Using the Magnet & Carbon, Measuring Auras

November 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.

NEWS FROM THE STUDY

THE BOOK which I have been writing on for the past six months as a means of making a living, has been completed, but, for unforeseen reasons, will probably NOT BE PUBLISHED. I wish to express my deep appreciation to all of you who kindly asked me in advance to reserve a copy for you. Should plans change later, and the book be printed, I will announce it.

HRA Dr. Nandor Fodor offers consolation for all HRA book worms, however, in a letter just in. Any of you who like to buy new books bearing on the mysteries and puzzles of the submerged part of our consciousness, may have a copy of his book, THE SEARCH FOR THE BELOVED for $3, or, as a combination offer, with the NEW APPROACHES TO DREAM INTERPRETATION, for $7. Add 12¢ postage for each book and tell Dr. Fodor to whom you wish him to inscribe the books. His address is, The Park Central Hotel, 7th Ave. at 56th St., New York, N.Y. Both books have been reviewed in the Bulletin, and either one is a delight to one with a love of the newest information on the psychological puzzle of the subliminal. Dr. Fodor deserves warm thanks for making it possible for the HRAs to get his books at special prices through him. (By the way, if any of you have a copy of his ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE from which you could be coaxed to part, will you let me know, and set your price? Two HRAs desire very much to get copies. Last quotation on them was $15, only there weren’t any.)

HRA Elsa Barker, writer, student and most penetrating judge of the materials of our field of search and research, writes from New York to call attention to a page (Pg. 11) of statements from Dr. Fodor which cover much new ground in a few lines. I was also struck with them and made to pause and ponder when reading the copy kindly sent for review. I quote: (From NEW APPROACHES TO DREAM INTERPRETATION)

“These are samples of the endless ways in which dreams may represent the ordeal of our arrival into this world. Sometimes the dream is so precise that one can reconstruct the story of a delivery of which the dreamer has no conscious knowledge. A regressive fantasy is not necessarily the right explanation. But could the facts be recorded in the mind of a newborn child?

“The question is bewildering because we know little of unconscious mental processes and only grudgingly admit that such processes exist. We must make the admission because every successful psychoanalytic integration speaks of some principality or power which has control over the TOTAL content of the unconscious. Without such power, the concept of the unconscious ‘mind’ is meaningless, as ‘mind’ involves the ability to comprehend and organize. It is also evident that the integration of a personality is more dependent on unconscious than on conscious cooperation. Something in the patient’s mind must desire ‘becoming whole’ and must see to it that the proper time and the right material should come forth in dreams and associations. We may call this principle the integrative design, the soul or the higher self; the name does not matter.

“I prefer to call it the organismic mind. Before birth, whatever faculties the organismic mind possesses, are turned inward. From the moment of birth they are turned outward.” (Underlines are mine. M.F.L.)

MORE ABOUT THE USE OF THE MAGNET AND CARBON

From HRA Dr. Oscar Brunler – He has carried out experiments with the “VITIC” and has found that the magnet along with the carbon give beneficial results very often. He also has found the use of the magnet generally beneficial when used without the carbon. However, he gives this warning. The magnet should be tested with a pendulum to determine which pole of the magnet is the one to press the ball of the right thumb against during the holding period.

INSTRUCTIONS: Lay the magnet on the table. Place the right hand so that the ball of the thumb, not the tip, is opposite one pole or leg of the magnet at a distance of about four inches. Now, hold the pendulum so that it swings in the space between magnet pole and ball of right thumb. (Pendulum being held with the left hand – or reverse for left-handed HRAs.) If the pendulum swings back and forth between thumb and magnet pole being tested, that is the right pole over which to place the thumb ball flatly (leaving the other pole untouched). If it is the wrong pole, the pendulum will not swing in any direction.

Dr. Brunler, in his experiments when first testing “Vitic” force, discovered that by holding the thumb over the wrong pole, it caused severe nerve reactions – in his own case a sharp sciatica in the right leg lasting for four days. This led to the pendulum test, and with the correct pole used, the results were stimulating and beneficial. It is to be taken for granted that each person should test to find out what gives the best results for himself – size of magnet or magnet and stick of carbon, length of time held and any other variation, such as ball of thumb over the proper pole, or other bodily application to the pole. (The horseshoe type of magnet is held by Dr. Brunler with the ends up, lightly grasped with his fingers in his palm so that his thumb can be applied to the correct pole – held nearest the thumb – and the other pole be left uncovered and pointed upward. A straight bar or fragment magnet could be held with the right pole upward and the wrong one downward.)

