Using the Aurameter
January 15, 1952
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.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE USE OF THE AURAMETER
The accompanying is a fine precision instrument for scientific experiments, and is guaranteed perfect and an exact duplicate of instruments I use for outlining the human aura and other peculiar emanations given off by the body, especially over diseased or inflamed areas, where a cone or rod of force is projected from the diseased spot to the distance of several inches.
To use this instrument, the handle MUST BE HELD LEVEL AT ALL TIMES WITH THE TWO SCREWS AT THE TOP. THIS IS IMPORTANT. Do not droop the point downward, but keep the handle level. Rotate slightly and slowly to bring the point straight with the handle. Now, with the instrument pointed to your left, approach the bulge of force in front of another person’s chest, and with your muscles set to prevent balancing. You must be careful not to offset the action of the instrument by rotating the handle to the drooping point. With practice, the point should be repelled toward you as you attempt to push the point to within 8 inches to 1 foot of his or her chest (adults) or at a distance of 2 to 8 inches from any other part of the body from the knees up.
The instrument is guaranteed to give satisfaction when used patiently and without prejudice. Many experimenters have used this and other instruments like it during recent meetings, and in every case they have been able to perform amazing feats. Remember, you must WANT it to work, otherwise you withhold the energy from your hand which must be transmitted to the instrument in order to give it a charge or polarity which causes it to respond to another negative or positive charge.
While this instrument is vastly better than the willow switch or fork for use in locating water, it is not designed for professional locating, and nothing can take the place of years of experience in the field. However, it will give years of amazing and interesting experiences, and it is suitable for endless experiments, and should enable you to make amazing discoveries in several fields.
I have found a normal rod of force extending from the left temple 6 or 8 feet, one from the left eye which extends from 22 inches to any length by concentration on an object, at which time the beam touches the object, even going through stone walls without impairment. I have found another from the chest, during stress of emotion, up to 20 feet long. From the back of the head, I find a triangular fin 20 inches long, a 14 inch triangle of force in front of the female sexual organs (adult) and a cowl shape over the male sexual organs (adult), also a beam which can be projected at will from the palm of either hand to a great distance. This, like the chest beam, requires 20 seconds to become effective, seeming to ionize or electrify the air in the beam and persists for 20 seconds after the energizing is terminated. All these beams and radiations seem to penetrate any substance except water, which diverts or reflects them, or another body which absorbs them.
From the shoulders and down to the hips, are triangular fins which I call “wings,” level on top and from 3 to 20 feet long, depending upon the character development of the bearer, and terminating in sharp or rounded tips from ½ to 2 inches thick. At about 6 inches above the head is poised a ring or “doughnut” shape. About 20 inches in diameter and 32 inches thick, with a 3 inch hole in the center through which rises a rod of force which, in children, often ends in a ball, a foot or more in diameter. In testing those between the ages of 20 and 30 years, the ball gives place to a figure the same size as the body.
Its outline can be located by noting the points at which the Aurameter tip swings away when it is moved toward the space occupied by the figure. So accurate is the instrument that details of shape can be discovered, as, for instance, the strange fact that the figures seem always to have the hair cut in a Dutch bob level with the top of the shoulders. From this first figure rises another rod or cord which may end in a ball, or may touch still another figure some 20 feet above the individual. This second figure resembles the first and is found on older people. Above its head is another ball, and in one case, a curtain-like formation fell from it on the north side to the shoulder of the figure on the rear. These figures rise straight up from the head even if the individual being tested is stretched out prone.
When exerting a strong emotion or in the use of prayer and faith in magnetic healing, or when the palms of the hands are turned upward, the “doughnut” aura settles down to rest on the head and enlarges to 20 feet in diameter, as though it were the elector or antenna which absorbs this force from the atmosphere. When the palms are turned upward, as in supplication, there is a great inverted pyramid of force formed over each of them.
