Near Fine. See descriptions and scans. El Cajon, Unarius Publications, 1989. First Edition. Interdimensional the Mind and the Universe, by Ruth Norman, ISBN 0935097155. Laid in is a pristine, unused Unarius Publications comment card, for a bit of ephemera. Octavo, illustrated jacket by David Reynolds, caramel textured boards with gilt imprinting on front cover and spine, iii + 2 + 342 pp. Near Fine book, with some fox speckling at top edges and a lesser amount at fore edge, and a little (almost indiscernible) crinkle at top of the first few pages, in a Near Fine jacket with minor rubbing, modest roughening at the very top of its spine, and a presumably removable tiny price sticker on its front flap. See scans. Norman's bold effort at providing long-needed analytic explanation of New Age terms (such as "energy", within New Age prose) and notions about the universe; in execution, just semi-analytic at best, but nonetheless a landmark effort at bridging a gap that not many people seem to feel the urge to bridge. Scarce, and getting scarcer. Please see scans. L56n
Ruth E. Norman (born Ruth Nields; August 18, 1900 – July 12, 1993), also known as Uriel, was an American religious leader who co-founded the Unarius Academy of Science, based in Southern California.
Raised in California, Norman received little education and worked from an early age in a variety of jobs. In the 1940s, she developed an interest in psychic phenomena and past-life regression. These pursuits led to her introduction to Ernest L. Norman, a self-described psychic, in 1954. He engaged in channeling, past-life regression, and attempts at communication with extraterrestrials. She married Ernest, her fourth husband, in the mid-1950s. Together they published several books about his revelations and formed Unarius, an organization which later became known as the Unarius Academy of Science, to popularize his teachings. The couple discussed numerous details about their alleged past lives and spiritual visits to other planets, forming a mythology from these accounts.
After Ernest died in 1971, Ruth succeeded him as their group's leader and primary channeler. She subsequently began publishing accounts of her experiences and revelations. In early 1974, she predicted that a space fleet of benevolent extraterrestrials, the Space Brothers, would land on Earth later that year, which led the Unarius Academy to purchase a property to serve as the landing site. After the extraterrestrials failed to appear, Norman said that trauma she had suffered in a past life had caused her to make an inaccurate prediction. Undaunted, she rented a building for Unarius' meetings and sought publicity for the movement, claiming to have united the Earth with an interplanetary confederation. She revised the Space Brothers' expected landing date several times, before finally settling on 2001. Her health declined in the late 1980s, prompting her students to try to heal her with rituals of past-life regression. Despite predicting that she would live to see the extraterrestrials land, Norman died in 1993. Unarius has continued to operate after her death, and formed a board of directors. Since the 2000s, leaders have concentrated on individual transformation leading to spiritual change in humankind.