Huna Bulletin 21
November 15, 1949
Bulletin 21
November 15, 1949
For HUNA RESEARCH ASSOCIATES From Max Freedom Long, (Experimental work with Huna) Experimental work with HUNA Reports, news, suggestions
P.O. Box 2867, Hollywood Station, Los Angeles 28, California, U.S.A.
THE NEWS FROM THE STUDY, covering the fortnight since the last Bulletin issued, covers things of more than ordinary interest.
The long-awaited booklet THE THEORY OF THE METATRON, by our own HRA John A. Hilliard, is now ready. It is a 34 page mimeo and has been readied and made available by N. Meade Layne, editor of ROUND ROBIN and head of the BORDERLAND SCIENCES RESEARCH ASSOCIATES. (Address: 3524 Adams Ave., San Diego 4, Calif., for your copies. The price is $1.00. Add $.06 for postage and $.03 more for sales tax if you live in California.)
The author, John A. Hilliard, has a remarkable background of study and experience in our particular end of the psycho-religious field. He has a rare grasp of mathematics and physics. Early in the days of HRA he began to test Huna theories in terms of his special studies, sending in letter after letter opening up such an exciting and new set of concepts that he was urged to get the findings and speculative conclusions into form for publication.
A few articles were written for ROUND ROBIN, but now we have the book - and for the student of Huna, it is a splendid contribution. HRA Hilliard has done a remarkable job of making a highly technical matter simple enough for the average reader to understand. Granted, many of us may not be able to follow with ease the mathematical equations from which he draws many facts and conclusions, but there is little difficulty in understanding what is uncovered in this way. A review of the work will be given on a separate page.
The last HRA BULLETIN, No. 10-A-9, from the hand of N. Meade Layne, arrived at the Study, and everything stopped until all ten pages were devoured. All the news of the flying saucers and of other mysterious things is being covered by the editor of R.R. (who scooped the world with detailed news of the first flying saucers). His brilliant quips and penetrating analysis of the many strange reports, are a joy to the reader, a shot-in-the-arm to jaded curiosity, and a means of keeping up with the most significant developments of a time when things are happening at racing speed - happening especially behind the scenes on this world and, apparently, on the invisible levels all around.
The SPECIAL CASE to be worked on intensively through telepathic contact with the patient, will be handled. Twenty HRAs volunteered for the test and letters with instructions have been sent, each with a few hairs from the head of the patient to help make the aka thread contact. Treatment will be given on the half hour from early to late , each volunteer observing as many of these periods as possible. In this way it is fairly certain that a few will be at work every hour and so a steady mana flow and pressure of prayer-action will be kept up. This is a very interesting mental case - and very sad. All who can are invited to send healing through me, as center to “Gregg”, at half after the hour day or night. A report will be made later.
Search for the Beloved
More happy NEWS comes from Dr. Nandor Fodor, our learned HRA who recently wrote THE SEARCH FOR THE BELOVED, in which he gave the world, and us, so much information on the strange things that appear in people’s lives due to fixations formed at the time of birth, or even before. The news is that a few more copies have been found of his ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE, the great work that was printed in England a few years before the War II, and the plates of which were bombed and burned. This is the reference book mentioned all the way through my book, SSBM, and in it may be found a digest of everything of importance in Spiritualism and related fields up to 1936. Originally the price was $15, but with the new exchange rates, the few copies which Dr. Fodor has managed to get over from London may be had from him for $7.68 post paid. These are the last of the books, so rush your order if you wish one. The address is, Dr. Nandor Fodor, Park Central Hotel, 7th Ave. at 56th Street, New York, N.Y.
Letters have been arriving commenting on the great significance of the experiment reported in the last Bulletin - covering the use of a surcharge of mana to make an adjustment of a sacro iliac slippage. With this matter being brought before us, first by the new school of G-P-C SERVERS, through their practice of “beaming vital force” to adjust the uppermost neck joint, we are finding more and more information bearing on the subject. Attention has been called to the JUDO practice in Japan known as “Striking at a distance”, and to experiments elsewhere in which definite physical force seemed to be projected to act on people and things beyond the reach of hands.
One is reminded of the many stories formerly told in Hawaii of the “flying akuas” which were observed to come flying out of the hut of a kahuna at night like a small ball of light or flame, and which were reported to sail at great speed to the place where they had been sent by the kahuna - to enter another and work good or evil. I had first-hand accounts of these from a man who had seen them and knew the old lore; but I made no mention of them in writing my report on my Huna explorations, feeling that the “flying gods” might well be superstitions or explainable on other grounds. Now I begin to see fire where only smoke rose before. We know that the phenomena produced by psychism often include the production of light, fire balls and such things, often with swift movement. It may well be that the kahunas gathered a heavy surcharge of mana, injected into it the element of consciousness by giving it commands to act in a certain way, and embodied the unit in aka substance, a thread of which would keep the connection between the “flying god” and the kahuna until the work was accomplished.
