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?”

HRA Mrs. A.F. of Central California, reported that she had long since found kneeling unnecessary and that she did not have to take a special position or follow a special ritual of any kind to get answers to her prayers. My comment on this is that she is one of the fortunate few. Most of us have fixations of some kind and belong to the great majority – to those who need a method that will help get around or past the fixations or a method furnishing a physical stimulus to trigger the Aunihipili into proper action – to get it to reach out to complete the contact with the Aumakua.

HRA T.A.L. of Los Angeles writes, “The receipt of your letter prompted me to make still another change in my prayer routine (described in a recent Bulletin), due to your suggestion that I watch for any message from the Aumakua, sent via the Aunihipili in the form of SYMBOLS. The experimental change I am making is to ask, at the end of my kneeling prayer, that symbols be shown to me in the surface of the tumbler of water which I use, instead of, as formerly, in a dream. Later, when I retire, I ask for the messages via dreams. I will let you know how I come out.”

COMMENT: As we are organized for research and experimentation as well as for the mutual good, we can give and get through the Telepathic Mutual Healing Group work (daily at 3 and 7 o’clock). It is of considerable importance that we consider new things as we come upon them, and try out variations of methods when such variations appear promising, even to a slight degree. Reports on experiments and speculative conclusions arrive in every mail and are studied with close interest, often tested. My thanks for reports.

A LETTER ON PRAYER came in recently from a stranger, now an HRA. “I have had your book for several years and have desired so deeply to know how to call the power of the Aumakua into action. Always, I prayed, ‘Show me the highest light.’ For years I have experienced the shower of radiation entering the top of my head, and pouring down my arms – and I have used this visitation to heal, with heart warming results. When I read your book I felt so familiar with the gifts of na kahuna, like a reminder of truths learned from out of the sea of mind.”

The tradition in India has been that the serpent forces rose along the spine and left the body at the top of the head, on their way to some not-too-definite goal. Our HRA experience does not bear out this idea at all. We all seem to have our own personal actions and reactions. This is as it should be, if we understand Huna correctly on the point concerning the nature of aka when filled with mana. Such a combination seems then to draw on the intelligence of the Aunihipili and to obey directions as if alive and conscious. The return flow of mana from the Aumakua could not be less subject to direction or it would be lost instead of making a direct return – a return which is felt by different HRAs in different parts of the body. Nor do the glands in head or body seem to be involved as was supposed by those writing on older lore borrowed from the India of the period when physiology and glands were things still undreamed of.

THEY ALSO SERVE:

HRA F.I.H. of Davis, Calif. writes, “Don’t let that cat cut me off. Give him this five. This time I am going to mark my calendar to remind me when another five is due to be sent. Maybe I’m not working too much with Huna, but I want to know what’s doing, because someone is going to find out what makes us tick one of these days. If you never did any more than keep us informed regarding the work, it would be a wonderful service. I can dig up more than I have been, so if you get stuck and need more, just let me have a line and I will help make your troubles a little smaller anyhow.”

Comment: Cigbo loves this kind of “Uncle” and says he would never dream of cutting him off, especially now that he knows where he could take his dish to get it filled if the milk supply failed here at the Study.

A HUNA LABORATORY?

HRA A.B.C. of  Texas writes, “You’ve mentioned several times the need of a laboratory where you might give all your time to research work and necessary pioneering along various lines. It has occurred to me that, possibly others have already suggested a pooling of resources garnered from other HRAs like myself over the world. It would probably take a much larger headquarters than you now have – say an acre out near the suburbs which could be reached readily by bus – and it would also require help getting out the Bulletins and doing other things, so that you could spend your time in research and experimenting (with selected people)…  and hand on to us the benefits of the labors. Have you ever approached HRAs with the idea of obtaining ‘Charter Members’ of such a Headquarters Lab Organization? Once a start was made – regular dues and so on – initiation fees etc. I’d like to go on record as favoring such an idea, and would be pleased to contribute $1,000 as my part as a Charter Member. Let me know your reaction to the idea.”

Comment: I was amazed to know that any HRA was both able and willing to make such an offer. Anyone else wish to be heard from?

REPORT ON “THE WALL OF PROTECTION” PROJECT…

The response was less than expected, but of those in the armed services for whom prayers have been made to establish the “wall,” not one has yet been injured. One went down with a big plane that crashed, but was one of the few who were able to “walk away.” This work has now been combined with the TMHG and comes in with the prayer for world peace – just following it.

Dr. OSCAR BRUNLER, HRA

Dr. Brunler shared his lecture platform with me on the evening of March 5th, and we took fifteen minute turns addressing his research group members. I brought up points in Huna, and he followed by discussing them in terms of dielectric radiation, his own findings, and scientific discoveries in general. Dr. Brunler was still far from being over the very severe bout with poisoning incurred at the time of potentizing chemical fertilizers in solution for a friend. His wife, Dr. Grace Calver-Brunler, made a rather striking demonstration of the workability of Huna by accumulating a heavy surcharge of mana while Dr. Brunler spoke, and by giving it to him through her right hand when he sat down with face pale and vitality lowered. She was shortly able to call attention to the return of color to his face – making at the same time a short explanation, and praising the Huna methods. I was delighted to find two HRAs in the audience, one brand new, whom I had never met, and who turned out to be delightful; the other, a dear friend as well as a member of HRA from its first month. The audience was made up of exceptionally fine students in the psycho-religious and radiation fields. Much interest was shown in Huna.

FIRE-WALKING AND HANDLING was explained by Dr. Brunler as a matter of quickening the rate of vibration in the flesh to match that of the flames or coals or hot stones. The control of such vibratory rates, as I suggested to the audience, is, in so far as we can discover, accomplished by some form of mental action. In one of the older Bulletins I passed on the report of a white man who was taught by the fire-handling Indians of a small Southern California tribe, to hold large live coals on the palms of his hands. The mind was focused on the palms and the order was given, with imagination in full play, that the palms become “hotter and hotter and hotter,” and eventually they became so hot that coals could be picked up and held. I was unable to find out whether the hands felt actually hot to the touch of a spectator or not at the time, or whether they remained at an ordinary temperature but still had their vibratory rate raised to the point of high heat by the action of mind.

Whether the mind of the Aunihipili was the one which actually did the raising of the rate, is not known, but it seems that this is very probably the case. The Aunihipili works silently behind the scenes to do so many things in the body and with the aka and aka-mana extensions, as in telepathy and contact with the Aumakua (if Huna is correctly understood at this point). It is even more probable that the Aunihipili may enlist the aid of the Aumakua or entities of that level of consciousness in causing the protective change in vibrations, granting that changing the vibratory rate is the correct explanation.

We are closing in rapidly in England and over  here on the secret of dielectric radiation and electronics. I am encouraged to believe, and if we had our Huna Lab, I can just see tests being planned and daily practice taken while this fire immunity clue to the great mystery of vibration and radiation was followed through.

Men of scientific leanings are still, for the most part, thinking in terms of machine-made vibratory rates. These may be vibrations set up in electricity, or light or sound or denser substances such as gases, liquids, living combinations of these in protoplasm or flesh and bone. It has been postulated that thought is a matter of producing a certain rate of vibration in something of an electrical nature, and that variations in the rate may cause the variations in the type of thought.

Recent experiments have resulted in a test method by which defects in the brain structure or functioning may be located and treated. When the skull is opened behind the ear, and the surface of the exposed brain is touched with the end of a slightly charged wire, the stimulation causes the patient to make muscular movements, see things that are not there, or recall memories in such a vivid fashion that the scenes of the past begin to unfold a in a dream which contains all the sensory impressions to make it seem entirely real in terms of time and space.

The fact that mild electric currents may flow into the brain tissues and set a train of memories moving in dream formation, has caused the postulation that thought and memory are connected in some way with electricity. The brain waves produced by the action of the brain points in the same direction.

However, the thing that controls the electrical energy (or mana?) in creating the memory units, and then, at a later time, is active in directing some form of electrical stimulation at such units to give recall of a memory unit or chain of associated units – that thing, must be consciousness in one form or another.

Efforts to formulate an explanation of such control actions in terms of a purely mechanical set of actions and reactions in the brain and the linking nerves of the sensory or sympathetic system, become bogged down very quickly. The complications of a purely mechanical system baffle even the hardy purblind “Behaviorists” who will have none of the theory that consciousness comes ahead of the construction of bodily tissues, and shout their doctrine that all consciousness is the result of interaction between parts of the tissues or between the entire living creature and its external surroundings. The part played by the glands in animal bodies to effect thinking, emotions and moods, has been loudly preached, but nothing is said about the inevitable “first cause” in the organism which must be there to stimulate the glands.

Memory deposits in brain tissues do not show even under the most powerful microscope. Moreover, the spirits of the dead, or even the phantoms of the living who go off on astral travels, take the memories with them. This points directly to the Huna belief that memories are made of aka substance and are stored in the aka body, the latter, during all moments of consciousness in the body, being inside the structure, matching cell for cell in its penetration. It follows that, when parts of the body or brain are injured in any way, the aka counterpart cannot use them, and there results some imperfection of thought or sensory or muscular action.

THE ELECTRONIC BUG-CHASING MACHINE

Mentioned in the last Bulletin, with the slightly sour remark that there just might be something in such instruments, [the electronic bug-chasing machine] has been heard from again – from three quarters. If we had our Huna Lab, we would lease a machine from its inventor up San Francisco way and conduct some experiments along related Huna lines.

I am told that the instrument is similar to the radionics instruments used by some doctors for diagnosis and later treatment, but that the radiation rates of various insecticides are determined first to decide what kills insects of certain kinds most efficiently. Next, the instrument is set to produce and broadcast artificial radiations of the same nature and is aimed at the insects in the plot selected for treatment.

I am told that the favorite demonstration is one in which the rays or radiations are aimed at a tree infested with web worms, and that a spectacular rain of dead worms quickly results. This is most convincing, but when it is explained that the instrument has enough intelligence to observe the picture taken from the air of particular fields, and to confine its treatment to those seen in the picture, I immediately turn to Huna for a better explanation in terms of the aka-mana of the operator projected as an extruded miniature brain of sorts – connected to the brain of the operator by an aka thread – and furnishing the directing unit of consciousness which seems absolutely necessary. The idea that the photographic image, deposited in silver on a base of gelatin and paper, could act as a screen and directive of radiations to send the radiations to exact parts of the landscape, is enough to make any physicist begin to tear his hair. I have not learned as yet whether it takes men of certain natural abilities to operate the instruments successfully, as seems to be the case with radionics instruments of a similar nature, but my guess is that this will turn out to be a fact. If it does, it will put even more weight behind the assumption that the consciousness of the operator furnishes the element of directive consciousness.

IN RADIO THERAPY, ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER

HRA F.M.H., D.C., Ph.C., writes: “Dear Max: The last paragraph in Bulletin 73, reading ‘Who radiates what to whom and how?’ is old stuff to those who know how to use ‘Radio Therapy.’ Remember I’ve mentioned it several times to you? And I still say you are missing a BIG bet if you don’t come and see us. Plants, animals, humans etc. can all be treated with this method, plus lots of other wonderful things it does. It’s really right up your alley, so many questions that are puzzling you could now be answered so fast you’d have the thrill of a lifetime. Nuff said, it is your move. Sincerest best wishes, F.M.H.”

Comment: My time is so painfully full that I can’t get away from the Study long enough to accept this tempting invitation. Perhaps some HRA living in this end of the woods, and who has time, might contact me and arrange to substitute in the investigation, then write all the answers out for us and the world to read in the Bulletin. Of course, if we had our Huna Lab, and a bit of money to use, we might be able to get the men who issue such invitations to bring their instruments, assist in putting them through various tests, and then help postulate answers or formulate new questions still to be answered. Producing results with such instruments seems far easier than explaining “Who radiates what to whom and how?” But still….

When we are given the complete and final explanation and series of demonstrations via the instruments used in “Radio Therapy,” we will still have to investigate the very similar healing results which are produced without an instrument of any kind. I am thinking of the excellent score of healing results obtained by HRA Rev. Jessie Curl and others like her who heal with the supposed aid of disincarnate spirits and the forces made available to them. I am also thinking of the less spectacular results obtained by at least three HRAs who work without benefit of known spirits of the human kind, but who lay on hands and pray, the healing score again running higher by far than “mathematical chance of normal recovery.” To this list must be added those several HRAs who simply lay on a hand or hands, and direct into an ailing friend the thoughts of healing and the mana of strengthening. Of these several, some treat plants and pets with success. Lastly, there are a large number of HRAs who work regularly at 3 and 7 each day in the Telepathic Mutual Healing Group, working with prayer, the manas and visualizations of the desired conditions for themselves or others – working across miles of distance, and with sufficiently good results that letters keep coming in to report success.

THE HUNA LAB GROWS BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS

At least in my feverish imagination as I consider the way projects bob up to be added to the list of things to be brought into the laboratory for research and experimentation. An acre seems already too small. Perhaps we should spread the funds which we may have coming in, simply renting a big old ranch with housing fitted for the needs of a dude ranch. If we rented, instead of purchasing property, we could spread the funds over several projects which were slightly related (as wouldn’t they all be!) and perhaps finish off the work in the matter of a year.

DIANETICS and related systems such as E THERAPY would come in for an important share of the Lab activities because of the pressing need to find the best possible way to integrate the Aumakua and aka-mana factors and come away with the answer to finding and clearing away fixations which block the path of free and normal intercourse with the Aumakua. Evidence seems to be accumulating to show that when such normal intercourse is re-established, the healing of body, mind, purse and social tangles begins at once as the individual swings automatically into full cooperative living in which each of the three selves does its share of the work without hindrance – this working condition being the great goal of Huna effort.

NORMAL CONDITIONS,  in the respect just mentioned, may be thought of as  the first great goal. The second goal is one which humanity and our present world order is struggling to reach. This is a restoration of the normal in the matter of biological or living conditions. The thing we call “NATURE” has its normal of living conditions. It uses drastic methods to control the excessive growth of any one group of creatures, be they insects, animals or men. We have stopped the plagues and famines which normally kept human population growth in check to match the living room and food supplies available. As we are now about to restore the normal intercourse between the selves in the individual, we will eventually be forced to find a way to restore a normal relationship between man and the world which must feed him.

It seems that, what with the atom bomb here and the hydrogen bomb on the way, we will be forced very soon to give up war and what exterminatory value it may have, provided, of course, that we do not exterminate all forms of life on the globe by some rash action or accident. The day is definitely past when surplus populations can expand into empty lands or invade them and throw out the space native population. We may never have another Hitler or Mussolini who urges the swift increase in the birthrate to produce more soldiers to permit the conquest of the lands held by weaker peoples. We read that the Russians have told the Chinese leaders that some way must be found to reduce the number of Chinese by at least 70 million. The greatest single problem in Japan today is that of over population, now that they cannot make war and move into the lands of those they conquer.

I have received a letter from a friend who has been visiting India, in which she tells me that nothing can be done to help the people there in more than a small and temporary way. The pressure of growing population is at the bursting point. She writes sadly, “The only answer seems to be the old one of the centuries, famine and plague.”

It is my hope that when we finish with wars, once and for all time – perhaps after a sharp, final struggle – and after social conditions and the inequalities caused by war and other debts have reached their explosion point and have leveled off, we may perfect a world government. Then, with the increased productive power given us by the machine, we may be able to produce a surplus that can be used to develop food resources and to begin the task of keeping down populations just as we have kept down plagues. Some of the reactionary features in religion will have to go. Despite the darker aspects, the horizon begins to brighten. Some of the grandchildren of this troubled new generation may see that Bright New World of which we dream. We already know a hundred times better than we do. That in itself is very encouraging. I am surprised and delighted, day after day, to discover how innately kind, generous and tolerant men and woman really are if only their circumstances will permit them to exert their good impulses. In all the tests which I have run on the Bovis Biometer for the radiation pattern set up by a signature, only twice have I found the counter-clockwise circle indicating the leaning toward evil instead of toward the creative good.

LADY, THE TALKING HORSE gives us another candidate for the Huna Lab. HRA Edward S. Schultz, of Buffalo, N.Y., who serves greatly by combing magazines and papers for good articles for the HRA files, sent in a fine article clipped from the March, 1952 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine entitled, “Science Tackles the Sixth Sense”

Lady, the 26-year-old mare owned and trained by Mrs. C.D. Fonda from colthood, near Richmond, Va., understands English and has psychic and mind reading powers, perhaps the power of pre-vision. She has an alphabet keyboard to use to nuzzle up letters to spell out the answers to questions put directly to her while her owner stands aside taking no part in the performance. Lady was asked to give the name of the managing editor of the Popular Mechanics magazine by a man sent to see if she could and if she was able to live up to her reputation. Lady not only was able in some way to know the very unusual name, but she was able to spell it, “Dempewolff.”

Later, she proved that she either read minds or had some form of intuitive or psychic information, when she spelled “EYES” for the man questioning her – his question being, ‘What is the name of my daughter?” But his thoughts being on the troublesome fact that she was scheduled to enter a hospital just then for an eye operation.