Another interesting experiment is that of tracing the strange patterns which exist over signatures written in ink. These patterns are never the same for two different people. They form a “fan” hardly thicker than the signature itself, and may extend in a “wing” from one end of the signature for up to 10 feet, while the fan may rise above the signature to form an arch cut by notches or raised in humps or points. The fan does not extend below the paper on which the signature has been written. Photographs of people also offer auras which make an interesting study.
All objects have an aura, even if only a thin layer surrounding them. Objects such as a much used Bible or rosary will be found to have an aura and often rods or cones of force running from them quite different from the auras of ordinary books and beads. The auras and forces become larger and stronger with use, handling and concentration or prayer.
There can be built up in a few minutes a strong mental or thought-image of a thing or object. One may have a friend build some simple form, as a bowl, cube or globe, placing it mentally on a table or shelf so that it can be located by feeling back and forth with the Aurameter and when found, can be identified by its outline. Such thought-images may be larger or smaller than the maker of them intends, for some unknown reason. These thought images fade away in from 20 to 30 minutes as a rule.
Objects may be touched or gazed at and charged by concentration, then located with the Aurameter by another person even if mixed with uncharged objects – the size of the aura or force projections making the difference. Radioactive ores can be detected with the Aurameter. Patience, practice, study and research are needed. Perhaps you will be the discoverer of wonderful, unknown natural laws and forces.
(Signed) V.L. Cameron, inventor of the Aurameter
Hold the AURAMETER in the right hand unless left-handed, in which case use the left. Grip the AURAMETER far up on the handle as shown in the rough sketch, so that the ball of the thumb and the side of the first joint of the bent index finger almost touch the sides of the wire where it is about to bend to form the bearing upon which the head swings from side to side.
Allow enough space so that the head can swing about an inch either way, but do not allow it to flop around completely. With this grip you will soon learn to feel it when the head begins to swing and to steady it in the gap between finger and thumb to put it back in balance.
In time you will become so expert that you can sense the slightest beginning of a movement in either direction, recover balance instantly, and keep moving the Aurameter swiftly as you trace out the aura outline or the extent of a rod or cone of force by keeping contact with its limits as the head plays back and forth in an arc of not more than a fraction of an inch.
In following the outline of the fan-shaped aura of a signature, you will soon find that you seem to feel with the Aurameter head something like a strong flow of force around the outside of the pattern – seeming to pull the head along with the flow. This also is sensed in tracing the outlines of the figures over the head or of images built by thought-forms in a short period of concentration.
Do not tire yourself by using the Aurameter long at a time. The psychic energy is easily used up but quick to replenish itself. At first, work three minutes and rest five. Your powers will increase, however, as you practice.
V.L.C.
NEWEST DISCOVERIES
Newest discoveries relating to the nature of the complex and to the vital forces, are described in letters from our English HRAs, especially Dr. Westlake, and by HRAs in America who are making marked progress in the work of progressing the original Dianetics system of L. Ron Hubbard so that it comes into line with the basic elements of Huna and includes either the Aumakua (as na kahuna described it) or a substitute of a similar nature.
Dr. Westlake, who is one of the leaders in his part of the field, has left no stone unturned in the search for better understanding in radiesthetics and the use of all psychic helps in finding out what is wrong with a patient and determining the treatment. He has sent me two papers giving the substance of his lectures before his colleagues. Both papers were an education in condensed form, covering as they do all the things of importance or possible importance that are related to healing from the point of view of the most modern approaches to the healing arts. He called my attention in his letter to the progress of the original work done in Amsterdam by Dr.Samuels in relation to cancer and to growth of the bodily tissues in general, as regulated by the inner and outer parts of the pituitary gland and their stimulation of other glands. Dr. Samuels found that short wave therapy could cause changes in the activities of the two parts of the pituitary (as I understand it), and that marked effects followed in physical and mental conditions. Psychologists, interested particularly in the mental changes, in England just recently have found that the short wave therapy is a remarkable tool with which to resolve fixations. This is indeed good news. It offers a partly mechanical method of which we have great need, the purely psychological methods being too slow and uncertain.
