By Max Freedom Long – [Mid-Summer 1951]

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

2. The use of the pendulum depends entirely on the “convention” or set of signals you invent and teach your Aunihipili to understand and use. The usual conventions are: A clockwise circular swing means “good,” anti-clockwise, “bad.”

Draw a saucer-size circle on paper and make a [cross] sign to cover it. If the swing is on the vertical line it is “yes” (as you nod the head), if on the horizontal, “no” (as a negative head shake). If on a diagonal, “doubtful.” If no swing, “do not know.”

The number of swings in any direction, when counted, can give a number answer, as 61 swings to answer, “How old is Blank?” To learn how much vital force you normally have, hold the pendulum over the palm of your free hand and count the number of swings. A normal charge for the average is about 250 to 300. Now accumulate mana in the Huna fashion and test again. The count should rise at least a hundred swings. A vital person gets a stronger swing of the pendulum than a weak one in this test. Remember that you have to keep in mind what you are asking the Aunihipili to measure for you, such as vital force, sex of an egg or unborn child (+ or – according to your convention, usually + for males and – for females).

If you wish to know whether certain foods or medicines are good for you, ask the question silently or aloud and hold the pendulum a half inch above the food. Use the “good” or ‘bad” swing convention or the “yes” and ‘no” as you prefer, but stick to one or the other lest your Aunihipili get mixed up. The Aunihipili will learn quickly for some and slowly for others.

Practice for a few minutes daily for a month to train your Aunihipili to the work. If by then you get no swing or no reliable answers to things you ask, give it up for the time being and try later with several other pendulums. The Aunihipili seems to be able to work with one type of pendulum for small problems, but with another for more serious things. Experiment. In a few months you may become expert enough to dowse for water. One of the best dowsers in California tried for two years before he got the hang of it, and for 20 years to become master of the art.

3. In making the Huna type prayer-action (see the HRA Bulletins over a period of 32 years for scattered findings and reports on this matter), it is often found that the Aunihipili is convinced that the person is guilty of some “sin” and does not deserve having prayers answered. Or the Aunihipili may believe that the person deserves to be punished by illness and accidents and bad luck generally for former “sins” or for hurting the feelings of others or doing them some form of injury for which amends have never been made to the one injured, to his or her surviving relatives – or to the world in general by sacrificial deeds performed with the thought in mind that enough good is being done to balance former sins of hurt done others.

(There are no sins other than hurts done to others or possibly to our own bodies or minds by improper living. But often, the early training in the church of one’s youth may have resulted in religious beliefs which are deeply fixed in the Aunihipili and to which it still reacts although we are not aware of it. Many of our ills are found to be the result of such hidden beliefs in the Aunihipili or subconscious self.) If your prayers are not answered except when you pray for good things for others, it may be well to take time to talk, via the pendulum, with your Aunihipili and find by questioning it, whether it feels you are worthy or not of having prayers for good for yourself answered. If unworthiness is discovered, make amends directly or indirectly, then argue the Aunihipili out of its fixation by explaining that you are now worthy of all good things. Repeat the arguments. Do more good deeds. Tithe. Serve selflessly. Fast.

When the Aunihipili is won over, make a fresh start with the Huna type prayers in which the mental picture is sent to the Aumakua with a strong flow of accumulated mana along the ever-connecting invisible aka thread or “silver cord.” The Aumakua, and through it, Higher Beings in which you believe, can confidently be approached for aid if the Aunihipili can be convinced that you are worthy. But if YOU know you are not, you cannot convince your Aunihipili and it will not do its part in the prayer-action.

February 15, 1952

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

BACH REMEDIES INFORMATION

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

HOW TO POTENTIZE

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

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

POTENTIATED MANA

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

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

THE STRANGE CASE OF ACHILLE D’ANGELO

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PRAYER AND MANA EXHAUSTION

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AURAMETER TESTS ARE OPENING FIELDS FOR EXPLORATION

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

February 1, 1952

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

OUR H.R.A. BIRTHDAY HAS COME AGAIN

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

HUNA AND DIANETICS

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

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

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

CREATIVE INTEGRATION

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

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

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

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

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

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

SOME NEWER PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCEDURE

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

THE MECHANISMS OF LIFE

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

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

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

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

THE BACH REMEDIES

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

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

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

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

REV. JESSIE CURL AND “HOO`LA”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE TELEPATHIC MUTUAL HEALING GROUP

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

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

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

THE HRA BULLETINS HAVE BEEN HELPFUL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ABOUT ASTROLOGY

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

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

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

January 15, 1952

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

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE USE OF THE AURAMETER

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NEWEST DISCOVERIES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HYPNOTISTS AND THE SHOCK OF MANA METHOD OF HUNA

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

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

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

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

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

DR. WESTLAKE’S HEALING METHODS

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

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

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

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

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

BACH REMEDIES

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

BACH FOUND: (I quote from the article.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ULTRAMODERN HEALING

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE STRANGE NATURE OF THE MANAS

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

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

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

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

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

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

January 1, 1952

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

MUCH TO MY AMAZEMENT…

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

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

THE PYRAMID PROPHESIES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HAUNTED PEOPLE

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

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

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

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

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

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

REV. JESSIE CURL AND HOO`LA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dear Aunties and Uncles (and spessully Fellow Sprinters):

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

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

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

December 1, 1951

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE SUN RISES EVERY DAY

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

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

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

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

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

CARBON AND MAGNET REPORT

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

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

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

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

MUCH EXCITEMENT OVER THE NEW “Aurameter” of HRA CAMERON

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

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

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

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

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

November 15, 1951

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

NEWS FROM THE STUDY

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

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

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

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

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

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

MORE ABOUT THE USE OF THE MAGNET AND CARBON

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

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

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

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

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

CORRECTION

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

THE EEMAN CIRCUIT

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

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

THE STRANGE CONES of HRA Verne Cameron

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE INVISIBLE FIGURES ABOVE THE HUMAN HEAD AS FOUND BY CAMERON

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

REV. JESSIE CURL AND HER WORK

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

November 1, 1951

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

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

THE NEWS HERE AT THE STUDY IS MORE OF THE SAME

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

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

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

MORE ABOUT “VITIC”

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

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

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

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

WHAT IS “VITIC?”

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

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

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

QUOTATIONS FROM BOOKLET ON VITIC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TEST FOR INVISIBLE OVERHEAD FORMS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DR. NANDOR FODOR’S NEW BOOK IS OUT

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

CIGBO ANNOUNCES

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

October 15, 1951

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

THE 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
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