Walter Siegmeister
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Walter Siegmeister later and better known as Dr. Raymond W. Bernard A.B., M.A., PhD, was an early 20th century American alternative health, esoteric writer, author and mystic, who formed part of the alternative reality subculture.
Dr. Siegmeister was born into a family of Russian Jews in New York City. His father was a surgeon who started out as a bio-chemist student in Germany. Siegmeister graduated from Colombia University and in 1932, took a Ph.D in education at New York University. Under the name Bernard, he later settled in Florida.
A prolific writer, according to Guy Harwood: “After his father died Walter’s mother sent him $200 a month from his father’s life insurance policy. This is where he got the money to live on, travel and to publish his writings. Walter’s brother was in charge of the music department in some of Brooklyn’s schools.”
This brother was American composer Elie Siegmeister
.
According to Harwood, Siegmeister believed in the Essene religion, and wrote about many subjects including dietetics, regeneration, alternative medicine, longevity, radiation, historic figures and ancient mysteries. One of his most popular books was The Hollow Earth. He wrote a new introduction to Julius Hensel's Bread From Stones.
Contemporaries
Siegmeister's contemporaries included authors, George R. Clements (also known as Kenyon Klamonti, Karl Kridler and Hilton Hotema), Theos Bernard and Alexis Carrel
, who wrote about similar subjects. Through his writings, and infamous Hollow Earth
theory, he told of his idea of a subterranean world occupied by non-human races. This was later developed by other writers documenting an inner-earth and underground civilizations. Siegmeister also told of his search for the safest place on Earth from radioactive fallout in order to build a paradise. The idea was later developed in the writings of Johnny Lovewisdom
and then Viktoras Kulvinskas
.
After a business partnership with George R. Clements, selling crop land, Siegmeister went to Ecuador in 1941 where he met John Wierlo (Johnny Lovewisdom
) who had arrived in 1940, where they spoke of plans for a paradisian utopia and a super-race in the Ecuadorean jungle. However Wierlo later claimed he was not planning on creating a super-race, only a Camp of Saints.
On returning to the USA, Siegmeister, now called Dr Robert Raymond, continued to sell his health books, before returning to South America, where he sold more health books under the name Dr Uriel Adriana, AB, MA, PhD. After his mother died in 1955, he moved to Brazil to buy land and create a super-race. In Brazil, he renewed his interest in UFOs, Atlantis, aliens, underground tunnels and the hollow earth theory. Siegmeister believed Brazil contained the entrances to the tunnels leading to the hollow earth.
In 1964, he found a New York publisher for The Hollow Earth which was based on his book Flying Saucers from the Earth's Interior. The book became popular, however Siegmeister died of pneumonia in 1965. His hollow earth ideas were later developed in the writings of David Hatcher Childress
.
Biography
Early lifeDr. Siegmeister was born into a family of Russian Jews in New York City. His father was a surgeon who started out as a bio-chemist student in Germany. Siegmeister graduated from Colombia University and in 1932, took a Ph.D in education at New York University. Under the name Bernard, he later settled in Florida.
A prolific writer, according to Guy Harwood: “After his father died Walter’s mother sent him $200 a month from his father’s life insurance policy. This is where he got the money to live on, travel and to publish his writings. Walter’s brother was in charge of the music department in some of Brooklyn’s schools.”
This brother was American composer Elie Siegmeister
Elie Siegmeister
Elie Siegmeister was an American composer, educator and author.His varied musical output showed his concern with the development of an authentic American musical vocabulary...
.
According to Harwood, Siegmeister believed in the Essene religion, and wrote about many subjects including dietetics, regeneration, alternative medicine, longevity, radiation, historic figures and ancient mysteries. One of his most popular books was The Hollow Earth. He wrote a new introduction to Julius Hensel's Bread From Stones.
Contemporaries
Siegmeister's contemporaries included authors, George R. Clements (also known as Kenyon Klamonti, Karl Kridler and Hilton Hotema), Theos Bernard and Alexis Carrel
Alexis Carrel
Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. He invented the first perfusion pump with Charles A. Lindbergh opening the way to organ transplantation...
