May-June, 1969

Short “Talks” on Tapes

 

ANNOUNCING A NEW SERIES OF SHORT “TALKS” ON TAPES

HRA Eva Becker of Long Beach, N.Y. is a most enthusiastic member and has been doing everything possible to get a group started in the New York region, buying books to lend out, even serving refreshments to get people to come to the meetings.

She has learned from hard experience that a 45-minute tape lecture is too long and that people grow restless after about 20 minutes and start talking and will not be called to order. They want to discuss things and argue. So, at her suggestion, I have put together three 20- minute “talks”, each followed by a few questions which I ask and then answer learnedly. I can get three of these units on to a 5 inch tape and have considerable room left on the tape’s second side, (which bothers Cigbo’s Scotch heart and makes him want to fill in the time with meows or at least warnings that he is about to clean the list of members who have not paid their share of the bulletin production expenses).

In making up these Shorties, I have written them “off the cuff” directly on mimeograph stencils and have run off a hundred copies of the three units. This will answer the need expressed by Eva Becker for printed copies of the lectures for those who listened but would like transcripts to take home and go back over.

AND SO, SPEAKING FOR THE “TAPE FUND”, Cigbo (who is our imaginary “kitty” and is really the cigar box in which we keep the HRA work funds, when there are any) ANNOUNCES OUT that the new Short Talk tape No. “A” is ready at $4 for those who wish to add it to their tape library, or for free loan to a class or group. In addition, the transcript of the talks, mimeographed, may be had for 50¢ each. For the impatient, these items can be hurried along by air mail, adding 70¢ for the tape and 30¢ for the transcript of “Talks A”.

THE SAD TRUTH seems to be that people are not as eager to be converted to Huna as was hoped. They have very definite ideas of their own in this field of the psycho-religious or “metaphysical.” They are not only “bored to distinction” by the 45-minutes of Max on tape, but as statement after statement is made, they arise with more and more indignation to refute, to argue or even mildly but firmly “suggest”. As “Youth will be served” (note our universities), so, the “heathen” will be heard.

THERE IS NO FIRM RETORT to boredom, or to the flat statement, “I do not believe that.” I do not get to attend tape classes, but I get the typical reaction in letters. One in this week says, “I don’t believe there is an Aumakua.” Another recent letter read in part, “I’ll go along with some of Huna, but not the wild idea that there are three grades of vital force or such a thing as a subconscious.” What can you do in such cases? Argument is useless. However, in some cases of misunderstanding, explanations may be in order, as in the case of a new HRA who wrote about a lady whose. P.A. reading was before her. “If she hasn’t got eating companions, then why doesn’t she eat good instead of yogurt and no sugar?” Even the long seasoned HRAs who make up the bulk of our membership are largely Huna Hyphenates who do not accept all of Huna, and these differences with Huna cause differences with other members where groups are proposed – with the result that group work seems to be impossible.

IN THE NEW SHORTIES I am not asking or suggesting even that listeners make an inner pledge to live the hurtless and kindly Huna life. I am not suggesting that a healing experiment be undertaken or a healing circle formed. I am not asking ANYTHING of the listeners except a hearing for Huna. This new approach may be less resented than my open purpose of conversion to Huna as shouted from the roof tops in the seven reels of long lectures. This is “take it or leave it” stuff, and I am hoping that out of those who may listen through these short talks, we may attract to Huna a few of the “needles in the haystack”. If we can get the knowledge of Huna before just a few, and this has been done in the past, (the few who can really find values and sanities in the ancient system) we will be well rewarded. In between and betwixt, we will spread the word that there is such a thing as Huna, and THAT will be something toward keeping the Secret from becoming lost again.

The Shorties are what may be called “Slam-Bang” Huna. The tape time is too small to allow much by way of explanation or background, and the story of Huna is condensed while every effort is made to PRESENT THE TEN ELEMENTS OF HUNA. (Not quite as condensed as the statement of the once famous Harvard professor of Psychology who was asked to give his opinion of the subconscious. He pontificated, “The story of the subconscious can be told in three words, there is none.” I am at least allowing myself four words, even at the risk of having my tape talks interrupted by objections. I ventured rather greatly in the first talk to head off those who would hear the tapes and rise to argue, saying, “That isn’t so, for IN THE WORD OF GOD it says.” I have said that as there are several such authoritarian scriptures which were written by men who did not agree, I could not be slapped down by quotes from any of the several “Words”. I earnestly hope that when this almost opening shot is fired, the listeners who hold to the particular “Word” to which they have become addicted will rise noisily and leave, slamming all doors behind them. If they won’t accept the Word of God according to Huna and Max Freedom Long, they are a good riddance. (Cigbo says that anyone who has the temerity to laugh at this point will be scratched.)

