F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers

Educated at Cambridge, Frederic W. H. Myers was a British classicist, poet, and essayist who moved between academic life and literary circles before becoming widely known for his investigations into psychology, spiritual experience, and survival after death. He was one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research, a group that tried to examine unusual mental phenomena with as much care as possible.

Myers wrote on both literature and the mind, and his interests ranged from classical studies to hypnotism, telepathy, and the hidden layers of human personality. He is especially remembered for developing ideas about the subliminal self and for treating experiences that many dismissed as superstition as subjects worth studying seriously.

His best-known work, published shortly after his death in 1901, was Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death. Whether readers approach him as a psychical researcher, a religious thinker, or a curious Victorian intellectual, Myers remains an important figure in the early history of consciousness studies.