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         V E R I C O M M sm                 "Quid veritas est?"
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    Editor's Note:

    The following article originally appeared in _Solstice_ magazine,
    May 1989. _Solstice_ magazine is now defunct. Reproduced here
    with the express permission of Randolf Byrd, former editor of
    _Solstice_.

    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 editor's 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.

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    THE MACROBIOTIC GENIUS OF WALTER RUSSELL

    By John David Mann

    Copyright 1989 John David Mann

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         "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. Russell's 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 Newton's 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. Jackson's 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 Russell's '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 artist's heretical views on science, Nature and
    the universe, the Times' 1930 filibuster culminated in Dr.
    Jackson's dramatic reversal -- what 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 movement -- for the macrobiotic world
    view and Russell's practical cosmology have much in common.

    Cloud Over the Ozone
         Our story begins some ten miles above the Earth's surface in
    the stratosphere, home of the planet's ailing ozone skin and
    birthplace of the emerging global awareness of the limits of
    man's 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. [See
    sidebar.]
         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 ago -- a full
    20 years before the Rowland/Molina research made headlines -- and
    ascribed it to an entirely different cause.
         If Russell's views were correct, then the chlorine chemistry
    of CFCs is not the prime culprit [see sidebar], 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 Rowland's 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 Eisenhower's "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 Earth's
    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 planet's 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 Tritium" -- years 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 century's 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 Russell's
    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?
         Russell's 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 Century's Leonardo" and "the man who tapped the
    secrets of the universe," Russell maintained that a firm grasp of
    nature's 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 layout -- New York
    City's 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. Russell's 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 Russell's 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, Russell's 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, Russell's
    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 Russell's universe -- all are living
    manifestations of God's 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, Russell's universal mechanics hinges on a
    reinterpretation of the ancient "unified field" theorem of yin
    and yang. Life -- not only biological life, but the existence of
    planets, gases and metals as well -- is 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 life's charge -- of 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 pendulum's swing. In the heaviest elements, the
    force of decay reaches near-total dominance over the force of
    life -- thus radioactivity is death incarnate."  [See sidebar,
    "The Spiral of Elements."]

    The Secret Life of Plutonium
         The key to grasping Russell's 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
    Urium -- later 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 Earth's 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 Earth's surface: through billions of
    microscopic explosions, they have gradually caused the
    surrounding rocky crust to break down and release water and other
    lower-octave elements -- something 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 beds
    -- structures presently considered to contain high-level
    radioactive wastes -- will 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 Russell's 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. That's 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, Russell's 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 issue's article by Sara Shannon details
    the Petkau effect and its dietary implications -- Ed.]
         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 Russell's 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
    charging -- unwinding 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 Earth's ozone crisis amounts to
    radiation burn -- Gaia herself is already suffering from the
    Petkau effect.

    Rx For Disaster
         A problem without solutions is not worth unearthing, and
    Russell's 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
    context -- that is, underground -- where 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 Russell's 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 discoveries -- Ed.]
         Other energy sources suggested by Russell's 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 technologies -- Ed.]
         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 Russell's assessment of the problem -- let 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 artist -- a
    non-scientist. Moreover, his work is not merely unconventional:
    it overturns many of the cherished tenets of science.
         But what makes Russell's 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
    Russell's 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.
    Jackson's goat in 1930), is echoed precisely in Kushi's
    cosmology, where conventional "gravity" is discarded in favor of
    centripetal "Heaven's 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 hours -- a 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
    fatigue -- quintessentially 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 Russell's 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 one's deep breathing and exaltation during
    the process of taking food into one's 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. Canty -- a long-time student of the Russells
    and himself a bit of a maverick even within the world of
    macrobiotics -- has 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 Russell's 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 Russell's
    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 Russell's
    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 University's
    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 radioactivity's role in ozone depletion. Combining an
    exhaustive review of existing literature with new laboratory
    experimentation, the project owes its impetus in part to Binder's
    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 don't 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 Mount's
    statements.
         [Subsequently, we contacted Sherwood Rowland's 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 didn't 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 don't 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,
    "I'm so glad you've 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 husband's 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 universe -- a universe seen in an altogether different
    light.

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