Huna Bulletin 15
August 15, 1949
BULLETIN XV
August 15, 1949
For HUNA RESEARCH ASSOCIATES From Max Freedom Long
(Experimental work with Huna)
Reports, HRA news, suggestions.
P.O. Box 2867 Hollywood Station, Los Angeles 28, California U.S.A
FIRE-WALKING FROM THE INSIDE
“FIRE-WALKING FROM THE INSIDE”, by Arii-Peu Tama-Iti (our own HRA Charles W. Kenn) came through with flying colors, thanks to the fine rush of last minute response for advance payment for previous orders, and your copy, if you sent in for one, should now be in your hands. Extra copies are available at the price of $1.10 post paid, ($1.13 in California. In fact the 32 tax has been paid through our HRA printer on the edition because delivery was taken in Los Angeles), The stiff backs will cost about $0.65 additional, and will be announced later for those wishing to give copies to libraries.
We can well be proud of this first printed publication under HRA auspices.
It is beautifully printed and its illustrations tell their story well. The subject-matter is of outstanding importance. Mr. Kenn is indeed to be congratulated on his splendid work and on his fearlessness in presenting his findings without thought of the reactionary scientists who always look down their noses at the slightest hint of opinions which they have not advanced.
The ROUND ROBIN issue of August (No. 5 of Vol. V.) was released at the same time that the fire-walking booklets went into the mail, and it carries a long article from my pen on the significance of the entire matter of fire-immunity and temperature control, all the way from fire-walking to the cold winds that sometimes blow in the seance rooms when physical phenomena are being produced. With the booklet and the two copies of ROUND ROBIN (No. 4 and No. 5, of Vol V) one will have all that is of general importance in this part of the field. These copies of RR may be ordered at $0.50 each if you do not have them already. And, by the way, the August RR is delightful reading for all who are interested in our lines of thought. There are two pages of latest news on the “flying saucers”, and a fine assortment of articles, comments and notes. (Address: 3524 Adams Ave., San Diego 4, Calif.)
CIGBO, HRA kitty, has put on his small specs and totted up his figures on the fire-walking booklet business - this being his project.
He reports that $259.61 was sent in to pay for booklets. $299.50 was spent, and some extras are to be given him when the printer has time. Cigbo, with the generous help of some of his HRA friends, was able to play banker and advance the difference from his cigar box. He did this on promise of having the advance loan returned with a pound of flesh as interest - and sincerely hopes that it is a one pound tin of salmon. (He might compromise on a can of sardines, or, at worst, a bit of catnip.) (He also reminds us that the stamps to mail the booklets were lifted from his box, and that HIS envelopes were used. Also that he furnished a lot of penny post cards some time ago for the orders to be sent in on. These he is willing to forgive us, but ONLY if the can of salmon is eventually forthcoming.) HRA Charles W. Kenn, has been sent 21 copies of the booklet in lieu of author’s royalty for the present. (An air mail letter has just come back after the first copy was received by him by air. He was delighted with Cigbo’s effort as edition-producer and sub-editor.)
CIGBO FURTHER REPORTS ON 1/4 HRAs: Several of our busy HRAs have found that too many things were on the experimental schedule for their limited time, and have decided that the Quarterly Report on what was being done would suit their needs best. Also, on the latest application blank which is sent to prospective members, there is a mention off the Quarterly Report for those who wish mainly to keep in touch and. see what happens in our Huna exploration, Many, however, (to Cigbo’s dismay) check off all the items on the list, and, in addition, the HRA membership, To make Cigbo still more behind the “eight ball’, a number of his Aunties and Uncles have written to say they want the Quarterly Reports in case they might miss a single small but important word concerning our efforts to beat the atom bombs around the clock and win back the ancient True Light of Huna.
Considering this dilemma, and the fact that it seems to be a very good idea to pause for a few pages of review of our work once in each three months, the Quarterly will be incorporated in a regular Bulletin when it is time for it to appear.
A SUGGESTION ABOUT THE BULLETINS has just been made. It is that we go back to the once-a-month Bulletin schedule as before and give more time to personal correspondence, also give more time for the study of the Bulletin materials, I would appreciate having some opinions and comments on this point. One advantage of fewer Bulletins would be that Cigbo would have to scratch less furiously to dig up the extra stamps and envelopes, paper, stencils and ink. The disadvantage would be that interest would lag with such long spaces between Bulletins. As to the letters, they get answered after a fashion and without too long a delay.
THE HRA WITH THE CLOCK 3 MINUTES FAST has not definitely been identified, but three found clocks fast and we will run tests to see what can be learned. The odd thing is that since the mention of the extra tingle of mana in the last Bulletin, the indication has ceased, and only the regular and expected tingles and “cobweb” feeling on the face comes on the hour when Telepathic Mutual Healing Group work begins.
MY VACATION plan mentioned in the last Bulletin did not materialize. Too many letters to answer and the whole matter of the fire-walking booklet, with proofs and final sending out to take the time, But I still have hopes, and so has Cigbo, who says he wants badly to go to the mountains and catch a desert rat, a pack rat and a kangaroo rat. He also is very anxious to find a pine tree with cones on it, and see if a pipe cone is as good to eat as the kind of cones they have up at the corner drug store. And if they are free for the picking, Cigbo plans to have a “simply wunnerful time”, (as he has by now written to some of you when saying his thanks for help with his box.)
