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## What Would happen If We Combined Quotes From Walter Russell and Viktor Schauberger As If EACH Were Having A
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– Viktor Schauberger: Our work is the embodiment of our will. The spiritual manifestation of this work is its effect. When such work is properly done it brings happiness, and when carried out incorrectly it assuredly brings misery. Humanity! Your will is paramount! You can command Nature if you but obey her!
– Walter Russell: You may command Nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her. You cannot intelligently obey that which you do not comprehend. Therefore I also say, ask of Nature that you may be one with her and she will whisper her secrets to you to the extent in which you are prepared to listen. Seek to be alone much to commune with Nature and be thus inspired by her mighty whisperings within your consciousness. Nature is a most jealous god, for she will not whisper her inspiring revelations to you unless you are absolutely alone with her.
– Walter Russell: Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and thus to come closer to the truth; a truth that I was unable to discover either at school or in church.
– Viktor Schauberger: To Be or Not to Be: In Nature all life is a question of the minutest, but extremely precisely graduated differences in the particular thermal motion within every single body, which continually changes in rhythm with the processes of pulsation. This unique law, which manifests itself throughout Natures vastness and unity and expresses itself in every creature and organism, is the law of ceaseless cycles that in every organism is linked to a certain time span and a particular tempo. The slightest disturbance of this harmony can lead to the most disastrous consequences for the major life forms. In order to preserve this state of equilibrium, it is vital that the characteristic inner temperature of each of the millions of micro-organisms contained in the macro-organisms be maintained.
– Walter Russell: The underlying principle of Balance in Natures One Law is equality of interchange between the pairs of opposites in any transaction in Nature. [Beauty is] Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of thought and action. If one interprets the God within one, ones thoughts and actions must be balanced rhythmic waves. Ugliness, fears, failures and diseases arise from unbalanced thoughts and actions. Therefore think beauty always if one desire vitality of body and happiness.
– Walter Russell: Periodicity is a characteristic of all phenomena of nature.
– Viktor Schauberger: Nature is not served by rigid laws, but by rhythmical, reciprocal processes. Nature uses none of the preconditions of the chemist or the physicist for the purposes of evolution. Nature excludes all fire, on principle, for purposes of growth; therefore all contemporary machines are unnatural and constructed according to false premises. Nature avails herself of the biodynamic form of motion through which the biological prerequisite for the emergence of life is provided. Its purpose is to ur-procreate higher conditions of matter out of the originally inferior raw materials, which afford the evolutionally older, or the numerically greater rising generation, the possibility of a constant capacity to evolve, for without any growing and increasing reserves of energy there would be no evolution or development. This results first and foremost in the collapse of the so-called Law of the Conservation of Energy, and in further consequence the Law of Gravity, and all other dogmatic lose any rational or practical basis.
– Viktor Schauberger: The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly to the heart.
– Walter Russell: Knowledge in not acquired from without but merely recollected from within. The recollection of knowledge from within is an electro-magnetic process of thinking Mind which is as exactly under mans control as is the generation of the same power to turn the wheel.
– Viktor Schauberger: …As time passed I began to play a game with waters secret powers; I surrendered my so-called free consciousness and allowed the water to take possession of it for a while. Little by little this game turned into a profoundly earnest endeavor, because I realized that one could detach ones own consciousness from the body and attach it to that of the water. When my own consciousness was eventually returned to me, then the waters most deeply concealed psyche often revealed the most extraordinary things to me. As a result of this investigation, a researcher was born who could dispatch his consciousness on a voyage of discovery, as it were. In this way I was able to experience things that had escaped other peoples notice, because they were unaware that a human being is able to send forth his free consciousness into those places the eyes cannot see. By practising this blindfolded vision, I eventually developed a bond with mysterious Nature, whose essential being I then slowly learnt to perceive and understand…
– Walter Russell: Naturally, the entirety of the secrets of Creation were mine to know as a complete and consistent cosmogony, which knowing enabled me to envision the universe as a whole. Underlying the creative process of the universe was a fundamental principle of such simplicity that I felt that I could gather the great scientists of the world together and give them that entire principle in a few minutes, for I had been aware that for decades science has been searching for such an underlying principle, which would apply to all phenomena.
This I prepared to do by purchasing a textbook of science to familiarize myself with the present state of scientific knowledge, for before my illumination I knew nothing whatsoever of science. To my amazement I found that the entire cosmogenetic theory of science was so unlike God and Nature, that, while reading it, I felt that these laws, hypotheses, and other conclusions could not possibly have been written by men of our day, for they were so far afield from fact they seemed more like the conjuring of ancient sages who told of the flat earth upheld at its four corners by huge elephants as their cosmogenetic concept.
– Viktor Schauberger: Todays science thinks too primitively; indeed it could be said that its thinking is an octave too low. It has still not ventured far enough into the realm of energy, and its attitude has remained development was necessary, for how else should a misguided humanity perceive the true interdependencies?
– Walter Russell: Every pair of opposites is divided by an equilibrium which is a balance between the two, but that balance is nit either of the two. Sodium-chloride is an equilibrium which voids both sodium and chlorine, for neither is present in it. Likewise, water is the equator which voids hydrogen and oxygen. All opposites of all kinds extend from a mutual equator which is their common unity, and to that equator they must eventually return in order to repeat. Every pair must become one in order to again become two. Men and women do not escape this two-way reciprocatve law. Each becomes what the other is. Both are always compromising each others unbalance. If the two unbalances are equal and opposite, each type will survive and grow mentally, spiritually and physically. If the two unbalanced mates are unequal in their opposition, the penalty is degeneration mentally, spiritually and physically. The quality of one mate is a compromise with the quality of the other. The pattern resulting from this spiritual, mental and moral development is compromised for good or bad by every contact between them no matter how slight. This is true even outside the sex union.
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## The Macrobiotic Genius Of Walter Russell, By John David Mann
The Times of July 21 [1930] contains an article stating that Walter Russell challenges the Newtonian theory of gravitation. This artist, who is admittedly not a scientist, goes on to say that the fundamentals of science are so hopelessly wrong and so contrary to nature, that nothing but a major surgical operation upon the present primitive beliefs can ever put them in line for a workable cosmogenetic synthesis… It seems to me it would be more fitting for an artist of Mr. Russells acknowledged distinction in his own field, to remain in it, and not go trespassing on ground which even angels fear to tread.
For nearly three hundred years no one, not even a scientist, has had the temerity to question Newtons laws of gravitation. Such an act on the part of a scientist would be akin to blasphemy, and for an artist to commit such an absurdity is, to treat it kindly, an evidence of either misguidance or crass ignorance of the enormity of his act…
· Dr. John E. Jackson, The New York Times, August 3, 1930.
Dr. John E. Jacksons letter to you, a copy of which he graciously sent to me, is a perfectly natural letter of resentment for which I do not blame him in the least. It is true that I have challenged the accurateness or completeness of the Newtonian laws of gravitation, and will just as vigorously attack the other sacred laws of Kepler, and any others, ancient or modern, that need rewriting…I am sorry an artist had to do it, but Sir Oliver Lodge said that no scientist could make the supreme discovery of the one thing for which science is looking and hoping. He said that such a discovery would have to be the supreme inspiration of some poet, painter, philosopher or saint…Newton, for example, would have solved the other half of the gravitation problem if he had found out how that apple and the tree upon which it grew got up in the air before the apple fell. I challenge the world of science to correctly and completely answer that question…
· Dr. Walter Russell, The New York Times, August 17, 1930.
I now wish to modify my statements and criticisms, for, since writing that letter, my viewpoint has somewhat changed… What I considered to be the overnight inspiration of a crank might be, instead, the result of an intelligent and prolonged study of Nature." I am immensely intrigued by Russells two-way principle, for it gives this universe of motion a meaning to me that it did not have before. In fact, we know very little of the why of anything…" Why did not some scientist think of this instead of waiting 300 years for an artist to tell us about it?… I invite the collaboration and criticism of my fellow scientists at large to join me in this… If Russell is right, and he surely thinks he is, his claim that science needs a major surgical operation is justifiable…
· Dr. John E. Jackson, The New York Times, November 9, 1930.
Dr. John E. Jackson was furious. What educated person would have the audacity to challenge Newton and Kepler? For months the debate raged in the New York Times Letters page. Prompted by the release of an artists heretical views on science, Nature and the universe, the Times 1930 filibuster culminated in Dr. Jacksons dramatic reversalwhat began as a caustic attack was transformed into a call for his colleagues support that had the fervent ring of religious conversion. Dr. Jackson, whoever he was, had caught a glimmer of the genius of Walter Russell. But in the end, Dr. Jackson notwithstanding, the world of science did not embrace Walter Russell, nor have sixty years of progress changed that position. Today, despite the wide sphere of contacts and influence generated by Russell and his wife and colleague, Lao, their teachings largely await unearthing. However, the time for that rediscovery may be at hand; for the Russells vision suddenly has burning relevance to an acknowledged urgent matter of global health. And the role of advocate for the Russell perspective may best be fulfilled by those in the macrobiotic movementfor the macrobiotic world view and Russells practical cosmology have much in common.
