Check List

September 1, 1948

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.

General texts: SECRET SCIENCE BEHIND MIRACLES, and HUNA (pamphlet). Read page 302 to 314 and 324 to 334 in SSBM. Read pages 11-15 in HUNA (pamphlet). Also review Bulletins I, II and III as a refresher.

BY THE TIME YOU GET THIS you should have tried the following things and have discovered aptitudes and stumbling blocks in yourself:

1. Tried to decide exactly what you want to do, to become, to have happen in your life in the future.
2. Having decided and having made your “map” of your path ahead, you will have tried to create a clear picture in your mind of yourself in the desired condition in the future.
3. Having made a clear picture of yourself doing and being and having etc., you will have:
   1. Tried to accumulate an extra charge of mana or vital force (using Bulletin 2 methods).
   2. Tried then to make a telepathic contact along the connecting aka or shadowy thread with the Aumakua. (You will have come to depend on your Aunihipili to make this contact for you, having practiced and done some preliminary work training the Aunihipili.)
   3. You will have tried to “feel” or in some way “sense” this telepathic contact, and may or may not have learned to judge whether contact has or has not been made. (The “path” may be “blocked” by a complex of one kind or another as explained in the texts.)
   4. If you felt no slightest emotional thrill of joy, love or other pleasurable nature, and so decided full contact had not been made, you may have set about removing complexes. (The full contact frequently causes an emotional upwelling which derives from the Aunihipili as it feels the joy of such contact. The state is well known to mystics of many faiths.)
   5. If you have worked through this stage and made a contact of sorts (felt, guessed or taken for granted), you will then have addressed your “Divine Father and Mother Parental Spirits who are UTTERLY TRUSTWORTHY” (Aumakua pair), and will have asked with precise and carefully spoken words to have the conditions you have pictured (and which you now describe with care) made into an invisible reality to replace all contrary realities which may have already been crystallized as a part of your future. (Everyone – so Huna teaches – has a future which has been set or determined or crystallized to a certain extent. The person with a definite purpose in life will have a more crystallized future than one who has no definite plans. A future usually is mixed with the set future of wife, family, associates, etc. A change of the future for the better should have been planned to benefit others as well as self.)
   6. With the prayer properly spoken, often three times over if short, you will have said an “amen” – in other words, you will have ended your prayer formally, as the kahunas did, with “The prayer is ended. It now takes its flight.” Here a pause is made and a strong willed effort is made to send the surcharge of vital force along the aka thread of contact with the thought-forms of the prayer-picture to the Aumakua. The surcharge of vital force is sent as the means of enabling the Aumakua to form the new future as requested and tear down the unwanted future. This is the “sacrifice” that counts. It is the practical “giving.” After this pause, and during it, there may be a definite feeling in the pit of the stomach or elsewhere of a force flowing from you – sometimes with a slight dizzying-whirling sensation. It lasts but a moment and when the flow has stopped, the kahuna says, “The prayer is ended. It now takes its flight.” (The prayer is ended. It may be repeated daily or hourly. The beginner repeats and repeats, thus practicing to obtain proficiency. The expert may pray but once and obtain desired results.)

Having carried out the above actions involved in experiments aimed at testing the theories of Huna concerning high magic (magic involving the Aumakuas), you will have turned your attention to testing the low magic. (The low magic should have included a rounded and complete approach to any task of causing the Aunihipili to use its various abilities to correct health or other physical things beyond the control of the Auhane, such as stomach ulcers or stuttering, worry, fear etc. This approach should have included the use of auto-suggestion and training, through practice, and through the use of physical stimuli of different kinds.) You will have:

1. Decided what you wished to cause the Aunihipili to do for you. (This included deciding whether or not you had sufficient belief that the Aunihipili could do what you asked of it, as in healing or correcting faulty bodily or mental functions. “No faith, no works.”)
2. You will also have done all YOU (the Auhane) COULD DO to help bring about the desired condition. (The kahunas used medicines, massage, heat, manipulations and all such things. This is the type of thing the Auhane can do.)
3. You will have made a good picture of the healed or corrected condition, not as existing now, but as it will be, increasingly, every passing day. (This involves a part of the high magic automatically, of course. This picture is impressed on the Aunihipili as the thing IT needs to do to help bring it about.) You will have invented a physical stimulus to use in your process of auto-suggestion to make the Aunihipili act. (Partial fasting, etc.) You will have practiced relaxation before using auto-suggestion.

You will also have tried Huna methods to benefit others. These benefits may have ranged from healing of body or purse to healing of social and family tangles. You will have used high magic for changing your own future, with the addition of a step in which one makes telepathic contact with the person treated. (This contact will be made the first thing, a letter or a picture being touched to pick up the aka thread of connection. The condition to be treated may often be sensed in one way or another and serve to guide the action to be taken. This contact is automatically held as long as the treatment continues.) You will then have made the picture of the desired condition, have contacted your Aumakua, have made the worded prayer, etc., breaking the contact with the Aumakua and the person treated, with your “amen” ending.

You will also have tried your hand at healing others with the methods of the low magic or with a mixture of the high and low magic. You will have tried accumulating a surcharge of vital force, placing your hands on a person to be treated and willing the vital force to flow into them, carrying with it the thought-form or pictured condition of the healed and corrected condition.

You may have tried other things such as work with spirits for healing and other purposes.

NOTE: The above check list has been found of much value because it points out things perhaps overlooked in your experimental approach. But remember that we are in the experimental stage and that new methods and new understanding accumulate as we press on. Originally there was a report form sent with this bulletin, and the HRAs of that time made reports on their own experimental efforts. (This is not asked of those of you who have come into the work later.) The results of the experimental work as reported, are given in the following Report Bulletin.

Max Freedom Long

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[It will be noted, also, that the Telepathic Mutual Healing Group work was not then organized, and so results of work along that line were not included until later.]