A tribute to Walter Russell, painter, sculptor, musician, autodidact, philosopher, and author on his 151st birthday by John Bonsall
Reprinted from www.Imaginezine.com
Walter Russell grew up in Boston, the son of immigrants from Nova Scotia. The Boston of his time was awash with new ideas, but he achieved fame and fortune when he and his bride moved to New York City in 1894. There he became a magazine art editor, a war correspondent, and a children’s portrait painter. A dearth of studio space led him into a joint venture in cooperative apartment building.
In May of 1921, Russell had an out-of-body experience he called Cosmic Illumination. New knowledge was revealed to him “In the Light.” His book The Universal One was written and published in 1926. 800 copies were printed and handed out to the top scientists and Universities of his day. Nikola Tesla was the only scientist to recognize his genius. He told Russell to lock up this new knowledge, put it in a time capsule at the Smithsonian to be opened in a thousand years. Hopefully, mankind would be ready to receive it then.
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Walter Russell grew up in Boston, the son of immigrants from Nova Scotia. The Boston of his time was awash with new ideas, but he achieved fame and fortune when he and his bride moved to New York City in 1894. There he became a magazine art editor, a war correspondent, and a children’s portrait painter. A dearth of studio space led him into a joint venture in cooperative apartment building.
In May of 1921, Russell had an out-of-body experience he called Cosmic Illumination. New knowledge was revealed to him “In the Light.” His book The Universal One was written and published in 1926. 800 copies were printed and handed out to the top scientists and Universities of his day. Nikola Tesla was the only scientist to recognize his genius. He told Russell to lock up this new knowledge, put it in a time capsule at the Smithsonian to be opened in a thousand years. Hopefully, mankind would be ready to receive it then.
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