Quarterly Report, Prophetic Dreams Project

October 15, 1950

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.

QUARTERLY REPORT

During the third quarter of 1950 a few more HRAs were added to the list to whom the bulletin goes once a quarter, but the list is still too small to make a special report bulletin worthwhile. Also, by incorporating in the regular bulletins the periodic report, it acts as a review for us all and helps show the direction which is being taken in our experiments, studies and speculations measured against the background of Huna and other psycho-religious systems that offer information of possible value. Healing of body, mind and circumstances remains the main goal for practical living. “Spiritual growth” is a thing so differently described in so many religions that it becomes, of necessity, a secondary goal.

Bulletin 35, of July 1st, reported on Dr. Brunler’s efforts to get results in the matter of obtaining oil from the deposits he pointed out with the use of the pendulum. His difficulty was one of getting operators to drill where he stipulated and to go deep enough. (No fresh reports of better strikes have come in up to the time of this writing.) A letter from HRA Meade Layne was reported, giving his promise that all new subscribers to ROUND ROBIN magazine would get a full quota of issues eventually. (So far this year three issues have been managed. Many difficulties, financial for the most part, have slowed down the scheduled production. However, the BSRA reports and the booklets giving the Mark Probert seance reports have been managed well.) More copies of Dr. Nandor Fodor’s ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE were found in England and made available here at $7.65 post paid. (A few are still available at this time, but are the very last, so Dr. Fodor tells us.) Charles Kenn and Theodore Kelsey, both HRAs living in Honolulu, found a very old kahuna of a special kind in the island of Hawaii, Kona district. (Since then they have obtained from him much information on old beliefs and rituals, also on sites of ancient native temples and early history. No healing was found available through this kahuna, however, at this late date.) Dianetics came in for more discussion. A number of letters from HRAs were reproduced. Excellent results through the use of Huna methods by individual HRAs and through the Telepathic Mutual Healing Group were detailed. Page 8 was given over to an article on “faith” presenting the subject in terms of Huna as presently understood, and giving words and meanings from the opening of the famous prayer by the master kahuna of his day, Hewahewa.

Bulletin 36, of July 15th, began with a SPECIAL NOTICE saying that it had become impossible to answer each letter which arrived here at the Study, and that from that time on, only letters of urgency would be answered. This would make it possible for me to continue to get out two bulletins a month as usual and also allow a much needed chance for me to spend time away from the Study doing some needed bread winning. (So far, this plan has worked out fairly well although it is very hard to have to lay away letters which I would dearly love to answer, and send no reply. Evenings and part of my weekends remain open and in this limited time I must read the many welcome letters, also write, mimeograph and mail the bulletins. The outside work to keep the home pot boiling has been prayed for, searched for and found. More and more I am convinced that Guidance is being given and that ways and means will be given to keep our HRA work going so long as it is part of the Intention.

Cigbo was on the verge of cutting me off with other “dead wood” when making his quarterly inspection of his list of contributing members, but reinstated me in time for the present bulletin when given a bribe in the form of an extra 600 – this representing my “brithday presink,” Cigbo style, for this October. He is still trying to find time, between bursts of fast scratching in his box, to complete the cutting out of “dead wood” which he threatened in a recent bulletin. He wishes to send his very best thanks again to all of his friends who remembered him since last bulletin. The extra time given me through the generous marking of your letters, “no reply requested,” has made it possible also to get in some spotty but widely inclusive reading – also to carry on some special correspondence aimed at finding for us material of worth in our HRA investigations. I plan soon to find time to begin mailing back books sent on loan – and greatly appreciated. Page 3 had more on Dianetics. Pages 6, 7 and 8 were given over to laying out a new project in which we would try to see what could be learned about “raising one’s vibrations.” The meaning of the idea of such “vibrations” was discussed. (Letters are continually arriving giving the findings, speculations and general comments of HRAs on this project and its subject matter.)

