End of an Age & Many Wonderful Things

June 1, 1957

 

THE NEW BIO CLUB got off to a flying start in May with 22 charter members exchanging their names and addresses and some already exchanging readings on signatures to see how readings match up. Too early as yet to hear early reports. Some members ordered their Bio Kit from the HUNA RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS (Not me or Cigbo, please) (Price is $1.10 plus sales tax in Calif. Foreign, $1.18 long mail. By air to England: $1.70. To Australia by air: $2.10) and at the same time applied for their membership in the Bio Club, sending a dollar gift for the new Bio Kitty via temporary Secretary-Treasurer Max F. Long. The result has been the inclusion of a few names of those having to be allowed time to set up their tape and plate, then perhaps find something to use as a pendulum. Some can learn the psychometric reading easily, some not at all. The Club will shake down on the trial runs, we hope, and soon produce a small group able to make readings correctly. When this stage is reached, experimental work will begin to push on past the Brunler-Bovis system of readings to see if we can expand on the earlier Bovis methods and learn to test with some degree of accuracy the natural talents of individuals. Some work has already been done in this field by two HRAs, and it appears to be a promising field of further research. However, it may take a reader owning a special talent to recognize it in another. For instance, we may need a musician of talent to check children still too small to indicate musical talent or the lack of it.

Honorary Membership in the Bio Club is open to those of you who may be interested in the releases which may be sent out to the Bio Club members now and then. This class of membership is for those who do not wish to learn to use the Biometric measurement methods or to exchange readings. Gifts to the Bio Kitty should be enough to pay a share of stamps and release mimeographing costs.

PLEASE DO NOT ASK FOR A BIO READING unless you are a member of the Bio Club and are ready to swap readings. Members have fish of their own to get fried, and it may take some time.

THE BEST LITTLE TEXT for those who are interested in learning to use the pendulum as a step toward learning later to use the Biometric system or to dowse for water or lost articles, etc, etc, is the booklet ELEMENTARY RADIESTHESIA by Lt. Col F.A. Arohdale. The price is 90¢ post paid. Or send a dollar bill and ask to have a sample of the magazine, PENDULUM (the price per issue of which is 40¢ , and which you may or may not get for a dime.) Do NOT send to me for it. Send directly to the publisher, Markam House Press, Ltd., 31 King’s Road, London, S.W.3, England. (Or subscribe to PENDULUM magazine. It is $3.80 a year for us here in U.S. America. Comes out each month and carries news and articles of interest to pendulum users and dowsers.)

END OF AN AGE? Many letters and “releases” come to my desk these hectic days while the atmosphere fills slowly with deadly radiation byproducts and while our scientists and rulers disagree as to how much more radiation we can stand before life on the earth will either be wiped out or such damage done to genes that there will be wholesale transmutations on all levels from germ life up to that of man – and monstrosities appearing on every side, perhaps some germ monstrosity which will finish the job of ending the present Age in so far as human beings are concerned.

SPIRIT GUIDES of several mediums have predicted that we must manage to stop bomb tests within a year or find that it is too late.

UNDER HYPNOSIS certain people have possibly been caused to travel into the future and to report what they find. A series of progressions following the different possible paths opened by the “Fan Shaped Destiny” suggest the following short drama.

AGE ENDS  (Path Three)

A hypnotist has been progressing a female subject, Ani, along one of the Fan Shaped Paths of Destiny after another. She has followed two of them to a climax of an indefinite nature. Tonight, in the dimly lighted living quarters of the woman’s home, and with her husband and old mother watching and listening anxiously, she lies in trance on a couch, progressed slightly into the future, and already describing what she sees.

Ani: I am in a strange country. It is a wilderness of grass and bogs and there is ice under the soil. I think it may be some place in Siberia. There is a row of log houses and two large buildings, made of cement with very thick walls and roofs. There are instruments and tanks and things in a long line to the north and east. White smoke rises from the center of the line and blows away from where we stand.

Hypnotist: You say “we.” Who is with you Ani?

(Three men are described. One appears to be an atomic scientist. He gives the impression that he is mad. The other two appear to be politicians. They are both very drunk. Ani tells what they seem to be discussing. They speak a foreign language and she has to depend in part on reading their minds to learn what they say.)

Ani: The scientist seems to be telling the others that they are all ready with a long line of machines to send clouds of something into the air. It seems to be something that carries atomic radiation, and if they let all of it escape into the air it will kill every living thing on the earth as soon as the winds carry it everywhere.

Hypnotist: Perhaps strontium? That would do it.

