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F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
1843–1901
A Victorian scholar and poet who helped found the Society for Psychical Research, he spent much of his life asking how the mind works and whether consciousness might reach beyond ordinary experience. His writing brings together classical learning, literary style, and a serious curiosity about the unseen.
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Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death
by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
Wordsworth
by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
About the author
Born in Keswick, England, on February 6, 1843, Frederic William Henry Myers was educated at Cheltenham and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a fellow of Trinity and taught classics there, building an early reputation as a poet, essayist, and man of wide learning.
Myers is best remembered today for his leading role in the early study of psychical research. In 1882 he was one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research, a group created to examine reports of telepathy, apparitions, and related experiences in a more organized way. He wrote extensively on these subjects and became especially known for his idea of the "subliminal self," an attempt to describe mental processes operating below ordinary awareness.
Alongside this work, he continued to publish poetry and criticism, and his interests ranged across literature, philosophy, and religion. He died in Rome on January 17, 1901, but his books—especially Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, published after his death—kept his name alive among readers interested in psychology, spiritual questions, and the stranger edges of Victorian thought.