Walter Russell

Walter Russell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Nova Scotian immigrants. After moving to New York City in 1894, he became a magazine art editor, a war correspondent, and a children's portrait painter. In May of 1921 he had an out-of-body experience he called a Cosmic Illumination. New knowledge was revealed to him "in the Light." Debates with scientists and several books followed as he tried to explain his new knowledge. Dr. Russell's cosmogony was described in The Universal One and A New Concept of the Universe, where he wrote that "the cardinal error of science" was "shutting the Creator out of his Creation." "God is provable by laboratory methods," Russell wrote, "The locatable motionless Light which man calls magnetism is the Light which God IS." He wrote that Religion and Science must come together in a New Age. The New York Herald-Tribune called him "The Modern Leonardo," and to Glenn Clark, his biographer, he was "The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe."