Letters, Reports & Comments
March 1, 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.
THIS IS TO BE A BULLETIN MADE UP OF LETTERS, REPORTS, COMMENTS, ETC.
ORIGIN OF POTENTIZING THEORY
HRA EGH. writes: (As to MFL and all Fellow Researchers) “The world does move – in reverse. Bulletin No. 72 is a masterpiece of evidence. I refer to the second paragraph, headed HOW TO POTENTIZE, outlined by Dr. Oscar Brunler. This is nothing new. It is straight Homeopathy, a science of healing by high vibrating medicines, outlined by Dr. Christian F.S. Hannemann in 1796, and offered as a textbook in 1810. I owe my life to Homeopathy and goat’s milk, hence my interest.
“The method used in Homeopathic pharmacies, of which there are long established ones in Baltimore, Philadelphia and St. Louis, to my knowledge, differs from Dr. Brunler’s ‘flower essences and water’ (not Dr. Brunler’s but MFL’s hasty way of putting this point) in that the act of potentizing demands ‘agitation’ and the diluting solution is alcohol and water. For mineral salts, ‘trituration in a mortar’ is substituted. One part of the salts is mixed with ten parts of neutral sugar of milk, and ground with a smooth pestle until a homogeneous powder results. For higher potencies, that process is repeated ad lib.
“Dr. Hannemann was educated in an orthodox school of medicine at Erlangen, Germany, and practiced some years in Dresden, where he came under the influence of Emanuel Swedenborg. With the courage of a mystic, he braved the ridicule of all the learned professions when he enunciated his doctrine: ‘That which causes disease will also cure it.'”
POISONING FROM POTENTIZED FERTILIZER was reported last week over the phone by Dr. Brunler. He had made up such solutions for use in his own garden it seems, but the radiations from the glass jar in which he stored the potentized solution poisoned him rather badly. Now, after a number of days, he is almost recovered.
THE RETURN FLOW OF HIGH MANA as the fall of the “rain of blessings,” was recently the subject of experimentation on the part of HRA Verne Cameron. While unable to use his Aurameter on his own hands during prayer, he tested the hands of two others before prayer, during prayer, when clasped and not clasped. The result reported was that after a prayer was finished and the return flow of High Mana was requested, the flow was seemingly magnified greatly when cupped hands were extended as if to receive the down pouring. Very strong beams or flows of force not unlike that rising from flowing water could be felt and registered with the Aurameter. (Comment: This is most interesting. We might conclude that the holding up of the hands in the position of receiving something acted as a splendid physical stimulus to cause the Aunihipili to attract the downward flow in some way to the hands, perhaps to make some inner gesture of acceptance. No particular results were noted or reported. MFL.)
HRA KITSELMAN’S “E” THERAPY book has been studied with much care by HRA TAL of Los Angeles. He has not taken the ministrations under this system, but has arrived at some conclusions and writes an interesting general letter covering that and experiments with the position for prayer. He writes: There is much in ‘E’ Therapy (the book) that brings me back to the conclusion: HUNA, HUNA, HUNA, with a slight leaning toward Theosophy and Indian philosophies. There is much in it, I grant, that is enlightening, at least to me… but the real question I want answered remains unanswered. That is, how do the answers to prayer, wonderment, or what have you, come to one? Are the answers figments of one’s imagination, or what? (Comment by MFL: The Aunihipili seems to use a shorthand of sorts to reduce what it is given of information by the Aumakua to symbols. We see this in dreams, and have learned to ask for the meaning of a dream and often get it in flashing bits of sudden understanding. It is to be expected that the Aumakua would, in the relaxed waiting for it to show what was to be recalled and re-experienced in the therapy, give the Aunihipili the memories of scenes of things or people to present to the focus of consciousness. The Aunihipili may reduce some of this to symbols which need to be handled as those in dreams. The present great difference between the “E” Therapy and the later forms of Dianetics seems to me to be that in the first the High Self is invited to take over and present the things which, when re-lived, will result in the draining off of the fixations and a correction of ills. In the latter, there is marked reluctance to trust the things which seem to come from the High Self, and the function of the auditor to direct the work rather completely is stressed.) “The main benefit I have obtained from the booklet is the explanation so long sought by me of what I call the ‘saturation’ or sensory exhilaration I experience nightly at the conclusion of my prayers. This they term “Fire,” and they give a good understanding of the meaning of it and its benefits. I had, for some time, been curious as to whether some ‘smart’ entity had been stealing vital force from me at those times, but had discarded the idea because I experience such a wonderful feeling of ‘aliveness’ and relaxation, with no indication whatever of exhaustion. I truly feel that I make contact with my Aumakua.
