 Al-Masudi (c. 896-956) An Arab historian, geographer, and traveler. He is sometimes referred to as the 'Herodotus of the Arabs'.
Al-Masudi and The Arabian Nights In 947, Al-Masudi describes a large collection of a thousand tales from all over the ancient world that he calls the Persian Hazar afsana (A Thousand Stories). The stories (some of them psi-themed) circulated for centuries, with new folk tales and renditions being added to the mix over the years.
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Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
Philosopher, 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature, president of the Society for Psychical Research and theoretician of psi.
Living Consciousness examines the brilliant, but now largely ignored, insights of French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859–1941).
Presenting a detailed and accessible analysis of Bergson’s thought, G. William Barnard highlights how Bergson’s understanding of the nature of consciousness and, in particular, its relationship to the physical world remain strikingly relevant to numerous contemporary fields. These range from quantum physics and process thought to philosophy of mind, depth psychology, transpersonal theory, and religious studies. Bergson’s notion of consciousness as a ceaselessly dynamic, inherently temporal substance of reality itself provides a vision that can function as a persuasive alternative to mechanistic and reductionistic understandings of consciousness and reality. Throughout the work, Barnard offers “ruminations” or neo-Bergsonian responses to a series of vitally important questions such as: What does it mean to live consciously, authentically, and attuned to our inner depths? Is there a philosophically sophisticated way to claim that the survival of consciousness after physical death is not only possible but likely? “…Barnard has given us a highly readable tour of Henri Bergson’s (1859–1941) thought on consciousness, using it as a pivot point to unfold other major dimensions of his work as well. The book is a welcome addition to the sparse literature on Bergson’s heritage presently available to a broad English-speaking readership.” — Journal of Consciousness Studies. “…Barnard offers an interesting and relatively accessible foray into Bergson’s works.” — CHOICE G. William Barnard is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of Exploring Unseen Worlds: William James and the Philosophy of Mysticism, also published by SUNY Press, and coeditor (with Jeffrey J. Kripal) of Crossing Boundaries: Essays on the Ethical Status of Mysticism.
Related Psi People
Keith Ansell-Pearson G. William Barnard Jeffrey J. Kripal John Ó Maoilearca (aka John Mullarkey)
Links
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/henri-bergson https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bergson/
Biography of Rupert Sheldrake PhD
Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 90 scientific papers and 9 books, and the co-author of 6 books. His books have been published in 28 languages. He was among the top 100 Global Thought Leaders for 2013, as ranked by the Duttweiler Institute, Zurich, Switzerland's leading think tank. On ResearchGate, the largest scientific and academic online network, his RG score of 33.5 puts him among the top 7.5% of researchers, based on citations of his peer-reviewed publications. On Google Scholar, the many citations of his work give him a high h-index of 38, and an i10 index of 102. For ten years running he has been recognized as one of the 'most spiritually influential living people in the world' by Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine. He studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he was a Scholar of Clare College, took a double first class honours degree and was awarded the University Botany Prize (1962). He then studied philosophy and history of science at Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow (1963-64), before returning to Cambridge, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry (1967). He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge (1967-73), where he was Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology. As the Rosenheim Research Fellow of the Royal Society (1970-73), he carried out research on the development of plants and the ageing of cells in the Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge University. While at Cambridge, together with Philip Rubery, he discovered the mechanism of polar auxin transport, the process by which the plant hormone auxin is carried from the shoots towards the roots. Read more on Sheldrake.org
Gary Lachman books
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Alexander Aksakov {aka Aksakof} (1832–1903)
A Russian writer, translator, journalist, editor, state official and psychical researcher, who is credited with having coined the term 'telekinesis'. While living in Germany with his wife and publishing his writings there, he began to spell his name as Alexander Aksakof to accommodate the German spelling style, and this is the name by which he is most known outside of Russia.
Aeschylus (525-456 BCE)
From Classical Greece, there are oracles and prophecies (psi themes), as in Aeschylus' play, Agamemnon, which won first prize at the Dionysia competition in 458 BCE.
Chris Robinson began having precognitive dreams in 1986 when he died but came back with the ability to see the future in his dreams.
He has worked with police and security services at the highest level. Stan Lee, creator of Marvel's X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk, Iron Man, etc., produced a documentary about Robinson called 'Future Man', saying: 'I believe Superhumans are real, not just fiction. Superhumans are out there. Chris Robinson is a seemingly ordinary man... but his dreams offer a window into the future.' 
Chris Robinson Youtube Playlist
Psi Encyclopedia is a good specialist source of information about Psi People.
By way of an introduction to the subject of Psi People, the information and lists below are from the Psi Encyclopedia website...
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