depending upon the character development of the bearer, and terminating in sharp or rounded tips from ½ to 2 inches thick. At about 6 inches above the head is poised a ring or “doughnut” shape. About 20 inches in diameter and 32 inches thick, with a 3 inch hole in the center through which rises a rod of force which, in children, often ends in a ball, a foot or more in diameter. In testing those between the ages of 20 and 30 years, the ball gives place to a figure the same size as the body.

Its outline can be located by noting the points at which the Aurameter tip swings away when it is moved toward the space occupied by the figure. So accurate is the instrument that details of shape can be discovered, as, for instance, the strange fact that the figures seem always to have the hair cut in a Dutch bob level with the top of the shoulders. From this first figure rises another rod or cord which may end in a ball, or may touch still another figure some 20 feet above the individual. This second figure resembles the first and is found on older people. Above its head is another ball, and in one case, a curtain-like formation fell from it on the north side to the shoulder of the figure on the rear. These figures rise straight up from the head even if the individual being tested is stretched out prone.

When exerting a strong emotion or in the use of prayer and faith in magnetic healing, or when the palms of the hands are turned upward, the “doughnut” aura settles down to rest on the head and enlarges to 20 feet in diameter, as though it were the elector or antenna which absorbs this force from the atmosphere. When the palms are turned upward, as in supplication, there is a great inverted pyramid of force formed over each of them.

Another interesting experiment is that of tracing the strange patterns which exist over signatures written in ink. These patterns are never the same for two different people. They form a “fan” hardly thicker than the signature itself, and may extend in a “wing” from one end of the signature for up to 10 feet, while the fan may rise above the signature to form an arch cut by notches or raised in humps or points. The fan does not extend below the paper on which the signature has been written. Photographs of people also offer auras which make an interesting study.

All objects have an aura, even if only a thin layer surrounding them. Objects such as a much used Bible or rosary will be found to have an aura and often rods or cones of force running from them quite different from the auras of ordinary books and beads. The auras and forces become larger and stronger with use, handling and concentration or prayer.

There can be built up in a few minutes a strong mental or thought-image of a thing or object. One may have a friend build some simple form, as a bowl, cube or globe, placing it mentally on a table or shelf so that it can be located by feeling back and forth with the Aurameter and when found, can be identified by its outline. Such thought-images may be larger or smaller than the maker of them intends, for some unknown reason. These thought images fade away in from 20 to 30 minutes as a rule.

Objects may be touched or gazed at and charged by concentration, then located with the Aurameter by another person even if mixed with uncharged objects – the size of the aura or force projections making the difference. Radioactive ores can be detected with the Aurameter. Patience, practice, study and research are needed. Perhaps you will be the discoverer of wonderful, unknown natural laws and forces.
(Signed) V.L. Cameron, inventor of the Aurameter

Hold the AURAMETER in the right hand unless left-handed, in which case use the left. Grip the AURAMETER far up on the handle as shown in the rough sketch, so that the ball of the thumb and the side of the first joint of the bent index finger almost touch the sides of the wire where it is about to bend to form the bearing upon which the head swings from side to side.

Allow enough space so that the head can swing about an inch either way, but do not allow it to flop around completely. With this grip you will soon learn to feel it when the head begins to swing and to steady it in the gap between finger and thumb to put it back in balance.

In time you will become so expert that you can sense the slightest beginning of a movement in either direction, recover balance instantly, and keep moving the Aurameter swiftly as you trace out the aura outline or the extent of a rod or cone of force by keeping contact with its limits as the head plays back and forth in an arc of not more than a fraction of an inch.

In following the outline of the fan-shaped aura of a signature, you will soon find that you seem to feel with the Aurameter head something like a strong flow of force around the outside of the pattern – seeming to pull the head along with the flow. This also is sensed in tracing the outlines of the figures over the head or of images built by thought-forms in a short period of concentration.

Do not tire yourself by using the Aurameter long at a time. The psychic energy is easily used up but quick to replenish itself. At first, work three minutes and rest five. Your powers will increase, however, as you practice.
V.L.C.

NEWEST DISCOVERIES

Newest discoveries relating to the nature of the complex and to the vital forces, are described in letters from our English HRAs, especially Dr. Westlake, and by HRAs in America who are making marked progress in the work of progressing the original Dianetics system of L. Ron Hubbard so that it comes into line with the basic elements of Huna and includes either the Aumakua (as na kahuna described it) or a substitute of a similar nature.

Dr. Westlake, who is one of the leaders in his part of the field, has left no stone unturned in the search for better understanding in radiesthetics and the use of all psychic helps in finding out what is wrong with a patient and determining the treatment. He has sent me two papers giving the substance of his lectures before his colleagues. Both papers were an education in condensed form, covering as they do all the things of importance or possible importance that are related to healing from the point of view of the most modern approaches to the healing arts. He called my attention in his letter to the progress of the original work done in Amsterdam by Dr.Samuels in relation to cancer and to growth of the bodily tissues in general, as regulated by the inner and outer parts of the pituitary gland and their stimulation of other glands. Dr. Samuels found that short wave therapy could cause changes in the activities of the two parts of the pituitary (as I understand it), and that marked effects followed in physical and mental conditions. Psychologists, interested particularly in the mental changes, in England just recently have found that the short wave therapy is a remarkable tool with which to resolve fixations. This is indeed good news. It offers a partly mechanical method of which we have great need, the purely psychological methods being too slow and uncertain.

For some time there have been straws in the wind pointing in this general direction. L.E.Eeman, also in England, found that by a method of changing the natural flow of vital forces (his “relaxation circuit” described in his book, Cooperative Healing) the patient very often would begin to talk after a few minutes and tell the nature of his fixations, bringing hidden memories to light and rationalizing them so that the bodily ills they caused soon went away.

