The Aumakua Lives Above Us … “Up”

August 15, 1951

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 new issue of the ROUND ROBIN is out!

This is always delightful news, and it is deserving of the exclamation point for several reasons.

First, because each issue is a major event in the lives of those of us with metaphysically-shaped heads who revel in the things HRA Meade Layne amazingly seems ever able to find and spread before us as prize fare for hungry minds and spirits.

A second reason for the exclamation point is that the scant dollars we furnish to help set the table can be stretched so miraculously far as to provide an office, an editorial staff and means of producing and mailing the ROBIN. The picture always rises in my mind of a robin on my lawn holding to one end of an earthworm, bracing his feet rather desperately, and pulling until the worm is stretched to the utter breaking point.

To review ROUND ROBIN always reminds me of the delicious job done by a reviewer a few years ago to cover the publication of a new Sear’s catalogue, or it may have been Ward’s. The exciting variety of things offered competes with the fascination of brand new offerings. In this July-August issue of RR, the brand new is found in the lead article giving three pages of the findings of HRA V.L. Cameron in his experiments with magnets and carbon rods to learn more of “Vitic” force. He describes the effects of holding magnet and rod in right and left hands, and in other ways, also the effects noted on the ability of the holder to build thought pictures which can be measured with the Cameron dowsing instruments, and the changes caused in the auras or aka bodies. A tentative explanation is offered to cover the findings, and the question put to the rest of us in a very direct manner. A new world builds before the vision of the reader – a world filled with invisible akas and aka threads, all charged with magnetism or energies of a thousand different wave lengths and all polarized and kept from becoming intermingled and hopelessly entangled with inter-penetrating radiations, akas or what have we. The kahunas prompt us to believe that all things have aka bodies.

Modern biologists speak of the same thing in terms of “emergent fields” which lie compacted in the seed of plant or man, and which unfold to form the mold of “stress patterns” into which denser matter is built to form cells, nerves, tissues and organs in highly evolved forms of life. Energy becomes “alive” when it acts in or through aka substance. Once alive, it responds to some directive consciousness and enjoys a certain free will in determining its activities. A radar beam simply strikes and bounces back. It is not alive, but a map dowser sends out a beam of aka-mana to contact the place indicated by the map, investigate it, and bounce back with the information. The modern science of physics, as Director Meade Layne points out, is being forced into the realm of metaphysics by its own discoveries. It has electromagnetic energy now, but needs to stir into its brew the elements of aka and consciousness.

The now famous Reeser Case is also discussed in this issue of RR, as well as in the four-page BSRA release that came with it. (Subscription to the more frequent “releases” and the every-two-months RR, is $5. Address for this bargain in mental and spiritual nourishment, BSRA-Round Robin, 3524 Adams Ave., San Diego 16, Calif. Or send a dollar for this last issue and the current BSRA release.)

We all have read the dispatches telling how elderly Mrs. Reeser was sitting in her rocker in her apartment in Florida, when something beyond scientific ken caused her and the rocker to burn so completely that only her skull – shrunk to the size of a teacup – a piece of her backbone and a piece of her left foot – still in a part of the shoe – remained. Below the height of four feet from the floor, nothing was scorched or smoked in the room; above that height, all was smoked, but little was scorched by heat that would have been similar to that held at 2,000 degrees for over an hour to cremate a body for sanitary burial.

A complete outline of the case is given and all the theories offered to explain it, particularly those based on what we are beginning to know of the aesthetic. The spirit communicators of two good circles also offered most interesting observations and conjectures. In the past few years we have had several instances of the ceilings or walls of large rooms suddenly flashing into flames, as in the case of the dance hall and the Chicago hotel lobby, to say nothing of the big bridge that suddenly burst into flames from end to end for no reason at all. That was bad enough, but now, if people begin to go up in a sudden puff of smoke well, we need to rally around Meade Layne as the center of gathering information, the kind of information which we begin to need badly.