In the article, I failed to find evidence that Lady was able to answer questions, the answers for which were unknown to someone present.

The latter part of the article discusses, with illustrations, some of Dr. J.B. Rhine’s research experimentation in the field of ESP, also PK, the latter dealing with the control of mind over matter.

From the Huna point of view, the animals have minds very similar to the mind of the human Aunihipili, and should, therefore, have its abilities to use psychic powers below those of a predictive nature which are believed to demand a contact with the Aumakua. Of course, there is nothing to prevent a horse from making a contact with a Aumakua, say one of the “Group Soul” kind, and getting information covering the future. I suppose that if Lady could accurately predict the future, much more would have been told of this feature by the writer of the article than was told in the simple statement that she was asked whether there would be a third world war, and that she spelled out, “Yes. 1952.” Unfortunately, we will have to wait until the end of 1952 to learn whether or not the prediction was prophetic or just the reading of the mental opinions of those near her. Perhaps it should be added that a horse as smart as Lady, and one accustomed to listening to conversations and answering questions, might have her own opinions about the probable outcome of the present tense cold war situation. (I still stick to my predictive conclusions reached through our HRA dream project, that the Korean war will taper off to an end, and that no world war will follow.)

ANOTHER ARTICLE from HRA E.S.S., was clipped from Man To Man magazine, issue of May, 1952. It is by Leroy Thorpe and tells a number of stories of death brought about through the mysterious action of unidentified psychic powers. One story is rather startling when told against the background of the New York of the 1930s. It concerns a derelict old man who came into money and soon gave it away to other derelicts on the Bowery, so that he was again broke and hungry. In a half-starved condition, he suffered from a strange hallucination. Walking up to a “drink-wrecked bum,” he stabbed him with a scrawny finger, directly on the chest, saying, when he had attracted the man’s attention, “I’m God. You’re dead.” The man dropped dead and no one could find why. The authorities were badly worried.

“Mr. God,” as the man came to be called, had collapsed after pronouncing the death words. (He may have used all his remaining mana in one shock-blow.) He was found to be running a high fever, but when fed and rested, his hallucination vanished and he was normal again. One is reminded of the shock of mana methods used by some na kahuna to clear away fixations which blocked the path and normal actions. One also remembers the strange activities of the mesmerist in Hollywood who worked himself up to a peak of mesmeric power, then stepped into a room, looked at men seated in a row and waiting, with the result that some of them fell unconscious from their chairs to the floor. The mesmerist, after the use of the force in this prodigal fashion, also showed signs of being greatly weakened, being left pale and shaken. Projected surcharges of mana-aka seem to be powerful.
MFL

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.

“Dr. Hannemann was educated in an orthodox school of medicine at Erlangen, Germany, and practiced some years in Dresden, where he came under the influence of Emanuel Swedenborg. With the courage of a mystic, he braved the ridicule of all the learned professions when he enunciated his doctrine: ‘That which causes disease will also cure it.’”

POISONING FROM POTENTIZED FERTILIZER was reported last week over the phone by Dr. Brunler. He had made up such solutions for use in his own garden it seems, but the radiations from the glass jar in which he stored the potentized solution poisoned him rather badly. Now, after a number of days, he is almost recovered.

THE RETURN FLOW OF HIGH MANA as the fall of the “rain of blessings,” was recently the subject of experimentation on the part of HRA Verne Cameron. While unable to use his Aurameter on his own hands during prayer, he tested the hands of two others before prayer, during prayer, when clasped and not clasped. The result reported was that after a prayer was finished and the return flow of High Mana was requested, the flow was seemingly magnified greatly when cupped hands were extended as if to receive the down pouring. Very strong beams or flows of force not unlike that rising from flowing water could be felt and registered with the Aurameter. (Comment: This is most interesting. We might conclude that the holding up of the hands in the position of receiving something acted as a splendid physical stimulus to cause the Aunihipili to attract the downward flow in some way to the hands, perhaps to make some inner gesture of acceptance. No particular results were noted or reported. MFL.)

HRA KITSELMAN’S “E” THERAPY book has been studied with much care by HRA T.A.L. of Los Angeles. He has not taken the ministrations under this system, but has arrived at some conclusions and writes an interesting general letter covering that and experiments with the position for prayer. He writes: There is much in ‘E’ Therapy (the book) that brings me back to the conclusion: HUNA, HUNA, HUNA, with a slight leaning toward Theosophy and Indian philosophies. There is much in it, I grant, that is enlightening, at least to me… but the real question I want answered remains unanswered. That is, how do the answers to prayer, wonderment, or what have you, come to one? Are the answers figments of one’s imagination, or what? (Comment by MFL: The Aunihipili seems to use a shorthand of sorts to reduce what it is given of information by the Aumakua to symbols. We see this in dreams, and have learned to ask for the meaning of a dream and often get it in flashing bits of sudden understanding. It is to be expected that the Aumakua would, in the relaxed waiting for it to show what was to be recalled and re-experienced in the therapy, give the Aunihipili the memories of scenes of things or people to present to the focus of consciousness.  The Aunihipili may reduce some of this to symbols which need to be handled as those in dreams. The present great difference between the “E” Therapy and the later forms of Dianetics seems to me to be that in the first the High Self is invited to take over and present the things which, when re-lived, will result in the draining off of the fixations and a correction of ills. In the latter, there is marked reluctance to trust the things which seem to come from the High Self, and the function of the auditor to direct the work rather completely is stressed.) “The main benefit I have obtained from the booklet is the explanation so long sought by me of what I call the ’saturation’ or sensory exhilaration I experience nightly at the conclusion of my prayers. This they term “Fire,” and they give a good understanding of the meaning of it and its benefits. I had, for some time, been curious as to whether some ’smart’ entity had been stealing vital force from me at those times, but had discarded the idea because I experience such a wonderful feeling of ‘aliveness’ and relaxation, with no indication whatever of exhaustion. I truly feel that I make contact with my Aumakua.

“In Bulletin No. 72, your suggestion that we experiment with kneeling and position during prayer will, I think, bear fruit. You see, once a few weeks ago, I entered my nightly routine as usual, but suddenly wondered, like yourself, if better results might not be obtained by reverting to the actions of my childhood and kneeling instead of sitting up or lying down, thus getting back to a position that the Aunihipili understood perfectly because it had been conditioned to it from the earliest days.  Like other HRAs, I continually experiment in the hope of finding a better procedure and the best solution – that these might be found and passed on to others via yourself.

“Following that line of thought, I have evolved what I call a ‘ritual.’ I first take a clear glass filled with water, relax, and gaze passively into it, concentrating at the same time on the thought-forms and imagery of the things which have been my goals – material, physical and spiritual. Gradually these images appear in the tumbler of water, and when they have all appeared to my satisfaction, I cease. I find, too, that eye strain is much relieved and the eyes feel rested. At first this routine used much more time than I felt should be necessary.  Then, as the Aunihipili fell into line, the time needed to create these forms and images became less and less. Now, it takes seldom more than ten minutes. Then, after thus conditioning my Aunihipili, I get down on my knees, allowing about a minute in meditation to allow for the time lag. (Note that there is no special accumulation of a surcharge of mana or ritual offering of same to the Aumakua, MFL.) I thank the Aumakua for all blessings and acknowledge receipt of same. I keep in mind the Master’s words, ‘Believe that you have received, and you shall receive.’ However, this THANKING is done by an effort of synchronizing the Aunihipili by conscious direction to the base of the spine with my Auhane in union, and by imagery, directing the union up the spine, to the top of the head, mana charged, to the Aumakua, in TRILOGY, three times. Then asking that the ‘RAIN OF BLESSINGS’ descend upon me, and that any instructions or messages for guidance be given in a dream. Peculiarly, the ’saturation’ I experience now comes three times, each time after my conscious direction of the flow, the third time always being ‘terrific’ and leaving me with a wondrous feeling of relaxation and well being, and ending with a long yawn. Like the HRA in Dallas, I, too, can express a feeling for greater living since taking up this research. I have wondered if it may not be the outcome of the very ancient admonition, ‘Know thyself’.’ At any rate, I would not exchange my experiences and feeling of well being since becoming so associated with yourself, and indirectly with the many other people in this movement, for anything of which I know.

“I must explain that I was prompted to use the synchronization of the Aunihipili and the Aumakua at the base of the spine, from the spirit communicator, Yada, dissertation given through Mark Probert recently when I attended a seance in San Diego. Yada spoke of the serpent as the symbol of creative power – the power which is centered in the spine – and the entwining as the symbol of upward movement for the accomplishing of our desires – the coiling around the spine. All such symbolic knowledge may lead to the goal we seek and at which experimentation is aimed. By the way, I like your idea of mana potentizing. Seems possible. More power to you Max.”

Comment: This is the type of experimental approach that we need in HRA work. Many HRAs do not agree with my tentative conclusions or my ideas concerning what Huna was or was not. Many are irked by the materials I use in trying to select things for the Bulletins which will have interest for a very mixed set of readers. Fortunately, most HRAs are very tolerant in this respect, knowing my limitations, and crediting me for the best of intentions. In the letter from HRA T.A.L. there may be points on which there is a difference of opinion, such as on the idea of blending the Aunihipili and Aumakua at the base of the spine, but such differences are of great value because they often set other experimenters to running check tests after their own manner of approach, and there is no telling when something very significant will be discovered or experienced. My own position is much like that of an eager spider clinging precariously with one claw to the center of his web while clutching with his other claws a constant “catch” of thoughts and information tossed in by HRAs. I try to digest them and spin them into more web.

A LETTER OF EXPERIENCES, CONCLUSIONS and constructive criticism, dated February 15th, has come in by air from an HRA who joined in the Huna testing and research over five years ago. The writer is a seasoned student and her letter offers much food for thought.

“My dear Brother Max:
I have been turning over in my mind for several days the subject matter of a letter I hoped to write to you – and wondering how to word it – how to get across to you some findings of my own in my recent experiences – how to express to you some constructive criticism of your work for Huna. I hate the word ‘criticize’ even if it has ‘constructive’ in front of it, when my husband and I so deeply admire your efforts, and sympathize with most everything you do to further the knowledge of Huna.

“When, lo! Bulletin No. 67 arrives, and provides me with the very inspiration. In this Bulletin, on pages 4 and 5, you tell of your visit with Jessie Curl and what Hoo`la said and did for you, through her, and what you later did for yourself by raising yourself into ‘The Light.’ Ah yes, Max! FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE!

“I want to tell you what happened to me, spiritually. Like you, I think I make the mental approach first, and always want to know WHY and HOW. But, theory is one thing, and trying to put the theory into practice always is another – always seems to uncover totally unexpected angles on the matter.

“In the end of 1949, when I began my prayer project, helped by my husband, burning a little candle to symbolize the Light and repeating the prayer three times, as you suggested, we prayed because I had received a very strong urge to come to re-establish our life here. Our prayer always ended with a request that we might, by this change over, be enabled to know our Aumakua better and spread the truth about them, later, to others.

“As I had trained in New Thought teachings for many years before I found Huna, and as I had had ‘miracles’ more than a few times, it did not surprise me when our prayer began to work out. What DID cause surprise was the WAY it worked out. No fiction in book form could surpass this tale, and it is still working, as I hope to tell you in another letter.

“In this letter I want to tell you what I learned from my personal sufferings in the process of working out, and how it fits in with your experiences, Brother Max, and what use it can be to other Huna students.

“As our demonstration unfolded, it was not all smooth going. We hit some very rough spots, especially for me, but I finally got here, believing that within four or five months our house would be built despite all the shortages and restrictions, and that Mr. B. would have got his transfer to the office here. It turned out very much otherwise. I was alone from August until the next April, living in a house trailer. Unable to build, I moved into the house we bought and lived there alone until October, 1951 until the demonstration came to a head like an awful abscess, burst, and so came the healing and renewal. Those months were possibly the worst in my life.

“But they taught me things – oh, how they taught me. I think they were for me a veritable ko-an, for one reads that when the monk came to Sui-o to be helped to get Realization, it took him over three years, and, as Suzuki says, ‘When not spurred, no awakening. When  not cornered, no opening through.’

“The first point in my experiences is a danger spot that I have never heard you warn students about, although it is often mentioned in occult literature and is given in the Bible as Peter’s attempt to walk on the water, nearly drowning, and having to be held up by Jesus.  As an intellectual idea, very interesting: as a personal experience, simply devastating! There you are, sailing along on the top of your demonstration, buoyed up by faith even when things are not working out. And then, without warning, you hit a spiritual air pocket, and DOWN you go! It is not just a case of ‘moods,’ for they  are emotional and soon pass. It is just as if all the water had gone out of the lake and you were left sitting on dry bottom. You struggle to regain some kind of conception or inspiration, but NOTHING comes. The MIND can’t help you. The old intellectual conceptions of faith are still to be read on the pages of your mind, but they arouse no response.

“It is the feeling of being lost in a wilderness. Nobody to turn to who understands. It is no less than terrifying to a student of half a lifetime like myself, but think what it would be to a raw beginner. Surely you should write a small manual on ‘The Path to Miracles – What to be Prepared for.’

“You know what a dry taste in the mouth is when it is impossible to swallow? Well, this is a dryness of the Soul. It may last a day or a week or longer, then it goes. The idea being to see that the demonstrator does not ‘go’ first, by jumping over a cliff. An alcoholic bender might be the solution for some, but in my case I have an Aunihipili that thinks that elderly ladies, drunk in the full light of day, are a cause for shame. Instead, I battled it through.

“The second point is so different that I do not know how to name it, so can only describe it. (It might be called – condensing a part of the letter – ‘What Peter did and felt and thought when he found himself sinking into the water, and before he saw that Jesus was able to come to hold him up. In her case it was a vast loneliness growing over the months, the demonstration bogged down and with no sign of ever starting again. MFL.)

“I had reached the place where I was ‘cornered’ and I had but one recourse. I had to find the ‘opening through.’ Where was it? What was it? I believed that the only help could come through the Aumakua Spirit, and that the contact had to be made again and kept. I prayed, and there was no sign to indicate that the prayers were reaching any mark. None of the physical senses recorded any reply. Yet, I had faith to believe that the prayers were heard by SOMETHING. The answer had never before failed to come when I really reached the place where I COULD NOT take any more.

“There was no more intellectual meandering. I began a most urgent spiritual search. After a long time it came to me that the answer must be through GRACE: we reach up, the Aumakua reaches down. There must be a level at which there is fusion. Now, with Bulletin No. 64 before me and your account of your experience with Hoo`la trying to drag you up, and with you later being able to rise in your emergency,  I see that this fusion must be attained. But at the time of which I write, I was just beginning to try for some form of fusion through Grace. However, the mystical approach was not enough for me. I went back to bolster my mind with basic, logical concepts of the Universe and, therefore, the reality of God.

“(Eventually) I began to BELIEVE – not hold opinions – the reality of SPIRIT. I became like a child taking its first staggering steps. I was certain that I was in contact with Spirit, but it felt so very unfamiliar. I kept practicing. I kept praying. And, I kept getting results all along the way.

“One day I caught myself sending up a thought of real affection to my Aumakua as a real and true friend – a parent. I didn’t want anything at that moment! I was just being loving. There followed times when I was filled with JOY. I knew that this must be from SPIRIT. It made me feel light and strong.

“I had many setbacks, for I found that I became very sensitive to vibrations, to loud noises, harsh criticisms and the like. Also, I frequently read the thoughts of others. To make things harder, my Aunihipili, poor thing, became badly upset by all the material uncertainties and by being separated from its mate. My health suffered.

“At last I began to find the ‘opening’ – to make discoveries and to experience the thing you described when able to lift the consciousness. As you put it, ‘Suddenly, with no sign of mental or spiritual sensation,’ you were healed.

“I found that this IS the hallmark of the action of SPIRIT. No mental or spiritual sensation, because there is no friction – no effort. It is like, ‘God said, Let there be Light, and there was Light.’ Spirit just lets things be.  A further point: I wasn’t just finding out things about Spirit; in a small way I was becoming what I found or touched, for I began to achieve my small concerns in an effortless way also, aided by a developing intuition in dealing with trifles. A bit of ’stillness got into my bosom.’

“At this time, day by day, I seem to be learning to walk in, and with, this ‘touch with the Unseen Spirit ‘  I feel that I may reach the place before long when I shall rely entirely on Spirit and stop leaning on outside props. That is rather a terrific thing to say and mean, at least for a weak human like me, but, you see, apart from the actual miracle demonstration (now complete in the matter of the new home, and with her husband now there, I believe. MFL) I have had in material ways. I have also made some steps forward. (She mentions two books which helped greatly during this long period of stress. Recovery, by Starr Daily, and The Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda.)

“One more thing. You will remember that in the case of the instant healing that came in Australia when the ancient prayer bowl was held and healing was requested, nothing was felt that could be reported. The pain just stopped, and never returned.

