HUNA RESEARCH CENTER
Dr. E. Otha Wingo, Research Editor
126 Camellia Drive, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701 USA
THE MAX FREEDOM LONG LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Dolly Ware, F.H.F., Curator
1501 Thomas Place Fort Worth, TX 76107 USA
January – March, 1975
Dear Huna Research Associates:
“Research” is our middle name. This means we are all — every one of us — members of a larger research team. You may participate as much as you wish in any project. Smaller groups often devise experiments of their own and when reported to HRA headquarters can be passed on to all the members. Let me encourage you to make your own investigations and report to me. Join in our special projects when you can and add your results to the file of information we are collecting. Short term or even single experiments can be helpful, though not conclusive. But the more extended tests with wider participation will produce more meaningful results. Often only tentative conclusions can be drawn, but these form the bases for other experiments.
What is our goal? Always keep in mind the ultimate aid of all our studies — to enable each one of us to be COMPLETE PERSONS, with all three selves working harmoniously together for effective living, fulfilling our life potential. A more immediate goal is the solution of whatever problem may be preventing that three-self harmony. This may be a difficult personal or social problem or a physical ailment. These particular phases of our whole-life experience demand our immediate and repeated attention.
It was with both goals in mind that a special research team (Dolly, Dr. Ellis, and I) investigated that much publicized method of spiritual or psychic healing in the Philippines. All the results are not in, by any means. We continue to search — and research — and other reports are still coming in to make our files more complete. For example, a recent book by a Minnesota surgeon, William A. Nolen, M.D., HEALING: A Doctor in Search of a Miracle (1974) presents the results of the author’s investigation of Kathryn Kuhlman, Norbu Chen, and the Filipino psychic surgeons. His results were completely negative!
The PASCALITE PROJECT (announced in H.V.#10, Spring 1974) needs more participation. We join with Ray Pendergraft of Worland, Wyoming in examining the remarkable qualities of this mineralized clay-like material from the Big Horn Mountains. Some local members (using portions of my small supply) tried Pascalite in several one-shot tests and a few wrote in about their results. There was benefit in all but a single instance reported. If this interests you, go back and read the proposal and try it. Then send in a report of all the results, whether good, bad or indifferent.
Possible future research projects include the field of Biomagnetics (how magnetic fields affect plant and animal life). We have several members who have been interested in this for many years and we have a new friend who has been actively experimenting in Biomagnetics for nearly forty years. I will write about his work later. A review of books and experiments in this area is in preparation, but had to be delayed till a future issue. Our interest in the work of Dr. Wilhelm Reich continues.
If you have a research project to propose, do send in your ideas. Remember that my position as Professor of Classical Languages and Mythology at Southeast Missouri State University requires that the HRA work be done in between required duties. So, the help and cooperation of every member is needed to accomplish anything of importance.
LOVE – A HUNA CONCEPT
by Kathryn Conway-Marmo, HRA (Canada), Toronto
The idea of love is one that is used in constant daily language, referred to in songs, a much sought after attribute and an idea that seems to be the greatest guilt-causing factor we have. Why is it that those concepts in our lives that seem to have the most impact on people carry at the same time the most negative and the most positive qualities? Eric Fromm, in The Art of Loving, talks about various kinds of love and how they relate to people in terms of reactions and interactions. He explains, for example, motherly love in terms of a binding relationship. The mother loves her child because it is helpless. The child loves its mother because it lacks the inhibition to mistrust. Fromm talks about the delicacy of erotic love. One can love the physical and not the soul or one can love the soul and thus find comfort in the physical. But he seems to feel that brotherly love is the over-all ultimate in love, for if one can love everyone and accept every facet of personality, then one can love on an individual basis. The love, then, takes on proportions of universality and is that much more profound. Love should never be binding, says Fromm, for it serves to detract from the main import, loving humanity! Fromm says that “love is an attitude, not a relationship to one specific person… love is an activity from a creative force.”