This brings us to the very recent findings of HRA A.L. Kitselman, now in Los Angeles, who has produced his own methodology and theories after having considerable experience with Dianetics and after spending two years in Honolulu. He will have a small but important book ready for us in about a month to tell what he has found. Of greatest interest to me is the fact that he has embodied Huna in everything but the terms (these making little difference, of course). His key point is the appeal to what he calls “E” and describes as the thing men have recognized in all religions as the Higher Power, have called by the name Aumakua and a hundred other names. His method is, basically, one in which the more experienced of two individuals acts as the “observer” of the team and the other as the “transient” of one going through the process of being restored to a normal relation to his E” or Aumakua. This is the ancient relation of priest and worshiper placed in a new and very simple setting. The more experienced observer encourages the transient to believe in the verity of the “E” and the fact that it can hear requests and respond to them. Together they pray for contact with the Aumakua of the transient and for instruction in getting at whatever is preventing the normal interchange between it and na Aunihipili.

The prayer properly made when preliminary instructions are over, the team relaxes rather completely and waits for the Aumakua “E” to take charge and do what is necessary. This is religion, pure and simple. It is the religious side of Huna and the religious magic found in all great religions – a prayer and its answer.

By experimenting, it was found that in the period of relaxation, just as was found by Eeman, there was to be noted a mental reaction of sorts in which the fixations began to surface and work off the tensions which they caused. Mr. Kitselman and his friends found that there were two kinds of reaction. In one, the body reacted with various sensations, tingles, tremblings, involuntary and often repeated movements. In the other, mental activities began. Memories came into the focus of consciousness. And, in about 60% of the tests, there appeared to be a sufficiently close contact with the “E” self to enable it to get through instructions or suggestions to guide the work. (Whether these instructions came through the Aunihipili of Huna or in some more direct way, by hunches, symbols or pictures, I have not yet learned.)

No request is made for healing at any point in the effort to restore normal relations between what we would call the Aunihipili, the Auhane and the Aumakua. However, it was found that once the normal relation was restored, even in part, there began to be improvements in health and in mental powers and conditions. This is following the injunction “Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven,” and it seems to be a workable approach. It has the advantage of a prayer for healing, in that the mental picture is not made and presented of the diseased condition in asking that it be removed. That may turn out to be of primary importance. The thing already seen to be of great importance is the presence and aid of the “observer.” Just what his part is in terms of forces, thought-forms, contact with the Aumakua, etc., is still to be determined.

Other HRAs doing similar work have not as yet reported in enough detail to me to make it possible to describe the methods they have evolved or found best, but more information is on the way, and I feel that we are on the verge of getting the needed light on how to unblock the “path” and do away with the fixations. The mechanical methods such as short waves directed at the gland layers, or such as the Meduna “whiff of gas” method under test for us by HRA Dr. Fred Reinhold (who first pioneered the addition of the Aumakua to Dianetics for us and reported his tests as successful – with the fine aid of Mrs. Reinhold). If it turns out that the short wave therapy will normalize the glands of the body and make the start of the fixation removals, the job may then be perfected by the psychological methods taken as the next step – a step important to keep the old fixations and conditions from bouncing right back like they often do in the less inclusive methods.

HYPNOTISTS AND THE SHOCK OF MANA METHOD OF HUNA

Hypnotists and the Shock of Mana Method of Huna have not as yet been brought together. I tried two years ago to interest a group of hypnotists in learning to use the shock method of na kahuna to beat down resistance on the part of the complexed Aunihipili of the patient to get at the fixations and correct them with overwhelmingly powerful contrary suggestion.

To my surprise, I found that I was unable to interest the group in undertaking the necessary training to learn to accumulate a very large surcharge of basic mana. In the first place, they seemed not to be able to believe that such a surcharge was possible, and in the second place, they much preferred to use suggestion after the manner in which they had been taught. I puzzled over this for a long time, but later, upon finding that most good hypnotists had a straight to-and-from pattern when tested over the plate of the Bovis Biometer, I began to realize that they were probably the most set-in-their-way people in the world. This Biometric pattern indicates, according to Dr. Brunler, the climax of positive and unwavering “will.” The average person has a “V” swing, the pendulum pattern tracing first one leg of the “V” and then the other. They have minds and wills which are limber and move easily to either side of a question. Also, most people have a clockwise circling pattern, this denoting generally constructive purpose in life and actions. I have still to find the practicing hypnotist of great power who shows any part of the pattern other than the one of the trained and perfected “will.” His job is to tell others what to do and think and be with all the power of the suggestion enforced on the Aunihipili of the patient as an implanted and grafted set of strong thought-form clusters. He will tolerate no refusal of the patient to accept the implant.

It is my tentative conclusion that the training in gathering the large surcharge of mana should come first. That is Mesmerism – the use of the mana surcharge without the suggestion. Once that is learned so that mana can be handled expertly and poured into water or wood or another’s body, the use of suggestion with a mild drive of the middle mana or “will” would be very simple and perhaps much more effective, especially in overcoming habits and fixations.

There was a Mesmerist in Hollywood some months ago who preached against the use of suggestion in any form, and who demonstrated the Mesmeric use of the mana surcharge by accumulating such surcharges (not under Huna terms or lines of thought, of course) and discharging the force with such power that he could cause two or three men sitting in a row of several, to fall unconscious to the floor. It was a great demonstration and it proved his point if it accomplished little more. In accumulating the great surcharge, he worked up a great flow of emotion, grew red in the face and panted as if filled with vast hate. After the discharge, he was left pale and weak. (All of which fits our ideas of Huna perfectly.) It still is my hope that this shock method may eventually be developed to use on obsessing entities and perhaps in emergencies to dislodge a blocking complex.