“I am delighted beyond measure to have you speak in this Bulletin of the necessity of the kala or cleansing before prayer, or as a necessary accompaniment of raising the consciousness. The one fear I have had as I watched your Bulletins, was that you would put the Keys of Power into the hands of students who would have the wrong motives, or who have not heard that LOVE is the only Power. We are all so sinful and complexed that we can help each other tremendously by talking things over, as you do in the Bulletins, and learning to be humble and to want to make restitution and gifts and to clear the pathway of the old guilts and complexes.
Aloha from us both. Affectionately, HRA”

COMMENT is little needed on this letter. She “also bears witness.” Instant healing has not been peculiar to Huna. It is something experienced the world around in all ages. We center on Huna because it seems to offer the straightest line of information on the things involved in such healing. One day we will, I earnestly trust, know exactly how to take each of the necessary preliminary steps to contact the Aumakua and call down the healing for ourselves or others.

“WHY DO WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT SUCH THINGS AS THE BACH REMEDIES, instead of healing through prayer?” asks HRA J.B. in a recent letter. In reply, I have explained that we have fallen into the Bach Remedy matter because of the fact that HRA Dr. Westlake, in England, told how he used his straight psychic powers to find out which of the remedies his patients needed. That led to the question of what such remedies might be and how they were made ready. Most HRAs, like myself, had never heard of them and were happy to have the information, even if it has led us into “potentizing” and other matters which cannot be classed with the simple gathering and preparation of herbal remedies of the kahuna la`paau in the Hawaii of yesterday. As I have often pointed out, na kahuna believed in using all of the methods available to restore health. They were a remarkably sane and rational lot and we can profit by their example. The best doctor and the best prayers should go hand in hand, at least for this stage of our research. Perhaps, later on, we may be able to call down instant healing in some cases even before the broken bone is set, but at this point common sense dictates setting as well as prayer. What we are trying to do and what the doctors do, [is to] make two sides of a triangle that should eventually meet at the top. If, in our HRA scrambling to try to find new ways of measurement for radiations from the body, mind or spirit, or of auras and flows of force, we depart from pure psychology and religion to play around in the fields of physics and biology, there is always the long chance that in the end we may suddenly find in our hands several pieces of the puzzle of life that fit together and give us a clear picture.

REV. JESSIE CURL writes that she will probably spend all of March in San Francisco, but that no definite plans have been made for later travels. She also says, in answer to my request, that she can send photo reproductions of the psychically seen and drawn picture of her healing guide, Hoo`la. These are 30 cents each, post paid. Address: Rev. Jessie Curl, Hotel Stewart, 351 Geary Street, San Francisco 1, Calif. Please do not send your order to me. If you do, Cigbo will be sure to get to your envelope before I do and have the 30 cents fished out and hidden in his box before you could say scat.

HRA CIGBO REPORTS:

Cigbo reports from his perch beside his box on the top of the desk in the Study, that he is again making progress with the very painful task which he has to perform every six months or so – that of going through his list of aunties and uncles and friends who just go along for the ride, and observing which ones have not been heard from in that time and so must be presumed to be dead wood HRAs. He also reports two recent letters to him in which the question has been asked whether Cigbo is a “him” or a “her.” He dictates the following reply: “I have consulted Mr. Thomas Kat, who lives in our alley, and who knows almost everything. He snuck into the Study with me when boss was out, and ezammined my old box that I had first., and which had a pitcher of a Mr. George and the words ‘I am for men’ on the lid, and we decided that this certainly was a male cigar box and that I was a real thomas cat, even if a very small and transparent one. Then we looked at the fine new box that Auntie Myrtle gave me to use as my Sunday best box – and WAS my face red! IT has a lovely lady on the inside of the lid and her name is ‘Santa Fe.’ I sure had some bad moments until Mr. Thomas Kat decided that because I kept letter stamps in this box, and because letters were certainly male when they went to the post office, I must STILL be a thomas cat. He also scratched one tattered ear in thought for awhile and delivered a terrible sage dicktum that fixed me all up fine as a thomas. He said ‘My long study of the Thomas sex of mankind has convinced me that under his lid every man is more or less Santa Fe.’ So, that is that, and I hope this settles the matter for better or worser. The only thing that still puzzles me is how the sekt of a cigar box could be of any interest to anyone besides some other cigar box. Ain’t human beans kinda funny sometimes, huh?”

Yes, despite our serious purposes, we do have our fun. God must have invented laughter, for it is the one thing all men of all races have in common, regardless of their place in evolution as measured in terms of books and machines. What a mess we HRAs would be in if we couldn’t sometimes pause and laugh at ourselves!

WHO RADIATES WHAT TO WHOM and HOW?

This is what an HRA wishes to know in sending a copy of a reprint in the Organic Farmer of January, 1952. The original was a dispatch to the Denver Post from Marana, Arizona, where J.P. Boyce has contracted with farmers to protect 14,000 acres of cotton with an electronic “bug chaser.” First, a picture is taken from a plane of the field to be protected. The part showing the field is carefully cut out and the resultant piece of photo placed in the machine. The machine is aimed at the field and a eucalyptus leaf is inserted into it, some knobs turned, and a radiation tuned to the eucalyptus rate is sent out over the field pictured, but not on to other fields. “Boyce says the machine ‘recognizes’ the land in the trimmed photo and treatment is confined to this area with hair-like precision. Each kind of plant is surrounded by its own magnetic aura of magnetic rays.” Insects which cause crop damage use these magnetic rays to find the type of plant they can live on. The bugs cannot smell or see the plant. The cotton bugs wouldn’t touch a eucalyptus leaf if they were starving to death. As the machine sends out a radiation of eucalyptus rate which is strong enough to replace the radiation of the cotton plants, the bugs starve or go to other fields. In a test on 300 acres, every bug vanished in twenty minutes. The farmers signed contracts to pay only if they were completely satisfied at the end of the growing season… Perhaps there IS something in these new radiation theories after all MFL.

February 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.

BACH REMEDIES INFORMATION

Back Remedies information has been requested by a number of HRAs after the mention of them in recent Bulletins. The following information has been supplied by HRA F.J. For contact with his followers, write to Miss Nora Weeks, Mt. Vernon, Statwell, Wallingford, Berks., England. In U.S.A. the books in which he gives a complete list of the flowers and the ills to be treated with their potentized extracts may be had from The Theosophical Hall, 245 West 33rd St., Los Angeles, Calif. (No titles or costs were given.)

HOW TO POTENTIZE

Dr. Oscar Brunler explained the standard method to me. Take one part of substance and mix it with ten parts pure water. Take one part of that mixture and mix with another ten parts of water. Repeat as often as desired. Each operation thins the solution a tenth. The substances are said to gain in potency because the atoms of which they are constructed are caused to expand as they are stretched ten fold, or a thousand in spreading equally through the solution. This is said to cause the rate of vibration to increase in speed and so cause small amounts of the original substance to have much greater power. The exact difference between the power of a dose of one cc of concentrated flower extract and a dose of potentized extract containing only one one-thousandth as much extract, seems to be explainable only in terms of “trace effects.” We know that traces of certain mineral elements are needed for plant or animal growth and health, although the trace may be infinitely small. It is supposed by many that such traces may have a catalytic effect, not themselves entering into chemical actions, but causing, by their presence, the reactions between other chemicals which normally would not react one on the other.

I gather that different substances give very different results when potentized. Dr. Brunler tells of amazing results in the use of potentized chemical fertilizers. On the other hand, an HRA wrote to tell me that some years ago, in Florida, Browne Landon had advocated the potentizing of fertilizers, but that the result, in his hands, were not sufficiently satisfactory to be conclusive. Inorganic substances may give very different reactions. A flower extract may be a very complex mixture compared to a simple nitrate salt. Organic gardeners tell us that chemical fertilizers leave substances in the soil which are very bad for plants, and some go so far as to stop the use of animal manures. Evidence accumulates to show that insect pests and diseases attack crops far more freely if they have been grown on ground treated with chemical fertilizers. Food values are also inferior in such crops. We are slowly learning that Mother Nature knows best in her methods of growth relative to plant and animal life. Refined and chemically preserved foods are suspected of being the cause of a host of modern ills. The pendulum seems to be very useful to tell one what food is right and what food is poor or even harmful. HRA F.M.H. writes that “Seroyal Brand” Vitamin sales agencies offer a pendulum that works over a plastic box and which he has found excellent for food testing. The box contains a magnet and/or lodestone and is sold at nominal cost cost. Dr. F.M.H. writes, “It is particularly good for checking food supplements to tell which are needed by the body and which are not. I have recently been busy checking bread, and have finally found a 100% whole grain broad that isn’t full of chemical preservatives.”

POTENTIATED MANA

This may well be the secret of what we postulate to be the “High Mana” or Mena Loa of the original Huna system. As I have said in my book, SSBM, it is evident that the life force – mana or basic vital force – is used in seance work when ectoplasm is taken from the living and used to fill the aka molds of entities who materialize. This seems to demand a form of force that is “living” in as much as it can be controlled by the mental action of spirits (they having no mechanical means of control such as coils and vacuum tubes for such uses). We know of no non-living force which can be so controlled, as, say, ordinary electricity. It follows that if mana is taken from the living at a séance and used to produce materializations or apports, the amounts of mana must be rather small, otherwise the medium and sitters in the circle would be far more depleted than they are. This leads to the conclusion that the mana must be “potentized” in some way so that a small amount of it can do spectacular things. In my book, I suggested the idea of stepping up the vibration of the force much as we do in handling electricity.

I have been taken to task for this comparison repeatedly, and will be for suggesting “potentizing” as a comparative process. But, be that as it may, it appears quite evident that something is done to change the vital force so that it can perform in a way not seen under ordinary circumstances. Perhaps we may eventually, thanks to pendulums and related semi-psychic extensions of our measuring mechanisms, learn exactly how low mana becomes High Mana and is used to break down non-normal parts in the body and rebuild them as normal or “healed.” In any event, so far as I can learn, Huna offers at this time the one and only simple, clear and logical explanation of what happens in this poorly lighted corner of the field in which we labor as HRAs.

THE STRANGE CASE OF ACHILLE D’ANGELO

[This] is an excellent example of (1) the lack of an explanation where Huna is not known, and (2) of the correctness of Huna in the matter of the projection of an invisible ectoplasmic “aka finger” accompanied by the use of much mana. This case was called to my attention by HRA E.S.S. of Buffalo, N.Y. It is given in full in the March, 1952, issue of STAG magazine, page 21, (author, John Zischang of the U.P.)

Achille D’Angelo, so the article relates, is an Italian. In his youth, he discovered that when walking 20 paces behind a beautiful girl in Naples, he felt an overpowering urge to reach out and touch her. His hand went through the motion of touching the girl in a caress. The girl reacted as if actually feeling the hand. She cried out and turned to see who had touched her. Seeing no one closer than 20 paces away, she fainted. (Supposedly from the fright of the supranormal experience.) D’Angelo vowed to use the strange power for good, and set about experimenting with it. It proved useful in healing, although the article says only that when this man visited New York recently, the Italians learned that he was there and swarmed to Wei in the hope of being healed, although he avoided them because such practices are outlawed here.

The writer of the article, won the opportunity to test the power to make his touch felt by another at a distance, and later brought in magicians, a psychical research officer and others to assist.

From across the room the white haired D’Angelo was able, under test conditions, to project an invisible hand and make its touch clearly felt on three different occasions. His subjects simply sat still with closed eyes so that they could not see when or how he made the motions with his hands. The writer was startled by having a finger jab him sharply in the back of the neck, and learned later that he had felt this when D’Angelo had jabbed the woman of the. local S.P.R. in the back of the neck as part of the demonstration.

In addition to the definite “touches,” there were things which are commonly observed at materialization séances – gusts of wind on the face and arms and the sound of scuffling feet running around the subject on the carpeted floor during the time lag of about 1-1/2 minutes. (Remember the time lag noted by HRA Cameron in waiting for the Aurameter to react to force beams from the hands.) During this minute and a half, D’Angelo and his observer had walked once around the subject, but had not approached closer than ten to twelve feet.

The fact that definite “touches” were made and clearly felt, shows that the “aka finger” of the Huna system actually can be projected. That this aka projection can be filled with invisible ectoplasmic substance taken from the body of the operator is to be guessed. (We have but to recall the experiments of Dr. Crawford with the Goligher girl, Kathleen around the year 1922, to reach the conclusion that the ectoplasm came from the sensitive. In that series of tests, similar touches were made across a room on a table sprinkled with red dye – the dye returning with the ectoplasmic projection after the test and staining the girl’s clothing and skin at the point of exit and entry. See page 68 of your Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science by Dr. Nandor Fodor.)

The only thing that leaves a person exhausted is an exhaustion of the vital force or mana. Doctors recognize this fact now. In the case of D’Angelo, he was left so depleted by each demonstration that he had to have a considerable period of rest before he could make the “touch” again. When demonstrating, his face became red and he panted as with a great exertion as, we must remember, did the mesmerist observed in Hollywood not long ago when he worked up his mesmeric power in preparation for the work of knocking subjects unconscious from their chairs.

One more thing, and this is very important to a full understanding of the matter. The mana is involved in the production of ectoplasm of the invisible kind that forms the “aka finger” which is reached out to touch the subject. This ectoplasm, even when remaining invisible, can be hardened or strengthened by the mana and/or an action of consciousness (presumably of the Aunihipili in this case) so that it is as if solid and material. (In Dr. Crawford’s tests, the invisible “ectoplasmic rod” was extended from the girl’s body and was solid and strong. It rang a bell or lifted a heavy table.)

While the magician friends and other experts who tested D’Angelo with the article writer could offer no explanation, even while not admitting that what they saw was not stage trickery, the case gives us one more unit of proof to place behind Huna as we at present conclude that it must be. Step by step by step we arrive at clearer understanding of the way the unseen elements of the three selves of man can and do work.

PRAYER AND MANA EXHAUSTION

Prayer and mana exhaustion have often gone together for many of us in our Huna prayer-action experiments and in the TMHG as well, as when trying to heal individuals with physical contact. The pendulum test of the normal charge of mana, also is good for the surcharge, and for the condition of charge after mana has been sent along the aka thread to the Aumakua or Po`e Aumakua, where the flow may possibly be divided many times and in some manner “potentized” greatly for use on that level of being as well as on the physical level.

Sleep is the natural reaction to a lack of mana. I have found that I had fallen asleep toward the end of a TMHG period. Others have had the same experience. All of us have swiftly revived. However, it is my opinion that, if one successfully establishes a circular or up-and-back flow of mana with na Aumakua, and is careful to ask for the return flow as in the words, “Let the RAIN of blessings fall,” the mana, as the pure water-mana of “rain,” will not only be returned but will be watched for by the Aunihipili and accepted. Just a little “potentized” or high mana, according to our present theory, will vivify one amazingly, as well as act to heal and otherwise aid the physical or mental man.

A TEST FOR THE PRAYER POSITION was made by me at the Study this week and I suggest that it be tried and that we pool our findings in the matter. Kneeling for prayer seems to go back for many centuries, and this may have significance as a physical stimulus for the Aunihipili to get it to do its part in the making of the contact with the Aumakua. (This is especially true for one who has been accustomed in childhood to kneel for prayer, as the Aunihipili has learned that signal as a prelude to prayer.)

The Baron Ferson method of gathering a surcharge of mana is to extend the arms away from the body at the sides and to spread the feet and legs as far apart as one can comfortably. He thought, at the time at which I knew him, that the hands and feet were thus stuck out beyond the oval aura which surrounds the body, and into the atmosphere where the “Universal Life Force” flowed and could be collected by an effort of will. This may be right. The stance and method work very well. On the contrary, we may guess that if we wish to keep the mana charge close in the body, we should draw the legs and arms close to the bodily centers. Kneeling does this and so does clasping the hands over the chest in the time-honored attitude of prayer.

MY EXPERIMENT was that of kneeling, placing my hands together for prayer in the usual way, and bowing my head. In India they believe that prang or living force, runs from the end of the spine to the top of the head and out of the top at “The Door of Brahman.” Just where it goes from there or what it does, is not too clear. In our Huna work we have found mediums picking up the aka threads with a winding movement of the hand over the subject’s solar plexus and, feeling sure that the solar plexus is the center of the Aunihipili and the point from which its aka threads rise to the Aumakua, we have something else to go on. Suppose we say that the Aunihipili sends mana over the aka thread from the solar plexus region outside the body, and that this strong aka thread is guided between the hands and comes up between the cupped palms and out through the space between the finger tips. Note that there will be a small space between the two middle or second fingers if the finger tips are brought to a point instead of being spread out like a fan to a slight extent. The first, third and fourth fingers touch in this position which we are testing, but not the second.

One first assumes this position just as a test to see that it is easy to assume. Then the mana surcharge is accumulated and the position again assumed. The picture is then mentally held for the Aunihipili – the picture of the forces flowing up to the Aumakua through the aka thread passing upward from the tips of the second fingers, but, in addition, the picture is held of the force rising from the spinal region and coming out through the top of the bowed head. The head being bowed, the flow from it points to the upward flow on the aka thread or cord rising from the hands. Picture them joining and flowing upward. Ask for the return flow.