# Cloud Over the Ozone: Our story begins some ten miles above the Earths surface in the stratosphere, home of the planets ailing ozone skin and birthplace of the emerging global awareness of the limits of mans technology. In 1974, two scientists at the University of California made an announcement that shocked the world. When Drs. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina warned of possible global ozone depletion, they touched off a controversy that was to involve scientists, industry, policy-makers, the press and the public. The Ozone War, as it came to be called, was principally responsible for ushering in a new era of planetary policy.
Fifteen years later, the ponderous gears of human response are finally grinding into action. Aimed at coping with the infamous ozone hole, a spate of local and global policy-making is pushing its way forward in an unprecedented atmosphere of international cooperation. Rep. Al Gore (D-TN), the seasoned environmental advocate who helped uncover Love Canal and has stalked the Greenhouse effect for years, recently introduced legislation to ban production of CFCs (the chemical generally thought responsible for the ozone crisis) within 5 years. As Gore observed this February:
The political sentiment is changing very rapidly… I think people are mad about this and ready for dramatic action. But are they the right actions? Not according to Walter Russell, who predicted the ozone dilemma 35 years agoa full 20 years before the Rowland/Molina research made headlinesand ascribed it to an entirely different cause.
If Russells views were correct, then the chlorine chemistry of CFCs is not the prime culprit, and no one is looking in the one direction that matters most. In fact, according to Russell, there is one overarching solution to the atmospheric emergency: stop making nuclear stockpiles immediately.
# A Different Scenario: The year is 1954. Sherwood Rowlands ozone prognosis is two decades in the future; Three Mile Island is a quarter century still to come. To most of us, the Greenhouse effect connotes little more than a better way to grow tomatoes. The word ecology scarcely exists in the mainstream lexicon. This is the year atmospheric bomb testing has begun, both by the Soviet Union in Siberia and by the United States on the Bikini atoll. John Wayne and a company of actors and movie personnel are filming a Western in Nevada, and emerge from long days of shooting covered with radioactive fallout. Years later, it will be discovered that nearly all of them have just received a death sentence. But all of that is many years away; for now, most of us are caught up in the promise of Eisenhowers Atoms for Peace.
This year, Walter and Lao Russell write their warning in a privately circulated newsletter to their students: Oxygen and radioactive stockpiles cannot coexist. Digging up the Earths heavier elements, concentrating their reactions and releasing their products into the atmosphere is a recipe for disaster. Three years later the Russells publish a book, Atomic Suicide?, whose principle message is that the development of the nuclear weaponry and industry, if allowed to continue, will eventually destroy the planets oxygen.
The element of surprise which could delay the discovery of the great danger, and thus allow more plutonium piles to come into existence, is the fact that scientists are looking near the ground for fallout dangers and other radioactive menaces. The greatest radioactive dangers are accumulating from eight to twelve miles up [in the stratosphere]. The upper atmosphere is already charged with death-dealing radioactivity, for which it not yet sent us its bill. It is slowly coming, however, and we will have to pay for it for another century, even if atomic energy plants ceased today. (Atomic Suicide?, page 18.) Later in the book, they predict that the oxygen-destroying effects of radiation would not be noticed until the late seventies.
# Atomic Prophesies: It was an uncannily accurate forecast: ozone depletion was first noticed over the Antarctic in 1982 — and scientists have since concluded that it first appeared in 1979. But then, as now, the Russells voice received little notice.
The somber prediction of Atomic Suicide? was not the first time Russell had gone out on a limb with scientific prophecy. His spiral charts of the atomic table, copyrighted in 1926, predicted the discovery of the transuranic elements Plutonium and Neptunium, as well as the now-familiar elements of heavy water, Deuterium and Tritiumyears before they were isolated in research labs.
Some have claimed that the 1926 Russell charts (for which he later received an honorary doctorate from the American Academy of Sciences) and his years of New York City lectures on the subject led directly to the laboratory research that resulted in these elements later discovery. It is difficult to document such a claim at a half centurys distance, but this sequence certainly is feasible. Russell himself evidently exerted considerable energy for years urging the research labs of Union Carbide, Westinghouse, General Electric and others to verify his atomic findings.
In any case, the exclusion from the mainstream of Russells charts is perhaps one of the most unfortunate snafus in the history of science. For in neglecting to credit Russell with these pivotal atomic discoveries, the world also lost track of the other side of the Russell equation: the larger scientific understanding in the spiral charts, the pragmatic warnings that accompanied them, and the breathtaking scope of macrobiotic thought his life and work revealed.
## Who Was Walter Russell?
Russells stunning achievements in science were but one facet of a career that was unconventional, astonishingly successful, dazzlingly versatile and unabashedly mystical. Often called the 20th Centurys Leonardo and the man who tapped the secrets of the universe, Russell maintained that a firm grasp of natures universal principles would permit anyone to excel in any area of endeavor; thus genius was all human beings birthright. His own accomplishments exemplify this belief. A largely self-taught Renaissance man, Russell carved out his first successful career as an artist, achieving international reputation in such diverse fields as portraiture, poetry, sculpture and architecture.
His accomplishments as a portrait painter and sculptor, in particular, won him commissions from dozens of era notables, such as Mark Twain, Thomas Watson (the founder of IBM), both Roosevelts (Teddy and FDR), and Thomas Edison. He also designed buildings and urban layoutNew York Citys famous Hotel Pierre, for example, is a Russell creation. Forays into the world of athletics earned him prestigious awards in figure-skating, horsemanship and race-horse training. To Russell, such bravura performance was significant mainly for its value as a demonstration that Divine Law and Balance could be tapped by human effort, and the world of art was only a starting point. Russells yearning to imbue the social fabric of his era with principles of universal justice led to his long association with the Twilight Club, a contemporary think tank of artists and social philosophers.
Through the Twilight Club, whose direction he assumed in 1895, Russell formed bonds that were to endure throughout his life; in the early decades of the century the work of the Twilight Club members, under the influence of Russells teaching of Divine Law and Universal Order, produced a virtually endless procession of social innovations, such as the creation of child labor laws and child welfare laws, Better Business Bureau and the elimination of sweatshops.
# The Living Universe: It was in science, however, that Russell left his least known and perhaps his greatest legacy. While steeped in the discoveries and frontiers of his own time, Russells science essentially is a thorough reworking of a Taoist or pre-Socratic world conception in modern terms. Freely blending mystic and religious imagery with rigorous mechanical logic, Russells scientific cosmology is rooted in the idea that all phenomena, from star systems to atomic systems, arise from the same infinite source to live, grow and die by precisely identical processes. Hence, there is no fundamental difference between animate and inanimate matter in Russells universeall are living manifestations of Gods universe.
All bodies in all the universe are the same in all respects, whether they are electrons, cells, rocks, metals, trees, men, planets or suns. All of them live and die in the same manner. All breathe in the charging breath of life and breathe out the discharging breath of death. All of them compress heat and polarize when they breathe in, and expand, cool and depolarize when they breathe out. (Atomic Suicide?, p. 9.)
Thus, Russells universal mechanics hinges on a reinterpretation of the ancient unified field theorem of yin and yang. Lifenot only biological life, but the existence of planets, gases and metals as wellis caused by increasing compression; and death, by expansion. These two processes, which he also terms charging and discharging, are not seen as separate forces but as opposite stages and directions of one process, much like the winding up and subsequent unwinding of a spring. Life dominates every form from its inception to the point of maximum compression, when the spring cannot be wound any tighter; compression then begins to decrease, radiation assumes dominance, and the process of releasing lifes chargeof dying unfolds.
To Russell, the elements of matter are also living entities in various stages of birth, growth and decay. Carbon, the basis of organic life, is the expression of matter at maturity; elements of higher atomic weights are already dominated by the aging side of the pendulums swing. In the heaviest elements, the force of decay reaches near-total dominance over the force of lifethus radioactivity is death incarnate. [See sidebar, The Spiral of Elements.]
# The Secret Life of Plutonium: The key to grasping Russells understanding of radioactivity and ozone is the realization that all the elements, like all life forms, are ideally suited to existence within their own natural, local ecology. Thus, all the elements, when left in their natural dimension, serve beneficial and life-giving purposes, including Uriumlater dubbed Plutonium.
Put another way, each octave or dimension of matter has its own natural pressure zone. [For an explanation of the octave idea, see the sidebar, The Spiral of Elements.] The five elements of organic life (C, H, N, O and Si) all need the normal pressures found at the Earths surface to exist normally. The natural dimension for the supercompressed, naturally radioactive elements (radium, uranium, plutonium, et al.) is deep underground, where they are widely dispersed in solid rock.
Here, far from being deadly or poisonous, they actually have made possible organic life on Earths surface: through billions of microscopic explosions, they have gradually caused the surrounding rocky crust to break down and release water and other lower-octave elementssomething like a geological compost. Water and soil are decayed and dying rock. They are, literally, dead rocks. Out of death in Nature life springs… Think of the hundreds of millions of years Nature has to work to decay solid rock and metal planets sufficiently to create enough decayed surface, and an atmosphere, for organic life to become possible. The radioactive metals made that possible. Radioactive metals are dead and dying bodies. They belong underground just as dead animal bodies belong underground. They are not poisons in their own environment… Man makes them poisonous by removing them from their purposeful environment.