Under the old and new methods, what we will do about the prenatal traumas and resultant fixations, it is still very hard to guess. Of one thing we can be quite certain, however, and that is that the methods we finally perfect will be all inclusive and effective in handling all mental tangles unless they result from physical defects.

DR. WESTLAKE’S HEALING METHODS

Dr. Westlake’s healing methods include a use of his own natural healing power coupled with prayer, his mentor in this part of the work having been HRA Mrs. Kingsley Tarpey, noted diagnostician through the use of the Bovis Biometer, and a famous natural healer. (She is still at work at ninety, and has mailed a piece of ikon-treated cloth of wool to test and use in the Study – having had great success with such things in England.) He said in his lecture:

“Then (after his diagnosis) I give healing treatment, usually using Mrs. Tarpey’s technique. Sitting in front of the patient, who is lying back comfortably in a chair, (undoubtedly relaxed in a way similar to that used in therapy? M.F.L.) I take hold of his or her hands, right to left, and left to right. Very often at this point I feel moved to offer up a silent prayer that I may be instrumental in healing my patient by becoming the channel of healing power. I try to imagine the power coming from outside myself and flowing through me. (Accumulating the surcharge and using it? M.F.L.) I have a recurrent image – it is as though I, more than lifesize, am standing in a wood in a clearing, my legs apart and feet firmly planted on the ground. The power seems to be entering at the top of my head and flowing down through me and out of my hands.

“After a short while a throbbing starts in my hands and the patient will feel a tingling start in the hands and gradually spread up the arms until it is felt in various parts of the body, usually those parts which are below par or diseased. Sometimes the tingling is felt all over the body, and if continued after this, the patient may say that he has the feeling of being intoxicated. (Compare these physical reactions with those found by HRA Kitselman and spoken of as tension relaxations, M.F.L.) I myself, when treated by Mrs. Tarpey, feel very little. The throbbing, however, is almost always felt, and it usually rises to a climax and then dies away and when it does this, I take it that the treatment for that time is complete.

This general treatment can be followed by a local treatment, i.e., to some particular area or internal organ which is diseased or out of order – head, lungs, heart, etc. In this case, the hands are placed on the front and back of the body. Usually heat is felt, what Mrs. Tarpey calls ‘human diathermy,’ though I am fairly certain that the feeling of heat is subjective and there is no actual rise in temperature. The idea is to concentrate power in that part of the body most needing it. I sometimes find that I get better results if I do not make actual physical contact but hold my hands about 4 to 6 inches away from the body.

“The length of each treatment depends on the receptivity and sensitiveness of the patient, also the degree of depletion, but generally speaking, a general treatment will be from 10 to 15 minutes, and a local for about 5 minutes.”

BACH REMEDIES

I was very much interested in other parts of Dr. Westlake’s lecture. He describes several cases which were treated, and tells of using “Bach Remedies” – something of which I had never heard and of which he found medical men often in ignorance. By coincidence, the magazine, HARBENGER OF LIGHT, arrived from HRA, Editor Huston, (issue of November, 1951) containing an excellent article by F.M. Wheeler, and reprinted from PREDICTION. The article told of Edward Bach, a doctor of medicine who gave up his London practice to search for the simple remedies which he believed Nature had provided in plants to cure all diseases. He died in 1936, but in six years of intensive search throughout England, and of testing and study, he perfected a series of thirty-eight flower remedies which opened a new way to the treatment of disease and brought new hope to many who had been pronounced “incurable.” He wrote, “To all who are ill, know this: that disease could never have gained the power it has today if man had not deserted the natural protection against illness, namely, the healing herbs of the field.”

BACH FOUND: (I quote from the article.)

“That disease was the result of conflict between the soul and mind, and that this conflict, whether produced by external circumstances or by some inward unhappiness, so reduced the essential vitality of the individual that disease was able to attack the body.

“That the remedies for all ills were to be found among the non-toxic herbs growing in unsullied surroundings away from the corrupting smoke of cities.

“That whatever disease might manifest itself, the fundamental cause was in the personality of the patient, and that once the conflict within the soul (fixation in the Aunihipili? M.F.L.) was ended, health would return.

“He has classified his remedies as for Fear, Uncertainty, Insufficient interest in Present Circumstances, Loneliness, Over-sensitiveness to Influences and Ideas, Despair, Despondency, and Over-care for the Welfare of Others.

“For each of these states he produced a set of remedies, to be used singly or in groups as indicated by the state of mind of the patient.

“It was said that these states were not necessarily bad in themselves, but they produced a lack of balance in the personality, and there was a need to help the patient recognize this, and so help him or her to regain balance, poise, and tranquility, and having regained these, to possess health.

“Human beings are fallible and imperfect, but those who attain and retain peace and tranquility in their souls and minds are happy and well; those who are dominated by only certain facets of their personality are inevitably involved in some form of emotional conflict.

“This is where psychologists often go off the rails. They seek to eradicate something from the personality rather than aiming at that inner harmony which will do the job for them. (An inner harmony that might be re-established by the Aumakua if something like prayer or “E” therapy were used? M.F.L.)

“Bach presented his remedies in a form so simple that they could be used by laymen, without any fear of harmful results. He potentized only non-toxic herbs that could have no dangerous effects, and he gave all his discoveries free to chemists, only asking that they should be made available to the public as cheaply as possible.

“Bach said that these remedies could be used in conjunction with any orthodox treatment, homeopathy or allopathic, or added to any prescription to hasten and assist the treatment in all types of cases.”