Ani: Yes, I think I heard that word. They have been letting a little of it go into the air every day. They are talking about how the politicians warned the rest of the world that if all of the nations did not surrender unconditionally and at once to their nation, they would destroy everything. They are laughing and saying that instruments all over the world are now detecting the radiation being added to the air. They are saying that the panic which is following the leaking out of the news in America is a good thing and that it was just punishment for wicked and greedy capitalists. The scientist looks at his watch and fingers a wheel which he wants to turn so that all the machines will begin to shoot out poison smoke. The politicians tell him to wait. They go into a room where a radio is working. They pour more stuff from a bottle and drink, but not the scientist. They all turn to listen to a message on the radio. It is a broadcast from Washington and is in English. After each sentence it is translated into the foreign language. It is someone saying that the West has thought it all over and it is realized that to surrender unconditionally would mean slavery for most and death for the rest. It is already feared that so much contamination has been released into the air that vast and permanent damage will have been done. They beg that nothing more be done and that things be talked over. They say that if this is not agreed upon at once, the fleets of the atomic bombers of the West will immediately start bombing the cities of those who have made the threats and demanded immediate and unconditional surrender. They say they will give fifteen minutes for the reply, and that by the end of that time their planes will be over some targets and begin to release hydrogen bombs. One politician says to the other that it has not worked as they had expected. The other nations did not surrender. He asks what they had better do now. They talk and decide that they had better wait a few minutes and they drink much more. They are very angry. The scientist smiles eagerly. There is a mad light in his eyes. He accepts a very small drink and toasts, “Here is to humanity – a mass of greedy beasts blinded by their own prejudices, hates and vanities. May they and their like vanish forever and leave the great Universe clean and unsullied to revolve in peace for all of time!” Now they are waiting and watching a clock. One politician pulls his chair close to the table and puts his head on his arms. I think he has fallen asleep. The other politician finishes his glass and pours more from the bottle. It is almost the end of the fifteen minutes. A voice over the radio seems to ask a question. The politician shakes his head angrily and growls something that means, “No.” He pulls the corks of two more bottles and sets them defiantly before him “Now?” asks the scientist. “Now,” says the politician thickly. “Show the stubborn fools.” The scientist laughs wildly and rushes out. He is turning the wheel on the big valve. All along the line of instruments there rises a great cloud. He admires it now; he starts to go back to the room but he falls to the ground. It is all very terrible please let me come back to you!

Hypnotist: When I count to five you will be back to present time. One, two, three, four, five! You are back. Wake up!

End.

ABOUT THE DEATH PRAYER

“WHAT PUZZLES ME,” writes a reader of SSBM from New Zealand, “and doesn’t seem to be explained, is the theory that the first law of kahunas was to do no harm to anyone. How were they able to keep their magic powers when they violated this law and employed the Death Prayer?”

MY REPLY: I have answered this question at least a hundred times, first of all in my book which you have just read. There were over fifty kinds of kahunas, and one of the kinds used the spirits of Aunihipilis who had been separated from their Auhanes in some way at the time of death. They controlled them by what we would call hypnotic power, and sent them to attack living people who had hurt someone and who refused to make amends. The person so attacked had three days to make amends and so escape death. Granted, this was hurting someone. But then, as now, the evil persons who go about hurting others have to be policed up, and the kahuna “anaana” was a cop, even if in later years he may have become a corrupt cop. Aumakuas had nothing to do at all with the punishing of offenders. The police action was not in any way a “spiritual” activity. The ability to perform any manner of magical miracles was not claimed by kahunas in question. They were low grade comparatively, although a few seem to have been able to keep full contact with the Aumakua and to perform miracles of healing. These, undoubtedly, remained just and good judges and policemen who fought evil people and protected the weak as part of their job and (as I told in great detail in my book) they were at some pains to cleanse themselves of all responsibility with the kala ritual and to make the person requesting the death prayer form of justice assume all responsibility in making the accusation.

Properly handled, it was much better justice than any other nation known to history ever accomplished. We have a tendency to go off the deep end in accepting the modern doctrine that “God is Love” and therefore nothing but love must be expressed no matter how evil a criminal may be. Common sense shows us that every creature has been endowed with love on one hand and a good defense mechanism on the other. If the injunction to “turn the other cheek” was intended to be taken literally and the principle were to be followed in all walks of life, it would demand that we allow all our murderers to roam at large killing as they might wish, never having even a wrist slapped in retaliation.