There is also the growing evidence that such “balls” of aka-mana move at the direction of the aunihipili. A letter this week told of an HRA who was accumulating a large surcharge when it suddenly seemed to leave him and strike like a weak lightning bolt, his dog - who lay in the room and who reacted with leap and wild yelp, but received no injury.
And lastly, there comes great news from Dr. Oscar Brunler, now living in Hollywood and lecturing and practicing here. In the pages to follow a complete report on his recent experiments will be given, together with more information concerning his great work on the far fringes of the field which we are exploring with swift strides. MFL.
BOOK REVIEW
THE THEORY OF THE METATRON
“Suggestions Toward a Mathematical Interpretation of the Concepts of Huna and Related Psycho-Physical Problems”
by John A. Hilliard
[Editor's note: a quick search shows this book was lost and there appear to be no other citations to this work. Take this into consideration when reading the review below since Huna at this time was experimental.]
34 pages. Mimeographed. $1.06 (plus sales tax in Calif) from The Meade Layne Publications, 3524 Adams Ave., San Diego 16, Calif.
The author, HRA John A. Hilliard, saw in the ancient Huna lore several possible missing links which would fit in with present theories and give a new and better explanation of the things used in psycho-religious discussions to explain such things as thoughts, memories, thought forms, vital forces, aka substances, aka cords; also states of matter as the etheric, astral, material and so on.
For his starting point he took the strange fact that in telepathy the distance between two people seems to make no difference. This is contrary to the law of weakening of broadcast or wire- conducted electrical energy, as distance grows greater.
In searching for an explanation which would fit the things we already know in the science of physics, he at once applied Ohms Law to the mana and aka of Huna, using the resulting equations to boil the problem down swiftly to the fact that the substance of the aka thread or cord, and of the thought form transmitted along its length from sender to receiver, was valid material for evaluation.
Soon he concludes, tentatively, that “…the thought form is able to act on the compliant aka cord in a way to produce resonance in it. We visualize this by assuming the stuff of the aka cord to vibrate in a twofold wave completely antiphase. The na (used by the author as the symbol of the basic mana-aka thought form substance in movement) of the thought form is thus seen to resist one wave and assist the other so that they are drawn into phase, thus augmenting one another. The degree to which these waves are drawn into phase determines the amount of energy that will be delivered….The degree is determined by the qualities of resistance and reactance in the na or vital impedance.” He has already explained “impedance” in these words: (There was no flow of actual force or thought forms along the aka thread) “but rather a flow of energy. This could be explained only by the ideas found in wave mechanics. If a current, moving in a circuit, has a frequency of alternation such that its wave length is infinitely shorter than the circuit, then there will be no flow of electrical matter - electrons - through the circuit. Yet the circuit transmits energy. We conceive this to be the condition existing in a flow of vital force (mana) through the aka cord. Thus the basic idea of a flow of voltage of vital forces is not far amiss.
“Having conceived the vital current as a high frequency alternating current whose wave length is less than any possible circuit, we were confronted with the need to explain the aka-resistance (called) in some kind of terms other than simple fluid resistance. To do this we gave na two kinds of resistance, one which is purely frictional resistance, and the other reactance resistance. In alternating electrical currents these two kinds of resistance are related as the square root of the sum of their squares, and is a value called impedence Na is the impedence of the aka cord.”
The concept, thus made to fall into the forms of modern scientific discoveries and speculations, is used to build on in taking up the problem of just what forces and substances are combined by mental action to create the complex units needed to make a complete thought form of a complex object. The word “ideo-form” is substituted for “thought form” and from this is developed the “ideotron” and the “metatron” using the ending of the word “electron” because, as the author points out, we begin to deal with substances and forces not so much like the atoms as like the electrons.
There remains the fact that mana seems to be sent along the aka thread to a patient and to stimulate him, and that the thought forms sent along the aka thread show every indication of being accompanied with a force.
We see the initial mana and thought forms changed into energies of a wave kind and then transformed back into originals when they arrive at the far end of the aka thread, This sounds simple to one accustomed to having sound turned to electrical impulses at one end of a telephone and appear again as sound at the other. But to a physicist and mathematician, this is something that demands a more exact and definite answer,
Beginning, therefore, on page 5, HRA Hilliard gets down to brass tacks and spreads the problem out before the reader to show what simply HAS to be found in the general scheme if it is to be made to hold water, He starts confidently with his “THE POSTULATE OF A FUNDAMENTAL”, and in a few clear, swift paragraphs shows us how to reach the conclusion that there are several forms of matter in the universe, including astral and etheric as well as the physical matter we can sense.
Taking the periodicity of the elements, he points out twelve octaves and shows that there is no good reason for not extending these octaves right up into the astral and etheric and even perhaps a mental.