HRA thanks RR for telling its readers about us and for the heartily welcome encouragement offered. As a matter of fact, it has long been a hope that our forces could be combined and a single publication issued with departments for Huna, the TUG and the several things of special interest to different reader groups. As it is, BSRA is quartered in San Diego and HRA centered in Hollywood. Moreover, we have too small a circulation list, even when combined, to support such luxuries as real printing to replace mimeographing. However, a start has been made in the desired direction. BSR has incorporated and may soon be in position to attract a “foundation” donation.

Cigbo has also made a start for us – a very small one indeed. He swapped for what he calls “my toy printing press,” and already prints our labels and his own “pistol cd. letter heads.” Also, needing more type than he has, he has placed his composing stick beside his cigar box, and is hopefully watching to see if an extra dime may now and then be sent in for it. He wishes to assure all his friends, and with a considerable show of dignity, that he will NEVER stoop to begging, even for type dimes, but he admits that he may yeowl dismally at times just as a hint.

Psychokinesis and HOW!

To get back to RR – the capper of the issue is contained in a few paragraphs on pages 16 and 17. Meade Layne writes, “During the week of July 2nd, your Director observed, in the Round Robin office, the operation of another device, so sensitive that when one extended a hand toward it and commanded it to move away, the pointer on the device would swing through at least a 90 degree arc in the direction required; and if one commanded it to turn toward one it would also obey. In each case, [there was] a time interval of 15-20 seconds before the motion began. We hold that this event, here mentioned so briefly and casually, is comparable to the fall of a kingdom…

The time lag, from 15 to 20 seconds is almost as important to the understanding of this matter as is the fact that eventually the mental command was obeyed by the hand on the sensitive instrument. It indicates that when the mind gives the order, something passes from the body under the direction of consciousness. This is explained in Huna as the ‘projection’ by the Aunihipili of an aka finger or contacting thread. With the aka finger must go some energy which will cause the instrument to register it and give a measurement reading. Mana, the vital energy of man, flows along the aka thread and builds up a charge after a short lapse of time, which, when discharged into the instrument, causes the needle to register it.

The point that must be explained is the lag. Electricity and light move at a speed so great that the short distance involved in this experiment counts as nothing.

HRA V.L. Cameron called my attention to this time lag recently when he was letting me make a mental image of some object, then finding and outlining the thought-form-object with his dowsing instrument. It would take me up to thirty seconds to make my mental vase or ball or cone sufficiently strong to be located and outlined with the instrument in the empty air. The instrument has a small ball of metal which becomes, as HRA Cameron finds, positive through contact with the one holding it. As positive poles repel each other, the mentally created form or object must have enough of the bodily energy passed into it through an aka thread connection to cause it to assume a positive polarization and repel the ball of the instrument. We need the aka substance to contain the mana, and the directing consciousness to dictate the nature of the form or shape.

Of equal importance is the fact that such a thought picture or object fades in about a half hour. To find out where the aka and mana goes, we have only to recall the fact that ectoplasmic forms in the seance room often come visibly from the medium and return to him.

“…My word shall not return to me void …”

[This] may mean exactly what it says. We now see, thanks to HRA Cameron’s years of patient research, that by concentrated thinking we can build an aka-mana thought-form-mold of the condition which we desire to have brought about when we pray. In Huna we make the picture with great care. We contact the Aumakua. We present the mold we have made and the mana to fill it with force. We ask that the superior powers of the Aumakua be used to materialize a permanent filling for the mold. If we keep holding the mold together and keep it filled with necessary mana or energy, all other conditions being right, our prayer should NOT return to us “void.” As the kahunas used to say, it will not “miss the mark.” It gives one a strange feeling of inward excitement and certainty to see an instrument outlining a thought-form, and to see it trace the expanding outline of the aka body as one begins to pray. I believe that the next time such experiments are carried out, we can find that from the expanded aka or aura there is an aka thread or cord so filled with energy that its course can be traced as it leaves going toward the Aumakua.

The Aumakua lives above us … “up”

In all religions the gods live above, “up.” I once thought that this was just a symbol and not a place.