Blessed be HUNA and its common sense and practicality. It divided life into three levels. On the animal level of the Aunihipili where the law of tooth and fang can be seen by all to prevail (we take it by God’s full intention and consent and direction), we keep a fang bared to meet attacks by fangs. On the level of the Auhane we must try to “use our heads” to prevent the crafty and evil members of our society from taking advantage of us. Only on the Aumakua level can we “be spiritual” to our heart’s content and plan no defense against anyone except our own Aunihipili and Auhane who are too often prone to rob or at least refuse to help when it comes to the matter of claiming our birth right – that of full working, daily contact with the Aumakua.

If I read Huna right, it teaches us that we evolve upward through various levels or forms of life, the goal being to grow to be Aumakuas, and Higher High Selves (Akua Aumakua) and on up the scale far beyond the power of the human mind to reach even speculatively. But we first learn to be Aunihipili and Auhane.

BOOK REVIEW

MANY WONDERFUL THINGS, by Robert W. Huffman (the hypnotist) and Irene Specht (the subject), is a report of what came of an attempt to follow the increasingly popular method by which someone in hypnotic trance is told to go back in time to childhood, birth, conception and then into former lives. Or, this regression may be replaced with progression in which the subject is asked to go forward in time and to see and describe such things as may be observed. (In passing, it may be suggested that there is a fanning out of many paths ahead of us as we try to see what Destiny offers. Perhaps the wrong paths have been too often explored to allow much confidence to be placed in what is seen and described as “sure to come.” There is also the recognized tendency of the subject to reflect the conscious or unconscious expectations, hopes or fears of the hypnotist. The trance state sets aside the conscious mind self and allows the Aunihipili to take over – and the Aunihipili loves to read the thoughts of the conscious, of the operator, and give them back in its response. The same danger of having the Aunihipili feed us back our own Auhane ideas is encountered when we try to talk to it via the pendulum.)

THE EXCITING PART OF THIS BOOK for Huna students is that the subject did what was done by the girl who changed personalities so completely every four years – under hypnosis she stepped aside and there came through a personality which claimed to be much wiser than the self of the waking person. (See pages 111 to 120 in my book, SSBM, Case 11 as reported by Dr. Leapsley, and in which the “old man” personality appeared, claimed to be in charge of the two personalities using the body of the young woman, and gave the impression of such superior wisdom that it was guessed that it might in some way be the Aumakua speaking. This is the second case to come to my attention of such a personality appearing and conversing through one under hypnotic influence. Let me quote a few lines of what I wrote in SSBM.

“Suggestion was next tried in an attempt to drive Miss Second ((the second personality)) out of the body. Then a startling thing happened. The body became as if dead. No response was obtained from either subconscious; then a still more startling thing happened. The lips opened and an entirely unfamiliar personality spoke to them with such wisdom and authority that they were confounded. This new personality spoke with a resounding voice which had in it an evasive but undeniable masculine quality. It was much like the gentle but very firm voice of some old man. The group about the girl’s body listened in amazement. Immediately the doctors realized that they were hearing still another personality addressing them.  To add to their confusion, they realized that this new personality did not think as they thought. It seemed not to be logical, but super logical. It seemed to know definitely and to the smallest detail what had gone on before. Statement followed statement, each giving some definite purpose of living. There had been a conviction of truth and serene power in every word II)

In MANY WONDERFUL THINGS (Published by DeVorss & Co, 516 West 9th St., Los Angeles 15, Calif. $4.50 plus Calif. sales tax) we again find a personality reached only through hypnosis. Again, it speaks with serene authority and, once more it seems to think in a way quite its own. Its statements are, it would seem, perfectly valid in terms of its own level of being, that of the Aumakua, but cause those living on the levels of the Auhane and Aunihipili to raise questions.

Unlike the “Old Man Self” of the Leapsley case, this one was freely willing to say who and what it may be. Perhaps the hypnotist caused the strange personality to appear with LOVE as its endless theme by his suggestion, which is set down from a tape recording on the first page of the account. He was regressing Mrs. Specht, and he gave the suggestion, “Now, when I say, ‘Love is everywhere,’ it will be the moment (in regressed time for her) after you have died. Love is everywhere.” (Soon she is asked what she can see.)

She says that she is surrounded by mist, quiet and light. She can feel God all around her and is enfolded in love, like a warm light. She says it is both beautiful and wonderful. Then she adds that God loves us and forgives us. “Yes (for) anything. He forgives anything! love! God…is…love!” This sets her theme, so to speak, and she does not depart from it at any later time. She preaches love and nothing but love to answer all and any question – to solve any problem met in earthly life.

