Answer: The secret is in who and what you are affiliated with, not just your personal capabilities to heal and be powerful. Huna is not merely a set of techniques to apply for yourself. Rather, it is a living and breathing tradition of people working together to help each other live better lives and evolve throughout this life and even through death. Huna is a lifestyle choice.

To summarize, your power can come from these main sources:

1. Power comes from the Po`e Aumakua which is the collection of individual na Aumakua (High Selves) that works on the behalf of the group. This is enhanced with the TMHG, the prayer created by Max and still continuing today. It works by sending mana (energy) and prayers (’ano’ano) for manifesting into reality. Some Huna groups have their own prayer groups for members. It is very important to know how the prayer group or TMHG is led before you begin to participate.

2. Power comes from your own Aumakua. You can develop this power by improving the relationship within yourself and properly seeking its support. Your Aumakua opens the way as you pursue what you choose in life.

3. Power comes from your Ohana, or chosen Huna community. In the West we have lost the family-oriented and tribal way of life. The culture emphasizes independence and self-reliance. A person can accomplish much more in connection with like minded people.

4. Power comes from your own personal ability to decide what you want and to use tenacity and intention to make it so. Many techniques are available in Huna to support this.

5. Do you need power after you have died? The teaching of Kahuna Max and Kahuna Oscar Brunler is that there is almost no mana in Po (The Void) and land of the dead.

As you have very little mana after you die, your physical power is limited as well. But in Huna, the duty of the living is to support the deceased on their journey and while they’re in the Dreamworld. This is done through an offering of mana-infused `Awa (kava kava) during a formal `Awa ceremony held on the Holy Day of Remembrance.

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.

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

October 15, 1950

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

QUARTERLY REPORT

During the third quarter of 1950 a few more HRAs were added to the list to whom the Bulletin goes once a quarter, but the list is still too small to make a special report Bulletin worthwhile. Also, by incorporating in the regular Bulletins the periodic report, it acts as a review for us all and helps show the direction which is being taken in our experiments, studies and speculations measured against the background of Huna and other psycho-religious systems that offer information of possible value. Healing of body, mind and circumstances remains the main goal for practical living. “Spiritual growth” is a thing so differently described in so many religions that it becomes, of necessity, a secondary goal.

Bulletin 35, of July 1st, reported on Dr. Brunler’s efforts to get results in the matter of obtaining oil from the deposits he pointed out with the use of the pendulum. His difficulty was one of getting operators to drill where he stipulated and to go deep enough. (No fresh reports of better strikes have come in up to the time of this writing.) A letter from HRA Meade Layne was reported, giving his promise that all new subscribers to ROUND ROBIN magazine would get a full quota of issues eventually. (So far this year three issues have been managed. Many difficulties, financial for the most part, have slowed down the scheduled production. However, the BSRA reports and the booklets giving the Mark Probert seance reports have been managed well.) More copies of Dr. Nandor Fodor’s ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE were found in England and made available here at $7.65 post paid. (A few are still available at this time, but are the very last, so Dr. Fodor tells us.) Charles Kenn and Theodore Kelsey, both HRAs living in Honolulu, found a very old kahuna of a special kind in the island of Hawaii, Kona district. (Since then they have obtained from him much information on old beliefs and rituals, also on sites of ancient native temples and early history. No healing was found available through this kahuna, however, at this late date.) Dianetics came in for more discussion. A number of letters from HRAs were reproduced. Excellent results through the use of Huna methods by individual HRAs and through the Telepathic Mutual Healing Group were detailed. Page 8 was given over to an article on “faith” presenting the subject in terms of Huna as presently understood, and giving words and meanings from the opening of the famous prayer by the master kahuna of his day, Hewahewa.

Bulletin 36, of July 15th, began with a SPECIAL NOTICE saying that it had become impossible to answer each letter which arrived here at the Study, and that from that time on, only letters of urgency would be answered. This would make it possible for me to continue to get out two Bulletins a month as usual and also allow a much needed chance for me to spend time away from the Study doing some needed breadwinning. (So far, this plan has worked out fairly well although it is very hard to have to lay away letters which I would dearly love to answer, and send no reply. Evenings and part of my weekends remain open and in this limited time I must read the many welcome letters, also write, mimeograph and mail the Bulletins. The outside work to keep the home pot boiling has been prayed for, searched for and found. More and more I am convinced that Guidance is being given and that ways and means will be given to keep our HRA work going so long as it is part of the Intention.

Cigbo was on the verge of cutting me off with other “dead wood” when making his quarterly inspection of his list of contributing members, but reinstated me in time for the present Bulletin when given a bribe in the form of an extra 600 – this representing my “brithday presink,” Cigbo style, for this October. He is still trying to find time, between bursts of fast scratching in his box, to complete the cutting out of “dead wood” which he threatened in a recent Bulletin. He wishes to send his very best thanks again to all of his friends who remembered him since last Bulletin. The extra time given me through the generous marking of your letters, “no reply requested,” has made it possible also to get in some spotty but widely inclusive reading – also to carry on some special correspondence aimed at finding for us material of worth in our HRA investigations. I plan soon to find time to begin mailing back books sent on loan – and greatly appreciated. Page 3 had more on Dianetics. Pages 6, 7 and 8 were given over to laying out a new project in which we would try to see what could be learned about “raising one’s vibrations.” The meaning of the idea of such “vibrations” was discussed. (Letters are continually arriving giving the findings, speculations and general comments of HRAs on this project and its subject matter.)

Bulletin 37, of August 1st, gives news of the HRA work, more information concerning the aged kahuna found in Hawaii, and letters and comments on recent Bulletin materials. Discussion of our prayers for peace and TMHG work. Much news and comment on the matter of Dianetics, with letters from HRAs on the subject and reports on personal experiences with Dianetics. Pages 6 and 7 give an article on the pendulum and radionics machines with a letter from one of the HRAs giving new and valuable findings and speculative material developed by an experimenting doctor in the East – one who thinks he may have found the right setting on his radionics machine to match emotions such as hate and fear, or even the rates for fixations which block the paths of patients. Notes on the psychic diagnosis methods of Los Angeles team of doctors, McInerney & Stalons, in which one of the team is placed in a hypnotic state . Notes on psychic and pendulum diagnostic methods in general. Page 8, reporting on the work done in our experimental project of “Raising the Vibrations,” with more of the matter from a Huna angle. (This project is still going forward, and reports are being sent in as HRAs make more tests or get new ideas.)

Bulletin 38, of August 15th, is given over almost entirely to the matter of “vibrations,” with fresh materials and discussions, quoted sections from source books, etc. I reported the fact that my own personal experiments showed that something or other was “raised” with a biometric reading of 900 degrees registered after performing certain mental-breathing actions. My guess was given that at 1,000 degrees, instant healing might be possible.

Bulletin 39, of September 1st, was given over to many very interesting and informative HRA letters and to comments on them. A wide number of subjects were touched upon and an insight given into the thought processes of some exceptionally able students.

Bulletin 40, of September 15th, gives news of the work at the Study, a short table to be used in pronouncing Hawaiian words, and then a letter from HRA Charles W. Kenn, of Honolulu, showing that many of the elements of Dianetic practice had long been known and used in ancient times as well as fairly recent years in Hawaii by na kahuna. The common people were versed in a system of special care for mother and child before birth – the aim being to prevent the formation of fixations or blocks in the child. A number of important letters were reproduced. A new HRA project was announced and four pages used to give the theories and most promising methods to use in experimentation. The project was that of combining our efforts to get prophetic dreams or other impressions of the future, to the end that an average might be struck and some light thrown on the events of the years just ahead.

Bulletin 41, of October 1st, gave reports on the new project, with several dreams and the symbols contained in them. A long report was made on Dianetics and the fact that it appeared that a need was evident for a place for the Aumakua in the system. A book on healing through spirit agencies, by Harry Edwards, was reviewed, as was one by Jack Woodford on the difficulties of writers who are prevented from reaching print by editors.

NOTE: Copies of all back Bulletins are available.

PROPHETIC DREAMS

The prophetic dreams for which we are watching, seem slow to arrive for most of us, and I can only guess that the “stars may be wrong” at this time.Perhaps some of our several excellent astrologer HRAs will check on the planet Neptune and any other combination that may be more favorable a little later on.

I rigged up my wire recorder and planned to talk a record of any symbolic dreams into the machine in the night when awakening, but none came. Later, just upon my final awakening before getting up, I had a vivid dream which was very easy to remember in detail. I was on a ship sailing from Honolulu for California. The ship ran aground and only got clear of the rocky shelf by a miracle of luck and rising tide. I found myself looking down into the ship, only to discover that its entire cargo space was empty and painted the same gray as a battleship. I asked my George for the meaning of the dream and got at once the thought that our battle forces would be getting home with difficulty and with a great emptiness of anything to show for the Korean effort.

A letter from one HRA friend asked what good this prophetic dream project would do us. I would say that, if we can make it work, and should several of us report seeing the same future headlines in newspapers, or get the same meaning in dreams or their symbols, we would have good evidence of events to come, also good scientific (psychic science, of course) data on predictive powers. Of more lasting benefit to us as individuals would be the training. In our busy lives it is hard to find time and good ways of learning to use our psychic (ESP) powers. And, as success in the use of Huna or any of the related systems depends on the team work of the three selves, any practice which brings about that team work is of great importance.

IF YOU THINK YOU DO NOT DREAM, as many tell me is the case with them, try this little experiment to make sure you do not. Set your alarm clock to awaken you with a few gentle taps in the late night. I have yet to learn of anyone who is awakened gently who has not found himself in the midst of a dream. Of course, it may not be a dream related to the future, but it might be. Ask your George to give you the flash as to its meaning.

HRA A.J.L. wrote, “I won’t be able to participate in the dream research as I seldom dream. Once in a while I get a visionary flash in symbols that are always identified by THREES – a triangle, three trees, a house with three windows, someone wearing a coat with three buttons, or three paths converging. Then I know it has come from the Higher Self.” The letter goes on to tell of another quite different matter, but one which will be of interest to us all. “Listening to the radio the other night, the program, Incredible But True was on and one story impressed me very much. It was about a man with a scientific leaning who wanted to be left alone with a dying son or daughter and later made the same request when his wife was dying. The attending doctor found him in the room with a camera. When the pictures were developed, there appeared three luminous balls leaving the body and later merging into one large ball. Again we have the substantiation of the three in one or triune principle.” By way of comment, may I say that last year I had the pleasure of examining two books, written in French, in which the author had made and presented as illustrations, pictures of a very similar nature. Many psychics have seen the entity departing the body of one in the process of dying. It is of great interest to know that the camera can register the impression.

HRA Dr. Harold J. Jolet draws these conclusions from his recent dreams, premonitions or other source not specified: “War ends about October 30th. Then watch Jerusalem. Next year revolution in India. In U.S.A. next year, greater prosperity than ever known, with very heavy employment – perhaps because of the situation in India.”

HRA Mrs. G.H. reports, “The only significant thing I have to tell is of the seemingly ridiculous insistence in three separate dreams as to a rise in the price of eggs.” She goes on to explain that eggs have no special symbolic meaning to her, but are an important part of the family diet. It may well be that in her dreams the eggs represent a rise in the price of all foods.

MORE PENDULUM TESTS

More pendulum tests are being made from time to time by HRAs and by me in the Study. A very interesting test was run last week with HRA Dr. F.L.C. Christiansen of San Francisco. He wrote down a set of ten questions concerning the possible physical condition of a friend, then used his pendulum to get yes and no answers to the questions. Keeping a record, he sent the questions to me with a bit of the writing of the person to be tested. I used my pendulum and sent back the answers it gave to the questions. Our pendulum answers turned out to be seven ninths identical, (one question was ruled out as an duplication). A similar test will be run each month. One may be getting only the results of telepathic contact and thus of ideas read via the shadowy thread of contact running between the ones making the test, or one may read the thoughts in the mind of the patient. Or the Aunihipili may possibly contact the Aumakua for information with which to give correct answers.

“SPIRITUAL” PROGRESS AND HUNA ~ 2 BOOKS

There are two kinds of “spiritual” progress, perhaps more. (I have been reading again, thanks to the release of time made possible by the “No answer required” letters.) One is set forth most vividly in a book, Witchcraft and Magic of Africa, by Frederick Kaigh, a physician retired to England and his writing desk after many years of experience in Africa. This is the ancient way of life in which the natives of Africa progress through life with the aid of the “spirits,” or despite the efforts of evil spirits to cause them trouble.

“Spiritual” and “Spirit” have the same connotations in this very ancient and little changed common basis of psycho-religious belief and practice. “God is a Spirit,” says the Holy Writ, and from the Nile to the Congo and far beyond, the witchdoctor will affirm the fact.

To be “spiritual” in untouched Africa, one simply becomes like a spirit. The good man tries to be good and helpful. The bad man elects to be bad for the sake of the questionable benefits to be derived from pledging himself to the side of evil. Both men “progress” through life, and each undoubtedly makes some growth if only in the matter of experience.

Dr. Kaigh describes his contact with numerous witchdoctors, and also with witches – male and female. The first has for a part of his or her work, the business of “smelling out” the witches so that they may be tried in native fashion and done away with. In the Bible may be read the age-old command that has always pervaded Africa, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” (Ex.22:18)

The living die and become spirits. Good men become good spirits. Bad men become bad spirits bent on causing trouble for the living. Then there are the totem spirits, be they those of animal, bird, tree or rock. These are man’s contact with Nature, and through them he tries, with ritual and observance ,to keep his good place in the world of Nature. The dead who became spirits long ago become gradually more and more powerful so they range from low to high in the native pantheon in which all “gods” are simply “spirits” of differing degrees. Ultimate Highest God is seldom addressed directly in Africa. As in Christianity, we have come to pray to a mediator. In Huna the good parental spirits were the mediators and could be trusted to carry prayers to higher spirits if necessary.

All of which is important to us in our efforts to win back to better understanding of the basic things of the psycho-religious field – win back to better psychological healing, better instant healing through na Aumakua, and better freedom from bedevilment caused by such spirits as may be against instead of for us.

In Polynesia, we find the remains of a surprising number of small sects or cults which once broke off from the main structure of Huna, each developing its own dogmas. In Christianity, despite a printed book which tends to keep dogmas slightly similar, we keep splitting off new sects and cults. The religions of Islam and India, despite their books, show the same degradation.

For the student who realizes the fact that there has been this gradual contamination, there is but one thing to do – that is to go back and back and back, sifting the masses of dogmatic beliefs, rituals and practices, always searching for the grains of truth which under the mountains of chaff give us the seeds from which to grow again a living structure.

When I began my search for basic truths in Hawaii, I came upon this condition. There the scant remaining records of cult beliefs and rituals were muddled almost beyond hope by the many investigators who had inquired into them and come to conflicting conclusions. In his rather amazing book, Dr. Kaigh picks out a basic concept and with modesty but skill, traces it through change after change, giving the name for it in tribe after tribe. He often goes far afield, but in the end he comes back to the kernel of fact that he elects to discuss.

While it is possible that we will yet find in the language of na kahuna, or the chaff-pile of their beliefs and rituals, the things that will tell us the exact method of working the High Magic, the search may be well spread around the world on the long chance that we may find the common source of the earliest genuine and workable magic.

HRA Charles W. Kenn, who is doing such yeoman service in conducting the search for Huna information in Hawaii, has long been well aware of the necessity of spreading the scope of the search. He was generous enough to lend me a rare book some months ago, Origin and Evolution of the Human Race, by Dr. Albert Churchward. (Not she Churchward of the Mu books.) In this book, the origin of the human race is traced with care and with telling logic, back to the extremely early Nile men. He traces their growth and development and their travels around the world. If his conclusions will hold as much water as they seem to do, we have more proof that the Polynesian kahuna and his people came originally from the neighborhood of the Nile.