, who wrote about similar subjects. Through his writings, and infamous Hollow Earth
Hollow Earth
The Hollow Earth hypothesis proposes that the planet Earth is either entirely hollow or otherwise contains a substantial interior space. The hypothesis has been shown to be wrong by observational evidence, as well as by the modern understanding of planet formation; the scientific community has...
theory, he told of his idea of a subterranean world occupied by non-human races. This was later developed by other writers documenting an inner-earth and underground civilizations. Siegmeister also told of his search for the safest place on Earth from radioactive fallout in order to build a paradise. The idea was later developed in the writings of Johnny Lovewisdom
Johnny Lovewisdom
Johnny Lovewisdom , born John Wierlo, and known as Hermit Saint Of The Andes, was an American-Finnish author who wrote about diet, health, natural living, religion and spirituality.-Early diet ideas:...
and then Viktoras Kulvinskas
Viktoras Kulvinskas
Viktoras Peter Kulvinskas M.S. is an American holistic health practitioner, nutritionist, raw foods advocate and author.- Background :After joining Ann Wigmore's Boston based Rising Sun Christianity movement, Kulvinskas co-founded, with Wigmore, the Hippocrates Health Institute, a health resort in...
.
After a business partnership with George R. Clements, selling crop land, Siegmeister went to Ecuador in 1941 where he met John Wierlo (Johnny Lovewisdom
Johnny Lovewisdom
Johnny Lovewisdom , born John Wierlo, and known as Hermit Saint Of The Andes, was an American-Finnish author who wrote about diet, health, natural living, religion and spirituality.-Early diet ideas:...
) who had arrived in 1940, where they spoke of plans for a paradisian utopia and a super-race in the Ecuadorean jungle. However Wierlo later claimed he was not planning on creating a super-race, only a Camp of Saints.
On returning to the USA, Siegmeister, now called Dr Robert Raymond, continued to sell his health books, before returning to South America, where he sold more health books under the name Dr Uriel Adriana, AB, MA, PhD. After his mother died in 1955, he moved to Brazil to buy land and create a super-race. In Brazil, he renewed his interest in UFOs, Atlantis, aliens, underground tunnels and the hollow earth theory. Siegmeister believed Brazil contained the entrances to the tunnels leading to the hollow earth.
In 1964, he found a New York publisher for The Hollow Earth which was based on his book Flying Saucers from the Earth's Interior. The book became popular, however Siegmeister died of pneumonia in 1965. His hollow earth ideas were later developed in the writings of David Hatcher Childress
David Hatcher Childress
David Hatcher Childress is an American author and publisher of books on topics on alternative history and historical revisionism. His works cover such subjects as pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact, Atlantis, Lemuria, Ancient Astronauts, UFOs, Nikola Tesla, the Knights Templar, lost cities and...
.
Publications
- Agharta, The Subterranean World
- Apollonius The Nazarene - Mystery Man Of The Bible
- Are Chemicals In Drinking Water Menacing Your Health? (1956)
- Are The New Super Sprays Endangering Your Health? (1956)
- Are You Being Poisoned By The Foods You Eat? (1956)
- Bread From Stones - Bernard (intro)
- Building of Vital Power
- Constipation (3 volumes ) - Bernard, Tilden, Others, 1956
- Creation Of The Superman
- Danger We All Face (1960 Revised Edition)
- Danger We All Face: The Radioactive Peril
- Dead Sea Scrolls And The Life Of The Ancient Essene (1956)
- Eat Your Way To Better Health
- Enigma Of Woman
- Entering The Kingdom
- Escape From Destruction; How To Survive In The Atomic Age, 1956
- Flying Saucers From The Earth's Interior
- From Chrishna To Christ
- Geriatrics
- Great Secret Of Count Saint Germain
- Health Through Scientific Nutrition
- Herbal Elixirs Of Life (1966)
- Hollow Earth
- Meat: Eating A Cause Of Disease (1956)
- Mysteries Of Human Reproduction
- Mystery Of Menstruation
- Newest Discoveries In Nutrition
- Nutritional Methods Of Blood Regeneration / Nutritional Sex Control & Rejuvenation ( 2 volumes)
- Nutritional Methods Of Intestinal Regeneration
- Nutritional Sex Control And Rejuvenation
- Organic Foods For Health (1956)
- Organic Revolution In Nutrition
- Organic Way To Health (4 volumes)
- Physiological Enigma Of Woman: The Mystery Of Menstruation (1961)
- Physiological Methods Of Male And Female Regeneration (1955)
- Pre-Natal Origin Of Genius (1962)
- Pythagoras - The Immortal Sage
- Regeneration
- Rejuvenation Through Dietetic Sex Control
- Revolt Against Chemicals
- Science Discovers The Physiological Value Of Continence
- Secret Life of Jesus the Essene
- Secret Of Rejuvenation: Prof. Brown Sequard’s Great Discovery
- Serpent Fire: Awakening Kundalini
- Shall We Eat Bread? (1956)
- Super Foods From Super Soil (1956)
- Super Health Thru Organic Super Food (1958)
- Unknown Life Of Christ (1966)