HRA Groups – Huna News – Answers to Questions

March 1, 1956

 

WHAT’S NEW IN HUNA OR HRA ACTIVITIES?

This is a question often asked in letters arriving at my desk these days of having the Bulletins few and far between. Several things may be mentioned under this heading. First a sad report which is also a commentary on something; I hardly know just what.

HRA GROUPS NO GO. You more seasoned HRAs will remember that I tried around 1947 to 1949 to organize study and experimentation by HRA groups in Los Angeles. They fizzled in each of four tries. I blamed it on my own lack of ability as a leader and on the poor way I organized or, rather, tried despite obstacles, to organize the work. Many would attend a meeting or so, and many would insist on bringing friends and strangers to the meetings even if the work plans had to be held up while the new ones were painfully told what we were trying to do and even told what Huna was. With lessons assigned and study projects outlined, almost no one would work. We did experiment some with Huna type healing, and got many helped enough to be quite sure the healing had taken effect. In a few cases the results were outstanding. We tried fire-handling with candles and found some group members able to hold hands or fingers in the flames twenty times as long as others. The hardness of the skin seemed to make no difference. Some seemed to have a natural ability to excel in calling for and getting fire-immunity. I lectured endlessly and undoubtedly became very tiresome. We invited or went out to attend demonstrations in which hypnosis was used, seeing some startling powers demonstrated.

One difficulty was that we could not finance a proper place to meet, having to gather in offices, studios and homes. In all the tries, the group eventually fell in attendance to the vanishing point or was attended by a few who loved to come to talk  and who would all talk at once, and about anything else but Huna. I finally gave up, deciding that our need was for the type of work a good student can do by himself. In fact, the able people found the groups not at all to their liking. The majority of those who attended seemed mainly to want free entertainment or, if possible, healing with no expenditure of effort on their own part.

THE FIRST HUNA GROUP OF NEW YORK lived for several years under the able guidance of HRA Lucien Beck and was the best of all the groups while it lasted. The effort to obtain 10¢ a meeting in dues for expenses (the meeting place was furnished by the leader and his wife, for free) may have caused the downfall of the unit; I cannot say. Efforts to train leaders in order to have other groups get started, failed. The strong Sunnyvale, California Group never confined itself to Huna, but played around with beliefs and cult materials as well. HRA Charles Pitts, Jim Peterson, and others kept the group well entertained, if nothing more. Lectures were given on many subjects not too far removed from the psycho-religious field. The leaders bought and sent to me a tape recorder in order that I might send short lectures to be played as part of the group activities. (Six one-hour tapes were made and used, with duplicates of the tapes offered to other groups or individuals at a nominal cost.) A meeting place was rented and coffee and cakes became part of the usual program, with much visiting and talk. It was a strong effort, but in time it folded. There may be a meeting of a few of the group members now and again, but I hear nothing of them. HRA Pitts is no longer there.

THE BOSTON HUNA GROUP was a grafting of Huna study on the parent stock of a long-established metaphysical study group. I have heard nothing from the leader for a long time and suppose the Huna graft refused to take.

THE CHICAGO HUNA GROUP lasted about a year, meeting in the office of Dr. Agnes Christian, who offered to do what she could to get a group going when several had written to me urging that a group be organized there. It never got off to a good start, and meetings are no longer held.

THE CONCLUSION has been reached that in order to make a group and keep it going, it must have a strong leader who can be paid for his or her time. Money must be raised for a meeting place. All this means that something has to be sold to the public to keep the units going. Some churches sell “salvation” and insure against landing in hell. Some sell the social side of gatherings. Pity the preacher who cannot entertain while preaching. None of this fits Huna. Huna is education, on the whole, at this stage of its recovery, and the average person does NOT wish to be educated.

We have to have truant officers to keep the children in schools. Adults usually have formed the habit of avoiding the painful use of the mind in learning. They also find changing opinions very painful because of the demand for a thinking out of reasons for any change – unless it is suggested by another person and based on some appeal to emotion or prejudice or self-interest.