Every new fragment of information that tends to prove that the Huna system was known in Egypt at some very early date, is of value to us. If we can be sure of the homeland of the Polynesians, we can be safe to search for fragments of Huna left behind in the long move to the Pacific.

There are many striking things that link Polynesian beginnings to the Nile basin, and from there to all of Africa and most of Asia, to say nothing of the Americas – even Australia.

The world-around similarity of the stories of the Creation, of the Flood and even of Adam and Eve – these and dozens of others – take us back and back toward a common center. They may have come from some Atlantis, but we cannot go there to make sure. Customs and rituals of various kinds tie in na kahuna and the early Jews in surprising ways. Dr. Kaigh tells us that the many kinds of offerings mentioned in the Bible in Leviticus, are all represented in native African rituals today, OBLATIONS of this kind were offered to propitiate spirits of all degrees, including “God” who “is a Spirit.”

In Hawaii, we come upon the striking fact that the several kinds of offerings or oblations were known, named, and used by at least some school of Kahunaism. Mo`hai is the Hawaiian word for “offering.”

The root mo has for its ordinary meaning the act of breaking, as breaking a stick in two pieces. As in making an oblation or an offering, a part is broken off in many instances and offered to the spirits. In offering first fruits, a part of the harvest is set apart and used. When animals were sacrificed, only a part of them was “broken” off and offered. The priest usually got the flesh while the blood was sprinkled on something and the fat, together with certain other parts of sheep, goats and oxen, were burned. Hawaii had no such animals, but did have pigs, dogs, chickens etc. Using what they had, perhaps poi in place of the “fine flour” of the Old Testament rites and of Africa in general. They had the burnt offering, (mo`hai`ai), the wave offering (mo`hai`a`li), and on down the list of free-will, sweet-smelling, peace, heave, thanksgiving etc.

The root hai has the meaning of “to speak” as well as “break.” We gather that the part was broken off and presented as an oblation to the spirit or spirits or Spirit-of-High-Degree with an accompanying and appropriate mental action, performed as words are spoken in the ritual.

n the word (mo`hai) or in this form of sacrifice, there is nothing to suggest the idea of offering mana to the spirits, unless it might be the mana of the sacrificial beast or thing. We may be safe to look on the foregoing ritual forms as dogmatic and as having lost the inner secret of the sacrifice of one’s own mana as a basic mechanism of prayer.

In the Old Testament and in Africa at large, only the outer form is to be seen, but in Polynesia we find still another form of sacrifice named and used. This is mo`hai`hoo`mana, and the literal translation is “to sacrifice” plus “to make mana.” Or, we may say that the secret or inner significance behind all sacrifice is to be found in the accumulation of the surplus charge of mana and in the sending of it along the aka or aha cord to the spirit-na-Aumakua. (See pages 6, 7 and 8, of the second of the HRA Basic Lessons for a detailed discussion of this secret mechanism in Huna in connection with the word wai`pa for “pray,” in which the root wai is “water,” the usual symbol for mana, while the root pa means “to divide,” indicating a division or sharing of the mana with na Aumakua.)

The Huna or secret method of making sacrifice to the “spirits” is, therefore, the second of the two sides of making “SPIRITUAL” PROGRESS – to use the modern and much abused term. If we think of the conscious entity of the Aunihipili, of the Auhane and of the Aumakua, we have three “spirits” needing to make progress, not just one. Each is at a different point in the progressive journey through the life cycle. This is Huna, clear and straight. If you prefer, consider your individual “spirit” as one self, but even then you may find it necessary to divide it in some way to get the ancient trinity into it – the Trinity of the gods of most religions, and the trinity of selves we are being slowly forced to recognize in psychology as the conscious, subconscious and [super]conscious.

If all religions, old and new, are not basically wrong on the one point at which they all meet, “spiritual” progress is made by striving to be GOOD and helpful and kind, by refraining from hurting others. It is made by moving steadfastly away from evil and all evil spirits – moving daily a little more in the direction of the good na Aumakua. Daily contact makes for steady moving and progress.

Note: Dr. Kaigh’s book was a gift from HRA Maj. O.G., of England. It costs 12/6 plus about 10 our money for postage. Publisher: Richard Lesley & Co. Ltd., 187 Piccadilly, W 1, London, England. The book by Dr. Albert Churchward was published in England in 1921 and is out of print, but might be found in used book collections. 504 pages, well illustrated.

Paul Brunton, who set out as a journalist to search for much the same basics as we hope to find, and whose books are familiar to most HRAs, did us a signal service. After doing as many of us have done – running the gamut from one religion to the next and finally arriving at the emptiness of the idealistic heights of India – this earnest investigator sat down and evaluated his findings in his book, The Hidden Teachings Beyond Yoga. This followed his The Quest of the Overself and his Discover Yourself, both of which fell short of giving a balanced ration to sustain man or woman engaged in fighting the ordinary and blessed battles of life – not running away from life and responsibility to sit in the rarefied air of high seclusion, meditating and stressing only the top third of the three-self needs, and depending on others to till the soil and grow the food – run the outside world upon which his empty and parasitic life depends.

Brunton, like all men and women who are sane and normal, found in the end that there is no such thing as living the “spiritual” life while neglecting the lower two thirds of the three-self needs for growth, action and experience. He came down from his barren mountain top convinced at last that NORMAL LIVING was the ideal – with all its toil, all its obligations and all its opportunities to love and help – to teach and heal and Serve – to help in the old, old war against the evil men, things and conditions through which mankind must fight a way to GOOD.

It is enough to serve our purpose to shape our days in such a day that we can find momentary inner calm to make swift contact with the Aumakua as we confront each task, each difficult situation. Our first duty is to school ourselves until we have learned by practice the fine art of stopping, suddenly still in mind, gripping the worried, fearful or angry Aunihipili in a clutch of concentration which uses the middle mana of “will” – quieting the Aunihipili, and getting from it immediate response as part of the working team of two selves which must pause to listen to the commands of the third, Aumakua self which sits high up on the driver’s seat and is able to see which road to take and how best to negotiate its grades.

Those who have lived long on the mountain tops but have been forced to return to the world without having learned to make this quick contact in the midst of the heavy pulling, have made no kind of progress. They have only crippled themselves by overlong sitting with crossed legs and folded hands. Still worse, they have formed the most weakening and narcotic habit ever known to man – the habit of mouthing high-sounding phrases which have no meaning at all on the levels of the Aunihipili and Auhane, and little enough meaning on the level of the Aumakua. This is the escapist habit. All around us we can see it doing its daily work of making individuals worse than useless to themselves or others. These victims fly from reality. They will pay any price for their drug, and daily strive to still their cravings by reading the endless “teachings” in “courses” or books by other addicts or even crafty scoundrels. Blessed be our HRA sanity!

August 15, 1950

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.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND UNDERSTANDING

Your many valued letters which have come in since the last Bulletin are appreciated more than you will ever know. I have been deeply touched by the warmth and support and understanding which you have all given me at this time when it is such a pull on my – shall I say, heart-strings – to put aside letters from such dear friends without sending an answer. I suppose that I have been unaware until just now, of the large part your letters and my visiting back with lines or pages have meant in the past two years and more. I have taken it too much as a matter of course, and so am just a little startled to discover the strong and clear undertone of loyalty to our work and to such leadership as I have been able to offer.

I have so often had the dismal feeling that unless our Huna work together produced some miracles rather soon, everyone would lose interest. This feeling has been fed by the rather large number of HRAs who have joined in the work in months past, stayed on for a short time, then written to say that they were dropping out to take up some other line of reading or study. Recently, however, I am discovering that the HRAs at the core of our organization have had more than enough abiding interest and understanding to offset the ones who have come and gone, and those who will continue to do so.

THREE UPLIFTING LETTERS

I was greatly impressed and uplifted last week by parts of three letters which arrived. In one of them the writer mentioned in passing the fact that she loved our HRA work so much because in it she had at last found honesty – honest admission that we do not know to a certainty and are doggedly holding ourselves open to truth of any kind and from any source which we come across. This gave me a great uplift of spirit because it showed that I am not alone in my almost fanatical determination that we shall not be lied to by anyone. In my early years I accepted the “teachings” of the self-appointed “teachers” because they sounded convincing and because I knew too little to judge what was said or written. In time, I came to know that half of the “teachers” were not intellectually honest enough to even try to verify their statements. A quarter of them mouthed the false statements of others, not knowing enough to test and judge and sort materials. The rest made up a conglomerate group tainted with outright intention to win cash for teachings they knew were false, or with fanatical lust to become leaders, or with the various grades of ignorance, willful blindness, black cunning and puerile silliness.

My determination has been, from the first, and continues to be, that we, as HRAs, shall remain a body of men and women who are able to carry on our investigations and experimental studies regardless of the end results – for the sake of honest work itself. If, in the end, we come to a point where we see that we cannot continue to progress, we will disband and hang up a shield which is still bright and unsmirched. Meantime, those who seek a “teacher” and who wish to be spoon-fed with unproved and unprovable assertions and dogmas, be they old or new dogmas, will continue to drift in and out of our open doors. I am sinfully proud of the way most of you THINK.

A second letter contained this. “I’ll miss your letters rather much, but I know that your time must be spent to get the most Light for the most HRAs. I haven’t time to hunt up books or to read them for myself, or to experiment more than just a little. So carry on, Max. I am depending on you to let me know through the Bulletins about anything new and important in our line. I’ll keep feeding Cigbo his catnip if you’ll keep feeding us all what ’strong meat’ you can find.”

From a third letter came this. ” … and I suppose I had become a little tired after years of looking for something logical and something which didn’t turn out to be a monument to someone’s egotism or bank account. Huna is like a clean mountain breeze to me. You gave your reasons for your conclusions but did not try to force them on others. In the Bulletins I find the same sincerity, even if you do get a little off the straight Huna line now and then. In the TMHG, I am finding an inner companionship and am catching little glimpses of the Light that I have always known intuitively was there, but which I could not see because of the dogmas and the intrusion of personalities in groups and churches.”

MYSTICISM AND INTUITION

To counterbalance the materialistic approach which we are forced to make to the psycho-religious field and so Huna in particular, we have the mysticism built on such intuitions as are mentioned above. The greatest sense of having found utter verity has come to me in moments of “realization” or through strange flashes or vaguely remembered dreams. This is evidence for the individual, not for the friend or neighbor. Here we tread one of the lonely paths whose markers and sign posts are graven faintly with the cryptic phrases of those who have gone that way.

We have, in our HRA circle, mystics armed with little more than fainting endurance, enduring love and miraculous patience. How often I stand abashed – almost ashamed of my own little selfishnesses – as I read some simple line from one of these whose entire life and strength is spent in a desperately continuing effort to help some other. In these lines one may catch the flashing of the ancient Light between the words.

This morning I had a letter from such a mystic. Some time ago she became interested in the strange story of the rise and fall of the Order of the Golden Dawn in England and America. After reading a book which mentioned Waite’s translation of Levi’s Transendental Magic, she asked to borrow my old copy. She poured over it and over Waite’s critical notes. In her letter she gave me her findings: “However, I believe that Levi reveals the Huna steps in healing. I came to the conclusion that it is useless to try to explain this method. One has to take certain outer steps, but the action takes place on inner planes which are never physically explainable. One deals with an INNER SUBSTANCE – which may be mana or prana but IS ‘faith.’ One simply lets IT work. Yes, as in Huna, one sets the seed, lets it mature – watering it meantime but NEVER digging it up.”

How deeply we long to find that which is true and which will stand the acid test of logic and workability – which will sound that single perfect note within us when plucked with the fingers of the hidden mystic in our beings. How unforgettable are the moments of fragmentary findings, either while waking or sleeping.

HRA Dr. Nandor Fodor is back from his flying trip to England and European cities where he met friends and hunted down several more copies of his ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE, which, as you know, is our invaluable reference book on the greatly important part of Huna which deals with our psychic powers and with the conditions of life on the other side of physical death. The price remains $7.66 post paid. You may place your order with Cigbo, who has reserved five copies for us, just to be sure, or directly with Dr. Fodor, The Park Central Hotel, 7th Ave. at 56th St., New York, N.Y.

Dr. Fodor has the finest faculty imaginable for collecting the data on given topics and pulling together a sane and lucid summary of facts, historic happenings, theories, and, what is of greatest value to the student, the real significance to be found in the many reports and cases which are cited. He has had the courage to handle reports, cases and materials from which the average professor or “scientist” would flee as from a plague. Even more impressive is his moral and mental honesty. You know at once when you begin to read, that here is someone who has no ax to grind and who is giving the facts as he finds them without the sickening “slanting” or misleading propaganda coloring usually met in cult writings or “teachings.”

No field in the world of thought is so fascinating in its materials as that of the psychic, and in no book covering the field have I found such exciting and absorbingly interesting outlays of cases and reports which have been known to so few. For example, let me quote parts from the long and thought-provoking article on “Dowsing,” pages 97, 98 and 99 of the Encyclopaedia. Comments in ( ) will be mine.

“DIVINING ROD, a V-shaped twig, 6-18 inches long, of hazel wood or wire, whale-bone, uncoiled watch spring, etc., which, if the two ends are rigidly grasped by a sensitive, will in the apex forcibly move over hidden springs – not over stagnant water – lode of metal or other objects of search – subterranean caves, graves, etc. – unless the grip is relaxed it will, under the effect of the rhabdic force – the Greek equivalent of the rod – emanating from underground, snap, change shape or revolve, like the bow-shaped rod of the French dowser, Bleyton, which sometimes executed as many as 80 revolutions a minute. The force apparently acts on the muscles through the nervous system. (As in using the pendulum.) It is stopped by a silken or woolen glove, India rubber shoes, or a tight bandage on one or both arms or legs. (There follows at this point in the article a discussion of the theories, relations to other psychic activities, etc., etc.)

“Experience shows that the rod itself has little to do with the mysterious faculty. Some dowsers do not use it at all. Leicester Gataker … relied solely on the sensations experienced in his arms. ‘His hands, hung down, extended a little outwards, and on observing closely, we could see, from time to time, a vibration in the middle fingers which appeared to be drawn downwards, just as in the case of the apex of the twig.’ Abbe Bouly stated in a lecture in 1928:’I no longer require a rod. I can see the stream with my eyes; I attune my mind; I am looking for lead. I fix my eyes; I feel a wavy sensation like hot air over a radiator; I see it.’ In the case of John Timms, studied by Oxford scientists in 1924, the demonstration was further complicated by a foreknowledge of where the hidden streams would be found. The attraction of hidden metals on his rod varied in this order: that to produce as much action on the rod as one gram of gold does, one has to bury of silver 1.2 grams, of nickel 6, of aluminum 15, of zinc 40, of lead 75, and of copper 125 grams.

“According to what the dowser (or user of the pendulum) desires to find, he may hold a bottle of water, a piece of metal, an empty tube – if in search of caverns – or a personal object – for corpse in water – in his hand. Once a stream (underground) is found, it is possible, by varying the substances, or by holding tubes of bacterial cultures, to determine the alkaline content or infectious state. From the latter discovery the idea was developed in France to use the divining rod for medical diagnosis. Promising results have been recorded in noting human reactions to disease germs, to remedies and foods, and also in noting the difference between radiations given off by a sound organ as compared with whose of an unsound one. (There is given at this point a history of dowsing from ancient times, also some of the theories which have been advanced to explain radiations from the organs of the body, from water and inert objects or substances.)

