December 15, 1951

For Huna Research Associates
Covering the experimental approach to the use of Huna in HUNA
and related religious and psychological fields.
From Max Freedom Long
P.O. Box 2867, Hollywood Station, Los Angeles 28, California, U.S.A.

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 in HUNA
and related religious and psychological fields.
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 in HUNA
and related religious and psychological fields.
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 investigative 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 in HUNA
and related religious and psychological fields.
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

October 15, 1951

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

THE QUARTERLY HRA REPORT

The quarterly report to the dozen or so HRAs needs to cover the findings of HRA Verne Cameron and their significance. All through the quarter, new information has been presented by way of the Bulletin. ROUND ROBIN and BSRA have carried additional accounts and Editor-Director, N. Meade Layne, (MA, FHF and HRA) has added the considerable weight of his opinion to the probable validity and great importance of the series of tests and measurements. With an instrument which I have called a horizontal-swing pendulum and which has also been called a water compass because it was invented to use in locating sites for wells, HRA Verne Cameron of Elsinore, California has been able to measure the radiations which come from objects, people, thought-forms and signatures – to mention only a part of the objects.

IN ADDITION, the QUARTER has seen a steady flow of new ideas throwing more light on Huna. (Any HRA interested in the details can be supplied with back Bulletins if interest and time for reading allows.)

WHAT PRICE FIRE-WALKING, MEASURING AKAS, ETC?

Charles W. Kenn, HRA and FHF, our good friend who is rapidly becoming the recognized authority on the Hawaii of yesterday, and who gave us the book reporting on the Honolulu fire-walking tests some months ago, questions the experimental work of the summer. He writes, as of October 3rd, from Honolulu, “Your last Bulletin was interesting. But I still believe that it is not important that we find some logical reason to explain why things happen as they do in Huna. The very fact that they do happen is all that is necessary to know. The Polynesians tell the story of Maui, culture hero, who succeeded in accomplishing six deeds for the benefit of man, but with the seventh, in trying to find the secret of indefinite earthly life, he perished. This gives us a deep insight into the ways of thinking of these people, as well as the suggestion that they, too, realized that it is folly to inquire into the why of spiritual things. The Huna concept of immortality lies in the idea of ancestor worship, hoo`mana kupuna, that a descendant is only a continuation of ancestors, a germ of that spark within him was taken from all ancestors down the line, and the ceremony of oki piko – cutting the umbilical cord of the first born starting a new clan, lahui, is for the purpose of perpetuating that new line indefinitely through descendants in a straight line. The idea of measuring this or that so-called aka body seems rather far-fetched from where I sit. I presume that every man has his own ideas about certain things which appear to govern his actions more than what really is or is not basic Huna philosophy. Remember the story of the boy who took his father’s watch apart to see what made it tick, but found that the ticking had stopped and that he could not get the watch together again? Maui, in search of the secret of immortality (his seventh deed), entered the open mouth of the sleeping monster (moo) and went on into its insides to examine its heart. On his way out, having learned the secret, the moo awakened and closed its jaws, crushing Maui to death.”

THIS IS WHERE I CAME IN…

HRA Kenn is on firm ground when he objects that the measuring of aka bodies of men and thoughts are not a part of basic Huna. In self-defense, I must make my position clear. Years ago, when I was trying to learn what na kahuna of many kinds and classes knew or had known, believed or had believed, and did or had done, I found myself up to the ears in the pieces of a jig-saw puzzle – mighty few of whose parts matched. While I learned after a fashion what rites were observed and what things were attempted and what were accomplished, I was not at all satisfied. I wanted to know WHY. I still want to know WHY. I am made that way. And, by the same token, I affirm that UNTIL one knows the hows and whys of any action of body or mind or energy, one is working more or less in the dark.

That was where I came in. I’m irresistibly urged to go on down and have a look at the heart to see what makes it tick – to get at the Secret. When and if I come up with that Secret, and if the jaws close on me, I will at least have followed the paths dictated by my particular cast of mind. I am not content at all to know the exact ritual and precise facts of the rite of cutting the umbilical cord of the first born. I want to know how those ancestors of ours got to be na Aumakua and WHY they should be worshiped. At this point in my long search – after thirty years – I still have not learned exactly how I should construct a thought-form cluster to make my prayer, or exactly how to generate and use the mana, which I am convinced that na kahuna used. If an instrument, be it a pendulum, a Biometer or HRA Cameron’s invention, will measure the size and shape of a thought-form cluster I make, and tell me how long it endures or where it goes or how to make it radiate more strongly – even if that isn’t basic Huna – I’m all for it. After all these years of sniffing around in the facts, beliefs and all-pervading superstitions of other men – most of whom have been dead for a very long time – I now want a few simple things which will WORK.

I know that this seems very much like the seventh deed of Maui, and I admit that some of the matters touched upon in our HRA studies are indeed far-fetched in their relation to what we accept as “basic Hunan – the Huna of almost no “whys” at all … nevertheless …

“I DO BELIEVE … HELP THOU MY UNBELIEF”

This quotation from Mark 9:24 describes the state of mental confusion of most of us. We accept some set of rites and beliefs, affirm our complete faith in their verity and in the fact that if we believe completely, we can get our prayers answered. But, even as the hopeful but fearful father in the New Testament story, we affirm and beg for help to confirm our belief – all in the same breath.

CHILDHOOD FAITH AND BELIEF IN DOCTRINES

Faith has been derived for most of us from early Church training, teaching, contacts and personal observation and experience. As children, we have been encouraged to believe and to pray. Most of us learned very early in life that our prayers were seldom answered. We may have felt a great sadness because of this – or because we observed the prayers of our elders go unanswered. In any event, our forming minds received deep impressions of doubt which lasted down the years.

What renews and strengthens our greatly weakened belief?

Evidence? Is “seeing believing?” Yes to both, provided there has not been an emotional reaction in childhood or later to the lack of answers to our most earnest prayers – a response amounting to an emotional storm which left in its wake a series of fixed hurts and doubts, to say nothing of almost inevitable resentments. To get rid of these fixations or to hurdle them, requires far more than a single convincing piece of evidence showing that God is in His heaven and that He or His angels hear and answer prayer. Where a strong set of fixations exist, no amount of pounding with evidence will cause the slightest change. Ancient Huna and modern Psychology teach us this. Then how to ” … help thou my unbelief?” Will some Savior do it for us? Improbable at this late date. The only way we know to get rid of fixations is (1) to find them, and (2) to rationalize their cause and thus drain them off.

For a number of years I have advocated this method of approach…

I still advocate it. I am still busy using it myself. I have gone back into my early days to search for the origin of my personal fixed doubts. When I find such a source, it always is accompanied by the damning rationalization and complete and irrefutable proof that I first prayed, and that, as a result, secondly, I got no resultant answer. The instant I touch such a sore spot – unhealed for all the years – I am slapped in the face and across the heart by that old logic which is the blind behind which the emotional content of the fixation lurks. That is why, some years ago, I saw that, at least in the majority of cases, it was necessary to make a fresh start, to find the best possible set of beliefs, to accept them logically and emotionally, and to begin the slow work of rebuilding the crushed belief in a Higher Power, and faith in the possibility of an answer to prayer.

Armor against fresh frustration and the danger of awakening and strengthening the old fixed doubts lies, at least for me, in having in hand and ready for use at all times, a LOGICAL EXCUSE OR REASON by which to explain to myself WHY I made a prayer-action and WHY I got no results. Huna has been a godsend to me. It tells me (1) what I have to do, and do correctly, to make a successful prayer-action. It tells me the conditions that will or will not permit the proper action on my part – the limitations under which I must be willing to work. I must not hurt another. I must not have a guilt sense to prevent the Aunihipili from making the contact with the Aumakua and sending the mana, the carefully readied thought-structure of the condition desired, etc. (2) I must keep doubts from entering in as I make my picture of the desired conditions lest the structure contain the things I desire to avoid. I must water my prayer-plant in the Aumakua garden each day with the water of mana. I must not change my picture – pull up my plant to see if it is taking root. I must hold the faith unfalteringly, hour by hour, day by day, month by month, and, if the game is worth the candle, year by year. (3) I must make certain that I do not mention my prayer-action and the follow-up to someone who will curse the entire project with a sneer of scorn or word of doubt. This is to be avoided at all costs. Mental attitudes rub off of one of us on to another like soot and black contagion. The slightest whisper of doubt will hit us with trip hammer force, as powerful suggestion because old doubt fixations are so easy to revive. The need to “go into your closet to pray” is a very great need indeed. Nothing is so fragile as the thought-picture of the prayer, so easily shattered – or so brilliant with the light of Faith and that Love whose overshadowing we must come to know as Real beyond reality.

To the simple mind of an islander, a kahuna of yesterday, there was, I grant you, less need for the elaborate rationalization and complete understanding which are an utter necessity for me. He had not been treated to such large doses of a religion which had retained outer form but had lost its workable knowledge of both low and high magic. Perhaps, as a child, he had seen the prayer-actions made, the rituals gone through, careful step by careful step, and had seen the gods respond and the fire-walk made possible. Contrast such a proof – such a powerful physical stimulus – with the vague or even contradictory answers to prayer in Christian circles. Even a simple belief must be based on something, but a belief complexed by fixations resulting from repeated failures in demonstration cannot be rebuilt except on new and massive foundations of proof and repeated proof. I would that each of us could perform the rites and be given the proofs of fire-immunity before every major effort of prayer.

Lacking an ever-ready fire-walk for proof, to help my unbelief, I grasp at all straws.

My need is immediate, not a matter of tomorrow or something to talk to death or fritter away in speculation. I sit twice, or more often at times, each day in the TMHG ritual, and I have the burden on my heart and the uplift under my spirit, of the needs of those who work with me. Some of my friends are ill; a few are blind. Many are in trouble of one kind or another. Anything that will bolster up my faith and help my unbelief is priceless. If Verne Cameron can let me make a thought-picture of a vase on a shelf, then find it with his gadget and measure its size and outline its shape, tell me how long it remains there as a real structure, that helps me to know that Huna is right – my accepted belief – and that I can and do make forms by thinking, actual and substantial forms, even if of matter too fine to be seen by the eyes or felt by the hands. The same can be said of every bit [of] corroborative proof that there are thought-form-structures, that things do radiate a form of energy, that there is mana, that invisible cords do connect people, things and man with his Aumakua. Heaven knows that I have one answer to prayer after another and that hardly a day passes without the arrival of letters telling me that my HRA friends are getting definite answers to their prayers and to their TMHG prayers in which we work together as a “congregation” through telepathic aka thread contact. These proofs would be far more than sufficient for a simple and unhampered mind which remained a stranger to the doubt fixations I have known, but for me, such proofs need to be renewed as the offices on the altar – daily, yes, almost hourly. No, not basic Huna – but for me, basic necessity.

“I’ve known of the ‘WINGS’ for a good few years,” writes HRA Dorothea Frood of Ojai, California who has used her brand of metaphysical healing for years with much success – as is attested by the many letters of thanks in her possession. To her, the “wings” found by HRA Verne Cameron are not far-fetched. Nor, if I remember rightly, are they to a number of French students who have described clairvoyant sight of them. The etheric figures over the head of a living person have also been described by the French, one writer giving in his book several photographic reproductions of those or similar figures.

Ectoplasmic “rods” of many sizes and either visible or invisible, have been found by many investigators in the field of Psychic Science. These rods have been described as moving or flowing. Dr. Crawford was made famous in SPR circles for his findings in this respect. The rods or “rays” found by Mr. Cameron to extend from people, upward through the center hole in the over-the-head “doughnut” aka-aura-halo, may well be of aka or ectoplasm charged with mana, and the mana in movement, the thick tubes of similar nature which were found to extend from blessed objects – artificial ikons – and to lie in horizontal planes or later turn and go straight upward. A hot iron gives off “rays” which provide a similar energy tube extending straight out from a flat surface, as that of the bottom of a laundry iron. [One of these] “rays” was traced to the point where it fell on a plastered wall, and the spot traced with pencil to make a circle. Going to the other side of the wall, V.C. picked up the same ray, and traced the spot on that side of the wall where it emerged and went on its direct way. Later it was found by line measurements that both of the traced spots on the opposite sides of the wall were one exactly over the other. It is evident that there is a form of energy radiation still unknown to standard physics – the “dielectric” of Dr. Brunler’s hypothesis, perhaps. Eeman, in London, found a similar force in the human body and proved conclusively that it could be conducted either on copper wires or silk cords. HRA Dr. Westlake, also of England ,verified the tests.

THE RADIATIONS of the aka-aura-mana structures have been found by Mr. Cameron to come from objects in a variety of ray forms or shapes such as cones, cylinders, fans and the like as well as condensing at one or two points and giving off the typical cord which we can suppose connects the object with the ones who have made it into a form of ikon and who have a connection of aka cord established with it and perhaps with their Aumakua. (Often the cord goes straight upward as far as can be reached to trace its path.)

HRA Sherman G. Peticolas, P.E., profound student gifted with psychic ability, has been running tests for us in the matter of creating an ikon out of an oil painting or the radiations from his brain as seen by a psychic who is also an artist. The picture hangs on his wall and he has been laying on his hands, blessing and otherwise building it into a transformer center of the mana which flows from the Aunihipili to na Aumakua and return. From day to day, he tested the strength of the radiations from the picture, using the ZNO pendulum instrument made by HRA George Wallace (described not long ago in a Bulletin). He held the ZNO perpendicular and found that it was decidedly drawn toward the painting, swinging back and forth in its direction as long as it was in the range of the radiation aura. This aura increased in size and strength steadily from day to day. In a letter dated October 2nd, he reports that the aura has assumed an ovoid shape extending 150 feet in one direction and 90 feet in the other. As nearly as can be learned, the aura extends upward and downward in much the same way. It follows that thoughts are things and that mana is a thing. To act as a medium of a kind needed to contain both, aka substance or the invisible ectoplasm of Psychic Science is a necessary postulate.

“VITIC” energy, the theory of which is known to all old readers of ROUND ROBIN articles on the strange effect of holding a carbon stick in one hand and a strong magnet in the other, has also been subject to HRA Peticolas’ recent studies and experiments. He writes, as of October 4th, “With an Arnica Permanent Magnet in the left hand and a carbon rod in the right hand, I sat in a chair for an hour tonight in subdued light. I was able to see, clairvoyantly, streams or beams of what appeared as light or flames emanating from each finger of each hand. The streams were a little larger than the finger in diameter, and streamed up to the ceiling of my room. The color was brownish. The effect for me was beneficial, seeming to add to my strength and well-being. No nervousness (such as follow the experiment when made by the young son of Mr. Cameron). I did not need the ZNO to measure the streams of life and light as they were plainly visible. I was in a normal condition, no trance or subjective condition. The Vitic had a very beneficial and pleasing effect on my eyes, seeming to cool them. I shall continue the treatment as it makes me feel so well. I report this for what it may be worth.”

Comment: This report and the experiment is worth a great deal. If you will turn to page 127 of your Fodor ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE, under the heading “Emanations” you will see that two meters was given by Ochorowitz as the length of extension of the “rays” given off from the fingers of Stanislawa Tomczyk, powerful psychic, without the use of carbon or magnet. This may be taken as the limit under normal conditions. With the use of carbon rod and magnet, the rays reached the ceiling, showing at least a third or more increase in length. The color observed may also be peculiar to Vitic. Maxwell, (see page 126 of Dr. Fodor’s article), found that the emanation from moving and opposed finger tips, observed in darkness with success by over 300 people, appeared 9 out of ten times to be gray with red, yellow and blue seen but rarely. (Correction: the observations were made in daylight but against a background of black velvet.)

HRA Lewis C. Cornell of Poland Ind., R.R. 1, backs up the contention that thoughts do “rub off” on others. He writes as of October 3rd: “How is this for a case of instantaneous healing? The case was one of tonsillitis. An old woman whom I had relieved of arthritis about a year ago was standing by and gave a testimonial as to my having relieved her, and her talk acted better than any suggestion I could have made. I worked about five minutes, and in three hours the tonsillitis was gone. This experience indicates to me that if the healer is surrounded by actual believers, instantaneous healing is possible. It also indicates that the subconscious mind reaches out and picks up the thoughts of others and acts on them. It also proves that the conscious thoughts are THINGS whether voiced or not. Hence the belief and unbelief that we have to contend with in healing. A healer cannot relieve pain or effect a healing without the belief of the patient.”