SO HAIL TO YOU HRAs! The late Dr. Brunler of Biometer fame, showed that only about one in ten thousand is sufficiently evolved in terms of degrees biometric to be able to grasp Huna and/or to go ahead on one’s own steam to examine new information which may demand a painful (or delightful) change of former conclusions concerning life and surroundings. You are, indeed, a CHOSEN PEOPLE, members of the ELECT. Little wonder that you do not wish to have a group hung around your neck to be dragged along when you have places to go and not too much time in which to make the march. I have several letters a week asking to be told where to find a Huna group so that the writers may go there, or asking for the names of HRAs so that they may be visited. Now I can say, there are no groups, and the HRAs do not give me permission to give their names to strangers.

WHAT’S NEW IN RESEARCH LINES?

A few able HRAs are carrying on experiments in Huna healing, and some very intriguing reports are coming in to be digested and for my comment. The general lines of this work are those of the best of kahunas. The psychic faculties are trained so that the one to be healed may be studied to see what may be causing the lack, and the same power is used after invoking the aid of Aumakuas for the healing, to watch the progress of the actual work. The giving of mana by the healer to Aumakuas is a vital part of the work. A few HRAs are experimenting with the “low magic” of healing in which the Aumakua is not knowingly called upon to assist or given a supply of mana to use. Radiation of some mana-like force is the basis of this type of experiment, and there may be used centers from which stored force is radiated – either with the radiation directed or simply broadcast, as in the case of “potentized” pictures or images, the presence of which may heal. Between the two lines of experimentation mentioned, there are some combination measures and many experimental variations being tested. It looks more and more is if instant healing can be had only by those whose paths are well cleared.

THE SEARCH FOR THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF HUNA must be added to the list of things going on. We have established rather well the fact that Huna was the basis of the real values in most of the religions which took form years ago in the Near East. We have seen that Huna was the source of Yoga in ancient India. More work is being done on these sources of information and the search for Huna words and ideas in the Tibetan cultures has just begun, while an approach to the original Sanskrit writings of the Yoga teachings is at present held up for lack of a good Sanskrit scholar. (Do you happen to be one?)

THE SEARCH FOR HUNA IN TIBETAN WORDS

The search for Huna in Tibetan words and ideas or symbols has already produced some very interesting data. HRA M.B., who is beginning this study, has sent an entire typed page of meanings, comparisons, roots, notes on the application of Grimm’s Law, etc., to show how she concludes that the aka of kahunas was represented in the Tibetan, where it has the meaning of (1) the connection between the spiritual and the material, and (2) the beginning and the end. Either of these meanings gives a very excellent picture of the aka cord which connects the Aunihipili and Auhane with the Aumakua, these being the place of the beginning of the stretch of the aka cord and the place where it ends, The roots give also the idea of an invocation or religious ejaculation, also the idea of asking something and making a reply to a question asked. The root ka is used for “a” or “the” – as an article – in both languages, and is, oddly enough, the only article in the Tibetan, often being made to do double duty when affixed to some substantives, numerals or pronouns.

THE TIBETAN ROOT WORDS HA AND NI, as in the kahuna words for the Aunihipili and Auhane, the latter for Auhane, give us (in Tibetan ha-ni which means “all together in a body,” and this applies more than well to the Aunihipili and Auhane as housed in a single body of flesh, as Huna describes it.

THE TIBETAN ROOT NA, which I have not been able to find with a clear meaning in the Polynesian dialects, turns out to [be] “I,” and “we.” It also indicates the honored First or head person – as a Aumakua would be. The root is used by kahunas in Huna, mana, etc. (More information will be reported in the Bulletins.)

HRA M. B. REMARKS: “You see, I am still riding my old ‘rib’ that the first landing on this planet of anything approaching civilization was made on the Gobi, and came down there, making Tibet, the latter being the original Smithsonian.”