“In Bulletin No. 72, your suggestion that we experiment with kneeling and position during prayer will, I think, bear fruit. You see, once a few weeks ago, I entered my nightly routine as usual, but suddenly wondered, like yourself, if better results might not be obtained by reverting to the actions of my childhood and kneeling instead of sitting up or lying down, thus getting back to a position that the Aunihipili understood perfectly because it had been conditioned to it from the earliest days. Like other HRAs, I continually experiment in the hope of finding a better procedure and the best solution – that these might be found and passed on to others via yourself.
“Following that line of thought, I have evolved what I call a ‘ritual.’ I first take a clear glass filled with water, relax, and gaze passively into it, concentrating at the same time on the thought-forms and imagery of the things which have been my goals – material, physical and spiritual. Gradually these images appear in the tumbler of water, and when they have all appeared to my satisfaction, I cease. I find, too, that eye strain is much relieved and the eyes feel rested. At first this routine used much more time than I felt should be necessary. Then, as the Aunihipili fell into line, the time needed to create these forms and images became less and less. Now, it takes seldom more than ten minutes. Then, after thus conditioning my Aunihipili, I get down on my knees, allowing about a minute in meditation to allow for the time lag. (Note that there is no special accumulation of a surcharge of mana or ritual offering of same to the Aumakua, MFL.) I thank the Aumakua for all blessings and acknowledge receipt of same. I keep in mind the Master’s words, ‘Believe that you have received, and you shall receive.’ However, this THANKING is done by an effort of synchronizing the Aunihipili by conscious direction to the base of the spine with my Auhane in union, and by imagery, directing the union up the spine, to the top of the head, mana charged, to the Aumakua, in TRILOGY, three times. Then asking that the ‘RAIN OF BLESSINGS’ descend upon me, and that any instructions or messages for guidance be given in a dream. Peculiarly, the ‘saturation’ I experience now comes three times, each time after my conscious direction of the flow, the third time always being ‘terrific’ and leaving me with a wondrous feeling of relaxation and well being, and ending with a long yawn. Like the HRA in Dallas, I, too, can express a feeling for greater living since taking up this research. I have wondered if it may not be the outcome of the very ancient admonition, ‘Know thyself’.’ At any rate, I would not exchange my experiences and feeling of well being since becoming so associated with yourself, and indirectly with the many other people in this movement, for anything of which I know.
“I must explain that I was prompted to use the synchronization of the Aunihipili and the Aumakua at the base of the spine, from the spirit communicator, Yada, dissertation given through Mark Probert recently when I attended a seance in San Diego. Yada spoke of the serpent as the symbol of creative power – the power which is centered in the spine – and the entwining as the symbol of upward movement for the accomplishing of our desires – the coiling around the spine. All such symbolic knowledge may lead to the goal we seek and at which experimentation is aimed. By the way, I like your idea of mana potentizing. Seems possible. More power to you Max.”
Comment: This is the type of experimental approach that we need in HRA work. Many HRAs do not agree with my tentative conclusions or my ideas concerning what Huna was or was not. Many are irked by the materials I use in trying to select things for the Bulletins which will have interest for a very mixed set of readers. Fortunately, most HRAs are very tolerant in this respect, knowing my limitations, and crediting me for the best of intentions. In the letter from HRA T.A.L. there may be points on which there is a difference of opinion, such as on the idea of blending the Aunihipili and Aumakua at the base of the spine, but such differences are of great value because they often set other experimenters to running check tests after their own manner of approach, and there is no telling when something very significant will be discovered or experienced. My own position is much like that of an eager spider clinging precariously with one claw to the center of his web while clutching with his other claws a constant “catch” of thoughts and information tossed in by HRAs. I try to digest them and spin them into more web.
A LETTER OF EXPERIENCES, CONCLUSIONS and constructive criticism, dated February 15th, has come in by air from an HRA who joined in the Huna testing and research over five years ago. The writer is a seasoned student and her letter offers much food for thought.