Having laid out the elements that are MUSTS in explaining the facts observed, he goes to work to prove that each new element is a justified guess. All is grist in his mill, and he is as much at home when defining and expanding our concepts of PERCEPTION as when patiently pausing to present diagrams and explanations to clear up the idea of waves as found in the “brain waves” of these days.
By page 31 he has arrived at the conclusion that is of the greatest importance, He writes, “All matter is considered (by the writer, after his brilliant study) to be relatively subject to the will of the spiritual entities who work in and with it.” It is a splendid piece of work - one we can be proud of as HRAs, It marks a long forward step in a new direction in the Huna exploration, MFL
CORRESPONDENCE AND COMMENTS
As a GROUP, we Huna Research Associates, represent a fair cross- section of minds and people. This is very good because it forces us to spread our interests and our experimental work with Huna to make them fit the needs and desires of all types of members.
Some of us are interested in healing for themselves, some in learning to heal others. Many focus their attention on the healing of purse and social tangles. And almost all of us love the speculative angles and the comparison of Huna theories and beliefs with those found in out-stretched religions from the time of Adam right up to the very latest “revelation”.
In our work we are constantly failing to satisfy many who take part in the work - and who drop out for various reasons. Here is a typical letter from an HRA - a very wise and valuable man - who has not found what he hoped for in our work. (I quote a part.)
“…I feel that I must ask you to drop my name… I do not think the ‘Secret’ has been lost. Neither do I think it will be gotten by anyone who has not been accepted as a pupil by one of the Magi. The kahunas, no doubt, were of the order toe the Magi…Nor will they (the Magi) permit it to come to light again until the world is peopled by a more enlightened race.”
Another HRA wrote a few months ago to ask to be released from HRA membership because she and her husband had found a real Master, and were being accepted as students by him. This Master is so much a mysterious personage that even his name may not be mentioned to others. A similar thing happened in the case of an HRA who had received a letter telling him that a Master and Teacher had observed him and was now inviting him to become a student under him. He wrote me triumphantly to say that he no longer had to work in an experimental group with Huna because he now was promised the opportunity to learn immediately to do all and more than any kahuna ever could do,
I smile when these letters come in, I have been through the search for a Master who could teach something that could be USED, I, too, have been discouraged with my inability to get desired information and results swiftly. I am not saying that some HRAs may not find the Magi or Masters - I say only that after many years I have decided that, if they exist as anything less than Aumakuas, they are not to be found by such as I. In fact, I have decided that there is about one chance in a thousand of there being any such supermen. I see no evidence - and I have looked long and earnestly in all directions - of the WORKS of such. “By your works shall you be known”, seems to apply in the case of “Masters” and their mysterious and greatly hush-hush “lodges”.
I believe that Huna is for the very few, not for the many. It takes a special type of mind to understand the significance of Huna and of the experimental work we are doing to test what we think we know of the ancient lore, It is the fault of no one if he or she cannot see this significance. But it makes those who do see it and who do stick with the work through thick and thin, all the more valued.
As we travel along together in our search for the promised land of Knowledge and Workable Magic, I notice several things that evaded my glance before. I see that it is indeed true that if one makes a better mouse trap a trail will be beaten to one’s door. But, and this is painfully true, if one discovers that the world is round, one must break trails to all the thrones of the known world before finding a single person to back a voyage to the New World.
The trouble with making a discovery, such as is embodied in a mathematical formula or statements bordering on the abstract, is that the world fairly crawls with crack-pots and with the cunning who hope by lies and posing to bilk the trusting. Every five minutes around the clock someone who had found nothing - nothing at all - leaps screaming into the limelight to tell the world that he has made the discovery to end all discoveries. In modern times we have seen the rise and fall of several movements started by the men who rose to shout loudest and to tell such lies that they were believed because - as we have said - “no one would ever dare tell that big a lie.”
Because of the crack-pots and because of our justified suspicion and partly justified conservatism, the genuine discoverers are in almost every case set upon by their fellows and rewarded by blows and curses.
As HRAs we must do our best to try to spot the crack-pot and the cunning liars. At the same time we must remain eternally watchful lest some great discovery be mentioned in a whisper and not heard. The great men seldom go in for publicity. Unless what they say is a mouse trap - not a mathematical equation that will eventuate in an atom bomb - the world at large may never know of the really great discovery until some city explodes under the impact of a few pounds of mysterious substance.
One thing stands out clearly, and that is that our progress into a full knowledge of Huna is NOT to be made by going BACK and by going back alone. Most of those who give up Huna do so to make a return to some earlier belief or way of prayer, or to go back to the latest of the long parade of brilliant promises in the hope that one has at last been found that will live up to its verbal or printed claims.
We of the HRA go back only to pick up the sources and the origins - the basics upon which to build into the future. We see that the old is not enough, so we also GO FORWARD. We seek no more Masters. Instead, we listen to the quiet voices of our physicists, mathematicians and advanced students of the materials of the psycho- religious field.