We have no definite idea of what the magnet and carbon do to the body or to the mana or vital force. The iron in the blood does not respond to magnetism, so we learn. Something, however, seems to happen. I find that I begin to breathe more deeply and that I seem refreshed after two minutes. Longer holding seems, with me, to make no additions to the beneficial effects in my case. It will be noted that HRA Verne Cameron found that a 20 minute holding caused him to lose for a time his ability to sense underground water flows. His 12 year old son became nervous after a similar period of holding. In both cases, magnets were of the bar (fragment of junked magneto magnets) type and the wrong poles may have been used, or the wrong sizes and time periods. Rough drawings may clear the matter of poles:

1. End of horseshoes magnet or one pole of bar magnet
2. Correct direction of the pendulum swing when the right pole of the magnet is found.
3. Thumb position

CORRECTION

THE PRICE OF THE BOOKLET ON VITIC was given as half of what it should have been. This owing to my having before me an early and incomplete copy of the booklet. When sending to HRA Meade Layne (see address in Bul. 65), send a dollar and postage for the new and larger booklet. ($1.08.) If you are missing the treat of having the B.S.R.A. releases and the ROUND ROBIN magazine, ask about them, or send $5 for the combination subscription and a list of the many valuable mimeo booklets. You may have lost the address, so I’ll give it again. Meade Layne Publications, 352k Adams Ave., San Diego 16, Calif.

THE EEMAN CIRCUIT

The Eeman Circuit, which is described in the works of an English experimenter, L. Eeman, is the subject of much discussion in radionics circles these days. Some HRAs are trying out the circuits and are having a variety of results, some not as good as had been expected. The circuit is made by fastening six feet of insulated copper wire to a copper or brass handle on one end and to copper wire or meshed strands as in the “Choreboy” pot cleaners after they are made flat. Two of these outfits are used. One is placed under the base of the spine of a person lying on his back (the screen wire or choreboy end). The wire with the handle to be gripped in the left hand, is brought out from the screen and held in the left hand (or reversed to go in the right to test the different reactions). The second screen is placed under the head and the wire brought out so its handle can be held in the right hand. This is the “Relaxing Circuit,” if I remember rightly (my copy of the Eeman book is out on loan), and is supposed to help one sleep better and to benefit generally.

Eeman has done much work testing similar circuits. The idea is that the bodily electricity (our mana) will be picked up by the screens and caused to flow along the wires to the hands so that changes in the normal flow are brought about. The supposition is that natural flows may have been changed in some way. This is akin to the magnet and carbon experiments, and I wish to pass on here a warning that some people may pick up too much copper for their good from the flow, which seems to carry with it metals and drugs placed in the circuit. In a recent case in which zinc poisoning was diagnosed, it was traced back to the use of white adhesive tape containing zinc oxide. This tape was used to cover the ends of ragged screen sheets and also the wires at the handle ends. There is a difference of opinion as to whether or not the mana force will flow as well along silk cords, as it appears to do in the Brunler-Bovis Biometer. My own thought on the matter is that the aka thread is the real conductor, or the aka body of the individual, and that the mana flows on the aka substance in direct response to the will of the Aunihipili, who in turn may be acting under instructions from the Auhane. Much advanced experimental work is now going on in England with the “electronics” type of instruments used for diagnosis, for treating, and for many other purposes. It looks very much as if we were closing in very rapidly on much new and very enlightening information in this corner of the field.

THE STRANGE CONES of HRA Verne Cameron

[These] also belong in the forefront of investigations in this part of the field because he collects a force unknown to physics and which can be measured only by his dowsing instrument at this time.

This is a fascinating story in itself. Mr. Cameron was trying to find a way to collect and strengthen the radiations which dowsers sense coming up from underground water flows when locating wells. He wondered if wire coils would gather and intensify or focus the radiations, and made up circles and cones and coils. None did the work of picking up the water radiations as he had hoped, but in testing them with his dowsing instrument he was surprised to find that they picked up a force which seemed to come out of the air.

Unlike a cone which would reflect light or which would act as an amplifier of sound – sending light or sound from the large end of the cone – he found that the large end pulled in the force and condensed it into a beam of force about an inch in diameter, and which was projected in a straight line from the opposite side of the cone, from the point. This beam was so increased in strength by being condensed in the cone that it shot out in a strong, straight line that could be traced for as much as half a mile (as in his one major test), apparently with the force undiminished.

The beam was found to follow a copper wire attached to the tip of the cone, and that several cones could be hooked up in a string with wire, then the beam led off along a wire for test purposes. In one test (hoping that the beam would make plants grow faster and better) the wire was buried a few inches under the ground in the soil of his garden. A package of radish seeds was halved and part planted in a row over the wire, the other part in a similar row ten feet away from the wire. The seeds over the wire hardly grew enough to make a showing, but those at a distance came up thickly and grew in the regular way. Water and other conditions were kept the same for both rows.

Following this lead, Mr. Cameron tried applying the end of the wire to his arm to see if it might kill out a trichina infection in the muscle (an unfortunate condition with which he had been contending with not too much success). By experimenting, he found that if the wire was held pointed down against the skin over the trichina pocket for 20 minutes, it killed the infection but not the living tissues of his arm.

