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.

November 15, 1952

THE “WALL” STILL HOLDS

HRA S.H. of Glendale, Calif., added to my faith and pleasure with a letter of Nov. 6th, in which she writes, “I wish to report that my son-in-law has today returned safe and sound from Korea. His plane and that of his wing man were the only two in the squadron which did not get a single bullet hole. I wish to thank with all my heart the TMHG group which has been working on the “Wall of Protection.” It evidently is very potent action and so very much worthwhile. Our group here still has Breakfast Meetings – and Huna still works for us. Thanks again.”

We still have a perfect score on our “Wall” boys. The visualized “Wall of Protection” and the prayer to establish, strengthen and keep it around each of them, is made in the TMHG just after the gift of mana to na Aumakua through the “braided cord” – this mana is for their use as they see fit – and following the visualization and prayer for world peace and progression into the New Day of Hurtlessness, Helpfulness and Enlightenment. The signature, in ink, of your fighting man or one near to you for whom you will work faithfully, may be sent in for the TMHG at any time. A report on such men is to be sent in whenever there is a change in their service, such as leaving any part of the service that may endanger them. If any of you plan an auto trip of some length and wish such prayer protection as can be had through the TMHG, let me have the request and dates and the signatures of those making the trip a few days before the start.

THE MATCH BOX EXPERIMENT WORKS well for her, reports HRA Mrs. H.G.G, of Long Beach, California, who is one of our brand new HRAs and who is reading and testing out the things laid out for training and testing in the early Bulletins. She has followed the suggestion that one take several of the small match boxes to be had at the grocers, remove the matches and use the boxes instead of the pill boxes, which are more difficult to come by.

DEAR MR. LONG,
I am so excited at this point I’m not sure my letter will make good sense. However, I’ll risk it, knowing you have been through a similar experience! Tonight is the third time I’ve tried the match box experiment, and I’ve hit it four out of four!  “George” seemed to tell me what was in the boxes, then I checked on each one again with “George” and the pendulum before opening the boxes. The first and second times I tried the experiment I was only able to get what was in the first box; the other three I couldn’t get straight with either “George” or the pendulum. You will know how I feel this evening, having got all four correct.
Sincerely,
Mrs. H.G.G.

Yes, the Aunihipili can be trained, rapidly with some of us, more slowly with others. It is a good idea to try George on the boxes now and then to see if he is in good working [order].

ELECTION PREDICTIONS

Election predictions made by the use of the pendulum (despite my recent warning that prediction of the future was most uncertain with the pendulum) were attempted. Three pendulum tests made by Democrat HRAs who hoped Adlai would win; all came up with “yes” swings. Two tests made by Republican HRAs hoping that Ike would win, got “yes” for him, and one got correct answers on a number of other favored candidates who later won. Cigbo, who was not very well briefed as to what it was all about, suspended his pendulum from his tail and in due time voiced the somber prediction, “pendulum Harry is the one who is going to be ejected.” Later on, after consulting with Mr. Thomas Kat, in our alley, he was able to explain everything. He said, “It is very clear and unmistakable that only Republican Uncles and Aunties can predick with a pennylum, anyway, in this ejection.” I hurried out to consult Mr. Thomas Kat myself to get the straight of the matter, and he issued the following sage dictum. “Georges are always the same as the people that owns them. They wasn’t trying to predick. They just wanted to cast their votes.” If any of you got a pendulum prediction in this matter which was contrary to your personal hopes, will you kindly let me know so I can stand corrected on a blanket agreement with Mr. Kat?

SCRYING ALSO MISSED for a good Democrat HRA who allowed a full five minutes to get himself subconsciously neutral before looking into his glass to see who would win. An image formed and he saw a plane land and Adlai get off, soft dark hat and all. He took that to be the answer.

A TRANCE PREDICTION was obtained last December on the 16th (‘51) by HRAs Hal and Mary Falvey of Chicago. Larry did the trance prediction, helped into trance by light suggestion. No spirit influence so far as I know. Their letter, sent to the Study at that time, is in the files and can now be checked. She had worked to get a telepathic contact with their son. When Mary was ready, Hal asked, “How’s son doing at the tank training camp?” Mary replied:

“Having a fine time. He likes it. (Pause) The fighting is about over anyway … 2-mile neutral strip in Korea … nobody’s to enter it but both sides do, though not to fight. (Pause) Elections coming. Same two miles of neutral zone in other countries. In about 18 months the lid blows off. Strange thing, we have no president then, not as we have now. A deputy or Premier runs things; the President is told he wasn’t elected to handle things as they have developed, and he is quite agreeable. It is all quite legal; it’s still the same U.S.A. Mr. Taft is in there somewhere, and in complete agreement. The Premier, or whatever he is, is a tall, dark-haired, balding square-faced man. Thus we get in there and really whip the situation.”

Hal wrote on October 28th, commenting on the matter and giving a later prediction. I quote:

“Note the ‘neutral strips,’ which have not only characterized the Korean treaty zone but, recently, East-West Europe. Acheson seemed to think last December 16th, that the Korean situation might blow up at any minute, but Mary did not, and it hasn’t.

“We were curious about Taft at the time; the prediction has him ‘in there,’ as well he might be, but not as President. We think that general predictions deal not only with ultimate events but the minds shaping them; the minds can shift as things develop, but the event will happen. Thus the time intervals can change, between now and the event, but the event has to happen ultimately. Predictions for individuals can be much more precise, we find, but even these, when dependent on other minds somehow involved, can happen sooner or later than predicted.

“All business predictions, including Mary’s, are that business will probably be good, indefinitely. A military government, the logical one for all-out war, might change that, though it would not necessarily stop the making or buying of goods.

“(Later) I asked Mary in trance just now about business in general. This is her first try at predicting in exactly this way. She says: ‘Good business for the next two years except for a slight, short dip next March, and expect trouble from the Russians next June’ — tho’ this evidently does not affect business. Says we get more military participation in government by next August.”

COMMENT: Our thanks for this interesting material, Hal and Mary. The letters go into the files for later checks. This type of prediction, with good documentation, is what we need. I can think of only one tall, dark, balding man at the moment who might take over in conjunction with Senator Taft in a war emergency, and this is General MacArthur. General Ike is not “dark,” but he is “in there” now and it may have been his shadow cast ahead that was seen.

OUR ASTROLOGERS ALSO PREDICTED, and one of our best in HRA circles comments in a recent note, “I sure thought that Saturn on Ike’s sun would be likely to do him considerable blocking, especially as old Saturn seemed to be favoring Adlai. Mr. Clancy, who publishes an astrology magazine was sure Ike would miss being elected, and some time ago, as reported in the Bulletin, another of our HRAs had checked the stars and decided that only Harry had stars good enough to win an election – this was before the conventions and she had checked on Taft as the main opposing entry. I tried for a dream of the future to see what I could get just before the election and dreamed I came out of a hut where men had gathered around a fire. Outside it was very cold and I stood on the top of a smooth, round hill top facing a long steep slope covered with ice. Taking a hand sled, I flattened myself on it and began to slide down, faster and faster, suddenly realizing that I could not stop, that I had forgotten to dress warmly, and that there was now no turning around. Ahead was a vast lake with spots of open water which I feared I might slide into, but I managed by inches to avoid them. Awakening, I asked my George for the meaning of the dream, and got the flash “slide.” I thought that one over and suddenly got the symbol. George had given me the nearest he could to a “landslide,” but had failed to make it understood which candidate it was to be for. Never having seen a landslide, but knowing about sled slides, he did his best to get at least that part of the idea across. The water and ice were clear in the dream, so I take it things will be tricky ahead of us, but that we will manage one way or another to keep from falling in.

A THREE-TIME WINNER of the “Pegleg Liars’ Contest”

The winner at the convention of mining men and prospectors held in the desert country recently, is our HRA Howard Clark. He tried to keep quiet to give the others a chance this year, but they made him get up and tell one, and, naturally, won the prize. Here’s his yarn.

“I was slipping on a ’slichenslide’ surface toward a vast chasm, when I saw that I was nearing a very small crack in the rock. I quickly seized my trusty grubstake and drove it into the crack, and held on. My grubstake was pretty small in them days.”