THOSE WHO DISLIKE CIGBO are asked to bear with me in the matter. I feel that a touch of fun is needed in the serious work we are doing. The majority of the HRAs find the pretense amusing, and the study rocks with laughter almost daily as the cleverest kinds of notes written to Cigbo come in. Notes also arrive from the kitties and dogs of HRAs. Some time I think I must make up a collection of these notes and put them into a special Bulletin. The children of several HRAs have come to consider Cigbo almost as real as the Cow that Jumped Over the Moon. (Amazing how youngsters pick up telepathy and work the boxes successfully almost on the first try. Worth developing.)
THE ASSIGNMENT FOR EXPERIMENTAL WORK with the pendulum, given in the last Bulletin, was to try the pendulum as a means of asking one’s Aunihipili about what it might have hidden in its mind, not mentioning the word “complex”, but really searching for evidences of small and not too deeply hidden guilt or other hindering complexes.
Only one report has come in so far on the experiment, and this is that nothing very definite has been found, but that the experiment convinces this HRA that there are some guilts hidden and that they are not easy to get out into the open.
The low self is usually ashamed of these things, or, when they are not shared by the Auhane self, the Aunihipili may become secretive and refuse to let the Auhane know what they are. (Let’s get used to the words as used by the Hawaiian na kahuna. Once we do, we will avoid any difficulties derived from associative words such as “low”,)
A most interesting experiment along the line of getting really on open and free working terms with our Aunihipilis would be to use the pendulum to get a report on what our Aunihipili self might discover if it could be coaxed to try to hold telepathic conversations with animals. A dog or cat would be useful in this experiment.
Not long ago there appeared magazine articles telling of the ability of a boy to talk to horses. He seemed to be able to converse with them and learn what they thought of the outcome of the races of the day. In another article I recall the many amusing thoughts read in answer to silent questions directed to zoo animals. Some would talk, some would not. The operator knew what was fretting the tiger, how the ape felt, what the Elephant was turning over in his mind. The larger animals, he found, thought much more slowly than the smaller ones,
H.R.A. William G. Bullock, who is doing splendid experimental work and who lives in California, reported recently that he could instruct his Aunihipili to call his dog to him, and that it could and did do so with certainty and ease. More about his experimental later.
A seagoing friend demonstrated a similar use of his Aunihipili to the early experimental groups formed in Los Angeles a few years ago. He would ask his Aunihipili to talk with that of another person, and to tell him what it said. He had found that this seemed rather simple, and was convinced that the conversation actually took place.
He sat down beside me and held converse with my Aunihipili, asking among other things, what it thought of the progress of the Huna experimental work and my personal efforts with the group. The reply was surprisingly accurate as a prediction, and seems to show that his Aunihipili had been in touch with the future via the Aumakua and so knew the outcome.
The reply handed on to me was to the effect that the work then being done would come to little and the group work stop, but that in about six months a new start on a new angle would be made, and that good progress would be made from that time on. As it turned out, the groups broke up in about six months. But it was over a year after that before progress once more was begun with the writing of SSBM and its publication - followed by our organization of HRA work,
HRA William G. Bullock is an old hand with the pendulum, having used it in searching for minerals and for various other purposes. He is at present working on a special pendulum to hang from a tripod and move in an artificial magnetic field. (He will report later on the outcome of this venture.)
He has, like so many of us, taken numerous “courses” and has read many books on the materials of the psycho-religious field. For this reason Huna was right down his alley and he set to work with a will to begin his tests. I have before me a series of letters from him which tell a progressive story of one particular line of experimentation aimed at making contact with the Aumakua and learning to work with it.
First came what seemed to be an unusually vivid dream. In it he saw a beautiful blond woman and a dark man who stood less than average height. The dream repeated and he became impressed that he was being shown the physical bodies used by his Aumakua pair when on this level of life and before graduating to the Aumakua stage.
A letter came recently which will tell the outcome better than I could, and which will also give information as to other parts of his program. I quote:
“Yes, again I must say that I am certain that I was shown my Aumakua. The progress in this line has gradually changed. At first I seemed to see as through an arch. Then I would be through it and on a path. Now the path itself has disappeared and - there is a stream of pure white light that strikes me in midsection. This last change came to me a few evenings ago while reading SUM., the part about the elevator man. First came a light-headed feeling then a terrific tingling all over my body. If anyone could have seen me -I surely would have been shaking all over visibly.
“You asked about the nature of my procedure on the successful wind and rain tests I have been making. It is very simple. I talk to my George as to a brother and ask him to contact the spirits in charge of the wind and weather. Recently I asked him to ask to have a nice cool breeze blow next day. In the morning I reminded him of my request, and by 9:00 A. M. a nice cool breeze was blowing. The rain request was made in the same manner but four days in advance. I always ask George to send vital force with any request being made. The rains, so far, have come right on time.
“To put it mildly I am very happy to have had these tests fulfilled. It gives me greater confidence and encourages me to try all the harder to do greater things. My present training is an hourly period for George to send vital force to my Aumakua to help make a stronger and. more certain contact Our breeze is blowing every day and makes our weather very pleasant. I will keep you posted on my progress.”
(In an earlier letter:) “Daily I am putting George to doing something for me. I’ve started him on very small things, and as time goes on., his job will be to do greater things. A sample of a simple thing is that he will fetch my dog at any time I desire.”
It will be remembered that in SSBM, in the case of the girl who changed personality every four years, there was what seemed to be an Aumakua speaking through her in the guise of a wise old man. It is of greatest interest and importance, therefore, to see in our work the appearance in vision, dream or symbol anything that may indicate an Aumakua making itself known to us. We need to cultivate these experiences and make the best of them when they come.