“Sir William Barrett was the first modern investigator for psychical research. He experimented with a dowser who successfully found coins placed under inverted saucers on the table. He attributed the twisting of the rod to motor automatism and considered it a phenomenon allied to automatic writing. Since then, considerable progress has been made.

“Before the International Congress of Experimental Psychology in 1913 in Paris, Joseph Mathieu desired to be tested for a strange claim: to divine water from maps alone. The claim was proved later. E.M. Penrose, official water-diviner of British Columbia, is said to be successful in duplicating the feat.” (Dr. Oscar Brunler uses maps in searching with the pendulum for water, oil, etc.)

VIBRATIONS

Another odd item which is of interest to us at this time because we are examining the idea of “raising one’s vibrations,” is found under the heading of VIBRATIONS on page 401. I quote:
“VIBRATIONS of sound play a mysterious part in the production of psychic phenomena. In the form of lively conversation, singing or music they are often asked for by the invisible operators. ‘We can walk on the vibrations made by your laughing,’ said Walter, the control of Margery. He claimed to get more than half the energy used in the production of the phenomena from the gramaphone vibrations but the only explanation he gave was that as they come off the machine they are converted into another and more useful form of energy.

“Music as the means to induce the trance state is found on record as far back as Biblical times. Elisha says, ‘But now bring me a minstrel, and it came to pass when the minstrel played that the hand of the Lord came upon him.

“According to Dr. Taraknath Das, quoted by G.K. Hack in MODERN PSYCHIC MYSTERIES AT MILIESIMO CASTLE, the following curious history is handed down in India: ‘It is well known that the great Indian musician, Tan Sen, in the court of Emperor Altar the Great, used to sing a special music known as Dupak Rag, which produced lightning effect. In performing for the Emperor the musician had to sit by a lake. The singer had to jump into this artificial lake to save himself from being burned and suffering from electrical shock. The lightning effect was caused by the vibrations of the music.’”

OAHSPE

I have been looking in many places for information to give us hints on the matter of “raising the vibrations” – whatever that may be, and whatever it may mean to us in our study and experimentation with Huna. It occurred to me that we might get leads from reading of the lives of men who had made strides along the path of what we might call “spiritual development.” One of the most interesting modern psychics who falls under this classification in all probability, was the author of OAHSPE, Dr. John Ballou Newbrough. Let me quote now on the article on him.

See page 263, under that name, in the Encyclopaedia.

A New York dentist (1828-1891), clairvoyant and clairaudient from childhood, automatic writer and painter. He could paint in total darkness, with both hands at once. It is claimed that closing his eyes he could read printed pages of any book in any library, that he could bring back recollections of astral travels and that under control he could lift enormous weights, even a ton, without apparent effort. He is chiefly remembered in Spiritualism for ‘OAHSPE, A Kosmon Bible in the Words of Jehovah and His Angel Ambassadors,’ first published in 1882 in New York. It is a new Bible purporting to come from the higher heavens, and ‘to have been directed and looked over by God, the creator’s chief representative in the heavens of this earth.’ In a letter dated January 21st, 1883, Dr. Newbrough wrote to the editor of THE BANNER OF LIGHT:

“I was crying for the light of Heaven. I did not desire communication from friends or relatives or information about earthly things; I wished to learn something about the spirit world, what the angels did, how they traveled, and the general plan of the universe. I was directed to get a typewriter which writes by keys like a piano. This I did and I applied myself industriously to learn it, but only with indifferent success. For two years more the angels propounded to me questions relative to heaven and earth, which no mortal could answer very intelligently,

One morning the light struck both my hands on the back, and they went for the typewriter for some fifteen minutes very vigorously. I was told not to read what was printed, and I have worked myself into such a religious fear of losing this new power that I obeyed reverently. The next morning, also before sunrise, the same power came and wrote – or rather printed again. Again I laid the matter away very religiously, saying little about it to anybody. One morning I accidentally – seemingly accidental to me – looked out of the window and beheld the line of light that rested on my hands extending heavenward like a telegraph wire towards the sky. Over my head were three pairs of hands, fully materialized; behind me stood another angel with her hands on my shoulders. My look did not disturb the scene, my hands kept right on printing printing. For fifty weeks this continued, every morning, half an hour or so before sunrise, and then it ceased, and I was told to read and publish the book, OAHSPE. The peculiar drawings in Oahspe were made with pencil in the same way.’” (In reading of this experience one is prone to wonder if, in some way, “raising the vibration” is something that has to do with making an aka cord contact with higher or more evolved spirit entities.)

MORE VIBRATIONS

THE CHIEF PROBLEM confronting us, as I now see it, in our study of “raising the vibrations” is to find a reliable method of determining whether or not our various experimental efforts have raised the vibrations, and if so, to what degree.

I have been reading your letters giving your several ideas on what it is we must “raise” and on how it may be done. I have tried out some of the methods which do not demand a lengthy training in diet, etc., and for the best available TEST of the results, have used the Bovis Biometer which is on loan here at the study from HRA Dr. Hanoka.

Dr. Oscar Brunler told me some months ago that on his Brunler Bovis model of the biometer he could tell from the reading of the vibration whether a folded sheet of paper contained a prayer, the word “God” perhaps, or a curse or something evil. This gave me the lead in that direction.

For my personal test, as a beginning, I wrote on two separate slips of paper, “God” and “Evil.” I brushed the slips and the biometer and my pendulum with my strongest magnet to clear them of other vibrations they might be holding, and made my test, expecting to pull the metal ruler out or push it in under the instrument’s plate (above which the pendulum is swung) and perhaps getting a high number reading for one slip and a low reading for the other. It can hardly be said that my expectation caused my Aunihipili to so move the pendulum that I got the answers which I did.

The “God” slip gave me a strong clockwise circling over the plate regardless of how far in or out the metal ruler was placed.

I remembered that a clockwise swing was the indication of a good and normal man of kindly intentions.

The “Evil” slip was then placed on the instrument after it had been cleansed with the magnet. I waited. I pulled the ruler in and out, rapidly and slowly. I held the pendulum for a matter of some five minutes waiting for it to begin to react in some way, but to my surprise, it simply refused to move at all in any way or direction.

Each of you will possibly have ideas on the whys and wherefores of this strange test, just as I have. My guess is that the idea which is embodied in the “God” concept is one of good creative action. The one behind the concept of evil might be expected to be active tearing down of all that is good and creative. I would have said that this was probably correct before making the test, but after the test I am forced to recall the fact that EVIL is only the negative aspect of GOOD. Several modern schools of thought have postulated this, in contradiction to the ancient belief in an ACTIVE EVIL or Devil which was an entity in itself and which fought the Good as a “fallen angel.” In Huna there is no personalization of active evil. GOOD is the real and creative condition under which all things have life and being; evil or non-good is only a “missing of the mark,” a mistake in conforming in our lives to the perfect pattern or plan or blueprint for all living and being.

I am reminded all too often in my experiments and studies that one is distressingly apt to forget a later concept and go back to older ones learned earlier in life. One is forced to keep reviewing one’s fresh findings and careful conclusions to prevent the Aunihipili from substituting the old and accustomed ideas. It is indeed hard to teach the “old dog” new tricks of thought, as we all know to our sorrow. What the Aunihipili dislikes – because it is contrary to its accepted and set ideas – is usually “forgotten” in short order.

After making the tests with the two words on the slips of paper, I expected to find that the progressively “raised vibrations” might be indicated for me on the biometer by a progressively stronger and wider clockwise swinging of the pendulum. I placed my left hand on the testing point of the biometer and mentally asked my “George” to try for a reading with the pendulum and ruler for whatever “vibration” in the “spiritual” chain I might show at the moment.

The response was unexpected in that a regular reading was given, just as for brain radiations testing intelligence. However, the pendulum swung back and forth on a right angle line over the plate or in just the opposite direction from normal. I turned the biometer half way around and placed my left hand on the test plate, thus getting a to-and-fro or normal swing.

This swing did not give me my normal reading for my mana charge or for my brain radiation. Instead, it gave me the reading of 470, which is about a hundred points higher.

I then made a mental effort to contact my Aumakua, but without any action to accumulate a surcharge of mana. The reading was then 630. This convinced me that I was not getting a measure on either my mana – at least not the low mana – or my intelligence level.

Next I went through the usual exercise to accumulate a good surcharge of mana, breathing deeply and taking the arms-out, feet-apart position. I pictured mana collecting as water rising in a fountain and overflowing at my crown. I followed through by affirming that I was “raising my vibration higher and higher.” The test was again made with the biometer and the reading advanced to 760.

After a rest period, I again went through the exercise to collect mana and raise the vibration. Then, reciting aloud my affirmation and some old passages from other days – passages which had often inspired me to a degree – I was able to arouse a very definite emotion of love and devotion for my Aumakua and the Great Po`e Aumakua. There was no physical sensation, no tingle such as I have often felt when trying to make the complete contact. I took up the pendulum and made the test. This time the reading was 910. But something new was observed. The strength of the pendulum swing had weakened down to the point of being very feeble. In fact, I remembered that the higher the reading had gone, the weaker the pendulum swing had been.

I do not know how to account for this weakening of the swing unless it might indicate that the higher vibrations used up more of the basic mana, or that more mana had been given to na Aumakua, or that the shorter beat of the higher vibration showed in the weaker swings.

All this is very fascinating to me. I have been set to doing some rather wild speculating and I wonder if, when the full contact with the completely “raised vibrations” is made, whether the reading would be 1000, which is the limit of the biometer and its scale, and whether the weakening of the swing would be so great that the reading could not be made.

So far, so good. It becomes apparent that there does not need to be a physical sensation, even a tingling, as a part of the state attained by raising the vibration – by lifting ourselves to contact the Aumakua level. This in itself may be considered a great step ahead in discovery. If we can be sure that there is also no sensation of a mental sort to show us that we have raised our vibrations successfully, we can then go ahead with our experiments, confident that we are making the grade, EVEN IF WE FEEL NO PHYSICAL OR MENTAL REACTION. It may be that emotional upsurges – the ones we have felt at rare times in prayer – are a part of the condition, or it may be that there is a return-flow of “raised” mana which causes this emotion and the tingles. Perhaps we will be able to know enough of this matter to raise our vibrations, have faith that they are raised to the point of contact, and then to go ahead to work our part of “magic.” Keep thinking. Keep experimenting. Report your findings.

In your experimental work with any phase of Huna, as in attempts to raise the vibration to a higher level, it has been my experience that several things should be kept in mind:

1. It takes a good supply of mana to enable the Auhane to get enough to control the Aunihipili well. Ordinarily the Aunihipili takes care of its duties with one hand and uses the other to fabricate its amusing dreams behind the back of the Auhane.
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   If you try to meditate or concentrate, your mind usually wanders in a few seconds. “George” is not paying attention. The way to get George to pay full attention is not to take a stick to him literally. One takes a mana stick to him, only with the “will” that is built and made strong by being stuffed with low mana – until we have a veritable “Big Stick” – can we force George to pay full attention and to like it.
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   In the last Bulletin I told how I had found my eyes sharper after accumulating mana. In still later experiments I find that with more mana on board, I can see and think and act mere clearly all along the line. I can get the meaning of a difficult passage in a book much faster after taking on a surcharge, and taking George by the scruff of his neck while I set him to do his part in what is on the program. One of the most valuable things Huna has given us is the knowledge that we can accumulate a surplus of mana and can use it to control the Aunihipili – to say nothing of the other uses we can make of this force.
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2. A second thing to be kept everlastingly in mind is the fact that we are composed of three selves, and that the AIM and GOAL of life’s activities is NOT to try to force the Aunihipili and Auhane to become “one” permanently with the Aumakua. That idea is another of the several grave mistakes made by the men of India when they lost the true significance of that part of Huna which evidently was once their heritage.

“YOGA” MEANS “UNION”

The concept was, undoubtedly, in the beginning, that of raising the vibration and making a complete and working contact with the Aumakua, furnishing the “seed” thought of the prayer and the mana to “water” it into growth, into actuality on this physical or mental level.

The eight stages of yoga training have long since come to be worked through, in the hope of being “absorbed in the One-All.” The aim is at a state of omnipotence and omniscience with freedom from the wheel of rebirth – freedom from further sins and troubles. (See Hereward Carrington’s HIGHER PSYCHICAL DEVELOPMENT for the stages or see Dr. Fodor’s ENCYCLOPAEDIA, page 415 under YOGA.)

If Huna tells us anything of value, it tells us that Whatever Intelligent Power it is that has made us, has not made a blunder of which we little humans would not be guilty. We were made correctly, with three selves, each evolved to its own place in the scale of growth. The great SECRET of na kahuna was centered on the momentary contacting or “union” with the Aumakua for the interchange of force in the form of mana and of the contents of the consciousness involved in the working out of “prayer.” We plan to DO SOMETHING with the privilege – the God-given privilege – of making contact with the Aumakua or na Aumakua. Life is for living, not to try to throw away. MFL

January 1, 1950

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.

THE NEWS

The news here at the Study is topped by the happy word from our good friend, HRA Meade Layne, that his appeal for financial aid for ROUND ROBIN and BSRA releases met with a generous and loyal response so that he will be able to carry on for us. And it IS for US. He does not labor so tirelessly just to furnish himself with amusement. This is his Service – and may we all continue to be greatly aided by it for a long time to come.

More happy and important news from the same source came in the form of a new BASRA release. This time HRA Edward S. Schultz, whose articles in ROUND ROBIN have always been of such interest and importance. This mimeo book is PREVISIONAL ATOMIC RESEARCH and is a most excellent work to follow HRA John Hilliard’s book released a month earlier. This new release is reviewed at length in this bulletin. The author is to be congratulated warmly for his fine insight, and we HRAs are to be congratulated on the splendid scholarship being shown by our members. Between Borderland Sciences Research Associates and Huna Research Associates, I am convinced that we include practically all of the best students of the materials of our small but greatly important field.

While HRA Margaret Gaddis’ new book just off the Planograph printing presses, does not cover the materials of the psycho-religious field, it is so important to the task of living that engages all of us, that all of us need to know that it is available. It bears the title of HOW TO SAVE $1,000 A YEAR AT HOME (And Have Fun Doing It).

It is illustrated with line drawings, often five to a page, and is a fascinating book on how to do almost everything that can be done in or around the home – and how to do it better and cheaper. It is filled with the addresses of places where one can get endless things to do with at a better price, or get instructions and free bulletins and books. The section dealing with the family feeding gives no end of valuable information as to food and health values in foods, not only telling what to serve but where to get such things as the new “meat stretcher” developed during the last war to meet the demand for a complete meal for less than a dime per person. Spend a dollar and 8 cents for postage for this book and begin saving your $1,000. Send your order to the author at The Franconia, Winona Lake, Ind.

HRA Mrs. A.H. Savage also has a book just out. It is on the things of our special field, but was written before the information on Huna was discovered by Mrs. Savage in her research. I have not yet had the opportunity to review this promising work.

HRA Wing Anderson will soon have ready for release a new set of records for use in sleep suggestion. I understand that these are a greatly improved set for relaxation, then for health, wealth and happiness aims. He is sending me a set for testing after transferring the sound to wire for my outfit. For information, address him at 2208 West 11th St., Los Angeles 6, Calif. (Not me, please. I value any report on the use of Sleep Suggestion that comes in, but have not had time as yet to give special attention to this specialized work.)