Kahlil Gibran, in The Prophet, also believes in this idea of universality. Unity is only with the soul. Its physical counterpart is the surface condition sometimes described as erotica. But in order to understand the soul of another, one must love the universe and love the God who created it. For the God, especially in Huna, is the soul and the soul, of course, is one of the company of souls. One aspect I find interesting about Huna is that the teachings serve as guidelines, not as absolutes. The feeling of what one ought to do or not to do is left to the individual in communion with his own High Self. The following quotation expresses this nicely: “I have found out that the real essentials of greatness in men are not written in books, nor can they be found in the schools. They are written into the inner consciousness of everyone who intensely searches for perfection in creative achievement and are understandable to such men only.”
What is love, then? Can it be compared to the mystics’ interpretations that one can only grasp the meaning if one feels the meaning? Love is ambivalent, being both base and highborn. Certainly, it can be the highest if we bring all our other emotions and thoughts to a high level of vibrancy so that they merge into selfless protection. For love can be subjective, objective, transcendental, omnipotent.
Huna teaches not only the selfless love of the High Self for its man, but the healthful love that is necessary between our Middle and Deep Selves. Could the concept of the High Self be what we are searching for in all our anthologies? Could love then be selfless and therefore asexual? Does it become something too great to grasp in magnitude and quality?
In between the Nature Spirits as lesser gods and the God which was postulated ruling the Universe out to the farthest star, we have in Huna a very modest concept. It gives us the High Self just above us and still higher lies the akua aumakua or godlike Higher Selves. Above these there are said to range possibly layer upon layer of ever increasing growth, ultra-High Selves, the magnitude of which is uncertain and whose verity we, in our humanity, are not able to grasp. In addition to the individual High Selves, we have them as a united or group order, the “Great Company of Aumakuas.” The High Self follows the law in that it cares for its own. In fact, the more evolved a person is, the better his High Self loves and cares for its child. Here we see the importance of allowing ourselves to be reared under the protection of this “Utterly Trustworthy Parental Spirit.” On a lower level, we learn to love in a selfish and personal fashion. But as High Selves the love becomes perfected and selfless, as does the ideal love of the man and the woman. This is the second great teaching of the Four Gospels. It is the “marriage made in heaven” and to gain it we have to learn to love more perfectly. Moreover, during past incarnations, true mates are born into the same group at about the same time so that they can meet each other and continue the task of learning to love more perfectly. Many life readings, for example, are beginning to show trends in behavioral patterns among people who return to find that in this incarnation they are with the same person that they had in several preceding incarnations. We seem to come back as wife and husband or as members of the same family or as lovers. We have to overcome such things as sexual rivalry, which causes the “war between the sexes” and is really the instinctive effort of the couple to break down the differences between them and to get ready to blend and make a High Self. Each incarnation gives the soul a different slant on the concept of love. As children of the same family one learns brotherly love, or as man and wife, friend to friend — each atmosphere creates for itself a learning situation.
In a symbolic way, the union of men and women in this dimension illustrates the union of the male and female parts that go to make the High Self. Another interesting piece of symbology lies in the literature and the poetry that abounds in this world. It talks about the search for perfect love, a perfect mate. For the majority of people, it would seem that this “dream” is only far away and better left for others. But still the constant search goes on for a degree of perfection. The search reveals that men inherently feel the need to be selfless but are bound by the properties of this physical world. But if we find the true mate under the most ideal circumstances, the love is difficult to make perfect for the Deep Self of each of us is like “a little brother who hides under the sofa when his sister is courting.” It rules the body and while the Middle Self may be more than satisfactory in its likes and dislikes and its intellectual approach, the physical of each of us may be out of step and ready to clash. Fortunate, indeed, is the pair whose Deep Selves go together. Still, we see instances where the love surmounts physical defects and endures despite the physical handicaps of emotions. Within the degrees of love, most of us can feel compassion for another, love for the animal, love of comradeship and love for a spouse.
One of the most rewarding teachings of Huna is the one that talks about the inability of the High Self to hurt and, in turn, be hurt. This non-judgmental ability is, I think, the most perfect example of selfless love. It is the parent confessor and the solution bearer. The Kahunas taught that the only sin was that of hurting another. Nothing else one might do counted in this respect. This doctrine of “No Hurt–No Sin” applies, of course, to the Deep and Middle Selves.