In his letter, in addition to the story, there was, as usual, much interesting information and comment. He writes, “I was much interested in Bulletin 89 and the report of the man of the Eidetics Foundation – as on page 3 – saying that they had found such things as demons. Recently I read a most amazing book dating from the 1880 period, edited by Emma Hardinge Britten, and covering the life of a gifted psychic. He was terrified in localities by apparent ‘demons’ in the shape of ‘elementals’ – immature forms of life in nature, forms and shapes in partial development, utterly without an idea of anything but mischief, torment, terror, etc. These were visible to his psychic sight and often terrified his horse, giving rise to accounts of ‘haunted’ areas in the back country of Britain 100 years ago.”

Incidentally, the story of the lost mine discovered by Pegleg Smith, years ago, so HRA Clark and others tell me, is one of the best authenticated of the many such tales. The old prospector turned up after a prospecting trip in a part of the South West that is very broken and full of confusing jumbles of hills, canyons and washes. He reported that he had become lost, had come out on the top of a hill, and had been amazed to find the ground there strewn with large gold nuggets. (Go away, Cigbo! Stop trying to read over my shoulder!) To prove his story he had his pockets filled with the nuggets. The spot was never found again, although it has been searched for time and again and although several men have lost their lives in the maze of the desert in which the discovery was made.

Dr. Brunler hoped to be able by map dowsing with a pendulum, to locate some of the lost mines or buried treasure, and he and his friends made many long trips into far places to see what might be found at places marked on the map during the dowsing tests. One very promising spot marked on the map was investigated, and when the party arrived at the far place which had been indicated – it was at the end of a desert road which was hardly more than a track in the desert – the gold was there, and no question about it. The only catch was that someone else had found it first and that a mine was in full operation there. Pendulums and radionics instruments used in dowsing for gold, may one day turn up Pegleg’s mine. (Cigbo says that if any HRA should find it, to remember that he has – right now – put dibs on a nice big nugget for his cigar box.) If the lesson learned by the HRA experience with the pendulum in predicting the election is worth anything, it should warn us that when we use the pendulum to dowse for gold, we had better make certain that George is not all loaded up and over balanced with the hope and expectation of finding gold. I have a pet theory that I want to try out some day when I can find a good map dowser and a spare few hours. I would give the dowser a “sample” to hold while he used his pendulum. The sample would be natural gold – a small nugget, if I could get one for love or money, or borrow one. It would be wrapped in something so that the dowser would not know what he was dowsing for, and all precautions would be taken against the dowser being told that if he found the Pegleg mine on the map, he would be cut in on the deal in a large way. Of course, I have still to find a way to keep his George from finding out what was in the “sample” – and at the same time to recognize the substance of the gold so he could go in aka body to search for the stuff. Know a good dowser who never saw a nugget or native gold in the rocks?

MORE ABOUT E-THERAPY

As explained by HRA A.L. Kitselman, its originator, in response to Bulletin 89 touching on his work and the general field of Dianetics. Here is his letter:

“I am afraid I didn’t make things very clear to you on my last visit. The new therapy, ES or E-Suggestion, is an E-plus therapy and not a new form of E-Therapy. E-Therapy itself is simply opening the mind, heart and body to therapy by the Aumakua, and it is not, in itself, a method or ‘technique.’ Nor would I have any idea how to change or revise E-Therapy, since I have never known how to do E-Therapy in the first place. It is therapy done by ‘E’ – the Aumakua.

“Everyone who has called upon the Aumakua for help has been engaging in E-Therapy – to the extent that the mind, heart and body are willing to manifest whatever the Aumakua directs. There is nothing ‘new’ about this and I don’t see how there can be anything ‘old’ about it, either. So do not expect any changes in Aumakua.

“On the other hand, the Aumakua manifests in their cases with only about two-thirds of the population. In one-third of the people, the Aunihipili (low self of Huna) is distorted with some form of block. ES and other E-plus methods are ways of operating on the Aunihipili so that the manifestations of the Aumakua will no longer be blocked. These are ‘methods,’ and they come and go, but Aumakua-Therapy itself is timeless.

“Also, on behalf of Mr. Hubbard and myself, I must ask you not to speak of E-Therapy as a form of Dianetics. Both he and I – he first – have emphatically stated that E-Therapy is not Dianetics. In the language of SSBM, E-Therapy is Aumakua Therapy, whereas Dianetics is Auhane therapy. That is to say that Dianetic techniques and procedures are directed and controlled by the conscious mind of the auditor, the pre-clear, or of both, whereas E-Therapy is controlled only by the Aumakua of the observer, or of the transient, or of both. That is quite a difference.

“In reference to Mr. Johnson’s communication, he says that early Dianetic auditing produced ‘only a couple or so people who ever reached what they thought was a state of MEST clear.’ I don’t know where this statement came from, but when I was Executive Officer of the Hubbard Foundation in Honolulu, we had it straight from headquarters that fifty ‘clears’ had been produced before September of 1950, and one of them was put in charge of our branch of the Foundation. It is so easy to make claims. I have met most of the leading lights in both Dianetics and E-Therapy, and it is my sad duty to report that I do not know of any ‘clears’ produced by revery therapy alone, whether by Dianetics, psychotherapy, E-Therapy or hypno-therapy. Good ‘releases’ may be so produced, but stable clears are produced only by the age-old techniques of disidentifying such as are found in the teachings of Kapila, Krishna, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Christ, and Krishnamurti. I know a number of such clears, but they were not produced by revery-therapy.

“I have an E-Meter and have done much work with it, but it seems curious to me that the 1500 or so na Aumakua whom I have watched at work – and many of whom I have talked to – have not, to date, seen fit to expound to me any of the extraordinarily exciting revelations about the ‘ARSCLYANS,’ etc. I guess I’m just not one of the favored few.

“There is a voice within me – a demon circuit, maybe? or an injected entity? – which keeps suggesting that Mr. Hubbard is a reincarnation of Madame Blavatsky. Of course, I keep saying, ‘Preposterous! Go back where you came from, foul imp!’ but the voice answers, ‘Just look at the facts. Both taught former lives, different races of beings, planetary incarnations, exaltation of super-beings; both complained of being persecuted and misunderstood; both received and dispensed revelations; both were world-travelers; both were disarmingly candid in evaluating their own importance, and both followed the same pattern of professional conduct.’ Can anyone free me from this obsession?”
(Signed) A.L. Kitselman

Comment: As they say cautiously in the magazines and on the radio, the opinions of the writers of letters to this Bulletin are not necessarily those of the Bulletin or its editor. I would hate to have Madame Blavatsky rise from the grave to sue, or Dr. Hubbard arrive from Arizona for the same purpose.

THE SUCCESSFUL USE OF HUNA

The successful use of Huna was reported in a letter of October 10th by HRA H.B.D. of Evanston, Ill. I quote:

“About a month ago the 17-year old son of some good friends of ours was stricken with polio, arms, legs and neck paralyzed. I heard about it the second day and decided to include a request for his recovery in my prayer. The very instant that I mentioned his name in my prayer I got a powerful tingle all over, a charge of mana going places. This for 5 or 6 consecutive days, then no more. Upon inquiry I found out that he was over the hump and on the way to recovery. For a week his condition had been critical and the doctor didn’t know which way it would turn. Two weeks later he was about 100% recovered and took part in a sailboat race.

“This would seem to indicate that the Aumakua accepts mana only as long as there is need for it for use in a worthy cause. If this line of reasoning holds water, then there must have been a terrific need for the mana I offered one evening about three weeks ago during the DEG period. I got a terrific tingle all over for about five minutes. It left me groggy for a while. The only request I made in that prayer was that I might help with whatever cause you were praying for at the time. It might have been an emergency in the Wall of Protection.

“Aside from this, I have kept down the aches and pains of my wife, but have had to repeat treatment every three or four weeks. We can’t seem to get to the cause of her troubles. I no longer transfer her aches to myself. I include in my prayer the request that I be permitted to radiate off harmlessly any off-key vibrations I may have picked up, into infinite space. This seems to work for me.

“About two months ago I had an accident – backed accidentally into the hot exhaust pipe on my boat with my bare back and got a burn of about 25 square inches, about half of it second degree and a little of it third degree. I willed a charge of mana to go to work on the burn and in approximately two minutes all pain was gone. I used no dressing. The next morning the blisters were torn open and it was quite a mess, so I decided to try autosuggestion that there should be no infection … and there was none, in spite of considerable irritation while driving my car, and while sleeping on it at night.

“Ten days later it was healed perfectly, leaving no scars. In the past, ruptured blisters frequently became infected when not dressed and took longer to heal.