It seems evident that Dr. Bach was working in the same direction as the discoverer of the short wave therapy applied to the particular monitor gland and deciding control layers, Dr. Samuels of Amsterdam. Mind-soul conditions or states were to be remedied by preliminary treatment of the physical body, and after that the psychological return to normalcy would react to normalize the body.

DR. WESTLAKE said: (Again I quote from his lecture,) “… I did not get to this (set of conclusions) latter at once. First I tried the use of Biochemical Salts and got good results, but this was still symptomatic medicine. Next I tried the Bach Remedies and only later came to Radiesthesia as practiced by the pioneers of medical dowsing, both medical and lay.

“My experience when I began to explore this aspect of the radiesthetic field have already been described in my first lecture. But a further word about the Bach Remedies. On first using them I chose them as suggested by Dr. Bach by assessment of the emotional state or states of the patient, and had surprisingly good results, especially in acute conditions. But I found that, generally speaking, in the more complicated and chronic cases, it was very difficult to assess the emotional states of the patient.

“I found I could get over this difficulty by using myself as an indicator. This is the technique. I take the patient’s left hand in my right, and then after a short interval, (Like HRA Cameron’s time lag noted in waiting for the Aurimeter to react? M.F.L.) working blindly, I take up each Remedy in turn with my left hand, running through the whole 38. On some I get a reaction, i.e., a sort of tingling sensation which starts at the back of the scalp and, if strong, will go all over me. If and when I get this reaction, I put this bottle aside. At the end I look to see what they are and take it that these are what the patient needs. The number obtained may vary from 1 to 6, seldom more. I am not sure how accurate this method is, but it seems to work.

“One of the most spectacular cases where this method worked was a child aged about six who was brought to me because she was what was described as ‘a queer little thing.’ She seemed retarded both mentally and physically, though she was certainly not mentally deficient, far from it. I ‘bached’ her, as I call it, and got a terrific reaction on Clematis. This was given her and from that point she began to become normal in all ways and never looked back. It was the turning point of the child’s life. I saw her the one time at my office, but kept in touch with the family. The one visit had been sufficient.

“My skepticism of my own (healing) powers was finally overcome by finding that I could send up, appreciably, the physical measurements of a patient as measured on the Bovis Biometer. Moreover, with repeated treatments, their physical measurement gradually rose from a low figure to normal, and they were much improved.

“Round about this time I came across Eeman’s work and became convinced of the efficacy of his circuit and the effects and results it produced. I decided to try using it in combination with the use of my own healing power. This was made easier by my friend, Eric Powell, who had produced an instrument which he called the Autonormalizer, which was a direct application of the Eeman circuit… I had, thus, now three therapeutic agencies – the Bach Remedies, my own healing power and the Eeman circuit in the Antonormalizer. I decided to combine them and see what happened.” (He tells of the success of the combined methods, then later says,) “I seldom use my combined therapy unless I obtain a fairly high psychic Bovis measurement. If I do, then I know that the patient is a sensitive, and that radiesthetic or similar methods will be most effective.”

ULTRAMODERN HEALING

Ultramodern Healing is becoming, as Dr. Westlake shows, an effort to treat the whole man, not just one or more of his parts and symptoms. Efforts are made to get at the cause instead of concentrating only on the resultant ills. This is perhaps one of the most promising trends in the healing field, and Dr. Westlake explains very clearly.

“Dr. Rebecca Beard, in her book on Spiritual Healing, entitled Everyman’s Search, makes a point of this. She says, ‘As time went on I found myself more and more reluctant not only to make a definite prognosis of a patient’s condition, but to make a diagnosis, because I realized that by saying to a person, ‘You have a serious disorder, and a definite diseased organ,’ I was implanting into their subconscious mind a positive picture that was going to be very difficult for them to forget or ignore.

“No attempt is made to pinpoint the trouble except in general terms. One deals with a sick person, a person who is out of balance, out of harmony, physically, mentally, psychically, spiritually – the object of therapy is to restore that person to a harmonious function as a whole. One uses for this purpose the Life Force itself – the Vis Medicatrix Naturae under its many names – and relies on being able to generate enough intensity and/or quality to produce automatic readjustment of any functional or organic disharmony. …. Moreover, the therapy is entirely beneficial. This latter point is most important for, as McDonagh has pointed out, in modern medicine ‘there is no remedy which is not an invader’ and therefore detrimental to the body, ‘although the aims of the treatment of disease are to prevent the change in the protein from being rendered aberrant, yet its very nature makes treatment a possible aggravation of the damage suffered by the protein.’”

In a footnote he tells us, “Cases of aluminum poisoning, so common today, can only be detected radiesthetically and knowledge thus obtained must be used to stop the poisoning, as it is obvious that ‘healing’ will have little or no effect if the poisoning is present and continued. This also applies to toxic conditions in general, particularly those of the bowel.”

Dr. Westlake, in his lecture, told his listeners about Huna and outlined its basics, simply and effectively. Like so many others, he finds in Huna a rounded and complete system of psychology to include all the parts of the man. Little by little Huna is coming to be known the world around and by the right people. Gradually it will throw light in many dark places in the psychological sciences, and will clear up much muddy thinking and confusion in religion. Our hearty thanks are due all workers in the field who join us in our efforts to spread the knowledge of Huna and to learn to put that knowledge to work.

