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You will find many authors on this site, cheek by jowl for the first time, probably. Whether they would all have got on together is open to question. Insight is not always allied to tolerance in human beings. Each is a rascal in their own way, replete with their own demons; but that doesn’t mean they can’t inspire or shock, or even entertain us into sweet truth. They are gathered here because they have a track record of making strange sense. Lone voices in the wilderness, who gathered around them grateful hearts.
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Allan Kardec
The figurehead of the Spiritist movement, Allan Kardec, was born Hippolyte Leon Denizard Rivail on 3 October 1804 in Lyon, France. He came from a long… more
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was one of Britain’s most celebrated writers, with his invention of the ultimate detective, Sherlock Holmes, completely altering… more
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Carl Wickland
Dr Carl A Wickland (1861-1945) was a member of the Chicago Medical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the chief psychiatrist… more
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Casper Yost
Casper Salathiel Yost was born in Sedalia, Missouri in 1864. Yost was employed as a reporter in 1881 at the age of just 17. He stayed for some months before… more
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DD Home
Daniel Dunglas Home is regarded by many as the greatest medium of all time. The term ‘psychic’ was coined as a description for his unique gifts and in… more
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Dwight Goddard
Dwight Goddard was a pioneer in the American Zen Buddhist movement. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1861. After graduating from college… more
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Edward C Randall
Edward C Randall (1860-1935) was a prominent New York trial lawyer from Buffalo who served on the board of directors of a number of large corporations.… more
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Ellen G White
Ellen G White is one of the founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which was officially created in 1863. Although raised as a Methodist, the Adventist… more
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Elsa Barker
Elsa Barker, American author and poet, was born in 1869 in Leicester Vermont, USA. Throughout her life, her poems and short stories were published in various… more
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Emanuel Swedenborg
‘Voltaire said that the most extraordinary man in recorded history was Charles XII. I would disagree: the most extraordinary man – if we admit such superlatives… more
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George Trevelyan
Sir George Trevelyan Bt (1906-1996) was an educational pioneer, a founding father of the New Age movement, furniture maker and visionary – a man with a… more
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GK Chesterton
Standing six foot, four inches tall, and weighing 21 stone, GK Chesterton was a man of striking appearance; and all the more so for his chosen uniform… more
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Guy Lyon Playfair
Guy Lyon Playfair was born in India and educated in England, obtaining a degree in modern languages from Cambridge University. He then spent many years… more
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Helen Schucman
Dr Helen Schucman (July 14, 1909 to February 9, 1981) was a clinical and research psychologist. She held a tenured position of Associate Professor of Medical… more
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Herman Hesse
He clashed with his parents when young; lived through three marriages, of which two were unhappy; became popular for his spiritual writing in the American… more
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Howard Williams
Howard Williams was born in 1837 in England and is best remembered for his groundbreaking book on vegetarianism, The Ethics of Diet. more
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Jane Katra and Russell Targ
Jane Katra, PhD, has been a practicing spiritual healer for 37 years. She taught public health at the University of Oregon in the 1980s, and continues… more
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Jesus of Nazareth
Jesus of Nazareth – born Joshua bar Joseph – lived for 33 years in the first century AD, before he was executed by the Roman authorities on charges of… more
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John E Mack
John Edward Mack, MD (4 Oct 1929 to 27 Sept 2004) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He received… more
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Julian of Norwich
Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich is the first book written in English by a woman. But the work is read now not for historical interest… more
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Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran was born in Northern Lebanon on 6 January 1883. His mother, Kamila, came from a very religious background and he and his older half-brother… more
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Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, better known as Leo Tolstoy, is rightly regarded as one of the greatest writers in the history of literature and his masterpieces,… more
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Leon Denis
Léon Denis (January 1, 1846 to March 12, 1927) became a Spiritist after reading Allan Kardec’s magnum Opus, The Spirits Book while he was a young man.… more
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Lucius Seneca
Lucius Annaneus Seneca was one of the great Roman Stoic thinkers and is one of only a few philosophers from that era whose work has remained popular in… more
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Madam Home
Julie de Gloumeline, also known as Madam Home, was Daniel Dunglas Home’s second wife; they were married in 1871. more
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Marcus Aurelius
‘Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the… more
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Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart – theologian, psychologist, philosopher, mystic – has become more and more appreciated the longer he has been dead. In recent times, thinkers… more
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Michael Cocks
Michael Cocks introduces himself: All my forebears were early immigrants into Canterbury, New Zealand, between 1840-60, one a Scottish farmer, another… more
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Michael Tymn
A resident of Kailua, Hawaii, Michael E Tymn is vice-president of the Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Inc., and editor of the Academy’s… more
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Paramahansa Yogananda
Paramahansa Yogananda is recognized as one of the greatest emissaries to the West of India’s ancient wisdom. His life and teachings continue to be a source… more
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PD Ouspensky
Piotr Demianovich Ouspensky was born in Russia in 1878. He was probably the most well known pupil of early twentieth-century spiritual teacher Georgei… more
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Peter Fenwick
Dr Peter Fenwick MB BChir (Cantab) DPM FRCPsych, is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and a neuropsychiatrist with an international reputation.… more
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Rebecca Ruter Springer
Rebecca Ruter Springer was 29 when the American Civil War started in 1861. When the war ended five years later, 620,000 soldiers and countless civilians… more
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Richard Maurice Bucke
Richard Maurice Bucke was born March 18, 1837, in Methwold, a village on the edge of the Norfolk fens, in England. When he was one year old, his father… more
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Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner is both a mystic and an occultist. These two natures appear in him in perfect harmony. One could not say which of the two predominates over… more
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Simon Parke
Simon Parke was a priest in the Church of England for twenty years, before leaving for fresh adventures. He worked for three years in a supermarket, stacking… more
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Sjoerd Bonting
Sjoerd Bonting is a Dutch biochemist and an Anglican priest-theologian. After receiving a PhD in biochemistry at the University of Amsterdam (1952), he… more
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Stafford Betty
Professor Stafford Betty has taught courses for over three decades at California State University on the religions of the world (especially India), death… more
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Thomas à Kempis
The life of Thomas à Kempis was not outwardly remarkable. He was born in 1380 in the Lower Rhine region of Kempen, from where he gained his name. His paternal… more
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Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent shot himself at the age of 37, probably without having sold a picture. His brother Theo said he was his own enemy, and this was true; but he also… more
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Viscount Adare
Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl KP PC (1841-1926), styled Viscount Adare between 1850 and 1871, was an Irish Peer. more
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William Barrett
Sir William Fletcher Barrett (10 February 1844 to 26 May 1925) was one of the pioneers of psychical research. It was Barrett’s idea to form the Society… more
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William Usborne Moore
Vice-Admiral William Usborne Moore (c.1850-1918) was a retired British naval commander when he became a devoted psychical researcher in 1904. His books… more
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Although Mozart is one of the most famous names in Classic musical history, his renown stretches way beyond that genre and even music itself. Even though… more
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WT Stead
Known to the general public primarily as a dedicated journalist, author, social reformer, and pacifist, William Thomas Stead was on his way to New York… more
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