HRA E. M. wrote of an experience along this line. It is much to the point and shows how we may be shown things to our advantage. I quote:
” about eight years ago I was ill, and being a student of Unity, I thought each week I surely would be better. After six weeks when I was no better, in desperation I said to God, ‘I read in the book this statement, We in our ignorance of God become sick. If I could understand my relationship to You, I would be healed.’
“Two minutes later, about six feet from me on the rug appeared a rose bush about a foot high. I knew that it was a symbol., but that was all. Then the rose bush started to grow right before my eyes. A long branch came out of it and instantly leaves appeared. More branches and more leaves until the bush was three feet high. On top there opened a gorgeous pink rose.
“Of course, I was speechless. Finally I said to God, ‘What does this symbol mean?’ God replied, ‘I am the bush, you are the rose. I give life to the rose, beauty to the rose, color and fragrance to the rose. You and I are one, not two.’
“At first I did not comprehend, then it dawned on me that the rose is attached to the bush, so was one with it. Instantly health began to pour in at my feet and up into my body until it reached the crown of my head. I was healed, and in about sixty seconds - the same time that it took the rose bush to grow.
“Now there is one thing that puzzles me. Why can we not always touch that ‘Something’? We do at times, and then again we cannot.”
A recent letter from an HRA in one of the California deserts, reports the fact that sometimes the contact with the Aumakua is made easily and quickly and the mana surcharge is strong and ready at hand to share.
But, for no reason that can be understood, there are days when the effort results in a flat failure on both counts.
This takes us back to the Huna explanation - which seems to be the only one that will hold water at this time - that mana has to be collected by the Aunihipili and contact with the Aumakua made through this same agency. When we understand that the Aunihipili may, for reasons not sensed by the Auhane, refuse to respond to our requests, we have at least an explanation which is broad enough and logical enough to give us the general answer. The details of the answer lie in the part played by fixations, and perhaps in the simple fact that the Aunihipili has a mind and will of its own, and at certain times just does not feel like obeying orders. There is also the faint possibility that the Aumakua may have times when it is engaged and not on call except in grave emergencies - which it would have foreseen, etc., etc. Perhaps pendulum questions asked of and through the Aunihipili may help us to better understanding.
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(COPY OF PARTS OF A LETTER TO A HRA.)
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- Dear HRA and friend H .McG,
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- You are, as I see it, caught in the usual tangle of modern metaphysical “teachings”. I have been through this same tangle, and am still striving to get out of the jungle into a clearing where the sunshine of common sense can reach me.
I agree that it sounds logical to say that God has everything, and that He can, therefore give us anything - without reserve. But, long ago I took a look behind this statement and found that it was based on conjecture and not on what we observe about us in life.
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- You are discouraged because you have been working on your map for two months and nothing has materialized - no fine house with servants, none of the cars, gardens, yachts, love, health, wisdom or joy. Putting aside all the “teachings”, look at the matter in a practical light. You have spent about ten minutes a day for sixty days making your prayer-actions for the desired new conditions. BUT, to give you the house and cars - just to take up one pair of items - demands that many thousands of man-hours of labor on the parts of your fellow men must be spent in providing the materials for the house and cars and in building them. No matter whether the houses and cars were given to you by a rich friend, they still have cost the same expenditure of toil.
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- Can you pray to your Aumakua and honestly say that you feel that you have toiled enough to balance the account if given what you ask? I fear I could not. Do I have a “poverty complex ? Perhaps, in a way. The point that I wish to make is that we need very straight thinking at this point, not the misleading slogans of the blind leaders of the blind.
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- Perhaps we need to divide the good things of life into two classes, the goods made with toil and the goods of the spirit which can be given as a free-from-toil gift. Health, joy, harmony, perhaps even love, may fall into the second class. I would say, by all means, ask for these without hesitation.
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- As for the goods produced by human labor, I would incline to the opinion that one needs to be convinced - as an Aunihipili and Auhane self combined man - that he deserves what he asks. Some may feel so self-important that they convince themselves that they deserve to have a thousand men work a thousand days to serve their need, but these cannot be considered helpful members of any community.
There is always the fact to be pointed out that all around us we see men and women, even children, who have inherited wealth. Take the man who owned a farm under whose acres, oil was found. He passed on the resulting wealth to his children. None of them toiled to get or to merit this good fortune. However, other men toiled endlessly to get the oil from the ground and market it. He became rich through an accident of ownership. It is such things as these accidents of ownership or accidents of birth that bring inheritances that show that no EXACT law of recompense for our efforts is ruling us.
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I suggest that you change your map to cover only the health and happiness class of things, and try to settle on some way in which you might get the worldly goods of toil through the “accident” channel - that is, in a way which you can feel is free from the element of “robbing Peter to pay Paul”, you being the “Paul” in this case.
Of one thing we can be fairly sure, and that is that the na Aumakua are not going to act to give you the house and cars if this entails taking them away from others or forcing others to work without reward so that you may benefit. The na kahuna believed the na Aumakua to be “Utterly Trustworthy”, and we have no reason to believe that they would be, in any way, less trustworthy than we feel that we must be on our level of living.
It seems to me that we should all strive to strike a happy medium in our maps. Some of the HRAs try to win in contests, and some have done so with surprising success after putting Huna to work. Where a “lucky break” is all that is needed, it seems quite right to ask for one or a series of them. All that seems, on the other hand, to be necessary is that there be no fixed belief in the Aunihipili that it is sinful to take chances. If you bet on the horses, be very certain that you have no anti-gambling fixations.