How large can the aka cord or a radiation “ray” become?

HRA Cameron writes: (Of a visit to one time Catholic friends) “They brought out some things to be tested. One was a green scapular, worn to guard and to give protection and power, also to heal. Over it I found a great cone of force extending on about a 30 degree angle from it and flaring toward the ceiling. I then tested a rosary which P’s mother had used much of her life. It had a monster cylinder extending upward from it to the ceiling (perhaps much farther) and it measured a full 18 feet in diameter. Another rosary used for probably 50 years, was placed on the table. A vertical cylinder, starting from a hollow cone with its edges resting on the floor and its peak touching the rosary, extended straight up to the ceiling, possibly to Heaven, for all I know, and it was 26 feet across!”

Comment: Braided cord of aka threads reaching to the many Angels? To saints prayed to? To Jesus, Mary and God? To the Po`e Aumakua?

POSTSCRIPT ON “VITIC”

Since cutting the stencil on the “Vitic” experiment of HRA Feticolas, a card has come telling of still later findings. “Further experiments in subdued electric light with rod of carbon and magnet, hands outlined in yellow light which glowed, each individual finger sending out light and flame streamers of every color of the spectrum. Strong smell of ozone during the experiments. Strong stimulation of entire nervous system, believed to have healing and curative value. No nervousness resulting. I am sending Cigbo a finger light fire flame FUR to make his hair stand up. Me’oow! S.G.P.”

Comment: The smell of ozone is something often reported from the seance room when materialization or other physical phenomena appear or ectoplasm is being produced. It might, in this case, indicate a high tension mana or even electromagnetic energy being generated, discharged or set in motion. With the increase in the matter of light and color, it seems probable that either “George” learns by degrees to handle Vitic, or that the results of its use are something which build up in some way from day to day.

PHOTOGRAPHING THOUGHTS AND SCENES CONNECTED WITH THE PAST

This has been reported in England by George de la Warr, a civil engineer who has been working with five other Oxford researchers on wave-like emanations from the human organism. In the August issue of THE HARBINGER OF LIGHT (HRA Rev. J.T. Huston, N.D., editor, $1.75 a year to USA, Box 64 A G.P.O. Adelaide, South Australia) there is an article on the subject from PREDICTION. I quote in part: “To photograph a scene in the past it was necessary to have measured the exact wave-length of the person concerned. This precludes for the present the possibility of photographing people who have died before the method of measuring their wave-lengths, which remain constant throughout life, was discovered. Mr. de la Warr last year projected on a screen, for the distinguished members of the Psychosomatic Research Association, who include a number of experts in radar, a photograph of his own wedding, which took place in 1928. The experts agreed that the plate on which it was taken was of a type known in that year, and that the photo could not possibly have been a copy of an earlier one. Mr. de la Warr further claims that it will be possible for his apparatus to photograph thoughts, and he is collaborating with Dr. Arnold Taylor, President of the Association, in this research.”

Comment: About fifty years ago Dr. Baraduc, in France, made the first tentative photographs of thoughts or images formed by the energy of thinking. At that time – and this seems still to hold true – there a psychic ingredient needed in all such photographic work. Dr. Ruth Drown, here in Hollywood, is another maker of “radionic” type instruments used for diagnosis and treatment in something after the Abrams method. Recently she showed me a box very like a small suitcase, in which was a simple radionics power tube which was lighted up for a few seconds and then shut off. This is supposed to supply energy which remains in the box for use. A drop
of blood, to make the connection with the patient is placed on a blotter and a photographic film in a holder is introduced into the side of the box. After a time, the film is developed, and on it may appear images closely resembling x-ray pictures of the organs of the person whose blood was used for the contact (aka thread?).

It would seem that the operator must in some way control, with his or her thoughts, the selection of the scene or part or organ to be photographed in such ways. The nature of the radiations given off by the body, mind, blood or even a signature, is yet to be agreed upon by those who know most about it. When we remember that images have formed in gazing crystals and have been successfully seen by several people at the same time, also have been photographed, it is not too much out of the way to guess that with mechanical help in the form of radionics instead of the crystal ball – but with the psychic ingredient present, as of prime importance – similar scenes can be photographed by a direct contact with the plate and not via the image-lens route of ordinary photography. I suspect “George” of being a very good hand at recalling past scenes or at looking into an organ, then making a proper aka thought-picture of what is seen or remembered – so that the plate may be impressed with whatever form of energy is being used. What is your guess, if any?

LATE NEWS OF GREGG

Last week he made the most lucid replies to questions up to this time. He is slowly and steadily improving. That he is psychic, and that this may have been the cause of his trouble in the first place, is admitted. I have before me a letter from his mother in which she tells me that a close neighbor had a new piano and had been running scales during the time the food to be taken to Gregg was being assembled. When she arrived at the institution many miles away, and met Gregg, almost the first thing he said was, “Running scales….” As he had no way of knowing about the piano, telepathy must be the answer. HRA, his mother, asks me to extend her warmest thanks again to all who are working for Gregg through the TMHG and by direct telepathic treatment. Gregg, on his part should be able to pick up telepathically all thoughts of healing sent in his direction.

Na Aumakua are very kind. Sometimes I wonder if they can be kinder, more faithful and more loving than earth mothers – they are supposed to be all of that and more. Utterly trustworthy. No wonder it is difficult for a cramped, selfish, tight little Aunihipili-Auhane man on this level to open himself to the splendor of such a concept – such Light and such Radiance of Love. The road ahead seems almost too long and hard in such blinding light and when we consider how short a way we have come by now, however, each day we can take one little step ahead – and try not to slip back two – by Serving a little more, loving a little more unselfishly, by being more honest and trustworthy in our inner thoughts and outer actions. If the path seems long and hard, we have but to open the door to that Help that is always there for us if we but ask for it and remain willing to accept it, even if the terms are such that at the same time we must give up having things done for us in some certain way. I have found na Aumakua so much wiser and far-seeing than I am. The step from the brink of disaster into a seeming void, has always turned out to be a step away from danger into safety. “I shall fear no evil.”

“THE FUTURE OF AMERICA”

HRA Irys Vorel of New York, (who invented the predictive card and chart set based on the Tarot and astrology mentioned some months ago in the Bulletin) has an article in CURRENT ASTROLOGY issue for October-November, assembling indications from the stars and elsewhere, to show what the immediate future of America and the world may hold. The period covered is until 1955. Whether her conclusions are right or wrong or partly both, remains to be seen, but to me it is the best article of its kind to come to my attention for years. Another article, this one in AMERICAN ASTROLOGY, was called to my attention. It argues that an atom bomb blasted the Tower of Babel.(!)

MFL

October 1, 1951

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

The HRA Bulletin resumes publication after skipping one issue

My sincere thanks to you all for your kindly understanding of the need to skip a Bulletin issue. It allowed me a vacation, even if it was necessary to spend it here at the study to work out a considerable number of rather intricate problems connected with the writing job presently in hand. However, the job (and the kindness of my friends) did include a bus trip up the coast to Santa Barbara and a delightful visit, some new friends, a stay over night, and some necessary consultations on the script.

Interesting Note on the work of HRA V.L. Cameron

Very important news arrived by letter concerning experiments carried out by HRA V. L. Cameron who is much to the fore in the Bulletins these days. A small figurine was blessed with as much of an emotional outpouring as was possible, by a lady visiting at HRA Cameron’s home in Elsinore, Calif. After the blessing, the figurine was tested by Mr. Cameron with his special instrument to ascertain the extent of its artificial aura or aka. It extended for several feet in all directions and at the edge of the aura, pushed the ball of the instrument away with a repelling action. A few days later, the test was repeated with the expectation that the aura would have become much smaller and weaker – the usual occurrence. Much to his surprise, Mr. Cameron found that the aura had changed its nature from a repelling to an attracting action, the ball of the instrument being pulled toward the figurine. Most astonishing was the discovery that the aura had built up in strength and size. Backing up step by step, it was not until a distance of 135 feet had been covered before the edge of the new and unusual aura was found.

Just where this experiment will lead us is far from certain at this point, and it remains to be seen whether we have the makings of an ikon in the figurine. However, the experiment gives most impressive and important proof that we have been right in believing that the Aunihipili shows itself to be hardest at work for us when it accompanies its work with an upsurge and use of emotion. We can be doubly certain that unless we want a thing enough to be emotionally stirred when asking for it in our prayer-actions, the Aunihipili is not doing its best. No emotion may mean no action on the part of the Aunihipili, no formation of a strong thought-form picture, and no transfer of mana with the thought picture across the connecting aka thread to the Aumakua. If the need is great enough, we are now able to see that we are fully justified to do as one HRA wrote that she did – and got results at once in a very fine healing. She said, “I bawled and yelled and howled fairly. I just had to have my prayer heard and answered. I just had to get well. And the next morning I woke up healed and well.” Fortunately, most of us can, by working all around the need we feel for ourselves or a dear one, gradually stir the Aunihipili into a state of emotional activity. We can make it WANT as much as we of the Auhane WANT, and when these two are agreed on what is wanted and unite in the emotional drive of the prayer-action, the work is properly performed – and only then. No emotion: no prayer. What could be more important to know?

The drawing-in action exerted on HRA Cameron’s pendulum device seems also to be something which we must not overlook. In all other cases, the action has been one of pushing away. If we consider the fact that in our Huna prayer-actions we try to send the mana to the Aumakua, this may be the counterpart of the ordinary action of auras – a pushing away. This push effect tends to keep auras and aka bodies apart. It walls them off and keeps the akas of things and of people from mingling. The aura around the ball of the Cameron pendulum is given a positive aura by the one handling it. When it is brought near the aura of another person, or of a well-made mental image of some object, it meets the positive element in the opposed aura and is repelled.

If, through the use of emotion and blessings, a figurine can have something done to it – perhaps to its polarization – and thereafter the drawing-in becomes a movement to replace the customary pushing-away, we may be allowed to guess that na Aumakua might, by some similar ritual, be enabled to DRAW-IN the mana and the thought-forms of our prayer-actions. If this can be proved to be true and can be demonstrated in practice, it might make the difference between the slow and difficult progress of the low magic and the swift and instant accomplishment of healing of the High Magic.

Can you help me think this lead through? Experiment in such ways as you come to think offer success or information – and let the rest of us know the results? This may be the key we have been lacking.

Leads and suggestions from Hawaiian word roots

Pa`hu means to push. If we take this word as the symbol of pushing the mana and thought-forms along the aka thread to the Aumakua, it is evident that the work is done by the Aunihipili at the command of the Auhane . The root pa has among its several meanings, “to divide out as to individuals.” We divide the mana with the Aumakua or one we strive to heal. Another meaning is, “to strike, to touch,” the symbol found in other words indicating the making of contact with the Aumakua. The root hu has the meaning of a rising up of a fluid and an overflowing. It is, especially, “that which causes rising, as leaven.” In the Bible we find the symbol of the “little leaven that leavens the whole.” We may ask whether a little mana given the Aumakua will work the same way – empowering the whole of the work to be done for us.

Kau`o means “to draw or pull something, to incline to do a thing, to pray for a special blessing, a seed.” The root kau has among its many meanings one that seems significant. It is, “to come down upon one unexpectedly.” It seems possible that thing that comes down on one might be the return flow of mana or a reverse side of the force, or the condition or blessing asked for in prayer. If the word is divided thus, ka`u`o, we get in ka, “to radiate from a center as does light.” In this we might see the Aumakua given the mana as a radiation, but it seems more likely that the Aumakua would be the one to radiate the High Mana back to us. U means “to draw out, as a pencil from a case.” It also means “to braid “(as our braided aka cord?) and “to call loudly or cry out,” (in uo.) The root o has the meaning of “to extend, as the hand, to take something,” and “to dip, as the fingers in a fluid.” It also has a double meaning of “to call” and “to answer a call.”

The push and pull may indicate some reciprocal action between the three selves, particularly between the Aunihipili and the Aumakua. We have been quite sure that na kahuna made their prayer-actions by accumulating extra mana, reaching out to contact the Aumakua via the aka cord, and sending the mana and the thought images of the prayer along the thread or cord. The prayer ending so much used, “Let the rain of blessings fall,” is strongly symbolic of the High Mana as a purified energy returned to complete the circuit from the Aumakua to the Aunihipili.

Emotion, which we see is so important in the making of an ikon or a prayer-action, is, in Hawaiian, pi`hoi`hoi. The root pi has the meaning “to sprinkle or cause water to flow drop by drop.” Here we have an unmistakable similarity to the “rain” of blessings – mana, or water, symbolically. Hoi`hoi is the intensive of “to send back or to return.” It also means “to dismiss, to restore, to send back an answer, and TO CHANGE ONE THING FOR ANOTHER.” It would seem from these root meanings that the emotions, which are the primary reactions of the Aunihipili, have a very important part to play in the prayer-action in that they may be the mechanism through which the Aumakua is caused to set up a drawing action to help in the transfer of the mana and thought-forms to itself – after which it “returns” them as the answer to the prayer. The roots joined to make their meaning more intensified or stronger, in hoi`hoi, has a meaning we may well place at the end. It is “joy, gladness, and rejoicing.” And, be it well remembered, LOVE is the most potent and the purest of all the products of EMOTION. Such a very little love leavens such a large loaf of another’s sorrow.

Signatures written in ink prove to have strange auras or aka-mana fans

HRA Cameron’s instrument was tested experimentally here at the Study to see if it could pick up the radiations from signatures. No guess could be made as to what might be registered, but something was expected because HRA Dr. Oscar Brunler has shown that “brain radiations” (not from the organic brain but from “consciousness”) can be picked up and measured from signatures by the Biometer.

The Cameron instrument gave no degree reading of consciousness, but with it was discovered a fan shaped aura which varied greatly in shape and size with the signatures of different persons. The irregular fan was apparently almost as thin as a sheet of paper as it rose from the signature and stood along its length. For some reason, the nature of which neither Mr. Cameron nor I could guess, the aura did not extend through the paper on which the signature was written. However, it often was spread out much like the “wing” found extending behind the shoulders of people. In the case of my own signature, it extended a yard or so beyond the end, forming a sharp angle as the top of it was traced back to a point about two feet above the signature. It dropped sharply down to the first letter of the name. Two signatures had wings sticking out in front instead of protruding at the end. Some had notched or uneven top lines. In general, the signatures of women rose higher over their signatures and protruded less far to front or rear. If individual shapes of signature auras could be compared with brain radiations taken from the same signature, a considerable number of such comparisons might show a definite relation to the Biometric movement pattern and to the degree registered. Three signatures taken from individuals with Biometric readings of 382, 384 and 386, showed very different fan shapes, although the two from the signatures of the women both showed the seemingly characteristic higher, narrower effect, already associated with women. The man had a long end wing. One of the women had a front wing almost as long. Neither women had an end wing. Below are some of the aura outlines with the approximate measures and degrees of slant.

Male. Signature: Verne L. Cameron
Wing angle follows signature. Brain Radiation appr. 390 degrees Biometric

Male. Signature: Max Freedom Long
Wing angle follows signature. Brain radiation as read by Dr. Oscar Brunler, 382 degrees Biometric

Both female.
Both with signatures about center of base line so small wing effect either end of signatures.
Both approximates 400 degrees Biometric for brain radiation.

Male. Signature : Mead Layne (Editor ROUND ROBIN)
Wing angle effect ahead of signature. Long projection after name with square end.
Drop in top line at front. Brain radiation approximately 390 degrees Biometric.

Female. Signature: E. A. K.
Wing angle after signature and rising to circular dome.
Short wing angle before signature. B.R. not known, but judged high.
(Tests from letter signatures in all cases. Written in ink)

B.S.R.A. “Project Survival” Address for your file

Some time ago Meade Layne, F.H.F., Director of Borderland Sciences Research Associates, and editor of Round Robin magazine – our very good friend and collaborator at San Diego – took steps to get us organized so that in case of war or other great disasters, we might have a central address through which to find fellow BSRA or HRA members for what mutual aid we might be able to give and get. You may recall that in a Bulletin some months ago I gave the address of Mr. Don York, who has offered to act as central man and clearing point in time of trouble. His new home address is 302 West 34th St., Kansas City, Mo. He also retains the other address: Box 151, Kansas City 10, Mo. If you wish to register your own permanent and alternate address with him, against some future need, you may do so. If you wish a reply from him, include a self-addressed stamped envelope or post card.

