Posted by Lani on August 08, 2000 at 22:44:08:
In Reply to: HUNA posted by Kenneth Carr on August 08, 2000 at 04:55:27:
Aloha Ken,
Boy you sure know how to make a guy remember things.
I haven't thought of these things for years. Mahalo.
Anyway, talking about Dr. Stanley Russell's lecture on the Huna Heiau at the HRI Conference at Marina Del Rey got me to remember when I first met him, he and his buds Dr. Murray Korngold and Dr. Lana Clark.
Otha had invited me to give a workshop on Psychometric Analysis at the HRI Conference in San Francisco. It seems that I was the only one left alive in the HRI who had actually been trained in it. And that by Max Freedom Long himself who was trained by Kahuna Oscar Brunler, MD the founder of thus Huna Priestcraft.
Anywho, at the end of one of my demonstrations and lectures on it, these three folks came up to me. I had done at least one of their PAs in the lecture, and it had been accurate. As Otha's had been some weeks before.
Dr. Korngold called me a Huna Facist. "A Facist?" I excclaimed.
He then told me that they were on their way out of the conference and had just sdtopped by my room by accident. The other lectures they had attended had made Huna into something indistinguishable from New Age Metaphysics.
I was the only one who mader it into a unique and valuable system. And one of the things I did was to affirm that what I was teaching, and that if anyone had any other POV, then they were wrong! So they had stayed to find out what Huna was really about.
Speaking of Psychometric Analysis, and if you have a complete set of the Huna Work newsletter, you can find my article on Psychometric Alanysis.
And see? That reminds me of soimething else.
While you're at it, Otha devoted an entire issue on "The Professional Huna Healer" article I wrote for him. It takes up the ENTIRE issue!
Boy, did the defication hit the fan over that one! And first of all, I very much tempered down my real POV that Huna is a religion. And Otha needed to edit about a third out of it to make it fir the magazine. And so he tempered it even more.
Nevertheless, Otha told me that there had been many resignations from the HRI over that issue. And then I got into a series of very hostile correspondance with HRI's G.B. rep. One Severing Harding, or vice versa.
I didn't understand POVs then. I would just have flamed him and went onward. Nowadays I would try to be gentle.
But man, things were really getting flaky for poor ole dedicated Otha. I was really hindering the HRI with my simple presense.
Didn't want to be. Wanted to even put my organization under the auspices of the HRI.
But over and over again I ran into making others so uncomfortable and from that discomfort, hostile.
Max had the same problem. He had originally designed the Huna organizations along the lines of what Holmes did with his, "Holmes Center for the Investigation of Wholeistic Healing", supporting his "Church of Religious Science".
But whereas Holmes had had his Church dominate its membership, Max established his HRA and Fellowship of Huna Fellows. Wheich never could fly.
Max tried several times to restructure the HRA anolg religious lines, but everyone threatened mass resignations.
Max turned to me, and I was SO immature. He said he was going to write about me in the Huna Vistas, but died too soon thereafter.
Now at 55, I'm still unsure of how to bring this all together.
But, at least, a relief from Max. It is illegal to "heal" anyone unless one is licnsed by the State, or ordained.
I am ordained, thaks to Max old friend, Rev. Fred Kimball, founder of the Huna Lore, Clairesthesia.
And the Kahunas I have trained to be healers are all ordained. So they all have legal sanction to heal and do those other things common to Kahunas (Prists).
If you read my article on the Professional Huna Healer, I'd be interested to see what you think of it.
But, of course, I'm semi-retired. Will remain so until the Heiau Institute of Huna Studies opens its Seminary. Then I'll spend the rest of my days in teaching Huna.
Meanwhile back at the ranch: Huna is a religion. Max Freedom Long and Kahuna Lani
Aloha.