NOTE: Dr. Westlake does not ignore the fixation. He says, “Sometimes I get the patient to relax, preferably in circuit, and then discuss the position, using a very modified psychoanalytic technique, to try to break up any psychological barriers or obstructions which tend to nullify the healing treatment. This is much the same as what Eeman calls Myognosis and Emergence. In this way it is possible to resolve complexes, but more especially to get the patient to understand what is going on, and above all, to bring enlightenment – this latter seems to be not so much an intellectual process as one belonging more to the intuition – one might call it a process of illumination.” (Related to Kitselman’s “E” or Aumakua therapy appeal? MFL)

THE STRANGE NATURE OF THE MANAS

The strange nature of the manas needs to be taken into consideration in all studies of healing methods out front on the pioneer fringe of things. We cannot stress too often the thing known to na kahuna – that mana is a living force and that it can and will obey the commands given it. These commands are first given to the Aunihipili by the Auhane. The Aunihipili, who controls the low mana, will collect a surcharge of the force, will concentrate it in any part of the body desired, or, for instance, after concentrating a surcharge in the right hand, will cause it to flow from the hand into a part of one’s own or another’s body needing healing.

The next strange thing about mana is that it can go with an extruded or extended “finger” of the aka substance. It can flow back and forth on the extended aka thread and can carry thought-form clusters which make up ideas – these ideas being reproduced in the consciousness of another Aunihipili as in telepathy or the use of hypnotic suggestion. It is also possible for most of the mana and much of the aka substance of the body to be projected together out of the body and to a distance. This projected mana-aka unit may be actuated by the Aunihipili consciousness, and the Aunihipili actuated by the Auhane. Here we have astral projection practices in various forms, also projections of doubles and the apparitions of the living.

Nor does the strangeness of mana stop there. Like electric currents used in electroplating, it can carry finely divided substances with its flow and deposit them elsewhere. It can act as does electricity in electrolysis, breaking down chemical compounds into their several elements.

IN THE EEMAN CIRCUIT a very strange thing is observed to occur. A copper wire, or a cord of silk or wool, may be used to connect the back of the head or the region of the sacrum with one of the hands. It will be noted that the individual may be clothed, but for some reason the flow of mana or vital force does not go across the skin, through the tissues, along the bedding or through the substance of the cloth. It obediently flows as expected along the wires or cords.

I doubt very much that we can exclude the element of expectation by the operator or the patient. Something seems to act as a command to the Aunihipili of the patient (or patients if in “series”) and to cause the flow to be directed. Here we need more experimental work and testing. If the command element were not a part of the activity, we could expect the mana to flow off along any form of wire-string conductor which we touched, perhaps from the woolen glove of a person, through his woolen coat to his woolen muffler, and cap, right into the back of his head, or down to his sacral region. However, hours in cold weather dress of this kind seems to make no difference, while the Eeman circuit makes a decided difference in feelings and sensations in a half hour or less.

MEDICATION is accomplished by cutting in a container of the desired medicine in the Eeman circuit. Tests showed swift reaction to various drugs placed in such a circuit. Dr. Westlake administers the Bach Remedies in this way at his office, giving “drops” of them to be taken home and used as doses later. In seancess, the interchange of mana from smokers to the medium has been noted to cause nicotine poisoning on the part of the medium. And, the High Mana is even more strange in the things it seems to do. We live and LEARN. MFL.

Huna Bulletin 69

We’re Still Here!

January 1, 1952

For Huna Research Associates
Covering the experimental approach to the use of Huna
From Max Freedom Long
P.O. Box 2867, Hollywood Station, Los Angeles 28, California, U.S.

MUCH TO MY AMAZEMENT…

I am able to announce (as the New Year approaches to within less than five days – keeping my fingers crossed, of course) that we are still HERE. The earth has not swapped poles (as predicted for 1937); no new ice age has frozen us in our tracks; the Korean War has neither ended in starting a world conflagration nor in our boys being driven into the sea. I am particularly gratified to be able to announce that the warning preliminary quake in the West Coast country – which was to have presaged a second great quake – was two years behind time (as of the Christmas Day just past), and the entire Pacific Coast has not yet been shaken off into the Pacific deeps, followed by tidal waves to reach back as far as Salt Lake City. I also am able to point out the fact that the end of the world has not come, despite its prediction every year since about A.D. 33. Like the sturdy Greek of mythological fame, who was shipwrecked and who rose on a rock to pound his chest and cry, “I am safe despite all the gods!” I venture to mount my rock and lift my voice. True, Neptune may rise and prod my rock with his trident, but …. well, again, he may not.

ON THE CONTRARY, I will venture to announce that our HRA prayers for world peace show very bright prospects of being well on the way to receiving answers. Guidance on the part of the Great Po`e Aumakua appears in the caution and circumspection with which our former political and military hot-heads are meeting explosive situations. Instead of rushing to use the new atomic weapons whether or not we destroyed ourselves as well as the enemy, we have shown the first general signs of budding sanity in all the centuries since war was invented.

THE PYRAMID PROPHESIES

The Pyramid Prophesies begin now to stand out clearly for what they actually are: pure invention. It takes courage to say this to a group of seasoned occultists such as is represented by HRA, but after considerable careful consideration, I believe I can defend my statement. Yes, I know all about the claims that the first low passage from the Grand Gallery had the right length in “pyramid inches” to indicate the exact time from the beginning of World War I to its end. But the fact that this was pointed out after the event, and not before it, makes all the difference. In any form of prophesy, no matter on what it is based, the correctness of predictions simply cannot be proven by pointing to the past unless earlier predictions were correct for it as well. I eagerly admit that many psychic and dream predictions have been correct, and so demand at least respectful attention if a part of the predictions still remains in the future. But, when men excitedly begin to match bits from the Old Testament and from Revelation as well as the whole of the New Testament, I demand the right to rise up on my hind legs and question their dogmatic assertions in a large way. For instance, when they insist that the Great Pyramid says that Adam was created in 4044 B.C., and that man and the Pyramid Measure of civilization must begin then, I turn to throw in with the geologists, biologists and anthropologists.

