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Occultism is one form of mysticism. [a] This list comprises and encompasses people, both contemporary and historical, who are or were professionally or otherwise notably involved in occult practices, including alchemists, astrologers, some Kabbalists, [b] magicians, psychics, sorcerers, and practitioners some forms of divination, especially Tarot.
Erik Jan Hanussen, born Hermann Steinschneider (2 June 1889 – 25 March 1933), was an Austrian Jewish publicist, charlatan and clairvoyant performer. Acclaimed in his lifetime as a hypnotist, mentalist, occultist and astrologer, Hanussen was active in Weimar Republic Germany and also at the beginning of Nazi Germany.
Davis was the son of a shoemaker and had little education. [2] From age 14, Davis claimed to be able to diagnose illness via clairvoyance. [2] In 1843 he heard lectures in Poughkeepsie on animal magnetism, the precursor of hypnotism, and came to perceive himself as having remarkable clairvoyant powers.
Anna Krauss (née Friese; 27 October 1884, Bogen [a] – 5 August 1943, Plötzensee Prison, Berlin) [1] was a German clairvoyant, fortune-teller and businesswomen who became a resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, through her association with a Berlin-based anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra ("Rote Kapelle") by the Abwehr, during the Nazi regime.
With his hands free Horatio would manipulate the instruments and perform the alleged supernatural phenomena. [8] The psychical researcher Hereward Carrington also revealed the sleight of hand tricks the Eddy brothers had used. Carrington described their tricks as "absurdly simple" and was surprised that people had been fooled by them. [9]
Edgar Cayce (1877–1945) was known as one of the most well known medical clairvoyants. [2] William M. Branham, the father of the Pentecostal Latter Rain Movement, was said by his followers to be able to discern the health condition of people that attended his services, and in many cases heal them of their affliction. [3]
The seven Schemes of our Solar System. [note 3]At the beginning of the book the authors wrote that "metaphysicians, ancient and modern, declare that Past, Present, and Future are ever simultaneously existent in the divine Consciousness, and are only successive as they come into manifestation, i.e., under Time which is verily the succession of states of consciousness."
She was not only a clairvoyant, but also a herbalist and a healer. She would prescribe herbs and diet to her patients, frequently using her paranormal skills to look into patients’ past events. She liked to sing religious songs and in her diary, Pilchowa wrote that while examining patients, she physically felt their pain.