Guy Murchie
{{short description|American journalist}}
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Guy Murchie (Jr.) (25 January 1907 – 8 July 1997) was an American writer about science and philosophy: aviation, astronomy, biology, and the meaning of life. He was, successively, a world traveler; a war correspondent; a photographer, staff artist, and reporter for the Chicago Tribune; a pilot and flight instructor; a teacher; a lecturer; an aerial navigator; a building contractor; and founder and director of a summer camp for children. He was a practising member of the Baháʼí Faith. His books included Men on the Horizon (1932), Song of the Sky (1954), Music of the Spheres (1961), and The Seven Mysteries of Life (1978). The latter three books were chosen for promotion by the Book of the Month Club.{{cite news
| last =Heise
| first = Kenan
| title =Guy Murchie, WWII Correspondent
| newspaper =Chicago Tribune
| location =Chicago
| date =11 July 1997
| url =https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/07/11/guy-murchie-wwii-correspondent/
| access-date = 29 December 2014}} He illustrated his books with etchings and woodcuts of his own design.
Early life
Murchie was the son of Ethel A. Murchie—who designed the interior of a seaplane for Sikorksy Aircraft{{cite news
| title =Woman decorator busies herself on airplane job
| newspaper = The Post-Crescent
| location =Appleton, WI
| page =4
| date =16 July 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1495443/mrs_murchie_guys_mother_designs_for/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}—and Guy Murchie, Sr.:{{cite web
| title =History of The Fairways Manor House Bed and Breakfast
| publisher =The Fairways Manor House
| year =2005
| url =http://www.fairwaysmanorhouse.com/history.htm
| accessdate = 29 December 2014
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20061102023659/http://www.fairwaysmanorhouse.com/history.htm
| archivedate = 2 November 2006 }}{{cite news
| last =Hayden
| first =Barbara
| title =To Write an Adventure Book He Ran a N. H. Camp
| newspaper =Daily Boston Globe
| location =Boston
| page =75
| date =2 October 1955
}} a graduate of Harvard Law School, a former member of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, a U.S. Marshal, and a prominent Boston attorney{{cite book|author= Louis D. Brandeis|title=Letters of Louis D. Brandeis: Vol. 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m-txnZR5mBsC&pg=PA27|year=1975|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-2258-9|page=27}} who at one time served as attorney to Winston Churchill.{{cite book|author=Robert W. Schneider|title=Novelist to a Generation: The Life and Thought of Winston Churchill|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GByjgO_zxwkC&pg=PA59|year= 1976|publisher=Popular Press|isbn=978-0-87972-116-9|page=59}} Sitting President Theodore Roosevelt and his wife attended Guy Jr.'s christening.{{cite news
| title =Are quartered with friends
| newspaper =Duluth Evening Herald
| location =Duluth, MN
| page =1
| date =27 February 1907
| url =http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2021/Duluth%20MN%20Evening%20Herald/Duluth%20MN%20Evening%20Herald%201907/Duluth%20MN%20Evening%20Herald%201907%20%282416%29.pdf
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}} His parents held him to high standards.
Murchie, who as an adult stood 6'6" tall and weighed 225 lbs.,* {{cite news
| title =Like most miracles absurdly simple
| newspaper =The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
| location =Brooklyn, NY
| page =29
| date =22 June 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1494619/later_bahai_guy_murchie_called/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| author = George Currie
| title =Only a storm could have saved experts' scalps at 'Keepsie
| newspaper =The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
| location =Brooklyn, NY
| pages =21
| date =22 June 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1494603/later_bahai_guy_murchie_called_a/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}} was raised as an Episcopalian,{{cite news
| author=Guy Murchie
| title =I am a Baháʼí
| newspaper =Chicago Tribune
| location =Chicago
| pages =38, 40, 62
| date = 13 July 1958
| url =http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1958/07/13/page/226/article/i-am-a-bahai
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}} attended Kent School—which at the time was just "for boys"—and graduated from Harvard in 1929.{{cite book|author=James Karman|title=The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers: Volume Two, 1931–1939|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bwq6a0b3PXAC&pg=PT1795|year= 2011|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-8172-5|pages=1795}} From this heritage of privilege and physical capacity he instead turned to traveling and making his own way, never to return to the arena of Bostonian privilege. Instead he left before receiving his credentials on a trip headed to the Far East. Murchie returned to the States in 1930. From the experience, he gained a deep-seated appreciation for the basic commonality of humanity across any divide of culture, and in 1932 he published his first book (with his own illustrations)—Men on the Horizon—in Boston{{cite book
| author = Guy Murchie Jr
| authorlink =Guy Murchie
| title =Men on the Horizon
| publisher =Riverside Press, Houghton Mifflin Co
| year =1932
| location = Cambridge MA
| url =http://raskb.com/udenlibrary/disk2/182.pdf
}} and London,{{cite book|author=Guy Murchie|title=Men on the Horizon, Etc|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-BoiMwEACAAJ|year=1932|publisher=Jonothan Cape| location=London}} dedicating it to his mother. In the same year he married Eleanor Forrester Parker Cushman, who was some 26 years his senior. Although the marriage eventually failed, Murchie dedicated his book The Seven Mysteries of Life to her after her death in 1960.
In 1944, he married Barbara Cooney, and fathered two children—Gretel and Barnaby—within three years. The marriage did not last, and Cooney left him.
Writer
=''Men on the Horizon''=
When Murchie graduated from Harvard in 1929, he set out on an overseas journey, not even bothering to attend commencement, packing notepads in anticipation of publishing a travelogue. He began by working as an able-bodied seaman through the Panama Canal and up to Alaska, working the rails up to Whitehorse, and rowing himself down the Yukon River, then hiking, hitching a ride, and riding freight trains down to Seward. Unable to buy a ticket, he stowed away back to San Francisco, ultimately having to pay for the ride, and from there joined ship's crews to Hawaii and then to Japan.