“In the past I have been bothered with nose bleeds which would last from ten to thirty minutes. Lately I have willed a charge of mana to stop the bleeding and, so far, it has always stopped it in from ten to fifteen seconds. Once I tried faith alone, and told myself that with the help of the Aumakua this could stop instantly, and I got a tingle and it stopped right then.

“In Bulletin 61, page 7, you tell of the spirit kahuna who said ‘Think only good, good, good, and some day you will see a big white light, Once in her life, my wife has seen that kind of an intense white light. Her sisters were with her at the time, but did not see it. They thought she must have been dreaming.

“In Bulletin 64, page 4, I am again with you 100%. I, too, want to know WHY, very much so. If this leads to the seventh deed of Maui, so be it. Before I read your book I was a complete materialist, never went to church, don’t now – can’t swallow the dogmatism – but man needs religion, and at long last the study of Huna gives it to me. It makes sense and lets me hope that I may yet get guidance from the Aumakua, come hell or high water – or even conditions such as described in the BSRA release, ‘LAST DAYS.’ It may be very late.

“Meanwhile the study of Huna is to me a spiritual anchor to windward [and] much needed. It is the most interesting and the most worthwhile study that I have ever undertaken, but because my psychic ability, if any, seems to be very nearly nil, it will probably never be much more than just a study with me.”

Comment: Many thanks for such a good report, H.B.D., and for trying out things as you get into the Huna studies. Huna is to be put to use as well as to be used as material about which to speculate. Your experience of finding at times that the mana moves in you greatly, with much tingling, is a very familiar one to me, as is the use of so much mana at times that I have suddenly awakened, the TMHG letter box still in my hands, to find that I had either blacked out or fallen asleep when the mana supply gave out. I agree that this gives every evidence of being the indication of a time of emergency when na Aumakua have very important work to do on the dense earth level and are only too pleased to have a place where mana can be obtained for what they have to do. We may serve better than we know. In any event, I have yet to feel more than a momentary lack of vital force after such an experience. Often there is a fine uplifted feeling after strong tingling actions have stopped.

THE PAMPHLET, “PROJECTION OF THE MIND”

This pamphlet, and the small globes made of light blue glass, which HRA Walter Bissel-Smith (Am. Gas & Electric, 30 Church St., New York 8, N.Y.) made available not long ago to HRAs who wished to test his system of “Mental Projection,” have resulted in interesting reports. Letters offering these items for those who wished to test the method were sent to 34 HRAs listed in the Huna Directory sheets. Seven did not reply. Five said ‘no,” and twenty-two agreed to make tests and were sent the literature explaining it and a globe. HRA Bissel-Smith received a number of interesting reports on results, among them one from George and Helen Sandwith who ran tests in Suva. Fiji, down in the South Pacific, where they are hard at work.

I have been happy to have a copy of the report to read and pass on:

“Your generosity in sending the glass spheres and pamphlet is much appreciated … Helen, my wife, saw a thin mist and shapes trying to form for several days, then, suddenly, one day she saw a beautiful Polynesian girl, her back turned toward her, sitting under a tree with her lap full of flowers. She says the coloring was superb – like a tropical sunset, and the golden skin of the girl gleaming.

“Two nights later she saw a herd of small, light brown humped native cattle race past, their coats shining and radiating. Behind them stood a grove of palms of a kind she said she had not seen before. A few days later on, when we were driving up country, she exclaimed, ‘There are the palms I saw in my vision!’ They were a Fijian type that I have never seen elsewhere.

“On one occasion I found myself looking down a street in Suva. The road was dusty and a herd of dark humped cattle were passing along it. I get better results not using the sphere, but imagining it, or using the idea behind it. I find that I am in closer touch with the Entities of our ikons and can converse with one of them far more easily than in the past. The idea of the glass sphere was emphasized for us both recently when we were initiated as associates of a Hindu Fire-Walkers’ temple. The High Priest made the mark on our foreheads of a third eye with yellow ochre. Incidentally, our fire-walking friends say they can see the goddess, Kali, walking about the inner sanctum of the temple. Her power certainly can be felt! I have also seen picture writing on the wall at night without a sphere and with my eyes open.
Very kind regards from us both. We hope to learn a lot about Fijian Sacred Stones using your methods.”
August 26, 1952  (Signed) George Sandwith

The Sandwiths have just spent some time in Samoa and have sent a fine report on the sacred stones there, together with a most interesting set of pictures, three enlargements of which await pendulum tests as well as Aurameter investigation for radiations. Fine work in the field and much appreciated by all of us, I am sure.

MORE HUNA DIRECTORY NAMES

56. Mary C. Hanscom, P.O. Box 132, Claremont, Calif., who has had some very excellent results in her use of the Huna methods. A very experienced hand in the general field of the occult and metaphysical.

57. Mrs. Bessie Cornelison, 2246 So. Bannock St., Denver 10, Colo. Phone No. SHerman 1335. One of our HRAs who has been with us from the early days. Would like to know other HRAs, especially in the Denver area.

58. Louis H. Scherb, 727 Cornelia Ave., Chicago 3, Ill. One of our newer members, but long a student of the many philosophies in our part of the field. He writes a very good letter.

ABOUT BRUNLER-BOVIS BIOMETER SUPPLY

I have had many recent inquires, [and] I can only say that at present these are not available. When Dr. Brunler was alive, he had a few made up for his students who had taken the $200 course in the use of the instruments. The price of the instruments probably ran as high as $500 each. The Bovis Biometer [is] not made now.
MFL

Aug. 15, 1952

Dr. Oscar Brunler

HRA Dr. OSCAR BRUNLER passed on, August 1st, at Santa Barbara, Calif. As was stated in the Bulletin some time ago, he suffered from radiation poisoning during two hours of work potentizing chemical fertilizers in solution for a friend – poisoning from which he was unable to recover. His body was cremated. On the Sunday following, a “Bon Voyage” party was held in the garden of the home in which he had spent his last weeks, there in Santa Barbara.

Dr. Brunler’s discoveries and inventions were many, making up an impressive list. His personal experiences and adventures covered a very large field. Of especial interest and benefit to the HRA has been his work in the measurement of the radiations of what he came to prefer to call the “soul,” and the classification of the radiation readings according to their levels and significations. With the great generosity which was one of his outstanding characteristics, he passed on to us and to his friends and lecture audiences, his findings, at the same time doing his best to present those findings against a background of psycho-religious philosophy which would aid in one’s understanding and ability to accept the very new and often surprising things which were offered.

Perhaps his greatest talent was his capacity for friendship. Those of us who knew him during his short time of residence in California will miss him very much. He was one of the best friends of HRA, and we can best honor his memory by closing ranks and pressing on with even greater determination to do what we can to make the best of the heritage of knowledge which he left to us and to the world.

OUR NEW BULLETIN PAPER, which comes into use with this issue and which will continue for several issues, is not intended as a permanent thing. Cigbo had the chance to tie up some discontinued paper stock which had been punched with two holes but which can be cut to our size. The holes come in the margin and will do no harm. They might even serve to bind the Bulletins’ run on this special paper. The savings on this paper will be used to buy some much desired books to go with the Tregear Dictionary which is still on the way from New Zealand, but which should arrive soon.

ROUND ROBIN MAGAZINE, issue of July-August, done in the inimitable manner of HRA Meade Layne in the interests of the BSRA, is off the mimeograph and makes unusually good reading. The six-page lead article by the editor on the Aurameter, etheric objects, thought-forms, teleportation and its possible use in projecting flying saucers – all most provocative of thought. A number of other excellent articles and departments include a fine report on a very odd experiment carried out by HRA Verne Cameron with the aid of his Aurameter and a strange skull from the collection of the famous lecturer, collector and student, Manley P. Hall. (“Kilner’s ‘Human Atmosphere’ – and an Unusual Experiment”) Single copies of ROUND ROBIN 50 cents, but nice to add a dime for postage. Subscription for a year, including BSRA releases, $5. 3524 Adams Ave., San Diego 16, Calif.