IF THE ANCIENT NA KAHUNA had a part in building THE GREAT PYRAMID, claimed by the last of na kahuna whom R.W. Stewart found in North Africa, it also would seem logical that they would preserve in some form of symbol, an explanation of what they believed concerning the nature of man as held in their “SECRET” (Huna). So, having cried “Fie!” on the “Pyramid Prophecies,” let me follow the example of His Holiness at Rome, and promulgate a dogma of my own relative to Huna and the Great Pyramid. (All HRAs are always allowed to cry their “fie” at anything I have to say in the Bulletins, please remember.)

THE LARGE CHAMBER AT THE TOP (A) stands (I state dogmatically to make presentation easier) for the Aumakua. It holds the Huna position of “UP” above the next lower chamber marked (B) which is the Auhane or conscious mind. The cave far below in the base of the pyramid (C) is the Aunihipili, subconscious, “id.”

ALL PASSAGES represent the aka cords or other means by which there is interchange of mana and thought-forms and possibly travel of the aka bodies between Aumakua, Auhane and Aunihipili.

THE PASSAGE FROM THE OUTSIDE (4) leads directly down to the “dark hole” symbolizing the abode of the Aunihipili into which the Auhane cannot intrude. Through this passage comes the direct sensory impressions from the outside world – sights, sounds, smells, etc. However, the Auhane and Aumakua can come down their passages to stand above the low passage and check what impressions come in by way of the senses and 4. It will be noted that where the descending passage meets the ascending, the latter is plugged by THREE granite blocks to indicate the difficulty experienced by the three selves in passing on the meaning of the things seen, heard, etc. Just below this plugged point was a grilled door blocking the Auhane from entering the lower passage. This grill represents the “screen” of rationalization over which the Auhane can preside, and through which, under normal circumstances, no sensory impression is allowed to pass to be hidden in the cave of the Aunihipili memory, or aka body, unless it has been rationalized and given its proper meaning and relation to other things. At 5, in the ascending passage, are three girder stones surrounding the passage, possibly repeating the symbol of the THREE selves, three manas and three aka bodies of Huna.

THE AUHANE (B) is set off on a side passage (2), and has to stop what it is doing and come out to the main passage to contact the Aunihipili and see what is going on. On the other hand, the Aunihipili and the Aumakua live at opposite ends of connecting passages and, when joined by the Auhane (as in its direction of a prayer-action) use the Grand Gallery passage (l), high and fine, but almost blocked where it enters the High Chamber to contact the Aumakua. The blocking “low passage” represents the difficulty encountered in making free and perfect contact when fixations form such a pack on the back that the low passage cannot be negotiated.

THE “WELL” (3) is for the use of the Aunihipili and it only. It is the path used in secretly forcing up compulsions, guilt fixations and the like to block the Auhane from the passage to the Aumakua. In this well is a small cave in which the Aunihipili hides its unrationalized and unscreened fixations. These it can force upward upon the Auhane without being hindered by the three girder stones in the normal passage of intercourse. Moreover, the opening of the well is placed just slightly at one side of the point where the Auhane must come out of its passage to get into the descending passage or into the Grand Gallery. It can hardly escape being contaminated by what comes rushing at it from the well – doubts, fears, compulsions etc., that drive it back.

The EMPTY COFFER in the chamber of the Aumakua remains empty unless the combined efforts of the Aunihipili and the Auhane result in getting through the passages to place something in it. (Words used by na kahuna frequently give the symbol of “placing something” in a higher place.) What is placed in the coffer is resurrected (in THREE days or on three levels of being) and materialized as the answer to the prayer embodied in the thought-form picture. In the antechamber are three upright segments indicating the three manas that must be mingled to get results. The passage into the chamber of the Aumakua enters at one end, so that we who approach cannot get a clear view of the chamber and coffer at the side.

THE BLANK SPACE LEFT HERE is to be used by you to add to, or take from, or correct my dogma and to add a few of your own. Luck.
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(If you hit a jack pot, let me know. MFL).

HAUNTED PEOPLE

A new book by Dr. H. Carrington and our Dr. Fodor. It is the story of the Poltergeist down the centuries, and is important because it embodies the recent findings which tend to indicate that the poltergeist is not a ghostly entity as formerly supposed. The book jacket gives an excellent idea of the modern conclusions. I quote:

“Both Carrington and Fodor take the view that, at certain periods in the life of a somewhat abnormal human being, the excess vital energy, owing to suppression, turns on itself and, becoming intensified, splits off from the original personality and forms a separate entity. In the majority of instances of Poltergeist phenomena, they have been traced to girls just entering puberty.”

Dr. Carrington tells what happened, when, how and to whom, in reviewing 372 cases. Dr. Fodor reports more cases, many of them from his own psychoanalytical practice, and tells of the fact that when the fixations of the patient are brought to light and drained off, the noises and racketing stops.

While something was said about confining the phenomena to explosive sounds, such a limitation was rejected as the book progressed. Dr. Carrington gives accounts of physical phenomena of almost every kind from apporting to transportation of the living. Dr. Fodor avoids nothing in reporting the cases upon which he worked. (The inscription in the book kindly presented to me reads in part, “Shiver your timbers” – which is most appropriate indeed.)

After reading the book, one is left with the picture of abnormal individuals unconsciously producing great stores of mana, storing in it projected portions of their low aka body, and allowing it to be used in accordance with the complexes, traumas, unconscious hates and fears, etc., of the Aunihipili. (I speak in terms of Huna, which we all understand and which offers the only definite system containing well defined elements such as low aka and low mana, to say nothing of the fact that the low aka can project a “finger” or a full figure, hand or what not – usually invisible – and, directed by the Aunihipili from its hiding place at the end of a connecting aka cord of connection, can break glasses in air, start fires and even carry away the physical body held in common with the Auhane, as in the case of the Bell Witch which is described at length.)