From Japan onward, Murchie paid his way as a passenger, visiting several cities in China, the Philippines, Manchuria, Korea, and then Siberia, finally riding west to the Atlantic on passenger trains. He traveled frugally and sometimes suffered from the extreme cold of Manchuria and Siberia, as well as from the long waits in Soviet lines for food, train tickets, etc. The travelogue does not cover his travels beyond Moscow.
Murchie's stated purpose in taking this trip might have seemed to anticipate his future embrace of the Baháʼí Faith:
About the rest of [the world] I know only that it is made up of vast masses of men grouped in races and classes, unknown to each other, uninformed about each other, doubting and disliking each other—and yet, all of them made in the same image and of the same material, and all human. … I must find out for myself whether it is not ignorance, and ignorance alone, that prevents friendship and understanding between these masses of human beings.Murchie, Guy. Men on the Horizon. p. 2
In China, Murchie was exposed to some of the signs of the coming Communist revolution in China, for instance contrasts of starvation and gluttony, and frequent reports of conflict which Murchie reported as comically harmless. He summarizes, "China is not nearly so unstable politically as it seems."Murchie, Guy. Men on the Horizon. p. 165 In Russia, Murchie saw the Russian Communists under Stalin as similar to Christian missionaries, and Communism itself a kind of religion.Murchie, Guy. Men on the Horizon. p. 291 The account does not mention the economic crisis that was deepening in America at the time (1930).
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd wrote the foreword on the heels of his first Antarctic expedition—and wrote of first being interested in the "clean man" of Murchie, and did not take sides in Murchie's views on the governments of the day but was very struck by the encounter with people.
The book was a success. The New York Times reported it as a regional best seller in New England on 16 May 1932. It was generally well received, most of all for its humor, throughout America,* {{cite news
| title =Guy Murchie Jr.,…
| newspaper =The Salt Lake Tribune
| location =Salt Lake City, UT
| page =43
| date =17 January 1932
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476277/later_bahai_guy_murchie_jr_writes_men/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Of the Making of Books… | author= Jerome Coignard
| newspaper =The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
| location =Brooklyn, NY
| page =62
| date =6 March 1932
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476281/early_profile_of_later_bahai_guy/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Passed in Review | author=George Currie
| newspaper =The Bridgeport Post
| location =Bridgeport, CN
| page =67
| date =20 November 1960
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476289/profile_of_later_bahai_guy_murchie_jr/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Books topic at historical society event
| newspaper =The Ogden Standard-Examiner
| location =Ogden, Utah
| page =14
| date =2 October 1932
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476340/book_club_discusses_later_bahai_guy/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Day by Day in New York | author= O. O. McIntyre
| newspaper =Reading Times
| location =Reading, PA
| page =8
| date = 14 April 1932
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476303/later_bahai_guy_murchies_men_on_the/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Excellent book on travels is written
| newspaper =The Charleston Daily Mail
| location =Charleston, WV
| page =19
| date =3 July 1932
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476315/later_bahai_guy_murchie_men_on_the/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =May luncheon is scene of exclusive social function
| newspaper =Covina Argus
| location =Covina, CA
| page =8
| date =5 May 1933
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476350/book_club_discusses_later_bahai_guy/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| author= Pierre van Paassen
| title =The World's Window: Seeing The World
| newspaper =The Atlanta Constitution
| location =Atlanta, GA
| page =6
| date =24 September 1932
}}
Great Britain,*{{cite news
| author= D. H. N. Caley
| title =Life in the raw
| newspaper =Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
| location =West Yorkshire, England
| page =6
| date = 27 July 1932
| url =http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19320727/223/0006
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| author=Vicki Baum
| title =Vicki Baum succeeds again; He saw the World
| newspaper =Dundee Courier
| location =Angus, Scotland
| page =5
| date =21 October 1932
| url =http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19321021/071/0005
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =For to Behold
| newspaper =Aberdeen Journal
| location =Aberdeenshire, Scotland
| page =2
| date =27 July 1932
| url =http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000577/19320727/001/0002
| accessdate =31 December 2014}} Australia,* {{cite news
| title =Literary Notes; Mr. Guy Murchie, of New York…
| newspaper =The Australasian
| location = Melbourne, Victoria
| page =6
| date =15 October 1932
| url =http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141365553
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Roughing it round the world
| newspaper =The Daily News
| location =Perth, Western Australia
| page =12
| date =5 November 1932
| url =http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article82878271
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}} and New Zealand.{{cite news
| title =Japanese Customs
| newspaper =Evening Post
| volume= CXIV
| issue = 122
| location = Wellington, New Zealand
| page =19
| date = 19 November 1932
| url =http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19321119.2.146.9
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
=''Saint Croix, the Sentinel River''=
Named and about the history of the Saint Croix River today forming part of the border between Maine and New Brunswick. Saint Croix, the Sentinel River was well received academically{{cite journal
| author = Kenneth C. M. Sills
| title =Reviewed Work: Saint Croix: The Sentinel River by Guy Murchie
| journal =The New England Quarterly
| volume =21
| issue =1
| pages =128–29
| date =March 1948
| jstor =361168 | doi =10.2307/361168
}} and popularly* {{cite news
| title =Canada's Sentinel River
| newspaper =The Bridgeport Post
| location =Bridgeport, CN
| page =23
| date = 23 November 1947
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1480085/later_bahai_guy_murchie_writes_saint/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =A history of the Saint Croix River
| newspaper =The Weekly Kansas City Star
| location =Kansas City, MO
| page =13
| date =19 May 1948
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1480144/later_bahai_guy_murchies_book_saint/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014 }}
- {{cite journal
| author=Allan Nevins
| title =Americana Notes – Saint Croix, The Sentinel River, by Guy Murchie, ...