By the way, any of you who may want to borrow Tape A for your own edification without buying it, may request a loan and help by making a little donation to the Tape Fund to cover postage, envelopes and expenses. The tape to be returned soon. Which reminds me that quite a number of tapes are out on loan and are long over due for their return. I am put to it to find money to buy the raw tapes and stamps, so be good scouts and return tapes not in use. (Tapes are 5- inch and play at the speed of 3-3/4 IPS. This fits most tape players.) I would also appreciate at least four words of report from the various ones who have the tapes and are supposed to have played them to a class, group or friends.

THE TRANSCRIPTIONS OF “TALKS A” ( Reel “A”) are not to be returned. They will come slow mail when ordered, like the Huna Vistas, but if wanted by air mail, 80¢ should be sent instead of 50¢. Unfortunately, these are U.S.A. prices. Air mail to far places would be up to $1.50 on the transcriptions. Tapes about the same, as they go at a slightly different rate.

“Dear Max: I know you will want to know what happened in regard to the Huna Round Robin (a proposed tape mentioned in H.V. 88). NOTHING, not one word from all those people with recorders. Frankly, I can’t believe this. I did get a phone call from Jean Dobbs in Sarasota (Florida), 17 miles north of Venice (where she lives) and took my recorder to her home so she could listen to the tape you mailed her.

“Your suggestion of a R.R. on a 7″ reel at 1-7/8 speed would be much too long. My idea was 4 people on a 5” reel, each person having about 20 minutes for conversation about Huna and their experiences with it. So it goes. Thanks anyway for your notice in the Huna Vistas. Bye for now. Keep the Faith, HRA Marge Wein.

(Anyhow, Marge, it was a noble effort. A few of us pipe like mad, but almost no one will dance. “Many are called, but few are (willing to be) chosen. Max)

THE “NO HURT” DOCTRINE OF HUNA needs more discussion and better understanding, says a dear friend in a letter to me after playing the tape lectures of the first series to some of her friends.

As we may never have the opportunity to handle this on the longer tapes, it may be well to consider the problem here. (I am not advocating the “No hurt” doctrine in the Short Talks, feeling that it would be of no use and a waste of time.)

People who have listened to the longer tapes and who have read my books are confronted with the problem of just how far to go in “turning the other cheek.” For 20 centuries Christians have also pondered this question. There seems to be two side s to it.

First, as Gautama, the Buddha, taught, it is ourselves who are damaged by our hates or hateful acts. The idea is that we must rise above hates and resentment, refusing to be moved by hurts done to us or our loved ones. This is very fine from the moral point of view, and fits the Auhane level of being rather better than it does the level of the Aunihipili, where the laws of the animal world hold forth and where “self protection” is the primary rule of life. This includes protecting the loved ones, AND, it includes protecting ourselves against the impositions of the loved ones as well as well as of enemies.

One of the HRAs once told me that he thought the way to handle this was to turn the other cheek, then, without anger, “knock his block off.” We might make it simpler by saying: Hold the general intention of being hurtless and helpful, but when you have to do battle, do so without anger if possible. In doing battle, we must remember to be JUST to the last degree in dealing with friends, enemies and our children. Hate and resentment must be avoided at all costs, for they react on us if not upon the ones hated. It takes much schooling for some of us to teach ourselves not to allow ourselves to be made angry or resentful, but it can be done, or at least fairly well done, with time and practice. A recalling of old hurts done us and a “draining off” of the hates left over is good. Old hates appear to be behind many types of cancer. “Forgiving others….” is good therapy, and this is especially important in the relationships in the family. Mother-daughter resentment seems to cause cancer of the breast all too often – or to accompany it at any rate.

Dear Max: (Writes one of our newest HRAs) Do you think that I could qualify to be a Huna (healer)? You say that we must have a very high P.A. reading to join one of those groups and can’t have any counterclockwise swings and so on.” HRA Rae F.