Suddenly I begin to realize that “up” meant “up.” HRA Cameron (also BSRA), called on me a few days ago and we undertook to explore the regions above the head with the dowsing instrument. I stretched out on my back beside the study and the “doughnut” aura was found above my head, five feet above it was found the feet of the life sized aka figure always found above people. Mounting the ladder which I had provided, Mr. Cameron explored the space above this figure, and found, about six feet above the other, a second figure of the same general size and outline. Standing on the roof of the Study he could reach only a few inches above its head. Whether there were still more such figures standing still higher up, we were unable to determine. (In discussing the strange findings with another HRA the next day, I was told that a Frenchman had written a book in which he described seeing similar “etheric doubles,” one above another, over the heads of friends.)

If, when we find a long enough ladder to make more tests, it is found that there are but two such aka bodies above a man, all will be in keeping with Huna and we can say that the Auhane lives in one and the Aumakua in the other, both connected by the aka cords. If, however, we find a larger number, then it is anybody’s guess what they might indicate. (Mrs. Long, not knowing what was going on, happened to come to the back door of the main house to see me prone on the walk and Mr. Cameron feeling around high above from his stand on the Study roof. Her first impulse, so she jokingly says, was to begin sweeping out two padded cells.) Could it be that Jacob’s vision, recorded in Genesis, 28, 20, describes this finding? “… a ladder set up on earth, and the top of it reached to heaven and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.” Most unexpected of all, perhaps, was the discovery, made with the aid of the instrument and carefully checked, that both aka figures had heavy heads of hair hanging to the level of the shoulders, but cut off squarely at that point like a “Dutch bob.” Fantastic? Yes, indeed. No end. But in the task we have before us, no stone is to be left unturned. And, while we are speaking of these things, and of “wings” and the like, it may be remarked that it takes a high degree of moral courage on the part of HRA Cameron to divulge what he finds.

Speaking of aka or auric wings – – –

I almost forgot to say that the two overhead figures were found to have “wings,” just as I had been found to have them extending from my physical back. They extend from shoulder to hip and back for several feet. (Children have been found to have budding wings.) Perhaps the ancients had some inside information when they told of angels with wings, and predicted that good men might have wings after death with which they could fly all about the heavens. Kahunas must have had some secret lore of a similar nature to the belief in winged angels – but theirs was winged prayers which took their flight – lele: to fly, leap upward, etc

HRA George W. Wallace, (Box 158, Beaumont, Calif.) who has developed a device (“ZNO” $3) for measuring radiations described in earlier Bulletins and pictured here, ran check tests for us on the wings and auras as found by HRA V.L. Cameron. He found that by making a drawing of a body as pictured here (or front view for that test angle) and naming the picture for the person to be tested, the test worked perfectly over the drawing

(A – as above) The wing stubs of a child

(B) The usual wing extending straight out at top from a foot to several feet

(C-D) Some wings were found broken or crumpled on one side or standing off at an angle as if injured or deformed.

Note aura indicated in outline in his drawing the aura overhead vertical instead of horizontal as L.V.C. finds it.

Also note the fact that the use of a drawing is what is known as the establishment of a “convention” with the Aunihipili which must pick up the radiations, in this case as in map dowsing, and give the reading by the agreed-upon rotation of the ZNO tip as the field of aura or wing radiation is touched.

These illustrations show the ZNO held above and below a piece of ore in testing it. At the left, the energy field above and below the sample is shown – the ZNO rotating inside the field as moved vertically up and down above or below it. All objects can be thus tested. The radiation usually is picked up at a distance of about 45 inches.

The test made from the side of the sample with the ZNO held as illustrated, shows that two beams of radiation come from the sample (as from flowing water deep in the earth) at the top and bottom of an angle of about 45 degrees. (The distance at which these beams are picked up indicates the depth at which water or ore is to be found and the thickness of the water or ore body.