I COMMENT that so far, the search for the place in which Huna was originated has not at all been successful. Nor can we locate a place where the original Huna people might have first landed if they came from some lost Atlanta or Mu continent, or from some other planet or even a level in the Etheric, wherever and whatever that may turn out to be or not to be. With the rash of Saucer books, many have come to believe that there is a possibility of the existence of non-physical beings resembling the HUMAN in mentality, at least. These beings are thought to materialize in physical bodies betimes on earth, and, it naturally follows, they may have done so ages back to either start the human race or to educate it to a point after it had come up from lower levels of life by some course of evolution and mutation. At present, it is a matter of speculation rather than a blend of solid facts.

MORE NEWS

NATURAL FOOD COOKERY is the title of a rather remarkable little 64-page book by HRA Gertrude Anders Springer, whose authority is Dr. Lee, and whose publisher is the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research. Describes all sorts of natural foods and combinations from the cookery angle to prevent the loss of natural food values, baking without baking powders and vitamin-robbing soda. Best book by far on these lines that I have seen. Order from the author. (Route 1, Box 68, Cloverdale, Mich., is her address. Price is $1.60 post paid. Ask her to autograph your copy for you.)

COSMIC GUIDE, HRA Irys Vorel’s new magazine, mentioned in the last Bulletin, hit the news stands about the end of December and ranks high in the pulp paper astrology magazine field, with food and diet articles and other plus material. Good spread on the story of how we prayed and got help in finding the house here at Vista, also a line sketch of the house and of myself. Comes out every two months with daily astrology guides, forecasts and all the usual things. Looks like it would last O.K. Good job of editing.

MY PERSONAL NEWS revolves around answering a daily batch of letters and blessing those who keep theirs very short, and carrying on with the business of being a publisher, which at the presents time means two months of work printing, folding and sending out ad material, also filling orders. Chores around the place and in the grove take time, and my storage room is begging to have its daily board and nail, but is being completely neglected for utter lack of time.Time taken by visitors is becoming a major and very painful problem. I beg all HRAs who wish to call on me to write and make a date ahead of time instead of bursting in on me at most inconvenient times. I also beg that calls be limited to a few minutes unless something very urgent is up. I plan to make a card to hand to strangers to read, “Visits by appointment only. Five minutes free time to shake hands, after that $50 an hour and counted as CONSULTATION TIME.” I plan to have Cigbo rush out, box in paw at the end of the free five minutes, to make a heavy touch each following five minutes. All untouchables are to be scratched at first refusal to dig and bitten at each following refusal.

A SPECIAL REDUCED PRICE ON MY BOOKS is being offered while the present mailing campaign is on. The offer is all three books, SSBM, SSAW and the new GROWING INTO LIGHT, for $10, plus sales tax of 30¢ if you live in California. That is a dollar off the regular price of the three. Not to be had if you order through a book store.

CALIFORNIA QUAKES AND FLOODS did us no damage here at Vista, thanks. While the floods were doing no end of damage north of us, we were praying for rain here in the southern end of the state. Got three inches, praises be, and I have just rushed out to patch holes washed in the road up our hill with blacktop – a mixture of oil and sand. The thirsty old avocado trees all gave thanks – for the rain, not the patched road. Almost no avocados at all on the trees this year, but they still need water and to have the wild berries kept from turning them into members of a jungle.

CIGBO WISHES TO ANNOUNCE that he is busy tossing out the address stencils of all his HRA friends who have not sent in something to pay their share of the expense of getting out the Bulletins since 1954. He meows and groans in sorrow at having to do this, but is doing it just the same. “Be WARNED,” he says, “I am a very heartless and savage kat when it comes to dead wood HRAs in my stencils boxes!” (Some of you have not been heard from since around 1952.)

OUR VERY SPECIAL THANKS are due our HRA, George Stone, a most unusual student, who lives in Wales, for his frequent gifts of books, many of which I have not even heard. These cover many phases of research in the psycho-religious field and have been a great help to me in my efforts to find the clear thread of Huna which is now seen to run through the beginnings of most of the ancient religions and systems of worship and magic. Most promising books are in hand and only wait time for careful reading. We should have a special room for the books I have here, so that visitors could go there to browse. Too bad, however, those HRAs from Australia and Africa would have to come to such a far place as Vista to do a bit of browsing. If YOU happen to have a book which you think I should know about, please do not send it to me without first asking whether I already have a copy. You’d be surprised at what I have here or have read through library help.