Pendulum and Oscar Burnler
Only a few of us are well enough trained in special things to follow our John Hilliard or Dr. Oscar Brunler, of whom I will soon speak at length. But all of us can understand very well indeed whether or not men like these are asking money to divulge their secrets of learning, invention or discovery. We all know that the worker is worthy of his hire, but we have also learned, by painful experience to be highly suspicious of the man who advertises much, charges for pig-in-a-poke “teachings” ALWAYS before opening the poke.
I feel that in our work with Huna we have come in the past few days to a distinct turning place. The first step in the Huna exploration was to dig into the past and learn all we could of the old beliefs and practices of the kahunas. Our second step has been to try our hands at the use of the old methods as we now understand them to be. We have had over a year and a half of experimental healing practice, and - in passing - I may say that the results have been above all expectation, all things considered. Now we are getting set to take the third step, which is that of looking into the very latest discoveries and theories to be found in other fields.
A few months ago I told of Dr. Brunler and his arrival in our country, of his work with the pendulum and of his incredible conclusions, also of his efforts to find oil, water and gold through the use of the pendulum.
Having no way to evaluate his findings, I reserved judgment and contented myself by watching to see what might come of it all. This last week there came the thing that convinced me that in Dr. Brunler and his astonishing (perhaps astonishing because so new to us) findings, we had the opportunity to begin the work of taking the third step. The next day there arrived John Hilliard’s new booklet with its treasure of materials.
Before telling you what convinced me that Dr. Brunler was a safe and sound thinker, let me speak of the fourth step - one that may be taken in the future, or which we may never take. It is the step in which some of us will blaze the way ahead through inner illumination - I do not know just how; but in a way similar to the “realization” of Zen. It will have to go farther than any of the almost inspired teachings from the spirit side. It will have to be the inspiration that will provide the flashes which will enable the loose ends to be gathered to make a working and complete strand.
On November 9th, Dr. Brunler wrote what was to me the most important letter to be received since I first heard from W.R. Stewart who had known kahunas in North Africa who spoke a Polynesian dialect. Here is the letter:
Dear Max Freedom Long:
With kindest regards, (Signed,) Oscar Brunler.
Many thanks for your kind letter of October 25th. I am very sorry that I did not let you know that I was to lecture on Sunday last to the American Hypnotists’ Association.
After the lecture three people were hypnotized. I took their brain radiation before and during hypnosis. During their hypnotic state they were asked to expand their consciousness to a higher plane, to rise toward the divine light, etc., etc. One of the subjects rose to 520 degrees and then I brought him up to 575.
- Dr. Calver said,”Let us do an experiment with him as he has reached the psychometric range,” We obtained two letters from the audience and gave them in turn to the hypnotized person. He was able to psychometrize the first letter in the most surprising manner. The second letter, sealed, was handed to him. He said that this letter was written by a lady and went on to describe the contents of the letter. As soon as he was out of his hypnotic state his brain radiation had dropped to the original one and the man was unable to psychometrize.
This experiment proved three points: (1) that in hypnosis the consciousness can be raised in certain people to a higher plane of awareness, (2) that at 575 degrees brain radiations, psychometric faculties can operate as mentioned in my lectures, and (3) that immediately after hypnosis the normal brain radiation is reached and the gift of psychometry has disappeared.
It was a most interesting experiment and I learned a few other things which would take too long to describe by letter.
This letter will have striking meaning to those of you who are familiar with its terms, just as it has had for me. In brief, Dr. Brunler has demonstrated the fact that a man can raise the “vibration ” of his brain by an act of his consciousness.
In this case it was done by suggestion given under hypnotic influence. However, we can safely assume that it can also be done without hypnosis, and by the individual, This is of tremendous importance. Eventually it may lead us to the fourth step in the Huna exploration, that in which the rate of the brain radiation (waves) are high enough to allow us to enter the state of “realization” or “illumination”.
In our Bulletins I will, for as long as is needed, give over a good part of the space to telling in detail of Dr. Brunler’s many discoveries and of his theories.
With a pendulum and an instrument called a “biometer” he has measured the brain radiations of over 20,000 people. He has been able to study the people whose radiations fall in certain degrees, and has found that those in one degree band have mental capacities and characteristics very different from those of other bands.
In this way he offers the world a mechanism by which we may determine our mental levels. Once an individual knows where he stands, he can go ahead confidently in such work and activities as have been found best performed by people of that degree band, The possibilities are very great.