Just as the slight decay of an overripe peach will not hurt you, while a fully decayed one might kill you, so, likewise, the overripe chemical elements of the earth which are not too far from carbon [potassium, selenium, iodine, etc.] will not hurt you, while the further they are beyond carbon the more deadly they become, and the more impossible it is to guard yourself from their quick death. (Atomic Suicide?)
In short, said the Russells, the only structures naturally suited to exist together with the radioactive elements are rocks. Even concrete, durable metals, glassified tombs or salt bedsstructures presently considered to contain high-level radioactive wasteswill eventually decay in proximity to the concentrated pressures of such supercompost. The soft tissues of the fourth and fifth octaves, including our bodies, vegetation and the atmosphere itself, certainly cannot endure such a powerful unwinding.
So, then, what would happen? In Russells estimation, the lighter pressures of the stratosphere would retain the majority of radioactive fallout, and would be the first region that would reveal the wholesale destruction of oxygen. Thats oxygen, not just ozone: if played through to the end, the last act of the nuclear drama would see the disappearance of all oxygen on the planet, whether as ozone, water or the O2 we breathe. In this context, the ozone hole, as serious as it is in its own right, emerges as an early warning sign.
# Our Depleted Personal Ozone: In addition to destroying ozone, Russells logic would also seem to predict other early effects, including the destruction of oxygen mechanisms within our bodies; for the body concentrates far more radiation within its tissues than exists freely in the atmosphere. Dr. Tim Binder, a leading spokesman for the Russells work, has postulated that radiation may affect the oxygen-ozone in our white blood cells that is one of the principal [immune system] mechanisms used to destroy pathogens. This line of thinking may already have been confirmed. For decades, a body of surprising data on health and radiation has been observed by a number of researchers, notably Dr. Alice Stewart in England and Dr. Ernest Sternglass in the US. Their figures show that long-term, relatively low-level level radiation may wreak up to 1,000 times more biological havoc than currently accepted risk levels predict. The mechanism responsible for this dramatic trend was first discovered in 1972 by a Canadian researcher named Abram Petkau, and has since been confirmed by other researchers. [This issues article by Sara Shannon details the Petkau effect and its dietary implicationsEd.] The little-publicized Petkau effect occurs through the creation of highly reactive oxygen molecules with a negative charge (the negative ion O2). But according to Russell, Nature produces no such thing as a negative charge. All matter, he maintained, exhibits both charging and discharging properties; and all charges, whether of male or female polarity, are positive. In Russells terms, what Petkau observed is not a highly reactive negative ion but a changed form of oxygen that is abnormally balanced towards discharging its energy rather than chargingunwinding rather than winding.
Thus, what Petkau first documented in 1972 and what Rowland and Molina first suggested two years later may prove to be precisely the same symptom, only on different scales. Perhaps we are already suffering from internal ozone depletion; or put another way, perhaps the Earths ozone crisis amounts to radiation burnGaia herself is already suffering from the Petkau effect.
# Rx For Disaster: A problem without solutions is not worth unearthing, and Russells life was centered on practical solutions. As an immediate measure, Russell recommended that all nuclear stockpiles be dismantled and their materials dispersed in deep desert trenches. His reasoning here is three-fold. First, the goal ought to be to return these elements to their natural contextthat is, undergroundwhere they originally were harmless. Secondly, concentrating them in massed piles is a big mistake: they should be widely dispersed, as they occur in nature. Thirdly, remote desert regions should be selected as an added precaution, assuming that it will take some time for us to master Russells atomic mechanics sufficiently to repatriate the volatile materials properly and, if possible, correct the existing stratospheric damage.
The key to such proper treatment may lie in the intriguing science of atomic transmutation, which holds that elements can change into one another freely within normal conditions (i.e., not requiring the tremendous heat and pressures of a high-tech particle accelerator.) Also like Georges Ohsawa, Russell asserted that low-energy, table-top transmutation of elements was eminently possible.
Fueled by an early conviction that the civilization of our present time would require new sources of energy, Russell developed an approach to derive free hydrogen from the atmosphere through atomic transmutation. [The recent claims of several teams of scientists to have achieved table-top nuclear fusion may finally have provided mainstream evidence of this claim; as of this writing, not enough information has been released to evaluate the nature of the news-making discoveriesEd.]
Other energy sources suggested by Russells work include devices using the winding-up life principle of nature, rather than the winding-down death principle exemplified by explosive technologies of combustion and atomic fission. In other words, Russell maintained that so far we have employed only half the possibilities the two-way universe presents. Examples of such technologies include an implosion engine and a logarithmic solar amplifier. [Forthcoming issues of Solstice will report on the present state of several of these technologiesEd.] This is a radical concept; it is not hard to see why the great electrical science pioneer Nikola Tesla once told Russell he should lock up his work in a vault in the Smithsonian for a thousand years to keep it for future generations who might be developed sufficiently to understand it.
# Challenge to Science: Meanwhile, back at the labs of established science and the chambers of policy-making, it is highly unlikely that anyone is talking about Russells assessment of the problemlet alone his suggestions for solving it. Achieving such a discussion is an undertaking even more ambitious than it would first appear. For scientists to consider the hypothesis, they will have to face its author. And taking a hard look at Dr. Walter Russell may not be a pill much easier for science to swallow in the 1990s than it was in the 1930s.
This is not hard to understand. For one thing, in the eyes of most scientists Russell always remained an artista non-scientist. Moreover, his work is not merely unconventional: it overturns many of the cherished tenets of science. But what makes Russells work so difficult for mainstream acceptance is that it spurns all divisions between physics and metaphysics, and proposes a comprehensive, logical explanation for God and atomic physics in the same breath. What are scientists to make of a man who writes:
What is Atomic Energy? In answering this question let it be remembered that God is love, and that this universe is founded upon love. Every action and its reaction in Nature must be in balance with each other in order to carry out to the purposeful intent of the Creator.
As we suggested earlier, those involved in macrobiotics may be best positioned to understand the scope and practicality of Russells views, and thus to help break ground where established scientists hesitate to tread. A pivotal question, then: how has Russell fared in the macrobiotic world?
## Walter Russell and The Macrobiotic Movement
Considering the sheer scope of his vision and his remarkably practical understanding of the yin/yang principle, Russell would seem to cry out for macrobiotic attention. In fact, many of his most radical scientific positions have been echoed by the macrobiotic science of Georges Ohsawa and Michio Kushi. For example, Russell contended that matter is not held together by an attracting force generated from the center of mass, but by compression generating from the outside toward the center. This view, one of the Russell statements that flies most abruptly in the face of accepted scientific tenets (and the one that got Dr. Jacksons goat in 1930), is echoed precisely in Kushis cosmology, where conventional gravity is discarded in favor of centripetal Heavens force. Moreover, the Russells application of the yin/yang principal to physical entities, human relationships and the social order seems extraordinarily direct and simple to grasp, and as such would seem a valuable complement to the macrobiotic health/dietetic tradition.
While he did not proselytize any specific dietary regimen, he was meticulous in his own personal habits. (For example, while he maintained a prodigious work schedule, he carefully rotated projects so that his focus changed to a different problem or medium every two hoursa rhythm known in macrobiotic circles as corresponding to the energy cycle of acupuncture meridians.) To his strict adherence to natural law he credited his legendary ability to work long hours with ceaseless good humor and without fatiguequintessentially macrobiotic ideals, which he maintained until his peaceful passing, on his birthday, at the age of 92.
The following passages from his 1957 Atomic Suicide, shed some light on Russells views on diet and health:
The blood is of first importance of all the elements which compose the body. The nervous system could be entirely paralyzed and the body would still function, but the blood has deep instinctive awareness of its existence, and the body which does not have a happy, rhythmic blood condition cannot possibly retain its normalcy.
Even the food one eats should be happy. It should be cooked with love and eaten joyfully, and there should be a joyful realization of love in ones deep breathing and exaltation during the process of taking food into ones body. The food you eat becomes blood and flesh of your body, and the manner in which you eat it, and your mental attitude while eating it, decides your blood count, the balance between acidity and alkalinity of your digestive machinery, and your entire metabolism. Your Mind is you and your body is the record of your thoughts and actions. Your body is what your Mind electrically extends to it for recording. Curiously, though, his work has elicited little recognition even from within the nominal macrobiotic movement. This is a significant loss for a community purporting to be ever on the lookout for Western cultural and philosophical roots: for Dr. Walter Russell may well represent the apex of what the West has to offer in original macrobiotic thought.