| journal =The Saturday Review
| page =13
| date =4 September 1948}}
- {{cite news
| title =Farmington Circle to hear review
| newspaper =Portland Press Herald
| location =Portland, ME
| page =11
| date =6 April 1949
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1480155/later_bahai_guy_murchies_book_st/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Nashua exchange club honors high school ranking students
| newspaper =Nashua Telegraph
| location =Nashua, NH
| page =5
| date =19 May 1949
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1480165/later_bahai_guy_murchie_speaking_at/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014 }}
at the time. However it continues to be of relevance as it was noted in the 1970s* {{cite news
| author=Rev. Charles M. Smith
| title =Piskahegan's Pioneer Days
| newspaper =Saint Croix Courier
| location =Saint Stephen, New Brunswick
| date = 17 October 1974
| url =http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbpstgeo/stge5e.htm
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
- {{cite journal
| author1=R. D. Tallman |author2= J. I. Tallman
| title =The Diplomatic Searchfor the St. Croix River, 1796–1798
| journal =Acadiensis
| volume =1
| issue =2
| pages =59–70
| date =Spring 1972
| url =http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/issue/view/966/showToc
| issn = 0044-5851
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}} and then cited in post-2000 work on the internet.* {{cite book|author=Francis M. Carroll|title=A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783–1842|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1AjlS20Q5J8C&pg=PA313|year=2001|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-8358-6|pages=313}}
- {{cite web
| title = References
| work =Three Acadian Generations
| author =Richard J. Bergeron
| year = 2013
| origyear = 2001
| url =http://threeacadiangenerations.weebly.com/references.html
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
- {{cite web
| title = Contemporary: Other References
| work =Maine History
| publisher =Davistown Museum
| year =2014
| url =http://www.davistownmuseum.org/bibMeSec.htm
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
=''Song of the Sky''=
Murchie got the material for his breakthrough work Song of the Sky from his experience and investigations as an aviator and flight instructor. Though the subject of the book is largely science (with some references to spiritual matters), the content is delivered in Murchie's characteristically poetic way.* {{cite news
| title =Exploring the limitless sky above: One man's love of the sea of space
| newspaper =The Lincoln Star
| location =Lincoln, NE
| page =40
| date =19 December 1954
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1471237/bahai_guy_murchies_book_song_of_the/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Books in Review | author= W. G. Rogers
| newspaper =Delaware County Daily Times
| location =Chester, PA
| page =6
| date =21 December 1954
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1471242/bahai_guy_murchies_book_song_of_the/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Guest appearances
| newspaper =The San Bernardino County Sun
| location =San Bernardino, CA
| page =54
| date =19 December 1954
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1471239/bahai_guy_murchies_book_discussed_on/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}} The book does not address religion at length, but it does mention Baháʼu'lláh, founder of Murchie's religion, the Baháʼí Faith.{{cite book
| last =Murchie
| first =Guy
| authorlink =Guy Murchie
| title =Song of the Sky
| publisher =Riverside Press Cambridge
| edition =3rd
| year =1954
| location =Cambridge, MA
| page =421
| url =https://archive.org/stream/songofsky00murc#page/421/mode/1up/ }}
Song of the Sky was a Book of the Month Club selection for December 1954. The American Museum of Natural History awarded him the John Burroughs Medal in 1956 for Song of the Sky.{{cite web
| title = John Burroughs Medal Award List
| work =Awards
| publisher =John Burroughs Association
| year =2008
| url =http://research.amnh.org/burroughs/medal_award_list.html
| accessdate = 30 December 2014}}
Song of the Sky was plagiarized by writer Alexander Theroux in 1994, apparently because Theroux failed to source his notes.{{cite news
| title=A Reader Finds That a Current Book Reads Suspiciously Like an Old One
| newspaper=The New York Times
| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/03/books/a-reader-finds-that-a-current-book-reads-suspiciously-like-an-old-one.html
| date=3 March 1995
| accessdate =22 September 2016}}{{cite news
| title =Author of 1954 book pursues plagiarism suit
| newspaper =The Index-Journal
| location =Greenwood, SC
| page =21
| date =3 March 1995
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476261/bahai_guy_murchies_book_song_of_the/
| accessdate =31 December 2014 }}
=''Music of the Spheres''=
Originally published in 1961{{cite book|author=Guy Murchie|title=Music of the spheres|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RN7kWl55_BYC|year=1961|publisher=Houghton Mifflin}} it was revised and printed in 1967{{cite book|author=Guy Murchie|title=Music of the Spheres: The Material Universe. The Macrocosm|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E2_VSAAACAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Dover publications|isbn=9780486218090}} and then reprinted in 1979.{{cite journal
| author = Peter Austerfield
| title =Review; Music of the spheres – the Seven Mysteries of life
| journal =New Scientist
| volume =84
| issue =1180
| page =450
| location =London
| date = 8 November 1979
| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=h8EeDGprQG4C&pg=PA450
| issn =0028-6664
| accessdate = 31 December 2014 }}
Music of the Spheres was named as one of the American Library Association's Top 50 Books of 1961.{{cite news
| title =Librarians Name Top Books of '61
| newspaper =The New York Times
| date = 1 March 1962
}} The Society of Midland Authors awarded one of its "Thormond Monsen" awards to Music of the Spheres. As Murchie was then residing in Spain, the managing director of the US Baháʼí Publishing Trust accepted the award on his behalf.{{cite journal
| title =Literary award results in unusual publicity for Faith
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =5
| issue =376
| page =15
| date =July 1962
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=05&page=477
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}} It was generally positively reviewed.* {{cite news
| author = Ira C. Tilton
| title =One worlders are asked to ponder story
| newspaper =The Vidette-Messenger
| location =Valparaiso, IN
| page =4
| date = 10 June 1961
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1475949/negative_review_of_bahai_guy_murchies/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| author = Mary Croteau
| title =Space knowledge in book offerings
| newspaper =The Escanaba Daily Press
| location =Escanaba, MI
| page =7
| date =6 August 1961
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1475955/bahai_gay_murchies_music_of_the/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014 }}
- {{cite news
| author = Mr. Fodiman
| title =Look our for the moon!