BSRA proposes a mimeo book giving a short account of the findings of HRA V.L. Cameron

HRA Meade Layne has sent a letter to BSRA members and others to suggest that a hundred dollars be set aside by the new BSR Foundation to assist in getting the material sorted and the manuscript written. This would be an introduction to the very promising work being done by Mr. Cameron, and, it is to be hoped, would lead to the publication of a larger printed book in due time. The Foundation is still very new and in need of funds, but is a step in the right direction. When it grows, it will support investigations and the gathering of materials in our special corner of the field. HRA Cameron has been most generous in sharing the findings of years of study and research with BSRA and HRA. He deserves our best thanks and any assistance it is possible to give him. At the present time he is following through a new line suggested by his friends. He tried his instrument in a special approach to words which are printed and written, and, as might have been expected, was almost at once getting “messages.”

These were rather startling from the first, and the communicator identifies himself as Nikola Tesla, the great electrical genius. Tesla made a number of discoveries and invented several instruments, but, as he expected to live much longer than he did, he neglected to leave data on them for posterity. One of the major inventions was a method of sending electrical power through the earth with less loss than we send it today over expensive wire systems. It would appear that the description of these discoveries and inventions might be coming through. (Barring, of course, the possibility of pretense on the part of the supposed communicating entity. In passing, it is amusing to note that recently a friend, working with a pendulum and written alphabet, got messages purporting to come for me from Thomas A. Edison. As I had, during his lifetime, been in personal contact with this great inventor, I at once put the spirit to the test of telling the nature of the contact and the matter that was accomplished. The entity made a guess, but it was very wild. In this it was much like the various pretenders who claim to have been na kahuna – but who know nothing of the Hawaiian language or of the basics of Huna.)

For our reading pleasure there is a new book just out by HRA Leta Zoe Adams. Fiction. SECOND GROWTH. I have not yet seen a copy, but am looking forward to doing so in the near future when I begin to have moments to relax and read again.

BSRA releases of the next ROUND ROBIN

These will undoubtedly report a most significant discovery made at a Mark Probert seance in September. Director HRA Meade Layne was in charge, and HRA Verne Cameron was sitting in the circle. It was suggested that one of the communicators take his stand in front of Mark, who was in a trance state, and that Mr. Cameron see whether or not he could use his instrument successfully to locate his aka body and show its outline. The communicator assumed an unusual position and held it. Very quickly he was found and his outline traced in the air. Next, speaking again through the mouth of Mark, he corroborated the findings made by the instrument. I believe this is the first time the aka or etheric body, or double or astral – it has many names – has ever been located while in the invisible state through the use of an instrument of this nature. Sight of the double through the Kilner screens is less impressive because not all people can see the outlines. The test is also a very excellent proof of the fact that Mr. Cameron can, with his instrument, find the location of aka bodies and etheric doubles, be they those of the there-living, the here-living or of thought-forms. In the past century of Psychical Research, so much hokum and imagination has come in with the solid and reliable, that we naturally welcome all possible proofs when new ground is being broken, as it is with Mr. Cameron’s valuable instrument in his experienced hands.

If an aka body of a person, dead or alive, or of a thought picture, can be measured instrumentally, we can be free of any lingering suspicion that “survival” is not a fact, or that na kahuna and others were wrong in their belief that pictures built of combined thought-forms were real and substantial things on the etheric level. So many of us have been fooled and lied to deliberately by some “teacher” that we look with suspicion on almost everything. What a relief, therefore, for the HRA’s Doubting Thomases to have something so definite from the hands of those who have no ax to grind and who have no preconceived ideas as to what they may or may not find when an experiment begins. Faith is built on what we can believe, and if we can become fully convinced that it is possible to build an actual structure in aka substance, we can generate more faith-power by far. It would appear that we are closing in on the SECRET of Huna from all sides.

Time change for our TMHG work

On October 1st, California and many other states turn back the clocks an hour as the summer daylight saving time period ends. I will turn back the clock here at the Study, so those of you who share in the blessings of the TMHG at 3 and 7 P.M. daily, should adjust your time accordingly. If the regular times are missed, tune in on the hour at any time. There is almost always someone to work with you and make the “two or more” gathered to call on the name of na Aumakua in prayer-actions. I frequently sit quite after the hour strikes, no matter what the time of the day, to do special work on pressing problems. Hardly a day passes here at the Study but that at least one letter arrives telling of the good results in healing through participation in the TMHG. The good results in matters of social and financial affairs are as frequently reported. A letter in this morning reports all items in the “map” sent in a year ago have been brought into the Light except one. This one involves the life of another, and the results are more difficult to obtain because each must be allowed freedom of action.

Fiji fire-walking by Madras Hindu settlers reported

With photos by HRA George Sandwith — As mentioned in a recent Bulletin, HRA George Sandwith made a careful study of the Hindu fire-walkers who have settled in Fiji and have brought their religious beliefs and rites with them. Time will tell whether or not we can issue a printed report giving the full account and reproductions of the pictures. Meantime, here is a digest of the points of greatest importance to us.

The burning of charcoal furnishes the live coals for the “walk.” In the pictures, the liveness of the coals is shown by the white surface of the walk, made white by the glow of coals exposed to air and covered by a thin film of ashes. In the pictures of men walking over the layer of coals, the path behind them is marked by the darkening of the bed where feet have touched. This trail at once begins to turn white again as the fanning by air continues via the slight breeze. As in the tests made on heated stones in Hawaii, the proof that the coals will burn if the magic fails or is refused, is given by individuals, who, for various reasons try the fire-walk and are badly burned. We are entirely safe to hold to our conclusion that under normal conditions, contact with the rocks or coals would cause burns.

The Hindu ritual is part of religious observances affirming the faith in the god who is worshiped, and acting as a means of calling down healing at the times when the fire-walk is performed before the small temple which has been built there in Fiji. (I understand there are such temples elsewhere in Fiji where Hindu settlers are located.)

The goddess who is worshiped and invoked in the fire-walking rite is a trinity, having three forms, phases or manifestations, or so I gather from what HRA Sandwith reports of the explanations given him by his Hindu friends. This goddess, “Mariammam,” is worshiped before a Maha-Devi temple. Some light on this may be drawn from a consideration of the basic religions of India. The oldest of the Vedas, the Rig-Veda, composed around 1400 B.C., gave three great gods, one of the Sky, one of Thunder and one of Fire, with two almost as great, one of the Atmosphere and one, The Cloud Compeller. The Trimurti or Trinity idea came much later: Brahma, Vishnu and Siva. To the three, (as in one cult of later Kahuna-ism,) there was added a fourth, in the form of a group-god, Prajavati. The three male principles or gods of the Trimurti were thought to have sakti or female consort energies or principles. Paravati is the wife of Siva, and has several names and, supposedly, aspects or dispositions. Her names are: Kali, the Black one, (mentioned in Fiji as the same as the goddess being worshiped there,) Durga, the Terrible One, and Maha-Devi, the Great Goddess, (this last apparently the name used for the temple there in Fiji).

The name “Mariammam” causes the student at once to think of “Miriam” or “Mary,” the mother of Jesus in the New Testament. This name is not Jewish and seems not to have occurred even once in the Old Testament – a fact that has caused doubt to be thrown on the origin of the Mary concept. On the other hand, the name in its variations, together with its place in religious magic, has been found in inscriptions throughout the lands from Egypt to India. In most cases the “Mariam” concept represents the feminine forces on a high creative level – the wife or mother of a god. Isis, in Egypt, was wife of Osiris, and mother of Horus – the Father-Mother-Son form of divine Trinity which many savants tell us supplied the model for the Christian Father-Holy Ghost-Son Trinity.

In Egypt, however, the Holy Family represented nearer and closer gods but did not exclude the belief in other gods, often more remote and of greater age. Just as a historical note, it is well to keep in mind here the fact that the Jews had the idea of the One God, Jehovah, who was “Father,” but was not associated with a Mother or Son. The word “trinity” does not appear in the Bible, but was philosophized into the Christian beliefs later on, and made part of the Catholic ritualistic work. Only in the year 325 AD did the Council of Nice affirm that Jesus was divine and was the Christ. Not until 381 did the Council of Constantinople add the doctrine of the Holy Ghost’s divinity, and so make possible “Trinity in Unity” as a doctrine to be added as an article of faith by the Church. After the Reformation, Luther led the way back to originals, rejecting the doctrine of the Trinitarians and going back to the Unitarian belief in one God – the Father. Only in the past two years has the Church of Rome recognized Mary, the mother of Jesus, in the role dictated by the Assumption dogma.

Despite the mixed god ideas, one thing stands out clearly. No matter what god or entity is prayed to, and no matter what rites are observed, SOMETHING is brought into action. The Hindu fire-walkers in Fiji went through a ten day purification period, ending with ritual bathing in a stream. A symbolic piece more elaborate than the ti leaf whisk of the Polynesian fire-walker (described by HRA Charles Kenn for us in his book,) consists of a pottery pot the bottom of which fits over the head like a cap. This is filled with water, and on it is set a peeled coconut. Around this is a skirt of green leafy branches – NOT ti – and into the top of the coconut is thrust the handle of a small trident, on each of the three prongs of which is a small lime. It is encircled by the performers and prayers are made. This piece is then placed on the head of the officiating priest, skewers with trident ends are passed through the cheeks of the walkers without causing them pain, and the procession moves off to the temple close by. There the coals are leveled out to make the “walk” and, with more chanting and ritual observances, the priest leads the way across and back. The others follow. No one is burned. Those in the audience who desire healing are allowed to come near and to hold their hands in the heat of live coals carried to them in pots by attendants. (No definite information as to the success of the day’s healings was obtained, although the stories of many wonderful healings were freely told.)

Weather control was said to be possible through the use of the fire-walking rites, but HRA Sandwith reported no need of such control at that time.

Many precautions against contaminating the fire or the performers were taken. No person wearing leather was allowed to approach. The onlookers were kept back lest they come too near the fire-walkers and contaminate them. Any contamination was said to make the goddess angry and cause her to refuse protection from burns or healing. Again we see that what is believed to the point of a subconscious fixation, cannot be overlooked. Another fire-walker with very different fixed beliefs may ignore all other beliefs. The gods care not a whit.

The conclusion remains that no matter how or to whom we pray, the same class of entities hears and responds. The male-female Aumakua or parental pair of Huna can well stand as the origin of the Father-Mother concept, and the physical man as the “son.” As the man has a Aunihipili and a Auhane, this could be the “Four” which we meet in variations of the Trinity concept.

The great challenge of fire-walking is again laid before us as HRAs. There is no longer the shadow of a doubt that some supernormal energy, guided by some supra-normal unit of consciousness, provides fire-immunity.

We see that we do not have to KNOW what that supranormal entity is or what form of energy it uses. We see that we do not have to follow any set ritual. The cleansing rite is not necessary, as was demonstrated by the three fire-walkers who made a short prayer to Pele before taking Dr. Brigham across the burning hot lava flow. But, we may be very sure that if any fire-walker was burdened by a sense of guilt and filled with doubt instead of faith, he would not have attempted the fire-walk.

To arrive at a point where we have a full and serene faith is not easy. What the standard religions fail to tell us is what Huna and modern psychology sets before us as all important. This is the necessity of building in the Aunihipili the needed faith.

Faith, lodged in the Aunihipili, needs to be such a powerful fixation that nothing will shake it – that nothing will “contaminate” it. The “leather” of contamination feared by the fire-walkers in India and Fiji is for us the tough leathery set of doubts implanted in us by our dependence on the evidence of the senses. What we cannot sense or take into the laboratory and test in terms of the material world, is very hard for us to accept and keep on accepting for more than a few inspired moments during which we glimpse the Light.

One of George Sandwith’s Hindu friends, a gentleman of education and open mind, explained that the basic faith was easy for his fellow countrymen to gain and hold to the degree that it could be made to do its part in the fire-walking. The reason for this was that none of them ever questioned for a second the correctness of the beliefs into which they are born. From childhood they see the rites carried out. Their elders believe and teach them to believe. No matter what they read or what outsider scoffs, they have set before them at frequent intervals the most spectacular and impressive proofs of the correctness of their beliefs – the fire-walk. No finer thing could be selected to act as the physical stimulus demanded by Huna as the mechanism of impressing the Aunihipili. Fire is very real and very hot. Flesh is very easily burned.

We may lack a method of engendering in ourselves – as HRAs – the same degree of faith, but if we can come through such investigations as those of Mr. Sandwith and Mr. Charles Kenn, to see with great clearness the major ingredients of the High Magic – Instant Response, we can progress more rapidly and more directly to that goal. We must see with utter clarity that there is the Aumakua standing ready to receive any and every prayer made – no matter what name is called upon. We must be certain that, if any other high entity needs to be called upon, the Aumakua will do the calling for us. We must realize that we must take steps to convince our Auhane and Aunihipili that we are square with the world from a non-hurt angle and that we actively deserve the help we ask for. The evidence tends to show that, while prayers are often answered with no thought taken to accumulate and supply the mana surcharge, or to build the clear thought-form-picture of what we desire, these things are very much a part of praying expertly. Then there is emotion to be roused. We already know so much more of Huna than we put to use. MFL

September 1, 1951

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

THIS IS A LETTER BULLETIN FOR THE MOST PART

Cigbo starts it off. He writes “Dear Aunties and Uncles: Terrible BIG, BEST thanks for remembering ME and send in those extra stamps and dimes for my compo sink stick type fund! I sell the stamps to my cigar box for dimes, and you should see the types ME and boss got marked to buy in the type CAT-a-log! Wunnerful!

“I’ll let you all in on a sekrut. I got the idea from watching boss these days. He is righting a brook – you know, ‘babble, babble, babble’ – that kind. And IF he can get away with it, just think what I could do, what with being so espert a purrrrrrer. Besides I am a great hand as a scratcher, and I could scratch out lines and pair-o-graffs and even whole pages lots faster and better as boss.

“Anyway, the sekrut is that maybe I’ll right a brook, too, and maybe by then have enough dines to buy enough types to sprint it. I’ve been thinking of naming MY brook, CAT TAILS, or something romantic sounding, like, WEAVER OF KITTENISH DREAMS. I already got some little type to sprint the title in, and some nice BIG type to sprint, BY CIGBO underneath.

“As a spessul inducement to you if you ain’t sent in stamps or dimes yet, I extend my original offer ten more days: All who do, will be sent a very spessul SIR-TUFFY-CAT sprinted by ME and with your name engrossed by typewriter and signed by sprint and paw, to sirtuffy that the holder is hereby appointed to be a SPRINTER FEIST CLASS, just like ME! No advertising will appear on the front of it if I can help it, and it will be suitable for framing – maybe to use to frame your worst eminy, if you got one. (Boss just said, ‘Tut-tut!’ so I guess I must made a fore paw of some sort.) Anyway, I DID love those dimes and my new second hand types, and I am kind of hoping I might purrrrr up a very small brook or something – what with all of you having a HRA birthday coming up in a few months, and ME needing terrible bad to find something to send you for presents.
BIG love and THANKS, Cigbo, hra kittysprinter.

“P.S. ME and my sirtuffycated fellow sprinters got a terrible BIG joke on boss. He won’t know about it until he submerges out of that brook and sees what is going on. HE’S been appointed OUR sprinter’s devil! And he’ll have the job of washing the I-N-K off of OUR toy sprinting press! When you see those IN Key thumb sprints on the paper, don’t ‘Blame Cigbo’ like boss does, that time. US master sprinters all got CLEAN paws, so it’s bound to be boss.

“P.P.S. I kinda suspect all this is being allowed to run free on the front page because boss has submerged from his brook and is kind of dazed or something and can’t think of anything to say to make a bullington. Maybe we might give him a vacration and let him off of getting out a bullington around September 15th. So, if you don’t get another bullington on regular time, you’ll know he’s vacationing, (and ME too, I hope – don’t you kinda think maybe, huh?) C.”

A REAL HAWAIIAN TI PLANT

A Hawwaiian Ti plant arrived in the mail from HRA R.C., who lives up San Francisco way. In my excitement, I seem to have lost her note, but she said she had come across the little plant in a nursery and knew I’d love having it. I certainly do. It has three long narrow leaves with another coming out rolled up like a pencil. If you’ve forgotten the use (carrying the hot stones) na kahuna made of the ti (or ki) leaves in their magic, see several mentions in SSBM, or look into your copy of HRA Charlie Kenn’s little book reporting on the fire-walking tests in Honolulu.