LOOKING BACKWARD we can count many accomplishments in the year just passed. Our TMHG work has become established on a firm footing and we have found that much good can come from our telepathic work together. We have also found that, in certain cases, no help is obtained. This checks exactly with the theory of na kahuna – the theory that where (1) a complex is to blame and it is not removed, or (2) where a request demands that others be forced to requested actions, the results [of which] may be difficult to obtain.

GROUP HEALING EFFORTS demonstrated rather conclusively that a surcharge of mana could be administered through direct contact via the hands, or by telepathic projection. Excellent results were had with some who were treated, and negative results with others.

INDIVIDUAL HEALING EFFORTS by HRAs, including doctors, obtained an excellent score of good results, both where the one treated was a patient, and where self -treatment was undertaken.

NO FULL-TIME HUNA HEALER WAS DEVELOPED during the year.

A TEST FOR A MANA SURCHARGE was worked out through the use of the pendulum and has been of great assistance since June in measuring the mana and learning of its movements, as in the TMHG periods etc. The pendulum was also put to use as a means of getting into working contact with the Aunihipili, and through it, with the Aumakua. The results were found to depend partly on the natural ability of the experimenting HRA to use the pendulum freely. Efforts to trick the Aunihipili into disclosing its fixations have not been very successful, but much has been learned about the Aunihipili and how to work with it.

During the year, contact with experienced and expert users of the pendulum has been made and much assistance from them has been obtained for promoting our exploratory and experimental work with Huna. Dr. Oscar Brunler, now located in Los Angeles, has been especially helpful and has allowed the free and full use of his lectures and findings, also of his speculative materials.

THE BULLETINS, early in the year grew from four pages to eight, and from a single issue to two issues each month. Three Basic Instruction Lessons in the experimental approach to Huna were made ready, as was a unit of the same size covering the TMHG work. Back Bulletins were set in order and made available to the new HRAs in sets.

Fire-walking was investigated at first hand in Honolulu by a newly joined HRA, Charles W. Kenn (recently elected a Fellow of the Huna Fellowship in recognition of his outstanding accomplishment) and his report on his findings was printed in booklet form. From this study, it became clear that no major rite or action of mind or mana had been overlooked in the present stage of the efforts to complete the synthesis of the ancient Huna system. In addition to the study off fire-walking from the inside, much very valuable work has been done by way of gathering and setting in comparative positions a mass of contradictory and confusing recorded information covering na kahuna and the Polynesians in general. This material will be made available to the HRAs and to the general public in full book form, probably within two years. It will include the fire-walking report and additional material on the history of the rite.

GROUP WORK, by the end of the year had made no gain. The work of groups continues to be hampered by lack of finances sufficient to provide rented meeting places and by the lack of a fully developed program (with available printed instruction and texts) of experimentation. CLASS WORK has been replaced largely by individual study and the Bulletins and the material contained in them. Personal instructions by letters from me here at the study have been scant because time allowed for little more than the production of the Bulletins. No public lectures were given on Huna during the year so far as has been reported.

HRA MEMBERSHIP, at the end of the year, stands at about 350. This shows a small but steady growth. During the year about a hundred members have been placed on the inactive list.

While actual HRA membership has increased but little, the spread of the information covering the Huna system and our work has been continuous. At the first of the year very few libraries had copies of SSBM. Now it is available in many of the larger ones and in a few rental libraries.

LOOKING FORWARD into the year 1950, the prospect appears very bright for our work of restoring the ancient “True Light” of na kahuna.

In the past month we have been joined by a young man of great physical vitality who has natural healing ability and several years of successful use of it behind him. He has found in Huna the explanation of many things, and is now beginning tests under my observation on individuals in need of healing aid. He is HRA Ted W. and I think we will be speaking of him often in the Bulletins. He has a vital force that makes the measuring pendulum swing almost straight out. His own use of the pendulum, although he has just begun it, is already remarkable. With it he has made a remarkable score of correct predictions covering minor events in his daily work.

Also, in the past month, we have begun a most fascinating and promising approach to the Huna meanings to be found in the ancient Egyptian writings and in the basic meanings of the glyphs used in such writings. It is still too early to be able to say what we may uncover in this corner of the field, but it is already apparent that there was a closer tie than we supposed between Old Egypt and the ancestors of the Polynesians.

Equally exciting is the finding of a book – formerly overlooked in my studies – showing that some Polynesians, the Maoris in particular, had a form of writing. It has been preserved in the decorative lines of their carving and decorations, certain lines and figures serving to embody a complicated set of ideas (as a sentence), while others stand for a single idea or name. In this and the Egyptian material, we are suddenly confronted by a new and most exciting haystack in which to hunt for the needle we seek. The book is, Maori Symbolism. The author is Ettie Rout, a New Zealand woman. You may be able to find a copy in your library or used book shop.

The glyphs which the elderly Maoris used as mnemonic, or memory-helping, signs have individual characteristics, but here and there may be recognized a sign that is common to the early Egyptian writing, or to the characters used in Mayan inscriptions found in Mexico and Central America. For some reason, the glyphs on the tablets found on Easter Island do not fall properly into line, although the Maori old men read from their record an account of early Polynesian migrations from the Americas to Easter Island, and thence to other parts of the Pacific.

Col. James Churchward, in his books on “Mu” as the lost homeland of all men, also fails to make the Easter Island writing fit in with the supposedly original Mu writing which traveled the world around with the colonies between sixteen and twenty thousand years ago, according to his calculations.

There is a mass of fascinating material before us, and the work and opinions of many authors to study and sift. It is my expectation that in the year ahead we may find in this material the hidden psycho-religious secrets of na kahuna and discover new clues to the practical application of the ancient lore.

Dr. Brunler, now that he knows what we are doing in our Huna testing and exploration, may be able to assist us greatly. He is constantly making new discoveries in various lines and his background of information and experience is remarkable. A few days before Dr. Einstein announced his discovery of a new theory of gravity, Dr. Brunler told me that he had just discovered new facts about gravity which amazed him and was causing him to revamp all his previous concepts covering the subject. A letter today from an HRA who has sick oranges in her orchard, tells me that he has diagnosed the trouble with his pendulum and is engaged in treating a certain common chemical fertilizer to greatly increase its dielectric radiation – a very small amount thus treated will then be used around the trees to see if he has solved the problem. If he has, it will mean much to orange growers all through California.

During the past two years we have watched for the possible finding of a kahuna who might return to us in spirit form through a seance and help us to a fuller understanding of Huna. About six possible communicators have been reported by HRAs, among them Mark Probert. But in each case, the spirits failed to make good. My feeling is that most of them were of the usual variety of pretenders so often met in this way. However, we just may find one who is genuine if we keep watching. The latest spirit “kahuna” to appear comes through automatic writing done in one of our Wisconsin groups and shows a definite knowledge of one of the several Polynesian dialects. He also speaks English and promises to give us needed information. Several sheets of the writing, mostly in run-together words and sentences, have been rushed to Charlie Kenn in Honolulu for his inspection and possible translation. I gathered from my hasty study of the writing that the spirit, and perhaps some associate spirits, date back to Babylonia, with perhaps incarnations as monks in some period or other.

Yes, we have made excellent progress so far and it looks very promising for the work in the time ahead. Almost anything wonderful might happen – who can tell? MFL

BOOK REVIEW – PREVISIONAL ATOMIC RESEARCH

by Edward S. Schultz

(Published as a 24 page mimeo book by BSRA under the direction of Meade Layne. Price post paid $1.10. Address BSRA, 3524 Adams Ave., San Diego 16, Calif. Uniform with the Mark P. Seance Reports etc.

HRA Edward S. Schultz has a splendid study background and a most unusual talent, both of which he has brought to bear for some years in a professional practice in which he has had to pass on the validity and practicality of a steady stream of inventions, theories and speculations. Everything has been grist in his mental mill, and the spread of his interests is most unusual. He lives in a swirl of books, scientific journals, letters and question marks. But, he has a rare and delightful ability to tell the most profound and complicated things in simple and understandable terms. Of course, the reader must be familiar with the modern terms and ideas which come up for discussion in these seven articles.

Article 1, “Electrical Power Direct from Matter” is a most interesting brief survey of the work already done with the use of atomic energy and a prediction covering the probable future uses which can and will be made of this new tool which threatens to make war too dangerous to tolerate and to revolutionize our lives by giving us unlimited power with which to reclaim desert lands and do many other things. “…The problem of living room on our planet would largely be solved and international tensions eased. Agriculture, especially in the far northern and southern lands, would be revolutionized.”

Article 2 deals with the problem of finding ways to explode very small amounts of Uranium 235 or Plutonium. He writes, “… it being held that this lower limit (of the size of the exploding unit) is governed by ‘multiplication factor-K’… There will be re-examination of the roles played by other radiation products co-emitted with the neutrons, and these are likely to be put to work to augment neutron multiplication. The strategic use of Beryllium, or its equivalent, as a particle transformer, is not ruled out. More of the sum total of the radioactive and fission energies, now going to waste in terms of alpha, beta, gamma and other radiations, will be utilized to increase factor-K.”

Article 3 deals with a new “Potent Tool of Research,” of which I had never heard before. This new tool, he suggests, is a dual one to be used with Einstein’s law of the equivalence of mass and energy. ” Max Planck’s constant is a worthy candidate of this role. It has done a great deal in extending the frontiers of scientific logic. However, consideration is suggested of the observation by Gustave le Bon in his ‘Evolution of Matter’ as the most valuable tool of analytic logic: “The forces of the universe are only known to us in reality, by disturbances in equilibrium. The state of equilibrium constitutes the limit by which we can no longer follow them.”

Even if one does not grasp all that is said in these articles, it provides a most intriguing glimpse into a strange new world that is being born in our laboratories and in scrawled figures on paper. MFL

MORE ABOUT THE FINDINGS OF DR. OSCAR BRUNLER

In Bulletin No. 23 we had Dr. Brunler’s explanation that there were life-giving radiations from the earth that were picked up at points on the feet and legs and fed into organs of the body. From another “soul-mind” source, a different set of radiations were picked up through the brain or upper part of the body (no definite pick-up points were given) and were fed into the organs to balance the radiations from the earth. If the radiations from below or above are cut off, the health is endangered.

Most of us are familiar with the theory that earth vibrations get cut off by some stoppage of the pick-up on toes, feet and limbs, and with the attempts to use massage and manipulation to open up these collecting centers. (Dr. Brunler also tells in his lectures of using white and colored lights for the same purpose with success.)

What is of greatest interest in our Huna exploration is Dr. Brunler’s conclusion that there is a radiating force from the “soul” as well as from the earth, and that these two must flow freely in our bodies to keep us in normal health.

Dr. Brunler tells us that mental and emotional upsets act to cut off the “soul” mental or upper radiations. This checks with the fact widely known that much illness is caused by such disturbing elements. In Huna, we divide the “soul” as used here and get the Auhane and the Aumakua. Indications of both may be seen in Dr. Brunler’s effort to explain in the old and familiar terms where the upper radiations come from. He says:

“Before dealing with the two interlocking forces which are the cause of life, I must point out that I do believe that we have a soul, and that our soul – the “I AM” – uses the earthly body of flesh as its instrument to operate on this terrestrial plane. We have therefore to consider two factors – the soul and the body, or mind and matter. What animates matter – our body? The mind, the will, the spirit behind it. What is mind? It is not matter, but an intangible force of vibrating energy.”

In Huna we attribute the “will” to the Auhane, as we do the ability to use the higher form of logic. For the element of “spirit” we have the Aumakua, from which na kahuna believed that a form of force or “mana” radiated or flowed down (along the connecting aka cord) to play some part in man’s work of living. It is quite possible, in my opinion, that we will one day learn to recognize two forms of radiation in the force now known to come into the body from a higher level than that of the earth.

Returning to this matter later in his lecture, Dr. Brunler says, “Mind and matter, body and soul, earth and spirit are a whole and act as forces of equal strength in a sound and healthy body. The mind and the radiations caused by the mind are the dominating factors, and the earth radiations, or the absorption of the rays from the earth, are governed to a great extent by our mind.”

Our practice, borrowed from na kahuna, of collecting a surcharge of mana by an action of mind, may be one in which we consciously draw in more of the radiations from outside sources. We might even be tempted to think that all the needs of the body could be supplied in this way and the intake of food and drink avoided – as sometimes has been suggested – but in actual practice we find that force alone is not enough. We need matter in the form of food.

And, if we follow the line of thought suggested by Huna as well as by Dr. Brunler, we must add the third element as the control factor: CONSCIOUSNESS in one or more states or levels. That gives us our trinity of matter, force and consciousness. Add to this the thing that is not real in itself, space-time, and we have a working basis. Dr. Brunler makes for us a new division of matter by adding ether to the accepted classification of “solid, liquid and gaseous.” Ether is described as the basic material from which all other matter is formed when acted on by force to set it into motion at given rates. The rate of motion in units of ether are controlled by consciousness – or we may say by the vague and impersonal thing “Law.” (One of the finest lectures in the series covers this angle when he deals with “THE ATOM.”)

A matter of much interest, which is not touched on in the lecture on THE RADIATIONS OF THE EARTH AND OF THE MIND, was brought up during an evening of discussion. It seems that not all of the radiations from the earth are good for us. Dr. Brunler told of the fact that almost everyone who worked for long mining clay for china making in two different European locations, died of cancer. Eventually he discovered, through the use of the pendulum, the fact that there was a very strong and unusual radiation coming from the clay beds. Periods of exposure to these were shortened, and those already afflicted were removed to safe places to recover.

He told of a number of instances in which, during his practice in England, medical men failed to understand the cause of disorders, but the pendulum showed a harmful radiation. Radiations rising from a flow of water under the ground, and well below the foundations of one old mansion, were found to be causing the son of the family to go into a strange state resembling catalepsy. When the young man moved his quarters to another wing of the house, all was well with him.

In England and France it has been customary for some years to test with the pendulum to see whether harmful radiations of various kinds may be rising under living or working quarters. In his lecture, he touches on the problem of insulation against earth radiations, saying:

“You may ask: ‘Can we insulate ourselves against the radiations of the earth?’ Yes, to a limited extent. You can carry out your own experiments by testing the field and the antenna in your feet and legs. (He was addressing men who use the pendulum.) Rubber soles have an insulating effect, and various materials, such as felt, cork and fur, reduce the intake of earth radiations into our body.” (Reducing the good vibrations as well as the harmful no doubt.)

In the light of these discoveries, it seems that the famous Kneipp was not quite such an incredible fool as his contemporaries believed him to be when he maintained that we draw vitalizing forces from the earth into our bodies and that the vitality of his patients increased a hundred per cent by making them walk barefooted over the dew-covered grass in the early hours of the morning.

”Endless are the examples which I could give you (to prove that the earth radiations are real and necessary) but this is not a lecture on medical discoveries. Let me return to the pendulum and radiations. We know that when we go with the pendulum over the legs or feet it gives a straight-line movement, and if there is a disturbance in any part of our anatomy (represented by the part being used in the pendulum test) then the pendulum rotates. You will now see why it rotates at certain points, and wherever such a disturbance in the flow of currents can be discovered you can easily determine the organ which is affected and check up that with the pendulum.

“‘How do these earth currents flow through the body? Is the blood the carrier of radiations, or are they carried through the etheric body? Endless are the questions which arise and a long way of labor lies before us until we can give answers to all the problems.”

Huna gives us the three aka bodies of the three selves.

The top circle represents the soul mind radiation. It reaches down and makes an overlapping zone with the circle of earth radiations. The sacral center is in the middle of zone.