It may be well to remember the Aunihipili lives in the world where the farmer has to carry water from the stream to water his garden. In terms of the physical alone, that is the “law”: one labor-unit for each bucket of water for the garden. The Auhane functions on the mental level and is represented by the farmer when he builds a water wheel and can then see the greater reward obtained through the use of inductive reason. It is hard to carry this illustration on to include the part played by the farmerts third self or Aumakua, but we might suppose that the farmer or his wife became ill and asked for healing and got it, or for help in obtaining harmony or happiness - even for help in finding Service and the Joy of Service.
It may sound to you like going all around Robin Hood’s barn, or splitting hairs, but of one thing I am very sure, and that is the utter necessity of being able to convince ourselves - as both Auhane and Aunihipili - that what we ask is justified in every way, shape and form. If there is the taint of doubt the size of the proverbial “mustard seed” of faith, it will be as potent to keep the mountain from being removed as faith is said to be in removing the mountain.
One other thing must be kept carefully in mind in arranging your map, once it is such that you can feel, absolutely, that it is right and just and kind and honorable to work for and to-enjoy. This other thing is “dat o’l debil” HABIT OF THOUGHT. The easiest thing in the world is to slip back into a mental rut after we have climbed out of it.
I am thinking of all the hidden things in your Aunihipili that we think we have brought to light and rationalized to the point of complete elimination. Were you taught when young that the ideal thing to do was to “Sell all and give to the poor, then come and follow me?” I was, and I have a grave suspicion that my low self still mutters in its beard at the thought of bending every effort to getting rich and giving the poor the customary alms - to say nothing of making no slightest sacrifice to try to follow the leadership of the men who called to the bright banner of Selfless Service.
These are my slants on the matter, but think things through and arrive at your own conclusions. We are experimenting in our thinking as well as in our acting. Best aloha much Light,
(Signed) M.F.L.
Book Review
FIRE-WALKING FROM THE INSIDE By Charles Kenn ($1.10 post paid to HRAs)
In his illustrated booklet report on the four fire-walking tests conducted in Honolulu in early 1949, Charles W. Kenn tells step by step the things done and thought and said to make walking on very hot stones possible - with bare feet, of course. The observances and the ritual prayers are all set down before us for our study and consideration. The dry facts of surface temperatures of the stones are given without comment, as is the fact that out of over five hundred who tried the fire-walk a dozen were more or less severely burned.
HRA Kenn became an initiate fire-walker. He has told us all that there was to be told - all that he learned, and all that he concluded after his experiences.
The reader is left to arrive at his conclusions in turn.
One cannot but stand a little amazed at the seeming lack of expected elements of “magic” in the ritual steps, the training of the fire-walkers or, especially, the actual wording of the prayers. The prayers have a strange Mother Goose flavor in the repetitions. The “gods” invoked are never clearly seen. The whole matter is veiled and illogical in all points - from the point of view of the reasoning Auhane.
One reads the booklet, looks at the pictures of the men and women of all races and faiths who are walking under some strange protection and one reacts in strange ways. Some decide that there still must be a hitch someplace in the observations. Some become baffled and impatient when confronted by phenomena which they cannot explain in terms of their accepted knowledge of physics or psychology. Some fail to see the significance of the verified facts of fire-immunity - and toss the report aside, saying impatiently “SO WHAT?”
For the few who realize the significance, the answer to the “SO WHAT?” is a real and deep need. A hunger for knowledge is aroused that demands substantial food for mind and its probing logic.
The sober mind begins to turn slowly on the facts. It is plain to see that there is a conscious entity or unit of conscious something that responds to the ritual and invocations. One is shocked into the task of trying to find a new attitude of mind to face this “Something” which we see more and more clearly to be beyond the level of our minds and as difficult to understand as to see or sense in its invisible state of being.
We turn to Huna to ask why the twelve were burned. It was not slow walking or pausing on the stones. Some who walked fastest were badly burned. The answer returns us to the equally invisible and difficult to understand Aunihipili in men. We must conclude that, as the Auhane attempted the fire-walk in confidence, either the Aunihipili had reservations and caused the failure of the strange protection, or the “Something” saw fit to keep protection from those burned.
M.F.L.
Huna Bulletin 14
August 1, 1949
BULLETIN XIV
August 1, 1945
For HUNA RESEARCH ASSOCIATES From Max Freedom Long
(Experimental work with Huna)
Reports, HRA news, suggestions.
P.O. Box 2867 Hollywood Station, Los Angeles 28, California U.S.A
Firewalking
PROGRESS REPORT ON THE FIRE-WALKING BOOKLET: My warmest and heartiest thanks to all of you who have so quickly responded to the call in the last Bulletin for help by way of sending your payment in advance for the booklet ordered earlier. It was ALL my fault. I let Cigbo say on his order form sent out weeks ago, “….about. $1.10 contribution (per copy) …when they are ready”
So, when plans changed from mimeographing (which I could have handled in the study) to printing (which takes cash in advance in this case owing to the circumstances surrounding our printer) I was forced to ask for the money before the booklet was ready.
Here is my apology for all of you who have scolded me. Here, also, is my sympathy and complete understanding for all who have had to write in that funds were low for various reasons and that the advance payment could not be made just now.
THE BOOKLET will come out with all the cuts and the pictures will be nearly page-size. We will have a cover and side binding so that later on we may be able to have a few made with stiff covers after all (to be sent to libraries, which might help spread the news of the Huna work). HRA Thomas is doing all in his power to push the printing end along, and the type is all set and corrections made, just waiting for press time. Then will come the printing of the cover, the printing of the pictures, the folding, assembling and binding. After that I will get the envelopes addressed and stamped and stuffed - and off to you. While no promise can be made as to the exact time of completion and mailing, it should not be many weeks off.