Radiations from Papa and Mama Kii Pohaku images done in China

These little images sent through the kindness of HRA Mrs. St. John (see Bulletin 66) were worked over by HRA Cameron and myself several weeks ago. We blessed Mama Pohaku and prayed with her in our hands to try to set up an aura and a vibration of good and helpful nature, perhaps make her a center of contact with good higher entities as well as a center from which good might keep on radiating. With her in my hands, Mr. Cameron found with his instrument that, as the prayer-action continued, a larger and larger cone of radiation built up from her large navel. (See pages 5 and 6 in Bulletin 58.) We then tried emptying our “bad” into Papa Pohaku, making him the “scape goat” type of icon to carry away our hates, fears and sins. I couldn’t think of anything I hated and failed to work up any emotion in charging Papa, but V. L. had some very hot and strong resentments left over from a recent encounter with individuals who were standing in the way of getting the Navajo Indian Tribe good water wells via dowsing and the ownership of their own drilling equipment. He filled Papa to the point at which the instrument measured an irregular mound several inches high over his middle. It gave off no lines of radiation and there was no cord leaving at the head as there was with Mama.

Several times since then I have tested for the mound and cone with pendulum and ZNO, having just paused now to do so. Mama’s cone has weakened (as I usually find it) so that it measures about a foot high. This is interesting in view of the fact that she gets a daily blessing and lies on my “altar” end of my prayer table. It may be that the energy poured into her is used up each day in our TMHG work. Or it may be that good is harder to build and retain and keep radiating. We recall that the offices have to be renewed daily in formal church rites of worship. On the other hand, Papa has not had a thing added to his burden knowingly, but he still tests as strongly active as the day the hates were poured into him for safe keeping. Perhaps we need to reverse the old quotation to make it read, “the good we do dies with us; the bad lives on.” (Or is that the way the original went?) In any event, I must confess that I love Mama Kii and am just the least little bit inclined to shy away from poor little Papa – who has to live at the far end of the long table to do his assigned job of absorbing the “bad.” Cigbo remarks doubtfully from his perch beside his box (and composink stick) on top of the desk, that he hopes “Papa won’t blow up and bust some day.”

Reports on the pendulum tests for radiations from fruits and vegetables …

Have been sent in by three HRAs only, and no averaged set of findings is possible. Counting me as a fourth, we have four different findings as to what happens when a pendulum is gradually brought from a distance of four feet to contact with the object to be tested for radiation. I got the crosswise reading at three or four different points for each thing tested. This may be locating the wave nodes, but it is hard as yet to say. I will discuss the matter with Dr. Brunler when I can. He has had long experience in such matters. There seems to be much difficulty in keeping personal guesses or expectations out of the measurement when no convention is set up in advance and one is trying to pick up the wave length of radiations. Of course, the wave length of the live eye of a potato would be so short that a pendulum could measure it ONLY by means of a convention of sorts. What complications we do run into. More on this later when I have some idea that will hold a few drops of water at the very least.

For our TMHG work, we learn about the time lag…

Having had the matter of the time lag called forcefully to my attention by the research work and observations of HRA Cameron, I find several things coming to mind along that line: Thirty years ago, in Honolulu, as I have told in SSBM, I was greatly aided by the Huna ministrations of an elderly Hawaiian woman. Looking back, I now remember clearly that when she made ready to make a prayer-action for me (“Ask the gods for help,” as she put it), she took what seemed to be an unnecessarily long time getting ready, although, when the actual work got under way, she rose, closed her eyes and slowly and carefully repeated her prayer three times over in Hawaiian.

The preliminary delay of three days was easily understood because we had to spend some hours together talking things over to decide exactly what I desired to have come about in my life and tangled affairs, no easy matter just then. I also had to be put through three days of semi-fasting and to give until it hurt to some worthy cause in order to clear my moral deck and make my Aunihipili and Auhane agree that something real and effective had been done by way of atonement for sins of commission and of omission.

I can see her now in my mind’s eye, sitting relaxed and as if deep in thought, apparently forgetful of the urgent fact that she had promised to pray for me. She rolled a cigarette, took a few puffs on it, rubbed it slowly out and relaxed again, looking idly through the open windows into the greenery of the yard. I think ten or fifteen minutes must have passed before she rose, took a few slightly deeper breaths, raised her hands slightly from her sides, closed her eyes, lifted her face upward, and began her thrice-repeated request for the help I needed.

