Living in Cooperation on the Earth

May 1, 1951

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

Dear HRA and Friend:

These have been difficult days for all of us. I have had letter after letter showing how the “war of nerves” waged on us from outside and from both sides of our own political parties, has worn us threadbare. Events have exhausted our emotions so that our mana charges have run low. George has become discouraged so that he has not replenished the mana supply to the point where we could bounce back and recover our happy and optimistic moods. All of us have been drawn into the emotional churning. We have been pumped full to the bursting point, then deflated until we are limp mentally and sometimes physically.

Unfortunately, the prospects are that the deadly process will continue, even grow worse. That is why I want to share with you the thoughts that have come to encourage me in response to prayers for Guidance.

These are the testing times when each of us must see whether his deep, inner integrity can meet the violent pull of the outer storms which drag us into the emotional vortex. If caught in the vortex, we will be dragged down and down. From the pit, I hear wild cries of unreasoning rage which weaken only as strength is exhausted. I hear men and women turning blindly on their best friends to vent their pent up wrath. Fantastically small things are used as grounds for heaping blame and abuse. Our toes have been painfully stubbed, and like small children, we must have someone or something to blame.

I have had letters telling me that Huna has failed, that I have failed, that there is no longer anything to turn to for help – that we might as well give up trying to find the Light or hold the faith.

Suppose we accept this hopeless opinion, give up, and stop trying. What then? Does it help the situation any? I have observed that it does not. Sitting slumped over and staring at a blank wall is no help. But there IS a way out.

I am not urging that Huna or religion is the answer. If one has repudiated the last fragment of one’s faith, has given up all hope and has thrown overboard completely the expectation of help from man or god or God, the next step is to draw on the deeper, more inward reserves of your own being.

I am not preaching when I say that this deeper reserve is there. I am only suggesting that proof of its presence be had immediately by the simple act of drawing on it. This deeper reserve is the real you. It is the real me. I have found that by making my mind positive and giving a strong upward mental pull, I can bring up the reserve.

It is something that allows one to remain positive and to stand alone, strong and straight, realizing that no externals can move one. This new strength may not bring us healing or money or relief from strain or pressure, but that no longer matters – those expectations have been cast aside. What it gives is strength to stand up – to stand apart. Lacking a god, one may fill the lack by playing god oneself. One begins by helping another – by loving just a little. MFL

MAGAZINES

BORDERLAND SCIENCES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION releases, and the bimonthly issue of ROUND ROBIN magazine were all of great interest in the past month. HRA Meade Layne, as most of you know, puts these out from San Diego. Aside from excellent articles and the transcripts of seance reports from Mark Probert or others who receive spirit communications, the comments by the editor are brilliant and very much to the point. The review of the present standing of the Flying Saucers is delightful and exciting at one and the same time. In a BSRA release of considerable size, which reached me April 20th, there were sheets describing in some detail the materials discussed, as well as carefully presented in a number of special mimeo booklets which are available through BSRA. Some of these are made up of articles gathered and combined after appearing in earlier issues of ROUND ROBIN or FLYING ROLL. For instance, one that will greatly interest any student is titled “BSRA 1. Experiments of Morley Martin and Dr. Charles W. Littlefield.” Price $1.00 This tells of how the power of thought caused microscopic crystals to take definite form as mentally directed. Experiments are also described in which tiny life forms were created in sterile solutions by the use of electricity and other means. No student of the occult should be without this information. Other important releases are listed, also the book on the Flying Saucers and the first book of Mark Probert, Magic Bag. The subscription for a year for the Round Robin and more frequent BSRA releases is $5 the year. Contributions to this good work are also needed and greatly welcomed. A dollar sent to BSRA, 3524 Adams Ave., San Diego 16, Calif., should get you some back releases or other material as well as the descriptive sheets covering the publications now available. Don’t expect a personal answer – HRA Layne has more than he can handle now in the way of correspondence.

HYPNOTISM AND SELF-HYPNOSIS

A mimeo booklet by HRAs Fred S. and Corinne M. Reinhold who have been working through the problem of using Dianetics, both with and without the elements of the Huna Aumakua and suggestion. (See earlier bulletins for reports by them on their findings.) Dr. Reinhold (D.C. and Ph.C.) has had long experience in the field of applied psychology and with Mrs. Reinhold has explored the field with care. This booklet is a short and pointed description of the basic methods of using suggestion. It is a simplification of the vast and contradictory literature on the subject and is written for those who are content to let theories wait while they put the methods to the test. I find from letters, that many HRAs are violently opposed to the use of suggestion. Many others have used suggestion and/or have had it used on them (none reporting any ill effects, I may say). For those who are interested, the booklet may be had by addressing Dr. F.S. Reinhold, 6112 Case Avenue, North Hollywood, Calif. The usual price of $2 has been reduced to $1 plus sales tax if in California, for all HRAs.

