Introduction to Fire-Walk Booklet

June 1, 1949

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.

CHARLES W. KENN

Charles W. Kenn arrived in Los Angeles on May 23rd, as planned, and brought with him the copy for the fire-walking report booklet – also a mass of fascinating material that fairly cries to be included but for which there is no room. With a simple directness that is far more impressive than any effort to impress, he has laid before us the findings of the testing of the fire-magic. He has offered no fancy theories, but what he has to tell, after being initiated into the art, leaves one gasping mentally.

At the meeting of the John Anderson Group on the night of May 25th, he held us all for over two hours while he quietly and methodically showed us what a vast and mixed field of material stands before us in Polynesia.

He showed us the many mistakes that had been made thus far by investigators because they could not avoid translating the Polynesian lore into Western thought. The thing that has been missed is the psychology of the ancient Polynesian culture. What has seemed to be a hit-and-miss way of life from a social angle, is really based on a system so old and so intricate that it avoids detection by the investigator. He overlooks vital actions and reactions because they are so taken for granted by the native Polynesians that they do not think to explain them to their visitor.

Following the Kuda Bux fire-walking tests, which shook the psychological world, tests were made with Hussain, who failed to avoid small burns himself, and whose performance was bettered by one of the men engaged in the testing. This brought the decision that there was no magic at all in the performance and that anyone who had the courage to try could fire-walk over live coals or heated stones.

For the next twelve years the matter was allowed to stand. The professors and their friends were satisfied that they had explained away the most spectacular psycho-religious performance to be found in world history except in the phenomena of Spiritualism.

Now, in the Year of Grace, 1949, HRA Charles W. Kenn has, literally, tossed the question back into the fire. More than that, he has gone behind the scenes and has given us the picture from the angle of the fire-walker, and in doing this, has injected into the problem questions which reach out into unexplored and hardly known corners of the field. The actual phenomenon of fire-walking begins to dwindle in importance as we find ourselves asking whether there are “gods” and whether they actually do “die” if not worshiped by their devotees. Yes, the Veil does seem to be thinning very fast between this level of consciousness and the next.

Work will be done to see how much can be crowded into the booklet, and later we will be able to announce the publication date.

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS

WITH THIS BULLETIN comes two sets of miscellaneous papers, written in response to questions which have come up in the HRA letters, and which may be of general interest to all. Also included is a sheet used in the new lessons, and which points up certain angles of approach.

EXCELLENT RESULTS WITH THE BOXES AND THE PENDULUM are being reported from far and wide. These mechanisms offer the best way yet to get down to a working acquaintance with the Aunihipili – our “George.” Keep your pendulum down to not more than 3-1/2 inches from fingers to lower end, even less if the pendulum is heavy enough to exert a “pumping up” action on your fingers like a child standing in a swing. TMHG results are sometimes amazing – growing steadily better. MFL.