Posted by Fred on December 10, 2000 at 20:02:23:
On beginning the study of Huna:
As you must know, the very fact that you can have
claimed a part in this work sets you off as one in a
thousand. Only a very few are able to stand on
their own feet and make a calm study of what seems to
be contrary religious or psychological beliefs. The
vast majority of mankind become frozen mentally into
the mold of one religion or other, or of one scientific
approach. And, once their minds are set in those
molds, they become blind and even violently
antagonistic to all that does not agree.
This holds for politics as well as religion. It holds
for race prejudices, and even schools of scientific
thought. Psychologists are a fine example of blindness
in high places. They fought the concept of the
subconscious" and they fight the facts of psychic
science just as bitterly today as they did twenty-five
years ago.
I therefore congratulate you most heartily on being in
the fold, so to speak, and able to weigh the materials
of Huna calmly and without strange emotional flare of
angry rejection which marks nearly every one – without
that flare-up that marks the intellectually childish
and immature, even when they are most highly educated.