Two notable exceptions to this record of macrobiotic neglect have been the writings of Jerry Canty and the educational efforts of Dr. Tim Binder. Cantya long-time student of the Russells and himself a bit of a maverick even within the world of macrobioticshas drawn heavily on the Russells work in his own books, The Eternal Massage, The Sounding of the Sacred Conch, and the privately issued Spiral, Lord of Creation. None of them has really entered the macrobiotic mainstream (though The Eternal Massage enjoyed a fairly wide readership in the 1970s); they stand today as several of the lesser known but most challenging and adventurous books in the macrobiotic literature. Binder, a naturopathic doctor whose client list includes John Denver and other well-connected environmental advocates, has studied and championed the Russell teachings along with macrobiotics, the climate crisis/soil mineralization thesis of John Hamaker, and other vital fields of perspective.
Where Canty introduced Russells thinking to a venturesome circle of macrobiotic students a generation ago, Binder is now emerging as the Russells leading contemporary standard-bearer. Recently appointed president of the Russells University of Science and Philosophy in Swannanoa, Virginia, Binder has undertaken the massive project of reintroducing Russells revision of science. Next month (June 2-4), Binder and the University host an international symposium at Aspen, Colorado, entitled World Balance, aimed at exposing the core of Russells teaching and related perspectives both to the larger scientific community and to the public at large.
While his own interests naturally lean towards matters of human health and diet, Dr. Binder has thrown the Universitys focus and resources full-force into documenting and publicizing the possible ozone-radiation link. For Binder recognizes the irony of the situation: the imperative of the ozone crisis may provide the opportunity at last for the world to reconsider the thinking it rejected 60 years ago.
# In Pursuit of Evidence: As the centerpiece of this effort, Dr. Binder is coordinating a thorough scientific effort to test, verify and document radioactivitys role in ozone depletion. Combining an exhaustive review of existing literature with new laboratory experimentation, the project owes its impetus in part to Binders frustrated efforts to obtain accurate data from past observations.
Last year, to explore mainstream views on the possible radiation-ozone connection, Binder visited the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Boulder, Colorado, where he spoke with NOAA researcher George Mount. He was told, Oh, yes, we know that radiation destroys ozone, but we dont consider it significant. Pressing further, Binder learned of an earlier insignificant government finding: during the bomb tests in the 60s [before the ban on atmospheric testing drove the detonations underground] they found a 2 percent reduction in ozone [emphasis ours]. Given the current alarm over a global reduction of 1.7 to 3 percent, 2 percent would certainly seem to us to be significant.
Binder was told that a review of this data was in process; when he later tried to obtain this information in print, he received reports with figures that contradicted Mounts statements. [Subsequently, we contacted Sherwood Rowlands office at the University of California; Sherwood himself was out of the country, but we spoke with one of his associates about the possible radiation-ozone connection. Offhand, he didnt see how radiation would be likely to have this effect, though the hypothesis apparently had never been suggested to him before.] Commenting on his investigations, Binder offered this conclusion: As the government is now reviewing the old data on the 60s testing, it sounds like they are reconsidering the nuclear connection to ozone destruction, but dont want to tell [us] about it yet.
# Beyond Ozone: The Human Factor: Shortly before her passing in May, 1988, we had the opportunity to meet Mrs. Russell at her mountaintop home in Virginia. The moment we met she looked directly at us and said, Im so glad youve come. You know, we really must do something about this ozone hole. The Doctor and I warned about this in 1954; nobody would listen to us then. Now the situation is absolutely urgent.
Oddly, despite the dire nature of her subject, there was nothing dark or gloomy in her words nor in her demeanor. Her measured statements emerged in a melodious flow that was at once precise and comfortable; they seemed uplifted by a quiet, unshakable faith. We sensed a conviction that all events fall into their natural time and place, with ultimate benefit for the whole.
Later that day, she addressed the assembled group: There is one central answer to all these terrible environmental problems, and that is a change in the nature of human relationships.Ó It was impossible not to understand what she meant, and agree. Thoroughly versed in her husbands cosmology and scientific perspective, Lao Russell held that technical solutions alone, no matter how cosmologically conceived, would not bring about the changes so urgently needed. That change, she taught, would come about only through the transformation of human beings, that we might realize our awareness of the infinite Source, the Law of Balance, and the Divine potential in ourselves and in each other. In a 1986 message to her students she wrote, Only the power of Love put into practice can put an end to all of the violence. Love will not come into the world until mankind understands Who and What he is. When he does understand, he will know that when he destroys another, he is in truth destroying himself. The modern bull in the stratospheric china shop, whatever its identity may prove to be, is tearing holes in more than the ozone and its underlying biological fabric. It has already begun to clear away a stagnant web of parochial policies and human priorities. Perhaps it will even have the force to open a gap in our staunchly entrenched view of the world and our role within it.
The cloud over the ozone may yet reveal a silver lining. If it succeeds in prompting a closer look at the heretical macrobiotic science of Walter Russell, it may open a window to a two-way universea universe seen in an altogether different light.
# An Early Warning: August, 1954. It will not take many years to utterly destroy the… encircling protective walls which surround this planet and protect the earth from burning up by the suns hot rays, Walter and Lao Russell, Newsletter of the University of Science and Philosophy.
April 6, 1989. Scientists reported yesterday that for the first time they have detected an increase in biologically relevant levels of ultraviolet radiation reaching the ground as a result of the ozone hole over the Antarctica. This is the first indication that the depletion of ozone… is beginning to cause the potentially harmful effect that has long been predicted. (Washington Post)
# A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma: In a way, the abrupt emergence of Russells astonishing hypothesis is in keeping with the peculiar tradition of the ozone story, a tale rife with riddles and ironies. One of the most striking features of the ozone controversy [is] the extent to which outsiders played a crucial role in identifying the threats to the ozone layer. (The Ozone War, page 11.) It was James Lovelock, now famous as the author of the controversial Gaia Hypothesis, who first found CFCs persisting in the stratosphere. Making the historic measurement required an ultra-sensitive device. Unable to obtain any funding for the research (he was dismissed as a crank), Lovelock built the delicate tool himself, using his familys grocery money. Ironically, Lovelock thought the chemicals might serve as useful tracers for atmospheric study, and said they posed no conceivable hazard. I bombed, Lovelock frankly admits. It turned out I was sitting on a time bomb. (The Ozone War, page 9.)
Sherry Rowland, who while on a fishing trip for new ideas happened to hear early rumor of Lovelocks measurements at a conference coffee klatch, was no more a part of mainstream ozone research than Lovelock. In fact, he was not an atmospheric scientist at all, but a chemist specializing in, of all things, the chemistry of radio-isotopes. He and Molina, a young research assistant fresh from receiving his PhD, never imagined that their study would plunge them into the eye of a national cyclone of controversy.
If Russell is right, and manmade nuclear reactions prove to be at the root of stratospheric ills, then Sherry Rowlands involvement provides one further irony: prior to his becoming interested in the fluorocarbon work that led to the ozone finding, he was funded by the Atomic Energy Commission. His area of research? — the chemistry of atoms produced in nuclear reactions.
# Russell the Artist: The story of how Dr. Russell came to sculpt his famous bust of Edison is an example of his legendary versatility. At the age of fifty-six, Russell had been an accomplished painter, but had never handled clay in his life. As President of the Society of Arts and Sciences, he felt compelled to make good on a commission for the bust, which a fellow artist had accepted but was unable to complete. He promptly got some clay and wired Mrs. Edison that he would go and do it himselfakin to a great conductor suddenly picking up the violin for an unrehearsed recital. It was a very unwise thing to do, perhaps, because with such a great man as Edison as my subject, I might not have survived a failure, he later remarked. But I never let the thought of failure enter my mind… The inspired belief that I should do this thing as a demonstration of my belief in mans unlimited power made me ignore the difficulties that lay in the way. So I went to Florida with a mass of clay, but on my way down, I spent the entire time absorbed in inspirational meditation with the Universal Source of all inspiration. The resulting sculpture was to be one of the great mileposts in his career; other commissions followed immediately, producing busts of Franklin Roosevelt, General Douglas MacArthur, Thomas Watson, George Gershwin and Leopold Stokowski, and finally a twenty-eight figure monument to Mark Twain and the famous Four Freedoms.
# Russell the Social Reformer: Founded 20 years earlier as an ethical and moral movement to bring culture, character and the Brotherhood of Man principle into world human relations, the New York-based Twilight Club brought together a network of such luminaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Walt Whitman, Edwin Markham and Alexis Carrell. (Alexis Carrell wrote Man The Unknowna perennial favorite in macrobiotic circlesduring his association with Russell and the Twilight Club.) Russells long collaboration with Thomas Watson, another Twilight Club member and the founder of IBM, led to the introduction of moral standards and ethical principles in the world of business. In his first of many meetings and lectures for IBM personnel, Russell said he was shocked with the jungle philosophy of every man for himself that then permeated the business world, and he effectively replaced the philosophy of business is business with the concept that equal interchange of goods and services between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrows business world. (The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe, p. 24-25.)
During the Depression years when so many businesses failed, IBM continued to thrive. When asked the secret of their success, Watson replied, Go talk with Walter Russell.
Abandoned during the WWII years, the Twilight Club was later revived as the University of Science and Philosophy at Swannanoa, Virginia. After Russells passing in 1963, his work was carried on at Swannanoa by Lao Russell, his co-equal partner in work as in marriage.