Bulletin 37, of August 1st, gives news of the HRA work, more information concerning the aged kahuna found in Hawaii, and letters and comments on recent bulletin materials. Discussion of our prayers for peace and TMHG work. Much news and comment on the matter of Dianetics, with letters from HRAs on the subject and reports on personal experiences with Dianetics. Pages 6 and 7 give an article on the pendulum and radionics machines with a letter from one of the HRAs giving new and valuable findings and speculative material developed by an experimenting doctor in the East – one who thinks he may have found the right setting on his radionics machine to match emotions such as hate and fear, or even the rates for fixations which block the paths of patients. Notes on the psychic diagnosis methods of Los Angeles team of doctors, McInerney & Stalons, in which one of the team is placed in a hypnotic state . Notes on psychic and pendulum diagnostic methods in general. Page 8, reporting on the work done in our experimental project of “Raising the Vibrations,” with more of the matter from a Huna angle. (This project is still going forward, and reports are being sent in as HRAs make more tests or get new ideas.)

Bulletin 38, of August 15th, is given over almost entirely to the matter of “vibrations,” with fresh materials and discussions, quoted sections from source books, etc. I reported the fact that my own personal experiments showed that something or other was “raised” with a biometric reading of 900 degrees registered after performing certain mental-breathing actions. My guess was given that at 1,000 degrees, instant healing might be possible.

Bulletin 39, of September 1st, was given over to many very interesting and informative HRA letters and to comments on them. A wide number of subjects were touched upon and an insight given into the thought processes of some exceptionally able students.

Bulletin 40, of September 15th, gives news of the work at the Study, a short table to be used in pronouncing Hawaiian words, and then a letter from HRA Charles W. Kenn, of Honolulu, showing that many of the elements of Dianetic practice had long been known and used in ancient times as well as fairly recent years in Hawaii by the kahunas. The common people were versed in a system of special care for mother and child before birth – the aim being to prevent the formation of fixations or blocks in the child. A number of important letters were reproduced. A new HRA project was announced and four pages used to give the theories and most promising methods to use in experimentation. The project was that of combining our efforts to get prophetic dreams or other impressions of the future, to the end that an average might be struck and some light thrown on the events of the years just ahead.

Bulletin 41, of October 1st, gave reports on the new project, with several dreams and the symbols contained in them. A long report was made on Dianetics and the fact that it appeared that a need was evident for a place for the Aumakua in the system. A book on healing through spirit agencies, by Harry Edwards, was reviewed, as was one by Jack Woodford on the difficulties of writers who are prevented from reaching print by editors.

NOTE: Copies of all back bulletins are available.

PROPHETIC DREAMS

The prophetic dreams for which we are watching, seem slow to arrive for most of us, and I can only guess that the “stars may be wrong” at this time. Perhaps some of our several excellent astrologer HRAs will check on the planet Neptune and any other combination that may be more favorable a little later on.

I rigged up my wire recorder and planned to talk a record of any symbolic dreams into the machine in the night when awakening, but none came. Later, just upon my final awakening before getting up, I had a vivid dream which was very easy to remember in detail. I was on a ship sailing from Honolulu for California. The ship ran aground and only got clear of the rocky shelf by a miracle of luck and rising tide. I found myself looking down into the ship, only to discover that its entire cargo space was empty and painted the same gray as a battleship. I asked my George for the meaning of the dream and got at once the thought that our battle forces would be getting home with difficulty and with a great emptiness of anything to show for the Korean effort.

A letter from one HRA friend asked what good this prophetic dream project would do us. I would say that, if we can make it work, and should several of us report seeing the same future headlines in newspapers, or get the same meaning in dreams or their symbols, we would have good evidence of events to come, also good scientific (psychic science, of course) data on predictive powers. Of more lasting benefit to us as individuals would be the training. In our busy lives it is hard to find time and good ways of learning to use our psychic (ESP) powers. And, as success in the use of Huna or any of the related systems depends on the team work of the three selves, any practice which brings about that team work is of great importance.

IF YOU THINK YOU DO NOT DREAM, as many tell me is the case with them, try this little experiment to make sure you do not. Set your alarm clock to awaken you with a few gentle taps in the late night. I have yet to learn of anyone who is awakened gently who has not found himself in the midst of a dream. Of course, it may not be a dream related to the future, but it might be. Ask your George to give you the flash as to its meaning.