| newspaper =The Kansas City Star
| location =Kansas City, MO
| page =45
| date = 12 August 1961
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1475963/bahai_guy_murchies_book_music_of_the/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| author = Ann Carroll
| title =Ask Mrs. Carroll – Good books chase away lonesomeness
| newspaper =El Paso Herald-Post
| location =El Paso, TX
| page =11
| date = 25 August 1961
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476014/bahai_guy_murchies_book_music_of_the/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014 }}
- {{cite news
| title =T. B. Scott Library – Book blends science, poetry
| newspaper =The Daily Tribune
| location =Wisconsin Rapids, WI
| page =11
| date = 24 August 1961
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1475993/bahai_guy_murchies_music_of_the/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| author = Henry McLemore
| title =Hankerings
| newspaper =Pampa Daily News
| location =Pampa, TX
| page =8
| date =6 December 1961
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476045/bahai_guy_murchies_music_of_the/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
- {{cite news| title =Book about space to be AAUW topic
| newspaper =Santa Cruz Sentinel
| location =Santa Cruz, CA
| page =19
| date = 22 April 1962
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476053/bahai_guy_murchies_music_of_the/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =AAUW Library group invites men Wednesday
| newspaper =Santa Cruz Sentinel
| location =Santa Cruz, CA
| page =21
| date = 20 May 1962
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476070/bahai_guy_murchies_music_of_the/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Laymen's books of science make fine review
| newspaper =Wilmington News-Journal
| location =Wilmington, OH
| page =6
| date = 15 November 1962
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476091/bahai_guy_murchies_book_music_of_the/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
Of it Isaac Asimov is reported to have said "One can only stand amazed at the breadth of Mr. Murchie's understanding and his ability to put the facts and speculations of science into colorful and nontechnical language." Kurt Vonnegut has noted his indebtedness to it as well.{{cite thesis
| last =Altomare
| first =Francis C
| title =Strange time: Block universes and strange loop phenomena in two novels by Kurt Vonnegut
| page =8
| publisher = Florida Atlantic University
| year =2010
}}
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=''The Seven Mysteries of Life''=
In 1978 he published The Seven Mysteries of Life;{{cite book|author=Guy Murchie|title=The seven mysteries of life: an exploration in science & philosophy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7NIfAQAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|isbn=978-0-395-26310-5}} it was reprinted in 1981{{cite book|title=The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration in Science & Philosophy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TS1KPwAACAAJ|year= 1981|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|isbn=978-0-395-30537-9}} and 1999.{{cite book|author=Guy Murchie|title=The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration in Science & Philosophy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq0AqNmeaHYC|year=1999|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=0-395-95791-5}}
The Seven Mysteries are:
- The Abstract Nature of the Universe
- The Interrelatedness of All Creatures
- The Omnipresence of Life
- The Polarity Principle
- Transcendence
- The Germination of Worlds
- Divinity
The book also discusses super-organism, language, properties of the mind, and individual consciousness. His review of literature identifies some 32 senses, as noted online.* {{cite web
| last =Murchie
| first =Guy
| title =32 Senses of Perception
| website =
| publisher =This Magic Sea
| year =2011
| url =http://www.this-magic-sea.com/PERCEP32.HTM
| accessdate = 31 December 2014 }}
- {{cite web
| author = Michael J. Cohen
| title =The Multi-sensory Person
| work =The Way of Light
| publisher =Sherman R. Buck
| date =29 July 2013
| url =http://shermanbuck.com/multisensory-person.html
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
- {{cite web
| title =Sensory knowing
| work =joyful wellness
| publisher =EcoPlace for wellness in Columbia Gorge.
| date =25 September 2012
| url =http://www.naturemaking.com/inborn_senses.htm
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}} In it he quotes a Serbian proverb which is seen as part of the heritage of the idea put forth as We are made of star stuff: "Be humble for you are made of dung. Be noble for you are made of stars."{{cite web
| author=Garson O'Toole
| authorlink =Garson O'Toole
| title =We Are Made of Star-Stuff
| work =Quote Investigator
| date =22 June 2013
| url =http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/06/22/starstuff/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014 }}
Passages from The Seven Mysteries of Life appeared in Baháʼí News as well as other periodicals like the Old Farmer's Almanac. It was Murchie's most Baháʼí book, not merely for mentioning the religion a number of times, but for discussing Baháʼí principles in somewhat disguised detail,{{cite book
|last=Murchie |first=Guy |date=1999 |title=The Seven Mysteries of Life |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq0AqNmeaHYC&pg=PA562 |pages=562–63, 579–90 |isbn=978-0-395-95791-2
}} advocating notions of personal immortality,{{cite book
|last=Murchie |first=Guy |date=1999 |title=The Seven Mysteries of Life |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq0AqNmeaHYC&pg=PA530 |pages=530–38 |isbn=978-0-395-95791-2
}} and portraying the present life as a "soul school" that prepares humans for the afterlife.{{cite book
|last=Murchie |first=Guy |date=1999 |title=The Seven Mysteries of Life |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq0AqNmeaHYC&pg=PA621 |pages=621–64 |isbn=978-0-395-95791-2
}} Furthermore, Murchie maintains that many of the boundaries in normal science are arbitrary; between planet and moon, between plant and animal and between life and non-life. He often makes it very clear when his examples are based on empirically verified science, and when they are not. Verifiable sources and references are frequently mentioned, making this (arguably) an effort of journalistic objectivity, despite its overtly philosophical, religious and poetic content and style. The subjects covered, however, are often exotic and unusual. While deeply concerned with religious philosophy, The Seven Mysteries of Life was a finalist for the 1982 National Book Award for science (paperback).{{cite web
| title =National Book Awards – 1982
| publisher =National Book Foundation
| url =https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1982
| accessdate = 23 September 2016 }}
In hindsight, many of the "fringe" or discontinued areas of research that the book covers have recently been verified (or rediscovered) by modern experiments. Examples include the highly refined communication method seen in the waggle dance of honey bees,{{cite book
|last=Murchie |first=Guy |date=1999 |title=The Seven Mysteries of Life |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cq0AqNmeaHYC&pg=PA621 |pages=247–50 |isbn=978-0-395-95791-2
}} the regeneration and immortality properties of the tiny Hydra (genus), and the existence of Quasi-crystals (supramolecular).