For some time there have been straws in the wind pointing in this general direction. L.E.Eeman, also in England, found that by a method of changing the natural flow of vital forces (his “relaxation circuit” described in his book, Cooperative Healing) the patient very often would begin to talk after a few minutes and tell the nature of his fixations, bringing hidden memories to light and rationalizing them so that the bodily ills they caused soon went away.
This brings us to the very recent findings of HRA A.L. Kitselman, now in Los Angeles, who has produced his own methodology and theories after having considerable experience with Dianetics and after spending two years in Honolulu. He will have a small but important book ready for us in about a month to tell what he has found. Of greatest interest to me is the fact that he has embodied Huna in everything but the terms (these making little difference, of course). His key point is the appeal to what he calls “E” and describes as the thing men have recognized in all religions as the Higher Power, have called by the name Aumakua and a hundred other names. His method is, basically, one in which the more experienced of two individuals acts as the “observer” of the team and the other as the “transient” of one going through the process of being restored to a normal relation to his E” or Aumakua. This is the ancient relation of priest and worshiper placed in a new and very simple setting. The more experienced observer encourages the transient to believe in the verity of the “E” and the fact that it can hear requests and respond to them. Together they pray for contact with the Aumakua of the transient and for instruction in getting at whatever is preventing the normal interchange between it and na Aunihipili.
The prayer properly made when preliminary instructions are over, the team relaxes rather completely and waits for the Aumakua “E” to take charge and do what is necessary. This is religion, pure and simple. It is the religious side of Huna and the religious magic found in all great religions – a prayer and its answer.
By experimenting, it was found that in the period of relaxation, just as was found by Eeman, there was to be noted a mental reaction of sorts in which the fixations began to surface and work off the tensions which they caused. Mr. Kitselman and his friends found that there were two kinds of reaction. In one, the body reacted with various sensations, tingles, tremblings, involuntary and often repeated movements. In the other, mental activities began. Memories came into the focus of consciousness. And, in about 60% of the tests, there appeared to be a sufficiently close contact with the “E” self to enable it to get through instructions or suggestions to guide the work. (Whether these instructions came through the Aunihipili of Huna or in some more direct way, by hunches, symbols or pictures, I have not yet learned.)
No request is made for healing at any point in the effort to restore normal relations between what we would call the Aunihipili, the Auhane and the Aumakua. However, it was found that once the normal relation was restored, even in part, there began to be improvements in health and in mental powers and conditions. This is following the injunction “Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven,” and it seems to be a workable approach. It has the advantage of a prayer for healing, in that the mental picture is not made and presented of the diseased condition in asking that it be removed. That may turn out to be of primary importance. The thing already seen to be of great importance is the presence and aid of the “observer.” Just what his part is in terms of forces, thought-forms, contact with the Aumakua, etc., is still to be determined.
Other HRAs doing similar work have not as yet reported in enough detail to me to make it possible to describe the methods they have evolved or found best, but more information is on the way, and I feel that we are on the verge of getting the needed light on how to unblock the “path” and do away with the fixations. The mechanical methods such as short waves directed at the gland layers, or such as the Meduna “whiff of gas” method under test for us by HRA Dr. Fred Reinhold (who first pioneered the addition of the Aumakua to Dianetics for us and reported his tests as successful – with the fine aid of Mrs. Reinhold). If it turns out that the short wave therapy will normalize the glands of the body and make the start of the fixation removals, the job may then be perfected by the psychological methods taken as the next step – a step important to keep the old fixations and conditions from bouncing right back like they often do in the less inclusive methods.
HYPNOTISTS AND THE SHOCK OF MANA METHOD OF HUNA
Hypnotists and the Shock of Mana Method of Huna have not as yet been brought together. I tried two years ago to interest a group of hypnotists in learning to use the shock method of na kahuna to beat down resistance on the part of the complexed Aunihipili of the patient to get at the fixations and correct them with overwhelmingly powerful contrary suggestion.