HRA A.J.L. wrote, “I won’t be able to participate in the dream research as I seldom dream. Once in a while I get a visionary flash in symbols that are always identified by THREES – a triangle, three trees, a house with three windows, someone wearing a coat with three buttons, or three paths converging. Then I know it has come from the Higher Self.” The letter goes on to tell of another quite different matter, but one which will be of interest to us all. “Listening to the radio the other night, the program, Incredible But True was on and one story impressed me very much. It was about a man with a scientific leaning who wanted to be left alone with a dying son or daughter and later made the same request when his wife was dying. The attending doctor found him in the room with a camera. When the pictures were developed, there appeared three luminous balls leaving the body and later merging into one large ball. Again we have the substantiation of the three in one or triune principle.” By way of comment, may I say that last year I had the pleasure of examining two books, written in French, in which the author had made and presented as illustrations, pictures of a very similar nature. Many psychics have seen the entity departing the body of one in the process of dying. It is of great interest to know that the camera can register the impression.

HRA Dr. Harold J. Jolet draws these conclusions from his recent dreams, premonitions or other source not specified: “War ends about October 30th. Then watch Jerusalem. Next year revolution in India. In U.S.A. next year, greater prosperity than ever known, with very heavy employment – perhaps because of the situation in India.”

HRA Mrs. G.H. reports, “The only significant thing I have to tell is of the seemingly ridiculous insistence in three separate dreams as to a rise in the price of eggs.” She goes on to explain that eggs have no special symbolic meaning to her, but are an important part of the family diet. It may well be that in her dreams the eggs represent a rise in the price of all foods.

MORE PENDULUM TESTS

More pendulum tests are being made from time to time by HRAs and by me in the Study. A very interesting test was run last week with HRA Dr. F.L.C. Christiansen of San Francisco. He wrote down a set of ten questions concerning the possible physical condition of a friend, then used his pendulum to get yes and no answers to the questions. Keeping a record, he sent the questions to me with a bit of the writing of the person to be tested. I used my pendulum and sent back the answers it gave to the questions. Our pendulum answers turned out to be seven ninths identical, (one question was ruled out as an duplication). A similar test will be run each month. One may be getting only the results of telepathic contact and thus of ideas read via the shadowy thread of contact running between the ones making the test, or one may read the thoughts in the mind of the patient. Or the Aunihipili may possibly contact the Aumakua for information with which to give correct answers.

“SPIRITUAL” PROGRESS AND HUNA ~ 2 BOOKS

There are two kinds of “spiritual” progress, perhaps more. (I have been reading again, thanks to the release of time made possible by the “No answer required” letters.) One is set forth most vividly in a book, Witchcraft and Magic of Africa, by Frederick Kaigh, a physician retired to England and his writing desk after many years of experience in Africa. This is the ancient way of life in which the natives of Africa progress through life with the aid of the “spirits,” or despite the efforts of evil spirits to cause them trouble.

“Spiritual” and “Spirit” have the same connotations in this very ancient and little changed common basis of psycho-religious belief and practice. “God is a Spirit,” says the Holy Writ, and from the Nile to the Congo and far beyond, the witchdoctor will affirm the fact.

To be “spiritual” in untouched Africa, one simply becomes like a spirit. The good man tries to be good and helpful. The bad man elects to be bad for the sake of the questionable benefits to be derived from pledging himself to the side of evil. Both men “progress” through life, and each undoubtedly makes some growth if only in the matter of experience.

Dr. Kaigh describes his contact with numerous witchdoctors, and also with witches – male and female. The first has for a part of his or her work, the business of “smelling out” the witches so that they may be tried in native fashion and done away with. In the Bible may be read the age-old command that has always pervaded Africa, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” (Ex.22:18)

The living die and become spirits. Good men become good spirits. Bad men become bad spirits bent on causing trouble for the living. Then there are the totem spirits, be they those of animal, bird, tree or rock. These are man’s contact with Nature, and through them he tries, with ritual and observance, to keep his good place in the world of Nature. The dead who became spirits long ago become gradually more and more powerful so they range from low to high in the native pantheon in which all “gods” are simply “spirits” of differing degrees. Ultimate Highest God is seldom addressed directly in Africa. As in Christianity, we have come to pray to a mediator. In Huna the good parental spirits were the mediators and could be trusted to carry prayers to higher spirits if necessary.

All of which is important to us in our efforts to win back to better understanding of the basic things of the psycho-religious field – win back to better psychological healing, better instant healing through the Aumakuas, and better freedom from bedevilment caused by such spirits as may be against instead of for us.