The fire-walker, Tu-nui Arii-peu, used them lavishly. In illustration No. 4, a large plant is to be seen placed at the end of the bed of hot stones, right in the foreground. Illustration No. 8 shows the Chief leading the way across [with] a large bundle of ti leaves on his shoulder. He had just used them to make a ritual beating and brushing of the stones before crossing. A large ti plant was placed at all four corners of the “walk” for the purpose of warding off unwanted spirits or influences which might have interfered with the magical protection which had been called down.

Just what use I will make of the leaves, I do not know as yet, but I have plans in mind for the time when there are leaves to harvest and use. One leaf got broken off, and I now have it in the study laid across the little Papa Kii image into which HRA Cameron and I seemed to successfully pour our hates and sins to make him our scape goat. The leaf is placed over him as a precaution against a possible backfire. (Shame to have done that to him. He’s such an appealing little old fellow – but perhaps all “sin” is that way, so what.)

A NEW, COMPLETE AND FULL LENGTH BOOK ON FIRE-WALKING

Promised by HRA Kenn, it has been in work for some time and will give all available information to be found, with all the theories and beliefs connected with fire-walking or related magic. He writes, “It will cover the subject fully and be well illustrated. I feel that such a book has long been needed.” It may be considerable time before the book is ready, but it will be announced and reviewed the minute it is.

HUNA LECTURE AND STUDY WORK MAY BEGIN IN NEW YORK

Two charter members of HRA, Nesta Kerin Crain and Doris Hertzog, who head the PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH center at 211 West 57th Street, New York 23, N.Y. (Phone EN 2-8964), and who are friends of long standing, write, “We think it is now time, Max, to bring forward the Huna work here in New York in a very active way. We think that we should feature all your writings on our book table and see if we can arrange for some sort of a group meeting at least once a month, to function along lines which you may be able to suggest. On Saturday, October 7th, we begin our tenth lecture season, and we would like to make your Huna materials a special feature this coming season. We also plan to have some Hawaiian evenings this year, and think perhaps Doris will lead off with a lecture devoted entirely to na kahuna and the work you are doing. Any suggestions?”

I am sending plenty of suggestions, of course. It would be encouraging if you New York HRAs would get in touch and say what you would like to see done. At least call up and exchange an aloha or two. Much other good work goes on at this center, as you will find.

A NEW BOOK is out by HRA Dorothy Thomas

It is titled, NO MORE HEADACHES, and sells for $1, plus 80 postage and sales tax in California. Write her for your copy at: New Age Press, 1542 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif.

This little book of 46 pages is the result of a search on the part of HRA Dorothy Thomas for a cure for herself. She attended all the health lecture courses, was doctored by all schools of doctors, had recourse to all available types of mental healers, and finally shuffled the deck and came up with a composite-system of her own which included all the good things she had learned, avoided all the bad practices, and which worked. Her swift-digest of the systems advocated by one lecturer after another is most informative. Whether you have headaches or not, this will be a book of interest because it tells what you learn by taking all the courses – and ending by working out a sane method of your own. (Her husband, HRA Franklin Thomas, is her publisher. She’s in luck to have a publisher right in the family and one able to print so neatly.)

Winged Pharaoh is another book to be read. It is by Joan Grant, and your book dealer can get it if your library fails you. I have not yet had the pleasure of reading it, but have been told of it twice. Last week HRA P.G. wrote me air mail from England of finding it and gave me two pages of excerpts that made my mouth water. It would seem that the writer of this book did a great job of searching the Egyptian past for strange information about religious beliefs, and then set them down in fiction form for easy reading. She didn’t quite come up with a full knowledge of Etna, but she came very close to it in many places. Her fictional characters include a father who instructs a son in the healing lore. The Egyptian glyph for the ka which we recently spotted as our Huna aka, is described and we learn from her of the belief that the life force was absorbed through the aka body during sleep and that lack of sleep killed much quicker than lack of food. The quote reads:

“This part of ourselves is called the Ka, which means “gatherer of life.” It cannot be seen by earth eyes, yet so important is it, that if these channels are injured and cannot carry life, then the, body will die. Only when we sleep can the Ka restore itself with life – and that is why we can live longer without food than without sleep. A soldier had seen his wife seized and killed by a crocodile. The shock was so terrible that he became dumb and he was sent here to see if we could cure him. Now this is what happened to him, so great was his fear and horror, that the force of his emotions ordering his body had injured his Ka-ibis. And just as a man whose shoulder muscles are torn cannot throw a spear, the KA-ibis could not translate the orders of this man’s spirit to the speaking muscles of his throat, and he became dumb. But when Ptah-Refer saw what was wrong, the Ka-ibis was strengthened with healing, until it was once more able to obey its orders.”

I gather that the aka was supposed to gather mana outside the body and give it to the body through a lesser entity living in the physical brain, who in turn gave it, with commands to move, to the various muscles. Sounds like good reading for HRAs and a possible source of important information on Huna as known and used in Egypt.

A Strange Pendulum Experiment

Reported by HRA Richard White of San Diego (who has three good “dry wash” machines if any of you have placer ground to work on shares). Accustomed to the use of pendulums of various kinds, he took a great interest in the ZNO which has its tip coated with a layer of many metals in combination and which is useful for finding ore deposits or assaying samples of ore. Mr. White writes:

“I made a wand of spring steel wire with a wooden handle, (like George Wallace’s ZNO) but drilled a hole at one end of the handle to take a small glass vial as a “sample” receptacle. In the vial I place the sample of the element I wish to test or locate. After much practice I became able to find gold or silver no matter where another person hid it. Then the thought came to me that I should be able to find a lost person the same way, so many children recently having been reported lost in the hills. I first tried it with the hair of a dog in the vial, and could trace him. I then used a snip of hair from my niece, and was able to trace her where ever she went. (He goes on to tell of tracing the movements about the city of different ones, giving a most impressive account of the length of time spent in various places, such as a 20-minute wait on a corner by his niece when transferring from bus to bus.)

“The next experiment is one I would like to have Mr. Cameron try and see if he could explain. The oldest girl was somewhat interested, so I placed one of her hairs in the wand. Her mother, my niece, was across the room. I stood a few feet from the girl and showed how the wand pulled toward her. Still holding the wand as it was, I moved slowly toward the mother. To our surprise, when I was more than half way to her, the wand stopped pulling toward the girl and pulled toward her mother. I repeated the experiment several times, then changed to a hair from my niece. The results were just the same, about half way between them, the wand would turn from one to the other. Now comes the part I want explained.

“When the girl’s father came home, I demonstrated, and got the same results between him and the girl as with her mother. BUT, when I placed the father’s hair in the wand, it would pull only to him or to the girl, whichever was closest. It would NOT pull toward his wife, nor would it pull toward him when I placed her hair in the vial.

“The only explanation I can think of is that the father and mother were NOT blood relations. Now I am wondering if the wand would work between more distantly related persons such as cousins.”

Comment: It looks very much as if HRA White had given us excellent pendulum proof of the ancient Polynesian theory which we have discussed in the Bulletin from time to time since the first mention of the Easter Island statues and the belief that through the umbilical cord – as the symbol of the aka cord which is enduring after death – the children remain connected with the parents down through many generations.

Mr. White has done a very fine piece of research work which applies directly to this theory. It strengthens the old lore of Polynesia, probably Huna in origin, and gives importance to the possibility that through this aka-umbilical mechanism, the dead parents may draw sufficient mana from the living blood relatives to fill their small but unavoidable needs.

We, the here-living, do not sense the aka body or the aka cords. If these actually exist, as growing evidence indicates that they do, and if we do not sense them, it is probable that the there-living do not. Invisible and intangible as they are, and as mana likewise is, it is a small wonder that in our seances, the fact of the connecting threads is not mentioned.

The veil lifts slightly, however, and we now can see why the ancient custom of ancestor worship came into being and remained so long. The basic idea in all ancestor worship rites has been that the living must feed their ancestral dead. In the Orient, the old meanings are lost to a large extent and the actual food placed on the graves is not purely symbolic. It is said that the spirits of the dead eat the spirit of the food.

Na kahuna left us a very definite bit of information in their word, Aumakua. One of its meanings is, “time-parent,” or the ancestor old in time and now become utterly trustworthy and elevated to be a lesser god. The life they handed down through long and deep layers of generations, is our debt. Along the ever-connecting aka threads anchored in our bodies, we send payment in terms of flows of living force. This makes us the saviors of such physical or aka-spirit bodies as the there-living must have to survive. On their parts, the ancestors, headed by the Aumakua, become our spiritual saviors. The living electric energy of mana makes in this way a complete circuit. This is the normal life, the good life, the fortunate life. The salvations are not from sin or from the just retributions on this level, it is a saving of the most precious of all things, life itself. We, who are at this point in time in the physical, are the low man in the symbolic totem pole. Above us are the ancestors bound by the ties of blood, with the eldest, the Aumakua at the very top. Not one of us stands alone in the midst of eternity. Not one of us but stands in the midst of his clan and group and family. Seen from this Huna angle, our horizons widen and the loneliness that haunts the human soul dissipates – is transformed in love and service.

Science is rapidly finding it impossible to explain life and growth and form without the mana and the aka body which is a mold of every smallest part of each living thing, which is the mold of every microscopic entity of matter, the matter that na kahuna called mea and which indicated the visible and invisible forms. Science calls the aka mold the “emergent field” and it is pictured as an inter-meshing mold of lines of stress built of basic energy lines making the mold to guide the multiplying cells in the growing organism. One day scientists will find the invisible aka substance as well as of waves, or so it seems to me from where I peer out from my very low hilltop.

HRA White’s Experiment Blew Up

Later, he reported, writing, “Now comes the sad part. A few weeks later the whole thing blew up. I couldn’t trace anyone or find anything with my gadget. It took a long time to discover why. The answer turned out to be that I was controlling the action of the wand with my conscious mind. I proved that by having another person place a piece of rich gold ore under one of three newspapers laid out in a row. I found the ore every time until I noticed that one paper was bulged up a little. I said to myself, “That’s easy to find without a wand. He forgot to smooth out the paper.” The wand indicated that the ore was under the paper, but it wasn’t.

Then to make sure, I held the wand upright and commanded it to move in various directions, and it obeyed perfectly. So, I learned that in order to use the wand successfully one must make one’s mind a blank, which is pretty hard to do. I remembered that some noted writer had said, “A ruffled surface cannot reflect a clear image.”

Huna Helped Heal Reports a Doctor

HRA E.D.K., O.D., reports: “Mrs. K. received a call from her brother-in-law to rush to her sister, who had been seriously ill for a long time, if she wished to see her alive. She found her in a precarious condition, down from a former one ninety to one hundred six pounds. Hypertension, enlarged heart, arterial sclerosis and homesick. Mrs. K had always been able to help her sister mentally, and, lo and behold, this, together with what she now knows about Huna and used in daily treatments, produced astonishing results, so much so that everybody talked about it. My own condition is definitely improved. I feel that I am able to accumulate more mana in my efforts and yet, I kick myself for not remembering to do it more often. I am still keenly interested in Huna and look forward to the Bulletins.”

How Jade, Copper Money and Elephant Statues Reached Central America

This was recently told on the radio by Marvin Miller. He related how, in 400 A.D., a Chinese Buddhist missionary named Wi Chan, was provided by the Emperor with a fine fleet and was enabled to sail to discover lands to the east. The imperial records record the fact that he touched North America well to the north, turned south and eventually found people of high culture in Central America. Trade was established and continued for some time. Jade and copper currency, together with Chinese pottery and figures of elephants and Buddha were among the things introduced, and so their presence in the archeological diggings is explained. Now if someone will find out for us where the pottery images of dinosaurs came from, as found by the dozens northwest of Mexico City, another mystery will have been solved. There is mounting evidence that people of Polynesian blood came in from Peru to Easter Island. Perhaps the migration of na kahuna and their people from the lands around the Nile took some east and some west to reach the fabled “Hawiki” – modern Hawaii – and other islands of the South Seas.

TMHG Healing Reports

HRA Mrs. E.W. of Denver, writes, “You would be greatly pleased if you could see the change in my health. I am really getting back to my old self. Hardly know how to act. I surely give much credit to your personal help and the TMHG, and I sure thank you all more than words can tell. The only way I can repay is to help others. Jerry is also improving in health and appetite. The Bulletins are very interesting and helpful.”

“Greg,” reports his mother, HRA N.L.B. concerning our special, TMHG test case in work for some months (mentally ill), “was practical the best in years today. (August 23rd, 1951) After nice replies to questions, a good dinner, and a ride out in the car, I asked how he would like some ice cream from the Canteen. ‘Yes sir!’ he answered, so I told him to sit still while I got it. He was fine, and loved the strawberry sundae like all get-out! I know this news will give you a lift, too, so send it along. (In other reports I have been repeatedly asked to thank all TMHG participants for their continued help. I am adding my personal thanks and most sincere praise for the help given for this lad by na Aumakua and possibly spirit friends on the other side. MFL)

HRA Mrs. Jessie Long, my mother, wrote delightedly this week to report a sudden and almost complete healing after over three months of illness and suffering. She had been caused much pain by “burning feet” which the doctors could not cure. She writes, “The miserable burning in my feet suddenly stopped short and I slept all night, a thing I have not been able to do for months. This morning I awoke well! I hope now to be able to help others in your prayer service. I am very proud and happy to be a TMHG member.”

* * * * No person in the armed services, for whom we have been working in the “Wall of Protection” project has yet been reported hurt in any way. * * * *
Let’s keep up the good work. I still hold doggedly to the faith that the truce will stick in Korea.

HRA M.H., of Pennsylvania, who is a nurse and who uses Huna in direct contact and also in absent treatment and via the TMHG Power Pool, reports (1) An army nurse not expected to recover in the Veteran’s Hospital in the South, but who picked up rapidly and is now in another hospital for rehabilitation. (2) A gentleman suffering from a series of strokes, now appears completely recovered. (3) She tells of a long struggle to call down help for a cancer patient and the encouraging results to date, despite the conviction of the patient that he was in a dying state and the expectation on the part of the doctors that he was on his way out.

Mrs. J.W.H. an HRA of Chicago, wrote as of August 23rd. “A few days ago, on my way to the grocery store, I stopped in to see a friend of a neighbor of mine, not knowing that she was deathly sick and that the doctors had been there working with her all night trying to revive her. They had about given her up when I came walking in. A neighbor was there phoning to her brother to come that he might see her before she passed on. She could not speak, could not get her breath, and was in great pain. I laid my hands on her and began to pray. In about five minutes she could talk. She said the pain was all gone and then that she felt fine. She sat up in bed. Then she dressed herself and started to go about her house work. I told the doctors ‘God is able.’ They seemed so surprised. She has been doing fine ever since.”

HRA J.A.D. has been trying to train his Aunihipili. He reports: “My George has been working quite well but there seems to be an abrupt line at which he stops or which he is unable to cross. Some week ago I got into some poison ivy and broke out on my arms and back. I used chemicals on my back, but let George take care of the arms, which he did without delay. But I still need help in two personal matters. Perhaps George, with the aid of the TMHG, will be able to give me this help.” (His letter is in the TMHG stack and help for his George in this endeavor is being steadily pictured and called for from the Great Company of na Aumakua.) “I can’t say,” he continues, “that I agree 100% with all you write, but that isn’t to be expected. The main thing is the valuable food for thought contained in the Bulletins.” (That is the proper research attitude!)

Search for na Kahuna in Fiji by HRA Sandwith

HRA George Sandwith, who has made a very fine survey of the possibilities of finding traces of Huna lore still alive in Tonga, and who reported on the stone “gods” and their retained and radiated energy (mana?), also the energy measured from his Ethiopian icon, has written a number of long letters from Fiji. These read like a continued story of high adventure and are especially interesting to us because he has been doing what most earnest HRAs dream of doing; he has gone into the far places to hunt for na kahuna or traces of native magic. Someday, when Cigbo gets rich, we may have a small book to give all his letters in full, meantime, here is a short outline.