# A Living and Dying Universe: Walter Russell often asserted that Gods universe is a two-way, not one-way universe. The death force or winding down principle is familiar to us as the force of entropy, the famed Second Law of Thermodynamics. The Law of Entropy states that all systems gradually lose energy (that is, energy becomes less organized and therefore unavailable to perform work) through dispersal of heat; hence, the universe is destined to die a heat death.
Russell disagreed, and detailed the mechanics of an opposite, balancing forcethe life-organizing force, which he also termed generoactive. This force is the answer to the riddle of Newtons apple, to which Russell alludes in his 1930s Times letter. (Years later, Buckminster Fuller coined the term syntropy to describe entropys complement.) Russell also likened these twin forces to the charging and discharging of a battery, or the winding and unwinding of a spring. How rapidly or gradually a system unwinds after reaching maturity depends on a variety of factors, principally its degree of balance within its local environment. Thus the relaxation and dissolution of life may occur as slow fermentation, decay, a burst of flame or an explosion.
We do not say that a decaying tree, which takes fifty years to go back into the ground, is exploding. If you burn it, however, the flame is a series of quick explosions which will do in two hours what Nature intended should take fifty years. (Atomic Suicide?, page 23.)
Central to Russells scientific conclusions is this observation: the state of rest, the source from which all life arises and to which it ultimately returns, is the normal state (to which Russell often refers as God, Mind or Magnetic zero.) In other words, it takes increasing effort to wind up into greater density (to live), while it takes literally no effort at all, once a system reaches maximum compression, to unwind againto die. Most significantly, the force of the unwinding/death phase is proportionate to the total effort expended in winding up to that point.
For example, it may take many years of consuming steak and ice cream, perhaps along with exposure to chemical contaminants, to reach the condition disposing one to bowel cancer. The effort expended by the individual, the food industry, the chemical factories and even the cattle involved, are considerable; at the point of maximum compression (when the body cannot hold itself together any tighter) that mass of effort reverts into a forceful, effortless unwinding. What goes in, must come back out. To arrest the course of the disease at this point requires a tremendous, renewed exertion of compression and life effort, commonly observed as the will to live factor or, in macrobiotic thought, as the capacity to self-reflect and change ones personal habits.
In the case of human illness and dying, such a reversal through renewed compression is often possible, just as it is possible to arrest the burning of a tree with cold water, or to slow fermentation with salt. It is not so easy to halt the unwinding process of gunpowder, an electrical short-circuit or the decay of radioactivity.
# The Spiral of Elements:
As in the life of his contemporary Georges Ohsawa, the modern founder of the macrobiotic movement, Russell was absorbed in his later years with both the cosmic meaning and the immediate dangers of atomic science. Also like his Oriental counterpart, Russell vividly and brilliantly expressed his grasp of universal dynamics in a spiral chart of the elements.
Russells atomic charts placed all the atoms as points along a continuous spectrum of increasing compression, much like the notes of an ascending musical scale. The musical simile is not casual: Russells atomic scale is harmonically organized in octaves, with the inert gases (helium, neon, argon etc.) acting as the keynote of each octave. (Not surprisingly, Dr. Russell was also an accomplished composer.)
Russell held that the hydrogen octave, far from being the beginning of the atomic scale, was in fact preceded by three inaudible atomic octaves, yielding a full spectrum of nine octaves. These first three octaves, involving wavelengths too vast to measure, would be beyond the threshold of physical sensing (that is, beyond detection by normal instruments of science). It was the lack of this knowledge, Russell contended, and the misconception of hydrogen as the first element that forced scientists to view deuterium and tritium (which he had originally called Ethlogen and Bebegennow well-known as components of the heavy water used in todays nuclear reactions) as isotopes of hydrogen instead of true tonal elements in their own right. (Isotopes might be compared to the accidentalssharps and flatsof single musical notes.) On the other hand, he asserted, that many of the higher octave elements in fact are but isotopes of higher-octave versions of carbon.
Carbon, lying in the center of the fourth octave, is held to be the balance point of perfect stability and the mature expression of the entire spectrum, and as such serves as the basis for organic life. Russell pointed out that roughly 98 percent of organic life forms are composed of carbon and four other elements (hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and silicon) which all are grouped together with carbon in the fourth octave (except silicon, a transmutation of carbon in the next octave up, which forms the basis of the Earths crust and of soil). In a sense, the purpose of the entire atomic spectrum is to create carbon life forms.
The further one compresses past carbon, the more readily will the pressure and heat of compression explode into decay. The supercompressed elements of the 7th, 8th and especially 9th octaves (radium, plutonium, etc.) are simmering at the breaking pointhence the tremendously explosive pressures of the radioactive metals.
# Encountering the Russells: On a quiet afternoon in 1979, I sat in a coffee shop preparing my Kushi Institute lecture for that evening. As I sipped my coffeeI was allowed to, after all, I was a teacher I was interrupted by two friends, both senior teachers. (This particular coffee shop served as a hangout and meeting place for macrobiotic teachers.) They joined me and began discussing the usual topic of the day: How to get everyone else to eat macrobiotically so as to establish one peaceful world.
One of the seniors noticed my recently acquired book, Dr. Walter Russells The Secret of Light, lying on the table beside me; and they asked me who Dr. Russell was and what the book was about. After the first few sentences of my reply, they both proceeded to criticize both the book and its author for a good half hour. In the Boston macrobiotic community where I lived at that time, I soon learned, to mention the Russells and their work was like admitting that you did not understand the unique principle of macrobiotics. The philosophical and scientific works of the Russells were (and perhaps still are) considered unclear, confusing and impractical. I, like my fellow students and teachers, certainly did not want confusing or foreign philosophical ideas to disrupt our established belief system concerning the nature of macrobiotics. As far as we were concerned, the macrobiotic truth existed here, and only here, in our little community. The sun flag was raised high, and I was dedicated, loyal, stubborn and very confused. So, I laid the Russells work aside, along with all else that did not fit into my small world of dogma.
Several years later, being a little older, not necessarily a little wiser, but a whole lot more curious and frustrated with apparent inconsistencies and impracticalities in my own understanding of macrobiotics, I secretly began to explore the works of Dr. and Mrs. Russell. At first I became more confused and found myself resisting, especially when I read such bold statements as, Opposites do not attract, or Like attracts like. Wait a minute, I thought. Maybe my macrobiotic friends were right about Russellthere do seem to be inconsistencies here. I soon discovered that the inconsistencies I was encountering were not in their works, but in the limitations of my own prior understanding. Gradually a new comprehension began to open up.
Their words penetrated deep into my soul. They were honest words, words of wisdom, of love, and they were steeped in the unifying principle of macrobiotics. Their expression was extremely clear and to the point. The message was practical and not at all confusing. There was nothing there to instill guilt or fear.
They spoke of the difference between knowing and thinking, and how we all know all there is to know, yet do not always admit it to ourselves. Dr. Russell was a perfect example of one who knew. He had very little formal education, and used this to his advantage. Through inspiration he became an accomplished scientist, philosopher, artist, sculptor and musician.
They spoke of how we as human beings can reinspire others, yet can only be inspired by the One. And most of all, for me, they explained the mechanism and process of the logarithmic spiralthe foundation of macrobiotics. The more I absorbed their understanding, the more it seemed to add to rather than detract from or conflict with my prior macrobiotic learning.
Through the years that followed I began to incorporate their understanding of macrobiotics into my own teaching and counselling, always with the thought that I would meet Mrs. Russell some day. For the past eight years I traveled throughout the United States, teaching and encouraging people to study the Russells works, and giving out the address of the University of Science and Philosophy. During this period I had not once contacted the University to introduce myself. Why? I have no idea. In 1987 I moved to Charlottesville, Virginia from New York. Why? I have no idea, other than it seemed to be the proper move for me. I soon learned that the University of Science and Philosophy was only a twenty minute drive away. I called the University and introduced myself, and said I would like to meet Mrs. Russell; I was given an appointment.
Days later, I drove out to Swannanoa with John Mann, who had recently relocated Solstice from upstate New York to Charlottesville. [Editors Note: Why had we abruptly relocated? We had no idea.] Arriving at the requested time, I introduced myself to the staff and they said they would inform Mrs. Russell that I was there. I stood among a group of approximately twenty other visitors and watched as the most elegant lady I have ever met began to descend the carpeted stairs.
We had never met, yet she recognized me in the crowd immediately, and invited me upstairs. As we sat, she proceeded to tell me my life story in detail, from the beginning to the present. She spoke as if she knew me when I was a child. She did! And that wasnt all she knewfor she, too, was a living example of her and her late husbands philosophy. We spoke for a few hours on many subjects. She told humorous stories about Dr. Russell and herself as if he were still alive. He is! she said, You can never die! She spoke with a simple, quiet conviction that was utterly disarming, and I felt as if I were in the presence of honesty incarnate. Meeting Mrs. Russell was an experience I will cherish forever.