“My dear Brother Max:
I have been turning over in my mind for several days the subject matter of a letter I hoped to write to you – and wondering how to word it – how to get across to you some findings of my own in my recent experiences – how to express to you some constructive criticism of your work for Huna. I hate the word ‘criticize’ even if it has ‘constructive’ in front of it, when my husband and I so deeply admire your efforts, and sympathize with most everything you do to further the knowledge of Huna.
“When, lo! Bulletin No. 67 arrives, and provides me with the very inspiration. In this Bulletin, on pages 4 and 5, you tell of your visit with Jessie Curl and what Hoo`la said and did for you, through her, and what you later did for yourself by raising yourself into ‘The Light.’ Ah yes, Max! FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE!
“I want to tell you what happened to me, spiritually. Like you, I think I make the mental approach first, and always want to know WHY and HOW. But, theory is one thing, and trying to put the theory into practice always is another – always seems to uncover totally unexpected angles on the matter.
“In the end of 1949, when I began my prayer project, helped by my husband, burning a little candle to symbolize the Light and repeating the prayer three times, as you suggested, we prayed because I had received a very strong urge to come to re-establish our life here. Our prayer always ended with a request that we might, by this change over, be enabled to know our Aumakua better and spread the truth about them, later, to others.
“As I had trained in New Thought teachings for many years before I found Huna, and as I had had ‘miracles’ more than a few times, it did not surprise me when our prayer began to work out. What DID cause surprise was the WAY it worked out. No fiction in book form could surpass this tale, and it is still working, as I hope to tell you in another letter.
“In this letter I want to tell you what I learned from my personal sufferings in the process of working out, and how it fits in with your experiences, Brother Max, and what use it can be to other Huna students.
“As our demonstration unfolded, it was not all smooth going. We hit some very rough spots, especially for me, but I finally got here, believing that within four or five months our house would be built despite all the shortages and restrictions, and that Mr. B. would have got his transfer to the office here. It turned out very much otherwise. I was alone from August until the next April, living in a house trailer. Unable to build, I moved into the house we bought and lived there alone until October, 1951 until the demonstration came to a head like an awful abscess, burst, and so came the healing and renewal. Those months were possibly the worst in my life.
“But they taught me things – oh, how they taught me. I think they were for me a veritable ko-an, for one reads that when the monk came to Sui-o to be helped to get Realization, it took him over three years, and, as Suzuki says, ‘When not spurred, no awakening. When not cornered, no opening through.’
“The first point in my experiences is a danger spot that I have never heard you warn students about, although it is often mentioned in occult literature and is given in the Bible as Peter’s attempt to walk on the water, nearly drowning, and having to be held up by Jesus. As an intellectual idea, very interesting: as a personal experience, simply devastating! There you are, sailing along on the top of your demonstration, buoyed up by faith even when things are not working out. And then, without warning, you hit a spiritual air pocket, and DOWN you go! It is not just a case of ‘moods,’ for they are emotional and soon pass. It is just as if all the water had gone out of the lake and you were left sitting on dry bottom. You struggle to regain some kind of conception or inspiration, but NOTHING comes. The MIND can’t help you. The old intellectual conceptions of faith are still to be read on the pages of your mind, but they arouse no response.
“It is the feeling of being lost in a wilderness. Nobody to turn to who understands. It is no less than terrifying to a student of half a lifetime like myself, but think what it would be to a raw beginner. Surely you should write a small manual on ‘The Path to Miracles – What to be Prepared for.’
“You know what a dry taste in the mouth is when it is impossible to swallow? Well, this is a dryness of the Soul. It may last a day or a week or longer, then it goes. The idea being to see that the demonstrator does not ‘go’ first, by jumping over a cliff. An alcoholic bender might be the solution for some, but in my case I have an Aunihipili that thinks that elderly ladies, drunk in the full light of day, are a cause for shame. Instead, I battled it through.
“The second point is so different that I do not know how to name it, so can only describe it. (It might be called – condensing a part of the letter – ‘What Peter did and felt and thought when he found himself sinking into the water, and before he saw that Jesus was able to come to hold him up. In her case it was a vast loneliness growing over the months, the demonstration bogged down and with no sign of ever starting again. MFL.)
“I had reached the place where I was ‘cornered’ and I had but one recourse. I had to find the ‘opening through.’ Where was it? What was it? I believed that the only help could come through the Aumakua Spirit, and that the contact had to be made again and kept. I prayed, and there was no sign to indicate that the prayers were reaching any mark. None of the physical senses recorded any reply. Yet, I had faith to believe that the prayers were heard by SOMETHING. The answer had never before failed to come when I really reached the place where I COULD NOT take any more.