The solar plexus is a mid-point of measure. Note line A-A passes from eye to big toe level. Lungs and lower bowels are equally distant from the solar plexus and organs or points at equal distances from the solar plexus are connected and if one is off normal it affects the other. Thus a sore spot on the inside of the big toe near the nail indicates trouble for the eye on the opposite side of the head.

In a similar way, in a man, the thyroid and the gonads are at equal distances and their conditions react on each other.

The liver acts as a control center and, if off normal, has a harmful effect on the heart, lungs and intestines. Also pancreas, spleen, pituitary. kidneys. blood, head etc.

A tender spot on arms or legs or feet may indicate a lack of radiation pick-up for the organ represented, which may lie at an equal distance from plexus center. Tests over the sore spots may be made with a pendulum. If it swings in a circle, it indicates a sick organ to correspond. Try rubbing, exposure to light. (Dr. Brunler worked out a complete system for the right colors of light to be used for various inactive points at one time. The list was not given in the lectures.) For a sore shoulder, look for a sore spot on the leg on the opposite side of the body and also treat the sore spot if found. That, I take it, is the way to go about using this information in our experimental approach to the materials of this part of the field. Dr. Brunler says, “We can establish and check up on any disorder in our body by testing the earth-radiation pick-up points in our feet and by observation of any visible disorder in the face, eyes, arms and hands.”

More will be given in the Bulletins about the atoms and the ether.

YOUR CHRISTMAS CARDS AND LETTERS were greatly appreciated and helped warm me and encourage Cigbo. Thanks to all of you, best in this 1950.

Max Freedom Long

December 15, 1949

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.

THE NEWS FROM THE STUDY, covering the fortnight since the last Bulletin issued,
covers things of more than ordinary interest.

LETTERS FROM THE HRA LETTER BOX

From E. Dudley Haskell, who is head of the American Society of Radiesthesia (791 Park Avenue. New York 21, N.Y.) comes the following, which will be of interest to all of us, so I pass it on here.

“When Dr. Brunler spoke before our Society in New York, we mimeographed his talks and offered them to the members. We have copies of his ‘Radiations of the Brain’ and his ‘Radiations of the Earth and of the Human Body.’ We charge one dollar each for these.

(Make the check to E. Dudley Haskell and send it in yourself. If you send it to me, I have to write out a new letter, a new check, and all that – which takes my time and delays delivery. The same is to be said for all of the Meade Layne publications, such as Round Robin subscriptions, orders for Seance Reports and so on. DO NOT send them to me. M.F.L.)

“In Bulletin 22 (the letter continues), page 1, you recommended a crystal pendulum. I am sorry that I cannot back you up on that. Dr. Brunler, being so high on the Biometer (meaning his reading of brain waves etc.) and having one of the highest sensitivities, can use anything and get results. He does not even have to use a pendulum normally. HE KNOWS THE ANSWERS. A crystal pendulum acts as a prism and breaks up light into the spectrum, but giving off certain colors – whether visible or not – at certain angles. These light rays might neutralize certain radiations you are seeking, or they might alter others. We recommend a neutral pendulum.

“If you look up our Elementary Instructions (Note: To be had for $1.00 from Mr. Haskell – NOT from me) you will see that the fingers holding the pendulum must be of opposite polarity. For years I thought I could not use my left hand until I discovered that my thumb and first finger were both negative. Now I use my thumb and positive middle finger of my left hand.”

Comment: HRA Haskell has been performing a true labor of love in the work he has done in America where there is no other society covering this field and helping interested persons to obtain needed instructions and information concerning the use of the pendulum for such things as finding water, oil, metal deposits, or treasure, making contact with other people or things from a distance, diagnosing physical ills, and so on and so forth. He has also tried to put out a Bulletin to give the latest findings in England and France where the “dowsers” are numerous and are doing excellent work in exploring the field.

I received recently Bulletin No. 2. of Vol. 11 (13 pages, mimeographed, price $1 to non-members) in order to give an idea of the value and variety of topics covered. I list the headings:

(1) DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PRY INTO THE LIVES OF OTHERS (by use of the pendulum)

(2) Various TYPES OF RADIESTHETIC SENSITIVITY (Giving a digest of the older theories and of latest findings offering explanations of the many things made possible through the pendulum.)

(3) YOUR SENSITIVITY WILL INCREASE

(4) RADIATIONS DO EXIST

(5) THE HUNA PHILOSOPHY (in its relation to the pendulum work)

(6) A WAY TO AVOID AUTO-SUGGESTION (when using the pendulum)

(7) THE CURIOUS MENTAL LIMITATIONS AMONG RADIESTHESISTS (showing the power of suggestion on the pendulum actions)

(8) TRAINING FOR DISTANCE WORK – TELERADIESTHESIA (as in chess games played in which the pendulum is used to learn what the distant move has been)

(9) A LESSON IN WATER-DIVINING (Part 1 – Leading article, four pages)

(l0) A CHILD OF SEVEN SUCCEEDS WITH RADIESTHESIA (locating objects on a map with her pendulum after being shown a picture of the object or thing)

Mr. Haskell is in the same boat with most others who strive to help along knowledge which is not found in the welter of colleges where so much is to be studied and so little of value learned. What he has to offer us could not be dug out of books without the expenditure of much money and time. But he is forced to write:

“The reason for no bulletins (only two this year): In 1949 we had about 160 members of this Society. We had hoped that by the end of that year we would have 500. The dues were not sufficient to cover the cost of the 8 bulletins issued and the normal office expenses. At the beginning of 1949, we were but 40 members left – the other 120 members had evidently joined out of curiosity… we could not continue issuing monthly bulletins, since each issue cost between $50 and $60 and there were the office expenses to be considered. Thanks to some of the members and to Max Freedom Long, we are now nearly 60 strong and plan to issue three or four more bulletins before the end of the fiscal year.”

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While on the painful subject of the ROOT OF ALL EVIL, which is so needed if GOOD IS TO BE DONE, I must mention the recent letter which most of the HRAs have received to tell them the plight of HRA Meade Layne who has given us invaluable digests of news in the general field of ILLUMINISM and has published the BSRA Releases, Seance Reports, and other things of great value and interest, in addition to his splendid mimeo magazine, ROUND ROBIN. Never once in the five years of this particular labor of love has there been enough income to meet actual expenses – not counting, of course, the priceless amount of time and thought and physical effort which has been so generously given.

Nothing like ROUND ROBIN has ever been produced. It is unique in having no ax to grind and in being open to everything from Flying Saucers and Huna to Spirit Communication and all the newest and most hard-to-understand in the realm of psycho-religious exploration.

Meade Layne has given us the only honest and brilliantly written and conceived appraisals of the constantly shifting theories and findings in our small and highly specialized field. Only from him have we been able to get highly important information stripped clean of the misleading and blinding slants of dogmatic Science and Religion, not to mention propaganda. His vision has remained clear; his conclusions blessedly fluid for change and his pen, a flame.

It is unthinkable that we should fail to send in or to pledge for sending soon, what each of us can to keep open the channel of BSRA and Round Robin. I know how few of us have escaped learning and using constantly the fine art of getting blood out of a turnip, but I urge all HRAs who are able, to help. Meade Layne has humbled a great pride to bring himself to ask for financial aid. Black shame on those of us who have basked in his Light if we fail now to come forward with our measure of oil for his lamp.

MY LETTERS IN ANSWER TO YOURS will be delayed a little more than usual this month. Please excuse me or place the blame on Cigbo’s willing shoulders. (He still does not know better than to accept the blame for everything.) You will recall that I recently said that I would eventually get around to sending some kind of an answer to all letters, especially if aided by the sending of a self-addressed envelope (a stamp is most welcome but the saving in addressing time is the important thing). I also said that my mimeo “tinned letters” used for my replies would be made, in so far as possible, to contain something interesting and of possible value to the work.

Well, the first of the new monthly “tinned letters” inadvertently opened up a corner of our field that was dear to the hearts of almost every one of us. I asked what who knew about what in respect to the hieroglyphic symbols and their original meanings as of the earliest dynasties of ancient Egypt.

I didn’t get just replies; I got a landslide of letters, and so many of them so long that my time has been filled trying to get them all read – leaving no time to make an answer except in sending at once copies of SSBM that might have been ordered.

We should change our name from Huna Research Associates to something with the words “Egypt” and “symbols” in it. It appears that 992 of us must have cut our teeth on a toy sphinx and learned to read from inscriptions taken from some ancient temple. I am amazed and utterly delighted at the amount of information and misinformation which we possess as an organization and as individual HRAs. Yes, our misinformation is also of value. It has been gathered by the gob from the magnificent collection of “teachings” put out in the past century by the blind leaders of the blind who have found in Egypt a handy hook upon which to hang endless guesses – guesses which they solemnly have presented as “great discoveries.” In noting how these guesses fail to match other and similar efforts, we have a way of enabling us to sort and discard the worthless, retaining in some cases the basic material for our own uses.

If you wish, I will establish a swap center where we can trade a pharaoh for a sphinx. All joking aside, I am beginning to see that I have, personally, overlooked a very important corner of the field in which to dig for lost Huna information. I am not yet able to say that we have more than scratched the surface, but already I am convinced that this is pay dirt of the finest.

Those of you who may be missing the fun – and WHAT fun! – had better send me an envelope and a line saying, “Send me tinned letter No, 2.” I’ll mimeograph as many extras as are needed.

Meantime, if any of you can beg, borrow or steal a book that gives the origin of the earliest hieroglyphics, get it to me by insured or registered mail. I will pay the expense (or perhaps Cigbo can) and I will get it back on time if from a library – or absolve you of the theft if you have stolen it, and later return it with the greatest air of virtue. I already have the loan of a fine old copy of Wallace Budge’s BOOK OF THE DEAD, with the lines given in hieroglyphics, then in the Egyptian as nearly as possible, and then in the English translation.

HRA M.C. whose learned articles appear in Round Robin, has already been of great help and journeyed down to spend hours with me over the big book. She may be able to find something on the symbolic meanings of the glyphs, as the one for “woman” which is composed of the sign for a loaf of bread and an egg.

Because we know the word symbols of na kahuna and the things for which they stood in the lore of the SECRET, we can now go about a re-evaluation of the symbol meanings of the ancient glyphs of the land from which na kahuna came on the first lap of their long trip to the Pacific. (Some of them by way of the Americas, we begin to suspect ,since new information has been uncovered in New Zealand – upon which a full report will be made in due time.)

Take the Egyptian glyph for water. It is one wave-line. But when we find it used with a slightly different meaning in the form of THREE such lines, we immediately recall the manas, of which na kahuna knew three kinds, and for which the word wai (”water”) was the secret symbol.

I must stop before I get off on this subject and forget the other things that are to go into this Bulletin. More – very much more – in due time on the subject.

THE REPORT ON “GREGG,” for whom a special healing effort was made by volunteer HRAs last month, has come in with the desired details. It will be remembered that this young man was treated for insanity, the symptoms pointing to obsession. The parents wish to express their heartfelt thanks and to ask that those HRAs who can continue to work on the case when time allows.

While the healing was not complete, the patient shows a marked improvement in several ways. The “attacks” during which time the obsessing entity seems to take over and use the body violently until its strength is gone, have come much less frequently and the violence has been much reduced. Periods of lucidity have increased and the former savagely hateful attitude seemingly caused by the obsessing entity has changed radically for the better.

In treating this case as part of the TMHG work, bless the obsessing entity and ask that it be cared for and helped as it is removed. This is work for na Aumakua and our appeal is to them. Also, treat the patient for a broken collar bone which was not well set and which has been a strongly irritating influence that may have hindered the healing effort. Cases like this in which the afflicted one is unable to help himself stand as a challenge of all the kindness, sympathy and will-to-serve that we possess. M.F.L.

MORE ABOUT DR. BRUNLER’S FINDINGS

This is a continuation of the article in Bulletin 22 covering Dr. Oscar Brunler’s work on radiations of the brain, the earth and the atom. With his kind permission, parts of his lectures are being given. To show the values in terms of Huna and our HRA experimental approach, comments are made.

Several HRAs have asked for more information concerning the dielectric waves, saying that they had found little in dictionaries or encyclopedias about these waves.

Because we have been unable to measure the dielectric waves with instruments such as are used in the study of the electro-magnetic waves, modern Science has been very slow to admit that there can be such waves. However, almost no explanation of the movement of divining rods or pendulums is possible without the dielectric.

The scientists simply MUST have a machine to register things. They are like [what] the simple African natives thought a local missionary must be. He showed them a thermometer and explained that it was a “machine” to tell him how hot or how cold it was. The natives rocked with laughter, saying, “Missionary plenty dumb. He can’t tell whether it is hot or cold without a machine!”

The main trouble seems to be that the electro-magnetic waves radiated from such things as an underground flow of water are too small to be measured well with instruments and so are said not to exist, despite the fact that almost everything that can be examined at close quarters shows a radiation of this kind, even the tiny cells of the brain.

As noted in the first article, Dr. Brunler explains that every electromagnetic radiation, wave or ray, is accompanied with a negative or dielectric radiation, wave or ray of the same strength and frequency. He writes:

“After many years of thought and searching I found that there is nothing in existence in the Universe which has not its counterpart. The counterpart of birth is death; the counterpart of faith is fear; the counterpart of light is darkness, and when we enter the sphere of physics we find that every magnetic wave or electromagnetic wave has coupled with it a second wave which is of a dielectric nature. A copper wire is a conductor of electro-magnetic waves, whilst mica or cotton or silk act as non-conductors or insulators. Mica, cotton or silk, however, are conductors of dielectric waves, and water diviners use mostly materials for divining purposes which are non-conductors of electro-magnetic waves. It is the dielectric radiation which is carried along the divining rod and which reacts to the dielectric radiation from the subterranean water current or mineral to be divined.

“The whole radiation phenomena has to be viewed from this point, namely, that we are dealing with two waves – electro-magnetic and dielectric ones – and these two kinds of waves are inseparable. The water diviner, the diagnostician using a pendulum, the hypnotist, the magnetic healer, and many others make use of the dielectric currents which flow in and out of the body.

“The Biometer (see the former article) does not measure electro-magnetic waves, but it gives us the wave length of dielectric waves, although this fact seems to have eluded so far every user of the Biometer, even Monsieur Bovis, the inventor of the instrument.

“Let me tell you the strange way in which I discovered the brain radiation. You may know that after many years of research, Monsieur Bovis found that each finger of our hands and different parts of the palm of our hand connects with one of the organs of our body. For instance, the ring fingers connect with the kidneys, the middle finger with the stomach and the liver, and so forth. We can measure the radiations of our organs by placing the different fingers on the Biometer and measuring the wave-length. If the wave-length is 6,500 Angstrom units, which equals 100 degrees Biometric, we know that the particular organ is in perfect health.

“The most important finger, at least it has been the most important one for me, is the thumb. No investigations have been carried out with this finger. It had been found that the rays emitted from the thumb vary with every person and no explanation could be found for the extraordinary difference.

“For a number of months, I had measured the radiations of the thumbs of my patients. Hundreds of figures and names covered pages, but what did these figures mean? Had they any meaning; had they any relation to the brain, or did they give any measurement relating to the human body? The figures ranged from 220 to nearly 500 degrees Biometric, whilst the greater part of the measurements was between 225 and 260 degrees.

“One day a mentally deficient girl was brought to me for consultation and once more, as so often in the past, I learned from her, or I learned through her, more than from any outstanding man. The radiations from this patient’s thumb gave a reading of 118 degrees Biometric – the lowest I had ever recorded. This patient’s extraordinary, slow-working mind interested me and I timed her with a stop-watch to see how much time elapsed between my simple questions – such as, Which is your right hand? Which is your left foot? And so forth. After exactly two minutes and eighteen seconds she answered the questions, and not once did it take her more or less time to give the right answer.