To my surprise, I found that I was unable to interest the group in undertaking the necessary training to learn to accumulate a very large surcharge of basic mana. In the first place, they seemed not to be able to believe that such a surcharge was possible, and in the second place, they much preferred to use suggestion after the manner in which they had been taught. I puzzled over this for a long time, but later, upon finding that most good hypnotists had a straight to-and-from pattern when tested over the plate of the Bovis Biometer, I began to realize that they were probably the most set-in-their-way people in the world. This Biometric pattern indicates, according to Dr. Brunler, the climax of positive and unwavering “will.” The average person has a “V” swing, the pendulum pattern tracing first one leg of the “V” and then the other. They have minds and wills which are limber and move easily to either side of a question. Also, most people have a clockwise circling pattern, this denoting generally constructive purpose in life and actions. I have still to find the practicing hypnotist of great power who shows any part of the pattern other than the one of the trained and perfected “will.” His job is to tell others what to do and think and be with all the power of the suggestion enforced on the Aunihipili of the patient as an implanted and grafted set of strong thought-form clusters. He will tolerate no refusal of the patient to accept the implant.
It is my tentative conclusion that the training in gathering the large surcharge of mana should come first. That is Mesmerism – the use of the mana surcharge without the suggestion. Once that is learned so that mana can be handled expertly and poured into water or wood or another’s body, the use of suggestion with a mild drive of the middle mana or “will” would be very simple and perhaps much more effective, especially in overcoming habits and fixations.
There was a Mesmerist in Hollywood some months ago who preached against the use of suggestion in any form, and who demonstrated the Mesmeric use of the mana surcharge by accumulating such surcharges (not under Huna terms or lines of thought, of course) and discharging the force with such power that he could cause two or three men sitting in a row of several, to fall unconscious to the floor. It was a great demonstration and it proved his point if it accomplished little more. In accumulating the great surcharge, he worked up a great flow of emotion, grew red in the face and panted as if filled with vast hate. After the discharge, he was left pale and weak. (All of which fits our ideas of Huna perfectly.) It still is my hope that this shock method may eventually be developed to use on obsessing entities and perhaps in emergencies to dislodge a blocking complex.
Under the old and new methods, what we will do about the prenatal traumas and resultant fixations, it is still very hard to guess. Of one thing we can be quite certain, however, and that is that the methods we finally perfect will be all inclusive and effective in handling all mental tangles unless they result from physical defects.
DR. WESTLAKE’S HEALING METHODS
Dr. Westlake’s healing methods include a use of his own natural healing power coupled with prayer, his mentor in this part of the work having been HRA Mrs. Kingsley Tarpey, noted diagnostician through the use of the Bovis Biometer, and a famous natural healer. (She is still at work at ninety, and has mailed a piece of ikon-treated cloth of wool to test and use in the Study – having had great success with such things in England.) He said in his lecture:
“Then (after his diagnosis) I give healing treatment, usually using Mrs. Tarpey’s technique. Sitting in front of the patient, who is lying back comfortably in a chair, (undoubtedly relaxed in a way similar to that used in therapy? M.F.L.) I take hold of his or her hands, right to left, and left to right. Very often at this point I feel moved to offer up a silent prayer that I may be instrumental in healing my patient by becoming the channel of healing power. I try to imagine the power coming from outside myself and flowing through me. (Accumulating the surcharge and using it? M.F.L.) I have a recurrent image – it is as though I, more than lifesize, am standing in a wood in a clearing, my legs apart and feet firmly planted on the ground. The power seems to be entering at the top of my head and flowing down through me and out of my hands.
“After a short while a throbbing starts in my hands and the patient will feel a tingling start in the hands and gradually spread up the arms until it is felt in various parts of the body, usually those parts which are below par or diseased. Sometimes the tingling is felt all over the body, and if continued after this, the patient may say that he has the feeling of being intoxicated. (Compare these physical reactions with those found by HRA Kitselman and spoken of as tension relaxations, M.F.L.) I myself, when treated by Mrs. Tarpey, feel very little. The throbbing, however, is almost always felt, and it usually rises to a climax and then dies away and when it does this, I take it that the treatment for that time is complete.