“There was no more intellectual meandering. I began a most urgent spiritual search. After a long time it came to me that the answer must be through GRACE: we reach up, the Aumakua reaches down. There must be a level at which there is fusion. Now, with Bulletin No. 64 before me and your account of your experience with Hoo`la trying to drag you up, and with you later being able to rise in your emergency, I see that this fusion must be attained. But at the time of which I write, I was just beginning to try for some form of fusion through Grace. However, the mystical approach was not enough for me. I went back to bolster my mind with basic, logical concepts of the Universe and, therefore, the reality of God.
“(Eventually) I began to BELIEVE – not hold opinions – the reality of SPIRIT. I became like a child taking its first staggering steps. I was certain that I was in contact with Spirit, but it felt so very unfamiliar. I kept practicing. I kept praying. And, I kept getting results all along the way.
“One day I caught myself sending up a thought of real affection to my Aumakua as a real and true friend – a parent. I didn’t want anything at that moment! I was just being loving. There followed times when I was filled with JOY. I knew that this must be from SPIRIT. It made me feel light and strong.
“I had many setbacks, for I found that I became very sensitive to vibrations, to loud noises, harsh criticisms and the like. Also, I frequently read the thoughts of others. To make things harder, my Aunihipili, poor thing, became badly upset by all the material uncertainties and by being separated from its mate. My health suffered.
“At last I began to find the ‘opening’ – to make discoveries and to experience the thing you described when able to lift the consciousness. As you put it, ‘Suddenly, with no sign of mental or spiritual sensation,’ you were healed.
“I found that this IS the hallmark of the action of SPIRIT. No mental or spiritual sensation, because there is no friction – no effort. It is like, ‘God said, Let there be Light, and there was Light.’ Spirit just lets things be. A further point: I wasn’t just finding out things about Spirit; in a small way I was becoming what I found or touched, for I began to achieve my small concerns in an effortless way also, aided by a developing intuition in dealing with trifles. A bit of ‘stillness got into my bosom.’
“At this time, day by day, I seem to be learning to walk in, and with, this ‘touch with the Unseen Spirit ‘ I feel that I may reach the place before long when I shall rely entirely on Spirit and stop leaning on outside props. That is rather a terrific thing to say and mean, at least for a weak human like me, but, you see, apart from the actual miracle demonstration (now complete in the matter of the new home, and with her husband now there, I believe. MFL) I have had in material ways. I have also made some steps forward. (She mentions two books which helped greatly during this long period of stress. Recovery, by Starr Daily, and The Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda.)
“One more thing. You will remember that in the case of the instant healing that came in Australia when the ancient prayer bowl was held and healing was requested, nothing was felt that could be reported. The pain just stopped, and never returned.
“I am delighted beyond measure to have you speak in this Bulletin of the necessity of the kala or cleansing before prayer, or as a necessary accompaniment of raising the consciousness. The one fear I have had as I watched your Bulletins, was that you would put the Keys of Power into the hands of students who would have the wrong motives, or who have not heard that LOVE is the only Power. We are all so sinful and complexed that we can help each other tremendously by talking things over, as you do in the Bulletins, and learning to be humble and to want to make restitution and gifts and to clear the pathway of the old guilts and complexes.
Aloha from us both. Affectionately, HRA”
COMMENT is little needed on this letter. She “also bears witness.” Instant healing has not been peculiar to Huna. It is something experienced the world around in all ages. We center on Huna because it seems to offer the straightest line of information on the things involved in such healing. One day we will, I earnestly trust, know exactly how to take each of the necessary preliminary steps to contact the Aumakua and call down the healing for ourselves or others.
“WHY DO WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT SUCH THINGS AS THE BACH REMEDIES, instead of healing through prayer?” asks HRA JB in a recent letter. In reply, I have explained that we have fallen into the Bach Remedy matter because of the fact that HRA Dr. Westlake, in England, told how he used his straight psychic powers to find out which of the remedies his patients needed. That led to the question of what such remedies might be and how they were made ready. Most HRAs, like myself, had never heard of them and were happy to have the information, even if it has led us into “potentizing” and other matters which cannot be classed with the simple gathering and preparation of herbal remedies of the kahuna la`paau in the Hawaii of yesterday. As I have often pointed out, na kahuna believed in using all of the methods available to restore health. They were a remarkably sane and rational lot and we can profit by their example. The best doctor and the best prayers should go hand in hand, at least for this stage of our research. Perhaps, later on, we may be able to call down instant healing in some cases even before the broken bone is set, but at this point common sense dictates setting as well as prayer. What we are trying to do and what the doctors do, [is to] make two sides of a triangle that should eventually meet at the top. If, in our HRA scrambling to try to find new ways of measurement for radiations from the body, mind or spirit, or of auras and flows of force, we depart from pure psychology and religion to play around in the fields of physics and biology, there is always the long chance that in the end we may suddenly find in our hands several pieces of the puzzle of life that fit together and give us a clear picture.