In Tonga, this English engineer, who has a splendid study background and an exceptional psychic gift, studied the native stone images which seem to be made into icons of the kahuna kind. These retain their mana power for years and seem to have an aka cord running between them and invisible entities, possibly of the Aumakua level. Some of these stones are of small size and represent what may be called family totem creatures. Through the friendship of some of the Tongans, he was presented with such a stone. It represented the octopus and registered surprisingly strong radiations when tested by the pendulum or by a standard electrical testing instrument made to pick up the smallest radiations.

The spirit of the Ethiopian icon suggested that when he left Tonga he should go to Fiji and into the back country to visit a certain secluded village, which was named. He acted on the instructions which were given, and arrived there in due time, meeting on the last leg of the journey a friendly Fijian whose father was head of the police in the village, and a Hindu who was the teacher of a small school, there being a number of East Indians in that part of the back country.

He had hardly gotten settled in to the government rest house at the edge of the village and had made a call on the police chief and some of the leading Hindu citizens, before his possession of the icon and the octopus stone seemed to have been sensed by a native woman who appeared to be a magician of sorts.

The friendliness of the natives turned to antagonism and they frowned or turned away when he walked through the village. The native witch woman was found at the rest house talking to the keeper, and that night when he went to bed he felt very evil and powerful forces around him pressing down like a black cloud. At about that time he discovered that the house was surrounded by natives, and from time to time a flash light beam was thrown through the chinks of the window covers as if they were trying to see what he might be doing. What he did was to consult the Ethiopian icon spirit. She instructed him to place her icon under his pillow and the octopus stone at the bottoms of his feet and lie still. He did this and the cloud was kept off, later, near dawn, to leave entirely, and as it left, the chattering native departed, and he was able to get some sleep. Next day all was friendship and courtesy in the village, and thereafter he made friends, sat in on feasts and met a strange chief of strange ways seemingly connected with magic. He was able to observe and study closely the fire-walking of the East Indians and the purification ritual observed by those who were to fire-walk, also their use of the rite in healing and weather control. A fascinating account. Magic still lives in the Pacific islands.
MFL

August 15, 1951

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

A new issue of the ROUND ROBIN is out!

This is always delightful news, and it is deserving of the exclamation point for several reasons.

First, because each issue is a major event in the lives of those of us with metaphysically-shaped heads who revel in the things HRA Meade Layne amazingly seems ever able to find and spread before us as prize fare for hungry minds and spirits.

A second reason for the exclamation point is that the scant dollars we furnish to help set the table can be stretched so miraculously far as to provide an office, an editorial staff and means of producing and mailing the ROBIN. The picture always rises in my mind of a robin on my lawn holding to one end of an earthworm, bracing his feet rather desperately, and pulling until the worm is stretched to the utter breaking point.

To review ROUND ROBIN always reminds me of the delicious job done by a reviewer a few years ago to cover the publication of a new Sear’s catalogue, or it may have been Ward’s. The exciting variety of things offered competes with the fascination of brand new offerings. In this July-August issue of RR, the brand new is found in the lead article giving three pages of the findings of HRA V.L. Cameron in his experiments with magnets and carbon rods to learn more of “Vitic” force. He describes the effects of holding magnet and rod in right and left hands, and in other ways, also the effects noted on the ability of the holder to build thought pictures which can be measured with the Cameron dowsing instruments, and the changes caused in the auras or aka bodies. A tentative explanation is offered to cover the findings, and the question put to the rest of us in a very direct manner. A new world builds before the vision of the reader – a world filled with invisible akas and aka threads, all charged with magnetism or energies of a thousand different wave lengths and all polarized and kept from becoming intermingled and hopelessly entangled with inter-penetrating radiations, akas or what have we. The na kahuna prompt us to believe that all things have aka bodies.

Modern biologists speak of the same thing in terms of “emergent fields” which lie compacted in the seed of plant or man, and which unfold to form the mold of “stress patterns” into which denser matter is built to form cells, nerves, tissues and organs in highly evolved forms of life. Energy becomes “alive” when it acts in or through aka substance. Once alive, it responds to some directive consciousness and enjoys a certain free will in determining its activities. A radar beam simply strikes and bounces back. It is not alive, but a map dowser sends out a beam of aka-mana to contact the place indicated by the map, investigate it, and bounce back with the information. The modern science of physics, as Director Meade Layne points out, is being forced into the realm of metaphysics by its own discoveries. It has electromagnetic energy now, but needs to stir into its brew the elements of aka and consciousness.

The now famous Reeser Case is also discussed in this issue of RR, as well as in the four-page BSRA release that came with it. (Subscription to the more frequent “releases” and the every-two-months RR, is $5. Address for this bargain in mental and spiritual nourishment, BSRA-Round Robin, 3524 Adams Ave., San Diego 16, Calif. Or send a dollar for this last issue and the current BSRA release.)

We all have read the dispatches telling how elderly Mrs. Reeser was sitting in her rocker in her apartment in Florida, when something beyond scientific ken caused her and the rocker to burn so completely that only her skull – shrunk to the size of a teacup – a piece of her backbone and a piece of her left foot – still in a part of the shoe – remained. Below the height of four feet from the floor, nothing was scorched or smoked in the room; above that height, all was smoked, but little was scorched by heat that would have been similar to that held at 2,000 degrees for over an hour to cremate a body for sanitary burial.

A complete outline of the case is given and all the theories offered to explain it, particularly those based on what we are beginning to know of the aesthetic. The spirit communicators of two good circles also offered most interesting observations and conjectures. In the past few years we have had several instances of the ceilings or walls of large rooms suddenly flashing into flames, as in the case of the dance hall and the Chicago hotel lobby, to say nothing of the big bridge that suddenly burst into flames from end to end for no reason at all. That was bad enough, but now, if people begin to go up in a sudden puff of smoke well, we need to rally around Meade Layne as the center of gathering information, the kind of information which we begin to need badly.

HRA thanks RR for telling its readers about us and for the heartily welcome encouragement offered. As a matter of fact, it has long been a hope that our forces could be combined and a single publication issued with departments for Huna, the TUG and the several things of special interest to different reader groups. As it is, BSRA is quartered in San Diego and HRA centered in Hollywood. Moreover, we have too small a circulation list, even when combined, to support such luxuries as real printing to replace mimeographing. However, a start has been made in the desired direction. BSR has incorporated and may soon be in position to attract a “foundation” donation.

Cigbo has also made a start for us – a very small one indeed. He swapped for what he calls “my toy printing press,” and already prints our labels and his own “pistol cd. letter heads.” Also, needing more type than he has, he has placed his composing stick beside his cigar box, and is hopefully watching to see if an extra dime may now and then be sent in for it. He wishes to assure all his friends, and with a considerable show of dignity, that he will NEVER stoop to begging, even for type dimes, but he admits that he may yeowl dismally at times just as a hint.

Psychokinesis and HOW!

To get back to RR – the capper of the issue is contained in a few paragraphs on pages 16 and 17. Meade Layne writes, “During the week of July 2nd, your Director observed, in the Round Robin office, the operation of another device, so sensitive that when one extended a hand toward it and commanded it to move away, the pointer on the device would swing through at least a 90 degree arc in the direction required; and if one commanded it to turn toward one it would also obey. In each case, [there was] a time interval of 15-20 seconds before the motion began. We hold that this event, here mentioned so briefly and casually, is comparable to the fall of a kingdom…

The time lag, from 15 to 20 seconds is almost as important to the understanding of this matter as is the fact that eventually the mental command was obeyed by the hand on the sensitive instrument. It indicates that when the mind gives the order, something passes from the body under the direction of consciousness. This is explained in Huna as the ‘projection’ by the Aunihipili of an aka finger or contacting thread. With the aka finger must go some energy which will cause the instrument to register it and give a measurement reading. Mana, the vital energy of man, flows along the aka thread and builds up a charge after a short lapse of time, which, when discharged into the instrument, causes the needle to register it.

The point that must be explained is the lag. Electricity and light move at a speed so great that the short distance involved in this experiment counts as nothing.

HRA V.L. Cameron called my attention to this time lag recently when he was letting me make a mental image of some object, then finding and outlining the thought-form-object with his dowsing instrument. It would take me up to thirty seconds to make my mental vase or ball or cone sufficiently strong to be located and outlined with the instrument in the empty air. The instrument has a small ball of metal which becomes, as HRA Cameron finds, positive through contact with the one holding it. As positive poles repel each other, the mentally created form or object must have enough of the bodily energy passed into it through an aka thread connection to cause it to assume a positive polarization and repel the ball of the instrument. We need the aka substance to contain the mana, and the directing consciousness to dictate the nature of the form or shape.

Of equal importance is the fact that such a thought picture or object fades in about a half hour. To find out where the aka and mana goes, we have only to recall the fact that ectoplasmic forms in the seance room often come visibly from the medium and return to him.

“…My word shall not return to me void …”

[This] may mean exactly what it says. We now see, thanks to HRA Cameron’s years of patient research, that by concentrated thinking we can build an aka-mana thought-form-mold of the condition which we desire to have brought about when we pray. In Huna we make the picture with great care. We contact the Aumakua. We present the mold we have made and the mana to fill it with force. We ask that the superior powers of the Aumakua be used to materialize a permanent filling for the mold. If we keep holding the mold together and keep it filled with necessary mana or energy, all other conditions being right, our prayer should NOT return to us “void.” As na kahuna used to say, it will not “miss the mark.” It gives one a strange feeling of inward excitement and certainty to see an instrument outlining a thought-form, and to see it trace the expanding outline of the aka body as one begins to pray. I believe that the next time such experiments are carried out, we can find that from the expanded aka or aura there is an aka thread or cord so filled with energy that its course can be traced as it leaves going toward the Aumakua.

The Aumakua lives above us … “up”

In all religions the gods live above, “up.” I once thought that this was just a symbol and not a place.

Suddenly I begin to realize that “up” meant “up.” HRA Cameron (also BSRA), called on me a few days ago and we undertook to explore the regions above the head with the dowsing instrument. I stretched out on my back beside the study and the “doughnut” aura was found above my head, five feet above it was found the feet of the life sized aka figure always found above people. Mounting the ladder which I had provided, Mr. Cameron explored the space above this figure, and found, about six feet above the other, a second figure of the same general size and outline. Standing on the roof of the Study he could reach only a few inches above its head. Whether there were still more such figures standing still higher up, we were unable to determine. (In discussing the strange findings with another HRA the next day, I was told that a Frenchman had written a book in which he described seeing similar “etheric doubles,” one above another, over the heads of friends.)

If, when we find a long enough ladder to make more tests, it is found that there are but two such aka bodies above a man, all will be in keeping with Huna and we can say that the Auhane lives in one and the Aumakua in the other, both connected by the aka cords. If, however, we find a larger number, then it is anybody’s guess what they might indicate. (Mrs. Long, not knowing what was going on, happened to come to the back door of the main house to see me prone on the walk and Mr. Cameron feeling around high above from his stand on the Study roof. Her first impulse, so she jokingly says, was to begin sweeping out two padded cells.) Could it be that Jacob’s vision, recorded in Genesis, 28, 20, describes this finding? “… a ladder set up on earth, and the top of it reached to heaven and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.” Most unexpected of all, perhaps, was the discovery, made with the aid of the instrument and carefully checked, that both aka figures had heavy heads of hair hanging to the level of the shoulders, but cut off squarely at that point like a “Dutch bob.” Fantastic? Yes, indeed. No end. But in the task we have before us, no stone is to be left unturned. And, while we are speaking of these things, and of “wings” and the like, it may be remarked that it takes a high degree of moral courage on the part of HRA Cameron to divulge what he finds.

Speaking of aka or auric wings – - -

I almost forgot to say that the two overhead figures were found to have “wings,” just as I had been found to have them extending from my physical back. They extend from shoulder to hip and back for several feet. (Children have been found to have budding wings.) Perhaps the ancients had some inside information when they told of angels with wings, and predicted that good men might have wings after death with which they could fly all about the heavens. Na kahuna must have had some secret lore of a similar nature to the belief in winged angels – but theirs was winged prayers which took their flight – lele: to fly, leap upward, etc

HRA George W. Wallace, (Box 158, Beaumont, Calif.) who has developed a device (“ZNO” $3) for measuring radiations described in earlier Bulletins and pictured here, ran check tests for us on the wings and auras as found by HRA V.L. Cameron. He found that by making a drawing of a body as pictured here (or front view for that test angle) and naming the picture for the person to be tested, the test worked perfectly over the drawing

A – as above) The wing stubs of a child

B) The usual wing extending straight out at top from a foot to several feet

(C-D) Some wings were found broken or crumpled on one side or standing off at an angle as if injured or deformed.

Note aura indicated in outline in his drawing the aura overhead vertical instead of horizontal as L.V.C. finds it.

Also note the fact that the use of a drawing is what is known as the establishment of a “convention” with the Aunihipili which must pick up the radiations, in this case as in map dowsing, and give the reading by the agreed-upon rotation of the ZNO tip as the field of aura or wing radiation is touched.

These illustrations show the ZNO held above and below a piece of ore in testing it. At the left, the energy field above and below the sample is shown – the ZNO rotating inside the field as moved vertically up and down above or below it. All objects can be thus tested. The radiation usually is picked up at a distance of about 45 inches.

The test made from the side of the sample with the ZNO held as illustrated, shows that two beams of radiation come from the sample (as from flowing water deep in the earth) at the top and bottom of an angle of about 45 degrees. (The distance at which these beams are picked up indicates the depth at which water or ore is to be found and the thickness of the water or ore body.

Radiations from Papa and Mama Kii Pohaku images done in China

These little images sent through the kindness of HRA Mrs. St. John (see Bulletin 66) were worked over by HRA Cameron and myself several weeks ago. We blessed Mama Pohaku and prayed with her in our hands to try to set up an aura and a vibration of good and helpful nature, perhaps make her a center of contact with good higher entities as well as a center from which good might keep on radiating. With her in my hands, Mr. Cameron found with his instrument that, as the prayer-action continued, a larger and larger cone of radiation built up from her large navel. (See pages 5 and 6 in Bulletin 58.) We then tried emptying our “bad” into Papa Pohaku, making him the “scape goat” type of icon to carry away our hates, fears and sins. I couldn’t think of anything I hated and failed to work up any emotion in charging Papa, but V. L. had some very hot and strong resentments left over from a recent encounter with individuals who were standing in the way of getting the Navajo Indian Tribe good water wells via dowsing and the ownership of their own drilling equipment. He filled Papa to the point at which the instrument measured an irregular mound several inches high over his middle. It gave off no lines of radiation and there was no cord leaving at the head as there was with Mama.

Several times since then I have tested for the mound and cone with pendulum and ZNO, having just paused now to do so. Mama’s cone has weakened (as I usually find it) so that it measures about a foot high. This is interesting in view of the fact that she gets a daily blessing and lies on my “altar” end of my prayer table. It may be that the energy poured into her is used up each day in our TMHG work. Or it may be that good is harder to build and retain and keep radiating. We recall that the offices have to be renewed daily in formal church rites of worship. On the other hand, Papa has not had a thing added to his burden knowingly, but he still tests as strongly active as the day the hates were poured into him for safe keeping. Perhaps we need to reverse the old quotation to make it read, “the good we do dies with us; the bad lives on.” (Or is that the way the original went?) In any event, I must confess that I love Mama Kii and am just the least little bit inclined to shy away from poor little Papa – who has to live at the far end of the long table to do his assigned job of absorbing the “bad.” Cigbo remarks doubtfully from his perch beside his box (and composink stick) on top of the desk, that he hopes “Papa won’t blow up and bust some day.”

Reports on the pendulum tests for radiations from fruits and vegetables …

Have been sent in by three HRAs only, and no averaged set of findings is possible. Counting me as a fourth, we have four different findings as to what happens when a pendulum is gradually brought from a distance of four feet to contact with the object to be tested for radiation. I got the crosswise reading at three or four different points for each thing tested. This may be locating the wave nodes, but it is hard as yet to say. I will discuss the matter with Dr. Brunler when I can. He has had long experience in such matters. There seems to be much difficulty in keeping personal guesses or expectations out of the measurement when no convention is set up in advance and one is trying to pick up the wave length of radiations. Of course, the wave length of the live eye of a potato would be so short that a pendulum could measure it ONLY by means of a convention of sorts. What complications we do run into. More on this later when I have some idea that will hold a few drops of water at the very least.