This general treatment can be followed by a local treatment, i.e., to some particular area or internal organ which is diseased or out of order – head, lungs, heart, etc. In this case, the hands are placed on the front and back of the body. Usually heat is felt, what Mrs. Tarpey calls ‘human diathermy,’ though I am fairly certain that the feeling of heat is subjective and there is no actual rise in temperature. The idea is to concentrate power in that part of the body most needing it. I sometimes find that I get better results if I do not make actual physical contact but hold my hands about 4 to 6 inches away from the body.
“The length of each treatment depends on the receptivity and sensitiveness of the patient, also the degree of depletion, but generally speaking, a general treatment will be from 10 to 15 minutes, and a local for about 5 minutes.”
BACH REMEDIES
I was very much interested in other parts of Dr. Westlake’s lecture. He describes several cases which were treated, and tells of using “Bach Remedies” – something of which I had never heard and of which he found medical men often in ignorance. By coincidence, the magazine, HARBENGER OF LIGHT, arrived from HRA, Editor Huston, (issue of November, 1951) containing an excellent article by F.M. Wheeler, and reprinted from PREDICTION. The article told of Edward Bach, a doctor of medicine who gave up his London practice to search for the simple remedies which he believed Nature had provided in plants to cure all diseases. He died in 1936, but in six years of intensive search throughout England, and of testing and study, he perfected a series of thirty-eight flower remedies which opened a new way to the treatment of disease and brought new hope to many who had been pronounced “incurable.” He wrote, “To all who are ill, know this: that disease could never have gained the power it has today if man had not deserted the natural protection against illness, namely, the healing herbs of the field.”
BACH FOUND: (I quote from the article.)
“That disease was the result of conflict between the soul and mind, and that this conflict, whether produced by external circumstances or by some inward unhappiness, so reduced the essential vitality of the individual that disease was able to attack the body.
“That the remedies for all ills were to be found among the non-toxic herbs growing in unsullied surroundings away from the corrupting smoke of cities.
“That whatever disease might manifest itself, the fundamental cause was in the personality of the patient, and that once the conflict within the soul (fixation in the Aunihipili? M.F.L.) was ended, health would return.
“He has classified his remedies as for Fear, Uncertainty, Insufficient interest in Present Circumstances, Loneliness, Over-sensitiveness to Influences and Ideas, Despair, Despondency, and Over-care for the Welfare of Others.
“For each of these states he produced a set of remedies, to be used singly or in groups as indicated by the state of mind of the patient.
“It was said that these states were not necessarily bad in themselves, but they produced a lack of balance in the personality, and there was a need to help the patient recognize this, and so help him or her to regain balance, poise, and tranquility, and having regained these, to possess health.
“Human beings are fallible and imperfect, but those who attain and retain peace and tranquility in their souls and minds are happy and well; those who are dominated by only certain facets of their personality are inevitably involved in some form of emotional conflict.
“This is where psychologists often go off the rails. They seek to eradicate something from the personality rather than aiming at that inner harmony which will do the job for them. (An inner harmony that might be re-established by the Aumakua if something like prayer or “E” therapy were used? M.F.L.)
“Bach presented his remedies in a form so simple that they could be used by laymen, without any fear of harmful results. He potentized only non-toxic herbs that could have no dangerous effects, and he gave all his discoveries free to chemists, only asking that they should be made available to the public as cheaply as possible.
“Bach said that these remedies could be used in conjunction with any orthodox treatment, homeopathy or allopathic, or added to any prescription to hasten and assist the treatment in all types of cases.”
It seems evident that Dr. Bach was working in the same direction as the discoverer of the short wave therapy applied to the particular monitor gland and deciding control layers, Dr. Samuels of Amsterdam. Mind-soul conditions or states were to be remedied by preliminary treatment of the physical body, and after that the psychological return to normalcy would react to normalize the body.
DR. WESTLAKE said: (Again I quote from his lecture,) “… I did not get to this (set of conclusions) latter at once. First I tried the use of Biochemical Salts and got good results, but this was still symptomatic medicine. Next I tried the Bach Remedies and only later came to Radiesthesia as practiced by the pioneers of medical dowsing, both medical and lay.
