The Secret Science Behind Miracles
Unveiling the Huna Tradition of the Ancient Polynesians
Max Freedom Long
© Copyright by Max Freedom Long, 1948, 1976
Published by DeVorss Publications, Twenty-second printing, 2002
"I arrived in Hawaii in 1917, and took a teaching position that
placed me near the volcano, Kileauea, which was very active at the time.
The school was one of three rooms and stood in a lonely valley between a
great sugar plantation and a ranch.
The two teachers under me were both Hawaiian, and it was only natural
that I soon began to know more about their Hawaiian friends. From there I
began to hear guarded references to native magicians, the "kahuna's,"
or "Keepers of the Secret."
With my background in psychology, my curiosity became aroused and I
began to ask questions."
- Max Freedom Long
This was the beginning of Max Freedom Long's research into the
Huna tradition of the ancient Polynesians. The field of his study was
Hawaii, geographically the most isolated part of Polynesia. It was a
virgin field because, in spite of the powers of Kahunas, anthropologists
discarded their work as "superstition" and missionaries disapproved of
their "miracles."
His work not only resulted in The Secret Science Behind Miracles,
a study of the Huna Tradition, but also provided personal
guidelines for self-improvement and exposed correlations between the
Huna faith and religions of today as he further explained in The
Secret Science at Work and The Huna Code in Religions.
(The text above comes from the back of the book)