Direct Contact to the Aumakua

September 15, 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.A.

MY VACATION WAS A GREAT SUCCESS

We had three days camping in Oak Creek Canyon south of Flagstaff, Ariz., in the cozy bottom of a deep canyon with red walls, a rushing stream and trees of many kinds. Three more days were spent on the rim of the Grand Canyon, high up, and looking down into the great depths. The sight of moonlight filling the canyon with misty forms was an unforgettable experience with the sensing of a strange pervading personality. One realizes why the Indians believed in gods of many kinds presiding over mountains, canyons and rivers. Huna would say that entities of the Aumakua level presided over “nature” in its various aspects, perhaps non-human, perhaps the Aumakuas in the apprentice stage learning to become “Utterly Trustworthy.”

It was a wonderful time of rest and replenishment. I thank you all for your patience and understanding in the matter of a late bulletin and of replies to letters which will be even later. All book orders have been sorted out and the books sent; letters marked “urgent” have been taken care of. The TMHG periods, of course, come first and foremost at all times. (One afternoon period at the Grand Canyon, with gentle rain on the tent, was especially excellent in its contact and was continued for a considerable time. Other extra periods were very productive, I am sure.)

CIGBO’S SCAMPING LETTER was rewarded with laughter and he has been encouraged to report on the second half of the vacation. He wishes to thank all of his friends who have remembered to send in something for his cigar box, and promises them a special treat as soon as he gets time to make his acknowledgments. He has not been quite repaid for his loans to help get the fire-walking booklet out, and from the contemplative manner in which he eyes my belt line and toys with the letter opener, I fear he may be planning to demand his pound of flesh in true Shylock fashion. If you need a copy of the booklet, there are still copies that need to be sold. (HRA Charles W. Kenn writes from Honolulu that he is enjoying your notes to him very much and is welcoming comments.)

PRAYER BEFORE TRAVEL works. On this vacation, having had the old 1940 car checked up, six days of driving were chalked up for the first and second halves of camping, and with a perfect score. No break-down – no accident or near-accident. A number of HRAs have reported similar experiences, and HRA M.C., driving out to Los Angeles from Detroit, had a remarkable experience. Meeting a speeding car rounding a curve on the wrong side of the road, the wheel seemed taken from her hands and whipped around so that she found herself off the road on the shoulder, safe by a few inches, and much startled and impressed. More and more we can say with confidence, “There is Guidance and Protection for us if we will only open the door to it by our prayer-actions and requests.” M.C. has had a year of wonderful demonstrations, beginning with recovery from a very bad fracture condition, including a house sale and a house purchase – both remarkable in how they came about under requested Guidance. She is now settled out here most comfortably.

YOUR EXPERIMENTS, EXPERIENCES AND LETTERS

Your experiments, experiences and letters are of the greatest importance in our work. Never hesitate to write a report on your findings, whether you succeed or fail in your approach to Huna. The failures are equally important because they may help locate the stumbling blocks.

HRA NAMES OR INITIALS to be used in the bulletins when presenting parts of letters, have caused some question. Some HRAs prefer not to have their names used, and I often do not know who wishes to remain unidentified and who does not. It is often irritating to the one doing the reading to feel that someone is hiding behind his initials. Perhaps it may be easier all around simply to say, “An HRA from Denver” or something like that. The reason for wishing to withhold names and addresses is that HRAs living in places where neighbors may frown on any departure from churchly beliefs, may cause trouble. Or, because there are crackpots in all organizations (except ours, of course) there is the remote danger of being thrown open to letters or even visits from same. This difficulty also confronts us in forming groups. It has, thus far, been better for groups to form by one friend approaching another. One group was tried by having the names of HRAs in a certain city given to one who invited them to meet – the result being a clash of personal beliefs in the matter of meat eating, smoking and other matters of individual choice. It is so very hard to keep Huna on one side of the fence and personal convictions on the other.

A RECENT LETTER from Ernest S. Bateman of Seattle, who is giving much time and effort to push forward the Huna exploration and who is well qualified for the work, will be remembered for his earlier contact through the pendulum with a spirit, “Wayne” who gave much promise, but soon turned out to be unreliable and who had to be cut off with a shilling, so to speak.