“My experience when I began to explore this aspect of the radiesthetic field have already been described in my first lecture. But a further word about the Bach Remedies. On first using them I chose them as suggested by Dr. Bach by assessment of the emotional state or states of the patient, and had surprisingly good results, especially in acute conditions. But I found that, generally speaking, in the more complicated and chronic cases, it was very difficult to assess the emotional states of the patient.
“I found I could get over this difficulty by using myself as an indicator. This is the technique. I take the patient’s left hand in my right, and then after a short interval, (Like HRA Cameron’s time lag noted in waiting for the Aurimeter to react? M.F.L.) working blindly, I take up each Remedy in turn with my left hand, running through the whole 38. On some I get a reaction, i.e., a sort of tingling sensation which starts at the back of the scalp and, if strong, will go all over me. If and when I get this reaction, I put this bottle aside. At the end I look to see what they are and take it that these are what the patient needs. The number obtained may vary from 1 to 6, seldom more. I am not sure how accurate this method is, but it seems to work.
“One of the most spectacular cases where this method worked was a child aged about six who was brought to me because she was what was described as ‘a queer little thing.’ She seemed retarded both mentally and physically, though she was certainly not mentally deficient, far from it. I ‘bached’ her, as I call it, and got a terrific reaction on Clematis. This was given her and from that point she began to become normal in all ways and never looked back. It was the turning point of the child’s life. I saw her the one time at my office, but kept in touch with the family. The one visit had been sufficient.
“My skepticism of my own (healing) powers was finally overcome by finding that I could send up, appreciably, the physical measurements of a patient as measured on the Bovis Biometer. Moreover, with repeated treatments, their physical measurement gradually rose from a low figure to normal, and they were much improved.
“Round about this time I came across Eeman’s work and became convinced of the efficacy of his circuit and the effects and results it produced. I decided to try using it in combination with the use of my own healing power. This was made easier by my friend, Eric Powell, who had produced an instrument which he called the Autonormalizer, which was a direct application of the Eeman circuit… I had, thus, now three therapeutic agencies – the Bach Remedies, my own healing power and the Eeman circuit in the Antonormalizer. I decided to combine them and see what happened.” (He tells of the success of the combined methods, then later says,) “I seldom use my combined therapy unless I obtain a fairly high psychic Bovis measurement. If I do, then I know that the patient is a sensitive, and that radiesthetic or similar methods will be most effective.”
ULTRAMODERN HEALING
Ultramodern Healing is becoming, as Dr. Westlake shows, an effort to treat the whole man, not just one or more of his parts and symptoms. Efforts are made to get at the cause instead of concentrating only on the resultant ills. This is perhaps one of the most promising trends in the healing field, and Dr. Westlake explains very clearly.
“Dr. Rebecca Beard, in her book on Spiritual Healing, entitled Everyman’s Search, makes a point of this. She says, ‘As time went on I found myself more and more reluctant not only to make a definite prognosis of a patient’s condition, but to make a diagnosis, because I realized that by saying to a person, ‘You have a serious disorder, and a definite diseased organ,’ I was implanting into their subconscious mind a positive picture that was going to be very difficult for them to forget or ignore.
“No attempt is made to pinpoint the trouble except in general terms. One deals with a sick person, a person who is out of balance, out of harmony, physically, mentally, psychically, spiritually – the object of therapy is to restore that person to a harmonious function as a whole. One uses for this purpose the Life Force itself – the Vis Medicatrix Naturae under its many names – and relies on being able to generate enough intensity and/or quality to produce automatic readjustment of any functional or organic disharmony. …. Moreover, the therapy is entirely beneficial. This latter point is most important for, as McDonagh has pointed out, in modern medicine ‘there is no remedy which is not an invader’ and therefore detrimental to the body, ‘although the aims of the treatment of disease are to prevent the change in the protein from being rendered aberrant, yet its very nature makes treatment a possible aggravation of the damage suffered by the protein.'”