The self explains that after physical death one is released from all burdens and forgiven all sins. One comes into what she calls “a place of rest.” Here she calls herself  “I Am I” and says, “I Am I is the God part of me.” It is this part which is set free in the hypnotic trance from the subconscious and conscious and which speaks with such a show of authority that the listeners have been won over to her way of thinking, have organized a cult to promote the beliefs she dictates, and have made “The Boulder (Colorado) Fellowship Foundation,” saying that it is not a religious group, sect or organization. Whatever the intent may be, the members of the organization have been striving to try to live up to the LOVE standards of the “I Am I” entity in all levels of their lives. As one may gather from the book, most are, or were members of the various Protestant churches, they have had many dogmatic beliefs which have had to be discarded in order to accept the new teaching in its rather overpowering and all-embracing simplicity. (The question of the reality of sin and the punishment of sinners seems to have been very troublesome to many.)

For the Huna student, a most interesting problem is raised. One wishes to know whether the I Am I self who speaks is a Aumakua such as kahunas postulated.  If it is, then we must make changes in our present conclusions, for this I Am I speaks directly to the hypnotist instead of (as we have thought in Huna) via the Aunihipili and usually through hunches. This one speaks English, and it seems to lack the superior or super-reasoning power which Huna assigns to the Aumakua. It seems not to be a male-female Parental Self, but one wholly female.

One is forced to wonder how much the hypnotist or the subject knew in advance of Huna, if any, and whether the information held by either is recalled or probed and used in the statements of the I Am I self while the subject is in trance. Huna is strongly suggested by the statement made concerning the fact that there are three Selves. Let me quote questions and answers from pages 96 and 97 in which “Q” represents the question, and “A” the answer given through the entranced Mrs. Specht.

Q. First of all, (with you) here in the resting place, will you explain what happens under hypnosis?
A. Sometimes hypnosis is just the stilling of the conscious mind; then the subconscious takes over. But sometimes the subconscious mind is also stilled – and then the God part of me… or you… can be heard. Sometimes this is the only way that people will listen. They must be entertained even when God is speaking. (Note: the hint of sarcasm or impatience here. This does not sound quite like the Aumakua we postulate in Huna. It sounds, more sad to say, like a slightly ruffled MFL scolding at lazy HRAs.) We are too concerned with our own affairs to listen and so must take the usual methods. (The blundering along method most use. MFL)

Q. Will you tell us where this information comes from, and tell us the manner in which it is delivered to us?
A. The conscious mind is stilled. The God part of me, which is my part of God, can then speak, but only so far as I have learned to understand. (Note: This would suggest a state in which the Aumakua is allowed to rise to that position of dominance and guidance in the triune man before it was fully trained or evolved and so, fully in possession of such knowledge as it should have to do a proper job of being a Aumakua. One begins to suspect that this is really the Auhane of Huna speaking but that it has made a temporary contact with the real Aumakua and looks upon it as “God” as well as a part of itself. A little further along in the discussion, it will be seen that the conscious mind self is more or less completely denied as a valid “self” and is chucked into the dust bin after an incarnation rather than carried over with the other two selves after death and on the way to a new incarnation.) It is the God part of me, but I cannot comprehend all of God yet. It is the I Am I, the God part of me. The God part of me is part of God; and so it follows that God is speaking through me, but only so far as I can comprehend. I will understand more and more as I contact the God part of me. (Much more rather pointless repetition continues.)

Q. Do you keep your personality forever?
A. No… no… We keep individuality (no explanation of the difference in meaning given)… but when we get back to God, (a long way ahead?) we discard personality. But now I am still a personality and an individual combined. I will not discard personality until I get back to God. The subconscious carries personality with it through many lives.

Q. Do you carry the conscious mind with you through many lives, too? (Now watch this answer that follows.
A. No.

Q. Does it perish with each body? (Was this question hypnotically suggestive? Did it command the strange and contradictory answer that follows?)
A. Yes… just for earthly use. The subconscious is for earthly use too, but is used over and over again.

Q. Now, besides the conscious and subconscious minds, is there a third mind?
A. Yes, I told you, the God part of me or you. I Am I – three. But conscious mind and subconscious mind are for earthly use. I Am I is eternal. I Am I is the God part of me. It is eternal, and part of eternal mind… or God. (Continues on this line.)