HRA L.H. writes of her experiences along lines related to the search for the hindering complex. She says, “I have planned to tell you about a self-method of psycho-analysis which reaches the subconscious. I practiced it over 100 hours over a period of six months and drained off a lot of psycho-somatic aches and pains. They were traced back to events early in childhood and some throughout my life. It is like a chain [of] associations. The mind jumps back to early life and may jump years ahead. The book PSYCHO-ANALYZE YOURSELF, by Farrow, tells just how to do it.” (I have not seen this book, but would welcome reports along these lines by HRAs also having tried such methods. It will be remembered that such methods are part of the accepted practice advocated by psychologists in this field.)

MASKED GODS

[There is] a new book by Frank Waters, who lives in New Mexico and knows and loves the Indians of the region. I have not seen this new book, but my attention was called to it by HRA W.P.S., who also lives in that part of the country, and who reminded me of some very interesting passages (which I had almost forgotten) in Mr. Waters’ earlier book, The Man Who Killed the Deer. She was kind enough to copy the passages and forward them to me so that I could pass them on to you as a form of review of the materials offered in the delightful series dealing with Indian life.

“In the kiva the men sit silently hour after hour becoming human dynamos. Calling up through the little round opening in the floor of the kiva the warmth and power of the sleeping earth-serpent. Calling up from the depths of their own bodies their vital life force, and each calling down through the open skylight the infinite grace and power which pervades all things, and the consciousness and will of his own stimulated mind.

“And all this infusion of strength and power, grace and will, they loosed as if from the sagittal suture on the crown of the head, covered by the scalp lock – from the corresponding aperture at the top of the kiva. As one powerful, living psychic flow they directed it upon the focus of their single concentration.”

HRA W.P.S. goes on in her letter to say, “The Indians live so close to nature, Frank Waters explains, that they believe that they are in communion with the spirits of the deer-people and birds etc. They ask the pardon of the Deer Mother before they kill a deer, believing that the deer will gladly sacrifice his life so that man may live and the never-ending progress of life may go on. They believe that there is one great mind and that all must eventually be part of that, for there is no happiness in going away from the herd ……”

IT BECOMES MORE AND MORE CERTAIN that Huna was the great basic set of truths from which spread the beliefs now found in the keeping of Indians or Africans, Christians or Hindus. In Frank Waters’ description of the work done in the kiva, we can see the accumulation of mana and its projection to the Aumakuas for use in aiding them, the senders of mana. We see the mana drawn from the lowly level of physical life and used to empower the higher selves. It makes little difference whether the Indians actually made contact with a sleeping something behind a serpent-earth symbol of basic force, or mana. The method so often is seen to work despite the dogmatism that may have crept in to distort the truth.

THE DEER-MOTHER, and the “deer-people,”,”bird-people,” “snake people,”,etc., fall under our learned classification as TOTEMS. But to get past the arm chair studies of our great “authorities” and past the smug misconceptions, we must go back to the totem people themselves. From a protracted study of their beliefs and practices, there will slowly emerge the great foundation belief that consciousness is a thing in itself, not a byproduct of energy building life forms in crystal, plant, insect or animal. A vast picture spreads before us, framed by limiting space and time. In the picture we see a consciousness in the fabled “Fall.” It descends from god-like conditional levels and animates and directs the living energy to build substances, then crystalline structures, then cells and cell groups. Cell groups join other cell groups, with specialization of tasks for each group. The bee and the fish emerge, each acting as an integrated part of the hive or finny school. COOPERATION is the law.

THE DEER-MOTHER is but the symbol of the undergraduate who is out of human level school, but who has not yet learned to be an Aumakua, an “Utterly Trustworthy” Aumakua unit of consciousness. There is always the “nature spirit” or “group soul” to watch over those tiny and split-up particles of consciousness which have descended (for some mysterious reason) to start at the very bottom of evolutionary life and begin to work upward.