There are many things besides the brain waves to be presented. Dr. Brunler has covered much ground in his experimenting and I can promise much fascinating material from his hands. Unfortunately there are no books available covering these things. His lectures have been printed in the official journal of the British Dowsers, but are not available except at considerable expense. A similar series of lectures are being given in Los Angeles now - if you live out here, (Dr. Brunler kindly sent me a carbon of one of his recent lectures, and I am fortunate in having a copy of an out-of-print booklet giving the lectures delivered in England.) Stand by. MFL
Huna Bulletin 20
November 1, 1949
Bulletin 20
November 1, 1949
For HUNA RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
From Max Freedom Long,
(Experimental work with Huna)
HRA news, reports, suggestions
P.O. Box 2867, Hollywood Station, Los Angeles 28, California, U.S.A.THE NEWS HERE AT THE STUDY for the past two weeks covers nothing of great importance in so far as our Huna experimental work is concerned. The reports of various experiments have been good, and an unusual number of delightful letters have arrived. To answer these and still keep ahead so that the Bulletins could come out on time, I made up the first general interest letter planned to last a month instead of a week. Most of you will have had a copy in reply to your notes, letters or contributions to Cigbo’s box by now, as nearly all of you have written during the past two weeks.
Ten of the 92 HRAs who seemed to have lost interest and who were notified that they had been placed on the “inactive” list, have warmed my heart by hastening to write in to explain their long silence. I wish I could find space to pass on to the rest of you the many dramatic accounts that come in from HRAs who have been through experiences of all sorts, happy and otherwise. Through all the accounts runs a bright thread of courage and faith.
I believe that I am beginning to notice that runs of bad luck which have defied our best efforts to stop or correct, belong to a special cycle or classification. Much of the trouble has had its origin in the past before the efforts to make use of Huna were begun.
There was the case of a lease taken on a building about two years ago. It led to complications and these did not respond to Huna efforts. Last week the lease was allowed to lapse and the heavy loss accepted. There have been cases of illness in which two dated back some years, and which failed to respond - ending with operations (which, happily, were very successful and were followed by unusually fast recovery.)
One can see in the Huna philosophy indications that events that have had their ultimate outcomes crystallized in the future are hardest to work over for the better. We can be sure that the need in these cases would be for an expert in the use of kahuna methods, and that our uncertain efforts have not been good enough.
What is less easy to understand is the fact that small troubles seem to develop to go along with the large ones. Accidents happen and seem to have had no beginning in the past, or there are sudden illnesses or losses. Perhaps the best way to look at these is that with which the kahunas seem to have viewed the ordinary small events in their daily lives - seeing in them the same thing as events in the lives of animals around them, or as the “accidents” of storm or volcanic eruptions, or the sweep of some disease.
The “law” of the physical level of life, which includes our own bodies, our environment and even our Aunihipili (as a fellow of the selves of all other animals), seems to be the “law of accidents” or chance. The level of the Auhane seems tied in through the na Aunihipili and the physical bodies to a great extent. Perhaps only the na Aumakua can be counted free (or relatively free) of this seeming disorderly jumbling of events. Perhaps it, alone can bring order.
In writing about the welter of theories that sound good, but which will not hold water, one of the HRAs recently reminded me of H. L. Mencken’s famous words, “…entirely logical, very simple - and wrong.” All of our speculations, like those of Adam, Moses and modern thinkers, are made up of the materials with which we are familiar on the physical and mental levels of life. To these materials we try to add things which we GUESS to be part and parcel of the materials of the next higher level, or of levels running on up to some final Source.
In Huna we have a philosophy which is unique in that it refuses to take the GUESSES as anything more than guesses. Huna is alone in having no revelations or teachings that must be swallowed with the nose held and without pausing to inspect or taste the dose. The kahunas apparently knew, back in the days when they were building a language around their concepts to preserve them, that as long as we who are na Auhane cannot see things through the eyes and minds of the na Aumakua, we simply cannot know and understand in full detail the answers to what happens all around us in living.
We do well to keep these things in mind as we push ahead with our tests of the working part of Huna - the down to earth practical part which is but little rested on the speculative nature of the Aumakuas and still higher Beings. Cold comfort though it be for those of us who have to face problems beyond our power to meet, it is less painful to admit that we simply do not know than to whisper, “Karma!” and sink back into the mire of black depression from which we envision no escape unless at the end of countless lives to come.
And, by the same token, we are also much more fortunate than those who mutter, “It is God’s will,” and go moaning away wondering how a kind and just God could bring such things upon those who love and worship Him. Perhaps for good measure, the torment of seeing a wicked man “flourish as the green bay tree” across the road, is added to the overflowing measure of woe.
Little wonder that the believers in karma have become so hopeless or that the Christian of twenty centuries has tried to content himself with his lot while endeavoring to keep eyes and hopes turned toward the promised reward of heaven. (Of, course, taking care to avoid hell if possible, for Origen in his writings explained that hell was invented by the priests as a special motivation on the heavenly journey.)