THE BROTHERHOOD OF “KAHANAS” is the title of modern Armenian priests, informs a new correspondent, J.E.V., of Los Angeles who recently discovered my books on Huna. He writes, “Once every seven years the head kahana performs the ‘meron’ or consecration of the Holy Chrism. The interesting point in this connection and the obvious use of mana, is that it is a magical ceremony – admitted to be such by the priests – whereby the Chrism is meant to (be caused to) churn and boil as the result of the invocations.

BIOMETER READINGS ARE EXPANDED by HRA M.J. in Michigan, to include with the “will” and personality pattern readings, a “special” on the Aunihipili. She gives me as “25, extrovert,” and “1-1,00 automatic evolution, 10,000 conscious evolution, spiritual development, 10,510.” I’ve written for details.

MY GIVEN NAME IS MAX FREEDOM LONG, if you are one of the many who wonder in letters whether I came by the name legally or just “took” it. FREEDOM appears on my birth certificate. I took to signing mystery books, Max Long, some years back, and used the full Max Freedom Long only on the writings concerning Huna. Aren’t names funny the way we get them?

IF YOU AREN’T MAKING YOUR HUNA WORK, you aren’t trying hard enough. A letter that touched me is in this morning’s mail as I cut this stencil. It is from a man in prison. He writes, “…I have made a number of good demonstrations since studying your books. I have become a trustee. There is enormous power in the Huna method of prayer. I wish to demonstrate complete freedom in the near future.” Yes, the [“will”] will also shine in the dark places if invited to do so. Look forward with me to the day when a biometric reading will be taken as a matter of course for each prisoner and a fresh one at later periods to find out whether real reform has been accomplished. A prisoner with counterclockwise “will” and “personality” pattern should not be released to continue preying on the public, but the reformed man should be released earlier and given every encouragement to go straight. Are any of you HRAs in touch with prison officials who might be open to such a suggestion or at least a test of the usefulness of the readings in understanding the individual prisoner better? I would happily run the readings for the tests from signatures and thumb or finger prints.

THE TELEPATHIC MUTUAL HEALING GROUP

[This] work is a powerful aid for those who cannot quite get past their own blockages by themselves. Often one can pray in the Huna fashion for another and get excellent results, but can fail when asking personal aid in some phases of life where blockages are present. Letters come in daily asking me to work in the TMHG with the writers for their own betterment or that of a relative or friend. I need a signature, written in ink to make contact with the one to be treated.  I can then run a biometric test and learn something of the nature of the person and whether help is something to be expected. Those with a counterclockwise element in “will” or Aunihipili personality, seldom can get help in this way. Usually they are intensely selfish and their Aunihipilis give out nothing – not even a little mana for Aumakuas. There is no charge for work with me and the other participating HRAS in the TMHG sittings at 3 and 7 California time. But if an answer to the letter of request is desired, a self-addressed and stamped envelope is requested to assist me in doing my part. A report every 30 days is also requested if results are not complete and work is to continue. Of course, reports on answers to the prayers are most welcome. I can then give thanks for a few sittings and remove the problem from the list.

THE TELEPATHIC SIGNAL being sent out daily is that of pine trees against a misty pink and yellow sky background. It is taken from the healing picture done in oils by HRA Mrs. Kingsley Tarpey, in England. This 16×20 painting was “potentized” by her so that it will bring the vibration count of a person sensitive to its radiation beam up many degrees, even up to 50, which is the top reading of the picture. The beam never weakens, but may even be growing stronger with use. A test recently made with the Aurameter given to me some time back by HRA Verne Cameron, shows the beam of healing force wide and strong. As I look at the picture during the minute before the clock strikes the even hour, I try to rise in its beam to my highest vibratory rate, make my contact with my own Aumakua and through it with the Great Company of Aumakuas assembled from the scattered HRAs and others for whom help of one kind or another is to be asked. I accumulate mana at the same time and begin calling in the mana flows sent my way by all participants – braiding the cord, kahunas called this – and sending our combined mana power to enable the Selves to work with and for us if we are open to their aid. After the hour strikes, the ritual given in full in my book, THE SECRET SCIENCE AT WORK is followed, with emphasis on the call for help in materializing the picture of the world which we present – the picture of a world of law and order, without wars and with more and more justice for all, more and more sanity and kindness. For those who have a personal emergency or a friend in urgent need, I have a “special” list on which I work in pauses through the day and often a few times during the night.