FROM THE TINY PARTICLE of consciousness in a single crystal, there grows, by union and cooperation with other particles, a stone with an enlarging of the tiny conscious entity. At the lower levels, all growth is by merging with similar units. At this level there is only the budding of free will. The hive, the family and the colony, all must first learn cooperation as the first rule of upward growth and progress. The more evolved Nature Spirits furnish the ingredient of higher wisdom to guide into cooperation. The combining particles of consciousness grow. They evolve. They finally become the aggregate of consciousness we call the Aunihipili of a man – the subconscious.

AT THIS STAGE a strange thing happens. A graduate subconscious is placed in the physical body with a subconscious spirit which is in the process of learning. This graduate subconscious is, of course, an Auhane or conscious mind self.

AND NOW A STILL STRANGER THING IS TO BE OBSERVED. Over the pair is placed a graduate nature spirit – an Aumakua, become at long last “Utterly Trustworthy.” Its entire attention is given to a single man, or perhaps a man-woman pair. Why? Because, at this precarious stage, the man is given reason, and almost complete free will. He is to begin to shift for himself. Gradually he learns to live almost apart from family, colony or cooperative group. And in doing so he becomes “One against the world.” He learns by the hardest that war on others for selfish gain is contrary to growth and progress. We learn in a very hard school that only by mutual help can progress be made. We learn that we are indeed our brother’s keeper, and he ours.

A FEW OF US HAVE ALMOST LEARNED THIS. That is our thin, weak voice we hear raised pleading for the outlawing of wars and for the beginning of mutual assistance the world around, pleading for the use of reason and love and such wisdom as we possess when we work cooperatively in groups – groups containing men specialized in all branches of knowledge. In the beginning of the upward progress, we were forced to work with our fellow units of consciousness, now we are having to learn for ourselves that cooperation is the law on all levels of existence. There is such simplicity and reason in this matter that one can only marvel that mankind is so slow to grasp it. It is a simple matter of the wiser guiding the less wise, of the stronger helping the weaker, and of all working together for the good of all.

THOSE WHO HAVE LEARNED THIS LESSON have gone on ahead to the next level of consciousness. We can see them at work in our garden if we pause to observe the plant cells working cooperatively together to express life on the level of that particular kind of plant. We may even see one insect eating another to preserve the balance of power that makes cooperation and progress on the wider scale possible. The apprentice Aumakua assigned to care for the earthworms in my garden does not fret because it is not assigned to birds. It is content. It knows that ALL things must be given loving guidance under the law.

It is as important that we have earthworms as men. Both are a part of a cooperative whole in which living consciousness presses on and up toward a goal long ago envisioned as a complete uniting in which the sundered particles once more join – join to be a part of a Source so perfect in wisdom and love and power that it is beyond the farthest reach of imagination – becomes inclusive of the vast new universe at which we peer wonderingly through mighty telescopes.

SO, WE LEARN ABOUT “TOTEMS.” We learn about “Earthworm people” and all the rest. We learn that our most immediate goal is to become “utterly trustworthy” as rapidly as possible. The essence of this is to cooperate for the greater good. So very simple, but how we stumble and blunder and balk in learning to carry that part of the world’s load given us to fit our strength and our share of wisdom.

IN MY GARDEN

I have for over a year been trying to peer behind the scenes and discover the apprentice Aumakuas at work. I have watched for signs that they are less than expert in their jobs of overseeing the little living things. I confess that I might not handle affairs in the garden quite like I see that they are being handled, but at the same time it is very clear to see that there are certain rather hard and set rules that the invisible friends have to follow. The ant people follow their rule that they must care for the plant lice and bring them out to feed on the rose bushes in early spring. This is not good for the rose people’s activities, but, as the Indians tell us, one lower form of life is happy to give itself to another which is a bit higher in the progression scale, so that life may move on and up.

ABOVE THE NATURE SPIRITS it is evident that there is a still higher spirit which coordinates the work of plant and insect and bird and worm people. A law seems well established at that higher level also, and I discovered that it included me and all I might do. If I used poison sprays on the plant lice, I upset the balance and threw the machinery slightly out of gear. After some thought I hit upon a way to work under the rules of the game. As the little ladybugs were poisoned by the same spray and so prevented from increasing in their proper time to eat up the plant lice, I stopped spraying. I also left some sanctuaries in corners where the ladybugs could hatch and multiply. At the risk of having passers-by think me touched, I carried on one-sided conversations with the nature spirits, hoping that they would hear and respond – and cooperate with me for the greater good of the garden. All went much better than before. The roses tithed in terms of leaves and tender buds. The ants and their insect cows tithed almost to their last penny as the ladybugs did their allotted job of eating to clear the bushes. With the food gone, the ladybugs tithed in terms of their own lives, only a few staying on to keep the balance. True, the kindness and compassion which we, as humans, have learned to hold as ideals, have little place in the levels of life in the garden, or even in my own physical body, where the same set rules must be obeyed if all is to go well. I eat foods to take life from lower forms for my use. The life force thus gathered is offered in part to the Aumakuas in the giving of mana so that they may be made able and strong for their work to promote the good of all. It would seem that all life forms, from the weed invading the garden, to the ant invading the kitchen, have a vital purpose in that the upward surging wave of life may use them. In my task, as an Auhane, I can see that I am learning first steps on the way to becoming a nature spirit myself. I overlook the Aunihipili and slowly learn to guide it into the paths of order and the laws.