I reply: There are at least two kinds of healing one might try to do, regardless of the P.A. degree reading   as long as one reads clockwise – and these are healing in which one accumulates and gives mana through the hands to a person in need of healing, always holding the intention of bringing about healing; also, the form of healing in which the mana is given to the Aumakua and it is asked to do the healing. A combination of both methods would be ideal. In addition, the kahunas of the mediumistic level called for spirits to help in the healing, much as do  the Filipino Spiritualists these days. There is no healing circle to join as yet, the new tape classes not forming such circles (at least in so far as I know) and the Garden Home circle near Portland, Oregon is a closed circle – although members of this old and long-established circle have been working very hard with outsiders to try to get a group of them organized and at work. (Efforts are made very difficult, I hear by letter, because the listeners who are gathered to listen to the tape lectures do not agree with Huna and the argumentation about yaks (sic) the class out of existence.) (Trying to teach these days seems to be getting all tangled up. The pupils want to do the teaching. Or they riot and beat up the profs and bring their guns to class. It used to be easier in the old days, at least in the teaching of religion. One could threaten the reluctant ones with Hell Fire and Damnation.)

I AM OFTEN ASKED ABOUT the “Ring of Awareness” papers which seem to be circulating rather widely. In these a spirit who calls himself “Awareness” pontificates on no end of subjects through his medium, who in turn spreads the messages. Certain releases have to do with the kahunas, and after reading these, I am led to suspect that someone in the Ring had read at least one of my books on the kahunas and so was ready to stand as an authority. I may be wrong, but it all has a very familiar ring to it except where it goes off a bit to one side to do some inventing – which is perfectly legitimate, of course, but which would sit better with me if anything was divulged that would HELP us to a better understanding of the art of INSTANT HEALING as once practiced by a few of the kahunas of the highest grade. I am sorry to say that in many years of examining the findings of psychics, in which something was said about the kahunas, I have yet to gain an iota of further insight. One medium had a kahuna spirit give her the formula for instant healing: one first became a kahuna by “thinking good, good, good” long enough to become a kahuna, after which came the power to do the miraculous healing. I am sad to admit that Old Kahuna, Max, has tried for years to think “GOOD” sufficiently to make the grade, but with no results as yet.

WILLIAM BOONE, HRA, FHF, delights me with his fine enthusiasm and ability in getting a group started in San Diego, Calif., and who has just written that his group now meets regularly at 7 P.M. on Wednesday nights, and have their own meeting place at Suite 8, Arcade Building, La Mesa, Calif. This is just out of San Diego proper. He may be reached during the week days before 5:30 at his place of business. Some of his group members have taken the “No hurt” inner pledge and are full fledged Fellows of the Huna Fellowship, also sending in $2 very often to start Cigbo sending them the H.V.

Mr. Boone’s letter came after I had just written in the bulletin that no healing circles had been forming in the few classes which seemed to have started, but of which I now hear no more. He reports that his group has a healing circle and that he, himself, makes P.A. readings of those in need of help and works (I think) in and also out of the class to help. In an earlier Huna Vista I told of his practice of throwing himself into a light trance and in that state doing his treating. I had hoped at the time that he could teach the rest of us to work in this way, as he was getting such good results. But he now writes, “I was in error in saying that I might show others the method, as I am now convinced that the power is or is not present in each person and will manifest itself at the proper time in individuals if it is present, but we cannot say when or expect to force it. In my case it has been the Aunihipili or the Aumakua which has taught me …. and is still doing so. All I can say is that one should cultivate the ability to use the pendulum, and await developments. If the abilities are there, the person will attract to himself the higher forces and the guidance for constructive work.”

I have hesitated to ask HRA Boone to work on healing cases which have come up for the Telepathic Mutual Healing Group ministry, but which we do not seem to be able to help. He is a busy business man, and I realize full well the time these healing efforts take. So, I asked him what should be done in the matter and he said:

“I am telling people that I make no charge, but I think it is fair all around to let them know that a love offering may be given if they wish. It may also be their way of ‘priming the pump’ for an abundant return to them, and is according to the Law. It is just as important for others to conserve their resources, if they see it that way; also my Auhane is not distracted by the contemplation of monetary gain as motivation in my work of serving others, with negative results.”

He reports a new angle in the healing work with the driving out of obsessing or influencing spirit entities. I quote: “One obsessing entity, who displaced the normal Aunihipili of a woman, was homosexual by nature with a P.A. reading of 200 degrees. It showed peculiar features, combined male and female, and had to be forcibly removed with the help of the Aumakua. Where the natural Aunihipili had no swing or degree, there was a very weak clockwise swing after the exorcism of the foreign entity and restoration of the old true Aunihipili. This weakness of the Aunihipilis usually lingers for awhile after the excitement and disruption of the exorcism. I will do as much as I can and according to the Aumakua guidance as best as I can interpret it. As Isabel Hickey said in her lecture, ‘We do not choose the work: it chooses us.’ By the way, give me her address so I can thank her. What an inspiration she is.”

