Editing Huna (New Age) (section)

==History==
Max Freedom Long went to Hawaii in 1917 to work as an elementary school teacher. He became interested in the religious beliefs and practices of the ancient [[kahuna]]s and modern practitioners of traditional, indigenous Hawaiian religion, but none of the ceremonial people talked to him so he was unable to penetrate to the inner workings of this religion. In the [[Hawaiian language]], the term ''[[kahuna]]'' is used for any expert. Kahuna include experts in diagnosing illness, herbal medicine, canoe building, temple building, wood carving, star-gazing, agriculture, and others.<ref name=Kamakua6-7>Kamakua, Samuel. ''The People of Old: Ka Po'e Kahiko,'' (Bishop Museum Press,1991) pp. 6–7</ref>

Long left Hawaii in 1931, convinced that he would never learn these secrets. In 1934, he woke with a revelation that the secrets were encoded into the Hawaiian language itself. He called the religious system he developed from this revelation ''Huna'' (the [[Hawaiian language|Hawaiian]] word for secret), and wrote his first book in 1936 to chronicle his beliefs.

In 1945 Long founded Huna Research. In 1953, he published ''The Secret Science at Work'' as a Huna textbook, and in 1965 ''The Huna Codes in Religions'', examining parallels between his invented system and religions such as [[Hinduism]], [[Buddhism]] and [[Christianity]].<ref name = lewis/>