On other days, experiment by picturing the flow as rising first from hands, then from head, alternating slowly or rapidly. And, as the third experiment, try picturing the complete mana circuit of flow established and going up to the Aumakua by one route and returning by the other, or alternating. If your experience is like mine has been, I think it probable that you will find the top of the head is where the return flow comes back into the body. You may experience some unusual sensory stimulation, but that is something I cannot predict. Please report back so that we can average our findings in the mechanics of prayer as to position, and have a report on the results in a Bulletin.

A POSTSCRIPT ON D’ANGELO might be added here. This gentleman was at some pains to explain that he had learned early in his experiments that he could not control the projected part of himself – in the tangible form of a hand – and be sure what part of another person it might touch, especially with women. For this reason, he explained, he made it a habit to demonstrate only on men and so save the chance of embarrassment. This shows very clearly that the Aunihipili is the one sending out the aka hand to make the touch. It also shows that, in doing so, it is acting on its own although it may have been caused to act by a command from the Auhane. This agrees with our Huna findings that we can only issue the order, as na Auhane, when it is time to contact the Aumakua in prayer and send the offering of mana. The Aunihipili must take over then and make the contact as well as send the flow – while we relax and hold before us the mental images of the conditions which we desire to have provided for us in our bodies or surroundings. It takes some time to train the Aunihipili to its part in effective prayer, but it also takes time to teach the Aunihipili to play its part so we can read.

AURAMETER TESTS ARE OPENING FIELDS FOR EXPLORATION

HRA S.P. writes from New Jersey that he has been making tests with his Aurameter an several things, locating auras and beams of force, also sensing the pull of the flow of the beams much as HRA Cameron feels the flow in beams rising from underground water columns. (S.P. writes) “As I sat in my chair adjusting the head of the Aurameter according to page 3 of the instructions, I noticed that when I got the head of the meter in balance it was strongly attracted to the head of my bed near the south wall of my room – really southwest. I followed the pull and the Aurameter outlined for me a cylinder of mana, or other force, about 4 feet in diameter, with a downward flow as shown by the downward pull of the head of the meter until it reached the level of the bed and turned at a right angle – to pass through the wall of the room and out into the yard. I have not traced it far enough outside to know where it goes. This is not a thought-form, but a continuous downpour of mana. I have measured it every day, morning, noon and night from January 15th to February 4th and the force never varies in size or direction of flow. I think it is a continuous downpour of mana from the Aumakua. I also think it has healing power, for whenever I have trouble with my eyes, I can go and lie down with my head in the downpour and ask to be healed, and I am healed.”…. It must be remembered that HRA S.P. has given much time daily to prayer, and that this is something that may have been building over a considerable period. From such an experienced student in the psycho-religious field, and one with excellent psychic gifts, such a report as this cannot but carry weight and set us all thinking on new lines. There seems to be a whole world of forces and vibrations of which we have been almost unaware, but which need greatly to be understood.

ADDITIONAL BACH REMEDIES INFORMATION has just come in as I write, this time from HRA Mrs. R.M. in the East. She gives the following: “Two small paper covered books by Edward Bach may be had from Ideal Health Stores, Inc., 30 West 36th St., New York 18, N.Y. The books are, The Twelve Healers and other Remedies – in this one giving the names of the flowers and how to use them and for what. Heal Thyself – an explanation of the real cause of disease and the cure, a very wonderful book, I think. There is another that I have not seen, The Medical Discoveries of Edward Bach, Physician, by Nora Weeks. All are published in England.” (Send self addressed post card for prices.)

A SECOND REPORT FROM HRA DONALD KENDALL has come concerning the healing of the pains in his feet which went almost entirely away after a few treatments by Rev. Jessie Curl and her spirit guide, Hoo`la. He writes, “… a week after the third treatment, there was a recurrence of the arthritic pains, but they were much different than [they were] before beginning the treatments. Where before the pain was steady, it now comes occasionally in surges, then disappears for periods… The pains are sharper but briefer. As the condition has been there for several years, I certainly do not expect an instantaneous healing. I am inclined to think something is working out there.”

HOO`LA appears at a seance attended by Don and in his letter he goes on to say, “On the evening of January 23rd, I had a private seance at his home with Dr. Dickson. When his control, Minnie Brown, materialized, I asked her what she thought of Mr. and Mrs. Curl. She replied that they were wonderful people. Then there materialized a heavily built form which walked out a short distance from the curtain (of the materialization cabinet) and announced itself in a low, husky voice, as Hoo`la. While the form remained there briefly, a slightly higher pitched voice said to give his greetings to Mrs. Curl and predicted that in a not too long time, she would return to England, where she is wanted badly. I turned to Minnie and asked whether Hoo`la spoke English. She said that one of his helpers, Kapiolani, had spoken for him.” It may be noted here that the most famous woman of that name in Hawaii was of the native nobility and, after becoming converted to Christianity, went with the missionaries in early 1825 to break the taboos surrounding the volcano of Kilauea and the worship of Pele.

REV. JESSIE CURL writes that she will be at the Stewart Hotel, 351 Geary St., San Francisco 1, Calif., until the end of February. She has no plans ahead, and cannot say where she and Mr. Curl will go next. I give this information because so many have written to me to ask whether their vicinity will be visited and if so, when. No answer can be given to this question at present. Letters reporting successful results from her treatments continue to come in. It will be recalled that Huna is the science of man both in life and after death, at least in so far as it presents a rounded system of psychology. Spirit healing, therefore, is a definite and legitimate part of the practices of Huna.

IF YOU ASK FOR EXTRA COPIES OF THE HRA BULLETIN to be sent to you or to a friend, please be informed that copies cannot be sent for 2 cents in postage unless 20 identical pieces are mailed at one time. An extra copy must go by regular mail and this takes 6 cents. Cigbo will be greatly served in keeping up the stamp supply, if postage to this amount is sent with each Bulletin requested for self or a friend. Bulletins bound in volumes can go by parcel post, but not as “printed matter” or under “book rate,” one volume costing 19 cents to send into the 8th zone from Hollywood. Bulletin 71 with the index, takes 9 cents.

SENDING MANA TO NA AUMAKUA as the basic element in all offering of “SACRIFICES” has brought up the question as to whether or not the mana of a sick or impure body was acceptable. Also, whether the mana of a “sinner” was pure enough to send. This is a very important thing to understand correctly. We have no way to know by direct insight what impurities may be carried on the mana flows to na Aumakua or what the results of such a sending may be. However, we have in Huna the evidence that the same problem was met and an answer evolved thousands of years ago – when the language of Polynesia was being evolved. The same problem was met in early religions such as Christianity, in fact, in any religion demanding sacrifices to the gods. Most religions lost sight of the secret behind sacrifice – the secret that mana was the one and only acceptable thing to be offered.

In the roots and symbol meanings of the language of na kahuna, we find the answers to our own questions as given above. The word lele, in the Hawaiian dialect of the Polynesian language group, has the meaning of “jump, fly, ascend quickly.” It also means “an altar for sacrifice” or a place from which the something of the sacrifice rises. The human body is the altar from which mana rises in our prayer actions as our sacrifice. This fact allows us to understand the significance of the word lele`wai, which means “to cleanse or purify.” Literally, the combined root words mean “to cause water to fly upward.” We who know the secret symbol of wai, or water, know that it is mana.

The mana flies upward to na Aumakua and, quite apparently, it was long since discovered that in this very act of sacrifice, “cleansing and purifying” were inherent, so that it could not contaminate na Aumakua. Knowing the inner symbolic meaning of lele`wai, we can see how the priests of early religions who had lost the inner meaning may have come to get the idea that “flying water” in connection with sacrifice indicated a cleansing by washing something or some person. Ceremonial washing was universal in early religions in the Near East. In Christian teachings, however, some of the inner meaning must have been retained, for baptism and the later forgiveness of sin by sprinkling with “holy water” used by a priest, was not a body cleansing. It was a cleansing of the spirit of man from all past deeds classed as “sinful.” It is also probable that the idea of using water as a physical stimulus in giving strong suggestion that “sins” were being washed away, was an echo of the complete rite of na kahuna by which fixations of guilt (or other fixations) were removed, so that the one so cleansed might have his “path” cleared – might again be able to send mana to his Aumakua via his Aunihipili in the normal manner and so obtain desired answers to prayers.

For our purposes, as we work to win back a working understanding of Huna, it is enough that we learn that the sacrificial offering of mana is acceptable no matter what the condition of the one making the offering. All that we need to worry about is the necessity of living the kindly, helpful and HURTLESS life. Na Aumakua are very kind. This we learn over and over. They stand ready to cleanse our soiled faces times without number when we look up to them. Huna is very simple, very easily understood and very easy to live by, once the secret of its symbols are brought to light.

HRA N.B. WRITES from Dallas, “I know that I am not a very good member, but of one thing I am sure; I have had a tremendous amount of help from belonging to our HRA organization. It is nothing specific that I can put my finger on, but I find that small worries that used to bother me, never get a hearing now. My health has become much better and I am ever so much happier, and to me that is a great help. I admit that I do not understand all of the theories of Huna, but that seems not to be necessary. I absorb the ideas like a sponge.

“My comment on this delightful report is that we all seem to be very much like that. We may not understand clearly the new ideas which we encounter in Huna and related fields, but we keep absorbing them by degrees, and eventually they become ordered and ready to hand for our use. Little by little they make themselves felt for good in our lives and actions. Little by little we build broader and more satisfactory philosophies of life and being for ourselves. Little by little we become better able to Serve and feel the joy of Service. Our final goal is as clear as it is simple. We grow slowly toward being “Utterly Trustworthy” in our use of all the things given us to use, be they material things, thoughts or forces. One follows the ancient way asking first for knowledge, for understanding, and for light on the obscure teachings. Once this comes, the rest is simple. The dark shackles of ignorance, superstition and dogma fall away. We find that the former weighty obstacles to “living the life” fade into absurdities. We are allowed to return to the quiet and peaceful normal [way] of living. We smile to see and realize that the Powers that created us and the level of life and intelligence which we now know have made no mistakes. It is only man who makes the mistakes in his efforts to correct the imaginary mistakes of the Creators. M.F.L.

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.

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.

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

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.

Because of the influence of this ikon and the spirit, Mr. Sandwith has been greatly aided in many aspects of his life and activities. Having expressed his desire to look into the “occult” field, he was projected into a series of adventures which read like a novel when related bit by bit as his letters come through. (See back Bulletins.)

MAKING A NEW IKON became a project last February. The spirit was consulted and various substances and objects were tested to find a proper radiation index for the work. A Tongan mat was indicated as part of the tools of the making, stone images were tested and were carefully considered, as was also a native ikon in the form of a petrified cuttle fish of peculiar form. Ivory was found to be the best material from which to construct the radiating center or ikon, and a search was made for the right piece. It was finally located in the form of a 52 inch carved figurine of a Japanese lady, hair parted and tied smoothly back, and her robes the simple ones of her time – over a hundred years ago. Crouching at her side, one paw in a fold of her robe is a cat, its eyes picked out in black paint, as are the eyes and eyebrows of the red lipped mistress. (Cigbo is, of course, vastly intrigued by this ikon kitty and expects from it a series of miracles in his department.) The carving and workmanship are of the finest, making it a thing of beauty aside from the forces which have, under the direction of the Ethiopian spirit, been brought to center in the ivory. (My very warm thanks to HRA Sandwith and his friends for the effort and the completed ikon for our TMHG prayer table.)

TESTS OF THE RADIATION OF THE IKON have been made with the pendulum and with the new “Aurameter.” The first gives a strong clockwise swing indicating mana according to my code. The latter shows a 12-inch aura extending on all sides and a rod formation extending from the back. Over the head seems to stand a cone, point down. As I am just a beginner in the use of the Aurameter, however, I anxiously await the next visit of HRA Verne Cameron to check my findings and add to them.

Mr. Sandwith has left it largely to me to learn for myself about the spirit which he assures me is standing ready to Serve through the ikon, or about the power resident in the little figurine as an ikon or center of radiation – whatever the radiations may be or may accomplish. He did say in his letter, however, that the spirit was of very high radiation rate and that she might be found to be very subtle as an influence – might take patient care and application to become acquainted and learn to work with the ikon as a contact center. In the three days since I became the happy custodian of the little ivory ikon, nothing has as yet come about that I can say definitely is more than a part of my imagination or a part of circumstances already on the way. I will do my best to cultivate this new acquaintance and to bring into play the guiding and healing powers for us all through the TMHG or otherwise. I will report as I have things to report. Meantime, a happy and exciting Christmas season is assured by the arrival of so fascinating and beautiful an object.

MIRROR GODDESS? One hand of the ikon lies across her breast with the handle of something grasped in it. Whatever it was she carried has been broken off by some accident of her many years. It could have been a fan, or, as I like to think, it may have been a mirror. The Japanese had a Goddess of the Mirror very similar to the one of the Aumakua class known to the Polynesians. She was supposed to hold her perfect mirror up to her devotees, reflecting back into reality in their lives the exact things they presented before it with their hearts and minds. In standing before her, the greatest care had to be exerted to see that no shadow or trace of the undesired emotions of the heart or images of the mind showed itself in the presentation before the mirror – in the formation of the thought-form picture with its contained emotions, as part of the prayer-action. In very fact, the goddess always is holding the mirror over her earthlings, so no dark, unkind or sad thought must ever be allowed to come into heart or mind.

I first learned of this in Hawaii after a young Japanese mother said to me, “Yes, my little son died last week” and smiled. In the West we have need of a Mirror Goddess to allow us to see this facet of the Diamond of Truth more clearly. Some of us approach the truth however, when we deny the reality of evil, sin, want and unhappiness by classing it as “error” and reciting, “Good denies error …”

I, personally, prefer the simpler method of denying nothing that my senses and reason report as relatively real as the plane on which it is found, but of trying to keep it out of heart and mind. I also love the code of the Navajo Indians – they strive to see only beauty about them. “The rain – the wind – the sun – they walk in beauty.” There is much reason to believe that the Aumakua level is one of eternal verities – one in which exists the perfect patterns upon which our imperfect realities are built by the imperfect thoughts and understanding on our lower level. In my battered copy of the Bhagavad-Gita is a passage which reads, “The man who is happy within himself, who is illuminated within, is a devotee, and partaking of the nature of the Supreme Spirit, he is merged in it.” A bit similar?

A CHRISTMAS PLAY FOR HRAS

Act 1.

Scene: The seance room of the Church of Spirit and Truth. The pastor, a materializing medium, sits silently with closed eyes and folded hands on the low rostrum. She is waiting to be entranced by her spirit guide, Big Sky. At her left is the materialization cabinet, two frayed velvet curtains of faded green stretched before a corner of the room. Seated on folding chairs facing the rostrum are the congregation, fifteen men and women and one child. They sing softly, “Shall we gather at the river?” The medium becomes entranced and rises slowly. The singing dies away.

Big Sky (speaking through the medium) How! Greetings to white friends. You all know what we come to do tonight. This is Christmas Eve. All year we plan. All year the Great Spirit tell me to promise you Second Coming of Jesus. Second Coming to stay. Jesus going to materialize and walk out from cabinet, alive and just like before. He going to stay materialized… because one of you is going to give up your body so he can use material in it – what you call ectoplasm and vital force. One of you going to give up body for always and come over here with us. You going to do it so Jesus can have a body again, come second time to save the world… Which one of you want give up everything to help world this way? All you got to do is come up and go into the cabinet. Soon Jesus come out. Come!

There is an uneasy stir. Faces are downcast. There are muttered sentences. One woman sobs softly and wrings her hands. Big Sky (Pointing an accusing finger at one after another. Sternly.) You all promised! Now is the time. What’s the matter?

Members of the congregation, one by one as singled out:

1. I know I promised, but I’m not pure enough. I’m a sinner, and I’ve got a poor sick old body that’s not good enough!

Big Sky: No difference. We got promise all sin forgiven. All flesh made clean.

1. But I can’t. I know I promised, but I can’t. I got to stay and take care of my children…

2. (When the finger is leveled at him.) I thought I was going to do it when the time came, but now it’s here I can’t either. I’ve got to stay and help my wife take care of our children. They’ve got no one else in the world to support them.

3. I’ve got a husband and four children. My husband is too sick to work.

Big Sky: Don’t we have promise Jesus will take care of your families if you give up body? That’s not good excuse. You all got black, selfish hearts. Maybe some of you like to sell out Jesus for thirty pieces of silver, what? And maybe you be like Judas Iscariot… and have Jesus say to you, ‘Tarry here until I come again.’ Maybe you all want to live two thousand years more? (Voice rises to a high pitch and fists are clenched and lifted upward.) No more good people left in world! Only people like you! Great Spirit got to let you all blow up your world before year 1952 is gone! We can’t find even just one person who will give life like Jesus did to save the world – and now everyone going to lose life anyway… Shame!