I was much pleased to have his opinion of the new short talk tapes. He has this to say, about them. “The shorter tapes are much better. I think they will be well received everywhere. After the first time or two, Max, we also found it was best to play them for a shorter time. Those having dubs of the longer tapes were also able to listen to them for only about 20 minutes.”

SO, CHEERS FOR SHORTIES! What a great help it is to have friends who are actually working with classes and who can try out the tapes and discover what is wrong. I am planning to buy a little machine that erases tapes when they are laid on a metal plate. Then I can erase the old excess tapes as they come in and use the tapes for the Short Talks. As it is, my recorders all seem to make a good erasure of old sounds before putting on the new, but I am always suspicious, and fear that on a rerun there might be Max-on-top-of-Max voices, and I have learned since last August (the hard way) that listening to a tape lecture going on and on and on is similar to listening in my youth to our good preacher doing likewise.

Dear Max:

I had a marvelous experience last weekend through my eight year old daughter, Laura. We were riding in the car and something got into her eye. It was very painful, and since I was on the  freeway there was little I could do immediately. I told her to think of her Aumakua or her Mighty I AM, and ask Him to get the object out. In another few moments she said, ‘Its out!’ That night she awakened with a very painful ear ache. So much pain that she was literally sobbing with pain. I reminded her of the eye incident and told her to do the same thing again. She said, ‘I can’t, it hurts too much.’ I got a small bit of cotton and put it into her outer ear and told her all the while to think of her Mighty I Am and realize that it did not have an ear ache. Then I took deep breaths and visualized her surrounded by a brilliant white light, at the same time visualizing a large Divine Being standing there with a golden light shining from his heart, focused on her ear. In just a few moments she was sound asleep. The next morning she awakened and her first words were, ‘Daddy, my ear ache’s gone!’ Needless to say., she is mighty impressed with the power of her Aumakua. And so am I. God bless you, Ralph.

Huna DOES work. Children, who have unclogged paths to the Aumakua are especially open to Help. In the Great Drama, Jesus said, “Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” The Aumakua is the “Kingdom”, and the coded message is clear. All too often we forget to ask for Help when we run into trouble ourselves or with our loved ones.

SPIRIT KNOWS ALL – WILL TELL ALL, for a price. Recently I had a phone call from a stranger who told me that she had been told by a medium that I should get into touch with her as she had a very important message for me about the kahunas. The medium’s address was given, and I obediently wrote to ask what the message might be. Soon a letter arrived, and in it the message:

“Tell Max Freedom Long that he came to this planet on the same space ship from Venus that you (the medium) did, and the reason he desires so much to know the secrets of the kahunas is that he remembers a much better rule than we have here on earth today. Tell him Yomoka and Nokoma are now rulers of Venus, the planet of love rule.”

Of course, since this message and since learning the true facts, I doubt that I am speaking to any of you plebeians who were born on earth instead of arriving by space ship from Venus. (I have my new social standing to protect.) It is such a nice feeling to know that I am spaceship  upper  crust and such. I might even have been a Kahuna First Grade on Venus before my present “fall”, who can say? (Will the gentleman at my left please not stand on my sacred shadow!)

The letter continues most excitingly. “Mr. Long, I too am a Kahuna and as you know the difference of Huna and Kahuna, I won’t go into that, but I have the information on all of the things you spoke of plus why Los Angeles area did not slip into the ocean, and information on Kahuna law from the time the world started, up to the present time and some two hundred years into the future. However this will cost you money as I am a widow and do not have the source of income that it takes to publish books and such. I have to say this: I have the answers to most any question that you ask that you are permitted to know, but I will have to separate them from my daily communications with the spirit world. I have an appointment the tenth with a newspaper to talk with them, as a friend of mine asked me to tell the the world more about our world and what is happening to it, so I will be here until the last of the week. If you want this story let me know by return mail as I have not accepted their money yet for an exclusive. It entails a little spirit girl who was seen by a couple in Tenn. in 1967 in Jan. who told me she was to be re-born and I sent the message to the parents even to the date this Feb. How she led me to the grave of Satan in June of 1968 and how he was chained etc., who God was and where he is today, all kinds of Science data etc. What causes tornadoes, heart attacks, most car wrecks and smog and how it will be removed. How they heal and kill and why many millions were killed by God 1976 years ago.” Yours Resp. A.S.