“This extraordinary lapse of time between question and answer intrigued me, and it came to me that the following takes place in our mind. We learn as children which is our right hand, our right foot, and so forth. This knowledge passes from our conscious mind into our subconscious and ,with the speed of lightning, we recall this knowledge into our conscious mind when we are being asked to indicate which is our right hand or foot. In the case of this mentally deficient patient, there seemed to be a gap between the conscious and subconscious mind, and to over-bridge the gap, two minutes and eighteen seconds were required. It occurred to me then that the Biometer reading of the thumb’s radiation might give us the inter-relationship between conscious and subconscious mind. The lower the Biometric reading, the less are conscious and subconscious mind linked up with one another. The higher the reading, the greater is the knowledge which we can draw from our subconscious into our conscious mind.

“I studied that night the hundreds of readings which I had taken and, to my surprise, I discovered that all my very materialistically minded patients measured below 240 degrees Biometric, whilst those whose measurements were above 400 degrees were men of an intelligence far above the average.”

(In a following lecture on RADIATIONS OF THE EARTH AND OF THE MIND, more mention was made of the brain waves and their significance. Again I quote.)

“You remember I reduced intelligence to a question of wave-length. I maintained that we do not think with the grey matter in our head [and] I explained how we can measure the radiation of a dead person’s intelligence even after many centuries (from written or painted signatures).”

(Dr. Brunler tells us that the outer surface of the brain acts as a transmitter in sending out the electromagnetic and dielectric waves, also in receiving them from some outer source which he does not describe. This brings us back to the interesting question of HOW some brain substance may be deposited in the written or painted signature of one long dead, and HOW it could continue to send out the same dielectric wave-lengths all those years.

(On page 6 of Bulletin 22 I discussed the Huna concept of the aka or shadowy body and the explanation that it is the real vehicle of consciousness and so the center of all thinking and remembering. Also, it was noted that the aka substance is thought to adhere to things touched, as the signature touched by the vision of the eyes, and to remain there to send out the wave-length for a very long time, even keeping a connection through invisible aka threads with the signature all the time so that the ghostly writer or painter might be found by following the thread from signature to the surviving aka body still used by the conscious “dead” man.

(A new and very vital point is now introduced for our consideration as Huna Research Associates. So far we have found in Huna lore only indications of the force of the three manas being generated and used to keep the body and the three-self man living. But Dr. Brunler tells us that he has found that the earth radiates a form of force that is necessary to life, and that this is picked up by the feet and legs as needed by the body in its living processes. In a similar way, there is a force radiated from the “soul” or “mind” which is OUTSIDE of the body. This radiation is also picked up, but by the upper parts of the body and perhaps the brain. These TWO SETS OF RADIATION ARE NEEDED TO KEEP THE BODY NORMAL. The radiations from the earth and from the “mind” MEET at the sacrum, where they interlock and blend. Dr. Brunler explains it this way:)

“In our feet, we can discover strange points. There are points which connect with our eyes. There are points which connect and supply the radiations from the earth to our heart, to our lungs, to our liver, to our ears, our throat – in fact, to every organ of our body. All organs of our body have at least two antennae in our feet, which supply them with radiations from the earth. The solar plexus is the great central point where spirit and matter meet. The Sacrum – the Kundalini as the Indian philosophers call it – is the great meeting point where the radiations from the earth and the radiations from the spirit intersect or interlock… If the mind, through a certain attitude, prevents the free and full flow of radiating forces to an organ, an unbalanced state of radiation in that organ takes place. Tensions which are a state of disequilibrium occur in the organ and an unbalanced state of earth and mind radiations throw the organ out of balance, and a physical disorder is registered. The centers in our feet are affected, the antennae shrink, tighten up, and they reduce the inflow of the radiations from the earth. When this occurs, then the antennae (certain spots corresponding to the ailing organs) become tender to pressure and painful.

“For example, every emotional state reacts on the liver. Anger, temper, repressed emotions, all reduce or disturb the free and constant flow of radiating forces from the mind to the liver. The natural flow being disturbed or reduced or arrested, reacts instantly on the balance of currents in the liver. The radiations from the earth flow freely and unhindered into our body, and when they reach the liver and meet with a sudden reduced quantity of currents from the mind ,a state of disequilibrium of the two radiating forces takes place. Every discord in our mind is a sin against our body, for it disturbs immediately the balance of the radiations.”

According to this material, we have counterparts of the low and middle mana of na kahuna, but lack the High Mana of the Aumakua in the picture. While we cannot, at least as yet, correlate the several points, we have before us a fascinating number of conclusions to mull over. Undoubtedly Dr. Brunler will be able to help us greatly in arriving at a better understanding. The key we seek to instant healing may lie hidden here. More of this later.

Max Freedom Long

December 1, 1949

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.

NEWS FROM THE STUDY

In the last Bulletin I told of the remarkable findings of Dr. Oscar Brunler and promised to give more information about them in the Bulletins.

Since then I have visited him, together with his charming and able associate, Dr. Calver. We talked steadily until half-after midnight, and it became more and more apparent that the discoveries in the modern field of which Dr. Brunler is a leader all agree in an amazing way with the ancient Huna and each item from the old and new, as it was brought up for discussion, showed how one adds to or helps explain the other.

I took along the pendulum and plastic stand generously given to me by HRA Ernest Bateman which was described and illustrated with a rough sketch in Bulletin No, 18 on page 4. (And, by the way, the pendulum is not supposed to be left hanging from the top arm, but is to be removed from it and the thread held in the fingers in the usual way. I sawed a slot in mine so that the top button on the pendulum could be slipped over the slot with the thread in the slot, and thus be made handy to put away when not in use.) The pendulum was thought too light in weight by Dr. Brunler, but he was interested in the plastic frame and kept it for some experiments he wishes to make. He uses quite heavy pendulums, mainly of glass. He had me try out one which evidently was a glass from an old chandelier – the kind with cut glass ornaments dangling to catch the light. This worked well for me and I was presented with it on the spot. It is about twice the size of my sealing wax pendulum that I made myself and weighs considerably more – about three-fourths of an ounce on my postage scales. As a means of suspending it, a small brass ring was inserted originally in a drilled hole at the top and to this is now fastened a strong black thread, apparently of silk. I will trace an outline of it here.

The thread has knots tied in it, the one about 5 inches from the lower end of the pendulum being used to indicate the place to be grasped by the fingers. The thread itself is long enough so that its end can be held in the curled-up third and fourth fingers against the palm thus getting it out of the way.

The theory has been evolved that the tips of the fingers are connected with various organs of the body and give off radiations that can be measured with the pendulum when the latter is held over the up-pointing tips. Dr. Brunler discovered that the tip of the thumb was the indicator of the brain and its actions.

I experimented by counting the number of swings over the tip of each finger (doubling up the others to keep them out of the way) and found that each finger tip as well as the tip of the thumb gave a different kind of motion to the pendulum and a different count. Being right-handed, I held the pendulum in my right hand and tested left fingers. I tried to reverse a procedure and got no swing at all.

Max’s Drawing of ideal pendulum (1949)	Picture of ideal Huna Pendulum (2008)

[Editor: This Crystal Pendulum on right (clear, taking up color from the very air) was made from Austrian hand cut glass, the same size and weight as Oscar Burnler's and MFL's pendulum. It has a Mother of Pearl fob of various designs and sterling silver chain and findings.]

Dr. Brunler gave a series of lectures covering his work and his discoveries here in Hollywood recently and, in December ,will begin a series of instructional lectures for those interested in his subjects. The fee will be about $40 and this will include a personal test with the Bovis-Brunler biometer to determine the length of the dielectric brain wave of each student. HRAs living in the Los Angeles district may telephone Dr. Brunler for details.

NEWS OF THE SPECIAL CASE in which “Gregg” was treated for insanity by about twenty volunteer HRAs in the week before Thanksgiving is not yet in. After a few days of the intensive telepathic treatment, Gregg answered a question clearly and sanely and made a response sanely to a remark addressed to him.

Several of the volunteers reported very marked reactions on themselves at times when sending the treatment. A few used up so much mana that they were tired in degrees from exhaustion to sleepiness. Much tingling was felt. Here at the center, I felt the tingles and also found it necessary to recharge at times after making the treating effort. Several deep breaths help recharge and I feel that it is probable that the extra oxygen speeds up the work of converting blood sugar into fresh mana.

The suggestion was made (and acted upon) that ,as this case seems definitely one of obsession, na Aumakua should be asked to remove obsessing entities and in treating, they should be blessed and pictured as being removed and guided into better understanding by Higher Forces. This idea matches well the Huna idea that we must not hurt others if we can avoid doing so. It might be that na Aumakua may feel that to cast out the obsessing entities without, at the same time, helping them to some better form of expression is a “hurt.” Because we are so limited in ability to understand the things of the next level of consciousness above our own (as na Auhane) we can only guess at the real state of matters and try our best to act correctly in making our efforts to call down healing. We have seen how much harder it is to get prayer-action answers when the answer involves other people than when it involves ourselves alone,

ANY CHRISTMAS ORDERS FOR autographed copies of SSBM for your friends will have the book in the next mail (with the gift book, $3 plus sales tax in California. A number of books with tax paid are on hand here at the Study.)

YOUR LETTERS are always very much enjoyed and I am constantly taking up my red pencil to mark special things in them that I would like to put into the Bulletins so that all HRAs could share them. These are comments of many kinds and reports on personal experiments and experiences. As our numbers include most of the really advanced students in the psycho-religious field, there is a constant flow of helpful information and counsel. On the other hand, there are the letters asking questions that would be of general interest. Then when I get ready to begin work on a new Bulletin, I find to my dismay that I have marked letters and parts of letters in such quantity that it would take several Bulletins to fill the need. Please bear with me if material you have sent in for the Bulletin does not appear. And, do not stop reporting and giving the results of your thinking and studies for this reason. I am digesting and ordering a great amount of such material, day by day and from it comes much of value to the shining effort we are making to win back a workable method of instant healing.

LETTERS FROM THE MAIL BOX

MONEY HELP AND MANA MEASURING is reported by an HRA who is a chiropractor and who has a diagnostic machine that measures his mana charge. He writes, “I no longer have to go through the exercises to build up a surcharge of vital force. I just call my ‘George’ and tell him to get ready. I then go to my radionic instrument and start testing… if not already at a peak load, it comes up very fast.

Then, after prayer, (TMHG) I test to see that the reserve was ’spent,’ then call for a second charge. I needed money last month and none was due in until later, so I wrote checks for what was needed and called them to the attention of George, telling him that they had to be met. They were – from very unexpected sources. Business is now so good I have about all the practice I can handle.”

“MY LANDLORD PROBLEM has been completely smoothed out,” writes HRA G.B. “To tell the truth, I have been almost afraid to report this because the situation had been so bitter and unreasonable. I thought I would have to move to get out of it, but could not find a place…. I credit this entirely to the Huna work.”

“I AM SURPRISED” writes HRA M.J.C. “that the cream of this so-called civilized society of ours has not developed a single kahuna, while on the other hand, the simple Polynesians apparently did not find it hard to do so. Perhaps our objective now should be to try to be simple instead of civilized.”

Comment of MFL: Yes, the utter simplicity of ritual and prayer, as Charles W. Kenn shows it to be in his study of fire-walking (FIRE-WALKING FROM THE INSIDE), startles us into thinking that no particular understanding is needed – into thinking that all that is necessary is to pray and then get that for which we ask. I would be everlastingly happy if I could say that this is all it took to make a kahuna then or to make one now, but it is painfully evident that there is still a missing ingredient. It is the old story of everything “being simple if you know how.” It is the learning HOW that is so slow and difficult. Just now we are investigating the most complicated ideas to try to find what we have overlooked. Once we have found it, the return to simplicity will be easy. One must find a log before one can fall off of it with simple ease. Also consider the strange fact that na kahuna evolved what was, in part, a special language to use in describing the simple things they did in prayer. We are told that a language takes a very long time to develop and we may guess that the knowledge of Huna was equally long coming to full flower – and before Egypt was more than well started.

“IMMEDIATELY AFTER AWAKENING FROM A DREAM” reports a Knoxville HRA, “I ask, ‘What is the meaning of this dream?’ Twice an answer has come at once.” (Comment: This is important as well as interesting, as many dreams are symbolic. For some unknown reason, the Aunihipili loves to mask things in symbols and leave it to us to figure out the meaning. This holds in dreams and in the “free association” of ideas used to get behind the symbolic scenes in psychoanalysis. Let’s all try this method of asking for the meaning of our dreams – and report the results.)

QUESTIONS ABOUT DONATIONS, HRA A.F., after reading in the back Bulletins that there was a lack of time here at the Study to see all visitors and to answer all letters and phone calls – also a need for contributions to Cigbo’s box to buy stamps, paper. stencils. envelopes etc. wrote:

“I did not call on you much as I would have liked to do so. Apropos - why not TREAT yourself for plenty of time? I am not too well posted, but believe that it is taught that each time any of us says ‘I am too busy; I have no spare time!’ we give the lack more power. Why not try saying and thinking, ‘I have all the time there is in Eternity!?’

About your financial needs and those of … who… is appealing for funds… They claim that (here are mentioned two well known modern institutions, both of which are supported entirely by contributions from members or by the sale of lessons and other material or lectured teachings) DEMONSTRATED enough money for their needs and enough to expand with as you must know.”

Comment: This sixty-four [thousand] dollar question has been put to me by letter a number of times. I am reminded of the words of the town atheist of my youth. This gentleman loved to attend various churches so that he could later criticize the sermons. His favorite remark was to the effect that if the churches and ministers were doing God’s work, it seemed very odd that God made them pray so hard for the things they needed and forced the continual passing of the plate to get others to pay for His work. Looking back, I can recall no instance of money being furnished for church needs except from the purses of members. The sad fact stands out that when one “treats” for anything that cannot come (without a very amazing miracle of permanent materialization) except from the purse or by the services of others, one is forced inevitably to treat those others in the hope that they will be moved to help in what ways they can. One can, of course, treat to try for the finding of a gold mine right on the surface and rich enough to furnish a supply of nuggets without the need of time and much mining to clean up. I must confess that I have not treated for such a mine or a similar windfall. I have let my friends know our combined needs to carry on our mutual work and they have matched my time and dollars with theirs. It has hardly seemed necessary to make prayer-actions when, among us, we could handle matters for ourselves and even carry a good number who have been without present means. The matter of demonstrating time for all purposes boils down to much the same thing. To get more time I would have to have others help me answer letters at the Study and write, stencil, run, fold and otherwise get out the Bulletins… again. I would have to treat my friends to get them to offer this help. On the other hand, I get letters from HRAs who are convinced that in order to get, we must give. They have tried tithing and have found that it works well enough for them to cause them to continue it in aiding the Huna work. They tell me that what one gets without returning in like degree is never of any permanent value to them. Perhaps I shall, eventually get around to treating for the time and money needed here at the Study. If I do, I think it will be only fair to begin by treating those who write in to make the suggestion. Seriously, it seems to stand to reason that it is best to do for ourselves the things we have been enabled to do. At least that is how most of us get on. When it comes to something which we cannot, by the very nature of things, do for ourselves, then it is reasonable to ask for the help of na Aumakua. However, for those HRAs who may not agree with me, I extend an invitation to treat for TIME for me and for a gold mine or its equivalent for Cigbo. I may be overlooking a good bet.