Very naturally, neither of our good friends had space, and inclination, to try to explain the Huna ideas to a public already very reluctant to accept the information in the simplest possible terms. The scientific value of the findings of Dr. Fodor give much promise. He suggests that Psychical Research has gathered the data on externals, and that, having arrived no place, should now turn over the study of mediums to the psychoanalysts – who, if the present findings can be expanded and validated all along the line, may come very near to drawing a clear line between the genuine “spirit communication” and the great mass of purported communications which contain recognizable lies or offer meaningless statements to sitters. These unreliable statements, Dr. Fodor finds, are very similar to dreams and associations and are useful to psychoanalyze the medium – who, he further finds, is usually in need of such help. (Haunted People, $3.50, from Dr. Nandor Fodor, Park Central, 7th at 56th, New York City. Published by Dutton.)

REV. JESSIE CURL AND HOO`LA

Rev. Jessie Curl and Hoo`la have created much interest among HRAs, many of whom were able to attend her meetings in or near Los Angeles in the past two months. Some took a series of healing treatments, and of these, an encouraging number were benefited to some degree. Several letters (not from HRAs) have come to me telling of excellent healing results. Rev. Curl has as yet no plans ahead, and it is impossible to tell what places she may visit or when. The best I can do, under these circumstances, is to invite you to send letters for her to me, so that I can forward them to her when she lets me know where she happens to be at the moment. Last heard of, she was leaving San Diego after a stay there, and planned to spend Christmas with old friends elsewhere. I have not had the opportunity to spend time with her directly since I reported our earlier visit. The picture of “Hoo`la” stands on my little prayer table set-up and he is asked to help us all at the TMHG periods (as is the new ivory icon).

HRA Charlie Kenn worked over the verbatim record of what was said by Hoo`La and writes that he seemed in one part to be explaining that he was annoyed and the mana supply was weakened by much pulling back and forth by the three spirit guides of Rev. Curl, although he managed to hold the top place and use what mana was left after the struggle. The word which I took to indicate that I was being accepted as an adopted child by Hoo`la, has also the meaning of “cave” which is sometimes used as a symbol of the medium, so he might have still been explaining the struggle between himself, the Hindu and the Tibetan guides for control. In Samoan the name Hoo`la, which is the Hawaiian form, would be closer to Fu`ola, but would still not be typically Samoan, as would the word fa`a`malolo. Too bad we could not get Charlie and Hoo`la together to converse and straighten things out. Charlie explains in another part of his letter the part played in healing by a complete and unquestioning faith. I quote:

“This steady, consistent holding to a positive thought is called hoola (hoo`ola: cause life), and in the language of the kahuna it has a special significance. The thought must be held without the least doubt or suspicion, or desire to see the hidden wheels go around. Such doubts or desires break the aka thread. This condition then is called, literally, kanalua, meaning to choke off two elements – to separate the Aunihipili and the Aumakua. Thus, the kahuna would say, ‘Ua hale ka pule’ ([the] invocation has sinned, (missed the mark.)”

He says also, “The fact that she was able to cause a mole (ila) to disappear, is good kahuna practice. The further fact that it reappeared indicates, as she said, that it needed going over again a few times. Some day she should be able to bring about instantaneous and permanent healing as she is on the right track – provided she always holds to the positive thoughts in all that she does. Constant practice (hoo-mau) will give her the ability she so richly deserves. The fact that she did not know a thing about Huna when she gained the healing power indicates that, while she does not display certain Huna abilities, she did not come upon them by or through a knowledge of Huna. Rev. Curl, obviously, does not speak or understand Samoan or any other Polynesian dialect, and so it must be that it is through her mediumship that she speaks in an intelligible manner.”

(Many thanks, Charlie, for helping us on these points. MFL.)

THE IVORY IKON FIGURINE GETS TESTED WITH THE CAMERON “AURAMETER”

After dinner on Christmas Day, HRA Verne Cameron came up from Elsinore to bring the gift of the china figure of a kneeling Madonna (without child) which was mentioned a Bulletin or two back as having been blessed with as great an outpouring of emotion as possible to turn it into an icon or contact center in so far as might be possible.

First the little ivory figurine of the Japanese lady with cat was tested. It was at once found to have an inner and an outer force or radiation cylinder surrounding it, and, when stood on the floor, reaching up ten feet to the ceiling – with no telling how much farther up. The inner cylinder was about 20 inches in diameter, and the outer cylinder 9 feet. From the left eye, as found with most normal humans, extended the usual rod or ray, in this case about five inches. (Mr. Cameron has found that this ray from the living left eye seems to go out to contact the things at which one looks. There is a possibility that a return ray might be picked up by the right eye if it could be measured.)

Above the little 6 inch ivory icon, at about 40 inch intervals, there seemed to be a rather vaguely outlined series of duplicate figures similar to those found above the living (such as myself in tests described in other Bulletins.) These seemed to reach also to the ceiling, but were small and hard to measure with certainty.

THE CHINA MADONNA icon has the peculiarity that, whereas other objects and all people seem to push the knob of the Aurameter away, the China figurine pulls it toward her. In addition to having a large surrounding aura, she sends out a powerful ray in the direction she is set to face. We placed her on the front steps facing down the street, and Mr. Cameron was able to trace the beam for well over 200 feet despite the trouble encountered in crossing a strong radiation from underground water in making the test. Under his guidance I was able to locate the boundaries of the seven foot stream of underground water, also to pick up the beam from the figure at several points.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE USE of the Aurameter were stenciled and run as an accommodation to HRA Cameron earlier in the week, and I decided that they were of such general interest that I would include a set in this Bulletin.