In Polynesia, we find the remains of a surprising number of small sects or cults which once broke off from the main structure of Huna, each developing its own dogmas. In Christianity, despite a printed book which tends to keep dogmas slightly similar, we keep splitting off new sects and cults. The religions of Islam and India, despite their books, show the same degradation.

For the student who realizes the fact that there has been this gradual contamination, there is but one thing to do – that is to go back and back and back, sifting the masses of dogmatic beliefs, rituals and practices, always searching for the grains of truth which, under the mountains of chaff, give us the seeds from which to grow again a living structure.

When I began my search for basic truths in Hawaii, I came upon this condition. There the scant remaining records of cult beliefs and rituals were muddled almost beyond hope by the many investigators who had inquired into them and come to conflicting conclusions. In his rather amazing book, Dr. Kaigh picks out a basic concept and with modesty but skill, traces it through change after change, giving the name for it in tribe after tribe. He often goes far afield, but in the end he comes back to the kernel of fact that he elects to discuss.

While it is possible that we will yet find in the language of the kahunas, or the chaff-pile of their beliefs and rituals, the things that will tell us the exact method of working the High Magic, the search may be well spread around the world on the long chance that we may find the common source of the earliest genuine and workable magic.

HRA Charles W. Kenn, who is doing such yeoman service in conducting the search for Huna information in Hawaii, has long been well aware of the necessity of spreading the scope of the search. He was generous enough to lend me a rare book some months ago, Origin and Evolution of the Human Race, by Dr. Albert Churchward. (Not she Churchward of the Mu books.) In this book, the origin of the human race is traced with care and with telling logic, back to the extremely early Nile men. He traces their growth and development and their travels around the world. If his conclusions will hold as much water as they seem to do, we have more proof that the Polynesian kahuna and his people came originally from the neighborhood of the Nile.

Every new fragment of information that tends to prove that the Huna system was known in Egypt at some very early date, is of value to us. If we can be sure of the homeland of the Polynesians, we can be safe to search for fragments of Huna left behind in the long move to the Pacific.

There are many striking things that link Polynesian beginnings to the Nile basin, and from there to all of Africa and most of Asia, to say nothing of the Americas – even Australia.

The world-around similarity of the stories of the Creation, of the Flood and even of Adam and Eve – these and dozens of others – take us back and back toward a common center. They may have come from some Atlantis, but we cannot go there to make sure. Customs and rituals of various kinds tie in the kahunasand the early Jews in surprising ways. Dr. Kaigh tells us that the many kinds of offerings mentioned in the Bible in Leviticus, are all represented in native African rituals today, OBLATIONS of this kind were offered to propitiate spirits of all degrees, including “God” who “is a Spirit.”

In Hawaii, we come upon the striking fact that the several kinds of offerings or oblations were known, named, and used by at least some school of Kahunaism. Mo`hai is the Hawaiian word for “offering.”

The root mo has for its ordinary meaning the act of breaking, as breaking a stick in two pieces. As in making an oblation or an offering, a part is broken off in many instances and offered to the spirits. In offering first fruits, a part of the harvest is set apart and used. When animals were sacrificed, only a part of them was “broken” off and offered. The priest usually got the flesh while the blood was sprinkled on something and the fat, together with certain other parts of sheep, goats and oxen, were burned. Hawaii had no such animals, but did have pigs, dogs, chickens etc. Using what they had, perhaps poi in place of the “fine flour” of the Old Testament rites and of Africa in general. They had the burnt offering, (mo`hai`ai), the wave offering (mo`hai`a`li), and on down the list of free-will, sweet-smelling, peace, heave, thanksgiving etc.

The root hai has the meaning of “to speak” as well as “break.” We gather that the part was broken off and presented as an oblation to the spirit or spirits or Spirit-of-High-Degree with an accompanying and appropriate mental action, performed as words are spoken in the ritual.

In the word (mo`hai) or in this form of sacrifice, there is nothing to suggest the idea of offering mana to the spirits, unless it might be the mana of the sacrificial beast or thing. We may be safe to look on the foregoing ritual forms as dogmatic and as having lost the inner secret of the sacrifice of one’s own mana as a basic mechanism of prayer.