IN ROUND ROBIN in the August-September issue will appear an 11 page article by me on the implications of fire-walking and of the larger field of fire-immunity, which includes the mysterious changes of temperature and the control of temperature in many forms of spirit activity in the s�ance rooms and out of them. This article is intended to give the answer to why such stress is laid on fire-walking when none of us would be interested in learning this art. It may be possible, later on, to have in hand the booklet and the article so that it can be handed to those who refuse to be interested in Huna because they say, “Why should I be interested in fire-walking?” Copies of the August-September issue of ROUND ROBIN may be ordered now (in advance) by sending $.50 in stamps for each copy ordered, to the following address (not to me, please) ROUND ROBIN MAGAZINE, 3524 Adams Avenue, San Diego 4, Calif. (A full year for $3.50, and a grand magazine it is for all of us.)
EXTRA BOOKLETS will be printed, so if you cannot send for yours now, you can send in later. ($1.10 postpaid. For California add tax to the amount, This tax will be sent in by our printer.)
From the Mailbag
YOUR LETTERS AND REPORTS on your Huna practice, experiments and results have been very much appreciated during the past two weeks and have all been carefully read. Thanks so much for saying, “No answer required” and for marking “Urgent” on those for Cigbo or needing a reply. I mimeograph a 3/4 page letter giving my personal news each week - what Cigbo sniffs at and calls “tinned letter” and when you write in, if you would like to have one of these and a line or two of personal reply, just enclose a stamped and self-addressed envelope of fair size, and I will do my hasty best to get it back to you. The writing and mimeographing of two longer Bulletins a month take up more than half of my time, with reading your letters almost the other half. The answers have to be made when minutes can be found.
TMHG
THE TELEPATHIC MUTUAL HEALING GROUP WORK takes precedence over everything else, and no matter what has to wait, the braiding of the cord and special ritual goes on beginning at 3 and at 7 California time - not daylight-saving this year. More and more it becomes evident that steady daily work on our Huna prayer-actions is what it takes to get results. Some cases that have been in work for a long time, and that have seemed to get no response at all, suddenly begin to show results. More and more I am convinced that we have to work to get the old and undesirable crystallized future broken down and the new built to replace it. I am also convinced that there is often a worsening of conditions when the old future is broken up. This needs to be endured with what patience one can muster and with confidence that the bright new future is not far ahead. I still am of the opinion that it is the daily or hourly sending of vital force to the Po`e Aumakua of the TMHG that is the primary key to making changes possible and that the secondary key is the sending of the thought forms of the desired condition to act as the mold for building the new future.
IDENTIFY YOURSELF, PLEASE if you are the HRA who on the days between July 20 and 27, have been making contact with me and activating our braided cord so powerfully. Your clock has been THREE MINUTES FAST, and you have been causing a tingling to attract my attention abruptly at the moment of three minutes before four almost daily. I have dropped everything and joined in for several minutes, taking advantage of the flow of power and the cob-webs-across-myface sensation (long familiar when force is flowing with strong contact being made), and have held all of the TMHG members to the Light as well as opening the door to the Po`e Aumakua and asking that our prayer for world peace and blessing be materialized. I am anxious to discover just who is showing this power. We may have a kahuna in the making in you,
My Summer Vacation
MY VACATION PLANS for this summer are not yet formed. I have hoped to be able to take as long as three days away from the study before the summer is gone, and drive to the nearby mountains one day, camp there the next, and return on the third. As you know, all orders which you send in for copies of SECRET SCIENCE go out in the next mail (with great appreciation of the order, and with the gift book and a free copy of the Huna pamphlet in addition). These orders are few, and to wait three days to be filled would be no great hardship, I am sure, The TMHG work will be kept up, of course.
The car can be parked for the period if I am enroute. I also hope to find time and peace in high places for some extra hours of intensive work with prayer-actions. The Bulletins may be a few days late and answers to letters slower.
Cigbo insists that we go, and will not take “no” for an answer. He thinks he can catch a “desert rat” (not suspecting that these are old prospectors) and that a pine cone may have ice cream in it like cones at the drug store.
Pendulum
MORE PENDULUM MATERIAL: Reports have been arriving covering the results obtained with the pendulum. Five HRAs have by now found that they can get correct answers to almost everything they ask where the question concerns such things as the arrival of letters, callers, customers and so on. It seems more difficult to get a correct answer when the question demands a more extended reach into the future, or when several people are involved in the answer that will eventually be made to the question. The coloring of the reply by the desire or expectation, fear etc., in the mind of the operator is marked and must be taken into consideration at all times. The pendulum (I like this word in its Americanized form better than pendulum, thanks to Meade Layne in R R articles last year) is a very valuable tool in our work, as are the boxes.
EXPERIMENTAL ASSIGNMENT: Will those of you who can do so, begin a series of tests to see what we can learn about our fixations through the use of the pendulum?
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- Then begin guessing as to what might be the cause of any health defect or lack of funds or harmony with you or yours.
- Talk to your “George” and explain carefully what is to be done, Explain that he may be holding ideas that need to be talked over and may need to have things done to balance them. Begin bringing up things that you guess might be causing trouble. Ask such questions as, “Do you think we should punished for past sins?” “Is there something that you fear?” “Do you think we do not deserve to be prosperous? Happy? Healthy? Why do you think so?” Etc. Get your low self to tell you who it likes and dislikes and why, what it wants and why.