After some careful work with his own Aunihipili and many efforts to contact his Aumakua, Mr. Bateman succeeded in making contact through the pendulum with his Aumakua directly. (At least this is his present conclusion.) He arranged for a secret “double signal,” which is used to indicate that the Aumakua is communicating through the pendulum, and not some spirit or just his Aunihipili.

This is very important. If it proves out, it will show that a direct contact with the Aumakua is possible, avoiding the need of going through the Aunihipili. One may need the Aunihipili and its aka thread to send the call to the Aumakua, but it seems possible then to hold direct pendulum converse with the Aumakua with no help (so far as Mr. Bateman can see) from the Aunihipili.

Mr. Bateman has progressed well in his work along these lines and thinks that he has been able several times to get information from his Aumakua concerning his friends for whom he is asking healing. He has asked what more to do, what fixations stand in the way and how to handle them, and so on. Here are parts of his letter of September 10th. (Remember that in our work together we take everything with a goodly grain of salt, including all of my conclusions, and thus remain open to change of opinion as change is indicated.)

DEAR HRA and Friend Long:

I have been working on Bulletin 16, especially page 7, and here are some of the answers I have obtained to the questions that have arisen as to HRA progress in Huna.

Take the HRA’s question, “If one feels nothing, how can one be sure that contact is being made with the Aumakua?” If the HRA asking this question will follow the ritual for prayer-action properly, and generate a surcharge of mana through his Aunihipili, he will feel the tingling as he finishes his salutation to the Aumakua. It lets one know in unmistakable terms that contact has been made.

This tingling sensation is the indication and if 100% concentration is maintained throughout the prayer-action, the return flow will also be unmistakable when asking for the “Rain of Blessings.” I find this return flow is very strong when I am treating by laying on of hands.

Again, quote (from the bulletin), “Can a short form of instructions aid in eliminating fixations which might be interfering?” I am in complete agreement with you on the tremendous importance of HRAs ascertaining the presence of fixations, if they have trouble with their prayer-actions or pendulum work.

My Aumakua and I consumed one whole evening session on ways and means to TRY to remedy this trouble. After prolonged deliberation or consultation with higher spirits, he decided that he can secure the information on complexes and fixations, and advise on how to drain them away, if the following suggested formula is carried out in exact detail.

FORMULA

1. The HRA asking for help shall lay hands (must be warm) on sheets of writing paper for not less than fifteen minutes just before writing a letter to me asking me to help locate his fixations.
2. The letter must be written with a fountain pen which has been in close contact with his body for at least an hour and which is warmed by bodily heat at the time of writing the letter.

NOTE: This will establish a firm aka thread connection with the letter and will later enable me to make contact when asking, through the pendulum, for information from my Aumakua. (Mr. Bateman will be glad to undertake to help a few HRAs in this way if he can. Write him at 5108 W. Olga St., Seattle 6, Wash., if you wish to have a hand in this angle of experimentation.)

Quote: “We can be sure [of the] possibility of direct contact between the Auhane and Aumakua?” I can assure you, friend Long, that my Aunihipili is under complete control of my Aumakua. As to the contact and accuracy of answers, etc., through the pendulum, I can only explain my present method of work along this line.

1. I hold the pendulum about three-quarters of an inch over the table or over my palm, as I feel inclined. The pendulum is suspended from the little stand with the arm built into the top. This keeps my fingers and hand steady.
2. As the pendulum hangs motionless but ready, my Auhane assumes a respectful, totally passive mental state. After a short interval, or often instantly, my Aumakua executes the secret double signal that identifies him to me.
3. I at once respond, with love and blessings and thanks for past help, etc.
4. I then inquire if there is any unfinished business, or any other matter that my Aumakua wishes to take up at the time. If there is, it is disposed of, and then I go ahead with the business of the meeting.
5. At the end of the session I again inquire if there is anything that has been overlooked, or that the Aumakua wishes to discuss. Many times there are such matters, and they are disposed of or carried over until next meeting.
6. It is all very businesslike and in regular order, with the same ritual exactly followed at each session.
7. At the end I thank him for everything and he signs off with the secret signal as I bid him, adios.