In the Old Testament and in Africa at large, only the outer form is to be seen, but in Polynesia we find still another form of sacrifice named and used. This is mo`hai`hoo`mana, and the literal translation is “to sacrifice” plus “to make mana.” Or, we may say that the secret or inner significance behind all sacrifice is to be found in the accumulation of the surplus charge of mana and in the sending of it along the aka or aha cord to the spirit-na-Aumakua. (See pages 6, 7 and 8, of the second of the HRA Basic Lessons for a detailed discussion of this secret mechanism in Huna in connection with the word wai`pa for “pray,” in which the root wai is “water,” the usual symbol for mana, while the root pa means “to divide,” indicating a division or sharing of the mana with the Aumakuas.)

The Huna or secret method of making sacrifice to the “spirits” is, therefore, the second of the two sides of making “SPIRITUAL” PROGRESS – to use the modern and much abused term. If we think of the conscious entity of the Aunihipili, of the Auhane and of the Aumakua, we have three “spirits” needing to make progress, not just one. Each is at a different point in the progressive journey through the life cycle. This is Huna, clear and straight. If you prefer, consider your individual “spirit” as one self, but even then you may find it necessary to divide it in some way to get the ancient trinity into it – the Trinity of the gods of most religions, and the trinity of selves we are being slowly forced to recognize in psychology as the conscious, subconscious and [super]conscious.

If all religions, old and new, are not basically wrong on the one point at which they all meet, “spiritual” progress is made by striving to be GOOD and helpful and kind, by refraining from hurting others. It is made by moving steadfastly away from evil and all evil spirits – moving daily a little more in the direction of the good Aumakuas. Daily contact makes for steady moving and progress.

Note: Dr. Kaigh’s book was a gift from HRA Maj. O.G., of England. It costs 12/6 plus about 10¢ our money for postage. Publisher: Richard Lesley & Co. Ltd., 187 Piccadilly, W1, London, England. The book by Dr. Albert Churchward was published in England in 1921 and is out of print, but might be found in used book collections. 504 pages, well illustrated.

Paul Brunton, who set out as a journalist to search for much the same basics as we hope to find, and whose books are familiar to most HRAs, did us a signal service. After doing as many of us have done – running the gamut from one religion to the next and finally arriving at the emptiness of the idealistic heights of India – this earnest investigator sat down and evaluated his findings in his book, The Hidden Teachings Beyond Yoga. This followed his The Quest of the Overself and his Discover Yourself, both of which fell short of giving a balanced ration to sustain man or woman engaged in fighting the ordinary and blessed battles of life – not running away from life and responsibility to sit in the rarefied air of high seclusion, meditating and stressing only the top third of the three-self needs, and depending on others to till the soil and grow the food – run the outside world upon which his empty and parasitic life depends.

Brunton, like all men and women who are sane and normal, found in the end that there is no such thing as living the “spiritual” life while neglecting the lower two thirds of the three-self needs for growth, action and experience. He came down from his barren mountain top convinced at last that NORMAL LIVING was the ideal – with all its toil, all its obligations and all its opportunities to love and help – to teach and heal and Serve – to help in the old, old war against the evil men, things and conditions through which mankind must fight a way to GOOD.

It is enough to serve our purpose to shape our days in such a way that we can find momentary inner calm to make swift contact with the Aumakua as we confront each task, each difficult situation. Our first duty is to school ourselves until we have learned by practice the fine art of stopping, suddenly still in mind, gripping the worried, fearful or angry Aunihipili in a clutch of concentration which uses the middle mana of “will” – quieting the Aunihipili, and getting from it immediate response as part of the working team of two selves which must pause to listen to the commands of the third, Aumakua self which sits high up on the driver’s seat and is able to see which road to take and how best to negotiate its grades.

Those who have lived long on the mountain tops but have been forced to return to the world without having learned to make this quick contact in the midst of the heavy pulling, have made no kind of progress. They have only crippled themselves by overlong sitting with crossed legs and folded hands. Still worse, they have formed the most weakening and narcotic habit ever known to man – the habit of mouthing high-sounding phrases which have no meaning at all on the levels of the Aunihipili and Auhane, and little enough meaning on the level of the Aumakua. This is the escapist habit. All around us we can see it doing its daily work of making individuals worse than useless to themselves or others. These victims fly from reality. They will pay any price for their drug, and daily strive to still their cravings by reading the endless “teachings” in “courses” or books by other addicts or even crafty scoundrels. Blessed be our HRA sanity!