Grant Wallace was an American

United States

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 journalist

Journalist

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, artist

Artist

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, screenwriter

Screenwriter

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, and occultist.

Early life

Grant Wallace was born on February 10, 1867, in Hopkins, Missouri

Hopkins, Missouri

Hopkins is a city in Nodaway County, Missouri, United States. The population was 579 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Hopkins is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....

, the son of a judge. His education included a B.S. from Western College in Shenandoah, Iowa

Shenandoah, Iowa

Shenandoah is a city in Fremont and Page Counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 5,546 at the 2000 census.Once referred to as the "seed and nursery center of the world," Shenandoah is the home to Earl May Seed Company and the radio station KMA, founded by Earl May...

, in 1889, and art classes from the Art Students League of New York

Art Students League of New York

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He worked as an artist and reporter for the San Francisco Examiner, an editorial and feature writer for the San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle

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, and a war correspondent for the Evening Bulletin

San Francisco Call

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 in Japan

Japan

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 and China

China

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. He wrote short stories and screen plays, including for two black and white silent movies: the story for A Blowout at Santa Banana

A Blowout at Santa Banana

A Blowout at Santa Banana is a 1914 American silent comedy-drama short film starring Sydney Ayres, Vivian Rich, and Harry Van Meter.-Cast:* Sydney Ayres* Vivian Rich* Harry Van Meter* Perry Banks* Charlotte Burton* Edith Borella* Caroline Cooke...

 (1914), and the scenario

Scenario

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 for the movie The Fuel of Life (1917). He also lectured on the occult.

Occultism

After World War I

World War I

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, Wallace built a small cabin in the forest near Carmel, California, which he used as a laboratory for experimenting with telepathy

Telepathy

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, which he sometimes referred to as "mental radio." He made hundreds of drawings, charts, diagrams, and writings, attempting to reveal the patterns of life, including reincarnation

Reincarnation

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, communication with intelligent life on other planets, and with dead spirits. He wrote about messages from the dead, from ancient Greeks, ancient Egyptians, Viking

Viking

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s, and Atlantean

Atlantis

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s, to more recent dead, such as Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia...

 and Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

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, and transcribed messages from and drew pictures of extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life is defined as life that does not originate from Earth...

, especially from the Pleiades star cluster

Pleiades (star cluster)

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He died August 12, 1954, in Berkeley, California

Berkeley, California

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. His works were recovered from his cabin after his death, and some of his art and diagrams were included in The End is Near!, Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium and Utopia, ISBN 0-9664272-7-0, published by Dilettante Press.