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In 1948, Lao and Walter Russell founded this unique home-study university, open to any student from any walk of life anywhere in the world. For almost fifty years, the home of the USP was at Swannanoa, where Walter Russell's painting, sculpting and historic documents were on display, and from which the Russell Home Study Course and books went out to the world. Today, while still centered near its historic Virginia home, the University expands its global presence through the Internet and through developing centers around the world.

10/28/2026

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In the endless exchange between earth and heaven, nature reveals that love is the balance of giving and receiving.
10/27/2026

In the endless exchange between earth and heaven, nature reveals that love is the balance of giving and receiving.

10/25/2026

What Does This Rug Have to Do With Walter Russell?

Few people walking down a hotel hallway think much about the carpet.

Toby Grotz did.

Russell used his drawings to explain his picture of how matter forms: vortices converging and diverging, turning in opposite directions.

He didn’t leave it on paper. Around 1960, Walter and Lao Russell and their assistants built a coil-based prototype. In 1961, they reported to their NORAD contacts that it had worked.

Three decades later, Grotz was studying the surviving drawings and blueprints, trying to work out how the coils had been wound.

So he had to learn to read the drawings.

In this 1993 lecture, he walks his audience through those diagrams.

Then he puts up a slide of a rug.

Look at the drawing. Now look at the shapes in the rug.

Grotz had been noticing this for a while. In pottery and weaving across the Southwest. On a restaurant wall in Utah. After a while, he says, he saw it everywhere.

Including the hallway of the hotel they were sitting in.

In a rug, threads form a pattern. In a coil, wire does. Later in the lecture, Grotz returns to the recovered blueprints and winding geometry with the same idea in mind.

Whether the resemblance means anything is still an open question. Where does it hold? Where does it break down?

From Toby Grotz’s 1993 lecture, preserved in The Lost Archives.

What if the most beautiful music begins with silence?
10/25/2026

What if the most beautiful music begins with silence?

Have we mistaken the symbol for the Source?
10/24/2026

Have we mistaken the symbol for the Source?

In Walter Russell's cosmology, light, mind, and matter are intimately connected.Thought is the beginning of creation, an...
10/23/2026

In Walter Russell's cosmology, light, mind, and matter are intimately connected.

Thought is the beginning of creation, and the visible world is its expression.

What we think, we give form to.

Explore Russell's teachings at www.philosophy.org

"Light and sound are one." - Walter Russell
10/22/2026

"Light and sound are one." - Walter Russell

“Desire is the cause of all motion.” -Walter Russell
10/21/2026

“Desire is the cause of all motion.” -Walter Russell

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