For the want of a nail a shoe was lost and because of the loss of a horse a kingdom was lost – or however the story goes. (Will you stop reading this and see if you are standing on my shadow. If you are, please get off and let ME stand on it. Don’t forget WHO I am …. and besides, it’s my shadow anyway.) (My dear mother, were she alive, would be much interested in knowing that I arrived in a space ship from Venus. We always thought that a prairie chicken brought me, as storks were unknown in our part of Colorado – also I couldn’t have been brought by the doctor for we didn’t have one.) At any rate, I am grateful in my very grasping way for the free information. It is a great relief to know that the thing that breathes down my neck at times is NOT Satan, and that his grave has been opened and the Gentleman de-horned and placed in chains. I am also delighted to learn that at last someone knows “who God was, and where he is today.” We important upper-saucer-crusters need to know things like that, or at least that someone, who is “one of us” knows, which is almost the same thing. (I see that it is time, as I write, for me to go start dinner. I wonder what diet I should begin to follow, now that I know that I am Saucer People. This is the night for leftovers. Perhaps I’ll feed them to Miss Ethel and thaw out a steak for myself from the freezer – if there should by chance be one.)

(Later.) Well, the leftovers were better than I had expected for my new Saucer-arian appetite. All joking aside, and as I wrote to the medium, for many years I have courted the spirits who appeared on the horizon and said they were kahunas or knew about Huna and would tell us what we want to know; but out of the dozens of instances nothing was ever divulged that we did not already know or which was of any help. Just because a person dies and goes over to the other side does not make him wiser or more honest, and those who come back with messages are often prize liars and pretenders. ALL the “revealed” religions fall into this general class, be they the Revelations of John, the Book of Mormon or Oahspe. If any two spirits agreed on a system of teachings, it might be more impressive, but they never, never do so why should we play favorites and champion one of them against another? This also goes for the statements of psychics who act as their own “spirits,” be they Edgar Cayce or the predicting psychics who had half of California sleeping during April with one eye open and one hand on a life preserver or pair of well oiled wings. Not that I condemn all spirit communicators by any means. I have enjoyed my share of them, but only when they make sense, OR when they limit their predictions to something nice about to happen to me or the HRA (which predictions are always welcome, even if most of them fail to come on deck and stand inspection. Mrs. Jack Becker, who is doing such fine work trying to get a group organized in the New York region, has a medium friend who keeps predicting a successful group. I am ALL FOR her.)

DISTRUST ESPECIALLY predictions made by a person under hypnotic or mesmeric influence. I have just learned that this influence had evoked the famous prediction that California would be jolted into slipping into the sea. The gentleman who asked for a prediction from this subject, tells me that it was later specified that the prediction made under mesmeric influence NOT be made public, but it was too good for the subject to keep. I also view with great suspicion the spate of regressions under suggestive influence and, even with still more suspicion, the flow of “Psychic” readings of one’s past incarnations. No one can check on whether the regressions are valid or not, but most of those I have seen impressed me the wrong way, to put it mildly. A few valid regressions, perhaps, but not the ones offered increasingly at from $25 up per “reading”. If I were not a Saucer brought high upper, and if I were broke and Cigbo would allow a digression from his very strict rule of moral “trepitude”, I might be tempted to go into the reading business myself. I have a set of world history books and could give a very authentic little placing in history for each of several incarnations – yes, with at least one life as Cleopatra for all the really nice girls. (If the nice girl also happened to be a Saucer apported one, I would see that she got two incarnations of the famous queen of the Nile – and twice as much fun.) Cigbo has been reading over my shoulder, and now suggests that as people love pets, he would join me in the nefarious graft and give readings for Kats and Dogs, seeing to it that really loving pets got plenty of incarnations as Bubastes, the sacred Kat of Egypt, or Dick Whittington’s famous Kat, or as a Katamoran; while the dogs could all be ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’, or Old Dog Tray or even that famous canine character, Doggonel. Lead us not into temptation. WE must remember who WE now have been found to be.

(Cigbo wants me to add that any HRA who has a pet cow can be guaranteed at least one incarnation as The Cow Who jumped Over the Moon.) But we must cease frivolity and get on with serious matters.

