Unarius Academy of Science - Founders

Founders

Ernest Norman claimed to have been a child prodigy. His father was a physician from Scandinavia. Ernest claimed to have read all his father's books eagerly, self-educating himself alongside his formal schooling. Ernest claimed he was born with an abnormally large cranium and as a child already wore an adult size hat. Ernest also claimed that as a child, he performed to family, neighbors and teachers unexpected feats such as moving a heavy rabbit hutch using Archimedean principles and small logs, building radios and winning arguments with parents and teachers at an early age. Claiming to possess psychic ability, he claimed to have told women of their loved one's whereabouts and often deaths during the World War II years of 1942–1945. When this practice of describing fatalities allegedly lowered morale at war plants where he worked, he left and started to give lectures of his own philosophy in theosophical churches during the mid to late 1940s.

Ruth Norman was the oldest of eight children, born in 1900. She took many jobs early on to help support her family. She had purchased a motel, run a restaurant, worked at a cannery and worked in numerous other professions during her first fifty years. By the early 1950s mystics at a psychic convention she attended told her that she was being followed around by long-bearded wise men carrying books and that she would help bring in these books in her future. This same thing had been told to Ernest by other mystics at this same convention and when the two met and later married, within weeks, Ernest began to produce, by channeling, the first Unarius book, The Voice of Venus. Ruth was later known within the group as both "Ioshanna" (1972–1979) and "Uriel" (1980–1993).