STORIES SUDDENLY SELLING – one long one being syndicated, finances being rescued, “pay checks good enough to choke a starved horse,” and an instant and miraculous answer to a wild prayer for help when a blowout caused a 17-ton cement mixer truck to get out of control, are all reported by HRA F.P. Also some excellent healing results over a period of several months. “…Na Aumakua bring the harvest.”

THE RADIATION OF THE BRAIN

The above title was given to the first of a series of four lectures delivered not long ago in England by Dr. Oscar Brunler. The other three lectures dealt with the radiations of (1) the earth, (2) the mind, and (3) the atom. The four were privately printed and are no longer available.

Dr. Brunler has very generously given permission to make use of the lectures and of his many findings. His help in advancing the understanding of the Huna lore promises to be of greatest value.

As our study is centered around Huna, his lectures, [which] will be given here in condensed form, will be accompanied by a running comment in ( ) to point up the significance of various statements in terms of our own studies and experimental efforts to recover Huna in workable form.

The lecture begins with the statement that many unorthodox ideas set forth by the lecturer over twenty years earlier, have now been generally accepted. In another hundred years he is certain that all of these ideas will be accepted.

“Psychology has thrown a great deal of light upon the mind of man and on human nature. Psychology, however, can give us only glimpses into a person’s mind. The radiation of the human brain enables us to penetrate deeper into the mystery of mysteries – the mind of man.”

(At this point it may be well to explain that Dr. Brunler is not speaking of the tiny electrical discharges from the active brain. These are well known now to orthodox scientists and are measured with the encephalograph. Accompanying all electromagnetic activity – as Dr. Brunler explains – is a corresponding dielectric activity, the latter being conducted over bridging materials which are non-conductors of electricity. Mana, Dr. Brunler says, is dielectric. Later we will see that it acts as do units of dielectric energy rather than as electricity.)

“We can analyze the seed of a plant and discover all the chemicals contained in it, but we cannot discover the latent potentiality in the seed. The radiation of the brain, however, reveals a man’s potentialities which can be brought to full power. How vast a difference is in the dormant power of an acorn seed compared with that of a carrot seed?

“Before I speak of the discoveries made in the course of many years, let me first deal with some of the aspects of radiation phenomena. We know that subterranean water currents send out rays which can be detected with the divining rod. We know that we are surrounded by fields of radiations emanating from our bodies and made visible to the naked eye by the help of the Kilner Screen. Where do these radiations come from? What is the cause of these radiations?

[The brain and] “… every organ of our body sends out rays and the frequency of vibration of these rays can be measured.” Dr. Brunler goes on to tell of his discoveries which explain how and why in regard to things under discussion. Burning sodium from salt sodium chloride, which is necessary to all life, produces in the blood electromagnetic waves or yellow light. The electromagnetic waves are accompanied by dielectric waves. Together they cause one form of radiation of our bodies. He explains, “A copper wire is a conductor of electromagnetic waves, whilst mica or cotton or silk act as non-conductors or insulators. Mica, cotton or silk, however, are conductors of dielectric waves, and water diviners use mostly materials for divining purposes which are non-conductors of electromagnetic waves. It is the dielectric radiation from the subterranean water current which is carried along the divining rod.” The ulnar nerve in the arms of the one holding the rod registers the dielectric current and causes the movement of the rod.

In the same way, a pendulum is caused to swing when held in the fingers. (The ulnar and other nerves, as well as the brain tissues, seem very sensitive to dielectric radiations but not to the electromagnetic. The reaction to dielectric radiations seems to be under the control of consciousness because one may dictate mentally whether the pendulum shall react for water, oil or other substances, or to the waves and their length, as in measuring radiations from organs of the body or from the brain.)

“The radiation of a person’s brain is retained on paper and canvas (in the signatures of letters and on paintings, even when very old) and is easily absorbed in salt…” (The salt seems to strengthen the radiations and give[s] a swing of more power when a sprinkling of it is placed over a signature to be tested.)

In the Huna system, as far back as the time when the language of na kahuna – later known in Polynesian dialects, and leaving traces in Egypt – was being developed to fit their findings in this field, it is apparent that there was a very definite knowledge of radiations of the dielectric kind. The root word ka as used in ka`a and aka, means “to radiate out,” as rays from the sun, and “to touch.” The root word a means “to burn,” as fire. Fire or a flame has been the symbol of light in many lands and ages. Light seems to have been recognized as a most important form of radiation. Water was the symbol of mana or vital force of at least three wave lengths. Water -wai – flows, and so does mana, as an electric current. But the mystery of man’s radiating power when working through the aka substance seems only to be explained in terms of the dielectric which accompanies all electromagnetic currents or discharges. Oddly enough, the root word ma, in mana, means “to accompany,” while the second root word na means “to quiet.”) Dr. Brunler writes, “Every electromagnetic wave, such as a ray of red or blue or yellow light, has a second wave coupled to it, and this second wave is of a dielectric nature.”

It is supposed that the two forms of waves always go together, one accompanying the other, one being ma and the other na.

(Very sensitive machines pick up faint electromagnetic radiations) as in measuring the electric discharge waves in the brain when it is active. The pendulum, however, seems to be vastly more sensitive when the dielectric is registered. The shadowy body or aka, in Huna, has the peculiarity of sticking to things touched by any part of it, as when a signature is put down, an object is touched, or a telepathic contact along an aka thread is established. Thoughts seem to be impressed on the aka substance and to be stored in the aka body as memories, also to be sent in clusters as telepathic messages – or to have the radiations from such clusters follow the aka thread and set up corresponding radiations in the person receiving the message. From the fact that distances make very little difference in sending telepathic messages, we may guess that the aka thread is almost a perfect conductor of both the dielectric and electromagnetic radiations. Or there may be a mechanism still to be identified.)

(The Huna theory of the aka body, which indicates that it is the substance from which thought-forms are created by an action of consciousness which uses mana in the work) is given excellent confirmation by Dr. Brunler’s findings, as is the peculiar theory that part of the aka, once it touches a thing, sticks to it. This part retains something in its mass which may be thought-forms or something else which will continue to radiate dielectrically for a long time. In this way, Huna offers its own explanation of the fact that a signature on an old letter or painting may be tested with the pendulum to get the brain radiation which once came from the writer or painter. Psychometry in all forms is also thus explained. Nothing is found that does not send out constantly a characteristic wave pattern in radiations. It is thus concluded that artificial things, such as a signature, are given their character by their makers. Huna seems to show that all memory is stored in the aka body, not in the brain. The dead remember. They live in an aka body which they had in life on this side, and in which all memories were stored so that they could be taken along. They continue to think without the physical brain. One concludes that thinking is a thing done in the aka body which duplicates in invisible form the brain. This makes the following from the lecture even more significant to our Huna studies.)

“We do not think with the grey matter in our head, but it is the Pia Mater (outer layer of the brain) which receives or sends our thought waves, and the grey matter reacts to the vibrations which are transmitted to it from the Pia Mater.” (Note that he says “receives” and not that we think with the outer layer.)

“The grey matter may be compared with the Solar Plexus, which receives and transmits the messages from our conscious mind to the different parts of our body. In a similar way, the grey matter is receiver and transmitter of thought waves from the Pia Mater, and translates these waves into our conscious mind, giving them a meaning within the range of our understanding.

“Our understanding is translated into symbols, and to these symbols we give words. We do not think in words, but we think in symbols, and with the speed of light we give a certain symbol (In Huna the symbol is thought to be a cluster of impressions on aka substance), a word and a meaning which can be understood by others who speak the same language.

“Now let me deal further with the radiation of the brain. Apart from being able to measure the wave-length of the rays radiating from our brain, we get certain reactions on the Biometer. (The Biometer is an instrument used to measure radiations with the pendulum as the central part of the mechanism.)

“In the case of all creative, i.e., constructively thinking, persons, we find that the reaction of the pendulum over the instrument is clockwise. In other words, the pendulum rotates clockwise. In the case of criminals or destructively thinking people we get an anti-clockwise reaction or rotation over the Biometer plate.(The pendulum is held suspended over a square metal plate which is connected to the signature or part of the body or head being tested. The connection is made by a silk cord.)

“In case of individuals who are entirely governed by will we find that the pendulum moves in a straight line up and down (to and from the body of the operator who stands before the plate to swing the pendulum). The majority of the world, I venture to say in 90 per cent human beings, the reaction which we obtain is of an oscillating type. The pendulum moves at an angle of approximately 45 degrees to the left (of a vertical line on the plate) and then swings over to 45 degrees on the right, forming a V shape. Those who give such a reaction lack Will.” They are the masses which can be influenced by a stronger will than their own, and any form of propaganda will sway them one way or another.

“After having measured well over ten thousand brain radiations, one discovers that mankind can be compared with a pyramid. The broad base of the pyramid represents the average man with a brain radiation of about 225 to 230 degrees Biometric. As we ascend towards the apex of the pyramid, the cross-sectional area becomes smaller and smaller and, in a similar way, fewer and fewer individuals with high and higher radiations can be found until, in the end, only one personality surpasses the understanding of all the others below him.

“I should like to point out that the measurement of the radiation of the brain gives us a man’s mental potentialities, whether [or not] he makes full use of them. Whether he neglects to develop, use and exploit his full mental powers, is a matter which depends on his will, his perseverance and his determination and faculty to observe and to co-ordinate observations and knowledge.

We can classify mankind into groups according to the reactions which we register – the clockwise type of mind with constructive and creative ideas, the anti-clockwise type, and so forth. (In addition to this form of classification) …the actual wave-length of the radiation of the brain gives us a very clear classification of a man’s mind. (In Huna, the mind of the Aunihipili or subconscious is considered to be individual and not a part of the mind of the Auhane or conscious mind self) although the two work so smoothly together that they give the impression of being a single unit. Perhaps the two reactions of the pendulum point to two entities and their separate characteristics. Dr. Brunler’s opinion has still to be learned as to this.) By a study of the mentality of many people whose brain readings have been taken, Dr. Brunler has been able to learn that there are common potentialities in men with similar readings. The wave-length of light is the standard of measurement and the readings on the biometric scale run from 1 to 1000. (The rough reproduction below of the chart drawn up by Dr. Brunler will indicate some of the levels of mind, also the fact that the higher the reading, the fewer there are to be found.)

OSCAR BRUNLER’S CHART SHOWING EVOLUTIONARY SCALE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

See enlarged chart

[Editor: This drawing provides much knowledge of the Created World and how it exists and works in its function of producing na Aumakua. Think of all the levels of Graduation beings go through. Think of humans as being in a high school. Every class is approximately the same size and for the most part, everyone grows at approximately the same speed of evolution. So how can there be a variance in all the levels of Biometric Degrees? There can't be ... unless. Unless some people are graduating sooner than others of the same level of intelligence (Biometric Degree Levels). What could it mean? Graduation is not only dependent on Biometric Degree level, but on the development of "character" or heart. And so the Hemolele practices came about, and were tested. The swiftest advancement is made by "Warriors," people who have had "interesting" lives and never given up. People who go forward into their challenges, not running away from them, from the pain, confusion, and fear, [who] make the most mistakes, pay for them, regret them, then go on to even greater mistakes.]

[The Hemolele is the practice of the development of the Six Sacred Virtues need to Graduate. It all starts with Koa (Courage), then the four pillars of Malama (Nurturance), Lokahi (Harmony, Unity), Pono (Righteousness) and Aloha (Compassion), and the final virtue to cap them all off, Ho`okipa (Hospitality). The daily practice of the Hemolele earned Ki`i Kukui --- made into a lei. The Hemolele is done once each day until death, then if all goes right, the person "Graduates" into a new Aumakua, once in Lokahi with his/her Beloved.)]

Dr. Brunler explains that while the persons having the highest readings have the greatest mental power and scope of understanding, all who have a clockwise swing are useful and good on their own level of mental ability. He tested many signatures on paintings and found that Leonardo da Vinci had the highest reading yet come across, 725 degrees. Dr. Brunler’s own reading is over 700, so we may expect him to show genius in inventions, discoveries and philosophical conclusions. Other readings given were: Titian 660, Rembrandt 638. Chopin 550 Liszt 538, Hayden 535, Emerson 500, Charles Dickens 540, Kipling 527, Napoleon 598, Edison 470, and Mme. Curie 492.

“It seems that in the great creative plan, mankind ascends from the plane of life by slow winding, upward paths to greater knowledge, greater understanding. And so we can compare the world of men with the great pyramid whose wide and immense base represents the ordinary man, the millions of unknown. As we ascend toward the apex of the pyramid, fewer and fewer men can be found there. Only those whose brain radiation is far above the average are able to guide mankind wisely.” (In the next Bulletin more will be given concerning Dr. Brunler’s findings.) M.F.L.

November 15, 1949

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.

Covering the fortnight since the last Bulletin issued, covers things of more than ordinary interest.

THE NEWS FROM THE STUDY

The long-awaited booklet, THE THEORY OF THE METATRON, by our own HRA John A. Hilliard, is now ready. It is a 34 page mimeo and has been readied and made available by N. Meade Layne, editor of ROUND ROBIN and head of the BORDERLAND SCIENCES RESEARCH ASSOCIATES. (Address: 3524 Adams Ave., San Diego 4, Calif., for your copies. The price is $1.00. Add $.06 for postage and $.03 more for sales tax if you live in California.)

The author, John A. Hilliard, has a remarkable background of study and experience in our particular end of the psycho-religious field. He has a rare grasp of mathematics and physics. Early in the days of HRA, he began to test Huna theories in terms of his special studies, sending in letter after letter opening up such an exciting and new set of concepts that he was urged to get the findings and speculative conclusions into form for publication.

A few articles were written for ROUND ROBIN, but now we have the book – and for the student of Huna, it is a splendid contribution. HRA Hilliard has done a remarkable job of making a highly technical matter simple enough for the average reader to understand. Granted, many of us may not be able to follow with ease the mathematical equations from which he draws many facts and conclusions, but there is little difficulty in understanding what is uncovered in this way. A review of the work will be given on a separate page.

The last HRA BULLETIN, No. 10-A-9, from the hand of N. Meade Layne, arrived at the Study, and everything stopped until all ten pages were devoured. All the news of the flying saucers and of other mysterious things is being covered by the editor of R.R. (who scooped the world with detailed news of the first flying saucers). His brilliant quips and penetrating analysis of the many strange reports are a joy to the reader, a shot-in-the-arm to jaded curiosity, and a means of keeping up with the most significant developments of a time when things are happening at racing speed – happening especially behind the scenes on this world and, apparently, on the invisible levels all around.

The SPECIAL CASE to be worked on intensively through telepathic contact with the patient, will be handled. Twenty HRAs volunteered for the test and letters with instructions have been sent, each with a few hairs from the head of the patient to help make the aka thread contact. Treatment will be given on the half hour from early to late, each volunteer observing as many of these periods as possible. In this way it is fairly certain that a few will be at work every hour and so a steady mana flow and pressure of prayer-action will be kept up. This is a very interesting mental case – and very sad. All who can are invited to send healing through me, as center to “Gregg,” at half after the hour day or night. A report will be made later.

THE SEARCH FOR THE BELOVED

More happy news comes from Dr. Nandor Fodor, our learned HRA who recently wrote THE SEARCH FOR THE BELOVED, in which he gave the world, and us, so much information on the strange things that appear in people’s lives due to fixations formed at the time of birth, or even before. The news is that a few more copies have been found of his ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE, the great work that was printed in England a few years before the War II, and the plates of which were bombed and burned. This is the reference book mentioned all the way through my book, SSBM, and in it may be found a digest of everything of importance in Spiritualism and related fields up to 1936. Originally the price was $15, but with the new exchange rates, the few copies which Dr. Fodor has managed to get over from London may be had from him for $7.68 post paid. These are the last of the books, so rush your order if you wish one. The address is, Dr. Nandor Fodor, Park Central Hotel, 7th Ave. at 56th Street, New York, N.Y.