A TMHG REPORT LETTER lying now on my desk reads, “I am working faithfully and studying daily, and am very happy. A concrete physical result was reported from a regular 6 monthly medical check-up – the best condition in almost 15 years that the doctor has known me. My condition was so good that he wished to know how I did it. Some day he’ll have time to listen to me and I will tell him. He knows now that it is largely mental.” (Such reports make me very happy and I am well repaid for the time spent daily. Of course, I have a few problems of my own that I bring up to place before the TMHG, and I am ever amazed, although I should not be after all this time, at the wonderful ways in which Aumakuas can find answers to problems which have baffled me. Huna offers a fresh “way of salvation” for each day and its problems, BUT, this salvation is not free. It has to be paid for by doing our part in the work of bringing about the desired ends. We must supply at least a general mental picture of the desired end condition. We must make contact with Aumakuas, offer a vibratory emotional charge of love and devotion, and with this the surcharge or steady flow of mana to be used for the building of the new future and tearing down of the old and unwanted future that is on the way. Work may also be needed to unblock the path to Aumakuas if necessary.

PRAYER RAISES YOUR RATE OF VIBRATION. We learned this a few years ago when experimenting in the HRA work with methods of raising the vibration rate. This seems to raise the vitality rate as well as the “brain” radiation. To heal some part of your own or another’s body, you need to be vibrating at a much higher rate than the sick part or whole-person. Often the slow recital, silently or aloud, of the Lord’s Prayer (if you were taught to use it in early life) will raise your vibration before and during the application of your hand or hands to the focal point of pain or trouble. Remember that healing is not a cold and reluctant thing. It must be warm, even brought to a high heat of love for Aumakuas (or whatever you cause the Aunihipili to warm toward, be it God or some saint – depending on your early training and the habits of reaction formed in the Aunihipili.) If you do not let love flow to the patient, the mana will not flow and the heightened healing vibration causes the sick part to begin to vibrate in tune with your normal health. Practice makes perfect, too.

THE SEARCH FOR BRIDEY MURPHY has been called to my attention by several HRAs, and articles sent to me. While such tests of the validity of information covering past lives are not at all new to the annals of Psychical Science, this is one of the few cases which the lowering of the bars in the public press has allowed general recognition for its news or article value. Clippings have also been sent on the Browning set of articles printed in Chicago covering hypnosis as used today and the Extra Sensory Perception and P.S.I. studies and tests by the famous Dr. Rhine and his Duke students. Latest from Dr. Rhine is that he has openly come to the point of searching for scientific evidence to show that we have a soul. A good article in a New Yorker magazine issue was also sent in, giving the latest the on the contents of the lately-found Biblical scrolls taken from caves near the Dead Sea. Evidence accumulates from them to show that there were esoteric groups living in wild places many years before the accepted date of the birth of Jesus. These scrolls belonged to the groups, and one of their caves was evidently closed by a strong earthquake. There are many of the New Testament stories and teachings as well as accounts of a martyred “Righteous Teacher” who resembles Jesus in many ways. We have long had evidence in pre-Christian Gnostic writings to show that Christianity was not original in its use of many teachings, stories and settings. Of one thing we of the HRA can be sure, however, and this is that the basic Huna doctrines and ways of worship and prayer, as well as knowledge of threefold man and his vehicles and powers, stand correct and unquestioned by the newer information from the scrolls and similar sources. In fact, each new discovery adds verity to our conclusions concerning Huna in the basics and the origins of all great religions dating back to ancient times.