Concluding: “JESUS AND PAUL TALK THINGS OVER IN PARADISE”

(III) (Reprint from Psychic News and Harbinger of Light)

Paul: My Lord, I saw you in my system as the “High Priest Forever,” and gave you that place of honor. I placed you “sitting at the right hand of God.” I gave you every honor.
Jesus: Well I know where you have placed me, Paul, but where did you get these highly aristocratic and priestly ideas about me? Not from me, not from my words or works, and I am sure none who ever knew me in the flesh and in my simple garments, would ever associate me with all the flummery gathered round the old priestcraft. The official dress alone would disgust anyone who lived as simply as I did.
Paul: I know you lived a simple life, but -
Jesus: Very simple both in life and belief. It was my protest against the elaborate pretence of temple and synagogue. How I hated the weary procession of beasts trailing along to the slaughter-house and, still more so, the resplendent solemnity of the priests in attendance who stage-managed the ancient pantomime.
Paul: But it was the ancient religion of our fathers.
Jesus: It certainly was. I hated it so I could not speak of its beastly ritual and just ignored it. That was why the priests were so angry at my teaching. They did not understand a religion for  the market place and the home. They had always to be “performing” in  their temples and in the slaughter-house.
Paul: How strange! I saw the OLD fit into the NEW, just like a dove-tail. The one seemed to fulfil the other. You, my Lord, were the final fulfilment of all our religion.
Jesus: The religion I began to do and teach, Paul, was not reformed Judaism. It was a new way of life. Paul, between ourselves, your theorizing with your old scriptures about sacrifice, and your conclusion, “We are justified by His blood” – meaning mine – (Rom. 5:9), was most ingenious. Then you turn around to simple men, Gentiles, and men who never knew or heard of our ancient and peculiar rites, and you say that only those who can bring themselves to believe – all that – are saved. I never taught that.
Paul: I thought –
Jesus: Don’t you see, Paul, that before any man can understand YOUR gospel, which you call Christianity, he must first study and then accept ancient Judaism with all its ritual of bloody sacrifices? Is that the proper approach to ME?
Paul: It seemed very logical at the time when I wrote to the Saints at Rome. They accepted it.
Jesus: I was never in Rome. But, Paul, what will happen to my simple gospel if future generations should prefer yours and build churches around it to perpetuate that – forgive me, Paul – that logical lunacy?
Paul: I did my best.
Jesus: Paul, a man’s best, if his vision is wrong, is sometimes his worst. But I shall always be grateful to you for that other writing of yours, much of it so different from your polemics, but especially your poem in praise of Love. (1 Cor. 13.) For one brief hour you were inspired by all I ever believed or felt. My dear Paul, I have that poem in my memory, every word.
Paul: My master, I wrote that far removed from the scene of the Jewish temples and the priests. It was done in my beloved Ephesus. I am glad you like it.
Jesus: Paul, that will live when all your other works are forgotten. It is the whole of the LAW and the GOSPEL.
Paul: Lord, did you never write? Had you no craving for authorship?
Jesus: No craving for authorship in that sense. Had I lived longer – and how I wished for that – I might possibly have collected my sayings and my simple stories, like the one about the Good Samaritan, and the Prodigal Son, and others. Oh, I remember, I did write once, but only on sand. (John 8:6.)
Paul: On sand? – what? – why?
Jesus: It was a secret. For a brief moment it was seen and read by only one poor, simple girl. Paul, it is the FATE OF ALL WRITING TO BE WRITTEN ON SAND. There is NO FINALITY WITH TRUTH. Truth marches on.
Paul: My master, one day you must tell me what you taught and I may, if you will, ask of you questions, as once I did of my master Gamaliel.
Jesus: Yes, we shall do that. But I warn you, Paul, my gospel was not a theology except in its simplest form, and it never was a system, and it never was a body of doctrine. It was just about people. Always about people.
Paul: My master, might we not talk today of your views rather than of mine?
Jesus: As you will, Paul; then you must question me and I shall answer as best I can.
Paul: Well, then, what about your miraculous birth by the Virgin Mary and the Holy Ghost?
Jesus: I know nothing of that. None of us can know anything of our birth, Paul, except what we are told.
Paul: And what were you told?
Jesus: No child is ever given details. I was told nothing.
Paul: Not even when you grew up and became “a son of the Law?”
Jesus: It would have been too late then, Paul; these miracle stories are for the very young. Mothers in all lands tell fairy stories about birth to their children to satisfy a too early curiosity.
Paul: But, my master, you must believe your mother Mary was a Virgin. 
Jesus: Surely. My mother Mary would be a virgin when she met her man Joseph, but of the Holy Ghost – well, Paul – I am like your friends in Ephesus (at a much later date) who had not heard of it. (Acts 19:2.)
Paul: Do you suggest – ?
Jesus: I suggest nothing. I do not know. I never once spoke of my birth – few people do – and in my lifetime those who knew me well – even those who are NOW writing about me – never spoke of it as anything worthy of special comment. Not once.
Paul: But – your miracles?
Jesus: You mean my powers of healing? No one ever associated any power of mine with my birth. They did not say: “Nothing amazing in that, considering his miracle-birth.” Not once. They just said: “Is this not the carpenter’s son whose brothers and sisters are here?” There was no mystery in the minds of my generation in regard to my birth.
Paul: But your own biographers, my master –
Jesus: I know biographers. When their subject – always famous or notorious – died, the biographer always found something astonishing in his immediate ancestry, especially in the mother – a pretty sentiment, my Paul, and a natural one. All the world loves a mother! And -
Paul: But, my master, the story has caught the world’s imagination. They now have a day in honor of the “Babe of Bethlehem.” It is the Holy Mystery.
Jesus: And all the world loves a new-born! The Gentiles will rejoice; they always liked mysteries. They loved to make their great ones greater still – both in life and in death. At birth they were wonderful; after death they became dieties. My answer to your question, Paul, is – I DO NOT KNOW!
Paul: You refer to after death. What, then, of the Future Life? How did you deal with that? I had much to say to the Saints about the Kingdom-to-come.
Jesus: So I have heard. Now that is a question I can answer and did answer in my lifetime. One day when my disciples were showing me over the Temple buildings, they asked that very question, and I replied: “Day and date no man knows. You don’t know; I don’t know; even the angels in heaven don’t know. God alone knows.” (Matt. 24:36.) And to take them out of their dream I added, “Wake up! Keep the day’s work going, and because you don’t know – Watch!” (Matt. 25:13.)
Paul: You didn’t know? I thought you knew all things.
Jesus: No, there were  some things I did know that I did not tell – to the people who asked me.
Paul: Were you not the Great Teacher?
Jesus: It was because I was a teacher, and knew my pupils, that I often reserved my opinions.
Paul: You didn’t know! That would be on account of your “Kenosis,” my master?
Jesus: My what? Oh, yes, you mean that theory you gave to the Philippians? (Phil. 2:7.)
Paul: Yes. How, though you were equal with God from the beginning, you “emptied yourself” of your Glory and became a man of no reputation?
Jesus: My glory, Paul, such as it was, was to be a Man, and I fear I did not have a considerable “reputation.” I have studied that part of your letter to the Philippians with care. I quite approve of verse 5, but the glorification that follows – to verse 11 – I confess made me think of that remark of Festus to you, my Paul. (Acts 21:24.)
Paul: I was never done placing you on a high pinnacle, my master 
Jesus: So it would seem. Luke tells of another who did that. (Luke 4:9.) No, Paul, I must tell you frankly I do not understand your theory of the – the Kenosis, nor your argument. I first “empty myself” and yet I retain “the fullness of the God-head,” (Col. 2:9) and am credited with omnipotence. I make another prophesy, Paul. This “mystery” of yours – and it is also a mystery to me – will keep the priests and pundits busy for the next twenty centuries to come. Many ecclesiastical honors will be won in the contest. (The end.)

* Note: “Kenosis” comes from the Greek word used by Paul. It means “emptying.” In the “Word Book” at the back of the King James version “International Series” Bible on my desk, “Kenosis” is given and a special article is cited under the discussion heading of THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE. A careful reading of this section of the explanations of how the modern Bible and modern dogmas came to have their present form, is most enlightening and will aid greatly in the task of deciding what was taught by Jesus and what was added later in the way of dogmatic beliefs and rites. The lack of a full knowledge of Huna at the later times may be responsible for the tangle.

WITH OUR HRA INVENTORS AND INVESTIGATORS

HRA GEORGE WALLACE, Box 158, Beaumont, Calif., who invented the “ZNO” form of horizontal spring-wire pendulum, described in earlier Bulletins, tells me he is hard at work on a “bug chaser” for the “bugs” in humans, getting most of the plans for the new instrument from s spirit. This spirit materialized in a seance and George says he was struck dumb for days by the magnificence of the “teacher” and his costume.