For our TMHG work, we learn about the time lag…

Having had the matter of the time lag called forcefully to my attention by the research work and observations of HRA Cameron, I find several things coming to mind along that line: Thirty years ago, in Honolulu, as I have told in SSBM, I was greatly aided by the Huna ministrations of an elderly Hawaiian woman. Looking back, I now remember clearly that when she made ready to make a prayer-action for me (“Ask the gods for help,” as she put it), she took what seemed to be an unnecessarily long time getting ready, although, when the actual work got under way, she rose, closed her eyes and slowly and carefully repeated her prayer three times over in Hawaiian.

The preliminary delay of three days was easily understood because we had to spend some hours together talking things over to decide exactly what I desired to have come about in my life and tangled affairs, no easy matter just then. I also had to be put through three days of semi-fasting and to give until it hurt to some worthy cause in order to clear my moral deck and make my Aunihipili and Auhane agree that something real and effective had been done by way of atonement for sins of commission and of omission.

I can see her now in my mind’s eye, sitting relaxed and as if deep in thought, apparently forgetful of the urgent fact that she had promised to pray for me. She rolled a cigarette, took a few puffs on it, rubbed it slowly out and relaxed again, looking idly through the open windows into the greenery of the yard. I think ten or fifteen minutes must have passed before she rose, took a few slightly deeper breaths, raised her hands slightly from her sides, closed her eyes, lifted her face upward, and began her thrice-repeated request for the help I needed.

Now, at this late date, I see that the Aunihipili takes at least fifteen seconds, often much more, to build and charge the mental image or mold of the desired conditions. I understand that it takes a short time for the Aunihipili to get to work to build up a mana surcharge for use. I am deeply impressed that we may have been trying to go too fast – that we should have given minutes instead of seconds to building and charging the mental forms before calling on na Aumakua to exert their power to materialize and actualize the substance, time and space needed to fill the mold. I can see that the slow steps and recitals of the Mass must have been designed originally to build slowly to construct the invisible braided cord and send the force through it so that it might return to bless the priest and the congregation.

I am not sure, but I incline to believe that the bad in this world is something more native to our level of life than the good. Greed, hate and envy seem to grow as weeds in the hearts of men the world around, but unselfishness, love and joy in the success of others seem to be the frail plants which need constant care and hourly feeding and watering if they are to grow well enough to replace the thorny and noxious weeds of bad.

The only spirit kahuna I have ever met at a seance who could escape the suspicion of pretense, said, when asked how one might become a kahuna, “Think good, good, good, all the time. Some day you will see a big white light, and after that you will be a kahuna.” Shall we all begin now? Thinking only good? Only love and unselfishness? Pretty difficult to manage, what?

Loving Father or stern Karmic justice?

Sometimes when I ready myself for the TMHG work, I wonder whether I have done enough good in thoughts or deeds to deserve the help I am about to ask from na Aumakua for myself. And often I have letters from HRAs who list many needs for the TMHG efforts to call down help for purse and circumstances, or healing for body or mind. Seldom do I find a word said about what has been done or thought to make the writer deserving of all the help requested. Few write, “I have done what I could to cleanse myself, and I have performed acts of love and unselfishness, so that I now feel deep inside of me that I fully deserve the loving assistance which I am now beginning to ask for in the TMHG.”

If the older doctrine of Karmic justice is literally true, as many believe, our only chance lies in producing a sudden spate of good to outweigh the active portion of the great layer of bad with which we are covered. The evidence of life about us seems not to indicate that the full repayment for accumulated bad Karma of the past is demanded at any one time of any hapless human by the “Lords of Karma” if any such there really be in the scheme of things.

On the other hand, we see in the doctrines of Christianity as now preached in the latest cults contemporary with New Thought, the extreme in which all bad in the past vanishes by the simple process of turning a new leaf and thinking only good. Doing good is difficult, and difficult things have been tossed out of the window so that instead of helping the other fellow when he is ill or broke, he is treated with scorn because the poor lout refuses to see that it is his own fault because he continues to remain in error in his thoughts.

Personally, I have neither the courage, the endurance, nor the docile submission of mind and spirit to bow to the dogmas of almost endless reincarnations which are necessitated by the exact and unmerciful demands of Karma. I’ll go along for a number of incarnations for each of the three selves allotted to me by the Huna lore, enough to give each self time to learn what it must at each stage of evolution. Beyond that, right or wrong, I am going to try to make myself fairly good and fairly deserving. Whether I succeed or fall far short on these scores, I am going to continue to lean heavily on that amazing love with which na Aumakua seem to brood over all of us who try to open the door to them, the love that surprises and thrills me time after time after time when I ask for help where I cannot see how to help myself. I may be able at times to deserve the bread for which I ask, but it is Love and Mercy that adds the butter and often the jam, not the stern and highly distant Lords of Karma who were often the preoccupation of H.P.B. when she set out to introduce the lore of India to the West.

The news from the Study is largely that your many excellent letters are received and read with much appreciation. The help for Cigbo is placed in his box and held to the Light for multiplication for all our needs – and time is seldom left over for the answers I would love to send. The book which I am happily working on as the present bread winning project, has progressed from the material-gathering stage to that of the writing of outlines and first rough drafts. The first major conference has been held over it, and all goes well. But time remains the gift that only you HRAs can give me by saying, “No answer, please” on your letters. I know that you all understand. MFL

August 1, 1951

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

The “fantastic” beliefs mentioned in a recent Bulletin …

I did not mean to be tiresome and guilty of baiting the hook of interest with mystery when I said that in due time I would tell of my experiences with HRA V.L. Cameron. I know how much I dislike things being withheld after mentioning them as something mysterious and wonderful.

In this case, it was something which, to me, is more fantastic than usual – and in a part of the research field that is filled with findings difficult to accept. What seems still so fantastic to me is that the human aura – or call it the etheric body, astral body, or the body made up of the aka bodies of the Aumakua and Auhane, interblended – has extensions from the shoulders which for all the world resemble wings.

In addition, there is an aura like a large thick doughnut, with a small hole in the center – this aura always remaining above the head.

Those items of discovery at the hands of HRA Cameron, are topped by the most fantastic find of all. In feeling around with his special instrument which measures the shape of the aura by moving back away from it when brought into contact, there was found to be, above the doughnut-shaped aura, and with feet so high as to be almost beyond the reach of a tall man, an aura the size and shape of a human body. A ladder was used to trace its outline with the instrument when first discovered. HRA Cameron and I are planning to get together as soon as we can find the opportunity, and run tests for my benefit. I have a ladder ready and waiting.

MAY BE FINDINGS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE

Up to this time we have lacked a true instrument for the measuring of the position and extension of the auras. True, the psychics of all ages have seen the auras and have agreed, on the whole, that they are there. The trouble with psychic vision is that often the visions do not agree – with this sad fact discrediting the findings in a large way.

The viewing screen invented by Dr. Kilner is made up of a light filter of experimentally determined efficiency. It has been a step ahead, but demands some psychic ability and practice to learn to use. Some people see much more than others through the filter. All do not see the same things, forms and colors. What has been needed has been some other instrumental aid which would allow a check to be run on what is seen psychically, with or without the Kilner screen. Of course, the Cameron instrument, like the pendulum and dowsing rods, needs special psychic ability on the part of the one who uses it. There is some hope that the very sensitive electronic instruments may give proof acceptable to official science of the fact that we have an aura – or more than one. Meantime, HRA Cameron may have made a discovery of the first water. More of this later.

Reply to some HRA Hams …

The radio-type test for the body force -mana – has been made already in part …

HRA V.L. Cameron, mentioned repeatedly in the recent Bulletins as a dowser extraordinary as well as an inventor and explorer in this end of the field, replied at once after reading in Bulletin 59 a suggestion made by HRA Clem Johnson that certain instruments be made to test for mana. I quote:

“With regard to HRA Clem Johnson’s request for information from others about measuring the body force with a regenerative radio or Wheatstone bridge, I have used the Wheatstone bridge on body electricity, but was disappointed somewhat about the aura in experiments with the bridge.

“I built a small regenerative radio and tuned it so that the oscillations of the little set made our big console radio in the house two hundred feet distant, howl in response. When I tuned the little one-tuber to where the big set was making a low, guttural sound , I could, by bringing my hand to within two feet of the little set, cause the big set to change its tone in a rising crescendo to a very high pitch.

“This is what we, who used to build early one-tubers, used to call ‘body capacity.’ In this experiment, every movement of my hands or body in the vicinity of the small set was registered by the changing squeals and howls of the big one. While working on this experiment, I was sometimes able to change the tone of the large set from a low guttural to a high squeal without moving in any way, but just by concentrating on projecting force from my hand.

“I am now experimenting with a strange machine invented by Edison in about 1875 I believe. In reading a book about his life, I found mention of this gadget. It is mainly a cylindrical case of heavy steel with a window in it, and a vertical hard rubber rod resting on a crude microphone of carbon plugs, and adjustable by a screw in the top connected to a micro ammeter with a 1 1/2 volt battery. In Edison’s experiments, the light from a very distant star, Arcturus, knocked the galvanometer indicator clear off the scale.

“Edison also said that the ‘heat’ from his hand from across the room drove the indicator off the scale. He was, obviously, very wrong about this, since the heat from his body would have been far greater than that from his hand. If he projected anything across the room to drive the pointer from the scale, it evidently was not heat but something related to mana and the aka thread. The best I was able to do was to influence the instrument in this way from a distance no greater than eighteen inches. I have a more sensitive meter now and believe I will get better results when I continue the tests.”

Comment on the above letter…

I cannot stress too greatly the importance which I attach to the underscored lines in the report given above. In our work with Huna we face the same problem as in the measurement of radiations in dowsing and in testing for brain waves to determine the level of intelligence. This is the problem of finding methods of making mechanical or instrumental tests of the kind acceptable to orthodox science. While men of science may refuse to accept even instrumental tests and measures because they do not understand the basics of living forces, they cannot ignore entirely the data and tangible results obtained. As a matter of fact, the experiments and accomplishments in this part of the field are already so far along that the time approaches when denials will no longer satisfy the increasingly suspicious public. Perhaps the official denial that ANYTHING out of the ordinary has been seen along the lines of the Flying Saucers, has done more than any other thing in recent years to put “science” on the spot and cause the average man to realize how reactionary it has become.

Kii Pohaku Wahine and Kii Pohaku Kane are now available

It is with pleasure that I am able to announce that HRA Mrs. H.C. St. John, Box 83, Solana Beach, Calif., artist and student of unusual ability, is now ready to take your orders for reproductions of Kii Pohaku Wahine (“Female Stone Image”), copied directly from the picture sent out for Cigbo’s last “birthday cerebration” and from a picture secured later from the museum in Australia, showing her back. The reproduction is amazingly complete and accurate to the last line and circle.

I was sent the first one finished as a gift, and with it the “Kane” or male companion piece as illustrated in the museum papers but not in our set of pictures. Both measure a bit over six inches in length, are made of pinkish pottery and have been glazed with dark flecks to give the effect of old stone to a degree. They are too cute and clever for words, and already so much a part of the Study family that I could no more give them up than I could Cigbo.

On pages 5 and 6 of Bulletin 58, I told of tests made with HRA Cameron to see what aka-mana power could be poured into the little figures, and of the results as measured by his special instrument. My “Kii Wahine” has been kept near my little prayer “shrine” and when Mr. Cameron calls again, will be tested to see what she may have picked up or retained by way of aura and radiations by then.

Mrs. St. John has been experimenting also, and promises to do her best to empower each little image through a special ritual of blessing before sending them out. Several HRAs have reported strong psychic impressions of force and good radiating from the picture, so the little images should be even better to work with.

The price is $2 each for unglazed images or $2.50 glazed. Add sales tax in California, and 50 cents for packing and postage whether for just “Mama Kii” or for “Papa” as well, as they can come together in the same box of packing at about the same rate. This figures out to $5.50 for the pair in the glazed finish. (Add 20 cents sales tax in California.) Allow time for the Kiis to be made up, glazed, blessed and packed off to you. Please order direct, not through me.

A big stone Kii in a museum in Fiji has just been tested…

HRA George Sandwith, who last reported to us in the Bulletin on his finding in Tonga Islands, has gone to Fiji after being told by the spirit connected with his Ethiopian ikon that he would find things of interest on Huna lines there. He went at once upon his arrival at Suva, to visit his friend in that institution and asked to see such images as might be there. He was shown several, some large, some small, but only one in rough human form. This large one, made from rough lava stone, was inside a glass case, but as he approached it with his pendulum to test for any polarization points or indications of male or female natures in the kiis, the pendulum began swinging in a most impressive way and he sensed a strong radiation of force. His findings indicate that stone, ebony and black opal are excellent materials for holding whatever force it may be that is poured into things made of them. Ebony is much used in Africa for images and icons.

The Ethiopian icon, which is a wooden carving of the crucifixion scene, was tested in Tonga before he left for Fiji. A friend who has an English “AVO” electric test meter of late model, used the instrument.

The first set of tests showed a number of micro readings which interested them at once as they were not what might be expected from a wood and paint object. Unfortunately, no record was made, and upon making ready for more elaborate tests and the keeping of a record, the icon went dead on them in so far as radiations were concerned.

Mr. Sandwith then asked the spirit of the icon what this meant, and was told psychically that she had had enough of being tested with “a tin box” and so had withdrawn. All that would register was writing in ink on a square of paper on the back of the icon. The conclusion was reached that the spirit could stop the radiations due to her presence, but not those latent in Mr. Sandwith’s writing on the paper.

Our electricians are hot on the trail of mana …

HRA George Sandwith’s friend is Mr. N. R. Mortensen, Box 45, Nukualofa, Tonga Islands, South Pacific. He is a radio man there, and I am sure that our HRAs who are running down this angle for us would find him a delightful fellow “ham.” Write by air mail if you write, (25 cents for 1/2 ounce) as long mail may not get there for several months.

Mr. Mortensen (who is hereby elected an HRA, if he will accept), writes, “As the entity (connected with the icon) confirms the fact that it is a radiation (in conversation with Mr. Sandwith), why not try to measure the frequency or wave length? This could be done by using a ‘grid Dip. Oscillator’ – or alternatively a signal generator and a grid dip, oscillator adapter, as made by McMurdo Silver? Providing the frequency is not too high (tests to run from 10 cycles to the second up to 300 megacycles). If a still higher frequency is to be tested, an instrument similar to a Geiger Counter will have to be used…. (We may ask) Do mana, the Aumakua and the icon entity all have basically a different natural frequency?

If so, it means one must query (perhaps the icon spirit) what are the natural frequencies of each. I suspect mana to be somewhere in the lower frequency spectrum, the Aumakua extremely high, and the icon type entity somewhere between the two.”

Dr. Oscar Brunler says of “Brain or Soul Radiations…

They begin in the range of visible light and run well up into the range of invisible, ultraviolet. He considers these radiations of a “dielectric” or non-magnetic nature and says they are, therefore, best measured by the biometer – which has for its basic part, a pendulum in the hand of a trained operator. In passing, it is interesting to recall that electromagnetic microvolt currents or discharges have been picked up from the body and brain for some time. The “a” wave makes a tall, slow wave form on the recording tape while the “b” wave is much smaller and of greater frequency. Both intermix on the graph. One may be the mana used by the Aunihipili (“b”) in giving the memories or recording new ones, the other (“a”), the middle mana used by the Auhane in directing the thought process in which the Aunihipili plays such an important part. As cats and dogs have both types of waves, this theory, if it is to hold water, must grant them conscious and subconscious types of mind similar to the human. In light human sleep, the “a” waves die down. In heavy sleep or during artificial sleep, both types of waves flatten down to give an almost straight line on the graph made by the instruments used in such tests – the electro-encephalographs.

The object of the study of the manas with instrumental measure, also brain waves with the Pendulum or biometer…

As some HRAs may wonder why we are so eager to make instrumental tests and measures of radiating forces of the body and and of icons, stone gods and all such things, it
may be well to explain the objective.