With hung heads, some sobbing, the members of the audience rise and begin to slink away. Then [they] stop and look curiously as the door at right opens slowly and with creaking hinges. A bent and grizzled man takes a step into the room and removes his hat. He has a heavy Semitic face and moves as if very tired. He is poorly dressed and carries a much worn brief case bulging with papers. Big Sky notices him and demands…

Big Sky: Who this stranger? What you want?

Stranger: I learned what you planned to do here tonight. I learn of everything that goes on… (He looks at the huddled members of the audience as they edge toward the door.) And I knew that none of you could stand the temptation to break your promise when the time came. Yes, I know… I broke almost such a promise years ago in Jerusalem. (He turns to Big Sky) May I offer myself?

Big Sky: Why you offer yourself, Stranger? You want help to help save world? Why? How come even one person in world willing to make sacrifice?

Stranger: I have an old debt to pay. Besides, I know human beings better than most. Given enough time, almost all of them could learn to be unselfish. Time… All they need is another two thousand years. (He walks slowly toward the cabinet and places his brief case on a folding chair standing outside the curtains.) May I go inside now? Is everything ready?

Big Sky: Yes. Everything ready.

Stranger: I wish to leave just a few instructions before I pay my debt. In this brief case will be found papers – all legally executed – turning over my property to the Master when he comes. Please tell him to open the case at once. It is very important. When he first came to save the world he was poor and had no worldly power to establish the Heavenly Kingdom on earth. He was even unable to defend himself against such as I. We crucified him. (He looks down at the startled faces in which realization begins to show.) Yes, I am the one. I tarried. Now he comes again – but this time in glory and with the world at his feet… In two thousand years of investing those accursed thirty pieces of silver, I have come to own everything in the world that makes for power. Through my agents and holding companies I own the greater part of every great banking system, every great corporation. I hold the bonds of indebetedness of every government. My agents have been instructed. They know what to do. And they will do whatever Jesus tells them to do.

Big Sky: How you know those agents not turn to crooks when you not here on this side? Look what these did. (He indicates the members of the congregation – who hang their heads.)

Stranger: I know my agents. There are honest men – at least eleven of them – now on earth again. My eleven agents are tested and true. They have ruled the world for me from behind the scenes for over twenty years while we made it ready for Jesus to return – to return, when men at last were brought to see that selfishness and greed and hate bring only ruin… My eleven agents are waiting outside even now. I will call in four of them to act as witnesses to what is about to happen. (He turns toward the door and calls,) Peter! James! Matthew! John! (Four men enter quietly, nod and stand watching intently.) You have your instructions? Everything in mind? (There are answering nods.)

Big Sky: You ready now?

Stranger: (Wearily) Yes, at last… It has taken a long time. What do I do?

Big Sky: Just go through curtains into cabinet and stand there. We do the rest. We take care of you good.

The stranger lifts a hand slightly in farewell, parts the curtain and enters. The curtains fall together and the outline of his body can be seen pressing them out slightly. As all watch in tense silence, the bulge of the curtains goes and they hang straight.

Act 2.

A white light begins to build behind the curtains and illuminate the ceiling and come through the curtain rents. The curtains ripple with movement, the light slowly fades. The curtains part and a young man with sensitive Semitic face steps quietly out. He seems to be dressed in the same shabby clothes worn by the Stranger, but stands tall and straight. Big Sky leaves the medium and her body sinks into the chair, her eyes remaining closed. One of the women goes to attend her. The awed members of the congregation fall back. The four agents come forward.

Peter: You are Jesus of Nazareth?

Jesus: I am.

Peter: I suppose you know of all our plans? Are they satisfactory? Everything is arranged to begin the broadcasts and to televise your arrival when you are ready? Perhaps you would like to go first to your hotel and change into other garments?

Jesus: I have come in from a very different level. I have very little idea of the plans or of conditions – I had very little time to talk with Judas while we were making the change. I will leave everything to you to arrange, as before. (He smiles slightly.) Could we go to some upper chamber first? I want to break bread again – with all eleven of you. (Curtain as they go.)

Act 3.

The curtain rises on the same scene, but the cabinet in the corner has been blocked off with posts and red ropes. It has become a show place and there is a large brass plaque on an easel. The medium, dressed for the task, is finishing the job of sweeping her church. She looks at her wrist watch and hurries to pick up a small portable radio, set it on the speaker’s stand, and turn it on. She sinks into a chair and listens expectantly. A voice speaks through the radio.

Voice: This is a resume of the news of the week ending Saturday, January 28th, 1952. On Monday, following the announcement that those who still refused to accept the invitation of the Master to reform would be forced to conform, the heavens opened as a veritable scroll over Moscow, over the Red headquarters in China and over the Vatican. The secret weapons, long in preparation by Judas and The Eleven, poured from the skies in the form of flying saucers of all shapes and sizes. The red air forces surrendered without a shot being fired. Red leaders were taken aboard a saucer and transported to U.N. headquarters for re-education. The Holy Father at Rome was at last satisfied that the Master was a veritable return of Lord Jesus. He had held out that such a return could not have been possible outside the fold of Mother Church and had demanded a miracle as proof of validity. After the miracle of the saucers, he became fully convinced and issued a papal edict covering the situation – after which he gave back to Peter the position of supreme head of the Church to make any and all changes which were seen fit.

On Tuesday Dr. Oscar Brunler and a picked crew of trained users of the Biometer, began work at U.N. headquarters to process and classify politicians and others in high governmental positions from all over the world – all according to their brain or soul radiation patterns and readings. The majority of our own congressmen were found to be unfit for the positions which they held, and were replaced, Congress being reduced to a tenth of its former size. Similar changes were made for other lands according to the suggestions of specialists among the Eleven.

On Wednesday, Master Jesus and the Eleven, acting as the Directive Council of the United Nations, announced the formation of a unified code of laws for the entire world, a unified court system, and a new method of selecting governing heads, based on tests by the Biometer to determine natural qualifications and balanced by experience and training. The new school for such officials opened and offered an intensive training course.

On Thursday, all currencies were made uniform and based on the average man-machine production per hour unit. All gold found to be owned by the Master, and was held for temporary use in aiding the change from old currencies to the new. All trade barriers were removed.

On Friday, orders were given to begin converting war goods for civil uses. “Production for Use” was begun under the direction of Luke, using a plan long studied in advance for an “Economy of Abundance.” As all great corporations are owned or controlled by the Master or the Eleven, mass machine production was placed on a non-profit basis. As small industries, not so owned or controlled, could not compete, they were ordered to exchange their plants for the new credits. A strike at the plant of General Motors was called, but all union members but two showed up for work on time. The leaders were removed and sent in to be tested for B.R. patterns. All were found to be counter-clockwise and were assigned to one of the new Public Service units formed to contain and police all such anti-social individuals as the processing turns them up in high places.

On Saturday the new universal healing and medical care plan was inaugurated under the guidance of Mark. The A.M.A. was dissolved, doctors of all schools admitted to practice in all hospitals and services, and a special board appointed to process with the Biometer and from healing records, all healers classified as “mental-spiritual” healers. As soon as time will allow, it was announced, the Master will take personal charge of this work and it will be used as a basis on which uniform psycho-religious instructions will be taught the world around by healing missionaries who will be trained after the general methods and holdings of the ancient Huna system, of which the Master was an initiate.

On Sunday, the Master addressed the world over a universal hookup. (Translations were made into all possible languages and dialects. The churches of all denominations were crowded as the Master was televised while delivering his address.) The Master spoke very simply but with great earnestness and his face was lighted by his love for the Father and humanity. He restated the ancient law of non-hurt and stressed again his own addition to it – the need for love and loving service over and above the call of non-hurt duty. He spoke happily of the great progress now being made in all departments of life, of the use to be made of all scientific knowledge and of the great blessing of the use of the new form of power developed for use with the flying saucers, and of the economic benefits of such almost free power. The medium through whose powers of materialization the Master had been given a permanently materialized body to use was introduced to the world audience and lovingly praised and embraced by the Master. She is revealed to the world (and to herself) as the Mother Mary, again in incarnation. She will join the Master in his later healing ministrations, but for the present will, by her own choice, continue to serve her own little church and its rapidly growing congregation. She said she wished to serve in this way until Judas could be brought through and could stand materialized before the Master long enough to be assured of his complete forgiviveness and his restoration with honor to his place with the others, making the Eleven again the Twelve. It is good to note that by this time, the vast wave of religious hysteria aroused by the news of the Second Coming in glory, has begun to die down. Men and women have more or less finished their repentance, and are turning to the task of living the new life in which none are to be hurt unless their anti-social acts demand police action against them. And that is the news up to this moment. This is station HRA. Max F. Long, Your reporter. (The medium rises to turn off the radio. She smiles happily and begins to dust as the curtain falls)

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.

“Psychiatrist Says Moon Affects Human Emotions” is the heading of an article sent in by an HRA recently under a place line of Duke University. Last May, Dr. Leonard J. Ravitz of Duke, made a study of 11 men and six women from the school’s student body to see whether the highly sensitive micro-voltmeter would register differences in electrical readings from day to day. Earlier, this doctor had found that all living things had mixed and complex electrical circuits. At Yale, trees and mice had been successfully measured in this respect. The sensitive instruments measure the differences (says the article writer) between the voltages of the head and chest. The moods and personal problems of the students were carefully noted and “variations in electrical voltage showed a cyclical pattern – a pattern duplicated according to the phases of the moon. During the full and new moon, voltage readings were either very high or very low.”

So, some of the things which were tossed into the trash pile as superstition are now being re-examined by a very few hardy souls. The effect of the moon on sick minds has seldom been denied except by those who did not take the trouble to inform themselves. While, in my opinion, Astrology is less valuable as a predictive tool than is claimed by most of its exponents, I have little personal doubt that we react in some ways to the positions of the moon and the planets. In so far as I have heard, the only two measurable influences projected by the moon are those of reflected light and of gravitational pull which causes tides. There may also be something which could be classed as electronic radiation, for all I know, but evidence accumulates which makes me more and more sure that there is a form of radiated energy, perhaps not of the recognized electric kinds, positive, negative, static and the like. In any event, it would seem to be a safe guess that something comes from the moon or planets other than light, and that this something has a direct effect on human life in both the physical and mental parts. Or, we may be drawing certain forces like mana from Mother Earth, steadily, and it might be that the moon and planets may cause changes in Mother Earth and her energies that in turn are absorbed by all living things, including ourselves.

MOODS AND PRAYER have a very definite relationship. In the last two years I have prayed more often, more earnestly and more watchfully than in all my life before this period during which I have acted as the center for the TELEPATHIC MUTUAL HEALING GROUP WORK. I have prayed for my own needs and those of my close friends. I have prayed with all the varying degrees of earnestness and frequency for the needs of an increasing number of my HRA friends, and, as one prays, one draws nearer to those for whom one prays – I have found this out. The tie grows so close that more and more I come to sense some special crisis or need of a friend as I touch his or her letter in the TMHG times, and I have fallen into the habit of praying a little longer and a little harder over such letters – so often learning later that my intuition had been right, and that – praises be to the Utterly Dependable Parental Spirits – we had managed together to push open the door and call down help.

There seem to be a number of moods, whether they are caused by the moon or not, I cannot say, but I came long since to look upon certain days as good for prayers and some as bad, with many days in between which seemed neither especially good or especially bad.

THE GOOD DAYS are those when it seems very natural and very simple to reach out to touch na Aumakua and to begin happily offering the gift of mana, then presenting picture after picture of the conditions desired for those of us who make up the TMHG. There is an inner singing of sorts, a feeling that all is well on all levels, low, middle and high. The force flows, the tingles come, and the work ends with a sense of inner satisfaction and confirmation of faith.

THE BAD DAYS seem to come at times despite all that can be done. There seems to arise a darkness inside, and a dismal feeling of lack of strength, lack of faith and lack of drive. On such days I fall back on the spoken lines – affirmations, commands to the Aunihipili, and ritual recitals. It takes minutes longer to accumulate the surcharge, and sometimes the mood of prayer sours and leaves me sitting blank before my prayer altar. At such times I can do nothing more than sit quietly trying to remain an open channel through which can flow the mana sent from you to be transmitted along the braided cord which our combined efforts, we believe, actuate and bring into life and action.

When one makes ready to pray, there seems to come an automatic focusing of all our hates, hurts, fears, longings and guilt feelings. One must pause to clean house, make pledges to right hurts done others (perhaps that very day) and to rationalize patient step by careful step, the illogical elements in each emotion which boils up from the Aunihipili, be it ungrounded fear or unjustified hate and resentment. In passing, we must remember that the injunction to forgive our enemies may have been not at all for the sake of the enemy, but because that is the best way to push aside the blockings of hate in our path along which we reach out to contact na Aumakua.

FIGHTING THE HORRID THINGS OF DARKNESS is, fortunately, something that few of us are called upon to do in so far as obsessing entities or angrily attacking and avenging spirits are concerned. There is a lesser danger, however, which has but recently come to my attention with sufficient clarity to enable me to order my thinking on the point. I wish to speak of the strange limbo of our forgotten dreams. The average person remembers only a very few dreams, but the Aunihipili remembers a great many – perhaps all dreams of major proportions.

In hypnosis the patient often has been made to go back and recall dreams, some of them belonging to earlier years, some of the night before, and some of the oft-repeated kind such as the recurrent nightmare.

It was found, many years ago, that certain compelling moods of anger or depression were directly rooted in dreams which were not remembered consciously, but to which the Aunihipili continued to react violently whenever the slightest thing came along which reminded it of some phase of the nightmare.

We might call these bad dreams which are remembered by our “George Aunihipili” and reacted to, the HORRID LITTLE THINGS OF THE DREAM DARKNESS. Moods of all shades from light to dark may be indirectly caused by dreams which we have forgotten. I am just beginning to realize this and to understand the possibilities of the fact. The excellent practice which is now a habit with me – that of asking upon awakening to be given the meaning of a dream of which I am still aware – is now being enlarged to include a careful inspection of my moods on awakening. By living in the mood a bit and at the same time quietly trying to recall the dream that caused it, I am finding that such dreams can often be brought back. If remembered, they seem automatically to be rationalized and the mood made to vanish.

The exceptional dream is the one which has been so vivid and impressive that we remember and re-live it too avidly and so tend to build up the mood instead of ironing it out. If you awaken with a mood, or with a feeling of exhaustion, try having a look backward into the dreams of the night. Not long ago I was much annoyed by frequent awakening through the night, each time finding myself dreaming over the same dream of trying to finish a task which was wearing me out entirely. When it came morning I felt entirely done up and was swamped by a mood of utter discouragement – which took me several minutes to link up with the repeating dream and to rationalize so that normalcy returned fairly well. It could well be that the mood of the day on which one cannot bring oneself to pray, might be traced to a previous night in which George had had a repeat dream of unrewarded prayer which had left him flat. I would appreciate it very much if some of you could watch both moon phases and possible dreams with their effects on otherwise unexplainable moods – run a check on my findings and tentative conclusions and add your findings to mine for the good of the order.

NOR DARE WE OVERLOOK MULTIPLE PERSONALITY as a source of moods. As I wrote in SSBM, there seems to be considerable reason to believe that a majority of us have “eating companions” of the spirit kind, whether we know it or not, and that some of these, at times – perhaps when the moon is right for them – are able to get our Aunihipili to share their moods and pass them on to the Auhane. Of course, there could be moods of joy and faith and confidence as well, but in any case it is obvious that it is better to keep moods from the outside from swaying us. Always, we should try to teach George to stand upright on his own two feet and repel spirit intrusions either for good or bad.

WHATEVER THE MOOD, we do well to try our best to quiet down any inner emotional churning, or overcome the depression of the mood and TO PRAY as best we can. No effort is lost even if we feel that we are confronted by a blank wall. The Aunihipili is a creature of habit, and if one has made a habit of prayer, it will always swing into the prayer-action at least to some extent. There are times when, even if we feel that we are cut off and have made no contact, it is enough that we have paused, fixed mind and heart on the Utterly Trustworthy Parental Selves, and have humbly offered even a little mana and all of what tiny trace of love we have been able to concentrate in our hearts despite a bitter mood. Love is a blessed offering. It can be love whether or not it is reciprocated. Some of you know this better than I could ever tell it – know that love can be its own shining and blessing reward. On those days when the mood is right for prayer and the Higher Beings seem very real and close at hand, we can make our best efforts. Perhaps the tradition of one day in seven for a complete day of worship and communion is based on the changing moods. If one can strike a good mood once a week and make the very most of that time, much good should be accomplished. Pray for the world and for others if your own life is complete. Build the habit of prayer with patience and care and love and all the wisdom you possess… and in the day of your own personal need, you will have a wide and open path before you for your own rush to obtain help.

MORE ABOUT REV. JESSIE CURL’S SPIRIT FRIEND “HOO`LA”

In the last Bulletin I told of the visit with Rev. Jessie Curl and of how the spirit Hoo`la (”To cause light”) took over her body in the trance condition and went through a strange ritual with me.