The most force is collected when the cones are connected. His present test set contains three cones made up of aluminum sheet material with a wire-hitching post in the point of each. The cones are about 22 feet across and pitched to fit the angle of a carpenter’s square on the outside. They pick up the force best when hung by the edge at a distance of over 6 feet from the ground. Here is a rough sketch of how three of them are hooked up in a try for a “cyclotron effect.”

Cones hung around an imaginary tree and beam shooting out in a straight line from end of wires. Note wires connecting cones from inside of one cone tip to outside of the next.

This set of cones was nested and being carried in Mr. Cameron’s car recently. He found his back so hot he thought the seat was on fire, but investigation showed only the cone points aimed at his back. The position of the cones was changed and the sensation of heat vanished. No harm was felt as a result of the happening. Eventually, when/if/ever we have our great HRA laboratory, experimental work will be done to see what can be done with this force. Meantime, Mr. Cameron carries on energetically in what spare time he can find. Last week he drove to the city to be with me and carry on more tests of the invisible shapes and figures above the head. This is what happened:

THE INVISIBLE FIGURES ABOVE THE HUMAN HEAD AS FOUND BY CAMERON

The fantastic becomes more and more fantastic in this investigative angle. Expecting Mr. Cameron, I invited HRA Mrs. D.D. to come over so that we might test her for figures above the head. She is a very much experienced searcher and student, of mature years, and one who should have all possible development of figures by now over her head.

An extension ladder 28 feet long was put to use to get Mr. Cameron high enough to feel around in the air above heads to see what might be found at the highest level. He climbed the ladder by degrees, testing as he went. The usual halo with the center hole was found above my head, a cord leading up to the first figure, which stood about three feet above the halo and which was about the size of my physical body. From its head rose an invisible cord, and, without a second halo, it opened out into the second figure, again the size of the body.

After carefully outlining the second figure with his instrument, which swings away from the invisible figure as it is about to touch any part of it, Mr. Cameron found a cord leading upward from the head, but was unable to follow it. He had already left the top of the ladder and had mounted to the top of the brick chimney. I laid myself out flat on the lawn at the base of the chimney, reducing the height of the figures in the air by six feet, and the investigation continued (to the evident surprise of those passing on the busy street – mostly in cars and buses). Above the head of the second figure, the cord lifted about three feet and ended in a ball about 2 feet in diameter. Something seemed to be fastened to the north side of the ball, and, after much feeling around with the instrument, it was found to be something about 18 inches wide and about 4 inches thick, which fell like a curtain, unevenly, down to the level of the top figure’s shoulders. What it was, neither Mr. Cameron nor I can guess, unless it is some new growth or flow of force in a static position. Above the ball there was NO CORD – nothing. Considerable time was spent to make sure of this. No aka thread or cord leading “up” was found – no trace. We speculated that such a cord reaching to the Aumakua might only appear and come into active use during prayer-actions. Perhaps later we can test this angle.

HRA Mrs. D.D. was next tested, and also found to have two figures over her head, but owing to the difficulty of having a lovely and dignified lady stretched out on the browning grass, and to the fact that Mr. Cameron was getting psychically tired and did not feel equal to mounting the chimney again and balancing himself on it, we were not able to find out what might replace the ball and curtain of my test for Mrs. D.D. As it was growing late, tests on other members of my family were put off.

Mr. Cameron sketched for me the figures as he found them for me, his daughter and his son. I will try to give an idea of them.

Figures outlined above heads by HRA Verne Cameron with his dowsing Instrument

#1 is his son, Larry, 12, who had wing nubs and a halo, but no figures except the 2 foot ball

#2 is his daughter, Estrella, 24, with larger wings, a halo and one figure of the the size and outline of her body. No second figure, but an inverted cone

#3 is MFL, 61, with long wings, halo, two figures, 2 foot ball at top, and curtain falling from north side of ball. HRA Mrs. D.D. 65, had same figures as far as measured to top of head of her second figure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REV. JESSIE CURL AND HER WORK

Huna Research Associates will remember that in recent Bulletins I have told of Rev. Jessie Curl, the English housewife who accidentally discovered that she was highly psychic. She first developed the ability to contact the spirits and to give messages at Spiritualistic Church meetings. Her clairvoyance increased. She traveled to Australia and India, and spent some months in Canada and U.S.A. On one of her voyages she stopped in Samoa, and while there became psychically aware that she had attracted to her the spirit of a Samoan chief who was also by way of being a kahuna of parts, and whose name she got as “Hula.” Later this was corrected to H00`la, meaning “To heal” (“Cause light”) (Pronounced Hoo-la, as if each “o” was long, and la as lah.)