A FABULOUS VOYAGE around the world has just been started by Jack and Pat Fletcher, of Seattle, WA, U.S.A., taking along their two teenage sons who will stand watch in turn with their parents on their specially built and equipped sailing boat which measures 45 feet. It is named, if you please, Kahuna Magi, and the purpose of the voyage is to search from Central and South America through the Pacific and on around the world, always hunting for traces of lost and forgotten civilizations. Huna traces will be watched for with eager care, and evidences will be sought in all parts for Lemuria and Atlantis. They have incorporated as “The Anthropological and Psychic Research Foundation of King County”, and will be sending back films, reports, artifacts and articles with proper illustrations. During the long voyage the boys will study via correspondence courses and so keep up with their formal education. I am sure that at least a part of my books on the kahunas will be aboard. Oh to be young, and to go along …… and not be subject to seasickness (If you want to donate a little and have a part in the adventure, I do not know just how this is planned, write Mary Sheldon, Anthropological Research Foundation, 421 North Percival, Olympia, Wash., 98501.)

SPEAKING OF VOYAGES, I see that Thor Heyerdahl of the Kon Tiki raft drift trip from South America to Easter Island and on, has built a big boat of reeds in Egypt and will try to drift it from Africa to South America to prove his theory that early voyages of this sort were made, accidentally or on purpose, and that the Egyptian type of civilization reached South America, crossed it, and drifted on to the Pacific. See the account in the current Geographic.

THE MOST FABULOUS ADVENTURE OF ALL, in my humble opinion, is the one currently engaged in by our very able and brilliant HRA, Dr. Martin Larson. I consider his work more important by far than the settling of the Vietnam misadventure, or the quieting of the feuds in the Middle East. With amazing courage, Dr. Larson, in his big book, THE GREAT TAX FRAUD is giving battle to the richest and most powerful group of people in the world – the wealthy tax dodgers of the U.S.A.

He is like a modern David, armed with a sling and a deadly stone from the brook of True Democracy. Behind him stands a tiny band of warriors in the form of the LIBERTY LOBBY. But there are two Goliaths to fight, one is the Rich Tax Dodger, who is out in the open now, while the other is so powerful that so far it has managed to avoid being brought to the attention of the public, this is the one of the Churches and Foundations doing a profitable commercial business and still dodging all control and most taxes.

The publication of his book has caused a storm of protest which even the graft ridden Congress dare not ignore. The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on February 24th, last, and Dr. Larson laid before it in fine and smash hitting outline, the facts on which he has based his book and study. I have before me a transcript of what was said, and it does not make comforting reading. It shows the extent to which the rich and powerful have misused their power to get richer at the expense of the less fortunate.

Dr. Larsen is noted for his historical studies dating back to early Christian times, and he has not neglected to concern himself with political and economic history as he went along. The committee, and through it the Congress, were sternly warned of the danger inherent in the present unjust situation. I quote:

“I most sincerely hope that the Congress of the United States will not permit conditions in this country to develop into a crisis similar to others which have brought upheavals and revolution to civilization in the past again and again. For all these catastrophes have had their inception in some form of exploitation intimately related to tax inequity. It is my fervent hope that such a fate may never prove the termination of the American dream.”

Articles are being run giving digests of THE GREAT TAX FRAUD in many magazines. Readers’ Digest recently condensed and printed the whole book. In the May issue of Pageant, starting on page 97, begins a fine spread and article setting forth the situation and telling of the efforts to correct it. In the May issue of Fortune, which is a magazine of the rich, there is another fine article, and it should serve to warn the Tax Dodgers that there is a Sword of Damocles now suspended over their heads and that the thread may be cut in short order.

So far, little publicity has been given to the Church situation. Publications fear the vast power of religions, and tend to go easy in that direction, but there will be more to follow Dr. Larson’s book, CHURCH WEALTH AND BUSINESS INCOME, and the heat will gradually be on in that direction. The Committee was told, “If churches and other tax exempt corporations were taxed on their unrelated business income and if the subsidies now going through back doors and by many devious routes to the churches were to be terminated, the federal Treasury would be enhanced by at least $7.5 or $8 billion a year.”

Some Congressmen are already seeing the crying need of the proposed tax reforms and are trying to do something about it. Senator Fred Harris of Oklahoma and Senator Russell Long of Louisiana are behind the reform project, and others are beginning to see that they must get involved as the protests grow. One Senator wrote, “everyone who has …. wealth should pay something… in taxes.”