REV. JESSIE CURL writes that she will probably spend all of March in San Francisco, but that no definite plans have been made for later travels. She also says, in answer to my request, that she can send photo reproductions of the psychically seen and drawn picture of her healing guide, Hoo`la. These are 30¢ each, post paid. Address: Rev. Jessie Curl, Hotel Stewart, 351 Geary Street, San Francisco 1, Calif. Please do not send your order to me. If you do, Cigbo will be sure to get to your envelope before I do and have the 30¢ fished out and hidden in his box before you could say scat.
HRA CIGBO REPORTS:
Cigbo reports from his perch beside his box on the top of the desk in the Study, that he is again making progress with the very painful task which he has to perform every six months or so – that of going through his list of aunties and uncles and friends who just go along for the ride, and observing which ones have not been heard from in that time and so must be presumed to be dead wood HRAs. He also reports two recent letters to him in which the question has been asked whether Cigbo is a “him” or a “her.” He dictates the following reply: “I have consulted Mr. Thomas Kat, who lives in our alley, and who knows almost everything. He snuck into the Study with me when boss was out, and ezammined my old box that I had first., and which had a pitcher of a Mr. George and the words ‘I am for men’ on the lid, and we decided that this certainly was a male cigar box and that I was a real thomas cat, even if a very small and transparent one. Then we looked at the fine new box that Auntie Myrtle gave me to use as my Sunday best box – and WAS my face red! IT has a lovely lady on the inside of the lid and her name is ‘Santa Fe.’ I sure had some bad moments until Mr. Thomas Kat decided that because I kept letter stamps in this box, and because letters were certainly male when they went to the post office, I must STILL be a thomas cat. He also scratched one tattered ear in thought for awhile and delivered a terrible sage dicktum that fixed me all up fine as a thomas. He said ‘My long study of the Thomas sex of mankind has convinced me that under his lid every man is more or less Santa Fe.’ So, that is that, and I hope this settles the matter for better or worser. The only thing that still puzzles me is how the sekt of a cigar box could be of any interest to anyone besides some other cigar box. Ain’t human beans kinda funny sometimes, huh?”
Yes, despite our serious purposes, we do have our fun. God must have invented laughter, for it is the one thing all men of all races have in common, regardless of their place in evolution as measured in terms of books and machines. What a mess we HRAs would be in if we couldn’t sometimes pause and laugh at ourselves!
WHO RADIATES WHAT TO WHOM and HOW?
This is what an HRA wishes to know in sending a copy of a reprint in the Organic Farmer of January, 1952. The original was a dispatch to the Denver Post from Marana, Arizona, where J.P. Boyce has contracted with farmers to protect 14,000 acres of cotton with an electronic “bug chaser.” First, a picture is taken from a plane of the field to be protected. The part showing the field is carefully cut out and the resultant piece of photo placed in the machine. The machine is aimed at the field and a eucalyptus leaf is inserted into it, some knobs turned, and a radiation tuned to the eucalyptus rate is sent out over the field pictured, but not on to other fields. “Boyce says the machine ‘recognizes’ the land in the trimmed photo and treatment is confined to this area with hair-like precision. Each kind of plant is surrounded by its own magnetic aura of magnetic rays.” Insects which cause crop damage use these magnetic rays to find the type of plant they can live on. The bugs cannot smell or see the plant. The cotton bugs wouldn’t touch a eucalyptus leaf if they were starving to death. As the machine sends out a radiation of eucalyptus rate which is strong enough to replace the radiation of the cotton plants, the bugs starve or go to other fields. In a test on 300 acres, every bug vanished in twenty minutes. The farmers signed contracts to pay only if they were completely satisfied at the end of the growing season… Perhaps there IS something in these new radiation theories after all MFL.