George also has been trying a form of telepathic control over friends with whom he has experimented. It goes like this: The friend stands holding a ZNO in front of himself, point toward a chart. On his head he wears a metal band with a loop or point sticking up, or two points, or just a wire coil. This is to pick up the telepathic radiations, and/or magnetic radiations directed by George to him. George stands behind him, holding up behind his head a horse shoe magnet & “sends” directions to the effect that [the] friend will cause the point of the ZNO to trace clockwise or counter-clockwise or up and down or sidewise lines on the chart. If the south pole of the magnet is held in the hand of George, the friend’s ZNO will move in one direction, while if the north pole is the one held in the hand of George, the ZNO will reverse its motion. George says, “I have also found that changing the poles of the magnet (relative to the position of the receiver) effects receptive ability of the receiver. It is also possible to affect the sender. Results seem to be obtained quicker if the receiver wears an iron wire antenna, and if he is not insulated from the ground by rubber shoes.” It is also said to be a help if the receiver is grounded with a wire to a water or gas pipe in the room, the end of the wire being held in the free hand. George warns that these experiments should not be carried out for longer than a few minutes at a time as they may cause headache etc. if overdone. Here are some of the drawings sent to show what is meant.

While this seems a rather simple experiment, it bears on a very old question concerning the nature of magnetism and its relation to the human aura, to human nervous reactions and to the left and right hand polarity. One is made to wonder what part the magnet plays in the experiment, why the antenna betters the results, and what thought has to do with picking up and directing magnetism as a part of the silent telepathic command to cause the ZNO to move this way or that. (ZNOs are available from George. Former price was $3.)

KILNER SCREEN TYPE SPECTACLES are being made up on order for his friends and for any HRA, by HRA Joseph H. Lukovich, 334 Phoenix St., McKees Rocks, Penn. He has for some time been experimenting to get the right tint of glass to duplicate the effect obtained some years ago by Dr. Kilner in England, in which the tint seemed to cause the eyes to become sensitive to the radiations thrown off by the human aura.

Dr. Kilner tested many colors and settled on that produced by a solution of dicyanin dye. One first looked through the screen in ordinary daylight, then turned the eyes on a naked man standing in dim light against a dark background. Not all people could learn in this way to see the aura, but many succeeded. There were three distinct radiations, all supposed to lie in the ultraviolet end of the spectrum – none of them ordinarily to be seen by the eye and none picked up by cameras. The first layer was dark and colorless, extending from the body about an inch at most, but often shrinking to a quarter of an inch. The second layer extended another three inches, while the third reached almost a foot in depth.

Negative charges from a Wilmhurst machine caused the aura to vanish. It was also sensitive to the influence of magnets, chemicals and vapors. Under hypnosis, the brilliance of the aura dulled. In a similar manner its size and colors were changed by illness. In mental illness, the size of the aura grew progressively less and the outline of it was irregular and dim. At the approach of death, the aura shrinks, and at death becomes lacking entirely. He confirmed to a degree the findings of still earlier investigators who depended largely on the psychic vision of mediums to enable them to study the aura under various conditions. Much work remains to be done in this field even today.

Like all pendulum measurements, there is a certain psychic element involved and the operator must have some psychic ability in order to see the aura through the Kilner type screen. This limitation also applies to the use of the Aurameter and the Biometer, to say nothing of all the “radionics” and “electronics” instruments which depend upon the “rubbing plate” or other method of putting the psychic ability of the operator into action as the vital part of a reading. Science, of course, refuses to sanction all such methods of measurement, and even for those of us who are convinced of the verity of psychic measurement, there will be few who do not admit that readings tend to vary from one reader to the next according to his ability and training in the matter of the agreed-upon unit of measurement – the “convention” set up with the Aunihipili.

I have not seen or tested the “Auraspecs,” as HRA Lukovich has named them, but HRAs George and Helen Sandwith, who were presented with a pair (as well as with two Cameron Aurameters) for use in their testing in the South Seas, and later on Easter Island, report that both of them have been able to train themselves to see auras fairly well around things and people. They were especially interested in finding that the Aurameter would give an accurate check on the size and shape of aura  coming from people or from the ikons they have with them or from the small potentized oil painting made for healing purposes by HRA Mrs. Kingsley Tarpey of London. They are looking forward with much enthusiasm to tests of images and other objects which they may encounter on their travels and in Easter Island. (The Auraspecs can be had for about $16.50, I am told.)

IS LOVE OF BEING SCARED NORMAL OR GOOD FOR US?

So asks a thoughtful HRA, H.L. Zipf, of 1311 S.W. 4th Ave., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., who would like to hear from any HRA who has ideas on this subject. He has a fine background of Dianetics and has had many hours of “running.” He writes: “Raised as an only child, and looking back now after the experience gained in being audited, I realize that the thrills of fears hit the solar plexus, giving that clutching sensation and producing morbid feelings. Gradually, during the years, the subconscious learns to enjoy these feelings and does not wish to release them. Young children who grow up without advanced guidance will develop these fright and fear complexes which later appear and reach the point at which they produce morbid states which may make them neurotic.

“To try to ‘run’ these out in Dianetics might require several thousand hours, and then in six months or so would float to the top.

“No single fear or fright seems to produce these complex units, but they build up by combination through the years. (They cause a reaction something like that caused by a habit forming narcotic.) That is why the soap operas and thrillers on radio and TV have such tremendous followings. Thousands of women love the clutch of fear that arrives several times during the course of each program. It would appear that the subconscious finds it much easier to produce these morbid sensations than it does thoughts of love (or of quiet service – constructive thoughts), and so the morbid reactions become more habitual.

“That is why a Hitler develops an entire nation, starting with cheap thrills and sinking lower and lower to the slave camps and brutal thinking and killing as the subconscious demands more and larger thrills. To minds having no definite programs, any sensation is better than the dullness of normal life without the thrills.”

COMMENT: As HRA Zipf pointed out in his letter to me, there seems little or nothing written in the books about this strange quirk of humans that makes them enjoy the thrill of danger, especially if it can be enjoyed in complete safety. One first thinks of the possibility of some atavistic instinct inherited from those distant ancestors who faced danger bravely and lived to enjoy the thrill and plaudits of their tribal fellows. There is a savage joy in knowing that one has faced up to danger, and a savage triumph in having avoided being overcome by either the threat of natural forces or of an enemy. The actual memory of a very narrow escape, on the other hand, is not at all a happy thing to recall and one shudders away from it. The thing called “escape mechanism” in psychology, may well be what is behind the thrill of vicariously experienced dangers, and such escapes from reality belong in the day dream classification as well. Mr. Zipf, in making the discovery that the thrills and their escapes add up to harmful complexes which cause stumbling blocks in the way of the Dianetic “pre-clear,” is perhaps far more important than any of us realize at the moment. The point well deserves thought, experiments and correspondence to add to the scant information which we have and which bears on the subject. The ghost or goblin stories and scares of early childhood may have marked many of us. Also, we may have been equally marked by nightmares long since forgotten.

THOSE WHO LOVE TO SCARE OTHERS should also have their classification and day in court. To scare the living daylights out of the other fellow is great fun for those who are very young and who can shout “BOO!” from behind the door, or for those thoughtless elders who have never grown into the full estate of Overstreet’s MATURE MIND. The really mature pause with thoughtful care to weigh for their scarees the source of the scare material, the past success or failure scores of the predicting spirits, individuals or Biblical prophets, and to produce at least passable reasons for their own conclusions that the scare predictions are .01%, 2%, 10% or 99% valid. It is hardly a sign of the thoughtful, experienced, mature and entirely honest man just to jump out from behind the door and shout “BOO!” Moreover, it will be observed that the child who does this is often so overcome by his own scare that he may come scrambling in terror from his hiding place under the bed in the dark room after he has sent little sister running and screaming for light and safety. One who is himself in a fine state of funk over the predictions he has accepted and is passing on to others, may escape the suspicion of dishonesty, but may still be adding ammunition to the pile used by those who take potshots at us all as “crackpots” and entirely beyond the protection of sacred Science.

Ever since the Prophet Daniel sounded off, and since John gave out with his “vision” on the Isle of Patmos, the preachers have been able to scare dozens of sheep into their congregations under the threats of the “sacred writs,” and under the promise that the ones who attended church faithfully and gave proper support would be “caught up into the air” when the rest of those – all lacking the proper credentials of the specified cult – were blasted into eternal darkness forever (plus a day for good measure). “Scare Heads” are the constant, legitimate, and accepted means of selling us our daily paper or our favorite radio commentator. We are treated to the fine privilege of sharing vicariously the dangers, thrills and deaths of those unfortunate enough to make headlines, all because that is what we will most readily pay money for.