Other examples, on the other hand, remain a scientific dead-end; the existence of interstellar ambiplasma and the so-called science of cymatics.
The visionary architect Buckminster Fuller is quoted as saying The Seven Mysteries of Life contains "... all the most important information about everything humanity needs to know …".{{cite news
| title = The Seven Mysteries…
| newspaper =Chicago Tribune
| location =Chicago, Illinois
| pages =143
| date =3 May 1981
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48310353/buckminster-fuller-on-seven-mysteries/
| access-date = Apr 9, 2020}}
Journalist
A newspaper story of Murchie's was published in the Winnipeg Tribune in 1934,{{cite news
| title =Graft is key to murder, suicide, riot in Stravinsky mystery
| newspaper =The Winnipeg Tribune
| location =Winnipeg, Manitoba
| page =33
| date =16 June 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476363/newspaper_story_by_later_bahai_guy/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}} and a piece in New Zealand in 1935,{{cite news
| title =Flying blink on beams
| newspaper =Auckland Star
| volume =LXVI
| issue= 272
| location = Auckland, New Zealand
| page =7
| date =16 November 1935
| url =http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=AS19351116.2.204.41
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}} but his steady job was at the Chicago Tribune. Some 37 news stories were then printed in the Chicago Tribune under his name.{{cite web
| title =Search for "by Guy Murchie" in Chicago Tribune Archive
| website =
| publisher =Chicago Tribune
| year =2014
| url =http://archives.chicagotribune.com/results/?submit=clients1.google.com/complete/search?client=partner&hl=en&sugexp=gsnos%2Cn%3D13&gs_rn=25&gs_ri=partner&partnerid=000456816876601787977%3A3ovbp3ye4he&types=t&ds=cse&cp=16&gs_id=22&q=%22by%20guy%20murchie%22&callback=google.sbox.p50
| accessdate =29 December 2014 }} plus the "I am a Baha'i" story {{cite news
| author=Guy Murchie
| title =I am a Baháʼí
| newspaper =Chicago Tribune
| location =Chicago
| pages =38, 40, 62
| date = 13 July 1958
| url =http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1958/07/13/page/226/article/i-am-a-bahai
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}} The first story under his name at the Chicago Tribune was in 1934, followed by three in 1935, 1 in 1936, (the same year he earned his pilot's license,) none in 1937, and two in 1938. Some stories of his were noted in other newspapers.* {{cite news
| title =Rock Rabbit, or Coney, a relative of Elephant
| newspaper =The Kingston Daily Freeman
| location =Kingston, NY
| page =8
| date = 17 November 1937
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476438/later_bahai_guy_murchie_noted_on/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Bali, land of monkeys, beautifylly irrigated
| newspaper =The Call-Leader
| location =Elwood, IN
| page =7
| date = 10 November 1938
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476453/later_bahai_guy_murchie_noted_on_new/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =King Cobra most feared, also most intelligent
| newspaper =The Kingston Daily Freeman
| location =Kingston, NY
| page =13
| date =4 November 1937
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476432/later_bahai_guy_murchie_noted_at/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}} He co-wrote Soldiers of Darkness with Thomas R. Gowenlock, published in 1937.{{cite book|author1=Thomas Russell Gowenlock|author2=Guy Murchie Jr.|title=Soldiers of Darkness|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7vm5PgAACAAJ|year=1937|publisher=Doubleday, Doran}}{{cite news
| title =Soldiers of Darkness | newspaper =The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
| location =Brooklyn, NY
| page =39
| date = 26 September 1937
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476424/later_bahai_guy_murchie_coauthor_of/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
Murchie's further interest in the Baháʼí religion began in this period when he was tasked with writing an article about the Baháʼí House of Worship at Wilmette, Illinois around 1938,{{cite news
| title =Baha'i in the news
| newspaper =Baháʼí News
| pages = 13–14
| date =September 1961
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=05&page=315
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}} note the article referred to in the Kent State newspaper is not yet online – see {{cite web
| title =Daily Kent Stater, May 1961
| work =Daily Kent Stater
| publisher = Digital Library Consulting
| year =2013
| url =http://dks.library.kent.edu/cgi-bin/kentstate?a=cl&cl=CL2.1961.05
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}{{cite news
| last =Rev John Evans
| title =47th annual Baha'i meeting attracts 200
| newspaper =Chicago Tribune
| location =Chicago
| page =34
| date =29 April 1955
| url =http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1955/04/29/page/34/article/47th-annual-bahai-meeting-attracts-200
| accessdate =29 December 2014 }} and then officially joined the religion 1939.{{cite book|title=The Baháʼí World: A Biennial International Record|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nFjYAAAAMAAJ&q=%22+became+a+Baha%27i+in+1939%22|year=1997|publisher=Baháʼí Pub. Committee|page=276| isbn=9780853989844 }} He had been impressed with the unique qualities of the temple being a blend of east and west styles, and extended his interest when his insights of the biological unity of humanity was raised to a spiritual affirmation.
Murchie began coverage of World War II with five stories printed in 1939, actually went overseas with fourteen in 1940, (the year he was also injured in an air raid,)* {{cite news
| title =Dangerous Job
| newspaper =The Independent Record
| location =Helena, MT
| page =6
| date = 12 September 1940
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476475/injury_of_later_bahai_guy_murchie/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =U.S. writer casualty
| newspaper =The Ottawa Journal
| location =Ottawa, Ontario
| page =25
| date =13 September 1940
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476482/later_bahai_guy_murchie_injurypictured/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Nazi big berthas renew shelling
| newspaper =The Modesto Bee And News-Herald
| location =Modesto, CA
| page =2
| date = 11 September 1940
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476469/later_bahai_guy_murchie_injured_in/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Foremen told call for men will increase
| newspaper =The Kokomo Tribune
| location =Kokomo, IN
| page =1
| date = 13 May 1942
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476498/stateside_guy_murchie_later_bahai/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Bomb reduces Dover hotel to ruins
| newspaper =The Index-Journal
| location =Greenwood, SC
| page =1
| date = 14 September 1940
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476490/later_bahai_guy_murchie_injured_in/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}} three in 1941, five in 1942. Then he was back in the States.