One word he repeated over and over with much care and seemed to try to impress upon me as he rubbed my hands and forearms, touched my face and the top of my head – pulled and hauled at me. It was the word huti which means “to pull,” and from his actions it was clear that he wished to convey the idea of “pull up.” In my Hawaiian dictionary I later found the following definitions for the Hawaiian duplicate word spelled with a “k” as huki. I consider them so important, considering what happened to me later, that I will give all the definitions: (From Andrews Dictionary page 223)

“Hu`ki, v, 1. To draw; to pull; to draw as with a rope. See (translation into Hawn. of ) John 4:7 – (draw water from a well).
2. To raise; to lift up, as a person (drawn up from a seated position – in olden days on the ground) by the hand.
3. To put upon, as one substance on another.
4. To brace up or prop up.
5. To cook soft…”
(Note: words in parentheses are my own.)

It seems certain that the lifting up was symbolic and that my body was not to be lifted. Knowing the many kahuna symbols of the rising of the low mana as it is presented to the Aumakua, we may consider this an indication that Hoo`la recognized that part of the mechanism of prayer. In addition, he repeated several times, the words, la hii, which translate literally, “light lift up.” This could mean but one thing, as I reasoned it out. As “light” is the symbol of the things of the Aumakua level – in contrast with “darkness” symbolizing the lower levels, the demand seemed to be that I lift myself into the light. Some months ago we worked together on the problem of “raising the vibrations” and found that in prayer, the brain radiations rose rapidly.

The No. 2 definition given above for huki fits the idea of “lifting” in terms of the mana and the “light.” Definition No. 3, however, would have meaning only if it symbolized the fastening of the aka cord to connect the Aunihipili and Aumakua. Hoo`la tried hard to get this idea over by rubbing the hands and arms of the medium against my own as he repeated the word, and once broke out in English with “sticky,” which left little doubt as to his meaning and of the fact that he was ritualistically establishing an aka cord between himself and me. Other words he used translated, “instruct, cleanse (kala) and child.”

THE RESULT OF THIS was that I set to work with fresh zest and confidence to see if I could “raise my vibration” – raise some part of me into the “light” – into a more complete contact with na Aumakua. I experimented each evening for several days with not too definite results. I affirmed aloud, as a directive to my Aunihipili, “Rise! Lift into the Light!” etc. The spoken word is a splendid physical stimulus. I saw no flash of the startlingly white light that I have experienced at rare intervals in the past.

Then, one evening when I was in a good prayer mood, but was very miserable with some form of cold that seemed to be going the rounds – head and back aching and knees and stomach very uncertain – I tried anew to accumulate the mana surcharge, then picture myself standing still but the world around me sinking on all sides as I was automatically elevated into the level of the light and na Aumakua. I gave thanks and affirmed the fact that I had risen into the light and that all within and without me was bathed in the light and made perfect. Suddenly, with no sign or mental or spiritual sensation, I found that I was healed – feeling perfectly normal. It was a priceless experience, more valuable by far for the faith it engendered than for the momentarily uplifting emotions of love and gratitude or the respite from the minor illness.

Only once before had a sudden healing come to me, and that back in Hawaii in 1919 when I stood one evening at dusk in a deserted old parsonage which had been assigned to me, unfurnished, for my living quarters. I happened to be actively ill with a liver attack, head swimming and pounding. Hardly expecting help, I lifted my face and asked silently for healing, and instantly it was there, leaving me with the feeling of standing in the midst of a strange silence. These are things hard to describe, but those of you who have had similar experiences will know just what I mean.

Now, at each of the TMHG periods and often between times, I go through the same mental processes, picturing the darker levels falling away below me as I feel myself lifting into the light. In the TMHG periods, with the contact letters in their box on my knees, I picture the connecting aka cords, and affirm that I am drawing all of you with me, up… up… into the light. I am confident that we are being helped to better and better results. Rise with me when you can.

THE SUN RISES EVERY DAY

This may be a symbol for us to keep in mind as we rise into the light for healing of body or affairs – healing for ourselves or others. The difficult thing seems to be to hold the high rate of vibration steadily. After the healing of which I have just told, last week, I did not remain completely restored. By the next evening a few twinges of the malady were back, and once more I repeated the rising ritual, this time working for a close friend who had been taken down with the same virus infection. For four days the process of rising and endeavoring to pull my friend with me went on, each time bringing almost normal conditions, but with the friend relapsing strongly, and only at the end of the fifth day recovering all but normal strength.

In an old prayer of welcome made by a high kahuna, Hewahewa, to greet the arriving missionaries, he opened with the words, Ku, ku la, kulalani… which have been translated “Rise from the low sitting position on the ground, to the knees, then to the full standing position. Stand in the light. Stand united, stand firm in the high place.”

It is the standing firm that we must learn. Na kahuna taught that one must be kala-ed or cleansed of the sins of hurt done others (or against one’s own body, it is to be thought) as a preliminary to successful “standing firm.” For your information, I made a preliminary searching of my heart for “sins” and asked help in being cleansed, also making a small pledge which I could and am observing as part of the ritual. Na kahuna also taught that the unwanted condition should be put out of mind. This is very important, especially when the actual pictures are being made and presented to naAumakua. I have before me a letter from one of our advanced students, HRA H.F. of Chicago, who recently ran into some hard going with his wife, and who tried to use Huna to call down help. They have the advantage of being able to talk with the Aunihipili of the wife under mild trance conditions, and so asked it what was wrong. It may have had the help of the Aumakua in giving the answers. Here are parts of the letter:

In light trance, the Aunihipili said through Mrs. F., “H. actually doesn’t like that extra job. He doesn’t really want the job, but just the income. He shouldn’t pray for the job, therefore, but for the income. Mrs. F. (who was injured and had suffered some bad employment reverses) needs courage and insight enough to know that she need not work for and further the interests of the wrong people, and will find the right work and the right people if she hunts for them under guidance. She has been compromising the truth of the matter, even fooling herself, but never the Aumakua. This is not fear of not getting a salary, it is simply lazy thinking. She invited this illness as a way to avoid taking the steps outlined here. Her prayer was answered. H. is conscientious where right and wrong are concerned. He fights forever inside himself. But in so doing, he gives reality to the very thing he dislikes. By accepting a wrong as a thing, his PRAYER HAS TWO FACES, the wanted thing and the unwanted. He MUST learn to ask for what he wants – what he really wants – and to UNSEE the wrong entirely. No use trying to make wrong people do right things; you need evil spirits to force people to do things. Avoid that. If you want a book published for the good of humanity, pray for that, not care who publishes it. If you want a book published for profit, pray for that, but don’t dilute things by also trying to make specific people accept something they, for reasons of their own, do not want.

Comment: I think it most important that we remember at all times that every prayer is like a two-sided mirror, and that both sides must be made to reflect what is desired, not what we wish to have lifted from us by na Aumakua.

CARBON AND MAGNET REPORT

A number of HRAs have been sufficiently interested in the matter of “Vitic” to try experiments with the carbon and magnet. I am still wondering why my mana count via the pendulum drops to a low point after holding the carbon and magnet, and why HRA Verne Cameron’s water dowsing sense fades away for a matter of twenty minutes. HRA E.R., who runs her tests with care, reports: “I find holding the carbon in the left hand and magnet in the right, brings about a calm and restful reaction – being of a very sensitive nature, I feel the force or current stimulating the cells. I reversed the above and brought on a tight feeling in the throat that ended in a coughing spell, so know that the magnet for me is for my right hand and carbon for the left. I was naturally left-handed as a child, but was forced to become right-handed – a mistake modern parents should avoid. I now do everything with my left hand but write. I am inclined to believe that with the use of the carbon and magnet, one may be able to raise one’s brain radiations.”

HRA Sherman Peticolas has sent us the information as to where to get carbon and magnet supplies. “The carbon rods should be ordered – catalogue section 5955 – from the National Carbon Co., 292 Madison Ave., New York 17, N.Y. The minimum order is for 6 1-inch by 12-inch carbon rods shipping weight from Fostoria, Ohio factory, 3.54 pounds. The price is 63cents so calculate the proper rate and add postage to cover. The Alnico magnet of the right size is the one and three-quarter inch one Catalogue number 4975, $1.25 each post paid, from Johnson Smith & Co., 6615 East Jefferson, Detroit 7, Michigan.

JOHN HILLIARD’S VERY IMPORTANT BOOK – THE METATRON THEORY – IS OUT IN A FINE NEW EDITION

If you are a fairly new HRA, or if you failed to get a copy of HRA John A. Hilliard’s very important book from HRA Meade Layne of BSRA who sponsored it, I strongly urge that a copy of the new edition be ordered while stock is in hand. (BSRA, 352k Adams Ave, San. Diego 16, Calif. $2.08, plus tax if in Calif.) I reviewed this book in Bulletin 21, page 3, and still consider it one of the outstanding contributions to the Huna study. The world of PHYSICS has been baffled by many things because it lacks knowledge of some of the invisible elements known for centuries by na kahuna. Mr. Hilliard has made a careful approach to the problem of adding these elements to the science of modern physics. It is delightful, after suffering for years from mental indigestion through a diet of books written with mush-thinking – or almost no thinking at all – to find Ohm’s Law applied to the mana, the aka and the thought-form, with each conclusion verified with its proper mathematical statement of facts as they relate to other known facts. If you happen not to be familiar with physical measurements, here is a book so simply written that one can get the explanation at each step and take the correctness of the formulas for granted. If you, like myself, are more than a little sick of all the unproven gabble about such things as “seven rays” and seven of every other imagined thing, spend a few minutes a day for the coming year with this book and get the taste out of your mouth. Or cut your thinking teeth on this quiet book which is filled with amazing new possibilities.

MUCH EXCITEMENT OVER THE NEW “Aurameter” of HRA CAMERON

Since the news has been spread concerning the “fantastic” findings made by HRA Verne Cameron with his special dowsing instrument, the demand that he make them available to HRAs and BSRAs has become a rising clamor. Finally, Mr. Cameron agreed to take time out from his work of locating wells to “tool up” so he could make some of the instruments.

A TEST MODEL was brought in for my inspection a month ago and I watched it put through its paces, tracing the fan-shaped auras over signatures, outlining the aka-aura of myself and others, and so on and so forth. Last week one of the new models was laid in my hands as a special gift. It is a beautiful little instrument, plated and polished, with its horizontal pendulum-like arm held at one end in a cleverly designed bearing that allows it to swing sideways under the push or pull of the incredible something which is coupled with auras of water, men and signatures (to say nothing of invisible forms three deep over one’s head, and ending in a ball).

THE INCREDIBLE SOMETHING has no business to EXIST. It doesn’t belong. “There just couldn’t be any such thing” – and still, there it is. Mr. Cameron has battered his head against the stone wall of scientific incredulity for a number of years trying to get a hearing. It hasn’t been a matter of the instrument – in his hands – doing anything from outlining the aura rising from water deep in the ground, or showing where the spine is out of kilter, or which tooth was bad and whether the liver was sick or not – for he demonstrated these things repeatedly – but the trouble was that there seemed to be no earthly reason WHY the instrument would work. It made no difference that Mr. Cameron had a theory that explained the instrument rather well. There “Jest couldn’t be no sech animul.”

QUITE NATURALLY everyone wanted to take the instrument and make it work right off, like any other machine. But, even more than learning the pendulum or Biometer, this demanded native psychic ability and practice combined – something no one either had or would take time to develop. In fact, almost no one had the slightest idea what Mr. Cameron was trying to tell them, until he ran into those of us who knew Huna. As soon as I saw him work the gadget and tell me in a second what tooth was complaining and causing the aka-aura to bulge over that location on my cheek, I sat up and took notice in a very large way. I am still taking notice in an ever larger way. I am not sure I am actually able to use it yet, but if I am not, all I can say is that this beautifully made little instrument is haunted part of the time.

MEADE LAYNE, F.H.F., and famous medium MARK PROBERT recently ran tests. Mark was able to use the instrument right off the bat. Meade couldn’t. Some others got partial results. (See recent BSRA release if you belong.) The spirit communicators were excited and took a hand in planning the tests, and one of them suggested that a search be made for his location, in his invisible body there in the seance room. He was very soon found, although he had taken up a most unusual position. At my suggestion, Mr. Cameron has named his “gadget” THE AURAMETER, although it measures lines of force as well as auras. The instruments are now available at $15, post paid. Address HRA Verne Cameron, Box S-218 Grand Ave., Elsinore, Calif. if you want one. And DO let me know the results if you get – if any.
MFL

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.)

HRA Elsa Barker, writer, student and most penetrating judge of the materials of our field of search and research, writes from New York to call attention to a page (Pg. 11) of statements from Dr. Fodor which cover much new ground in a few lines. I was also struck with them and made to pause and ponder when reading the copy kindly sent for review. I quote: (From NEW APPROACHES TO DREAM INTERPRETATION)

“These are samples of the endless ways in which dreams may represent the ordeal of our arrival into this world. Sometimes the dream is so precise that one can reconstruct the story of a delivery of which the dreamer has no conscious knowledge. A regressive fantasy is not necessarily the right explanation. But could the facts be recorded in the mind of a newborn child?

“The question is bewildering because we know little of unconscious mental processes and only grudgingly admit that such processes exist. We must make the admission because every successful psychoanalytic integration speaks of some principality or power which has control over the TOTAL content of the unconscious. Without such power, the concept of the unconscious ‘mind’ is meaningless, as ‘mind’ involves the ability to comprehend and organize. It is also evident that the integration of a personality is more dependent on unconscious than on conscious cooperation. Something in the patient’s mind must desire ‘becoming whole’ and must see to it that the proper time and the right material should come forth in dreams and associations. We may call this principle the integrative design, the soul or the higher self; the name does not matter.

“I prefer to call it the organismic mind. Before birth, whatever faculties the organismic mind possesses, are turned inward. From the moment of birth they are turned outward.” (Underlines are mine. M.F.L.)

MORE ABOUT THE USE OF THE MAGNET AND CARBON

From HRA Dr. Oscar Brunler – He has carried out experiments with the “VITIC” and has found that the magnet along with the carbon give beneficial results very often. He also has found the use of the magnet generally beneficial when used without the carbon. However, he gives this warning. The magnet should be tested with a pendulum to determine which pole of the magnet is the one to press the ball of the right thumb against during the holding period.

INSTRUCTIONS: Lay the magnet on the table. Place the right hand so that the ball of the thumb, not the tip, is opposite one pole or leg of the magnet at a distance of about four inches. Now, hold the pendulum so that it swings in the space between magnet pole and ball of right thumb. (Pendulum being held with the left hand – or reverse for left-handed HRAs.) If the pendulum swings back and forth between thumb and magnet pole being tested, that is the right pole over which to place the thumb ball flatly (leaving the other pole untouched). If it is the wrong pole, the pendulum will not swing in any direction.

Dr. Brunler, in his experiments when first testing “Vitic” force, discovered that by holding the thumb over the wrong pole, it caused severe nerve reactions – in his own case a sharp sciatica in the right leg lasting for four days. This led to the pendulum test, and with the correct pole used, the results were stimulating and beneficial. It is to be taken for granted that each person should test to find out what gives the best results for himself – size of magnet or magnet and stick of carbon, length of time held and any other variation, such as ball of thumb over the proper pole, or other bodily application to the pole. (The horseshoe type of magnet is held by Dr. Brunler with the ends up, lightly grasped with his fingers in his palm so that his thumb can be applied to the correct pole – held nearest the thumb – and the other pole be left uncovered and pointed upward. A straight bar or fragment magnet could be held with the right pole upward and the wrong one downward.)

We have no definite idea of what the magnet and carbon do to the body or to the mana or vital force. The iron in the blood does not respond to magnetism, so we learn. Something, however, seems to happen. I find that I begin to breathe more deeply and that I seem refreshed after two minutes. Longer holding seems, with me, to make no additions to the beneficial effects in my case. It will be noted that HRA Verne Cameron found that a 20 minute holding caused him to lose for a time his ability to sense underground water flows. His 12 year old son became nervous after a similar period of holding. In both cases, magnets were of the bar (fragment of junked magneto magnets) type and the wrong poles may have been used, or the wrong sizes and time periods. Rough drawings may clear the matter of poles:

1. End of horseshoes magnet or one pole of bar magnet
2. Correct direction of the pendulum swing when the right pole of the magnet is found.
3. Thumb position

CORRECTION

THE PRICE OF THE BOOKLET ON VITIC was given as half of what it should have been. This owing to my having before me an early and incomplete copy of the booklet. When sending to HRA Meade Layne (see address in Bul. 65), send a dollar and postage for the new and larger booklet. ($1.08.) If you are missing the treat of having the B.S.R.A. releases and the ROUND ROBIN magazine, ask about them, or send $5 for the combination subscription and a list of the many valuable mimeo booklets. You may have lost the address, so I’ll give it again. Meade Layne Publications, 352k Adams Ave., San Diego 16, Calif.