On page 109 we come to a statement from the “I Am I” self: “God did not need to create us, because He is already perfect, but God is love, and part of love is sharing. God created us as a manifestation of His love to share.” This statement seems to presuppose a full knowledge of what God is as the Ultimate, and to know beyond question His nature. As God’s nature and reasons are very much open to question even on the level of the Auhane, such a statement falls rather flat. If God is already at the end of any possible evolutionary cycle, even love and the need to share for love’s sake would certainly have been fully filled in the postulated “perfection.” One is reminded of the Huna belief that all things are in a state of evolutionary growth, and that the Ultimate (which is beyond our mental reach) must therefore be part and parcel of the process of growing from one stage to another from crystal to man and plant to bird. “Perfection” is an idea belonging to a system of thought that in no way matches what we can observe going on all about us in the growing and evolving world. This monism demands the doctrine of maya to explain why there is anything imperfect, ugly, poisonous and bad in man or his surroundings. Admittedly, the idea of all bad being a delusion is easy to mouth, but confronted by very real “bad,” one is then forced to the fantastic denial of his own reality. If this leap into the dark is taken, there remains no reality outside the perfect God, and so all rationality and tangible evidence of reality is turned into an insane man’s dream. The belief in the unreality of all that we can know to be real in terms of the five senses is a weak escape mechanism and crutch for those too lame to face reality. The whole of Brahmanism stumbles on this strange concept of the Ultimate as unmoving and standing still because always perfect from the beginning. The stumble becomes a vast and meaningless fall when the reality which is denied on our level is turned over to an endlessly stretched and warped concept of a supposed law of cause and effect: that of a Karma, the rule of which is escaped only by the Ultimate and not by the first or following emanating creation of secondary gods, or all those who follow in turn.

To get back to the statements of the “I Am I” again, we read on page 109, “Love can overcome and change any problem.” At this point the authors remark parenthetically, “At the time, we understood little of what was meant in these answers concerning evil. (The “evil” embodied the problems to be solved.) Later, however, as we learned more about the love of God, and as she explained many things to us, the meaning became quite clear. We found the same thing to hold true in numerous answers we received.)

That the above statement must be removed from the world which we find real all about us, and placed on the level of the Aumakua or of a “spiritual” something of which so many prate, is evident when we examine this statement on page 284. “We cannot change the outward world until we, ourselves, have changed within ourselves. We, of course, as humans, see human frailties, mistakes, misunderstandings, and outward evidences of an inward turmoil. But when we truly, truly express God through ourselves we can and shall be capable of performing great, great miracles and of understanding another’s inward turmoil… Do not be so concerned with things which seem real or unreal – only your true expression of God to and through you. God is loving you now.” This brings us back to the basic need of self-growth to promote harmony in the bad conditions which may surround us. That is good Huna and good evolutionary growth toward “perfection” instead of a muddled Aumakua misconception of fighting through a mire of trouble which cannot exist because all is “perfection” world without end.

This is a book and a movement well worth examining with care. Despite her lapse into the uncertainties of mystical utterances which have to be taken with the self-supplied large pinch of rational “salt,” this “I Am I” entity presents endless lovely passages stressing the nature of LOVE and its necessity as well as universal value – always providing one can give up selfishness and hate to go over to the side of LOVE. Like many “teachings” given in modern times by spirit “guides” through entranced mediums, there is a strange other worldliness to be sensed in many passages. There seems often to be a shining meaning just on the verge of becoming clear in terms of this lower level of understanding. One keeps coming upon passages carrying the whispered background of far, faint and still very real Inspiration. Here is a step toward the more reasonable Huna system which we have inherited from the dim past. Perhaps Huna is again becoming known on the “other side” of things. More and more often we find strong leanings toward at least parts of Huna. Even slow progress toward a general spreading of the ancient “True Light” is good to note. As others are encouraged to make trance contact with the part of themselves matching this “I Am I” we may see confirmation or contradiction of major points in the teachings so obtained. Things of lasting value may be given to the world, or at least to that tiny fraction of it which may be wheedled into showing interest.

CONCENTRATION TIME TESTS have been reported in encouraging numbers and have enabled me to begin to see more clearly the odd variations in the approach to concentration from one person to the next. I will attempt a breakdown of the information when I can finish the present study of surprisingly new bits of information.

The test of AUTO-SUGGESTION will probably bear fruit, given time. The concentration tests and practice are the straight lead into the use of the simple and very effective self-help tool of auto-suggestion. Don’t forget it. Plan to give it a try in no long time and after you do, let me have your report on your experience. Three HRAs already experienced in this field have written to tell me they have benefited greatly. It is rather nice to be able to brighten up a dark mood at will – take my word for it. Give the method a try. It was described in a paragraph or two in the last Bulletin. So simple.

PLEASE TAKE NOTE that the TMHG sittings continue to be at 3 and 7 daily, as always, but that, because of daylight saving time in California and most other states in USA, the time has been pushed forward one hour to match. If your state happens NOT to use daylight saving time, set your TMHG sittings ahead an hour to match the rest of us. This working together telepathically to pool our mana and present it to the Great Company of Aumakuas continues to be of great value. While there are cases which do not receive help, there are many letters coming in all the time rejoicing over Help and Guidance received.
MFL