Now, at this late date, I see that the Aunihipili takes at least fifteen seconds, often much more, to build and charge the mental image or mold of the desired conditions. I understand that it takes a short time for the Aunihipili to get to work to build up a mana surcharge for use. I am deeply impressed that we may have been trying to go too fast – that we should have given minutes instead of seconds to building and charging the mental forms before calling on the Aumakuas to exert their power to materialize and actualize the substance, time and space needed to fill the mold. I can see that the slow steps and recitals of the Mass must have been designed originally to build slowly to construct the invisible braided cord and send the force through it so that it might return to bless the priest and the congregation.

I am not sure, but I incline to believe that the bad in this world is something more native to our level of life than the good. Greed, hate and envy seem to grow as weeds in the hearts of men the world around, but unselfishness, love and joy in the success of others seem to be the frail plants which need constant care and hourly feeding and watering if they are to grow well enough to replace the thorny and noxious weeds of bad.

The only spirit kahuna I have ever met at a seance who could escape the suspicion of pretense, said, when asked how one might become a kahuna, “Think good, good, good, all the time. Some day you will see a big white light, and after that you will be a kahuna.” Shall we all begin now? Thinking only good? Only love and unselfishness? Pretty difficult to manage, what?

Loving Father or stern Karmic justice?

Sometimes when I ready myself for the TMHG work, I wonder whether I have done enough good in thoughts or deeds to deserve the help I am about to ask from the Aumakuas for myself. And often I have letters from HRAs who list many needs for the TMHG efforts to call down help for purse and circumstances, or healing for body or mind. Seldom do I find a word said about what has been done or thought to make the writer deserving of all the help requested. Few write, “I have done what I could to cleanse myself, and I have performed acts of love and unselfishness, so that I now feel deep inside of me that I fully deserve the loving assistance which I am now beginning to ask for in the TMHG.”

If the older doctrine of Karmic justice is literally true, as many believe, our only chance lies in producing a sudden spate of good to outweigh the active portion of the great layer of bad with which we are covered. The evidence of life about us seems not to indicate that the full repayment for accumulated bad Karma of the past is demanded at any one time of any hapless human by the “Lords of Karma” if any such there really be in the scheme of things.

On the other hand, we see in the doctrines of Christianity as now preached in the latest cults contemporary with New Thought, the extreme in which all bad in the past vanishes by the simple process of turning a new leaf and thinking only good. Doing good is difficult, and difficult things have been tossed out of the window so that instead of helping the other fellow when he is ill or broke, he is treated with scorn because the poor lout refuses to see that it is his own fault because he continues to remain in error in his thoughts.

Personally, I have neither the courage, the endurance, nor the docile submission of mind and spirit to bow to the dogmas of almost endless reincarnations which are necessitated by the exact and unmerciful demands of Karma. I’ll go along for a number of incarnations for each of the three selves allotted to me by the Huna lore, enough to give each self time to learn what it must at each stage of evolution. Beyond that, right or wrong, I am going to try to make myself fairly good and fairly deserving. Whether I succeed or fall far short on these scores, I am going to continue to lean heavily on that amazing love with which the Aumakuas seem to brood over all of us who try to open the door to them, the love that surprises and thrills me time after time after time when I ask for help where I cannot see how to help myself. I may be able at times to deserve the bread for which I ask, but it is Love and Mercy that adds the butter and often the jam, not the stern and highly distant Lords of Karma who were often the preoccupation of H.P.B. [Helena P. Blavatsky, ed.] when she set out to introduce the lore of India to the West.

The news from the Study is largely that your many excellent letters are received and read with much appreciation. The help for Cigbo is placed in his box and held to the Light for multiplication for all our needs – and time is seldom left over for the answers I would love to send. The book which I am happily working on as the present bread winning project, has progressed from the material-gathering stage to that of the writing of outlines and first rough drafts. The first major conference has been held over it, and all goes well. But time remains the gift that only you HRAs can give me by saying, “No answer, please” on your letters. I know that you all understand. MFL