THE EEMAN CIRCUIT

The Eeman Circuit, which is described in the works of an English experimenter, L. Eeman, is the subject of much discussion in radionics circles these days. Some HRAs are trying out the circuits and are having a variety of results, some not as good as had been expected. The circuit is made by fastening six feet of insulated copper wire to a copper or brass handle on one end and to copper wire or meshed strands as in the “Choreboy” pot cleaners after they are made flat. Two of these outfits are used. One is placed under the base of the spine of a person lying on his back (the screen wire or choreboy end). The wire with the handle to be gripped in the left hand, is brought out from the screen and held in the left hand (or reversed to go in the right to test the different reactions). The second screen is placed under the head and the wire brought out so its handle can be held in the right hand. This is the “Relaxing Circuit,” if I remember rightly (my copy of the Eeman book is out on loan), and is supposed to help one sleep better and to benefit generally.

Eeman has done much work testing similar circuits. The idea is that the bodily electricity (our mana) will be picked up by the screens and caused to flow along the wires to the hands so that changes in the normal flow are brought about. The supposition is that natural flows may have been changed in some way. This is akin to the magnet and carbon experiments, and I wish to pass on here a warning that some people may pick up too much copper for their good from the flow, which seems to carry with it metals and drugs placed in the circuit. In a recent case in which zinc poisoning was diagnosed, it was traced back to the use of white adhesive tape containing zinc oxide. This tape was used to cover the ends of ragged screen sheets and also the wires at the handle ends. There is a difference of opinion as to whether or not the mana force will flow as well along silk cords, as it appears to do in the Brunler-Bovis Biometer. My own thought on the matter is that the aka thread is the real conductor, or the aka body of the individual, and that the mana flows on the aka substance in direct response to the will of the Aunihipili, who in turn may be acting under instructions from the Auhane. Much advanced experimental work is now going on in England with the “electronics” type of instruments used for diagnosis, for treating, and for many other purposes. It looks very much as if we were closing in very rapidly on much new and very enlightening information in this corner of the field.

THE STRANGE CONES of HRA Verne Cameron

[These] also belong in the forefront of investigations in this part of the field because he collects a force unknown to physics and which can be measured only by his dowsing instrument at this time.

This is a fascinating story in itself. Mr. Cameron was trying to find a way to collect and strengthen the radiations which dowsers sense coming up from underground water flows when locating wells. He wondered if wire coils would gather and intensify or focus the radiations, and made up circles and cones and coils. None did the work of picking up the water radiations as he had hoped, but in testing them with his dowsing instrument he was surprised to find that they picked up a force which seemed to come out of the air.

Unlike a cone which would reflect light or which would act as an amplifier of sound – sending light or sound from the large end of the cone – he found that the large end pulled in the force and condensed it into a beam of force about an inch in diameter, and which was projected in a straight line from the opposite side of the cone, from the point. This beam was so increased in strength by being condensed in the cone that it shot out in a strong, straight line that could be traced for as much as half a mile (as in his one major test), apparently with the force undiminished.

The beam was found to follow a copper wire attached to the tip of the cone, and that several cones could be hooked up in a string with wire, then the beam led off along a wire for test purposes. In one test (hoping that the beam would make plants grow faster and better) the wire was buried a few inches under the ground in the soil of his garden. A package of radish seeds was halved and part planted in a row over the wire, the other part in a similar row ten feet away from the wire. The seeds over the wire hardly grew enough to make a showing, but those at a distance came up thickly and grew in the regular way. Water and other conditions were kept the same for both rows.

Following this lead, Mr. Cameron tried applying the end of the wire to his arm to see if it might kill out a trichina infection in the muscle (an unfortunate condition with which he had been contending with not too much success). By experimenting, he found that if the wire was held pointed down against the skin over the trichina pocket for 20 minutes, it killed the infection but not the living tissues of his arm.

The most force is collected when the cones are connected. His present test set contains three cones made up of aluminum sheet material with a wire-hitching post in the point of each. The cones are about 22 feet across and pitched to fit the angle of a carpenter’s square on the outside. They pick up the force best when hung by the edge at a distance of over 6 feet from the ground. Here is a rough sketch of how three of them are hooked up in a try for a “cyclotron effect.”

Cones hung around an imaginary tree and beam shooting out in a straight line from end of wires. Note wires connecting cones from inside of one cone tip to outside of the next.

This set of cones was nested and being carried in Mr. Cameron’s car recently. He found his back so hot he thought the seat was on fire, but investigation showed only the cone points aimed at his back. The position of the cones was changed and the sensation of heat vanished. No harm was felt as a result of the happening. Eventually, when/if/ever we have our great HRA laboratory, experimental work will be done to see what can be done with this force. Meantime, Mr. Cameron carries on energetically in what spare time he can find. Last week he drove to the city to be with me and carry on more tests of the invisible shapes and figures above the head. This is what happened:

THE INVISIBLE FIGURES ABOVE THE HUMAN HEAD AS FOUND BY CAMERON

The fantastic becomes more and more fantastic in this investigational angle. Expecting Mr. Cameron, I invited HRA Mrs. D.D. to come over so that we might test her for figures above the head. She is a very much experienced searcher and student, of mature years, and one who should have all possible development of figures by now over her head.

An extension ladder 28 feet long was put to use to get Mr. Cameron high enough to feel around in the air above heads to see what might be found at the highest level. He climbed the ladder by degrees, testing as he went. The usual halo with the center hole was found above my head, a cord leading up to the first figure, which stood about three feet above the halo and which was about the size of my physical body. From its head rose an invisible cord, and, without a second halo, it opened out into the second figure, again the size of the body.

After carefully outlining the second figure with his instrument, which swings away from the invisible figure as it is about to touch any part of it, Mr. Cameron found a cord leading upward from the head, but was unable to follow it. He had already left the top of the ladder and had mounted to the top of the brick chimney. I laid myself out flat on the lawn at the base of the chimney, reducing the height of the figures in the air by six feet, and the investigation continued (to the evident surprise of those passing on the busy street – mostly in cars and buses). Above the head of the second figure, the cord lifted about three feet and ended in a ball about 2 feet in diameter. Something seemed to be fastened to the north side of the ball, and, after much feeling around with the instrument, it was found to be something about 18 inches wide and about 4 inches thick, which fell like a curtain, unevenly, down to the level of the top figure’s shoulders. What it was, neither Mr. Cameron nor I can guess, unless it is some new growth or flow of force in a static position. Above the ball there was NO CORD – nothing. Considerable time was spent to make sure of this. No aka thread or cord leading “up” was found – no trace. We speculated that such a cord reaching to the Aumakua might only appear and come into active use during prayer-actions. Perhaps later we can test this angle.

HRA Mrs. D.D. was next tested, and also found to have two figures over her head, but owing to the difficulty of having a lovely and dignified lady stretched out on the browning grass, and to the fact that Mr. Cameron was getting psychically tired and did not feel equal to mounting the chimney again and balancing himself on it, we were not able to find out what might replace the ball and curtain of my test for Mrs. D.D. As it was growing late, tests on other members of my family were put off.

Mr. Cameron sketched for me the figures as he found them for me, his daughter and his son. I will try to give an idea of them.

Figures outlined above heads by HRA Verne Cameron with his dowsing Instrument

#1 is his son, Larry, 12, who had wing nubs and a halo, but no figures except the 2 foot ball

#2 is his daughter, Estrella, 24, with larger wings, a halo and one figure of the the size and outline of her body. No second figure, but an inverted cone

#3 is MFL, 61, with long wings, halo, two figures, 2 foot ball at top, and curtain falling from north side of ball. HRA Mrs. D.D. 65, had same figures as far as measured to top of head of her second figure.

REV. JESSIE CURL AND HER WORK

Huna Research Associates will remember that in recent Bulletins I have told of Rev. Jessie Curl, the English housewife who accidentally discovered that she was highly psychic. She first developed the ability to contact the spirits and to give messages at Spiritualistic Church meetings. Her clairvoyance increased. She traveled to Australia and India, and spent some months in Canada and U.S.A. On one of her voyages she stopped in Samoa, and while there became psychically aware that she had attracted to her the spirit of a Samoan chief who was also by way of being a kahuna of parts, and whose name she got as “Hula.” Later this was corrected to H00`la, meaning “To heal” (”Cause light”) (Pronounced Hoo-la, as if each “o” was long, and la as lah.)

When she left Pago Pago, Hoo`la went along. He contended for first place with her as spirit guide with a Hindu and a Tibetan, managing soon to replace them rather completely and to cause a change from simple clairvoyance and message work to healing. He often took over when she was in the trance condition, and, little by little, he induced her to use healing methods of his choice.

In London, a famous artist who sees psychically and draws portraits of spirit guides, invited Rev. Curl to have a picture done of the Tibetan guide. At the sitting, Hoo`la took over her body, set up a clamor, ousted the other spirit, grabbed crayon, and began drawing the picture himself. The artist agreed to portray him, was given back the crayon, and there resulted a remarkable head, massive and square, typically Samoan, grim and still kindly.

Hoo`la soon demonstrated great healing ability, working through Rev. Curl. He impressed on her the need of breaking down the conditions in the aura (aka body) of the patient with passes of her right hand – passes of a fluttering and rapid scattering motion – while putting the healing force into the sick part by pointing her left hand directly at it. She was able to locate the sick parts psychically, say what caused the trouble in most cases, and to bring about a complete and permanent healing in a large part of the cases in either three or six or nine treatments. (Treatments ran in multiples of three for some unknown reason.)

The healing power demonstrated, the urge to travel and heal became strong. In order to do this work, she accepted ordination as a Spiritualist minister from the hands of good friends, and her work and travels began in earnest. Having no knowledge of the lore of na kahuna, she still came to understand that contacts had to be established with her patients and a form of healing energy transferred with the held intention of healing. Once the contact (aka thread?) had been established, the healing continued steadily, even after the treatments had stopped, until a complete healing was brought about. She came to stand on a platform, point to someone in the audience (sometimes with her elbow) and make a contact along which she could send the force, often causing immediate freedom from pain and healing. Not knowing what else to call this force, she thought of it as beamed cosmic force. (High level of mana?)

Not long ago, and quite by chance, she became acquainted with an exceptionally well-informed and able student, HRA T.C.R., who at once recognized in what she did all the earmarks of Huna being put to use in various ways short of the release of fixations of an obscure and major nature. He introduced Rev. Curl to Huna, gave her a copy of my book, and set her right on a number of matters. Very shortly, the name Hoo`la came as a correction of what she got as Hula. Letters were exchanged with me, and as her present tour continued on the West Coast, from Vancouver, Seattle and Portland, I received letter after letter from those whom she healed, giving me the details of their own cases and those of their friends. The proofs soon became most impressive.

Last week Rev. Curl and her husband, David Curl (a lesser healer and fine man), came to Los Angeles. I watched her work at a small church, accepted her invitation to tell her audience a little of the background of Huna lore, and had the opportunity to become better acquainted.

I would say that her healing ministrations rank with those of the famous Harry Edwards of England. She seems seldom to fail to give some relief in one treatment lasting hardly more than a minute or two, and often remarkable results are obtained so rapidly that they may properly be classed as instant healings. Goiters vanish, hearing and often sight return. There is hardly any condition that can be mentioned that she has not healed. This afternoon (as I cut this stencil) three HRAs, sitting within eight feet of where she stood and patients came to be treated, watched with great care in order to be able to report to me what they observed.

Two cases were outstanding. One was that of a young woman just out of [the] hospital after [a] bad auto accident injuries. One leg was a half inch short and she limped badly. The treatment with the passes and giving of healing force began. The girl suddenly said she could feel her injured leg stretching. In a few moments she was walking normally and a test showed both legs the same length. A second case was that of a woman so stiffened in spine and hips that she had not been able to tie her own shoes for some years. She was able to tie them at the end of the treatment and to pick up things from the floor. Then there was the neck with a “kink” in it so that it could not be moved, but which moved freely in all directions immediately upon treatment. Treatment of facial conditions for a woman on whose cheek was a large red birthmark, resulted in the slow fading of the birthmark as treatment progressed. It was noticed by all three HRAs, who could hardly believe their eyes. After the return of the patient to her seat, the mark slowly appeared again. Much impressed, the observers asked Rev. Curl about it after the meeting. She said that this often happened, and that often, after disappearing for the third time after the third treatment, it did not return. One HRA said, “Rev. Curl stood there with face like an angel pouring out love and healing.”

Earlier, on Saturday evening, it was my privilege to spend the evening with the Curls and hear all about their experiences. Rev. Curl allowed Hoo`la to take control after dinner, and to put me through a strange ritual which I take to be some form of ordination in which he made me an adopted son, then attached to me an aka cord to allow lasting contact with him. A number of Polynesian words were repeated over and over carefully so they could be taken down and translated later via the Hawaiian. There were a number of most unexpected things done, and a journey through our house made with me in tow until a copy of SSBM was located. It was opened and handed to me with every evidence of pleasure and with some urgency. The last paragraph on page 369 was indicated. Read it and share my condition of being impressed and surprised. Prophetic? MFL

November 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.

A SIMPLER ADDRESS has been adopted for your use in addressing your letters, cards or packages to me. However, in using it, be very sure you put in the 28, e.g. Hollywood 28, or the letter might go the rounds of the Hollywood postal substations. Hollywood is part of Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles 28, is still o.k. to use, but needs the notation “Hollywood Station” to make sure.

THE NEWS HERE AT THE STUDY IS MORE OF THE SAME

The book I am writing for my present living is getting on slowly. As you will have observed, my correspondence is very Quaker – “Yea and nay” variety. More extended correspondence comes when there are things important to our Huna studies and experiments that must be discussed. Some very interesting foreign mail of late bearing on the subjects of radionics, dowsing and general work with the pendulum.

THE “FUTURE OF AMERICA” ARTICLE BY HRA IRYS VOREL mentioned in the last Bulletin, may be obtained by writing directly to HARLE PUBLICATIONS, Suite 1904, 215 Fourth Ave., New York City, N.Y. and enclosing 24 cents in stamps, asking for a copy of CURRENT ASTROLOGY, Vol. 10 – No. 5. The issue was sold out on the news stands very early, HRA I.V. informs us.

MAGNET NAME CORRECTION was given the wrong name. Owing to my mistaken reading of a hand written sheet, I put it down as “Arnica.” It should be, “Alnico,” taken from the ingredients of the alloy, aluminum, nickel, cobalt, and iron. This remarkable alloy, in magnet form, holds 40 times its own weight of iron when fully energized. Good hardware stores carry them in two or more sizes.

MORE ABOUT “VITIC”

[As] reported by HRA Sherman Peticolas, following up his report on experiments in the last Bulletin: It will be recalled that he found that by holding a stick of carbon in his right hand and a small, but powerful magnet in his left, he was able to get a very beneficial result. In answer to his letter, I described my own experiments in which I used an 8″ stick of 3/4″ diameter carbon and about a half pound of fragments from an Alnico magnet which had been a part of the magneto of a motor scooter. (Left with me for experimentation by HRA Verne Cameron.) On taking these up, I at once experienced a strange sensation of fullness in the chest and a difficulty in breathing – not at all comfortable or pleasant.

It developed that I was using far more of both magnet and carbon than Mr. Peticolas. He had been using one small magnet and a small carbon stick removed from a flashlight battery. He gave me the size of the magnet, approximately, and calculated for me the fact that a 2-1/4 inch piece of the carbon I was using would be almost exactly the size of that which he used. (He used four rods, each 2-1/4″ by 1/4″ which equals 2-1/4 inches cut from the 3/4 inch rod here at the Study.) After two weeks daily use of rods and magnets, HRA Peticolas is more certain than ever of the beneficial effect. I have had less time to experiment, but find the smaller magnet and carbon gives me a pleasing and stimulating effect.

1. The size of HRA Peticolas’ Alnico magnet as traced by him.
2. The size of the piece of same used by me.
3. Tracing of the cut-down stick of carbon used by me. (Note that it has a core of softer carbon.)

NOTE: Left-handed HRAs should hold magnet in the right hand and the carbon stick in the left. If the results seem unpleasant, reverse carbon and magnet and see if that causes a change.

WHAT IS “VITIC?”

I am not able to say who coined the word. It has also been called “Carbon Force,” and, like the “od” of Reichenbach, the “odic” of Sergeant Cox, and the mana of na kahuna, it is NOT electrical or magnetic energy as we know it. The chances seem small that the “Vitic” energy is closely akin to mana.

For the past few months I have been continuing to look into the matter of the forces which seem to be mana in one form or another, and which seem to move through the aka substance and also, under direction of the will, through cords of non-conductive materials such as silk or cotton (Eeman’s experiments, electronics instruments, map dowsing, etc.). Dr. Oscar Brunler, HRA, has given us the most detailed and complete theory to cover the facts as we find them in his concept of the “Di-electric form of energy.” All efforts to prove the existence of this force have been tripped up by insisting that it be made to react as does electricity or magnetism. It does act like either of these. The more I study, the more I am convinced that we are confronted by the aka-mana combination which is subject to a degree of control by the Aunihipili, or indirectly by the Auhane because it gives willed orders to the Aunihipili. The evidence of the facts which have been observed indicates that this strange form of energy moves through an almost perfect conducting medium which is supplied in our Huna postulate by the aka body or a cord or thread of aka substance.

