One Who Knows.

Ralph Moriarity de Bit(1883-1964) was born on Christmas day, 1883, in rural Kansas. Around the turn of the century, economic forces pulled him westward, to very rural Idaho. He worked in forestry and established a family. While working in the woods, he began to hear a voice that gave him instructions. This impulse led him eventually to Spokane, Washington, where he met an Indian immigrant named A.K. Mozumdar, reputedly sent to the U.S. by his guru, Arumda, to teach meditation to Americans. DeBit identified the voice he heard in the forest with Mozumdar's voice, and became his disciple. DeBit remained with Mozumdar in Spokane, living with him and working beside him essentially as an apprentice for seven years. Mozumdar gave deBit the name “Vitvan” meaning “one who knows” after an enlightenment experience, when the younger man was 34 years old. Vitvan founded the School of the Natural Order in 1946. http://www.sno.org/index.htm
He spent four years in Greenwich Village, then established himself as a semi-itinerant spiritual teacher in the American West beginning in 1921, settling for a time in Los Angeles, then during a long period from 1925 through 1942 at an ashram named Po-Ahtun near Bailey, Colorado, then with a change in his pedagogy a change of place, to a center called Eschatologia near San Diego, and finally establishing the Home Farm of the School of the Natural Order in very rural eastern Nevada in 1957.
Mozumdar, had been trained in a Hindu tradition known as Shaktism, and its characteristic teachings—a model of the human body in terms of subtle energy flowing through channels and centers (chakras), the descent of a divine energy (Shakti) and ascent of an occult force (kundalini), for starters—feature prominently in Vitvan's major works.
Vitvan read Science and Sanity by Alfred Korzybski[1]. Before his exposure to Korzybski, Vitvan's teaching were expressed primarily in theological and metaphysical terms,similar to Mozumdar. Afterward reading Korzyski, Vitvan became convinced of the need to scrap this approach and begin again in with a non-metaphysical mode of expression. He traveled to Chicago to study with Korzybski personally in 1938, then returned to the Po-Ahtun ashram and destroyed all his manuscripts and printed materials, sold the ashram, renounced metaphysical thinking entirely.
[1]http://goalhypnosis.blogspot.ca/2011/02/map-is-not-territory.html