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Walter Siegmeister
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Walter Isidor Siegmeister (October 5 or 6, 1903 September 10, 1965),[1][2]


[3][4][5] later known as Raymond W. Bernard, was an early 20th-century
American alternative health, esoteric writer, author, and mystic, who formed
part of the alternative reality subculture.[5]

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Biography
Publications
References
External links

Biography
Early life
Walter was born into a family of Russian Jews in Manhattan, New York City. [5]
His parents were William Siegmeister (May 1877 - September 1, 1932) and
Rebecca "Bessie" Gitler (Gittler) (February 25, 1880 - October 27, 1968), [6]
who were both born in Russia. Walter's father William emigrated to the United
States in July 1893,[7] and he became a naturalized citizen in the Superior
Court, New York County (Manhattan) on October 29, 1902.[7] Walter's parents
William and Bessie are both buried in the Mount Lebanon Cemetery in
Glendale, Queens County, New York.[8] Walter's father was a surgeon who
started out as a student of biochemistry in Germany. Walter had a brother
named Elie Siegmeister (1909-1991) who was a famous American composer.
Walter graduated from Columbia University in 1924, and received his Masters
(1930) and Ph.D (1932) degrees in education from New York University. [5] His
Ph.D thesis was titled Theory and Practice of Dr. Rudolf Steiner's Pedagogy
(New York University, School of Education, 1932) (typed manuscript, v + 320
pages). Under the name Bernard, Walter later settled in Florida. [5]
Contemporaries
Siegmeister wrote of his search for the safest place on Earth from radioactive
fallout in order to build a paradise.[5] The idea was later developed in the
writings of Johnny Lovewisdom and then Viktoras Kulvinskas.[5]
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

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paradisian utopia and a super-race in the Ecuadorean jungle.[5][9] 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 Robert Raymond, continued
to sell his health books, before returning to South America. Walter moved to
Brazil in 1955 or 1956, in order 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 describes a purported conspiracy to conceal the existence of
the hollow earth and its access points at the poles.[10] Siegmeister died of
pneumonia in 1965.

Publications
Apollonius the Nazarene: the life and teachings of the unknown world
teacher of the rst century. Lorida, Fla.: New Age Publications, 1945.[11]
Escape from Destruction: How to Survive in an Atomic Age''. Mokelumne
Hill, CA: Health Research, 1956.[5]
Flying Saucers from the Earth's Interior''. Mokelumne Hill, CA: Health
Research, 1960.[5]
The Hollow Earth''. New York: Carol Publishing, 1969 [1964].[5]
Creation of the Superman. Mokelumne Hill, CA: Health Research, 1970.[5]

References
1. http://www.ourhollowearth.com
/Bernard/WorksList.htm
2. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903
/1:1:2W43-Q6V
3. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903
/1:1:M5Q1-H9K
4. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903
/1:1:KX2M-HPH
5. Brad Whitsel (2001). Walter
Siegmeister's Inner-Earth Utopia
(http://www.jstor.org/stable
/20718317). Utopian Studies 12 (2):
82-102. (subscription required)
6. http://sortedbyname.com/mobile
/pages/s155875.html (scroll down
the page until you arrive at
"Siegmeister, Bessie")

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7. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903
/1:1:QV5Y-YHNV (Passport
Application of Rebecca Siegmeister click on "View the original
document")
8. http://www.ndagrave.com/cgi-bin
/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSiman=1&
GScid=65349&GSfn=&
GSln=siegmeister
9. J. M. Sheppard, "Disaster in
Paradise" (https://news.google.com
/newspapers?id=dC1QAAAAIBAJ&
sjid=lw0EAAAAIBAJ&
pg=6075,1444027&
dq=walter+siegmeister&hl=en),
The American Weekly in The
Milwaukee Sentinel, December 24,
1944, p. 17.

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10. James R. Lewis, The Encyclopedia of


Cults, Sects, and New Religions,
(Prometheus Books, 2002), ISBN
9781615927388, p. 399. Excerpts
available (https://books.google.com
/books?id=lk8_ARNzdYC&lpg=PA399&
dq=%22Walter%20Siegmeister%22
&pg=PA399#v=onepage&

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Walt...

q=%22Walter%20Siegmeister%22&
f=false) at Google Books.
11. Search results for 'au:"Walter
Siegmeister"'
(http://www.worldcat.org
/search?q=au
%3A%22Walter+Siegmeister%22&
qt=results_page) Worldcat. Accessed
August 2013.

External links
The Memory Palace, history podcast episode: "The World Within the
World" (http://thememorypalace.us/2009/03/episode-8/)
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