Religions have laid a vast burden of sins on the people, effectively preventing the parishioner from knowing himself. The redoubtable St. Paul, believing every word he uttered, expressed most of the dogmas of sin, thus establishing for himself the aura of infallibility. His support of the idea that Jesus was crucified to save the world from the original sin of Adam and Eve still outweighs the best persuasions of a more enlightened psychology. People everywhere seem to like being frightened. The day of the horror movie still flourishes. But if we can take a Huna viewpoint, we can see that it is the High Self of each man who has the record of life events as its man has evolved from his depths to culminate in his High Self. If it is the lower selves who can hurt and destroy love, then it can be an act of willful hurting on the part of the Middle Self, for as Huna students learn to accept, Will and Decision are indeed the most powerful attributes of the Middle Self. Yet, something within us suffers guilt pangs if we do something unjust or refuse help when we could have given it. What is the conscience? I submit that it is the unrecognized memories of all past experiences — the experiences that lie within the Deep Self from past incarnations — those experiences that have still to be dealt with and as yet, are not worthy of belonging within the sphere of the High Self. We do not have the ability always to remember consciously, but as each situation confronts us, we subconsciously recall what happened when we hurt another. Like Napoleon, when he had conquered Egypt and went to stand before the Great Pyramid, and the Sphinx saying, “Five thousand years look down upon us…” We stand with such consciences as we have developed and may say, “Five thousand years of life and experience are now breathing down my neck every time I am tempted to do something that is not worthy of the best that is in me.”
The lesson is then taught that one of the greatest stumbling blocks to inner growth and progress is self-righteousness and the desire to claim a reward for good deeds done. In this story, God did not respond when Jesus asked his reward, but rather deserted him as he cried out from the cross, “Why hast Thou forsaken me?” The drama makers could not have written anything more telling in their effort to teach the lesson of selfless service and love. However, I sense here a conflict. We have talked about self less love or love for and by the High Self. I must point out a very important side-note. By talking about this kind of love, I do not mean to discredit anything that has gone before. Each man must bring for himself only the very best. Perhaps the most striking example is financial help. Although this may appear contradictory it is, in fact, not at all. To bring only the very best for oneself is a selfless act for it presupposes belief in the High Self and presupposes that by requesting High Self aid in the matter will bring about a desired change in the man thus making him more adaptable toward others.
Our Middle Selves are essentially responsible for any blockages that may occur in ‘George.’ But great solace can be found in the realization of our dualism. On one hand, we have the foibles and fears and good points to work on, plus the will to carry them out and on the other hand we have the far-seeing ability to effect that will. Our dualism accounts for the lives we lead and, as well, will account for our ultimate perfection as selfless, loving High Selves.
I will end by quoting Dr. Walter Russell (from a book entitled The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe, by Glenn Clark): “Inspiration comes only to those who seek it with humility toward their own achievements and reverence toward the achievements of God. With love of your work, love of life and reverence for the universal force which gives you unlimited power for the asking, you may sit on the top of the world if you desire to sit there. Flashes of inspiration come only to those who plug into the universe and become harmonious with its rhythms by communion with it. Inspiration and intuition is the language of Light through which men and God intercommunicate… Ask and you shall receive. You must, yourself, do the asking. In my philosophy is a passage which reads, “Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.”
We welcome Kathy as a contributor to the HUNA VISTAS Newsletter. We hope the above article will be followed by others. Kathy is one of the Konway Klan (Sheila Conway’s daughter) and is part of the Huna teaching program of our new HRA Affiliate in Toronto/Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. My second visit to Canada took place Nov. 30 & Dec. 1, and we had a very successful Huna Workshop. I gave a lecture and two workshops. –E.O.W.
BOOK REVIEW
by J. Will McClure
Ott, John N., Health and Light (Old Greenwich, Conn., The Devin-Adair Co., 1973), xiv + 208 pp., illustrations, bibliographical appendix, index. $7.50.
John N. Ott is a pioneer in light research. He is the man who developed time-lapse photography, the story of which is found in his earlier book, My Ivory Cellar. He is noted for his “dancing flowers” in the Walt Disney production, “Secrets of Life,” and also Paramount’s “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.”
While working with “time-lapse” photography in plant growth, Mr. Ott discovered that plant life will respond differently under different forms and colors of light. What we know as colors make up only a part of the spectrum and the rays’ lengths determine their proper place in the spectrum. There are basically three different types of rays. The shorter rays, to which the eye is sensitive, are called ultraviolet. Those beyond human perception and longer are infrared. Wavelengths shorter than ultraviolet and longer than infrared are usually referred to as radiant energy and can be found in total darkness.