To get back to the “Vitic,” which I’m inclined to think is a horse of a different color, but probably a very valuable one, once we come to understand it. I have had several letters asking for more details. As I have said in Bulletin 64, the best, and perhaps the only available collection of informative articles on the subject is to be found in HRA. Meade Layne’s 16 page mimeo booklet, VITIC (Send 50 cents to him, 3524 Adams Ave., San, Diego 16, Calif., for your copy. Let me give you a taste of the material from the first page:

QUOTATIONS FROM BOOKLET ON VITIC

“Brian Brown, in his book, DYNAMIC POWER THE INNER MIND, writes, ‘A great English scientist (A.E. Baines, who in 1921 wrote THE ORIGIN AND PROBLEM OF LIFE) said, ‘There are at least three things that mitigate against a continuance of vigorous life for prolonged periods. One is physical deterioration, as evidenced by, among other things, arteriosclerosis; another is the gradual failure of generation of nerve force, and a third a falling off in the production of the secretions of certain glands which vitalize the body and brain.

” ‘We have, then, to deal with the deficiencies, deficient nerve force and it may be deficient insulation – the latter with especial regard to the effective functioning of certain glands which may receive a normal supply of energy, but by reason of defective insulation, fail to retain or fully utilize it. Nor is that all. The impulses which stimulate and activate our glands pass from the brain through the secretory, and if they are not retained or utilized, fresh demands are made on the brain to replace the wastage.

” ‘First of all, we require a means of generating nerve force in order to be able to supply it. For years we have heard of a new force called Odic. It has been associated in the minds of most people with the occult, probably because no one has yet been able to demonstrate satisfactorily its nature, its value to humanity, or even to evolve it. The ancient Egyptians could do so, there is reason to believe, and but for the burning of the library of Alexandria, might have been disclosed before the Christian era. In the bygone days of Egypt’s greatness, scientific attainment was confined, or almost confined, to the priestly communities and they kept it from the outer and unlearned world under a veil of elaborate symbolism.

” ‘The most prominent statue, a painted limestone portrait, dates from about 3700 B.C. and is of a royal personage named An-Kheft-Ka, who is shown holding a rod in each hand, much in the manner that a runner holds corks. In my belief, as I have said, these rods were symbolic. The authorities at the British Museum had no information whatever in regard to them. Finally, it was found by accident in carbon, which will give out a certain amount of force which, experience has taught us, is not to be distinguished from nerve force…’ “

Comment: The description of the energy fits what we know of mana almost exactly. It is explained later, by the same writer, that the use of the magnet and carbon rod caused a recharging by this force which lasted up to twelve hours. We have recharged with mana in the same way, but the charges dwindle to normal according to the use made of the surcharge. The prayer-action causes the largest surcharge to be used up in a few minutes, and we suppose that the gift of mana to na Aumakua has been the cause. Mental action takes much longer to use up the surcharge and physical action uses the force rapidly.

The cult of priestly secrecy in ancient Egypt reminds us strongly of that of na kahuna, but there seems to be no specific word for magnet or magnetism or carbon in the language of na kahuna. This, however, does not indicate that they might not have known of some force symbolized by the two small rods held by the ruler (who would also be of the priestly class in all probability). Loadstone could have been the early magnet and carbon in a natural state may have been used, as for instance, graphite.

The aura (or combined aka bodies of the Aunihipili and Auhane of Huna, together with a possible element of something resembling magnetic fields surrounding mana charges, to use Huna terms), was seen by Dr. Kilner and his friends, viewing human auras through his viewing screens, to be distorted by the approach of a magnet, to be attracted by a positive electrical charge and driven away by a negative charge.

In holding the small magnet and carbon rod in my hands while endeavoring to take on a mana surcharge in the usual way, I found that the usual pendulum test for the surcharge showed less than the normal charge. A surcharge accumulated in the regular way was at once almost neutralized upon taking up the carbon and magnet, or either one by itself.

It is evident that the holding of the magnet and carbon produces some change in the body or aura or both, but the indications seem to be that this does not create surplus mana as we know and use it. More work needs to be done along this line and reports are invited from HRAs who can and will run tests. I could have made mistakes in my tests and conclusions, it must be remembered.

TEST FOR INVISIBLE OVERHEAD FORMS

HRA Verne Cameron repeats test for invisible overhead forms and reports that on this second test with his special instrument, he obtained different results as compared to those described in the Bulletin earlier. In the first tests, I was the one measured. He located a halo like a doughnut with a hole in the center, directly over my head, whether I stood or lay flat on my back. Above this stood an invisible, man-sized figure. He got to the roof of the Study, which is low and flat, and found the feet and legs of a second figure still higher. When I lay down on the walk, it was lowered by six feet and he could reach to the top of the head of the second figure. Like the first, it seemed to have a thick head of hair and a Dutch cut.

He repeated the tests at his home in Elsinore, Calif., where he stood on the roof of his house and was able to check for still more figures, using his son and daughter for the tests. This time he was surprised and intrigued to find only one figure above each young person, but above the boy’s figure there was found a short rod on the top of which was a ball shape a foot or so in diameter. Above the daughter’s one invisible figure he found not a ball, but a shape like an inverted cone.

Comment: This finding on the part of HRA Cameron is most exciting to the seasoned student of the facts and fantasies which we have come to call “The Occult.” I have the greatest confidence in the integrity of Mr. Cameron, knowing, as I do, that his curiosity is even greater than my own when it comes to the things he discovers with his instrument (plus his own trained dowsing ability and the skill which it has taken over 26 years to acquire). When he told me, at our first meeting last summer, that he had discovered the halo above the head, a cord running upward through the hole in its center, and an invisible form above that, I sat up and took notice. I was of the opinion that the Auhane and Aunihipili lived together in the physical body, their aka bodies interblended more or less. The figure could not, I argued, be that of the aka of the Auhane, but, if it were not, could it be that of the dual Aumakua? This (see page 4, Bulletin 64 for the account of the tests we made together) I considered even less possible in the light of what we learn from Huna and many other sources. But, when two of the invisibles were located one above the other over my head, I was faced with the necessity of setting aside all I had come to believe and starting anew, or guessing that the figure immediately over my head must be the aka body of the Auhane, and that it remained there, keeping contact with the body and Aunihipili through the head region. That left me but one answer for the second figure. If it were not the aka of the Aumakua, then I had nothing in my files of information to match it.

I remembered, when Mr. Cameron reported his failure to find a second invisible above the heads of his son and daughter, that, at the time he had climbed to the top of my Study to explore high above my head (rested on the sidewalk), that I had made a short prayer to the Aumakua to assist in the exploration. So, belatedly, I am wondering whether I called down the Aumakua of myself so that it filled its aka and stood above the first figure. I still do not know whether or not the second figure can always be located above my head, prayer or no prayer.

The alternative is to accept tentatively, the very old belief that can be traced back to the Greeks and Hindus, that a “spiritual body” or vehicle for the “spiritual self” must be developed by each man and woman through a period of regular recognition of its existence, and regular efforts to help build for it an invisible body.

Is it possible that I have, after these many years, unknowingly done the things that have caused such a vehicle for the Aumakua to take form? Is it possible that the lad and his sister have as yet made but the beginning of building such a vehicle, resulting in the ball and inverted cone structures where, in my case, a full figure was traced? That great student of the New Testament and Greek mythology, James Morgan Pryse, in his monumental book THE RESTORED NEW TESTAMENT, saw as the greatest mystery in the Apocalypse, the fact that such a vehicle – the “Solar Body” – had to be created by the actions of the man. Let me quote from page six of the general introduction.

“For the esotericist understands that true self-knowledge can be obtained only through self-development in the highest possible sense of the term, a development which begins with introspection and the awakening of creative and regenerative forces which now slumber in man’s inner protoplasmic nature, like the vivific potency of the ovum, and which, when roused into activity, transforms him ultimately into a divine being bodied in a deathless ethereal form of ineffable beauty. The process of transcendental self-conquest, the giving birth to oneself as a spiritual being, evolving from the concealed essence of one’s own embryonic nature a self-luminous immortal body, is the sole subject-matter of the Apocalypse, as it is also the great theme of the Iesous-mythos.”

In the religions of India, the idea of building a “Solar Body” was stressed in a few cults. In borrowing it, we have often added to the general idea, so that it became one in which the individual had to “rouse the serpent fires” (but was sternly warned of the danger of trying to do so) in order to obtain “enlightenment,” and, in some cults, create the vehicle in which the Aumakua could begin at last to function as a part of the enlightened man. A period of eighteen months for the gestation of this spiritual body was even mentioned, which shows how literally the dogma came to be accepted in a physical sense. It would seem that a simpler concept would be one in which the man comes (1) to recognize the existence of the Aumakua, and (2) sets about making a regular daily effort to learn to work with it in all matters of good living. The Huna addition to the doctrine changes the “serpent fires” to a simple and not-at-all dangerous or difficult matter of generating a surcharge of mana, contacting the Aumakua, offering the mana as a sacrifice which is the just due of the Aumakua, and empowering the Aumakua in that way to play a part in shaping our lives, in healing, and in giving guidance and protection. The extravagance of the idea of na Aunihipili giving birth to a vehicle for the Aumakua, is something long outgrown. The other great extravagance which ran beside the first was the belief in regeneration – a regeneration to be obtained by living a very difficult and abnormal life of sex repression. Na kahuna believed in normal living in all things, if I understand their lore correctly.

HOW DO WE DEVELOPE A “SOLAR BODY” OR FORM WORKING CONTACT WITH THE AUMAKUA?
I would say, in the same way that we learn to do almost everything else. By deciding on a plan of training, then by following through with it faithfully. Daily prayer-actions, daily or hourly presentation of offerings of mana to empower the Aumakua, and daily practice at making the mental pictures of what conditions we wish the Aumakua to help us materialize, in health, wealth or circumstances. The twice a day TMHG work seems ideal for this work of learning and developing. The mental and spiritual muscles grow steadily stronger. Faith increases. Contact becomes more and more complete and automatic.

In the New Testament we come upon a parable which uses a symbol idea straight from na kahuna. They pictured the mana rising like water in the body and overflowing as it was sent to naAumakua. The symbol of overflowing was often that of the rising of yeast in fermentation. It would seem that there were Huna origins for the parable of the woman who took a certain amount of yeast (the offering of the mana surcharge) and mixed it with THREE measures of meal. We may well ask whether or not the secret in this parable was the fact that the thing that “rose” had to be sufficient to provide for the third or Aumakua? The traces of Huna in other ancient religions are good proof of their similarity of origin.

THE SPIRIT COMMUNICATORS of HRA H. Wagner agree with HRA Charles W. Kenn. A letter dated October 15th from my good friend and learned critic, HRA H.M. Wagner, of Florida, says in part, “Charles Kenn has my full support. He states, in part at least, what our communicators have told us. I will pass on some of it, but not all at this time as I must try the effect of the milder remarks first.

“In the first place, the theory of Huna is important only historically. Interesting as an example of minds in the childhood stages of dealing with the abstract things, but of no value at all for the present. Divorce the practice of Huna from the very fantastic – even if interesting – notions the old boys developed to explain to their largely untutored minds what they did. Max carries his philosophical hair-splitting far beyond its validity. Huna cannot now be restored as it was because of the vital factors which made success of na kahuna possible – factors now lacking which cannot, as far as we can discover, be restored. The way of life of the Polynesians gave them far more spiritual ability than can be found among groups of any size now, and their force, power or whatever you want to call it – none of the words are good, but using the word ‘mana’ does not do it any better – added to na kahuna and their directing spirits (ability to?) allow them to do more than can, as a rule, be demonstrated (now?). In short, na kahuna were highly developed spirit mediums acting under circumstances that probably cannot be again manifested.

“All the miracles of na kahuna can be duplicated and have been by many in the past, even in remote antiquity, who had no connection with Huna in any of its works. But the ‘powerhouse’ is no longer here.”

Comment: The answers given in defense of my personal position in Bulletin 64 still hold in the matter of the above objections. In addition, we are faced here with the matter of whether the spirit communicators’ opinions are of any more weight than those of our good friend ,HRA Wagner, who has spent many years in the study of psychism and spirit communications. In my thirty years of Huna investigation, I have conversed with many spirits through different mediums, also had distant friends ask questions, as in the case of Mark Probert and some gifted English friends. The strange thing about it is that not one of the many spirits considered a single one of the ten elements in Huna of the slightest importance. More than that, not one of them seemed either willing or able to grasp the meaning of the ten elements. This, unavoidably, applies to those several of the Huna elements accepted by modern psychology, these being the conscious and subconscious, the complex and the part it plays, and some form of nervous energy. For some reason – far be it from me to understand – the spirits will have almost none of the subconscious or the fixation or the need of finding and draining off the fixations. None of them that I have conversed with know anything about the Aumakua beyond fuzzy speculative information that holds no water and is impractical in the seance or out of it.

Na kahuna were of 52 classes, so Charles Kenn decides, and so far as I know, only two in this large group were mediums. Most of them had a scornful distrust of spirits and refused to let them take over their bodies to work through. They preferred to stand on their own feet, use the intelligence they possessed, and do their work – a large part of which was to find fixations and drain them off – a step which I have never heard of being taken by any spirit trying to heal through a medium.

We have seen many centuries of communication with the spirits, supposedly of various degrees of evolution, from the ones who spoke out of a burning bush to the most modern ones using direct voice out of thin air. If the teachings thus received are compared, it will soon become evident – as it became evident to me long ago – that spirits have no more agreement as to what may be basic facts than the living, if as much. The reincarnationists will have none of those who preach one life and after that the Judgment. Heaven knows that I would be as pleased as the next one to come upon a spirit or even a living “Master” who had all the answers, or even a part of them, and who could show that the answers were correct and workable in so far as they could be applied to why we are ill, and how we are to be cured.

Like the spirit communicators, the living often grow impatient with opinions which conflict with their own. I freely admit that I am well-tarred with the same brush. If a thing looks to my longing eyes as if it might contain a tiny bit of new, valid and perhaps workable information, I desire greatly that my friends should share with me the “pearl of great price” that I feel I just MAY have come upon. Nor does it help, when my friends cry “Fie!” to mutter in my beard about casting pearls before swine. My friends may know pearls far better than I ever will. In any event, there is one thing I dare NOT do, and that is to close my mind to new material or to the opinions of others. Blessed be the “Mature Mind,” and if we are to grow toward one, we must keep opening instead of closing. We must avoid letting our ideas become set and fixed if we are to have a part in world progress of thought. In a later Bulletin – or in several of them, I will take up with you the findings of “Betty,” the wife of Stewart Edward White, who reversed the process of letting the spirits use her, but left her body and ranged far and wide in the realms of spirits, learning all she could and bringing back what she learned. She came close to discovering the whole of Huna, and for my money, gave us the most practical approach to a clear understanding of the unseen that has been given in modern times. Perhaps this was possible because she did not die and carry fixed beliefs across with her to freeze her opinions fast. She talked with many “invisibles” and questioned them, but she accepted nothing as the final truth.

She listened, considered, and decided for herself what seemed to make sense and what did not. Of course, some of us in HRA do not believe in spirits. They will be bored, but most of them will try to be tolerant while we sort and search in the hope of learning something useful and practical in the life we are very sure about.

DR. NANDOR FODOR’S NEW BOOK IS OUT

It is titled NEW APPROACHES TO DREAM INTERPRETATION, is published by Citadel Press, costs $5, and may be had autographed from HRA Dr. Nandor Fodor, Park Central Hotel, 7th Ave. at 56th St., New York City, N.Y. It is filled with discussions of dreams met in his practice through his patients, and the dream symbols and significance in finding fixations or psychic injuries and correcting them. I have found it most entertaining reading as well as most instructive. Dr. Fodor continues steadily to break ground in his chosen field, and his gift of writing makes for ease in reading and understanding. I am always amazed at the ground he covers in a single chapter.
M.F.L.

CIGBO ANNOUNCES

Dear Aunties and Uncles and Fellow Sprinters:
Thanks to your generosity in encrosing estra stamps, dimes and even sometimes millyons of dollases, I have been able to buy us sprinters (First, second and third class), some very estra fine new second paw types. All of you who helped got from ME a Sir-tuffy-cut to show that you are sprinters same as me. And all of you will get a sprinted brithday presink, come about Febby Frist, if that atem bum doesn’t blow up me and my type and my toy sprintink press – and IF I can get boss to find time someplace to help me a little (and wash the sprinting press ink off of it.) ALSO: I got to announce sadly that I gota eut out the dead wood from our list again. If you haven’t been heard from for six months, and if you don’t happen to get the next Bullington, you’ll know why. Also, I got to announce that IF any of you go away and do not sighn a card for Mr. Post Office on the line that says “Also forward third class post” (for which you gota pay estra postage), the Bullington just comes back to me and you are LOST! This month I lost two Uncles and three Aunties already this way. And maybe they’ll never know why – and maybe will think to their dying day that Cigbo stopped loving them.
Love and purrrrs,
CIGBO