We are (1) trying to learn whether na kahuna were right or wrong or whether their findings fell short, in the belief we have assigned to them that there are three manas, three grades of consciousness and three shadowy bodies – “etheric bodies.” All progress along lines of investigation has depended on finding a way to measure things and forces. Once we have learned to measure a thing, we have been able to test it in various ways and find out what it is, or at least how it acts and how it can be used. If we find a way to get a measure of the mana, we may be able to work more to the point than with the present pendulum measure which varies with the ability of the operator and which has little chance of scientific recognition. (Not that such recognition is indispensable.) The measurement of the aka bodies or auras by the Cameron instrument may give us a far greater knowledge of them – a knowledge upon which we can build. We may learn how best to project an “aka finger” and pass mana through it. We may learn best how to heal by laying on hands. With the instrument apparently able to give us the outline of a thought-form and test its strength and duration, we may have a way of checking on healing done by laying on hands and implanting a thought-form of the healed condition into the patient. We might learn how best to do a lot of things.

The efforts are being made (2) for the sake of accumulating information. For centuries humanity has had to take most of its religion on pure faith. When prayers were answered, some data were accumulated, but of an inconclusive nature. We have had to take the dogmas of religion on faith almost entirely, having no way to measure the exact results of the performance or rites. By getting all possible information as to the capacity of substances to hold mana or to have an aura or to act as a point of contact with spirits, we make ourselves ready to meet the challenge of the time when we learn to measure accurately the things with which we work in this field.

And, where does the complex come in?

The same explanations apply in a way to our search for more light on the complex. We need to know whether na kahuna were right about their beliefs and methods – and whether we have the proper understanding of what they believed and did. This goes for modern psychology and its beliefs in fixations, Dianetics and its “engrams,” and all the indications that the mind may be the cause of many physical ills. Of course, na kahuna had the field almost entirely to themselves in their open belief that spirit attack and obsessional contacts of the multiple personality sort were to blame for much physical and mental illness – for endless obscure forms of physical abnormalities on action and reaction.

HRA N.B. recently wrote, “Do we all have to have a complex or two? Do I have to have some? If I do, I’m not aware of any. (She read of the “writing down” method of finding and draining off fixations in recent Bulletins.) … I sat down and wondered about myself and my ‘George,’ and I do not think we have any. Maybe I once did. Maybe I just lived them out by trial and error so that at our age were ‘larned our lessons’ eh? Maybe if we live LONG enough, we drop them by the way and barely notice it. In the case of mental illness, that is different. But DO you really think the average person has complexes? Now honestly? I’m worried in case I ought to have some hidden something – and haven’t. Of course, I remember incidents through childhood which were not so nice, often related to my folks, but while remembering, I am not grieved, or ever have been.”

Comment

The mistake made most often is that of considering all fixations bad ones. It is also a mistake to consider all fixations of the same strength. One must consider all habits of thinking and of reacting as more or less fixed. From childhood, we learn and form habits, social or antisocial. Life DOES teach us which habits are good and which are bad. We DO gradually learn to force ourselves to do proper acts and to refrain from the improper. Fortunately, the average normal human being has no fixations which cause bad reactions on a dangerous scale. Most of us can live with our fixations and like them. But, now and then there is a complex which shows in bad physical reactions or in such reactions as indicate to our friends (if not to ourselves) that the rational thought process is missing where certain reactions are brought about. Less often, the individual may become aware that his reactions under certain circumstances are not normal. In either case, there is need for work to find the fixation and drain it off. If illness is of an obscure origin, a fixation may be suspected and steps taken to find and remove it. In the various degrees of obsessive compulsions, the symptoms are overlooked unless the trouble becomes pronounced.

Cures for spirit attack or intrusion, unwanted voices, etc.

I have on my desk at the moment letters from two different friends asking what can be done to stop “voices” which intrude. As yet we cannot use the methods of na kahuna. Nor can we use the methods of the later Dr. Wickland. In both cases, a psychic was needed to recognize the intruding spirit. A mana shock or control by hypnotic use of middle mana, or an electric or chemical shock was used to dislodge the spirit. It was invited into the body of a psychic and then given rationalizing instructions or was ordered to stay away from its victim or was handed over to other spirits to keep away. Ignoring the voice steadfastly often helps. In some cases companionship and sleeping with lights burning will help.

Dr. Oscar Brunler, in his practice, found the best remedy was to have his patients go daily to sit for a time in prayer in a Catholic Church where mass was said regularly. His theory is that all entities who cause this form of trouble are of low mentality and are evil more or less, who seem to dislike the atmosphere or aura of churches where regular rituals are observed, and to tend to leave a victim, sooner or later, if churches are frequented and prayers are made for help. It makes no difference whether the victim is a member of the church or not. It seems to me that this is a very good remedy to try. The Aunihipili usually tolerates the intruding spirit for some reason or other, so, by giving it the training it cannot avoid getting through the daily prayer sessions in the church, it may do a large part in helping drive away the intruder. (Dr. Brunler will be giving a series of lectures on color discoveries and therapy, to be followed by other series. Los Angeles HRAs may get details by phoning him. Mrs. Brunler will also soon give a series of lectures on child guidance. Brain radiation readings at private sittings may also be had. The fee, I believe, is $25. This includes information on one’s talents, characteristics and the stage of “soul evolution,” as a more precise term than “brain radiation measurement.”)

Correction on “Hoo-la“ and Jessie Curl work…

A letter has come to tell me that Jessie does not go into trance when her spirit helper, the Samoan spirit, works with and through her to heal. This is good news. It seems to me that conscious cooperation between the here-living and the there-living should get better results. Mrs. Curl has recently been working with Rev. Lois B. Washburn and her church at 1517 Glenarm, in Denver. Huna has been discussed by her and by a visiting HRA from Greeley, north of Denver, who leads a small group in which Huna and spirit healing has been combined successfully. Mrs. Curl will continue her tour, moving now to Bellingham, Wash., and soon to be in the Los Angeles region. Spiritualistic churches have been slow to take up Huna, but those which have, report much interest on the part of various members.

Stand in the grass while you pray…

HRA Alice Harrison, magnetic healer, who likes to hear from other HRAs, has changed her address and is now at home on her farm, “Rolling Meadows,” Rt. 2, Box 161, Elkhart Lake, Wis. She combines Huna methods in so far as possible, with transfer of mana through her hands and the aid of spirit helpers. Her great vitality stands her in good stead in her work and she has a large practice. In a recent letter she spoke of reading in one of the back Bulletins of the findings of Dr. Brunler and others that we pick up radiations from the earth through the feet. The practice of walking with bare feet in grass wet with early morning dew has long been found beneficial. She made the test, then tried standing in the wet grass while at her prayers. She wishes to pass on to us her strange experience so that others can repeat the experiment and see if the same results are obtained. She found that during the time when she was praying, the bottoms of her bare feet seemed to become hot. Before and after the prayer period, they felt only the coolness of the wet grass.

Only two reports have come in on pendulum tests of the radiations of fruits and vegetables

I had hoped for more reports to help me check my own experiments, but more will perhaps come in later. Thus far, one HRA reports getting the crosswise or parallel swing at twice the distance from the objects as the other. How did your test come out? Another test I would like to have you run for the good of the HRA, is this: set up a photograph of a friend, if possible, with his writing on front or back in ink. Begin three inches from it, starting your pendulum to swinging and waiting until it settles down to one back-and-forth direction. Now move back until the swing is parallel with the picture. Mark the distance. Then move back farther to see if you find more points where the swing is parallel. Mark them. Also make notes as to where the strongest swing is registered. I get three points, usually within a distance of 9 inches from the photograph.

As you will already have guessed, I am wondering whether or not one can, in this way, get a reading for the three selves. The first point may be the reading for the Aunihipili, the second for the Auhane, and the third for the Aumakua of the person – that is, if you have held in mind the desire to pick up separate radiations for each in turn. Try it also on your own picture. I have had some interesting results with pictures of dead friends and relatives. I am not at all sure that the point closest to the picture should stand for the Aunihipili. Logically, the shorter the distance of the points, the higher the frequency or shorter the wave length, and the Aumakua should have the shortest of the three. I may have gotten started backwards.

The proofs of Huna in Christianity….

The Nestorian cross of the 2nd century, A. D has been reproduced on a little folder sent in by an HRA. Inside is the Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic – the language which Jesus may have spoken, (Aramaic Research of P.O. Box 7233, Philadelphia, Pa., which also provides a Bible translation from the Aramaic in so far as the words of Jesus are concerned).

This cross, shown in the rough sketch at the right, is a real work of art. It is outlined in gold so that if all the black lines shown were trace in gold, the reproduction would be more accurate. The small circles are filled with red, and the background color elsewhere is deep blue.

The Huna concept of the three selves is easily seen in the three circles at the top of the cross ,the middle circle being divided into two circles which are joined and which would represent the dual male-female Aumakua or parent pair.

At the left and right are three circles, none divided. These are possibly the three manas and the three aka bodies of Huna. At the bottom is a single circle to represent the living physical body used in life by the three selves – by the triune man. In the center we have the earth in the central circle and the four directions or elements of earth, air, fire and water, recalling the care of na kahuna to guard ritualistically the “four corners” in their work.

The lines of the figure repeat the number THREE, and also point to a stylized symbol of a pyramid opened out flat as if made of four sides and left hollow.

In the form of cross now in use in the older Christian churches, the top and sides of the cross have been given a three-arm end without the three circles, but still indicating the three selves, three manas and three aka bodies. The lower limb of the cross has been lengthened and the human body exhibited there to represent the body used in earthly life. Behind the tradition of the death of Jesus on the cross – be it historic or be it historicized tradition as many insist – we can, in any case, read the symbolic story of every man – that of final death in the physical. For the after life in spirit levels, however, we have no symbol, only the tradition of the rising again of the man, Jesus, in THREE days or with the three selves, three manas and three aka bodies still intact.

In ancient lore we find man described as made in the image of God, one being triune in nature, so the other being formed in the same way.

Again – my hearty Thanks to you all …

for your indulgence in the matter of having your letters unanswered and for continued support for Cigbo and for sending in your reports. The time you have in this way given to me has been well spent on the research preliminary to the writing of the book. You are all very thoughtful and very kind. Thanks and more thanks. M.F.L.

July 15, 1951

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

HOO`LA

A Polynesian spirit HOO`LA, is the name given by a healing returned via the medium-spirit who made contact recently with the ship of Jessie Curl… well-known English psychic, Jessie Curl, when she was stopping over in Pago Pago, Samoa. Elsie A. Keithe, good friend of Huna, via Meade Layne and ROUND ROBIN magazine, got into touch with us and is supplying the information worked with great speed through Jessie Curl, healing as she pointed to one after another in the hall. In her case she had been in pain for three weeks from lumbago, but the pain left her instantly when the healing was sent in her direction and did not return. (This was in February of 1949, so Hoo-la must have been found and taken on as a healing guide before that date.)

Hoo-la (translation: “to cause life or cause light, the symbol of life and health”) claims to have been both healer and warrior in physical life in Samoa. When the medium is in deep trance, he takes over and touches the person to be healed with her hands, causing the sensation of rain drops pattering down on various parts of the body which are being treated (recalling the symbol in the prayers of na kahuna when they said, “Let the rain of blessings fall,” asking for the down-flow of the high mana, supposedly). There is wide scope in the healing. A case is mentioned in which a serious abdominal hernia was about to be operated on, but which responded to treatment and in three weeks was completely gone.

Mention was made of the use of sponges to be laid over parts being treated, and later found to have absorbed “sticky fluids.” More simple mechanisms or physical stimuli may be described in later letters. It is also hoped that some Huna lore may be obtained.

In England there lives an artist famous for his ability to make pictures of the spirit guides of mediums. The story is told that he made ready to sketch the Tibetan guide, but that Hoo-la took over the pencil and began a drawing of himself, with the result that he had to be humored and his picture made. A photo of the original was kindly sent, together with a photo of Jessie Curl. Hoo-la is seen as typically Samoan, square and massive of body and head. At first glance, his square face seems heavy and savage, but, in a moment, the kindly intelligence and strength give the impression that lasts. I have the picture now as a part of my little “shrine” in the Study, and hope that it may attract Hoo-la in off moments to help in the TMHG work with us. My “ZNO” pendulum reacts very strongly before the picture after I address Hoo-la for a few moments. I have for some time been strongly under the impression that we have had good friends on the other side attracted to us and taking progressively helpful part in the work we do together for the mutual healing of body, mind and purse, also for world peace and prosperity, and for the Wall of Protection around our friends whose lives have been entangled in the war dangers, directly or through loved ones. The spirit friends are asked to take mana from the supply we join to make available, then to follow the aka threads from the TMHG letters at the Study so that they may find those asking for help, and help and heal them.

TMHG healing results keep improving

The Telepathic Mutual Healing Group work, with meetings at 3 and 7 daily, California daylight saving time, continues steadily, and from the letters that arrive reporting on results, I would say that we are doing better and better. It may be practice, or we may have attracted spirits or high entities to us to give a hand.

While our goal remains instant healing, we often have pressing need for immediate help, now and not at some future date when we have developed skilled na kahuna. Nor are most of us able to take advantage of such help as are offered through psychoanalysis. For the time we have, whether we like it or not, to live with our complexes and like them – at least get on the best we can with them – while we make our decisions as to what we desire, exactly if possible, to come to pass, follow through by accumulating the mana surcharge, making the contact with the Aumakua, and delivering the mana-picture seed and force of the prayer. This is the Huna method which it is our purpose to test, to improve and to learn to use. However, if any HRA feels that he has a better method, old or new, there is nothing against sitting in with the TMHG and helping as it may be possible.

HRA Geraldine Birch, of California, writes, “This is just a note to tell you that my daughter-in-law is now all right. Thanks so very much. In this case a call was made to ask the help of the TMHG while HRA G.B. worked for the healing. It seems that, very often, one accustomed to the work of mental-spiritual healing can be made more powerful by the aid of the TMHG or a third healer. The secret of multiplying power through numbers – “church” in its basic sense – seems to lie behind this. Also, when one is confronted by a serious problem and it is one which implicates the individual, as a direct threat or through emotional ties, the hindering fears and anxieties which may hamper the prayer-actions are not shared by a distant healer friend, the result being a clearing of the channel and a swift and successful answer to the combined prayers.

HRA Ethel Wood, of Denver, writes, “The pain that I had endured night and day left instantaneously. I was so relieved that I hardly knew how to act. You will never know how much thanks I gave for the relief, for the pain was unbearable. I wanted you to know the good news at once. I still have a lot of pain in my chest. I may have cracked a rib in my fall. It seems to gradually get better. Jerry is improving some. I hope that all our prayers throughout the world will bring peace.”

HRA L. Cornell, of Poland, Indiana, writes, “Every evening at eight o’clock I sit and clear my mind, trying to get more light on the problem of our experimenting with Huna. I gather a surcharge of vital force and give it to na Aumakua to use wherever and how ever they see fit. I ask nothing for myself, but I seem to be getting a benefit of physical health and strength, for which I am thankful… About self-analysis, I don’t get much good of this because my subconscious is inclined to withhold or color the past things.

“I believe that talking to a trusted friend would be good – one with whom one could speak openly of anything in the past. The talk might excite ‘George’ until he would thaw out and bring wanted things to the light where they could be seen and recognized for what they are.”

It has often been found that “talking things out” has had a good effect. A few years back we had “professional listeners” – remember them? Many of us have, in childhood, learned to pour out our troubles to a loving parent, and the Aunihipili may still respond to friends if they can seem to offer a similar love and understanding.

HRA C.T. Hubbard, in a letter from Hartford, Conn., suggests that every third Bulletin be given over to TMHG reports, also that the names of those needing healing be given in the Bulletin. The difficulty in this plan lies chiefly in finding a way to furnish all HRAs with a signature through which to make a direct aka thread contact for their healing when undertaken apart from the TMHG. It would mean that all who desired work done on their cases would have to send to listed HRA healers signatures, and possibly notes to say what condition needed changing. The further difficultly lies in the fact that many do not wish their names made public. We seem to be doing rather well as we are. HRA Hubbard and a few others stand willing at any time to make special efforts in, and aside from, the TMHG for those in great need. Work of this nature has been going on for the insane lad, Gregg, for some time. He, by the way, has had some backsets, but is again coming along. At the high point of his last good cycle he was able to go for rides away from the hospital with his mother, enjoy a little picnic, and converse surprisingly well on a variety of subjects.

Reports on the self-analysis methods show considerable interest

HRA B.S., of Canada, who lost the use of his lower limbs following a bout with polio, has tried with unusual understanding and tenacity to call down healing. He has an exceptional background of study and experience against which to measure the Farrow method of self-analysis. He obtained a copy of the book after reading of it in the Bulletins, and at once set to work testing the method on himself. He writes:

Several points, I feel, need bringing out in the general interest.