While working with plant life, the author became stricken with arthritis in his hip. It became more and more serious until one day when he accidently broke his glasses. While waiting for a new pair and working outdoors with his plants, the arthritis disappeared! Could there be some connection between light and the human eye?
He began by working with test mice. He observed their growth and behavior under various colors and sources of light. The ordinary incandescent light was found to contain virtually no ultraviolet, to which the eye is sensitive, but produces its maximum energy in the infrared wavelengths. Sunlight is a broad, continuous spectrum, peaking a little in the blue-green. The incandescent light produces little blue-green and mostly red or pink. Under this source of light the mice became extremely hyperactive and even hostile. The other light source used, besides natural sunlight, was fluorescent. This works on a mercury vapor principle and produces some of the ultraviolet wavelengths, but varies with the type of phosphor and glass tint. This source was found to be far better than the incandescent, but still lacking in many of the ultraviolet wavelengths. It must also be noted that fluorescent lighting has been found to be extremely irritating to the human nervous system (see Jerome Eden’s books on this).
Noticing that the color and texture of the material used in the light sources would affect the rays as they were transmitted through it, he began working with the idea that windows and eyeglasses might block out this ultraviolet light that seemed so important to us. For years there had been known that the retina has a layer of cells, known as “Pigment Epithelial” cells that are thought to have no visibility function. Mr. Ott believes that light received through this layer of cells must stimulate the pituitary or pineal gland, influencing body chemistry by the characteristics of the light energy received.
(“Research has now demonstrated that the full spectrum of sunlight is important to stimulate man’s endocrine system.” p. ix.) In one study, he advised cancer patients to go without glasses while outdoors and to stay away from windows and TV sets. The cancer growth seemed to stop and even disappear in minor cases. He advised parents with hyperactive children to keep them free of TV sets, windows and eyeglasses and found that these children began to live normal lives again.
In spite of precautions by the manufacturers, television sets still put off a form of radiation. Mr. Ott has discovered that this radiation is very harmful. Using mice again, he found that exposure of seven hours a day for thirteen days killed a large majority of test mice. This radiation is capable of penetrating walls at a distance of 15 ft. The only thing found to block this radiation out was a sheet of iron 1/16″ thick.
When Dr. William A. Ellis, a fellow HRA, was in Cape Girardeau, he told us that this radiation can be controlled by tying a piece of insulated copper wire around the bottom of the TV set with the ends of the wire pointing out at the back, away from the set.
Another interesting discovery of Mr. Ott’s is in the relationship between the circadian rhythms or the so-called biological clock system in plant life and in human life. What the human eye does not see is generally thought of as darkness. The author has found that certain plants need a form of energy found only at night, just as man needs sleep. Bright lights in the middle of our sleep can offset this rhythm. It might be a good idea to use a soft-colored light as a “night light”, preferably a blue-green color.
Under the supervision of Mr. Ott, the Duro-Test Corp. has developed a light source that, for the first time in history, “virtually duplicates daylight.” They are a fluorescent, type, called “Vita-Lites,” and will fit regular fluorescent fixtures.
While Mr. Ott has some very interesting ideas, he also says that much more research needs to be done on the subject of light. This book is a very good place to start your research, and it is highly recommended.
Again I am pleased to welcome a new contributor to the HUNA VISTAS Newsletter. Will McClure is one of our newest, but most active HRAs and one of my best helpers. He is a Life Member of Huna Research Associates.
After reading Mr. Ott’s book, I searched for a supplier of Vita-Lites, and finally found that they could be ordered from Edmund Scientific Co., whose address is 150 Edscorp Bldg., Barrington, NJ 08007. Though more expensive than ordinary fluorescent, they should be well worth the price. I replaced all the incandescent lighting in my study with four Vita-Lites in two fixtures. Besides being a much more pleasant and brighter light, I was able to reduce the wattage by TWO-THIRDS! I should be able to report much better health and stamina from the long hours I spend under these new lights here in the Study.
If you try the Vita-Lites, report any results to HRA. They are of course excellent for growing plants indoors. But we should be more concerned with growing people — healthy people! — E.O.W.
