Unarius Academy of Science

Unarius
Formation1954
TypeUFO religion[1]
HeadquartersEl Cajon, California, USA.
Membership
Unknown
Leadership
Council of sub-channels
Key people
Ernest Norman, Ruth Norman, Thomas Miller, Louis Spiegel
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

Unarius is a non-profit organization[2] founded in 1954 in Los Angeles, California,[3][4][5][6] and headquartered in El Cajon, California.[7] The organization purports to advance a new "interdimensional science of life" based upon "fourth-dimensional" physics principles.[7][8] Unarius centers exist in Canada, New Zealand, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and various locations in the United States.[9][10][full citation needed]

Unarius is an acronym for "Universal Articulate Interdimensional Understanding of Science".[11][12][13][14] The founder, and subsequent "channels" and "sub-channels", have written books filled with channeled dissertations from alleged advanced intelligent beings that exist on higher frequency planes.[15] Over 100 volumes have been published since 1954.[16]

  1. ^ Tumminia, Diana (2021). "A Retrospective on the Unarius Academy of Science". In Zeller, Ben (ed.). Handbook of UFO Religions. Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion. Vol. 20. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers. pp. 389–402. doi:10.1163/9789004435537_020. ISBN 978-90-04-43437-0. ISSN 1874-6691. S2CID 242474128.
  2. ^ Lewis, James R, ed. (2003). Encyclopedic sourcebook of UFO religions. New York, 2003: Prometheus Books. pp. 191–207. Chapter 10 by John A. Saliba "UFOs and religion: a case study of Unarius Academy of Science" p192. ISBN 1-57392-964-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  3. ^ Partridge, Christopher, ed. (2003). UFO Religions. Routledge. p. 65, Chapter 3, Diana Tumminia "When the Archangel died: from revelation to routinisation of charisma in Unarius".
  4. ^ Tumminia, Diana (2005). When prophecy never fails: myth and reality in a flying saucer group. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 164.
  5. ^ Lewis, James R, ed. (2003). Encyclopedic sourcebook of UFO religions. New York: Prometheus Books. p. 191, Chapter 10, John A Saliba, "UFOs and religion: a case study of Unarius Academy of Science".
  6. ^ Kinane, Karolyn and Michael J. Ryan, editors (2009). End of days: essays on the apocalypse from antiquity to modernity. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 334, Benjamin E. Zeller "Apocalyptic thought in UFO-based religions". ISBN 978-0-7864-4204-1. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ a b Tumminia, Diana (2005) p5
  8. ^ Tumminia, Diana (2007). Alien worlds: social and religious dimensions of extraterrestrial contact. p. 80.
  9. ^ Saliba, John A. (2003) p193
  10. ^ Partridge, Christopher, ed. (2004). Encyclopedia of new religions: new religious movements, sects and alternative spiritualities. p. 396, Diana Tumminia.
  11. ^ Lewis, James R., ed. (1995). The gods have landed: new religions from other worlds. p. 102, Chapter 4, Diana Tumminia and R. George Kirkpatrick "Unarius: emergent aspects of an American flying saucer group".
  12. ^ Hillinger, Charles (April 13, 1977). She's betting flying saucers will pay call. Los Angeles Times
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference S2003p192 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  14. ^ Cite error: The named reference C2006p588 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  15. ^ Tumminia (1995) p88
  16. ^ Lewis, James R., ed. (2000). UFOs and popular culture: an encyclopedia of contemporary myth. ABC-CLIO1. p. 301, Diana Tumminia. ISBN 1-57607-265-7.