THE INEVITABLE CONCLUSION is that we like to be scared. And that stresses the question of whether or not that is good for us, psychically, spiritually or morally – or whether the continuous diet of scares makes for a more progressive world of men and women, for deeper and clearer thinking and more constructive planning for the world good. One thing seems to stand out clearly, and that is the fact that it adds nothing to human dignity either to scare or be scared.

IN OUR TMHG PRAYER PERIODS we picture the world at peace; we picture it as a safe world, a prosperous world and a happy place in which men can dwell. This is constructive. It is adult. It is an action of maturity and sanity and of progressive planning and thinking. We all agree that prayer without faith is of no possible use, no matter after what fashion we pray. We are told by one of the great teachers that a little faith can move a mountain, and that a little faith is like a little yeast which can leaven a whole lump of dough. Perhaps a few of us will be enough to overbalance the mass of fearful ones who expect and picture world disaster. The predictions made by spirits and self-appointed prophets have come true about once in a blue moon. They are NOT worthy of general acceptance if for no other reason. Or am I wrong?
MFL

May 1, 1952

THE $64 SAUCER QUESTION GETS A SWIFT ANSWER

On page 3 of Bulletin 76, I expressed myself as follows, “Can someone tell me what those ‘intelligences’ who guide the several kinds of flying saucers would want down here?” I was delighted with the swift response from all sides. From Colorado came a letter telling me of a psychic who was in excellent contact with the saucer men and who found them friendly, wise and inclined to be helpful. From two sources I learned that on the desert in the Palm Springs region of California, at Giant Rock, a group led by a young man of fine psychic abilities had been for some time in contact with the visitors and had accumulated enough notes from the trance sittings to make a book. Individuals at the seances report being able to experience a rather amazing process of some kind which I gather is to enter some sort of “tube,” real or of aesthetic material, and in some way visit the saucer people on other planets or aesthetic levels and to return with a very excellent sensory set of impressions. I have been unable to get the exact nature of these impressions, but was assured by one friend who phoned me, that she had taken her turn at this form of astral or psychic travel and was convinced that her experience had been actual and real.

ALL NIGHT LONG these seances continue, with breaks for refreshments, and the description makes one wish to attend and hear and experience and be amazed – at least be well entertained. (Cigbo says to tell you that he understands they have real cream for the coffee, and that as far as he is personally concerned, he could go for EVERYTHING from sailing through the tube into space and back to the matter of the saucers, and especially saucers with perhaps cream in them – in which case he could go for this set of explanations “crook, rine and stinker.”) There is a motor court close, and I believe a good place to eat. Seances are held once a week and the public is not locked out so long as the ones asking permission to attend are sincere in their interest and not filled with the unholy zeal of the type of psychical researcher who is convinced ahead of time that spirits do not exist and is out to prove it at any cost.

USUAL BSRA releases turn out to be the best source of well organized and classified information. This covers every angle, giving all that is scientifically or speculatively possible, then digesting the best obtainable psychic information to a careful nicety. The May 3 SRA release made up to send out to the authorities and those of the public who might be in key positions and in need of briefing on the subject, as of 1950, is still as good and as inclusive as when HRA Meade Layne made it up and sent it out. Much new material has been added and released, and more is on the way, but the basic ideas continue to stand. Since the Pentagon has at last admitted that they can no longer deny the fact of saucers, and since the public has been told of this by LIFE and some millions of heads have peen jerked up out of the sand, there might be panic of the first order should too many saucers suddenly visit us. The BSRA labor of love “for the good of the order” may yet pay off in a large way.

ONE HRA RESERVATION on the general opinion that the saucers are from extra-earth places of origin, needs to be set down for the record.  Here it is: “Will you fellows please move over on the saucer bench, and make room for Mary and me? Remember our FATE magazine article, written months before publication – at the height of the official pooh-poohing about saucers? In it, Mary says saucers are real, and adds that they are earth-made; the latter hasn’t been proved, but the first now is considered a fact by intelligent people, belatedly.” (Article by HRAs Hal and Mary Falvey, who are doing some remarkable investigational work on past incarnations in terms of the Aunihipili and the Auhane, in an endeavor to get back to the time when the present na Auhane – their own – were graduating from the Aunihipili state. If this is a success, they will then try to get back to observe the transition of the present na Aunihipili from some subhuman level to that of the Aunihipili human. They are back to about 1300 A.D. so far, and into an incarnation in what is now Serbia. Words that are picked up seem to be in antique Serbian. If any HRA linguist is in a position to pass on such words, will he communicate?)

Hal writes: Bulletins 75 andD 76 are HISTORY-MAKING. You are getting at the ’strong meat’ mentioned, but not revealed in the New Testament. Incidentally, since the TEACHING is always greater than the teacher, you have made immaterial the old question of whether Jesus ever actually existed. I think He did, but His purpose was the teaching, and HERE IT IS. Truly, if Yoga means the yoking-together of knowledge – by implication, very deep knowledge – you are a Master Yogi. Does the New Testament give us, ‘Take my yoke, for it is light,’ etc.? I believe Jesus meant, ‘my Yoga, my philosophy.’”

COMMENT ON “YOKE.” Yes, Hal, you have something important there. Let me give the last three verses – Matt. 11:28 to 30.

“Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

In Huna, as shown by the recent studies of many words and roots, the “burden” is the load of fixations which ties up and wastes much of the mana. This “burden,” at its heaviest, is the CROSS, under which Jesus grew so weak (lack of mana) that he fell, so that he had to have another come to carry the burden for him (as one could not wash one’s own feet, in the rite coupled with the Last Supper). The “yoke” was not the one used on oxen. It was the pole on which two men carry between them a single burden, sharing the load. The hidden or secondary meaning of the word (au`amo) is to help another get rid of his burden of fixations by the symbolic process of washing (root au) them away. Jesus was offering to teach the secret of the existence of the fixations and the method by which two people, with the help of the Aumakua of each of them, and of the Aunihipili of the helper, could get at the fixations and drain them off.

“Meek and lowly of heart” give us the Aunihipili, which Jesus represented in his person, just as he frequently represented himself as the Aumakua. “Easy” has the Huna meaning of being able to do something, and to cause something to come forth, so we see that the person who helps another in this way is the one who is able to get the fixations to come to the surface so that they can be drained off. The one doing this work is NOT the one burdened by the fixations, so his burden is both easy and light. “Rest” is freedom from sickness, pain etc.

THE HEART IS THE SYMBOL OF THE AUNIHIPILI all through the teachings of Jesus. The Huna word is naau which included all the organs inside the body. “My burden is light,” gives us, “My burden of fixations now weighs less or is lighter” (pa`o`no ma`ma,) and the root and hidden symbol meanings are these: “My fixations have been removed by the symbolic process of digging them out as a bird (spirit or Aumakua symbol also) digs things out with its bill, (pa: “to strike,” symbol also of contacting the Aumakua via the aka cord, and o: “to open or pierce with something pointed and sharp,” symbol of opening the fixation or recalling it to memory to drain it off.) The fixations were as if hidden in a pit dug secretly in the ground, (the combined roots, pao, give this meaning.) The symbol of the pit is a variation of the “black sack” in which memories are stored by the Aunihipili, and in which fixation memories become lost to the Auhane, but not to the Aunihipili. To have these brought to light is the purpose of the “digging up” process. And, when the fixation memories or second class “sins” are brought up, they then are rationalized and the heavy charge of mana tied up in them is released by the symbolic process of “drying them out” or removing the water, which is the symbol of mana. The roots of ma`ma: “To be light in weight,” mean “to dry out, fade or wither as a flower or plant,” the now familiar symbol of draining out the water-mana charge from a memory-cluster-fixation.