CORRESPONDENCE
I am beginning to have a better idea of what Max meant when he expressed the desire to share the many gems of wisdom, information, questions, and ideas from the correspondence. Many new friends, as well as long-time HRAs, write and often the only way to do justice to their ideas is to quote the entire letter! Obvious space limitations prevent that. But I enjoy every letter (and eventually get some sort of reply sent off in return). Keep in mind that it always helps to state that a reply is not needed or to enclose a stamped and addressed LONG envelope.
EDWARD S. SCHULTZ, Buffalo, N.Y., keeps me posted on all the latest researches and we had a marvelous SEVEN-HOUR visit on Nov. 29, when I was again on my way to speak in Canada. This time I had the privilege of meeting his wife, Libby. ANOTHER IDEA has been proposed by E.S.S. — GIFT MEMBERSHIPS in HRA. If you have friends or family members who might be interested, send in a gift membership and let them try us out for a year and then continue if they wish. As usual, Edward acted on his own suggestion and sent in a Gift Membership for his wife! He also wrote of an acquaintance (a doctoral candidate in science) who is working on “a project for electronic detection and amplification of Prana, and since Prana and Mana are quite equivalent the matter has interesting implications.”
ESTHER HOWARTH, St. Petersburg, Fla., writes (among other many interesting things): “In thinking about contact with the High Self, I am more and more convinced that the degree and quality of healing depend upon not only an unblocked path, but on the individual’s spiritual development — the greater the development, the mightier the works, and we can’t get away from that.”
H.R. READ, England, one of our most informative correspondents, writes of some experiments in dowsing and use of the pendulum with two friends (who are also HRAs), and also mentions a number of important books for us to look into, such as Howard Murphet’s book, Sai Baba–Man of Miracles. Have you seen it?
ARTICLE IN MAGAZINE, BEYOND REALITY, January/February, 1975, pp. 15-17, 54, has attracted some attention and brought inquiries by telephone and by mail, in spite of the fact that my address was not given. I am still getting letters from former Huna students who were not aware that HRA is still going strong. Others see the Huna books and eventually contact us.
I wonder how many others try and do not find HRA. A recent letter mentioned that HRA was discovered from a book called A Spacewoman Speaks by Ralf Telano, a book I have never heard of. Have you?
A new member, RODNEY RAINES, Concord, Calif., has been using Huna in teaching courses at his Church of Inner Wisdom, and had the impression that HRA had been discontinued.
DAVID BEAULIEU, D.C., Kansas City, Mo., wrote recently: “I received a telephone call yesterday from a young man, Dan Punzak, informing me that H.R.A. was alive and well… About four years ago I attempted to get information on the H.R.A. and came up with a big zero. Since then I have been immersed in the philosophy enough to offer courses in same. In fact, Mr. Punzak contacted me because of a notice he saw in a free university catalogue describing an up coming course.”
CERES ELISA DA FONSECA ROSAS, a Huna teacher, group leader, and TRANSLATOR of the Huna Correspondence Course into PORTUGUESE, has been leading a group of eleven Huna students in Sao Paulo, BRAZIL. After taking the Letters on Huna course of twelve lessons, Ceres Elisa translated them so that her non-English friends could share them. Now these have joined in a group, meeting monthly to study the lessons together and to prepare a schedule of prayer/action for the group. We can expect to hear many good things from this group in the future.
Artist GEORGIA DOTSON, Whittier, Calif., who will not mind my telling that she is 90 years of age, has painted a beautiful meditation scene for the Study. Here it hangs above my desk for me to look at any time I want to. Georgia pulled a little trick on me — in cahoots with HRA Lana Fine — she finagled some information out of me as to the type of scene I liked. Then her grandson took her out to the beach, where she painted the lovely ocean scene off Cambria short (“where I spent ten of the happiest of my 90-long-years,” she says). Remarkably, it resembles a tinted photograph made by Max Freedom Long some fifty years ago. I have them hanging together on my wall and both are real treasures.
HOWARD B. SPROUSE, Atlanta, Georgia, writes: “Traveling seven states as I do gives me an opportunity to touch base with other HRA members. Perhaps you would be kind enough to have HRAs and groups contact me. Here in Atlanta I know several people who have read Huna, but have not really followed up on it. Perhaps I can get some activity generated here.” Here is a good opportunity for you.