At this point several HRAs will look at me anxiously and ask whether there be any SPIRITUALITY at all left for us in Huna, so I hasten to say that, in my opinion, there is as much or more than will be found in any other system. To be good as we see “good” is indeed to be spiritual. To make contact with the Higher Beings and get from them impressions that we feel come from touching the perfect and abstract REALITY - this is as “spiritual” a thing as we can know or experience. Or call this experience a part of MYSTICISM if you prefer. Huna does not lack a name for that great and shining abstraction we call “TRUTH”. The “REALIZATION” of Zen is nothing different in its “truth” when it is touched. Contact the Aumakua with the help of the Aunihipili and you may touch the TRUTH or experience REALIZATION, or samadi. No matter which gate you enter, the thing that you will find within is always what the kahunas called “THE LIGHT”. This symbol word includes all. And it excludes darkness.
MANA AS A TOOL IN EXPERIMENTS
A MENTION WAS MADE recently in a Bulletin of the practice of a rather new school of healers who were “beaming vital force” and sending it to the base of the skull of a patient to cause skull and neck to move into normal relation in so far as the joints are concerned.
So far as I have been able to learn, there are three people who have been able to learn to cause an adjustment in this way.
IF THIS IS TRUE, and it seems to be, it is a matter of very great interest to us as Huna Research Associates. In fact, it is something almost made to order for experimental testing, for the studious who wish to look into similar matters in either religion, psychology or psychic science, or for those of us who love to speculate.
MY RECENT EXPERIMENTS have given me results that seem to me significant. I will pass on my findings so that you may see what I have done and make tests of your own. Also, I will join in the historical study and the speculation - starting the ball rolling in this article and report.
THE PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE TEST
I have a sacroiliac joint that first slipped almost twenty years ago when I made a heavy lift. Since that time it has slipped with other lifts or twists and sometimes I have to get it adjusted or can kick in such a way that it snaps back into line.
This condition furnished me something to experiment on in the present project upon which I am reporting. I began the tests at a time when there was need of an adjustment, my right leg having gone slightly lame and the familiar numbness having appeared in the ball of my foot.
This furnished a condition with which I was long familiar. From experience I had learned that such a slippage never corrected itself and that there always had to be pressure or the rather strenuous twisting of a violent cross-kick to adjust the joint.
What I wanted to know was whether or not I could make use of mana, directing it with thought, and cause the adjustment to take place as of its own accord.
WHAT THE HUNA THEORIES OFFERED
In Huna we learn that mana can be generated in the body and caused to flow to various parts of the body, or to go through the hands or along an aka thread of contact into the body of another person or into the aka or shadowy body of a spirit, or into wood or other substances to be stored there for a time.
We also learn that a heavy charge or amount of mana (of the Aunihipili voltage or kind) will act as directed. In the case of the throwing sticks which were greatly charged with mana by na kahuna in battle, then hurled against a foe to render him unconscious at the slightest touch, we have the typical example of the mana charge remaining in the stick (and not flowing back into the body of the kahuna) then leaving it with such speed to enter the one hit by it that the shock or impact caused a mesmeric sleep condition.
In America in early days the medicine men of the Indians had learned to use mana under the name of orenda in some tribes and could touch a strong man on the chest with one finger and cause him to fall unconscious. (Matthew’s report. See SSBM for more details on this case and the one above.)
The legends of the Hawaiians tell us that the great chief, Hawaii-loa, used a magical force to cause the great canoes to cut through the water at high speed without wind or sail or paddle, This hints at the use of mana to exert physical force directly on physical objects.
WHAT PSYCHICAL RESEARCH OFFERED
At spiritualistic séances and in private tests of psychics by investigators, there have been observed many movements of solid objects by some invisible and seemingly non-physical agency.
Three-story stone houses have been smartly shaken, heavy pianos with men seated on them have been lifted. People have been lifted into the air (levitation) and smaller objects have been tossed or moved about endlessly.
Researchers have concluded that three things may be involved in this movement of physical things. First, a spirit, whose main function is to furnish the mind element to direct the action, Second, a form of force derived from the living, (named variously as “motoricity”, “nerve force” etc.) And third, the possible use of a substance which has been named “ectoplasm” and which comes out of the bodies of the living, being visible at times and used to materialize a body for a spirit - the hand of the body then being sufficient to move objects in the ordinary way. Ectoplasm in the invisible form has been found to extend as “rods” away from a medium and to move objects. These rods have been located by touch, a glass rod being used to feel for them after it was found that the touch of a hand caused them to vanish.
A famous case was that in which Mlle. Tomczyk demonstrated her ability to lift objects without touching them. I have before me a picture reproduced in Dr. Fodor’s ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE, (Page lii) in which this medium sits with closed eyes and hands held with fingers spread at a distance of a foot above a table. Slightly below and between her hands hangs, as on invisible threads, a pair of shears. Dr. Ochorowicz is seen sitting beside her watching the shears. He found that this medium could depress one side of a balance scale with hands held above it. He made photographs in which were to be seen tiny threads running from hands to scale pan.