Aviator, camp founder, and teacher
In 1942 Murchie left the Tribune to work as a flight instructor and aerial navigator. His mother Ethel died in Florida in 1943 and he inherited the "Fairways Manor house" in Saint Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada.* {{cite news
| title =William Howard on trip East
| newspaper =The Times
| location =San Mateo, CA
| page =6
| date =6 July 1937
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476414/later_bahai_guy_murchie_on_trip/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Commander Parker dies at Fort Bliss, Texas
| newspaper =Newport Mercury
| location =Newport, RI
| page =3
| date =15 March 1935
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476400/mrs_guy_murchies_jr_family_is_from/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}} A relative tried to visit him in January 1944 back in the States but he had already moved.{{cite news
| title =Useless journey
| newspaper =Dunkirk Evening Observer
| location =Dunkirk, NY
| page =8
| date =3 January 1944
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476508/later_bahai_guy_murchie_in_aviation_job/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}} In 1944 Murchie married Barbara Cooney; during the three years of their marriage they had two children (Gretel and Barnaby).{{cite web
| title =Barbara Cooney 1917–2000
| work =biography for beginners
| publisher =Skidompha Public Library
| year =2001
| url =http://www.favimp.com/BBsample.html
| accessdate = 29 December 2014
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20030216031650/http://www.favimp.com/BBsample.html
| archivedate = 16 February 2003}} In 1946 the Murchie family moved to Pepperell, Massachusetts and worked with the high school.* {{cite news
| title =New voters
| newspaper =Fitchburg Sentinel
| location =Fitchburg, MA
| page =7
| date = 25 January 1946
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1479910/later_bahai_guy_murchie_registered_in/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Pepperell Caucus winners listed
| newspaper =Fitchburg Sentinel
| location =Fitchburg, MA
| page =7
| date = 12 February 1946
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1479900/later_bahai_guy_murchie_nominated_for/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =N. E. Fox Hunters Club meet at Pepperell site
| newspaper =Fitchburg Sentinel
| location =Fitchburg, MA
| page =7
| date =7 November 1945
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1479916/later_bahai_guy_murchie_organizes_fox/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Neighborly whist club meets at Pepperell
| newspaper =Fitchburg Sentinel
| location =Fitchburg, MA
| page =6
| date =20 May 1946
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1479934/later_bahai_guy_murchie_boy_scout/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Pepperell trio asking recount
| newspaper =Fitchburg Sentinel
| location =Fitchburg, MA
| page =12
| date =28 February 1947
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1480027/later_bahai_guy_murchie_on_school/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Dinner hostess at Pepperell
| newspaper =Fitchburg Sentinel
| location =Fitchburg, MA
| page =9
| date =16 April 1946
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1479926/later_bahai_guy_murchie_on_school/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Senior high school notes |author1= Rosemary Kehoe | author2= Dorothy Barry
| newspaper =Fitchburg Sentinel
| location =Fitchburg, MA
| page =11
| date =23 May 1949
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1480184/later_bahai_guy_murchie_talks_at/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Party Line
| newspaper =Fitchburg Sentinel
| location =Fitchburg, MA
| page =24
| date =20 November 1947
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1480070/later_bahai_guy_murchie_runs_a/
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}} In 1947 the book Saint Croix, the Sentinel River was published{{cite book|author=Guy Murchie|title=Saint Croix: The Sentinel River; Historical Sketches of Its Discovery, Early Conflicts and Final Occupations by English and American Settlers, with Some Comments on Indian Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gATsngEACAAJ|year=1947|publisher=Duell, Sloan and Pearce}} and it is likely that this was written during time spent in St. Andrews at the house, while Cooney and Murchie divorced in 1947. Afterwards Murchie set up Apple Hill Camp, an international summer place for children in New Hampshire, operating it for 11 years during which he married Katie Rautenstrauch and both also worked as teachers.{{cite news
| title =Landhaven faculty students increase
| newspaper =Portland Sunday Telegram And Sunday Press Herald
| location =Portland, ME
| page =25
| date =19 October 1949
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1493906/bahai_guy_murchie_faculty_at_landhaven/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}} Holocaust survivor Alex Levy recalls working for Murchie at the camp.* {{cite web
| author = Alex Levy
| title =From Higley Hill to Apple Hill
| work =Alex Levy
| date =2 April 2011
| url =http://alexlevy.net/2011/04/02/from-higley-hill-to-apple-hill/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
- {{cite web
| author = Alex Levy
| title =Springtime at Apple Hill
| work =Alex Levy
| date =4 April 2011
| url =http://alexlevy.net/2011/04/04/springtime-at-apple-hill/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
Baháʼí
Murchie became a Baháʼí in 1939, after covering the Baháʼí House of Worship that was under construction at the time and in May 1938 had been featured by a US stamp.{{cite web
| title =Baháʼí Postal Stationery
| website =Bahai-Library.com
| date =17 September 2007
| url =http://bahai-library.com/stamps/BahaiStationery.htm
| accessdate = 24 July 2015 }} He remained largely silent on the subject of his religion, only mentioning it in passing in his 1954 title Song of the Sky. In his autobiography, The Soul School, he alluded to a perceived distance between himself and the Baháʼí community during the war, as he imagined that his connection to the war effort put him at odds with the sentiments of many of them.