- As the Aunihipili is not logical, do not be surprised at what is revealed by the answers you get. If any answer is uncertain or needs later checking because of its importance or because of its surprising nature, write it down and make repeatedc hecks in the same way on following days.
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Go slowly and make a careful beginning so that you do not cause your Aunihipili to refuse to go along. Do not ask if it has a “complex”. Do not act or show or say anything that might make the low self feel that it was being blamed. Show that you are working together as dear friends and for mutual benefit. This is rather new ground. Go circumspectly and realize that you are breaking new trails.
3. Keep a rough record of your work and when you have found out things, report to me so that we can share our findings. Any of us may discover something of great significance about the low self and its ways, and about the pendulum approach to the complex. Our object is to find a way to find unsuspected complexes which are hindering us.
Pendulum Notes: Two cases have been reported in which a rosary has been used as a pendulum with success when one made in the usual way would not swing. (One rosary Catholic and one Buddhist. In both cases these have been used for years in religious rites by the owner. Yes, we have HRAs of many faiths, and value them all highly,) This might suggest that some object loved and worn for years, such as a locket or ring on a thread would be a better pendulum for some. MFL
SUPPORTING EVIDENCE TO SHOW THAT HUNA IS RIGHT IN ITS CONCEPTS WHEN COMPARED WITH PSYCHIC FINDINGS
It is so very easy to slip back into old beliefs and attitudes of mind. I find in the arriving letters the frequent intimation that the writer has allowed to pass from his or her mind the evidence given in SSBM to show why Huna was more logical or more apt to be right in its various concepts than some other set of ideas to which we are accustomed.
I read such things as, “I can’t see why we can’t just pray right straight to God and be done with it.” Or I may read, “I tried the boxes and the pendulum and did not get anything at all out of the practice that would help me. I would go to a kahuna if I could find one to help me, but I can’t keep experimenting with Huna. I need help right now.”
This is slipping back. It is forgetting what was read in page after page of SSBM explaining WHY the mana surcharge must be accumulated, why it must be supplied to the Aumakua to enable them to have the proper amount of strong earthy force to change to their own vibration of mana (mana loa) and uses to cause the desired changes. Also why we must decide what we want and keep a picture of this new condition in mind steadily day by day as the prayer ritual is observed, and as the old future is torn down and the new built in its place.
Yesterday’s feast of new and inspiring ideas found in Huna does not keep one fed today. We are so constituted that we need constant replenishment and renewal, For this reason I am continually peering into this corner or that to find fresh proof and fresh corroboration to feed our confidence in the newly embraced but very ancient Huna system.
In this search I have cooperation at all times from my friends. Not a week passes but that someone reports finding another of the roads that all lead to the Rome of Huna or another straw that shows that the wind of proof is blowing in the Huna direction.
Recently a letter came which said, “No outward change for me but I certainly feel like a different person. I trust the change is on the way. Enclosed are some excerpts a copy of a copy so not word for word. It struck me that they bore out the principles of Huna and you might like to see them.”
The excerpts proved to be from the Stewart Edward White books telling of the psychic explorations of his wife, “Betty” - ACROSS TIE UNKNOWN and THE ROAD I KNOW. (published by E.P. Dutton and Co., and excellent reading for students).
Those of you who have read this series of reports, beginning with the first, THE BETTY BOOK, will remember that Betty reversed the usual process in which a departed spirit comes back into the body of a living medium. She left her body and went over into the spirit realms, observing many things, conversing with many people of advanced learning on the “there living” side of things, and returning to her body on the “here living” side to tell what she had found. The quotes which will follow are part of what she had to say about what she learned and concluded. I believe that we can rely on the integrity of those behind this material, even if we may question the conclusions at some points, realizing that the opinions of the “there living” are only opinions, just as ours here can be nothing more. All opinions can command only a degree of acceptance.
(Quote from ACROSS THE UNKNOWN:) “The recognition of the things you desire, (l) the forming of your definite purposes (2), establishes a condition as automatically (3) the numbers are being inserted to enable comments made later to be expedited by pointing to the words going ahead of the number, M.F.L.) chemical in its action as establishing the arrangement of any other chemical process, such as the release of gasses or the carbonization of flame or the boiling of water. (4) It immediately starts toward the fulfillment of the desire (5) in proportion to the strength, fervor and persistence of your effort toward it.”
Now for comment and Huna comparisons. In the item before the (1) we see the thing stressed in Huna practice - the necessity of working with care to come to the conclusion which is to be final as to what is best to begin building into (2) our lives by calling in the help of the Aumakua. We must come to a very definite decision and “recognize” it as the thought-form mold that must be presented telepathically to the na Aumakua to be filled with the invisible aka substance upon which eventual materialization is based. Betty was taught that by coming to a decision we automatically set into motion forces to bring about the desired (3) condition. Or, should we say that the Po`e Aumakua automatically accept the picture we make of the desire future and begin to build on it for us. This (4) comparison with the certainty of chemical action leaves out the na Aumakua and substitutes a vague “natural law” in which there is a painful lack of the warmth of personality of Huna, also a lack of leeway to allow the Aumakuas to guide us as we ask them to do, and perhaps toss in special ingredients known to be needed by us, but which we have overlooked. The (5) statement that the fulfillment of the desire is in proportion to the strength, fervor and persistence of the effort, can be expanded to its very full and great importance through a knowledge of Huna. For “strength” we need to send the mana surcharge on the aka thread, via the mediumship of our Aunihipili itself. The “fervor” calls for an emotional reaction of desire on the part of our Aunihipili, which is alone the one who uses emotion, and who indicates its eager sharing of the desire by giving us the fervent emotion of desire. The “persistence” of the effort matches the Huna command that we present our offering of empowering mina daily or hourly, and with it send along the renewed and strengthened mental picture of the things desired.