• It seems to me well established that complexes or fixations are not only more common than we like to imagine, but that they can be of lifelong harm to us.
• It seems, from a close reading of Farrow, that while almost any method of analyzing or draining off, by analysts, or some other second party – is beneficial, this self-draining-off method, if one is persistent enough, can reach deeper down into the consciousness, and perhaps further back into early memories, than others.
• That while it seems most desirable that about everybody should give consideration to his own needs for this form of examination or exercise, it is but one of several therapeutic measures and cannot be considered a cure-all. In some respects, as I see it, it serves to stress the need of a greater focusing on FAITH, divine or metaphysical healing and, of course, the common physical methods.
• Any shorter method than Farrow’s should be sought for. (An hour a day means almost three years to get in 1000 hours, and 26 years, as Farrow needed them, is far too long.) The finger painting or other methods should be tried. I must comment on the almost complete lack of reference to the religious side of one’s life in Farrow’s book… I wonder if he feels that we are all so basically and incurably barbaric that a pure form of analysis must, of necessity, leave out what COULD be a self-deluding type of hypocrisy. The most pronounced thing I have found resulting after a daily half hour of writing off, is a ‘polishing up of optimisms’… Yesterday and today I have felt like a million bucks!

It was of great interest to me to learn that the ‘polishing up of optimism’ was a common experience with all of us who begin self-analysis and make even a little progress. I had that experience after three hours of allowing my George to take over and write down what he chanced to recall. I mentioned the fact that (see a few Bulletins back) old plans, dreams and schemes to better myself and/or the world and my purse, came to the surface. These had been laid aside in past years as impractical or impossible, and had been all but forgotten. But the Aunihipili seemed to have been treasuring them all the years between, and when given a chance, presented them again, timidly. As in the “writing down” method ,one does not object to, or scold about anything George pushes into the focus of consciousness. My George took courage and gave me the whole dusty, tarnished and bedraggled set of once glowing plans. Then came that strange up rush of optimism and expectation – as if almost ANYTHING was still possible for us to be or do or have or experience. It is this intoxicating resurgence of the sum of the old hopes and optimistic confidences that amounts to what I have come to call the breaking down of useful inhibitions. For at least a day, I was once more convinced that I could set up a system by which all who have learned much outside of colleges could be examined, and could be given proper credits and degrees for studies made alone and without the guidance and sanction of the professors. Again I envisioned the literacy of the nation taking a sudden grand leap upward because men and women could at last be given credit before the world for the things they had worked alone, perhaps for years, to learn. Had my circumstances allowed, I might have repeated some of my youthful efforts to interest men in authority in such a scheme. I was able, however, to talk the matter over with Mrs. Long, and so was I able again, in short order, to realize that (1) such a plan would not make money enough to pay anyone to promote it, and (2) the average person, once having escaped from the classroom, has little need for a degree – has more need for a good television program, and (3) that the world was getting on very nicely with things as they are. The stampede into night schools is still anything but.

Confronted by the problem of what to do with George and his bedraggled and impractical toys which he evidently still treasures, I was forced to conclude whether to slap him down again or coax him along. I chose the latter course, and have told him that the dreams are still bright and glowing, and that one day when we have time and opportunity, we will do something wonderful with them. I am told that the “there living” find great joy in working out such dreams in the more easily molded stuff of life on their side. Yes, George, one fine day in the future – without a doubt…

The anesthesia therapy of Dr. L.J. Meduna of the University of Illinois

Not long ago an article in a popular magazine described the new method of treating psychoneuroses with “whiffs of gas.” The gas is the comparatively harmless mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide.

No one knows what happens in the brain when we are knocked on the head by a few “whiffs” and are forced to let go of the Aunihipili, or even move out of the body into the aka for a time. There are several theories propounded, but as yet the only thing of which the doctors can be sure is that in many cases a series of daily treatments may bring a degree of improvement in such things as: “Conversion hysteria, spastic colitis, stuttering, tension,” or in “marital difficulties, inferiority feelings, anxiety neurosis, emotional instability, feeling of frustration and chronic alcoholism.” (From a report by John C. Medeiros, D.C., Chiropractic Psychiatrist..) The insane and those suffering from compulsive or obsessional neuroses seem to get no benefit.

No suggestion is used, although it is to be supposed that the very fact that the patient expects to be helped in some definite way, acts as a powerful suggestion when accompanied by so drastic a physical stimulus – a page from the book of Huna which might well be taken by the doctors. From the Huna angle, there is no present explanation for the cures other than this, unless we add the probability that many psychoneuroses stem from the presence of a spirit or two which have attached themselves to the patient and who cause trouble. This form of trouble is well known in Huna lore, and slightly recognized in studies of “multiple personality” cases. Dr. Carl Wickland, in his day, drove spirits of several kinds away with shocks of static electricity, often coaxing them into the body of a medium as the next step, and then subjecting them to treatment by suggestion and strong argument to cause them to let the patient alone. Often the spirit guides – normal and advanced entities – were able to take charge of the dislodged entities and prevent their return.

The therapy, while still comparatively new, is simple to use and is rapidly being made available to the public. HRA Fred Skene Reinhold, D.C., Ph. C., of 5620 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood, Calif., is helping pioneer this field just as he has with the Dianetics therapy plus the addition of Huna elements. He has already taken a special course, installed the needed equipment and is already well along in the use of the method. His letter to me of June 28th reports good preliminary results. I anticipate hearing later that he has bettered the original method through the addition of elements from other systems in the use of which he is skilled.

Special thanks

HRA Mrs. A.B., of Nevada, has written to ask me to extend her thanks to all HRAs who have been taking part in the TMHG work. She writes, “My affairs are improving… Please thank all the HRAs for help as I surely do appreciate it.”

Speaking of spirits and materializations

HRA F.S.M. of San Francisco, writes, “Forty or more years ago there was a materializing medium here in San Francisco. All of his seances were held in full light and the spirits who materialized were solid flesh and blood. They had everything, weight, pulse, heart beat, and were warm and solid to the touch. One woman materialized and asked you to cut off some of her hair and a piece of the cloth from her dress. Whatever you cut away would be in your hands, but the hair or dress would be restored as it was, and at once. I felt of a number of the spirits and, in fact, I let a baby crawl into my lap. He spoke German with a rather mature voice and weighed as much as any living baby of that size. He came from the cabinet and returned to it. Some of the entities popped out from anywhere and returned the same way. One time nineteen entities, including a full size Holstein cow came out. Bingo, there was a cow, and bingo, there was no cow. The cow was just as startled to be there as we were to see her. Most of the time the medium was somewhere in the audience… The women were truly beautiful – just like wax. Some of them had hair that reached to the floor. My voice has enough volume… but some of the entities had voices even louder. Each spirit had its own individual voice. It was the best seance I ever attended, but I failed to learn anything of value from these spirits at any time.

Pendulum picks right cards

HRA Charles Wagner decided on the conventions of having the pendulum swing clockwise or counter clockwise to identify the kings or queens taken from a card deck, shuffled and laid out faces down. “In each trial,” writes his father, HRA H.M. Wagner (test was made in Florida during a recent visit), “there were no mistakes.”

In the work to identify objects placed in small boxes – used to train George to reach out an “aka finger,” a similar code for objects might be made up, agreed upon and used. Who will run a test on that line for us with a pendulum?

More Letters

“Here is to Cigbo; Long may he mew with great satisfaction in all that we do.”

So wrote HRA Dr. Lawrence E. Gaylor of Sparks, Nevada, in sending a generous sprig of catnip to Cigbo. Another HRA says, “Make it easy for us to send in something for Cigbo.” While letters and even verses are welcomed at all times, Cigbo can be remembered VERY easily. He instructs, “Wrap catnip in paper. Put in envelope. Address to ME, care of boss. Write your name on the return corner of the envelope. I’ll take care of the rest here, and we’ll have stamps and stuff.”

Dr. Gaylor writes verse as most of us do prose. In his book, VAGUE VERSES, which I am proud to have on my shelf, I find the last verse in a poem titled “Fun” giving his style and philosophy:

“Let us laugh, let us live, let us love, let us give,
Let us not fret about the hereafter,
When we all learn the style, that of wearing a smile
We will find the Creator made laughter.”

SSBM is still to be had

HRA E.H. asks “Is SECRET SCIENCE BEHIND MIRACLES STILL AVAILABLE? Where ?” Out of the original printing of 35,000, about 3,000 are now left, so my publisher informs me. He can furnish them as usual while the stock lasts. Or they may be ordered through the Study, in which case a set of the illustrations made up for Cigbo’s second “birthday cerebration” will be included as well as the sleep suggestion book. Books autographed on request if ordered through the Study.

“Electric Sleep” Case of premonition, Ghost rocks chair?

HRA J.C.W. of Indiana, sent in three newspaper clippings of interest.

(1) An AP science editor tells of a method of inducing sleep by placing very slightly charged electric wires, one on either side of the head. Patients “fall quickly into a deep, dreamless sleep. Dr. Marion M. Estes and Dr. Harvey M. Cleckley, of the Medical College of Georgia, at Athens, told of treating 110 persons in this way when electric shock and other forms of shock treatment had not done well… Anxieties that had troubled some of the patients for 18 months, disappeared. Depressed feelings improved. Split personality was helped (!). Other troubles that got better were involutional psychoses, the depressions of later life, like imagining food does not digest, or that your heart is bad, when it is not. This certainly begins to look as if the aka body was affected by the magnetic fields forming around the slightly charged wires. This is indeed interesting news. No telling what it may lead to. Perhaps the wires should be used before the “Whiffs of gas” therapy is administered. We are just on the verge of beginning to understand the radiations of the brain as an organ. Later we will understand it as an aka organ in the aka body, undoubtedly.

(2) A case of premonition is described in the second clipping – in a long article with pictures, as of September 3, 1950. Jay Maeder, the owner of the Milwaukee Speedrail Company, dreamed all night of seeing a train coming around a curve at him. Much disturbed, he gave orders that the greatest care should be taken in operating his railroad the next day, and personally took charge of a train loaded with sightseers. For some reason, something went wrong. He saw the same train as in his dreams rounding the bend and says, “I either jumped or was pushed out after slamming on the brakes.” He lived. Nine were killed. We may well ask, who or what gave the premonitory dreams, and who or what pushed him from the engine cab in time? This is certainly, “one for the books.”

(3) The third clipping tells of Floyd Holladays, of Muscatine, Iowa, who, six days after the death of a relative, had a platform rocker begin to rock all by itself. They changed it from place to place and from room to room, but it continued to rock for 37 days – and was still rocking at the time of the news dispatch last April 29th. No reason could be found for the rocking. HRA J.C.W. remarks that possibly the “electric sleep” mechanism might be used to advantage as a part of sleep suggestion.

Message to all HRA Radio amateur HAMs

HRA Clem W. Johnson, P.O. Box 218, Boca Grande, Florida, wishes this message broadcast via the Bulletin:

“CQ CQ CQ CQ CALLING ALL HAM HRAs. Greetings OMs, XYLs and YLs

Haven’t heard a mention of all you 50,000 hams, if any of you are HRAs. XW4ENZ is calling you — Come in please — IMPORTANT – WE HAVEN’T BEEN OPERATING SINCE 1941 AND THE JUNK BOX HAS DISAPPEARED, SO IF YOU WILL KINDLY DIG INTO THE OLD JUNK BOX AND COME UP WITH AN OLD TUBE AND A LITTLE WIRE, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO BUILD A REGENERATIVE SET OR A WHEATFIELD BRIDGE SO SOMETHING VERY EASY THAT WOULD MEASURE THE VITAL FORCE OF THE HUMAN BODY. AFTER IT BREAKS INTO OSCILLATION, IT SHOULD BE VERY SIMPLE TO ADD SOME SORT OF SCALE OR EVEN MICRO-VOLT OR MICRO-AMMETER. YOU HAVE ALL HAD PLENTY OF TROUBLE TRYING TO KEEP THE OLD RIG FROM BREAKING INTO OSCILLATION – - NOW’S THE TIME TO BUILD ONE THAT WILL. IF YOU ARE AN HRA YOU KNOW WHAT WE NEED. SK and the very best of 73s and 88s – XW4ENZ.”

HRA Johnson also writes, “If there should be any Amateur Radio Operators in HRA, this may get them busy on a “mana-meter.” I believe that vital force can be measured by radio frequency. I believe it to be radio frequency. I have been thinking for the past fifteen years that ‘brain waves’ were nothing more or less than R. F. I spent several years dabbling with radio, trying to build perfect treasure finders, metal locators, etc. I have one of the Army Mine Locators in working order now and will experiment a little as soon as I have time. I will report on it when I do.”

He also sent several pages of very much-to-the-point comments having just finished going through a complete set of the back Bulletins and other material, including the book on fire-walking tests by Charles W. Kenn, F.H.F. He stresses the conclusion that we probably lack sufficient FAITH to perform miracles of healing or to do fire-walking. Also, he suggests that it takes the proper and continuous ritual use of things which provide a train of physical stimuli in order to gain and hold the needed FAITH to keep the Aunihipili doing its part perfectly. The slightest grain of doubt brings the action to a grinding stop. The best builder of the FAITH needed by the conscious mind self would be the actual SEEING of the successful performance of miracles by others already able to demonstrate. In the Honolulu fire-walking tests, it is probable that seeing the successful fire-walking of others, built the needed faith to allow the majority of spectators to “walk” unharmed.

Our radiation measuring project with the pendulum progresses…

While it is too early yet for the last Bulletin to reach you all and for tests to be run over a period of days and reported, I am looking forward to a fair response. Several HRAs have written in asking for information on the use of the pendulum, and I have made up a special sheet to send out. As it might be of general interest, I am sending a copy with this Bulletin. It might even serve to interest others if you are able to do a bit of missionary work for Huna.

HRA Clem Johnson, from whose letter I have just quoted, believes that brainwaves are electromagnetic, and we know from the electroencephalograph measuring of tiny electrical discharges from the brain as a physical organ that this must be so, at least in part. However, it seems to be only half the story. Telepathy and map dowsing show that there is something which radiates or otherwise moves from one person to another, or to a distant place and back – and that this force does not obey the law of inverse squares which causes radio-type broadcasting radiations to fade with distance. There must be some other form of energy radiating, not only from the brain but from all things.

This form of radiation seems to be a high octave of the wave bands represented by waves in water, in air to make sound, in substances to make heat, in the ether to make light, and on and on, the wave lengths growing shorter on the way up. Dr. Oscar Brunler, the pioneer in the field of brain radiations (and whose lectures on the subject were recently announced through our mailing list to all HRAs in and near Los Angeles), explains simply that there is a “di-electric or Bio-Cosmic energy” which accompanies all electromagnetic energy, but which is a more basic form of free energy-ether. It is this which the body has a way of picking up and measuring via the pendulum, much as we have organs in the body to pick up and measure for us the radiations of sound, heat, light, taste and smell – also telepathic radiations. When we approach an apple with a swinging pendulum, the body can learn to pick up the di-electric radiations and measure the length of their waves in terms of distance from the peel, pulp or seeds.

Na kahuna, if we understand them rightly, believed that the radiant energy, which they called “mana,” could mix with the “aka” substance and thus create an aka thread or extended “finger,” or a thought-form of the thing visualized. This mixed aka-mana became a living force able to keep connection with the consciousness in the individual by means of an aka thread, and so able to act or react as if conscious as well as alive.

HRA V.L. Cameron, professional dowser and experimenter extraordinaire, demonstrates his ability to measure the outline of any object which one builds by concentrated thinking, such as a vase of a certain size placed on a mantel. Fantastic as it may be, he takes his water dowsing gadget and traces the outline with ease. This gives us, in addition to the radiations and their wave lengths, an aka body, aura, etheric double, or whatever we wish to call it. Both must be considered. One represents the mana, the other the aka form. Ordinarily, the mana fades (root ma in mana means “fade” or “wither”). As the mana fades, the aka form falls apart or is drawn back to the aka body of the man who made the mental picture. See what we are driving at? We want science to catch up so that we can have proofs and corrections for Huna. Meantime, Huna can furnish a guiding light for Science – at least for its pioneer fringe workers out far ahead. MFL.