About a decade after the war, and immediately after Murchie's book Song of the Sky won him acclaim as a Book of the Month Club author, he began to be more public about his religion.{{cite news
| title =Novelist to speak here Sunday night
| newspaper =The Portsmouth Herald
| location =Portsmouth, NH
| page =2
| date = 11 June 1955
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1495372/bahai_guy_murchie_pictured_gives_talk/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}} Several news stories in the wider media noted it, and the official Baháʼí news outlet noted the publicity.* {{cite journal
| title =Baha'i in the news
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =4
| issue =287
| pages =4–5
| date =January 1955
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=98
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite journal
| title =Baha'i in the news
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =4
| issue =249
| page =9
| date =March 1955
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=123
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite journal
| title =National News; Playtime in Nassau…
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =4
| issue =294
| page =12
| date =August 1955
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=198
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite journal
| title =Area News Bulletins; The New England States Area…
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =4
| issue =295
| page =10
| date =September 1955
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=212
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
- {{cite journal
| title =National Baháʼí News; The Sunday Globe Boston, 2 October…
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =4
| issue =298
| page =see page 10
| date =December 1955
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=256
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}} In 1964, he toured Iran visiting several sites holy to Baháʼís.{{cite book
| title = The Soul School
| author = Guy Murchie
| authorlink = Guy Murchie
| pages = 366–420
| date = 1995 }}* {{cite journal
| title =A visit to Persia
| author = Guy Murchie
| authorlink = Guy Murchie
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =6
| issue =408
| pages =4–6
| date =March 1965
| origyear=1964
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=06&page=116
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate =29 December 2014 }}
- continued {{cite journal
| title =A visit to Persia
| author = Guy Murchie
| authorlink = Guy Murchie
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =6
| issue =409
| pages =2–4
| date =April 1965
| origyear=1964
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=06&page=130
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate =29 December 2014 }}
- continued {{cite journal
| title =A visit to Persia
| author = Guy Murchie
| authorlink = Guy Murchie
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =6
| issue =411
| pages =8–10
| date =June 1965
| origyear=1964
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=06&page=164
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate =29 December 2014 }}
- continued {{cite journal
| title =A visit to Persia
| author = Guy Murchie
| authorlink = Guy Murchie
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =6
| issue =413
| pages =5–6
| date =January 1966
| origyear=1964
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=06&page=285
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate =29 December 2014 }}
- continued {{cite journal
| title =A visit to Persia
| author = Guy Murchie
| authorlink = Guy Murchie
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =6
| issue =438
| pages =4–5
| date =September 1967
| origyear=1964
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=06&page=660
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate =29 December 2014 }} Diary notes of his travels became the basis of a series of articles in the 1960s and later. In 1958 he became even more public with his proclamation in the Chicago Tribune "I am a Baháʼí". This publicity was again noted by the Baháʼís,{{cite journal
| title =Chicago Tribune publishes proclamation of faith by well-known author
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =4
| issue =331
| pages =6–7
| date =September 1958
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=846
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}} reportedly caused a boost in visitors to the Baháʼí House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois,{{cite journal
| title =Baha'i publishing trust
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =4
| issue =337
| page =14
| date =March 1959
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=04&page=952
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}} and liked so much that it was then released as a pamphlet,{{cite web
| author=Guy Murchie
| authorlink =Guy Murchie
| title =I am a Baha'i
| publisher = Baha'i Publishing Trust
| year =1958
| url =http://bahai-library.com/murchie_pamphlet_reprint_article
}} as well as in letters to the editors for correction.{{cite news
| title =Reaction to Nixon article
| newspaper =The Bridgeport Post
| location =Bridgeport, CN
| page =66
| date =27 November 1960
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1475885/letter_to_the_editor_by_christine/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}} In it he noted the impressive history of the Báb, Tahirih, the encounter of Edward G. Browne with Baháʼu'lláh, the position and example of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá and appointed Guardian, and the religion's presence in the life of historically notable people like Marie of Romania and was close to President Wilson. Selections from it were used in a foreign language primer.{{cite journal
| title =Baha'i in the news; A Finnish-English exercise book…
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =5
| issue =390
| page = 8
| date =September 1963
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=05&page=716
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate =29 December 2014 }}
Murchie then set about studying Baháʼí history, researching for a book on the subject which he intended to publish under the name The Veil of Glory which is part of a collection of papers at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center of Boston University.{{cite web
| url =http://hgar-srv3.bu.edu/collections/collection?id=122508
| title =Murchie, Guy (1907–1997)
| date =2016
| publisher =Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University
| access-date =23 September 2016}} Murchie would be visible aiding various Baháʼí talks and classes of study on the religion occasionally from the 1960s into the 1980s,* {{cite news
| title = Baha'is to mark anniversary
| newspaper =Nashua Telegraph
| location =Nashua, NH
| page =5
| date = 21 May 1960
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1475875/bahai_speakers_guy_murchie_jr_and/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
- {{cite journal
| title =Italian youth exhibit high degree of service at summer school
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =6
| issue =405
| page =2
| date =December 1964
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=06&page=66
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate =29 December 2014 }}
- {{cite news
| title =United Nations Day
| newspaper =Nashua Telegraph
| location =Nashua, NH
| page =5
| date = 22 October 1965
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476103/bahai_guy_murchie_talks_at_un_day/
