Max Freedom Long
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Max Freedom Long (b. 1890 d. 1971) was an American teacher and philosopher.
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[edit] Early career
Shortly after graduating from UCLA in 1917, Long was sent to Hawaii to teach Native Hawaiian children. When he arrived, he was surprised to find that the Hawaiian Kahunas still practiced traditional magic. At first, he was skeptical of the Kahunas' magic, but after learning from Dr. William Tufts Brigham first Director and Curator of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu, he became convinced that the Kahunas' magic worked. He would devote the rest of his life to studying the methods behind the magic and teaching it to others.
[edit] Invention of Huna
Long called his teachings Huna. He became a fire-walker and a miracle worker. Long founded the Huna Fellowship in 1945 and, starting in 1948, published a series of books on Huna that are still in print. The inner circle of Huna is called the Huna Research Associates. The Huna Church was chartered as The Huna Fellowship by the government of the State of California.
Long's books on Huna brought many researchers of the religious or supernatural to assist him in the development of the Huna theology. Long has many imitators, who publish, offer seminars, spiritual counseling, healing, and massage. But they don't teach actual Huna, they teach their own teachings, which in the main, are benign.
[edit] Origin of the name Huna
In Hawaiian, Huna simply means "hidden". Polynesian tongues do not distinguish proper nouns as English does[citation needed]. The religious teachings of “Huna” is how they are named in English. In Polynesian, “huna” means dust or secret, whereas "`o huna" means the proper name of Max Freedom Longs theory and teachings. The Polynesian “huna” does not seem to have been used for a tradition of esoteric learning. In Pukui and Ebert's Hawaiian Dictionary, it is cited in compounds like lua huna, meaning "secret cave". It may have been chosen because it seems to be part of the word kahuna, which is widely used to mean "Hawaiian sorcerer". It is the teaching of the Huna religion that “kahuna” is a contraction of two other words or “Eyes of God”, “kahu” (keeper, servant) and “huna” (secret or dust). So while the word in the Polynesian languages means any priest, rabbi, imam, etc, the word has the eyes of god looking out of it, as all sacred languages do, to speak the word, “kahuna” is to speak “Priest or Minister, or Reverend, or Pastor, etc.”, but to have echo in the mind of the speaker and the listener, “a keeper of secrets”.
Huna's adherents encourage remembrance of these elders by all, and honoring of them for their contributions to Huna.
[edit] Books by Max Freedom Long
- The Secret Science Behind Miracles, 1948 (ISBN:0875160476)
- Mana or Vital Force, 1949
- Secret Science at Work, 1953 (ISBN:0875160468)
- Growing into Light, 1955 (ISBN:0875160433)
- Self-Suggestion and The New Huna Theory of Mesmerism and Hypnosis, 1958
- Huna Code in Religions, 1965 (ISBN:0875164951)
- Short Talks on Huna, 1978 (ISBN:0910764026)
- Recovering the Ancient Magic, 1978 (ISBN:0910764018)
- What Jesus Taught in Secret, 1983 (ISBN:0875165109)
- Tarot Card Symbology, 1983 (ISBN:0910764077)
- Psychometric Analysis