ANSWERS TO OUR PRAYERS

Answers to our prayers are much discussed in our letters back and forth as well as in the bulletins. While we need to speculate on all angles of Huna to increase our understanding, our primary interest, for the most part, is in the finding of ways in which we will be able to use Huna. It is not enough that the naturally psychic and highly trained kahunas of yesterday were able to use Huna. We need to use it ourselves. We complain bitterly when we try and fail, but prayer seems instinctive through the whole of the life wave. From the far reaches of the Amazon, a scientist finishes observing life in the untouched jungles and sends out the information gained at great cost, “The animals will to God.” Man alone is failing to do this – despite the rising wail of prayer from every quarter of the globe.

NATURE’S NORMAL PATTERN OF BALANCE stood for untold centuries as the waves of life moved upward through life forms. In Egypt, the customs changed hardly a whit in five thousand years. But, in recent years, while trying our new wings of scientific discovery under the permission of the birthright of free will, we have upset the natural balance and have taken things into our own hands. We have pushed aside the barriers of ocean and air distances. We fly the mountain ranges. We do for human disease what I did with my poison spray in my garden. The populations and overflow wars for “living room” cause ever greater unbalance and war follows war, each greater and more disrupting than the one before.

EACH UPSET in the normal balance throws something else out of balance. Wars weaken social, economic and governmental structures. Into the weak spots leap the greedy and predatory individuals and organizations of individuals – even nations. The voices of those who call for moderation and cooperation are lost echoes, while the shouts of those bent on greedy conquests beat on the public ears from every side. Who pauses to consider the dearly purchased single page in the papers giving us the pleas of the Quakers for sanity and moderation? Few, indeed. Most citizens are blindly being led in the opposite direction. Hates and fears are whipped up and up and up, day and night, using any and every excuse or pretext, to make us deaf to moderation – to make us willing to chance the destruction of ourselves and our world neighbors, even the earth where the life waves move up in orderly fashion.

THE HUNA RULE OF NON-HURT could stop the present plunge into darkness, and the expansion of the ancient Huna rule as found in, “Love one another,” would place our feet on the path of cooperation and bring us out of darkness into the Light. The Auhane in every sane man knows that it is better to work and live together in cooperation for mutual good than to destroy and tear down because of hate and greed. It is only the Aunihipili that does not know this and cannot understand because of blind greeds and angers which are played upon by the men of dark hearts and black purposes.

THE OUTCOME can be a slow growth of understanding in which man also learns to “Will to God” and learns the lesson taught him on his upward climb when he belonged to hive or school or herd – the lesson that ordered and mutual help fits the LAW. Or, as many past civilizations appear to have done at the crest of their highest wave, we may continue to follow the present mad war trends until all semblance of normal balance is lost and we find ourselves lacking the tools of cooperative work – the tools of transport, of communication and of law enforcement. At that point, Mother Nature would step in and from [those] who survived, new would rise.

AKA THREAD CONNECTION WITH THE AUMAKUA

A LETTER FROM HRA MRS. A.C. asks (1) just how far away is the Aumakua from us, and where is it stationed, and (2) to what part of the human body is the aka thread fastened – the thread reaching to the Aumakua – solar plexus, heart center, forehead or brain?

I remember that the same questions came to my mind some years ago, and feel that the answers may be of general interest. In some occult writings much is made of the several centers indicated in the above question.

The kahunas seemed to believe that the connection was with the aka or shadowy body of the Aunihipili, and that the point of attachment was in the general region of the solar plexus – the region of the mind of the Aunihipili being roughly placed in the abdomen below the diaphragm. Their word, naau indicated the small intestines, the seat of thought, affections, emotions and intelligence.