}}
- {{cite journal
| title =150th anniversary of the Birth of Baháʼu'lláh is observed
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =6
| issue =442
| pages =14–15
| date =January 1968
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=07&page=54
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate =29 December 2014 }}
- {{cite news
| title =Baha'i youth hold institute in Hudson today and Sunday
| newspaper =Nashua Telegraph
| location =Nashua, NH
| page =3
| date = 30 December 1967
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1495391/bahai_youth_institute_hosts_bahai/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
- {{cite news
| title =Baha'is observe anniversary of Marturdom of the Bab
| newspaper =Nashua Telegraph
| location =Nashua, NH
| page =6
| date =9 July 1976
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476205/bahai_guy_murchie_hosts_observance/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}}
- {{cite journal
| title =150th anniversary of the Birth of Baháʼu'lláh is observed
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =10
| issue =610
| page =17
| date =January 1982
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=10&page=579
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate =29 December 2014 }}
- {{cite news
| title =Author will have book signing
| newspaper =Santa Cruz Sentinel
| location =Santa Cruz, CA
| page =36
| date =5 May 1988
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1476250/bahai_guy_murchie_does_workshop_and/
| accessdate = 31 December 2014}} and would publish many more articles related to the religion printed in Baháʼí News:
- A visit to Persia across 5 issues(again, further from his 1964 trip)
- Nayriz – Scene of Vahid's Heroism,{{cite journal
| title =Nayriz – Scene of Vahid's Heroism
| author = Guy Murchie
| authorlink = Guy Murchie
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =6
| issue =414
| pages =5–7
| date =September 1965
| origyear=1964
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=06&page=213
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate =29 December 2014 }}
- The House of Quddus in Mashhad,{{cite journal
| title =The House of Quddus in Mashhad
| author = Guy Murchie
| authorlink = Guy Murchie
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =6
| issue =421
| pages =4–6
| date =April 1966
| origyear=1964
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=06&page=328
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate =29 December 2014 }}
- Journey through Northern Iran,{{cite journal
| title =Journey through Northern Iran
| author = Guy Murchie
| authorlink = Guy Murchie
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =6
| issue =422
| pages =4–5
| date =May 1966
| origyear=1964
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=06&page=344
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate =29 December 2014 }}
- Máh-Kú and Tabriz – Imprisonment and Martyrdom.{{cite journal
| title =Máh-Kú and Tabriz – Imprisonment and Martyrdom
| author = Guy Murchie
| authorlink = Guy Murchie
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =6
| issue =424
| pages =4–6
| date =July 1966
| origyear=1964
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=06&page=372
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate =29 December 2014 }}
- The Flowering of the Planet (in 1974){{cite journal
| title =150th anniversary of the Birth of Baháʼu'lláh is observed
| journal =Baháʼí News
| volume =8
| issue =523
| pages =13–19
| date =October 1974
| url =http://bahai-news.info/viewer.erb?vol=08&page=782
| issn =0195-9212
| accessdate =29 December 2014 }}
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| title =Song of the Sky
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Last years
Murchie spent much of the 1980s working on his Baháʼí history project, The Veil of Glory, which he was unable to publish.{{cite book|author=Murchie, Guy|title=The Soul School: Confessions of a Passenger on Planet Earth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=efDxPQAACAAJ|year=1995 | publisher=Fithian Press | pages=609–10 | isbn = 978-1564741059}} After the death of his wife Katie on 3 May 1986, Murchie moved to California and married an old friend, Marie, at the home of Murchie's friends Marzieh and Harold Gail. The Murchies settled in Santa Barbara. Around this time, Murchie reunited with his daughter Gretel and traveled with her to India.{{cite book|author=Murchie, Guy|title=The Soul School: Confessions of a Passenger on Planet Earth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=efDxPQAACAAJ|year=1995 | publisher=Fithian Press | isbn = 978-1564741059}} He worked on his autobiography, The Soul School, during this period, and published it in 1995. Murchie spent his last years in a group home in Orange County.
In January 1990 the Toronto newspaper The Globe and Mail published a string of articles by Murchie—a couple new* {{cite news
| author = Guy Murchie
| title =The Reading Edige: The entire universe must in some sense be alive
| newspaper =The Globe and Mail
| location =Toronto, Ontario
| page =a.7
| date =17 January 1990
}}
- {{cite news
| author = Guy Murchie
| title =The Reading Edige: Along the path to the ignition point
| newspaper =The Globe and Mail
| location =Toronto, Ontario
| page =a.7
| date =31 January 1990
}} and eight reprints from 1978.* {{cite news
| author = Guy Murchie
| title =The Reading Edige: Mysteries of life: the ripening Earth
| newspaper =The Globe and Mail
| location =Toronto, Ontario
| page =a.7
| date =17 January 1990
|origyear = 1978
}}
- {{cite news
| author = Guy Murchie
| title =The Reading Edige: The Seven Mysteries of Life: Faster and faster, the germination of worlds
| newspaper =The Globe and Mail
| location =Toronto, Ontario
| page =a.7
| date =18 January 1990
|origyear = 1978
}}
- {{cite news
| author = Guy Murchie
| title =The Reading Edige: The Seven Mysteries of Life: From flight to computers
| newspaper =The Globe and Mail
| location =Toronto, Ontario
| page =a.7
| date =22 January 1990
|origyear = 1978
}}
- {{cite news
| author = Guy Murchie
| title =The Reading Edige: The Seven Mysteries of Life: The rise of wealth
| newspaper =The Globe and Mail
| location =Toronto, Ontario
| page =a.7
| date =23 January 1990
|origyear = 1978
}}
- {{cite news
| author = Guy Murchie
| title =The Reading Edige: The Seven Mysteries of Life: To liberate the slaves
| newspaper =The Globe and Mail
| location =Toronto, Ontario
| page =a.7
| date =24 January 1990
|origyear = 1978
}}
- {{cite news
| author = Guy Murchie
| title =The Reading Edige: The Seven Mysteries of Life: Getting the world together
| newspaper =The Globe and Mail
| location =Toronto, Ontario
| page =a.7
| date =25 January 1990
|origyear = 1978
}}
- {{cite news
| author = Guy Murchie
| title =The Reading Edige: The Seven Mysteries of Life: Evolution of the spirit
| newspaper =The Globe and Mail
| location =Toronto, Ontario
| page =a.7
| date =26 January 1990
|origyear = 1978
}}
- {{cite news
| author = Guy Murchie
| title =The Reading Edige: The Seven Mysteries of Life: Riding a wild steed
| newspaper =The Globe and Mail
| location =Toronto, Ontario
| page =a.7
| date =30 January 1990
|origyear = 1978
}}
Murchie died in 1997 in Fullerton, California.{{cite news
| title =Guy Murchie, Author and Aviator, 90
| newspaper =The New York Times
| location =New York
| date =13 July 1997
| url =https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/13/nyregion/guy-murchie-author-and-aviator-90.html
| accessdate = 29 December 2014}}
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