We – my Aumakua and I – are drawing closer each session with the pendulum, and also the prayer-actions. This is a source of deep satisfaction to me, as well as thankfulness that with the same steady progress I will arrive at my goal of a free and easy telepathic method of communication, wherein the slow and cumbersome cross-examination with the pendulum and questions and answers will be unnecessary.

I find that my Aunihipili still has the tendency to pick up fool ideas and hold them as fixations. For instance, a few days ago I was inquiring via my pendulum from my Aumakua why a certain case I had been treating had not responded as I had expected. I was informed that my Aunihipili had a fixation that I should have driven over to the other side of the city daily to give the treatment instead of expecting my friends to come to me. For various reasons this was unreasonable, but talk did not help, even when the Aumakua considers that I am in the right. I suppose I shall have to give in. Rather humorous situation, what? Ernie Bateman’s body, instead of his house, divided against itself.

Light and Aloha, (Signed) Ernest S. Bateman

Another interesting report from a California HRA gives a quite new experience with the accumulation of mana and the sending of it to the Aumakua in the ritual prayer-action. She writes,

“When I first began to use the Huna type prayer treatment I felt a strong shock tingle and then I blacked out completely from periods of 1 3/4 hours to less, regaining consciousness in a very depleted state. It usually took me the remainder of the night or day to regain my equilibrium … I am now being less prodigal in my gifts of mana, and ask most emphatically for the return flow as blessing … Results personally are better.”

One can only speculate on the meaning of this experience. The Aumakua may have needed great supplies of mana, or a spirit might have stolen much, or the giving might have been too enthusiastic on the part of the Aunihipili. It is best to use caution.

A very interesting report comes from a New York HRA who finds that the pendulum is much better than the boxes to help her get answers to questions put to her “George.” She writes, in part,

“Up to the moment, my Aunihipili tells me:

1. That he cannot contact my Aumakua at will, or every time I so desire. There are certain specific times for doing so.
2. That he is not afraid of going to contact my Aumakua.
3. That he is afraid of being hurt by others. I have started him on listening to logical reasoning to explain why others have the right to act, live and speak as they do. I am also teaching him that a detached attitude is the best to follow.
4. He regards me as a dear friend where he finds love and cooperation in everything – not criticism.
5. He can go out (to places or people as directed) and tell me telepathically the details of any situation as he finds it. The accuracy of his reports have been proven already. He also promises to help persons visited, in any way he finds that he can. He has been able to place simple suggestions with the Aunihipilis of others such as have caused them to phone or write a letter, etc.
6. That I cannot work him too much, as he needs rest to gain mana, as through this rest he builds up vital energy which makes it possible for him to contact higher entities.
7. That there is a “time” for everything, even for the materialization of big projects – but that in the meantime we have “to keep at them” and work materially toward that end.
8. He has been changing the weather within an hour’s notice, getting even the breeze from the side we want it and the temperature and humidity as asked. On the tail-end of this last hurricane from Florida, the clouds gathered and the wind started blowing strong on Sunday afternoon. I told George to please go and tell the (weather controlling) entities to hold off the rain and storm until late night. For some 35 to 45 minutes it looked very bad, but then subsided. It did not actually rain until about midnight.

“Needless to say, we are very grateful and thank them for all their help. I am now getting George to try holding hot objects in my hands without burning. Hot starch, around the boiling point has no effect aside from a kind of tingling. I always tell him that ‘those things are not hot at all.'”

There are many more important and fascinating reports that have come in, some telling of excellent results from TMHG work or from personal Huna work, some telling of success in getting business affairs moving as desired, some rejoicing over the correction of family or social tangles, and some telling sadly of long, careful and continued Huna work with no results yet to be seen. Of all the reports, only two have told of things getting worse. The general score is far above either chance or average, I am convinced. Little by little we gain ground in skill and confidence. MFL