IF THE AUNIHIPILI THINKS ITS SURVIVAL in some way depends on what it believes to be a fact, although the true condition is just the opposite and the belief is bound up in a fixation, it, the Aunihipili, will do its best to prevent the fixation from being touched and drained off. For example, if there are deep and fixed beliefs in the dogmas or external teachings of Jesus, the person afflicted with such beliefs will find much internal emotional reaction against such discoveries as we are now bringing to light in Huna research into the Old and New Testament teachings. Several HRAs have evidently reacted (to various degrees) in this way. They are unable to hold off and keep the open mind of the true researcher until all the evidence is in, but suddenly find themselves throwing out Huna, suddenly thinking it is “black magic,” or that it has been the cause of some illness or trouble which has overtaken them. They usually do not realize that what we are finding has nothing to do with the morals and ethics of the teachings, or with the fact that we need to make amends for sins of hurting others. Nor is the question of whether Jesus lived, was a man, or was a god or a combination of the two at stake. Even the matter of whether he lived, and died on the cross, in the literal sense is not involved. What IS involved is the Huna lore symbolized or hidden behind the very words of the accounts. We are finding new light on the nature of man, on “sin,” on the fixation and the need to remove it, on the part played by the fixation and its removal in healing and in living the fuller life in which all of our faculties are greatly released and enhanced for better action.

“YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE” could be our HRA motto. A “true” thing is one correctly thought of with the Auhane mind. It is a memory fully rationalized. When a false conception is formed by the Aunihipili and made into a secret memory, it is the reverse of “true,” but if the fixation-memories can be dug up from the “secret pit” of the Aunihipili and rationalized – their correct meanings seen clearly – one then knows again the TRUTH and is SET FREE of the bondage to the things of “darkness.”

IN A LETTER OF RESIGNATION, one HRA wrote, “I believe Jesus did live in the flesh. I was baptized a Christian and that is what I want. I have studied with the idea of trying to throw more light on the teachings of Jesus. When I became ill I realized my true feelings on that score, and I wish to make a fresh start. I can see that being an HRA was a mental block to me, even though I do agree on some of the Huna beliefs. And the strange part is that I discovered that I had many beliefs and even fears that I had not been aware of. I even found out that I wasn’t as good a Christian as I thought I was and that I have to start the climb again toward the light. Another period of being born a new.”

TO BE “BORN AGAIN” in the orthodox Christian way, is a very vague and uncertain process of repentance, baptism, and receiving a mystic gift of something difficult at best to understand: the “Holy Spirit” or “Comforter.” The Huna word for “to be born” is ha`nau, and the roots give us the secret of what has to be done for a new birth. One throws up and chews again the cud, as a cow, and one breathes hard. This is a picturesque symbol of the undigested or unrationalized fixation-memories which have to be “thrown up” and “chewed again” or brought to the light and rationalized. When the mana charge is in this way drained out of the fixation, there results a thing which is called “ventilation” by those using the modern Dianetic methods, and which is a more labored or harder breathing. It may be a few yawns. (To reincarnate is not to be born again, in the language of the Secret. It is “to have a new life,” ola`honua, as I understand the words and their meanings and symbols.)

DIANETICS CHURCHES  have recently been founded, so clearly have a few individuals seen the religious implication of the fixation. This information comes through Dwight H. Bulkley. The churches are both in Texas. One is called “Church of the Wayfarer,” the other, “Church of the Transition.” Mr. Bulkley, by the way, is the author of a book, THE MECHANISMS OF LIFE, which he describes on the cover as, “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, psychosomatics, telepathy, and techniques for perfect health and sanity.” The book is one which a student of the “life sciences” will find most interesting. Not being such a student, I cannot venture to express an opinion on the validity or importance of the discoveries and of the theories. A good outline of Dianetics, as it was in its first presentation, is given and is very helpful in getting at the basic ideas and theories in the first book on the subject by L. Ron Hubbard. Mr. Bulkley’s book may be had from him. $2.08. 350 So Mills Ave, Claremont, Calif. To bring us more up to the minute on Dianetics, he writes, “I have accepted the HANDBOOK FOR PRE CLEARS as the best of Hubbard’s works, combining the ‘higher echelons’ of processing. One does not have to accept his theories, but merely DO the stuff step by step.

The ‘de-conditioning’ is there, all through it scanning and scanning, running and running. It is a repetitive process just the same, but ‘running’ whole groups and batches of engrains via their emotional and thought common denominators. “Scanning” is going back over the memories which one can recall and reliving events in one’s life. If one touches on some event to which a fixation or “engram” is related, there may come yawns or heavier breathing as the process of remembering, reliving and rationalizing the event takes place almost automatically. In my personal tests of this method, I found, rather to my surprise, that this heavy breathing (ha) effect came when I touched on events in my life which I had not suspected of leaving their mark on me in the form of a fixation, even if but a small one. When one is thwarted in a strong effort, greatly aroused emotionally, or suffers sudden shock or pain, the fixations seem to form most readily. I reviewed all such moments which I could recall during the course of a sleepless part of a night, and I found that by asking the Aumakua to cleanse, kala: “restore light,” or “forgive”- these “sin” events which were “missing of the mark” or a departure from the normal course of living, I seemed to be freed of the element of fixation held by the memory of the event recalled. Later, upon again recalling the memory and reliving the event, I found that there was no longer a “ventilating” reaction and that I was able to see all events so handled with something like a new and more rational point of view.

THE HANDBOOK FOR PRECLEARS, of which Mr. Bulkley writes, should still be available from Don Purcell, Dianetics Foundation, 211 West Douglas, Wichita, Kansas. $2, post free. I understand, however, that L. Ron Hubbard is no longer at Wichita and that there has been some diversity of plans and changes in organization. This HANDBOOK contains instructions for anyone to follow to take steps toward correcting his pattern of personal reaction to things and conditions met in life. Charts are given to help one see where one may stand on the mental “tone scale,” or, we might say, how “mature” of mind one may be. Pages of classified concepts are given so that self-examination in relation to them can be carried on over an extended period of time. One’s outlook on life and in-look on one’s own habitual reactions should gradually change for the better. It is stated that while one may be less than “clear” at the end of the work, an “auditor” should find it very much easier to complete the task of clearing away all engrams and restoring the one audited to his best.

ROME NOW QUALIFIES ITS “NO.” In the last Bulletin I mentioned the painful fact that one of the men high in the Church at Rome had written an article warning that any of the faithful who used psychoanalysis or allowed it to be used on them, were in grave danger of committing “mortal sin.” I am happy to be able to report that in TIME the matter was recently discussed and the news given that the position had not been official and was modified to some extent, being left in part, at least, to the decision of the individual. This is indeed good news. The door has not been slammed tight against the findings of modern days.

THE HRA AND HUNA PICTURE BEGINS TO COME TO FOCUS. In our first beginning steps as HRAs, we recognized the fact that we were confronted with the need of a practical way to enable us, as individuals, to get at the fixations and clear them out in order to permit the individual to accept healing from na Aumakua. Lacking na kahuna, and lacking a laboratory in which one person could work on and with others, we made no satisfactory progress in this direction.

We did manage to get enough experimental work done to show that mana could be transferred through the hands with thoughts of healing and beneficial results often obtained. Failures were blamed on the fixations held by the one receiving no benefit.

Psycho-analysis offered little help in getting rid of fixations in so far as our needs were concerned. The money and time costs were too great. Then came our hopeful inspection of the “writing down” methods which promised to get at and reduce fixations, but which had evident faults.

Dianetics challenged the theory that the Aunihipili could not be made to pass up memory-fixation units so that they could be rationalized. New theories were advanced to account for the formation of fixations, and stress was laid on the prenatal sources of “engrams.” This soon led still further back, to engramatic conditions formed and fixed in past incarnations (matching on a microscopic scale the general idea of karma as a retribution).

Many eager workers, including L. Ron Hubbard, who may be said to have constructed Dianetics and to have made it into a popular process, made additions to the theories and practices in this newer approach to psychoanalysis.

The element of religion and the Superconscious or Aumakua, had been left out of Dianetics at first. Later on, these began to be given a place. A.L. Kitselrnan’s “E Therapy” went far in this direction, his “E” being anything believed by the individual to be God or a god, or Higher Being who could be appealed to take over the direction of the endeavors of two people to get at the fixations of one of them and drain them off. Then, in our HRA research, we suddenly discover in the Bible an amazing mass of Huna hidden behind words, symbols and acts. Jesus suddenly stood out as a master kahuna and as one very evidently versed to the last degree in Huna and expert in the art of finding and getting rid of fixations. In addition, he appears to have taught all the things which we know, which we guess at, and which we have not yet come to guess at.