In addition to what was told in the three instruction sheets, I was told something new and most important – which helped me greatly in my own efforts through daily practice to learn to use the Aurameter presented to me as a gift by its generous inventor. This new thing is best understood if one first reads sheet 3 of the instructions and notes in the very crude drawing how the ball of the thumb and knuckle-inside (2nd joint of first finger) are placed on the sides of the base of the pointer to prevent it from swinging too far to one side or the other when it is pushed away or attracted. The new trick is to let the wire touch the thumb or knuckle very lightly and because it does touch, it becomes possible to note the slightest change in the pressure as the Aurameter is moved to or from the object tested. My score was immediately improved when I learned this aid to sensing the force exerted on the pointer and head.

Dear Aunties and Uncles (and spessully Fellow Sprinters):

ME, and boss, are sending terrible BIG LOVE & GREETINGS to all of you to have in your stockings Christmas Morning.

I already got a whole shelf filled with wunnerful cards from you, and boss lets me have his to stand up and bat over and chew and ammire no end – so thanks for ME and for hymn (Noel, Noel) (Guess that was some kind of a forepaw, but try not to mind it and remember the kind part, this being the season for being kind and things.)

I hope that on Shishtmust Eve when all that “shishing” about who is to get what and where it is hid on the top shelf in the crosett off the hall or in the seller or garage, is over, you can settle down on the rug in front of your boss’s fire and sorta begin to take it easy. I’ll be thinking hard about all of you, and boss will turn on the radio and see if he can find some nice Auntie telling the story of the “Rittlest Rangel” for ME, because that is the story I love better as anything. Maybe you never heard it? It is about a very small rangel about my size, and just like ME, he had a little box – undoubtedly a cigar box – and like ME all he had to offer was what he had in his box when it came time for wanting to make a terrible wonderful kind of present to someone who wanted terrible bad to do something wonderful BIG to help make the world a good place for people to live. Anyway, it was the best present of all – naturally – and the Rittelest Rangel was all warm and happy inside – like ME and boss hopes you will all be while you wait for Sandy Claws to come down your chimney!
BIG LOVE from CIGBO (and boss)
MFL

Huna Bulletin 68

The Ikon from Ethiopia

December 15, 1951

For Huna Research Associates
Covering the experimental approach to the use of Huna
From Max Freedom Long
P.O. Box 2867, Hollywood Station, Los Angeles 28, California, U.S.

The Ikon

The ikon has been completed and has arrived from HRA George Sandwith who mailed it from Australia before leaving for England, where he will remain for a time before returning to Australia to head a scientific expedition into the hinterlands to make further studies of the magic of the Australian Aboriginals. (I am greatly pleased to be invited to go along, even if I cannot accept for various reasons.)

THE IKON is the outcome of a project which was discussed at some length over a year ago in the Bulletins – the investigation of the nature of ikons and the rediscovery of the art of making them. HRA Sandwith, then in Tonga, was fortunate enough to own an ikon over four centuries old and still potent. It is in the form of a 10×13 inch carved and painted wooden plaque – a carved figure of Jesus on the cross with Mary and John standing at either side below. It was presented to him by an artist in Ethiopia, and through it as a contact center, he has been able to converse psychically with a spirit which seems to preside over the ikon – the spirit of an Ethiopian woman. Read more

Huna Bulletin 67

Moods & Prayer

December 1, 1951

For Huna Research Associates
Covering the experimental approach to the use of Huna
From Max Freedom Long
P.O. Box 2867, Hollywood Station, Los Angeles 28, California, U.S.

IS THERE A BEST TIME TO MAKE THE PRAYER-ACTION?

We have been making Huna studies and have been carrying on experiments now for some time in order to learn HOW to make a prayer-action most effectively. We have come upon many most significant things, such as the need for building up a good mana surcharge, of making contact with na Aumakua, and presenting the pictures of desired conditions on the flow of the mana which we offer as the true form of sacrifice – the thing in all sacrifices that can matter. Now comes the question of whether one time is better than another in which to pray in the Huna fashion or in any other way, be it by rote, by ritual or by surreptitiously reaching into a pocket to rub a rabbit’s foot. Read more

Huna Bulletin 66

Using the Magnet & Carbon, Measuring Auras

November 15, 1951

For Huna Research Associates
Covering the experimental approach to the use of Huna
From Max Freedom Long
P.O. Box 2867, Hollywood Station, Los Angeles 28, California, U.S.

NEWS FROM THE STUDY

THE BOOK which I have been writing on for the past six months as a means of making a living, has been completed, but, for unforeseen reasons, will probably NOT BE PUBLISHED. I wish to express my deep appreciation to all of you who kindly asked me in advance to reserve a copy for you. Should plans change later, and the book be printed, I will announce it.

HRA Dr. Nandor Fodor offers consolation for all HRA book worms, however, in a letter just in. Any of you who like to buy new books bearing on the mysteries and puzzles of the submerged part of our consciousness, may have a copy of his book, THE SEARCH FOR THE BELOVED for $3, or, as a combination offer, with the NEW APPROACHES TO DREAM INTERPRETATION, for $7. Add 12 cents postage for each book and tell Dr. Fodor to whom you wish him to inscribe the books. His address is, The Park Central Hotel, 7th Ave. at 56th St., New York, N.Y. Both books have been reviewed in the Bulletin, and either one is a delight to one with a love of the newest information on the psychological puzzle of the subliminal. Dr. Fodor deserves warm thanks for making it possible for the HRAs to get his books at special prices through him. (By the way, if any of you have a copy of his ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE from which you could be coaxed to part, will you let me know, and set your price? Two HRAs desire very much to get copies. Last quotation on them was $15, only there weren’t any.) Read more

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