As we are interested in causing typical “adjustments” in joints without contact, as well as in our own bodies while lying still and relaxed, we need to consider the aka thread of Huna as a part of the mechanism by means of which mana is carried to the joint to be adjusted as by the use of physical force - in a quite similar way to the movement of objects.
As we are indulging in the speculative as well as the experimental side in our HRA work, I will quote Dr. Fodor’s materials, given on page 256 of his Encyclopaedia. Please remember that this was written before Huna was sufficiently known to come into the general picture.
There are observations to prove that threads, finer than a spider’s, may somewhat in the manner of cobwebs connect the medium with objects in the room. Mme. d. Esperance often complained of a feeling of cobwebs on her face. Margery and many of her sitters had the same experience. Ectoplasmic threads may be the instruments of telekinetic action in Poltergeist cases.
With Mlle. Tomczyk, Dr. Ochorowitz photographed a balance which was super-normally depressed by fine hair-like threads. The method must have been similar when Eusapia Paladino genuinely performed the same feat. In fact the thread was seen as, in a séance at the house of Cavalier Peretti in Genoa in 1903, it made a glass of water dance. Slowly and cautiously Cavalier Peretti drew the thick, white thread to himself. It resisted, then it snapped and disappeared with a nervous shock to the medium.
Bozzano observed such threads twenty times in the same year, Mme. Bisson detected them with Eva C., Dr. Jorgen Bull, of Oslo, found them instrumental in an invisible state in producing direct writing on wax tablets in the presence of Mme. Lujza Linczegh-Ignath. In some of the excellent photographs obtained by Dr. Glen Hamilton with Mary M., of Winnipeg, slight threads can be seen reaching up to a bell fixed high above the curtain which was rung occasionally. A similar attachment of threads to aported objects was observed in the photographs taken by Major Mowbray with the medium
T. Lynn,
The guide of Frau Ideler explicitly stated, in the experiments conducted by Prof. Blather of the University of Riga, that she spun threads to accomplish telekinetic movement. In red light and later in blue light these attachments were observable and the medium seemed to pull the threads from the inner side of her hand with the fingertips. The threads seemed to be of a doughy, elastic substance at first thick, then pulled fine, and they felt soft and dry. Even while being handled they diminished perceptibly. A piece was secured and submitted at once to microscopic examination in an adjoining room. An enlargement of the microscopic photo shows that it is composed of not one strand but of many fine but not organized threads. In its chemical composition the structure was not that of any of the known textile fabrics. Curiously, fire has no power over these threads. They make the flame withdraw. But they are conductors of electricity. …
(There follows reasons for the conclusion that the medium’s subconscious may be causing the projection of these threads to the objects and then causing the movement. M.F.L.)
Turning to page 255 we find some interesting material.
It was a comparatively early discovery that the contribution of the spirits is, at the most, a directive influence and that in some mysterious way the bodily organism of the medium plays a dominant role. The spirits themselves described physical mediums to Allan Kardec in the following words: “These persons draw from themselves the fluid necessary to the production of the phenomena and can act without the help of foreign spirits.”
The “fluid” of this early age has been replaced by the ectoplasm of psychical research. The discovery of this substance facilitates the idea of a bridge between telekinesis (movement of objects by supernormal means, M.F.L.) and ordinary mechanics. W.J. Crawford’s cantilever theory represented the most important attempt in this direction. It essentially means that out of ectoplasmic emanations psychic rods, so strong as to become semi- metallic, are formed) that this extrusion acts as a cantilever, and the phenomena are produced by an intelligent manipulation on the part of unseen operators of these roan.
The contention that structures may exist which are invisible, impalpable) yet rigid is a mechanical paradox. Rigidity means the power to resist deformation under stress. It presumes a force opposing the effort of deformation. This force apparently is not applied from any direction with which we are acquainted. Is it not possible, asks W. Whateley Smith, that it is applied from the fourth dimension?
From the study of how objects are aported and carried about over considerable distances, or are made to disappear entirely, we may conclude that mana when mingled with a part of the aka substance, and directed by the consciousness of the Aunihipili, (even with the Auhane remaining unaware of the things being done) can lift things with nothing upon which to stand, so to speak - a fourth dimension in so far as modern physics is concerned. The mana-aka “hands” may push on a joint to adjust it and at the same time not make us aware of having a place upon which to stand and against which its invisible “feet” are braced during the push.
The question of the consciousness which is a moving and guiding part of the aka-mana mixture cannot be considered without the mention of the Huna idea that all thoughts are made into tiny objects composed of the aka substance of the Aunihipili. These thought-forms might also become a part of the aka-mana mixture and act as the guiding force, even if the continued guidance of the Aunihipili was cut off or rendered inoperative in some way.