“Sin,” as a hurting of others, and as the “missing of the mark” caused by fixations – a second kind of “sin” begins to mean something definite. The help of the Aumakua in “forgiving” or cleansing away the fixation-sins is shown to be very great. It is almost enough for those who are but slightly complexed. For those complexes, to a middling degree, there is the “foot washing” rite in which the fixations are worked over by two people teamed up as are “auditor” and “preclear” in Dianetics. In cases where the fixations are so great that desperate measures are needed to rescue the victim, the ministrations symbolized by the crucifixion are indicated to be the answer. (At present, in the study of the Huna hidden in the rite of the crucifixion, there are strong indications that we are going to find the use of “shock” methods involving very large accumulations of mana. The angle of obsession also is not to be overlooked, even if handled in a different way and described in other rites in the New Testament.) In any event, the prospect seems very bright at this time for our ultimate success in recovering Huna in full workable form.

The many and frequent recoveries from physical ills on the part of those treated by the Dianetic type of therapy, seem to indicate that the Aumakua almost automatically heals our ills as soon as the “path” along the aka cord of contact between the Aunihipili and the Aumakua is “unblocked” by the removal of fixations. This healing is not always instant. Mr. Hubbard has found that in many cases, the healing comes after an unexplained time lapse of about three days. Again calling to mind the three days of Jesus in the tomb before the resurrection. (This 3 to 4 day time lag is something which we should all keep in mind. Quimby ran into it in his healing practices. We will all do well, if our Huna-type prayers do not get instant answers, to hang on patiently and allow three days or a bit more for the Aumakua to work over conditions in the Aunihipili or in general surroundings in order to give the answer.)

The doctrine of “original sin” bids fair to be replaced by the prenatal “engram,” or even by fixations rooted in a past incarnation. The dogma that “All men are miserable sinners” may well be modified to read, “but some are more miserable than others, according to the degree of fixation from which they suffer.”

THANKS TO DR. BRUNLER AND THE BIOMETER, we now have in his methods, a way to help sort the sheep from the goats – the innately destructive from the naturally constructive individuals. The “devils” or those naturally “bad” can be identified by their Biometric pattern, as can the naturally “good.” Efforts to help others to the “salvation” of freedom from fixations can be made with greater chance of success with the help of the Biometric type of preliminary test for “pattern.” By separating the “good” from the “bad,” we can soon find out what, if anything, can be done to make a good man out of a naturally bad one. We may also work out a method through which we can run a test and find out whether a person is obsessed or influenced to a degree by spirits or “secondary personalities.” We will also benefit greatly in our efforts to “wash feet” or help to carry “crosses,” by being able to determine the Brain Radiation or “soul” I.Q. – evolutionary progress – through the Biometer reading. The average individual who attends church contentedly and is happy to accept what he is told by the preacher, ranges between 250 and 260 degrees Biometric, I understand. Very few persons with readings above 330 are found in the churches unless as leaders. This knowledge of the nature of individuals, to be had through the Biometer, will eventually dictate the type of approach to be made in offering help to get rid of fixations. In addition to the Biometer, there are “radionic” instruments already in use to measure the physical reactions in the body of one being “audited.” I am told that when a fixation is touched upon, even obliquely, the indicator of the instrument will at once swing off the central point at which it shows conditions “normal” or in balance.

SHORT-WAVE ELECTRICAL RADIATION of various glands has been mentioned by Dr. Westlake, HRA, as a promising aid in clearing out fixations, even as a way to clear them without much work on the mental-emotional levels. In addition, there is a type of radiation given through the hand to the patient. This also has produced gratifying results, I understand, but the details are not familiar to me as yet. The Eeman Circuit, mentioned before in the Bulletins, has often been found, upon application in the correct way, to cause the patient to begin remembering the fixation-memory units, to describe them and to allow help to be given to drain them off.

MEDICINES may also help. The Bach Remedies are prescribed to accord with the mental states of the patient as well as through the use of the pendulum or the psychically trained hand without pendulum or instrumental help. Standard medicines may also be useful. Poisons in the body are known to cause insanity rather often. These can be eliminated by operative (teeth) and other means.

TIME CHANGE FOR THE TMHG WORK

The TMHG prayer time is being changed to fit daylight saving changes as of April 27th. California clocks will be set forward one hour. As the hours of 3 and 7 continue to be used, advance by one hour the time you use. If you are going on daylight saving time, you will do this automatically, if not, join in an hour earlier than before. Both the old and new hours will be observed here at the Study until May 6th, inclusive, so that this notice can have time to reach all HRAs in USA.

Additional healing work of the “absent treatment” kind, based on the Huna kind of prayer action, is now being offered by two HRAs, Mr. Clarence Hubbard, 151 Farmington Ave., Hartford, Conn., and Mr. Charles L. Pitts, P.O. Box 562, Sunnyvale, Calif. Your name, written in ink, and your request for help may be sent to either or to both as well as to me here at the Study. Others who wish to offer help such as may be given through prayer, are invited to send in their names and addresses. Mr. Clarence Hubbard has offered to help form a committee to take care of this augmented service, so write to him. Mr. Pitts has been taking over the healing part of services at a small Spiritualistic church in his neighborhood, and will be happy to meet any HRAs in that vicinity or to treat through prayer and contact.

In any case, it will be necessary to report results or lack of them about every ten days. Stamped and self-addressed envelopes should be sent with letters to make things easier for these busy business men to carry on in this labor of love which is the first small step toward the laboratory we hope to have in due time.

YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS will be published in a special Bulletin to enable you to get into touch with other HRAs if you wish. I will assume no responsibility in the matter, however. If you are a bold spirit and if you feel you can hold your own against any person who may contact you through this list, and if you feel it would be good to know other HRAs, and perhaps write back and forth or visit, ask to be put on the list. This step is taken because of the feeling on the part of several HRAs that those not wishing to be hovered by me should be allowed to know other HRAs and so build a spirit of friendly cooperation. Please remember that I know few of you except by letter. If someone turns out to be not of your liking, blame yourself. If someone turns out to be a delightful friend, I will happily accept all the credit and thanks. Copies of the list will be sent only to those who are themselves on the list unless those on it decide that all HRAs should know who is willing to chance getting acquainted with any or all HRAs. Names should be sent in at once. Suggestions are welcome so long as they are not such that I would have to have more time available to handle them. (Send phone number.)

FODOR ENCYCLOPEDIAS ARE BEING LOCATED from time to time. Prices run from $10.50 post paid to $15.50, depending on the condition of the books. Let me know if you want one, or if you have one to sell.

BACH REMEDIES, with diagnosis and bottle of drops to fit one’s need, may be had in Los Angeles from Dr. Geo. E. Crowle, 3984 Grand Ave., so I am told by HRA A.F. in a recent letter. Here at the Study I have received half of the 36 remedies without customs trouble and hope to get the other half for experimental testing. Also the book by new HRA Nora Weeks, heading the “Bach Team” in England, giving Dr. Bach’s life story, and some News Letters. (To be reviewed later.)
MFL

March 15, 1952

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

REPORTS ON THE EFFECT OF  THE POSITION TAKEN IN PRAYER

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THEY ALSO SERVE:

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

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

A HUNA LABORATORY?

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

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

REPORT ON “THE WALL OF PROTECTION” PROJECT…

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

Dr. OSCAR BRUNLER, HRA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE ELECTRONIC BUG-CHASING MACHINE

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

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

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

IN RADIO THERAPY, ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER

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

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

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

THE HUNA LAB GROWS BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

March 1, 1952

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

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

ORIGIN OF POTENTIZING THEORY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HRA CIGBO REPORTS:

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

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

WHO RADIATES WHAT TO WHOM and HOW?

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

February 15, 1952

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

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 in HUNA
and related religious and psychological fields.
From Max Freedom Long
P.O. Box 2867, Hollywood Station, Los Angeles 28, California, U.S.A.

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 in HUNA
and related religious and psychological fields.
From Max Freedom Long
P.O. Box 2867, Hollywood Station, Los Angeles 28, California, U.S.

NEWS FROM THE STUDY

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

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

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

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

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

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

MORE ABOUT THE USE OF THE MAGNET AND CARBON

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

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

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

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

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

CORRECTION

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

THE EEMAN CIRCUIT

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

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

THE STRANGE CONES of HRA Verne Cameron

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE INVISIBLE FIGURES ABOVE THE HUMAN HEAD AS FOUND BY CAMERON

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

REV. JESSIE CURL AND HER WORK

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

October 15, 1950

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

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!