When she left Pago Pago, Hoo`la went along. He contended for first place with her as spirit guide with a Hindu and a Tibetan, managing soon to replace them rather completely and to cause a change from simple clairvoyance and message work to healing. He often took over when she was in the trance condition, and, little by little, he induced her to use healing methods of his choice.

In London, a famous artist who sees psychically and draws portraits of spirit guides, invited Rev. Curl to have a picture done of the Tibetan guide. At the sitting, Hoo`la took over her body, set up a clamor, ousted the other spirit, grabbed crayon, and began drawing the picture himself. The artist agreed to portray him, was given back the crayon, and there resulted a remarkable head, massive and square, typically Samoan, grim and still kindly.

Hoo`la soon demonstrated great healing ability, working through Rev. Curl. He impressed on her the need of breaking down the conditions in the aura (aka body) of the patient with passes of her right hand – passes of a fluttering and rapid scattering motion – while putting the healing force into the sick part by pointing her left hand directly at it. She was able to locate the sick parts psychically, say what caused the trouble in most cases, and to bring about a complete and permanent healing in a large part of the cases in either three or six or nine treatments. (Treatments ran in multiples of three for some unknown reason.)

The healing power demonstrated, the urge to travel and heal became strong. In order to do this work, she accepted ordination as a Spiritualist minister from the hands of good friends, and her work and travels began in earnest. Having no knowledge of the lore of kahunas, she still came to understand that contacts had to be established with her patients and a form of healing energy transferred with the held intention of healing. Once the contact (aka thread?) had been established, the healing continued steadily, even after the treatments had stopped, until a complete healing was brought about. She came to stand on a platform, point to someone in the audience (sometimes with her elbow) and make a contact along which she could send the force, often causing immediate freedom from pain and healing. Not knowing what else to call this force, she thought of it as beamed cosmic force. (High level of mana?)

Not long ago, and quite by chance, she became acquainted with an exceptionally well-informed and able student, HRA T.C.R., who at once recognized in what she did all the earmarks of Huna being put to use in various ways short of the release of fixations of an obscure and major nature. He introduced Rev. Curl to Huna, gave her a copy of my book, and set her right on a number of matters. Very shortly, the name Hoo`la came as a correction of what she got as Hula. Letters were exchanged with me, and as her present tour continued on the West Coast, from Vancouver, Seattle and Portland, I received letter after letter from those whom she healed, giving me the details of their own cases and those of their friends. The proofs soon became most impressive.

Last week Rev. Curl and her husband, David Curl (a lesser healer and fine man), came to Los Angeles. I watched her work at a small church, accepted her invitation to tell her audience a little of the background of Huna lore, and had the opportunity to become better acquainted.

I would say that her healing ministrations rank with those of the famous Harry Edwards of England. She seems seldom to fail to give some relief in one treatment lasting hardly more than a minute or two, and often remarkable results are obtained so rapidly that they may properly be classed as instant healings. Goiters vanish, hearing and often sight return. There is hardly any condition that can be mentioned that she has not healed. This afternoon (as I cut this stencil) three HRAs, sitting within eight feet of where she stood and patients came to be treated, watched with great care in order to be able to report to me what they observed.

Two cases were outstanding. One was that of a young woman just out of [the] hospital after [a] bad auto accident injuries. One leg was a half inch short and she limped badly. The treatment with the passes and giving of healing force began. The girl suddenly said she could feel her injured leg stretching. In a few moments she was walking normally and a test showed both legs the same length. A second case was that of a woman so stiffened in spine and hips that she had not been able to tie her own shoes for some years. She was able to tie them at the end of the treatment and to pick up things from the floor. Then there was the neck with a “kink” in it so that it could not be moved, but which moved freely in all directions immediately upon treatment. Treatment of facial conditions for a woman on whose cheek was a large red birthmark, resulted in the slow fading of the birthmark as treatment progressed. It was noticed by all three HRAs, who could hardly believe their eyes. After the return of the patient to her seat, the mark slowly appeared again. Much impressed, the observers asked Rev. Curl about it after the meeting. She said that this often happened, and that often, after disappearing for the third time after the third treatment, it did not return. One HRA said, “Rev. Curl stood there with face like an angel pouring out love and healing.”

Earlier, on Saturday evening, it was my privilege to spend the evening with the Curls and hear all about their experiences. Rev. Curl allowed Hoo`la to take control after dinner, and to put me through a strange ritual which I take to be some form of ordination in which he made me an adopted son, then attached to me an aka cord to allow lasting contact with him. A number of Polynesian words were repeated over and over carefully so they could be taken down and translated later via the Hawaiian. There were a number of most unexpected things done, and a journey through our house made with me in tow until a copy of SSBM was located. It was opened and handed to me with every evidence of pleasure and with some urgency. The last paragraph on page 369 was indicated. Read it and share my condition of being impressed and surprised. Prophetic? MFL