As I have explained in my book and in several bulletins, the telepathic contact with the Aumakua is in the hands of the Aunihipili entirely. By no act of will can we force ourselves to be clearly aware of the actual contact and the thought-form messages passing back and forth along the connecting thread.

The supposition that a similar connection may exist between heart or brain centers, seems to have no supporting evidence in the lore of the kahunas. Another point is that contact with the Aumakua continues through the aka thread when we die and become free of the physical body. This offers proof that the point of attachment is in the aka body actually, and that the physical body is touched only as the aka body impregnates or tinctures the corresponding parts of the physical.

The Aumakua is assigned no definite place in Huna; it may be near or far, but as distance makes no difference in telepathic communication, it may be considered very close at all times. The kahunas, however, had words which indicate a belief that the Aumakua (a god – akua) sometimes came very close to the body or even into it. Akua noho meant, “The god who dwells with a man.” The “god who inspired the man,” as in causing him to make a wonderful speech, was the akua-ulu. Note: The word god was used as the English equivalent of akua by translators. All entities higher in the scale than the Auhane of man came under this classification. The idea of a single supreme God was foreign to the Polynesians so far as I know. Their Supreme was a Trinity – three great gods – and Lono, who seems to have been a lesser god of a slightly lower order, came into the picture at some indefinite point in the long history of Huna, possibly borrowed from some other source or representing a contamination of original theory.

A PIN OR EMBLEM FOR HRAs

This has been suggested by HRA Ernest Bateman of Seattle, one of our most enthusiastic and hard working Associates.

I am turning this project over to him. All depends on how many HRAs would like to have us adopt an emblem and have it made up in a form to wear as a pin. The cost would be between two and three dollars each, and a certain number would have to be ordered to begin with. If you desire such a pin, drop a card to HRA Bateman at 5108 W. Olga St., Seattle 6, Washington. The design can later be decided upon should sufficient interest be made known. I have recently received from HRA Bateman a beautiful pendulum stand and base with an alphabet in a circle to [be] used with a pendulum to spell out messages from the Aumakua via the Aunihipili. So far, after all too few open periods to make tests, I have failed to get messages. Mr. Bateman is sure that he is getting authentic messages in this way from his own Aumakua and believes that a secret code he has worked out and put to use is preventing prankish and pretending spirits on the invisible side from masquerading as his Aumakua, as was the case in the first tests made in this experiment.

THE ANCIENT PRAYER BOWL INSCRIPTION

This has been translated and a copy of the translation obtained for us from Professor McCarthy of the Australian Museum, by HRA S.L. of Sydney. It will be recalled that this bowl, dug out of Babylonian ruins, has in the past few years been tested by HRAs and found to have what seems to be a remarkable healing power on the order of an ikon or amulet. It was made a very long time ago for a Jewish family.

The inscription is in Aramaic, the language which Jesus is said to have used. The translation was made by C.H. Gordon, Smith’s College, North Hampton, Mass., who says, “The text is designed to preserve the property and family of the clients (of the bowl makers or priests?) from evil forces. Threshold means house, seed means children. The husband is Grifa or Qrifa, the wife Mami – they are called children of their mothers, not of their fathers. Iii and Immaz are feminine names. Names are always according to their mothers, not their fathers, because Aramaic magic demands this measure of certainty. The mother of a person is known with certainty – not so with the father. The reading of Iwi is not sure. YEWS is the name of God – YAHWEH – with the last letter disguised in accordance with a technicality that need not be explained here. However, note that the first letter ‘Y’ is dropped, then the second and then the third.” The bowl is flat and about 14 inches in diameter. It is made of grey clay with a dull glaze.

THE PRAYER IN THE BOWL
1. Documents I have written for myself.
2. In thy name do I act.
3. Oh Lord of Healing.
4 to 8. Send healing for the wound of the threshold, seed and property, Qrifa son of Iwi, for his son and for his daughters and for his building and for his property and for his fowl and for his beasts, and for his kids, for his sheep and for his asses and for his oxen, that they may live for them, and be preserved for them; namely for Mami daughter of Immaz and Grifa son of Iwi, in the name of YHWF, HFW, WF, F, the name that cast down the name of the chariot of the Red Sea, and holy angel before him.

OUR BEST THANKS for this material. HRA S.L. also obtained and sent to me pictures of the little stone image, back as well as front, and I hope soon to be able to announce that an artist HRA will have made a reproduction and be ready to cast copies for those who wish them. She writes that Kii Pohaku impresses her as very good, friendly and domestic in a droll little way all her own. MFL