· Steve Gagne Editors Note: Mrs. Russell was a perceptive person. Early in our conversation, she looked straight at us again and said, This started in 1954. She was referring to the 54 University Newsletter, no doubt; but she spoke so emphatically, Steve and I could not help glancing at each othercould she have known that we were both born in 1954? She smiled. Later, she abruptly turned to us and nonchalantly commented, You know, Dr. Russell never smoked cigarettes or drank coffee. Bingo, I thought.
– Atomic Suicide? (1957, 304 pp.), discusses the nature of matter and its relation to the world of spirit. It also provides a broad introduction to Russells general cosmology. One fascinating section is devoted to excerpts from the contemporary popular media about the dangers of nuclear power. A lengthy introduction by Lao Russell includes a biographical essay on Russells life. (Solstice Library)
– The Secret of Light (1947, 288 pp.) is a thorough exposition of Russells cosmology, more completely and systematically presented than in Atomic Suicide? (Solstice Library)
– The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe, by Glenn Clark (1953 edition, 57 pp.), is a short, highly accessible biography. (Solstice Library)
– Home Study Course. Available from the University, this is a thorough, comprehensive course of study of the Russells work in all its dimensions. (See ad this page for the Home Study Course and other Russell books.)
– Holoscene (formerly Spiral, Lord of Creation), by Jerry Canty; 144 pp. Cantys most thorough explanation of Russells work to date. Available directly from Canty in photocopy for $25 ppd. Jerome Canty, Box 5256, Chico CA 95927.
– The Atomic Age and The Unique Principle, Georges Ohsawa. Written towards the end of his life, The Atomic Age presents Ohsawas most incisive perspective on the atomic frontier and the 20th century challenge. (Solstice Library)
– World Crisis Solutions Foundation Newsletter, issues 1-4. Written by Dr. Tim Binder, these four newsletters contain brief overviews of some of Dr. Russells insights and Dr. Binders efforts to pursue the radiation/ozone-depletion connection. The Newsletters also contain condensed articles on a variety of other vital health and environmental issues. $20 for set of four. NW 169 Blodgett Camp Road, Hamilton MT 59840 (406) 363-4041.
– The Ozone War, Lydia Dotto and Harold Schiff, Doubleday & Co., 1978. A fascinating account of the discoveries and controversies surrounding Sherwood Rowlands work with the Ozone Hole.
– Protecting the Ozone Layer, Chapter 5 of The State of the World 1989, Worldwatch Institute, NY.
Editors Note:The following article originally appeared in Solstice magazine, May 1989. Solstice magazine is now defunct. Reproduced here with the express permission of Randolph Byrd. Please see Appendix A. for a description of Project Argus, which was the high-altitude atmospheric nuclear weapon testing during the 1940s and 50s that created artificial radiation belts (Van Allen) of charged particles ringing the earth. See also MindNet Journal, Vol. 1, No. 51 for a detailed description of these artificial radiation belts and their intended use by Project HAARP for communications and weather modification. MindNet Journal, Vol. 1, No. 28 further details the dangers of HAARP and the logical outcome of the predictions made by Walter Russell in the following article. It is this editors opinion, as well as a number of other writers and researchers, that HAARP is a possible delivery system for worldwide atmospheric mind control of all humans.
# Walter Russell
Walter Russell is known as the Man Who Tapped the Secrets of The Universe, The Modern Leonardo, and The Most Versatile Man in America.
Gifted as a poet, painter, sculptor, author, musician, architect, scientist and mystic, Walter Russells impact on early 20th century spiritual and scientific thought was impressive. His original and unique Periodic Table of the elements accurately predicted the location and characteristics of four undiscovered elements. It wouldnt be until years later that these elements deuterium, tritium, neptunium and plutonium were detected by laboratory researchers.
Tesla urged Russell, Bury your ideas in a vault for a thousand years to await the unfolding of human consciousness to comprehend your vision. Curiously, Russell developed this Periodic Table while in a heightened state of awareness. In fact, Russells first illumining occurred in May 1878 when he was just seven years old. From then on, periodic enlightenments convinced Russell that God was teaching him increasing innersensory perception instead of the outersensory perception of mans education concepts. (1)
This state of heightened awareness inspired his work and philosophy throughout his lifetime. When Russell was fourteen years old, the disease Black diptheria seemingly destroyed his throat and cut off his breathing. Doctors pronounced the illness fatal with a prognosis for death. In The Story of My Illumining, Russell wrote, Then, again, came the great Light which had come to me in my first illumining and I arose from my bed to the great amazement of my weeping parents and to the doctors who found that throat functioned as properly as though it were perfectly healed. Russell spent several weeks drawing and writing about the basic nature and structure of the universe. He sketched out the basis for the structure of atomic, solar and stellar systems, as well as the connection between sound, light and matter. His family thought him mad and fit for a mental institution, but the family doctor disagreed. The physician did not comprehend the complex thoughts that Russell was committing to paper, but he knew that Russell was definitely not crazy.
Walter Russells inspirational awareness developed throughout his life. Russell wrote, From that moment on, I fully knew that God had a purpose for my living to manifest Him by a life of demonstrating the power of man who knew God in him and worked knowingly with Him. This I fully knew, but I did not fully know of the transformation of unfolding man into his next Cosmic Age until the seventh full illumining of 1921, when my years were seven times seven. Up to this time my cosmic severances were forty-three.
In his brief autobiography, Russell renders an account and explanation of the illumination experience: Usually the cosmic illumination has a duration of a few minutes or hours, leaving an aftermath of a few day, but no matter how brief it is, it completely transforms one into another higher being. My usual period through life has been about ten days following the first intensive few hours, but this 1921 period lasted for thirty-nine days and nights, beginning on May 10th and ending June 19th.
Russell continued: The illumination into Cosmic Consciousness is an entirely spiritual experience and is the ultimate goal of all mankind, which completes the unfolding of the man-idea on earth. All down through mans unfolding it comes gradually to all people. Every inspiring thought which comes to you is a partial illumination. The geniuses of the world are those who have had the greatest number of spiritual inspirations.
Walter Russell was born in Boston on May 19, 1871. Although Russell garnered only a fifth grade education, along with five years of art school, his genius is legendary. He could play the piano before he could walk. He found that whatever he wished to know, he could learn just by desiring it in his heart. As a member of the benevolent Twilight Club, Walter Russell worked for the betterment of mankind in the tradition of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Twilight Clubs philosophy of good works bore fruit in such notable service organizations as the Rotary Club, the Lions Club, the Boy Scouts of America, and eventually Russells own University of Science and Philosophy he founded with his wife Lao in 1948. Lao was a prodigy in her own right. She began reading and writing at age three, penning fairy stories soon after, and sketching professional-level paintings when just eleven. Educated by private tutors, she later traveled extensively abroad, always curious about what the diverse peoples of the world desired from life. In addition to working with various charitable organizations, she founded a British magazine devoted to health and fitness. After reading a biography of the groundbreaking work of Walter Russell, she contacted him. Lao was 33 years younger than Walter, but the two of them teamed up in both marriage and as co-founders of the University of Science and Philosophy. Lao had devoted her life to changing the thinking of the world, and used her abundant talents and intellectual fortitude to write books that have inspired thousands of people all over the world (2).
During his lifetime, Russell inspired many of the best and brightest of the bold, free-energy researchers. Russell met Nikola Tesla to discuss their respective cosmologies. Although Tesla did not accept many of the tenants of relativity in vogue at the time and apparently never made the connection between matter and energy, he believed in the possibility of free and unlimited energy. After listening to the creative wisdom in Russells teachings, Tesla urged him to, Bury your ideas in a vault for a thousand years to await the unfolding of human consciousness to comprehend your vision.
Like Tesla and T. Henry Moray, Russell believed in the transmutation of elements. Russell stated, All dimension is an illusion, an appearance, due to rising potential, which must disappear into its inevitable sequence of lowering potential and again appear in endless cycles of appearance, disappearance and re-appearance. The efforts of man to transmute one element to another must be governed by this principle, and not upon the theory that another substance will be obtained by knocking out one electron.
In fact, Russell apparently demonstrated the transmutation of gases in a research laboratory at the Westinghouse Lamp Company on September 30, 1927. Witnesses observed what appeared to be the transmutation of hydrogen and oxygen to nitrogen, and then nitrogen back to oxygen and hydrogen. (It has been decades since scientists thought transmutation occurred by knocking out one electron. Recent research has achieved low energy transmutation by adding one or more protons to the nucleus.)
Walter Russell died in 1963, but his philosophical and visionary work is carried on by the University of Science and Philosophy. The University was established in 1957 due to the insightful effort of a few great philosophers. The December 1994 issue of the universitys Science Journal published a report filed by the Russell Science Research (RSR) Colorado team of Ron Kovac, Toby Grotz, and Dr. Timothy Binder. Titled, A Report On The Russell Science Research Teams Transmutation of Nitrogen into Lithium and Helium, the abstract is authored by electrical engineer and team member Ron Kovac.
In a 1992/1993 attempt to verify Walter Russells 1927 effort at transmutation, the RSR team states that they succeeded when they produced fluorine from water vapor. According to the report, The first generation experiment utilized water injected into evacuated quartz tubes which were subsequently heated, placed in magnetic fields, allowed to cool while in the magnetic field, and then qualitatively analyzed with an emission spectroscope.