Again a quote, but this time no comment is needed. “It would be ineffectual to eliminate all stress points from your life, for then you would have no experience in producing harmony…You are not entitled to live with beauty unless you keep trying to lift your own world nearer it.”
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The following passages come from THE ROAD I KNOW, which was the “road” back and forth to the other side of living. “There exists in you, indefinitely developable, an engine of power (1), dynamically creative, capable of impressing and molding your material world according as you give out from your inner being its creative force, (2). This is not primarily the mental creative force (3), which you understand perfectly. It is a higher sense of that (4)the vital principle of life. It comes not from that mere agent of the soul, the intellect, but from the plexus of life itself, (5). Mental force can make a mold or plan, but for completion this plan must have vital principle supplied, (6). Mental force is the light globe only. True creative force carries with it its own current. It is a matter of the heart (7) as well as the clearly seen concept of the mind.
“If we take from it only what the need of the moment forces upon us, (8) our existence is niggardly and hampered. No man need be content with only just enough to get by, (9). It is possible to tap the Source of Supply as a conscious and intended act, (10). And in so doing he will find that what he can take from that Source of Supply is limited only by his desire-power and the energy with which he is willing to back it! For it is unfailing and inexhaustible. And sympathetic and understanding, (11).
“We are not the owner, but the agent (12). We can get everything, unstinted. - everything that is good for us and that we have earned and deserve, (13). But only provided we know how to give it away after we get it, (14). Take no thought for the morrow - all things shall be added unto you.
“Inspiration comes only in attraction to some definite output, some definite production. It cannot come unless it has a container. Inspiration only fills what is prepared for it. It cannot be controlled otherwise. It dissipates unless it meets something that helps its particularization. The force wants to be assisted. It comes for that purpose. Remember that. It is a waiting, undifferentiated force that wants to be differentiated, Your business is now to attach something to it - and so make it practical, (15).” (End quotes.)
Again, a brief set of comments. Go back and check the items by number to follow them.
(1) The “engine of power” fits the Huna idea of the Aunihipili and its ability to accumulate and use a surcharge of mana or power, this being used to create the future in its invisible form and to materialize it in some way in the physical. The “engine”, must, of course, be guided by some form of mentality, and in this case we have the three selves of the man and the use of the three manas as they work together. The Aumohipili and Aumaua fall under the (2) heading of the “inner being”. The Auhane is the outer being, but cannot make or use the force. It, as the mental force (3) can not create except on its own level, not on the physical. The “higher sense” (4) is the Aumakua, and the force it uses is the high mana, but all mana is part of the “vital principle of life”. Huna agrees emphatically that the manas when used by the Aunihipili and na Aumakua in creating the desired conditions, first in the future and then in the present as materialized conditions, do indeed use forces and consciousness apart from the “intellect or Auhane which can only plan and visualize and will as its part of the work, (5). It can, with the help of the Aunihipili create the thought-form-mold or plan. Mental force (6) without the basic mana and the Aumakua and its voltltage of the force cannot light the globe. The “true creative force” (7) belongs to the level of the Aunihipili, symbolized by the “heart” or emotions, and, in Huna we add the fact that the low mana becomes creative in the larger sense only when changed to the mana loa and put to use.
In item (8) we see the average life mentioned. In it, things “just happen”, and we are the toys of circumstances. By planning our future and working for it in the Huna manner, we advance, (9), and tap the Source of Supply by working with the Aunihipili and Aumakua as a three-part team, (10). And, Huna heartily seconds this conclusion, the limit is indeed set only by the skill with which we use the things we have come to know. The several statements given by Betty in the paragraphs cited, pull together to make a compact and understandable whole when we apply Huna to them, but not before. The last statement (11) would seem most out of keeping with the illustration of precise and automatic chemical reaction without the understanding that behind all lies the Aumakua with its greater wisdom and ability and with its unfailing sympathy and understanding of us and our problems.
When we come to item (12) we find that the earlier statements are being subjected to limitations - the na Aumakua apparently working not entirely as by automatic reactions to our prayers, but deciding in some degree what we should be given. Our goodness enters the picture (sin fixations in Huna replace this), and there is a cryptic command to share blessings in order to keep getting them. The idea of “take no thought of the morrow” is contrary to all we have learned., While it may be translated as “take care you have complete faith in all matters,” it must not be allowed to contradict the basic fact that we MUST plan ahead and use all the methods at our disposal to help change things for the better.
The paragraph on “inspiration” (15) calls for no particular comment from the Huna angle. However, it reminds us, despite its personalization of “inspiration” which is a direct prompting from the Aumakua, it is to be supposed.), that we must first decide upon the work to be done before we ask for Guidance to help us to do it superlatively well. The “undifferentiated force” of mana, or any other force, remains useless and meaningless until set to work by a conscious being or self or trinity of selves. The moral we can draw from this paragraph of teaching is that we cannot just sit down and wait to be told what to do and how to do it. We must decide these things for ourselves before we ask for help.
I have traced the Huna parallels in Betty’s splendid reports on her findings, perhaps in tiresome detail, but with the desire to show how I go about checking such material and getting from it the supporting evidence that Huna is all that it appears to be. Having gone patiently along with me this time, I will be very brief the next. There are many similar sources of corroboration which I wish to present in later Bulletins.