Letters have been arriving commenting on the great significance of the experiment reported in the last Bulletin – covering the use of a surcharge of mana to make an adjustment of a sacroiliac slippage. With this matter being brought before us, first by the new school of G-P-C SERVERS, through their practice of “beaming vital force” to adjust the uppermost neck joint, we are finding more and more information bearing on the subject. Attention has been called to the JUDO practice in Japan known as “Striking at a distance,” and to experiments elsewhere in which definite physical force seemed to be projected to act on people and things beyond the reach of hands.

One is reminded of the many stories formerly told in Hawaii of the “flying akuas” which were observed to come flying out of the hut of a kahuna at night like a small ball of light or flame, and which were reported to sail at great speed to the place where they had been sent by the kahuna – to enter another and work good or evil. I had first-hand accounts of these from a man who had seen them and knew the old lore, but I made no mention of them in writing my report on my Huna explorations, feeling that the “flying gods” might well be superstitions or explainable on other grounds. Now I begin to see fire where only smoke rose before. We know that the phenomena produced by psychism often include the production of light, fire balls and such things, often with swift movement. It may well be that na kahuna gathered a heavy surcharge of mana, injected into it the element of consciousness by giving it commands to act in a certain way, and embodied the unit in aka substance, a thread of which would keep the connection between the “flying god” and the kahuna until the work was accomplished.

There is also the growing evidence that such “balls” of aka-mana move at the direction of the Aunihipili. A letter this week told of an HRA who was accumulating a large surcharge when it suddenly seemed to leave him and strike like a weak lightning bolt, his dog – who lay in the room and who reacted with leap and wild yelp, but received no injury.

And lastly, there comes great news from Dr. Oscar Brunler, now living in Hollywood and lecturing and practicing here. In the pages to follow, a complete report on his recent experiments will be given, together with more information concerning his great work on the far fringes of the field which we are exploring with swift strides. MFL.

BOOK REVIEW – THE THEORY OF THE METATRON

“Suggestions Toward a Mathematical Interpretation of the Concepts of Huna and Related Psycho-Physical Problems” by John A. Hilliard

[Editor's note: a quick search shows this book was lost and there appear to be no other citations to this work. Take this into consideration when reading the review below since Huna at this time was experimental.]

34 pages. Mimeographed. $1.06 (plus sales tax in Calif) from The Meade Layne Publications, 3524 Adams Ave., San Diego 16, Calif.

The author, HRA John A. Hilliard, saw in the ancient Huna lore several possible missing links which would fit in with present theories and give a new and better explanation of the things used in psycho-religious discussions to explain such things as thoughts, memories, thought forms, vital forces, aka substances, aka cords, also states of matter as the etheric, astral, material and so on.

For his starting point, he took the strange fact that in telepathy, the distance between two people seems to make no difference. This is contrary to the law of weakening of broadcast or wire-conducted electrical energy, as distance grows greater.

In searching for an explanation which would fit the things we already know in the science of physics, he at once applied Ohms Law to the mana and aka of Huna, using the resulting equations to boil the problem down swiftly to the fact that the substance of the aka thread or cord, and of the thought form transmitted along its length from sender to receiver, was valid material for evaluation.

Soon he concludes, tentatively, that “… the thought form is able to act on the compliant aka cord in a way to produce resonance in it. We visualize this by assuming the stuff of the aka cord to vibrate in a twofold wave completely antiphase. The na (used by the author as the symbol of the basic mana-aka thought form substance in movement) of the thought form is thus seen to resist one wave and assist the other so that they are drawn into phase, thus augmenting one another. The degree to which these waves are drawn into phase determines the amount of energy that will be delivered … The degree is determined by the qualities of resistance and reactance in the na or vital impedance.” He has already explained “impedance” in these words: There was no flow of actual force or thought forms along the aka thread “but rather a flow of energy. This could be explained only by the ideas found in wave mechanics. If a current, moving in a circuit, has a frequency of alternation such that its wave length is infinitely shorter than the circuit, then there will be no flow of electrical matter – electrons – through the circuit. Yet the circuit transmits energy. We conceive this to be the condition existing in a flow of vital force (mana) through the aka cord. Thus the basic idea of a flow of voltage of vital forces is not far amiss.

“Having conceived the vital current as a high frequency alternating current whose wave length is less than any possible circuit, we were confronted with the need to explain the aka-resistance (called) in some kind of terms other than simple fluid resistance. To do this we gave na two kinds of resistance, one which is purely frictional resistance, and the other reactance resistance. In alternating electrical currents these two kinds of resistance are related as the square root of the sum of their squares, and is a value called impedence. Na is the impedence of the aka cord.”

The concept, thus made to fall into the forms of modern scientific discoveries and speculations, is used to build on in taking up the problem of just what forces and substances are combined by mental action to create the complex units needed to make a complete thought form of a complex object. The word “ideo-form” is substituted for “thought form” and from this is developed the “ideotron” and the “metatron” using the ending of the word “electron” because, as the author points out, we begin to deal with substances and forces not so much like the atoms as like the electrons.

There remains the fact that mana seems to be sent along the aka thread to a patient and to stimulate him, and that the thought forms sent along the aka thread show every indication of being accompanied with a force.

We see the initial mana and thought forms changed into energies of a wave kind and then transformed back into originals when they arrive at the far end of the aka thread. This sounds simple to one accustomed to having sound turned to electrical impulses at one end of a telephone and appear again as sound at the other. But to a physicist and mathematician, this is something that demands a more exact and definite answer.

Beginning therefore, on page 5, HRA Hilliard gets down to brass tacks and spreads the problem out before the reader to show what simply HAS to be found in the general scheme if it is to be made to hold water. He starts confidently with his “THE POSTULATE OF A FUNDAMENTAL,” and in a few clear, swift paragraphs shows us how to reach the conclusion that there are several forms of matter in the universe, including astral and etheric as well as the physical matter we can sense.

Taking the periodicity of the elements, he points out twelve octaves and shows that there is no good reason for not extending these octaves right up into the astral and etheric and even perhaps a mental.

Having laid out the elements that are MUSTS in explaining the facts observed, he goes to work to prove that each new element is a justified guess. All is grist in his mill, and he is as much at home when defining and expanding our concepts of PERCEPTION as when patiently pausing to present diagrams and explanations to clear up the idea of waves as found in the “brain waves” of these days.

By page 31 he has arrived at the conclusion that is of the greatest importance. He writes, “All matter is considered (by the writer, after his brilliant study) to be relatively subject to the will of the spiritual entities who work in and with it.” It is a splendid piece of work – one we can be proud of as HRAs, It marks a long forward step in a new direction in the Huna exploration. MFL

CORRESPONDENCE AND COMMENTS

As a GROUP, we Huna Research Associates represent a fair cross-section of minds and people. This is very good because it forces us to spread our interests and our experimental work with Huna to make them fit the needs and desires of all types of members.

Some of us are interested in healing for [our]selves, some in learning to heal others. Many focus their attention on the healing of purse and social tangles. And almost all of us love the speculative angles and the comparison of Huna theories and beliefs with those found in out-stretched religions from the time of Adam right up to the very latest “revelation.”

In our work we are constantly failing to satisfy many who take part in the work – and who drop out for various reasons. Here is a typical letter from an HRA – a very wise and valuable man – who has not found what he hoped for in our work. (I quote a part.)

“…I feel that I must ask you to drop my name… I do not think the ‘Secret’ has been lost. Neither do I think it will be gotten by anyone who has not been accepted as a pupil by one of the Magi. The kahunas, no doubt, were of the order toe the Magi… Nor will they (the Magi) permit it to come to light again until the world is peopled by a more enlightened race.”

Another HRA wrote a few months ago to ask to be released from HRA membership because she and her husband had found a real Master, and were being accepted as students by him. This Master is so much a mysterious personage that even his name may not be mentioned to others. A similar thing happened in the case of an HRA who had received a letter telling him that a Master and Teacher had observed him and was now inviting him to become a student under him. He wrote me triumphantly to say that he no longer had to work in an experimental group with Huna because he now was promised the opportunity to learn immediately to do all and more than any kahuna ever could do.

I smile when these letters come in. I have been through the search for a Master who could teach something that could be USED. I, too, have been discouraged with my inability to get desired information and results swiftly. I am not saying that some HRAs may not find the Magi or Masters – I say only that after many years, I have decided that, if they exist as anything less than na Aumakua, they are not to be found by such as I. In fact, I have decided that there is about one chance in a thousand of there being any such supermen. I see no evidence – and I have looked long and earnestly in all directions – of the WORKS of such. “By your works shall you be known,” seems to apply in the case of “Masters” and their mysterious and greatly hush-hush “lodges.”

I believe that Huna is for the very few, not for the many. It takes a special type of mind to understand the significance of Huna and of the experimental work we are doing to test what we think we know of the ancient lore. It is the fault of no one if he or she cannot see this significance, but it makes those who do see it and who do stick with the work through thick and thin, all the more valued.

As we travel along together in our search for the promised land of Knowledge and Workable Magic, I notice several things that evaded my glance before. I see that it is indeed true that if one makes a better mouse trap a trail will be beaten to one’s door. But, and this is painfully true, if one discovers that the world is round, one must break trails to all the thrones of the known world before finding a single person to back a voyage to the New World.

The trouble with making a discovery, such as is embodied in a mathematical formula or statements bordering on the abstract, is that the world fairly crawls with crack-pots and with the cunning who hope by lies and posing to bilk the trusting. Every five minutes around the clock someone who had found nothing – nothing at all – leaps screaming into the limelight to tell the world that he has made the discovery to end all discoveries. In modern times we have seen the rise and fall of several movements started by the men who rose to shout loudest and to tell such lies that they were believed because – as we have said – “no one would ever dare tell that big a lie.”

Because of the crack-pots and because of our justified suspicion and partly justified conservatism, the genuine discoverers are, in almost every case, set upon by their fellows and rewarded by blows and curses.

As HRAs, we must do our best to try to spot the crack-pot and the cunning liars. At the same time we must remain eternally watchful lest some great discovery be mentioned in a whisper and not [be] heard. The great men seldom go in for publicity. Unless what they say is a mouse trap – not a mathematical equation that will eventuate in an atom bomb – the world at large may never know of the really great discovery until some city explodes under the impact of a few pounds of mysterious substance.

One thing stands out clearly, and that is that our progress into a full knowledge of Huna is NOT to be made by going BACK and by going back alone. Most of those who give up Huna do so to make a return to some earlier belief or way of prayer, or to go back to the latest of the long parade of brilliant promises in the hope that one has at last been found that will live up to its verbal or printed claims.

We of the HRA go back only to pick up the sources and the origins – the basics upon which to build into the future. We see that the old is not enough, so we also GO FORWARD. We seek no more Masters. Instead, we listen to the quiet voices of our physicists, mathematicians and advanced students of the materials of the psycho- religious field.

PENDULUM AND OSCAR BRUNLER

Only a few of us are well enough trained in special things to follow our John Hilliard or Dr. Oscar Brunler, of whom I will soon speak at length. But all of us can understand very well indeed whether or not men like these are asking money to divulge their secrets of learning, invention or discovery. We all know that the worker is worthy of his hire, but we have also learned, by painful experience, to be highly suspicious of the man who advertises much, charges for pig-in-a-poke “teachings” ALWAYS before opening the poke.

I feel that in our work with Huna we have come in the past few days to a distinct turning place. The first step in the Huna exploration was to dig into the past and learn all we could of the old beliefs and practices of na kahuna. Our second step has been to try our hands at the use of the old methods as we now understand them to be. We have had over a year and a half of experimental healing practice, and – in passing – I may say that the results have been above all expectation, all things considered. Now we are getting set to take the third step, which is that of looking into the very latest discoveries and theories to be found in other fields.

A few months ago I told of Dr. Brunler and his arrival in our country, of his work with the pendulum and of his incredible conclusions, also of his efforts to find oil, water and gold through the use of the pendulum.

Having no way to evaluate his findings, I reserved judgment and contented myself by watching to see what might come of it all. This last week there came the thing that convinced me that, in Dr. Brunler and his astonishing (perhaps astonishing because so new to us) findings, we had the opportunity to begin the work of taking the third step. The next day there arrived John Hilliard’s new booklet with its treasure of materials.

Before telling you what convinced me that Dr. Brunler was a safe and sound thinker, let me speak of the fourth step – one that may be taken in the future, or which we may never take. It is the step in which some of us will blaze the way ahead through inner illumination – I do not know just how, but in a way similar to the “realization” of Zen. It will have to go further than any of the almost inspired teachings from the spirit side. It will have to be the inspiration that will provide the flashes which will enable the loose ends to be gathered to make a working and complete strand.

On November 9th, Dr. Brunler wrote what was to me the most important letter to be received since I first heard from W.R. Stewart who had known na kahuna in North Africa who spoke a Polynesian dialect. Here is the letter:

Dear Max Freedom Long:

With kindest regards, (Signed,) Oscar Brunler.

Many thanks for your kind letter of October 25th. I am very sorry that I did not let you know that I was to lecture on Sunday last to the American Hypnotists’ Association.

After the lecture three people were hypnotized. I took their brain radiation before and during hypnosis. During their hypnotic state they were asked to expand their consciousness to a higher plane, to rise toward the divine light, etc., etc. One of the subjects rose to 520 degrees and then I brought him up to 575.

Dr. Calver said, “Let us do an experiment with him as he has reached the psychometric range,” We obtained two letters from the audience and gave them in turn to the hypnotized person. He was able to psychometrize the first letter in the most surprising manner. The second letter, sealed, was handed to him. He said that this letter was written by a lady and went on to describe the contents of the letter. As soon as he was out of his hypnotic state his brain radiation had dropped to the original one and the man was unable to psychometrize.

It was a most interesting experiment and I learned a few other things which would take too long to describe by letter

This letter will have striking meaning to those of you who are familiar with its terms, just as it has had for me. In brief, Dr. Brunler has demonstrated the fact that a man can raise the “vibration” of his brain by an act of his consciousness.

In this case it was done by suggestion given under hypnotic influence. However, we can safely assume that it can also be done without hypnosis, and by the individual. This is of tremendous importance. Eventually it may lead us to the fourth step in the Huna exploration, that in which the rate of the brain radiation (waves) are high enough to allow us to enter the state of “realization” or “illumination.”

In our Bulletins I will, for as long as is needed, give over a good part of the space to telling in detail of Dr. Brunler’s many discoveries and of his theories.

With a pendulum and an instrument called a “biometer” he has measured the brain radiations of over 20,000 people. He has been able to study the people whose radiations fall in certain degrees and has found that those in one degree band have mental capacities and characteristics very different from those of other bands.

In this way he offers the world a mechanism by which we may determine our mental levels. Once an individual knows where he stands, he can go ahead confidently in such work and activities as have been found best performed by people of that degree band. The possibilities are very great.

There are many things besides the brain waves to be presented. Dr. Brunler has covered much ground in his experimenting and I can promise much fascinating material from his hands. Unfortunately there are no books available covering these things. His lectures have been printed in the official journal of the British Dowsers, but are not available except at considerable expense. A similar series of lectures are being given in Los Angeles now – if you live out here. (Dr. Brunler kindly sent me a carbon of one of his recent lectures and I am fortunate in having a copy of an out-of-print booklet giving the lectures delivered in England.) Stand by. MFL