The externally applied magnetic fields established shaped potential gradients within the quartz tubes that, according to Russell Cosmogony dual-polarity control gyroscopic plane of rotation concepts, would reshape/reconfigure the atoms centripetal/centrifugal vortices to produce the appearance of a different atoms transmutation! (3) A July 1994 test of the transmutation with a computerized mass spectrometer (also called a residual gas analyzer) apparently confirmed the results as indisputable and can be easily reproduced in any sophisticated laboratory.
In the philosophical tradition of the visionary Russell, the Science Journal of the University of Science and Philosophy published a report on a purportedly free-energy device designed by inventor/researcher Paul Raymond Jensen. Jensen writes, I have built a transformer which supplies more power to its load than is drawn from its primary source. I named this device The Unidirectional Transformer (UDT) because the magnetic reaction of the load current does not affect the magnetic action of the primary circuit. The free-energy action of the UDT follows directly from the laws of magnetic circuits.
Jensen describes his device in detail and offers the information therein free to the public. However, Jensen hopes that no one will attempt to patent and control this type of transformer. The time on Planet Earth is 15 minutes before midnight; there is no time left to waste. Free-energy technology is not meant to be controlled by vain and greedy parasites who wish to use a gift of God to exploit their fellow man. Free-energy technology represents a spiritual transition of the human race. Free-energy is not meant to be owned, period! The spiritualist and scientist Walter Russell would heartily agree.
Teslas advice to bury Russells visionary philosophy for a thousand years was a bit dramatic. It is time to let those universal processes articulated by Russell propel scientists forward in their efforts to create a new non-polluting and sustainable technology.
1. The Cosmic Plan, originally printed in 1953 as the Russell Cosmogony, has been republished by the University of Science and Philosophy under the title, A New Concept of the Universe: A Brief Treatise on the Russell Cosmogony.
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The Aztecs dominated Mexico for over two hundred years and left a legacy for many more centuries than they existed. They created modern Mexico and called themselves Mexicas.
Remains of the Aztec Empire and their city Tenochtitlan continue to be discovered in the heart of Mexico City after archeologists started excavations in 1978.
Yesterday, I spent three hours in the archeological site and adjoining museum and it was not enough. While nowhere near as extensive as the famed Anthropology Museum, this archeological site holds the keys to the kingdom. Many Mexicans claim their identity from the Aztecs, and nationalism and its attendant symbols are rooted here.
For all the times I have visited Mexico City, I must confess that this was my first visit to Tenochtitlan. Bad me. I would recommend it as a starting point to anyone wanting to know more about Mexico culture, beliefs and identity.
The museum holds many important pieces that have been discovered over the years, most recently the wall of skull masks. Skulls figure prominently in pre-Hispanic Mexican tradition, symbols of conquest, ancestor worship and the continuous journey of life to death.
Ceramic and stone sculpture of deities like the Chac Mool, Tlaloc and Eagle Warrior are housed here, too, along with trade jewelry and articles used for ritual sacrifice. There is a section on natural history, textiles and other art forms.
The site is different each time I view it above from the restaurant terrace at El Mayor (top floor, Libreria Porrua bookstore). A tribute to INAH's dedication to restore Mexico's pre-Hispanic history.
On this day, it was cloudy and overcast, the sky filled with rain clouds. My photos are shades of gray and muted colors as I continue to practice with the new Olympus mirrorless camera with Zuiko 12-40mm lens.
How to Enter Tenochtitlan: By foot, walk by the front of the Cathedral toward the Palacio Nacional. Make a left turn at the plaza with all the larger than life bronze sculptures by Javier Marin. Continue to the end where you will see an entry kiosk. Admission is 65 MXN pesos (about $4 USD at today's exchange rate). Wear a sun hat or take an umbrella for shade. No food or beverage allowed.
Two spaces left in the Textile Study Tour, February 3-11, 2015, featuring the ikat rebozos of Tenancingo de Degollado, Estado de Mexico. Contact me!


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Here is a quotation that I share in my training programs on generational diversity:
"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today."
In what era do you think this was written? This week's Economist? A political speech from the 1960s? The Roaring Twenties? The late eighteenth century?
In fact, these words are attributed to the poet Hesiod, all the way back in the eighth century B.C.
Think about it: We have literally been shaming young people for all of human history.
This has never made any sense to me. Why does every generation criticize the next? Why do we do everything we can to discredit the people who will play a large role in creating our shared future?
The most recent and frequent shamees, of course, are Millennials. I'm going to guess that, even if you identify as a Millennial yourself, most of what you have read about this generation is negative. The popular buzz is that today's 20- and 30-somethings are any combination of entitled, narcissistic, lazy, living in their parents' basements, unable to make eye contact, and expecting those infamous trophies for participation.
Gen Xers like me were called "slackers" in our youth. And Baby Boomers were called "hippies" and the original narcissistic "me" generation. But the vitriol directed at Millennials from all directions has been off the charts.
Even in the youth-dominated technology sector, one developer from a major tech company posted the hideous statement "We don't hire junior developers or interns…if you don't get a puppy, you don't have to clean up its messes."
That is offensive, mean, and wrong. If we say we aren't going to tolerate discrimination in the workplace, we must condemn the constant, brazen shaming of Millennials.
I was struck in the many interviews I conducted with young leaders for my recent book, The Remix, by how many did not want to be identified as Millennials.
Amy, who asked to be identified only by her first name, is a mid-level executive at a media company and former employee of a national senior citizen membership organization.
She told me that she fears that being identified as a Millennial will bias leaders against her.
"I've been fortunate to take on some large responsibility and leadership in my career thus far," she shared. "I'm proud of that and certainly want to continue to grow, but to some extent, I feel that as you move up to more senior and executive-level roles in an organization, there is often a perception or expectation that those roles will be filled with people with a similar profile as far as years of experience or age. I feel like having someone know my age could limit my immediate potential in terms of an executive thinking, 'She's not ready,' or 'She'll have plenty of time to get there—it doesn't need to be now.' "
Amy even admits that she has a small patch of gray hair that she used to pluck, but now she emphasizes it so senior leaders might think she is older.
This saddens me, not just for Amy's feeling that she needs to hide her age in order to succeed, but for any organization that might miss out on any Millennial's talents because members of this generation feel ashamed of their age.
Ageism affects all generations (isn't it interesting that a Millennial wants to expose her gray hairs to feel more respected, and middle-aged workers often cover their grays to feel more relevant?), and for business leaders, it is entirely against our own professional interest.
Millennials are already the majority— and soon to be the vast majority— of our country. And our workforce. And our clients and customers. And our vendors. And our investors. And our voters.
No organization will succeed if it does not attract, engage, and embrace Millennials.
If you have ever been guilty of making fun of Millennials or any other generation, in a personal or professional context, you must commit to stopping right now. This includes shaming of yourself or your own generation.
While a bit of light self-deprecation can be charming and build bridges between generations, be mindful of going too far.
Stop clicking on articles about Millennials and Gen Z "killing" everything from paper napkins to shopping malls to homeownership to canned tuna.
Stop calling yourself a Luddite if you are a Traditionalist or Baby Boomer who takes a bit longer to learn technology. And, Gen Xers, we need to stop complaining that everybody ignores us.
For some on the older end of the age spectrum, this also means letting go of nostalgia. I was once at a conference where an executive from a major beverage company told an audience of young professionals, "I feel sorry for you guys. Business was so much more fun in the '80s!"
That comment helped absolutely no one. Patty McCord, former chief talent officer at Netflix, says that nostalgia for "the way things used to be" is one of the biggest potential pitfalls she advises business leaders to avoid.
Her advice is to focus on your customers or clients instead of your memories, to be "constantly thinking about where you're going to be, who your customer's going to be, what you need to do differently, how you're going to scale, and how the world's going to look. Even if we wanted our companies to stay the same, our customers won't. The world's going to go on without us, whether we like it or not."
If you have any remaining nostalgia for the past, find a way to get it out of your system Reminisce with a former colleague, write a memoir, pack a time capsule.
To spark your thinking, here is a list of a few things I miss from the early days of my career:
• Knowing people's phone numbers from memory
• Putting fresh calendar pages into my Filofax each new year
• Spinning my Rolodex
• Bringing full-size toiletries on business trips
Of course, my beloved iPhone has replaced the most nostalgic items on this list, and I wouldn't give up my phone. But if anyone comes up with an app of a full-size shampoo bottle, I'm listening.
This blog post is adapted from my new book The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace, your go-to guide for leading and succeeding in the multigenerational workplace. Get your copy today on Amazon or Barnes & Noble today!


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In Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, the Islamic circumcision ritual for girls ranges from rubbing turmeric on the genitals, to pricking the clitoris to draw a symbolic drop of blood. In other instances, the procedure is more invasive, involving what WHO classifies as "Type I" female genital mutilation, defined as excision of the clitoral hood, called the prepuce, with or without incision of the clitoris itself. The amount of flesh removed, if any, is described by circumcisers as being "the size of a quarter-grain of rice, a guava seed, a bean, the tip of a leaf, the head of a needle." They use a small pair of sterilized scissors to cut a piece of the clitoral prepuce "about the size of a nail clipping." In some areas, they do cut the clitoris itself. In these countries, surveys show that over 95% of the female population undergoes some sort of genital cutting procedure, and the women seem to be doing fine.