In a footnote he tells us, “Cases of aluminum poisoning, so common today, can only be detected radiesthetically and knowledge thus obtained must be used to stop the poisoning, as it is obvious that ‘healing’ will have little or no effect if the poisoning is present and continued. This also applies to toxic conditions in general, particularly those of the bowel.”
Dr. Westlake, in his lecture, told his listeners about Huna and outlined its basics, simply and effectively. Like so many others, he finds in Huna a rounded and complete system of psychology to include all the parts of the man. Little by little Huna is coming to be known the world around and by the right people. Gradually it will throw light in many dark places in the psychological sciences, and will clear up much muddy thinking and confusion in religion. Our hearty thanks are due all workers in the field who join us in our efforts to spread the knowledge of Huna and to learn to put that knowledge to work.
NOTE: Dr. Westlake does not ignore the fixation. He says, “Sometimes I get the patient to relax, preferably in circuit, and then discuss the position, using a very modified psychoanalytic technique, to try to break up any psychological barriers or obstructions which tend to nullify the healing treatment. This is much the same as what Eeman calls Myognosis and Emergence. In this way it is possible to resolve complexes, but more especially to get the patient to understand what is going on, and above all, to bring enlightenment – this latter seems to be not so much an intellectual process as one belonging more to the intuition – one might call it a process of illumination.” (Related to Kitselman’s “E” or Aumakua therapy appeal? MFL)
THE STRANGE NATURE OF THE MANAS
The strange nature of the manas needs to be taken into consideration in all studies of healing methods out front on the pioneer fringe of things. We cannot stress too often the thing known to na kahuna – that mana is a living force and that it can and will obey the commands given it. These commands are first given to the Aunihipili by the Auhane. The Aunihipili, who controls the low mana, will collect a surcharge of the force, will concentrate it in any part of the body desired, or, for instance, after concentrating a surcharge in the right hand, will cause it to flow from the hand into a part of one’s own or another’s body needing healing.
The next strange thing about mana is that it can go with an extruded or extended “finger” of the aka substance. It can flow back and forth on the extended aka thread and can carry thought-form clusters which make up ideas – these ideas being reproduced in the consciousness of another Aunihipili as in telepathy or the use of hypnotic suggestion. It is also possible for most of the mana and much of the aka substance of the body to be projected together out of the body and to a distance. This projected mana-aka unit may be actuated by the Aunihipili consciousness, and the Aunihipili actuated by the Auhane. Here we have astral projection practices in various forms, also projections of doubles and the apparitions of the living.
Nor does the strangeness of mana stop there. Like electric currents used in electroplating, it can carry finely divided substances with its flow and deposit them elsewhere. It can act as does electricity in electrolysis, breaking down chemical compounds into their several elements.
IN THE EEMAN CIRCUIT a very strange thing is observed to occur. A copper wire, or a cord of silk or wool, may be used to connect the back of the head or the region of the sacrum with one of the hands. It will be noted that the individual may be clothed, but for some reason the flow of mana or vital force does not go across the skin, through the tissues, along the bedding or through the substance of the cloth. It obediently flows as expected along the wires or cords.
I doubt very much that we can exclude the element of expectation by the operator or the patient. Something seems to act as a command to the Aunihipili of the patient (or patients if in “series”) and to cause the flow to be directed. Here we need more experimental work and testing. If the command element were not a part of the activity, we could expect the mana to flow off along any form of wire-string conductor which we touched, perhaps from the woolen glove of a person, through his woolen coat to his woolen muffler, and cap, right into the back of his head, or down to his sacral region. However, hours in cold weather dress of this kind seems to make no difference, while the Eeman circuit makes a decided difference in feelings and sensations in a half hour or less.
MEDICATION is accomplished by cutting in a container of the desired medicine in the Eeman circuit. Tests showed swift reaction to various drugs placed in such a circuit. Dr. Westlake administers the Bach Remedies in this way at his office, giving “drops” of them to be taken home and used as doses later. In seancess, the interchange of mana from smokers to the medium has been noted to cause nicotine poisoning on the part of the medium. And, the High Mana is even more strange in the things it seems to do. We live and LEARN. MFL.