RADIO PERCEPTION, the ably edited journal of the British Dowsers, has, in the December issue, two excellent articles by HRAs. The first is by HRA Verne Cameron, of whom you have often heard in these Bulletins. He tells in most entertaining and informative style of his water dowsing in desert stretches of Mexico, and how the water he has located has opened up great stretches of fine land. More and more he is being called to Mexico by the government and private citizens to locate wells. He points out the fact that, often, wells can be located where steam comes up from the depths of the earth, condensing to form good water which can be tapped if wells are put down directly over the steam vent. This is virgin water, not the water which has come in rain or snow, the latter type being the only kind which the geologists recognize – the latter gentlemen having failed so often to locate good wells, the dowsers are now coming into their own.

V. J. FRANKS has written the second provocative article. It is titled Experiments with the Pendulum Based on Huna Research. The author’s approach is from a new angle. He writes, “My experiments are based on the assumption, that if there is a Aunihipili in control of the functions of the body, then this Aunihipili would know the ailments of the body and what the most effective cure would be. This would save the difficulty of prayer actions to the high-self and in fact would mean a short cut to diagnosis and cure of the trouble. Establishing a convention,” continues the writer, “for ‘yes’ and ‘no’ with the pendulum, I found that the Aunihipili, through the pendulum, gives immediate advice, and, up to now, it has always enabled me to effect a cure even on third persons by holding their right hand (if the person is right-handed) in my left hand and holding my pendulum over the palm of this person.” (Note by MFL: I take it the pendulum over the patient’s palm is used to ask what remedy is to be used for that individual. The holding of the pendulum over the palm would have no healing action.)

“To mention a few instances: I have suffered from gout rather badly at times. Last November I had such a severe attack that I was unable to walk for six weeks, whereas the usual attack lasted not more than one week. Huna prayer action, accumulation of mana, etc., did not help. I had three specialists treating me, the last one gave me some pills to be taken every two hours, and I took them for weeks without benefit. So, at last I decided to try the above experiment. The pendulum or Aunihipili told me to stop immediately the whole treatment. It then prescribed a drug to be taken every three hours and then every two hours – and believe it or not, the next day I was as fit as a fiddle and back at work.”

The article then tells of his son, ill with bronchitis and not responding to expensive antibiotics. Aunihipili said stop the treatment and simply keep the boy in bed for two days. It worked. A friend who had been taking three medicines for some time and growing worse with a stomach condition, was told via the pendulum to stop all medication. A few days later he phoned to say, “I am a new man.” The article gives these instructions for those who may wish to try the method which has worked 100 per cent for Mr. Franks.

“With the yes and no method, questions can be put in such a manner as to eliminate a big group (of remedies) and narrow it down quickly to a small group. It will also be found that sometimes, the decisive question will come like a flash through the mind, like intuition.” (Note: The writer is familiar with the many remedies used by medical doctors, his business throwing him into contact with them constantly. I will be happy to have reports on the use of this method by HRAs who wish to try it out.
MFL)

GROWING INTO LIGHT, my latest book on the Huna approach, has had time for use by readers and for reports on results obtained in re-educating the Aunihipili and clearing up blocks which prevent full contact with the Aumakua. The book has had a very enthusiastic reception and excellent results in dozens of ways are being reported. Please watch yourself as you imagine situations and observe your reactions as you step into them to live for a few minutes. You may begin to call back things from past lives and incidents which are still coloring your reactions in this incarnation. I would like more data on such incidents and the way difficulties are cleared by having their origin in a past life revealed. Also watch for the Aumakua to be able to “cast out” such “eating companion” spirits as may be present and may become known to you or their presence suspected, especially if they have roots in a past incarnation. There are also indications that the scenes we may imagine give us artificial memories from past incarnations rather than genuine, but these seem to serve as symbols and supply a means of rationalizing hitches in the Aunihipili section. If something from the far past bothers you, ask for help in taking the bothering elements out of it. Don’t try to forget it. Live it out.
MFL