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LOW MAGIC
A LETTER REPORTING ON THE USE OF THE LOW MAGIC came in recently from HRA F.A.P., a resident of Southern California, and one gifted with the ability to collect a large surcharge of mana. He wrote, “We have a neighbor whose husband died a few months ago and left her with two small children. She was forced to go to work.
…One night I noticed how terribly tired she looked …my wife and I called her over and I explained simply that I thought I could help her if she would let me try…I massaged her back and shoulders very gently while charging myself with mana. Then when I felt ready I willed the force to go into her. I caused it to flow three times…Later she said that for the first time in months her tight and twitching face muscles relaxed and that she had felt great power flowing into her.
Everyone I have passed the mana to says it hits them in the pit of the stomach suddenly and then travels upward ending in the head with something like a heavy jolt…I use this power in helping myself all the time. All the neighbors around here remark to my face that they wonder where I get all my pep. For a long time I felt myself growing old - am forty. Then when I began drawing upon this force I felt myself charged with energy, my figure is not sagging and I honestly do not feel a bit over thirty.”…In former letters the surprising help given his wife by the same method was reported. He plans to practice steadily and develop his power to the limit. This is excellent work and we need more experimentation in this line in which only the “low magic” is involved…A sufficient surcharge might be used in the kahuna way as a “shock charge” to dislodge obsessing spirits or overcome complexes by sheer force.
Use Pendulum to Test Mana charge
MY PENDULUM TEST OF THE MANA CHARGE before, during and after the TMHG periods has been carefully checked by HRA R.W.S., also of California. My index or normal mana charge gave me 52 clockwise swings, his 50 to-and-from body. My surcharge measured an average of 300 clockwise, his 300 to 330 clockwise. After sending the surcharge to the Aumakuas through the “braided cord” of aka threads at the time of the TMHG work my pendulum swing was reduced to between ten and twenty feeble swings, his to from 25 feeble clockwise swings to 10 straight line swings. In my experiments the pendulum also makes a few straight line swings during the time when treatment is under way, but resumes the circling later. I am very much pleased to have these findings so similar to my own. I feel sure that we DO accumulate a surcharge and DO send it to the Poe Aumakua for use in helping the world and us. Join in as often as possible. The power increases. We may be preventing a third World War by empowering the Aumakuas and opening the door to their help by our invitations. If you do not need help, send along your spare mana to help others. If you need help, join hands telepathically and help build and multiply the powers used to answer our petitions made Huna fashion.
SOMETHING OF GREAT INTEREST TO US was reported by letter from a reader of SSBM, J.D. Buchan, G.P.C.S., who tells of a new school of healing which seems to be a combination of Aumakua and Aunihipili of the kahunas, and of Chiropractic methodology and theory together with some excellent religious ingredients. He writes:
“Father Placidus Kempf, Prior cf the Monastery at St. Meinrad, Indiana, of the ancient Order of St. Benedict, was given three weeks to live by a recent head of the American Medical Association. A friend prevailed upon him to be adjusted by a Chiropractor, Dr. G. P. Shears. He recovered.”
The story goes on, telling how priest and doctor formed a new organization in which treatment was given to all, and donations were requested to keep up the work. This was the “G.P,C. Service Principle” standing for “God, Patient and Chiropractor”. Work under this “law of giving and receiving” prospered and more Chiropractors joined in, A special methodology and theory was developed, put to use and taught.
The theory is that only at the point where head joins neck can the nerves be pinched enough to cause trouble, but if they are pinched by the joint being slightly dislocated, the entire spine may get out of adjustment and many ills develop. It is taught that if the head is replaced squarely on the axis, the other things soon correct themselves.
This is not a new theory, but the thing that struck me was the method used to make the neck adjustment. Again I quote. “…here is the meat of this letter, to my personal knowledge, there are seven of us who no longer use force (to make the adjustment). We beam energy into the patient and the INNATE INTELLIGENCE (”Master Mind” etc.) converts this into force and the subluxation is reduced (adjustment made), (After anterior and posterior X-rays have been made to determine just the degree of subluxation) we find the proper direction from which to apply the energy. The patient is placed in a reclining position according to our findings, and contact is taken over the transverse process of the Atlas. The elbows are brought sharply together much as we use the ‘toggle recoil’ adjustment when using physical force. We are extremely careful that no force enters the patient or the energy would be dissipated… Instantaneously upon beaming the energy, the internal malleolas are found to be even - assuming, of course, that the energy has been beamed in the proper direction…When this new knowledge was revealed, we did less and less to the patient while doing more and more for the patient.
“Our premise is that Universal Intelligence is in all matter, giving it all of its properties and actions.” (This, I gather) is called upon to take the beamed energy projected by the healer and use it as a physical force to put the head back on the Atlas as it should be.
“I believe that seventy-two of us now have official standing as GPC Servers. Seven are now using the ‘no force’ technique, and one hundred and fifty more are serving their first year necessary to gain official rating. Father Placidus sends a hand-painted emblem to each who gains official standing.”
If any HRA can tell me more of the methods used, I will be happy to pass on the information for the benefit of all of us. It looks to me that we may have here a very fine example of the use of a surcharge of mana which is sent or “beamed” by contact, will, aka thread or whatnot, into the patient to be used by the High Selves - under other names - to make the adjustment. The manipulation of the elbows may be a physical stimulus of sorts. Patients dying of cancer are listed with other incurables successfully treated. Most interesting. Possibly VERY significant. We must let no stone go unturned in the Huna work. MFL