There may readers that delude themselves yet. Their minds will simply refuse to allow for male and female circumcision to connect. Groping for an alibi to keep them separate, and groping for reasons to continue to justify one while condemning the other, they cling to whatever they can find.
The reasoning may go something like this:
"Well, it may be true that boys in other cultures suffer, but at least where I come from, boys are circumcised at hospitals, in sterile environments, with clean utensils, by professionals, and local anesthetic. They won't remember anything because they're circumcised as babies."
Perhaps a boy circumcised as a newborn may not remember his circumcision. But is pain and whether or not it is remembered really the problem? Could we make the forced female genital cutting of girls more acceptable if it happened at hospitals in sterile environments with pristine utensils by the most caring of professionals? Would female circumcision be more acceptable if it were performed in a baby girl, when she would be least likely to remember? Or would it still be child abuse?
Because it is precisely what is happening right here:
You can read the whole thing here:
Another blog:
And a parenting forum here:
The following is an excerpt from a parenting forum in South-East Asia (the last link above). If you asked me, it reads just like something right out of CafeMom, but regarding girls instead of boys. I've underlined the parts that jump out at me:
A_LIM: Have you Sunat your girls?
My husband is Malay and I am expecting a girl. My husband said he wants our girl to be sunat . What does this involve? and where can I do it? I have heard of male circumcision and my two boys from a previous marriage who have been circumcised. But I have never heard of female circumcision? he also said I should consider doing myself is that possible at my age?
Like your thoughts
NursMama: Re: Have you Sunat your girls?
yah... i also dont know how to explain how its done although i witnessed both my gals' procedures myself both done at different clinics by female Muslim doctors...
dont think it's like the cutting for boys.... it's more minimal.... baby can recover by the next day?
as for yourself..... errrrrrmmm... i'm not sure.... you might wanna ask the doctors wther its ok or not? i can give you the clinics address/no if you want
Ros0818: Re: Have you Sunat your girls?
hi hi
Yup, i brought my girl to d same doc; Dr Elly Sabrinadont worry. It will be very fast & quick!
It's done within a few seconds... I brought my baby der when she's about 2mths old. Doc will then give you a cream to apply on your baby. My girl recovers very fast. She gave a quick shriek during the process but after that she's fine. She never even cry after that. you can just give the doctor a call if you want to find out more.
nora23: Re: Have you Sunat your girls?
Went to Dr Balkis at Bedok. My 1st gal was then 6 mths old. It was very fast and only a pint of blood. My gal didnt cry and everything was per normal seconds after e sunat. Planning to bring my 2nd gal when she is 6 mths too.
In sunat process, nothin is done on e clitoris. Only a small part of e clitorial HOOD is snipped. The Dr even showed me e snipped hood, very very tiny fraction.
As for adult female muslim convert, I dont think its necessary to sunat. But its not wrong for you to do it either. Its best you consult muslim female doctors on e procedures and healing.
A_LIM: Re: Have you Sunat your girls?
Thanks all.
I actually decided to go for Sunat. It is available for adults, so I thought I would go before I do it to my daughter. I think I will be in a better position to know if it is ok for her after my surgery. My hubby is also happy Im doing it.
They told me it will take about 15 - 20 mins. They did not explain fully what they intended to do, but they said something about cutting the hood of my clitoris, and said they would not touch the clitoris
Has anyone been through this as an adult or young girl?
haffa: Re: Have you Sunat your girls?
Hello mummies...
Auni had her sunat done last Tuesday. I brought her to Dr Adidah's Clinic located in Tampines. I didn't see what the doc did coz didn't have the heart to but my sister saw through the whole procedure which took about 5mins. Auni cried a bit only but i felt sorry for her . I was so glad it was over..phew.
A_LIM: Re: Have you Sunat your girls?
Did sunat a week ago. Actually very mild. They basically removed about a third of your hood and leave the clitoris in tact. So basically your clitoris is exposed rather than covered by the hood. No pain and recovered in under a week.
Thanks for everyone for there help
tika: Re: Have you Sunat your girls?
yup stonston yer right. different families, different customs. there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. I guess i failed to see to some Muslim families, customs are just as important as religion. To each his own aye.
Does any of this sound familiar? This is quite a contrast to the horror I am told female circumcision is supposed to be. There's not a doubt in my mind that if I showed this to parents discussing their son's circumcisions in an American forum, these same parents would be horrified. Their cultural blinders would not allow them to consider that there is anything wrong with what they have allowed to happen to their own children. It is only through carefully engineered double-think that we allow ourselves to justify what happens to boys in our own culture, while condemning what happens to girls in other cultures.
So in the end, what is it?
What is it that makes female circumcision "worse" and "not comparable" to male circumcision?
Some may yet expound:
"Female circumcision is different from male circumcision, because it is meant to subjugate women and control their sexualities."
Closer inspection reveals that in our culture, this was precisely the reason it was done to boys.
"...with regard to circumcision, one of the reasons for it is... the wish to bring about a decrease in sexual intercourse and a weakening of the organ in question, so that this activity be diminished and the organ be in as quiet a state as possible...
The bodily pain caused to that member is the real purpose of circumcision...
...violent concupiscence and lust that goes beyond what is needed are diminished. The fact that circumcision weakens the faculty of sexual excitement and sometimes perhaps diminishes the pleasure is indubitable. For if at birth this member has been made to bleed and has had its covering taken away from it, it must indubitably be weakened." ~Rabbi Moses Maimonides
"A remedy [for masturbation] which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision...The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind... In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement." ~Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
But in the end, is "intention" what defines abuse? Because for better or for worse, just like parents who circumcise their boys, parents who circumcise their daughters have the best of intentions.
Yet others may say:
"Female circumcision completely eliminates a woman's ability to orgasm."
Closer investigation reveals that women who have undergone infibulation, which is the worst kind of female genital cutting, are still able to orgasm:
To sensationalize female circumcision, others will say:
"In Africa, women are often circumcised unsanitary conditions, with crude materials such as rusty blades or glass shards. They are performed by amateurs, they are left with impaired sexualities and sometimes they bleed to death."
But they will fail to mention that in Africa, boys and men endure the same thing. They will fail to mention that every year, scores of men bleed to death, or commit suicide, because their penises fail to heal properly and fall off due to gangrene. Some men live the rest of their lives with stumps where their penises used to be. Oh, but never mind them. It's a time-honored right of passage, and circumcision has been proven to protect against disease. Well... at least they won't get any more STDs, right?
Finally, some will say:
"Studies show male circumcision could have health benefits. The same is not true for female circumcision."
But what if it were? At least on the surface, advocates of male infant circumcision seem to care about a myriad of "health benefits." But let's examine this line of thinking further: what if female genital cutting offered the same "benefits?" Would we consider them? What if "studies showed" that removing a girl's clitoral hood and "redundant labia," could "help prevent HIV transmission?"
Because there are few studies that show precisely this:
"Female circumcision results in a reduction of infections resulting from microbes gathering under the hood of the clitoris"
"Attacks of herpes and genital ulcers are less severe and less harmful with women who have been circumcised"
How supportive would we be of further "research" into the matter? What would we think if the National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins, the CDC etc., funded "research" in female genital cutting in Africa? What about countries where female circumcision isn't as "severe?"
Is there a number of "potential medical benefits" that would ever cause us to re-consider female circumcision? Would there ever be enough studies to convince us to submit our daughters to have part of their genitals removed? How much would be acceptable for us to remove from our daughter's genitals? What if "studies showed" that female circumcision could be performed without removing the clitoris or a woman's ability to orgasm? What if all that was removed were a little "flap of skin" 10x smaller than the foreskin? What if it were proven to be "cleaner" and cut back on the fish smell? What if "studies showed" that circumcising your daughter "reduced the risk" of prostate cancer in her male partner? Would we consider it then?
But let's ask a different question, would circumcision advocates be interested in finding alternatives to circumcision? Would they support research in finding alternative ways to provide the same "medical benefits" as male circumcision? What if doctors and scientists announced "We have great news! This new vaccine offers the same protections as circumcision and more! Now we don't have to circumcise babies anymore!" How would circumcision advocates react? Would they let out a sigh of relief, or would they panic? Would they gladly abandon the practice? Or would they scramble looking for other "reasons" to do it? The answers to these questions would speak volumes.
The fact of the matter is that neither the allegations of "medical benefits" nor the production of numerous "studies" would never be enough to justify the forced genital cutting of girls. Why this double-standard when it comes to the circumcision of boys? There are better, more effective, less invasive ways to treat and prevent disease. Instead of investigating these, instead of seeking to make the practice of forcibly cutting off part of a healthy, non-consenting boy's penis obsolete, why are we spending millions of dollars on "studies" to find ways to make the practice a requirement?