THE NEW TAROT MAJOR, in large size, in full color, by John Cooke were described in the last H.V., but I was uncertain about where to send for a set of these beautiful and newly designed Tarots. John has now set me right. The price is $5.95 (add 5% sales tax in California). Order from Mrs. Alice Kent, Box 248, Kentfield, Calif. 94904, U.S.A. (For foreign delivery add a dollar.)

GOOD NEWS comes from HRA John to the effect that his book will be put out in larger and better form and that he has finished designing and drawing the minor Tarot cards, so that in no long time there should be a full deck available, together with the book – and THIS is the ideal set up for students who wish to go meditatively into the major Tarot symbols, or to begin to get well acquainted with the deck and the symbols and begin running the cards to read “past, present and future” (something which I love to do, even if the results are never to be fully depended on).

John writes, “I was not sure that you would like our book. It shifts away from so many former concepts of the cards. (I liked the new arrangement and meanings very much.) Let me assure you of one thing: the man with whom we worked and got the spirit dictation did not know a thing about the Tarot, nor had he ever worked a Ouiji board previously. He was the real medium. I simply happened to have my hand on the silver dollar which we used as our planchette. Not until he was completely at ease with the writing did anything begin to be written about the cards. I have actually about 300 pages of these writings (selections are given in the book) comprising an entire philosophy of Being which I hope someday will be published. They are revealing and refreshing and interesting – as interesting as anything I have ever read along ‘spiritual’ lines.”

I will be watching excitedly for the letter to come to tell me when the full deck will be ready and at what price. And, of course, I will pass the information on in the Huna Vistas. I feel that this new pack has corrected several mistakes which were made in the designing of the Pamela Smith pack which has been the best available for some fifty years. John Starr Cooke is a mystic as well as an artist, and is ideal as a receiver of such material. His friend who worked the marker with him as the “medium” would not have to know a thing about the Tarot as long as John was around and could make the sense out of what came through.

As you know, I look with grave suspicion at all spirit communications and especially “revelations” giving us a new religion. But there is a REAL set of truths somewhere and starting with Huna we are beginning to get it in bits and pieces. For this purpose, SYMBOLISM is the ideal vehicle of transmission, and in the New Tarot the symbolism allows no end of latitude. Each of us can read into the symbols that part of the Truth which has been given us, and understand it according to our needs and evolutionary progress. Perhaps we should make use of the inspirational material given John and his friends to make a type of Masonic “degree” to tack on to our outward Huna initiation given via books and tapes. I nominate John as High Priest for this new degree. He would make a fine one.

MY TAROT PREDICTIONS

Made after a run for the course of the Vietnam war:

Military advice will prevail at the White House. More billions will be given to the Pentagon to use for war purposes. There will be ups and downs in the fighting, which will continue, with nothing definite accomplished. Everything will remain higgle piggildy in the matter. Peace is in sight but in the far distance. Those who make money from war or defense contracts will lobby greatly and keep playing both ends against the middle. Mixtures. Confusion.

A RUN FOR THE STUDENT REVOLT IN THE COLLEGES gives rather surprising results. Not a bad card in the run, but cards of peace and adjustment. It may be that with the end of the school year, things will quiet down on the whole and revolting students return in the Fall with a greater desire for education.

FRANCE AND EUROPE, with De Gaulle no longer in power, gives a promising run with new prosperity and cooperation. Money matters seem to be safely adjusted with some foreign assistance.

TROUBLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST seems, according to a run, to be eased by some outside business pressure. It could be that pressure will be exerted to force the re-opening of the Suez Canal.

A NEW P.A. CLUB seems to be in the making. For a time we had such a club and members checked readings with each other, but it did not last for one reason or another, I forget just why. Now Jack and Shirley Ezratty, 1600 Howard Ave., San Carlos, Calif. 94070, write that they will act as center for a new Club and will trade checks on readings with other HRAs who have learned the gentle art. This will be a great help for me as it may lead to supplying readings eventually for those who cannot read for themselves. I have a long waiting list of friends who have asked me to read for them, but time is so hard to find that the list simply grows longer and longer all the time. No reading service is yet in sight, but just an exchange of checks on readings already made. If we can get the Club going and three readers can check each reading, and come up with a similar set of results, things will flourish. The Ezrattys are a most unusual couple in that both of them are equally interested in Huna. They have the back issues of the bulletins and spend many evenings together over them. In most families either the husband or wife study Huna, but seldom both. They have been trying through the pendulum to learn how many more incarnations they each have before Graduation. I can think of no more fascinating undertaking. Shirley, in writing to me says that their reading for me is most encouraging and Shirley says her intuition tells her I will “make it much earlier” than I may expect. Perhaps I will not have to come back again after all. I’d certainly love to be able to take the next step up.