This is a highly speculative angle of the problem and, if followed through, will at once bring us to the question as to whether the “astral shells” of Theosophy are real and can exist for a time
as entities. Or whether a unit much smaller, such as a thought-form and aka-mana combination might not be projected telepathically to do such things as cause apports or influence people at a distance without their knowledge. In any event, we are not without a large and old accumulation of speculative material to draw upon at this point. Of course, we are not obliged to reach definite conclusions.
WHAT AUTOSUGGESTION OFFERS
From a study of the way autosuggestion works, we can throw still more light on the matter in hand.
Last winter I watched a teacher of hypnotism demonstrate the use of autosuggestion. He silently suggested to himself that he enter a state of catelepsy and become so completely rigid that he could have his body stretched like a plank between two chairs and support the weight of two men.
In less than five minutes he was in the special state, entirely unconscious in so far as the Auhane was concerned, and with muscles as hard and rigid as if frozen. He was a slender man, but the weight of a friend weighing well over two hundred pounds did not cause his body to bend.
In times of ordinary consciousness he could not have supported the weight of a child of eight in this way, and he would have tired quickly. The conclusion must be drawn that more than the usual power was put to work for the feat. If Huna is right, this power is mana - a surplus of it placed in the tissues under a very strong and direct command of consciousness to do expected work.
In insanity patients often show many times their ordinary strength. Muscles that would be injured by such strains show no injury as a rule. The conscious Auhane has ceased to function in such cases and the Auniuhipili or an obsessing spirit may be manipulating the bodily force.
The mana or vital force is used to move the muscles, but when it shows such extra power we must look for either a different use of the mana or for a difference in its amount and a possible admixture of aka or ectoplasmic substance.
We remember that in testing for a surcharge of mana by the Eugene Fersen method, we may exert a strong pull on someone without feeling any reciprocal pull on ourselves. The hypnotist who was able to lift a man from the floor by this same use of force, felt no pull.
In getting ready to experiment on my sacroiliac, I considered all these things and tried to weigh the evidence offered. Although the theoretical side of the matter was filled with complications and speculations, the actual methods to be used in such an experiment were simple enough. Not quite as simple as the apparent mechanism of fire-walking in which one prays to higher entities - and then just walks.
In this case the use of autosuggestion was necessary because my Aunihipili had to be given the proper instructions for the part it was to play and the proper prod with the middle mana to make it obey orders.
The preliminary study of the materials laid out above gave me the needed conviction that what I proposed to do could be done. I also had the help of knowing that a few doctors had made adjustments without touching their patients, simply using mental directives to “beam vital force” at the place to be affected by the action.
I selected for the experiment the time of from 2 to 2:30 in the afternoon daily. As I often take a few minutes nap at this time to help with the constant late work in the Study, it seemed an ideal time to work.
Autosuggestion is often best obeyed if one relaxes rather completely after giving it. The short nap would give the relaxation needed. It would also have the advantage of allowing a quick check to be made on the results.
My work with the TELEPATHIC MUTUAL HEALING GROUP [TMHG] for almost a year had made the accumulation of a surcharge of mana almost automatic with me. My “George” has learned to respond at once when a surcharge is needed and the work demanding a mana surcharge is approached. However, to make very sure that sufficient mana was accumulated, I performed the Ferson exercise, facing once in each of the four primary directions as I made the affirmations.
This done, I lay down on my bed and gave myself low-spoken autosuggestion, saying that the mana surcharge was collecting at the sacroiliac to be used as a powerful force to make a perfect adjustment of the joint and to hold it in adjustment.
At the beginning of the series of tests I sometimes placed a hand over the joint when suggesting that the mana gather there, but as the position was awkward, I soon gave that up, simply lying comfortably on my bed on my left side with knees slightly bent while making the suggestions.
The accumulation of the mana surcharge took less than a minute. The autosuggestion took about two minutes. I then relaxed mentally as well as physically, depending on my Aunihipili to find proper ways and means and set to work to make the adjustment.
In the first few tests I felt no sensation to indicate that the joint was being manipulated, but upon awakening I found that the leg was easier.
On the fifth try came the success I had hoped for. I had just started to drop off to sleep when I was aroused by a definite feeling of movement in the joint accompanied by an audible “pop”. I had no sensation of force being used on me - just the adjustment taking place effortlessly and with the customary sound.
I finished my nap and arose to find the leg free of all the usual symptoms. I was delighted and counted the experiment a long step ahead in our work of learning to use what we are coming to know through Huna and modern psychic science.
Several weeks have passed and three times the joint slipped a little. Once more it clicked back into place. Once, being pressed for time, I kicked to make the adjustment. I would say that my score now stands at about one click out of four tries, and always a betterment, large or small. Recently the joint has been staying in place so well that my experiment seems advanced to the place where I shall have to find a new something to begin work on. M.F.L.