Measuring Brain Vibration and Raising Consciousness

November 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.

Covering the fortnight since the last bulletin issued, covers things of more than ordinary interest.

THE NEWS FROM THE STUDY

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 6¢ for postage and 3¢ 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.

THE 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 sacroiliac 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 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 [our]selves, 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 of 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 the 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 [be] 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 BRUNLER

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 further 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 the kahunas in North Africa who spoke a Polynesian dialect. Here is the letter:

Dear Max Freedom Long:

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.

It was a most interesting experiment and I learned a few other things which would take too long to describe by letter.

With kindest regards, (Signed) Oscar Brunler

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