THE DOCTRINE OF NO SIN: NO HURT needs to be made more definite, so says a recent letter from an HRA who has played the original tapes to her friends and finds them confused on that point.

In the new Short Talk tapes I have tried to clear this point. In the Great Drama we are told to “turn the other cheek” and in Buddhism, which has much Huna in it, the teaching was that by accepting a hurt and not striking back, we avoided making new Karma of a bad kind. (There was also good Karma to be made.) The kahunas seem to have ignored such a thing as Karma and taught the rule of the sane and still the kindly and helpful life. The sanity in the situation demands that we protect ourselves and loved ones in so far as possible against the people who hurt us or them. In dealing with children the parent must often cause minor hurts and indignation when correcting children, but if care is taken always to be very JUST, the hurt will be rationalized and do no lasting damage to anyone. On the other side of the picture we find hate and hurt spun out of the same wool. If we are hurt and cannot get even, we hurt ourselves all the more by dwelling with hate on the situation. Buddha said, “There is no pain like hate.” It is something that eats on one while doing no harm to the one hated. For our own protection and well being we should avoid hate as well as hurting others unreasonably.

Of course, the greatest value of the No Hurt: No Sin doctrine is to be found in the relief given those who have been brought up in a religion and have been taught that no end of things are sinful, when they are not. “Sell all and give to the poor: and come and follow me.” has caused endless guilt complexes. Sex as a sin has been an even greater cause of inner conflict. To miss going to church or paying one’s tenth to Holy Church (to support the priests, very largely) is NOT a sin. Look at the Ten Commandments and pick out those bearing on hurting others, then note which are valid. Keeping the seventh day holy is early Egyptian and we are just escaping from the religious pressure of the years to keep us from doing anything on a Sunday except go to church. Some keep Saturday, as if it made the slightest difference to a God so vast that we cannot begin to sense His verity. Religion has had a very long childhood. Instead of trying to make it grow up, most of us are simply leaving it in its cradle to be rocked by its unmarried priests and doctrinally unsexed preachers. Blessed be common sense and the kahunas who point the way to it for us.

BOOK REVIEW

CLARK WILKERSON, who advertises himself as a kahuna, and who signs himself as a Doctor of Divinity, has been traveling about and holding “course” classes in various places for some time. In his book which is under review, HAWAIIAN MAGIC, he tells of his studies under an unnamed kahuna in Hawaii and under the “Masters of the Far East”, the latter swearing him to secrecy lest the teachings be passed on to the unworthy who might use them for evil purposes. He is also instructed by Beings from Venus and Mars. Such things as have not been taught by such teachers, he has managed, apparently, to evolve for himself, the result being a system containing Huna and much else to round it out. He has seen fit to change the Polynesian “mana” to “Lee”, and this is to be generated as a surcharge in much the same way as we of the HRA do it. The book in question tells of his mental conversation with frogs and trees and flowers, a thing I have not heard of the ancient kahunas doing. But he is a modern kahuna and has added several things to the old ways and methods. This is not quite my variety of Huna, but at least he is spreading the word that there was such a thing as a kahuna. I get letters frequently asking what I know or think about Mr. Wilkerson and asking whether or not he is a real kahuna. I have not taken his $40 course or read more than this one book, so reserve judgment. The book mentioned is to be had for $6 from Institute of Cosmic Wisdom, 8674 Falmouth Ave., Playa Del Rey, Calif. 90291. (For the same price he has a later book titled Wisdom from Venus. In his ads he offers both for $11.)

I HAVE JUST DISCOVERED that I have duplicated the comment on No Hurt: NO SIN. Perhaps it is just as well to have the matter brought to our attention doubly, but it has been unintentional and at this late date and hurrying to try to make my mailing deadline, I will not try to correct the oversight. Pages 1 through 11 have already been mimeographed, and this is the last of the stencils to be cut. My production method has been one of doing things on the installment plan.

DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME IS HERE AGAIN and we have set up our clocks an hour to fit. This makes it easier for some of you to join in the 3 and 7 P.M. sittings, but harder for others. If you cannot make the contact at these times, activate the cord to the Great Company of Aumakuas by sending love and mana and make your prayer. Others will be with you. MFL