OMZOE

03 / The lineage

People

The people behind the ideas Omzoe works with — the authors, teachers and practitioners whose thinking the Compass and the practice draw on, and what each of them actually said.

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    A. E. Waite

    Anglo-American poet, mystic and historian of esotericism who co-created the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck with Pamela Colman Smith.

    The historian of Christian mysticism, Freemasonry and Kabbalah who co-created the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck and authored The Pictorial Key to the Tarot.

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    Alan Watts

    British-born writer and radio broadcaster who interpreted Zen, Taoist and Vedantic philosophy for mid-century Western audiences.

    The author of The Wisdom of Insecurity and The Way of Zen, whose lectures and radio talks introduced Asian philosophical traditions to Western counterculture.

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    Aleister Crowley

    English occultist, poet and founder of Thelema whose ceremonial-magic writings and notoriety shaped twentieth-century Western esotericism.

    The English occultist behind Thelema and the Thoth Tarot, whose definition of magick and True Will influenced modern esotericism alongside a turbulent personal legacy.

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    Alice Bailey

    British-American esoteric writer whose books coined and popularized the modern concept of the New Age.

    The founder of the Lucis Trust and Arcane School, whose twenty-four esoteric volumes supplied core terminology for twentieth-century New Age movements.

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    Amos Tversky

    Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist whose research on judgment, similarity and risk reshaped behavioural science.

    The Stanford cognitive psychologist whose collaboration with Daniel Kahneman uncovered systematic heuristics and framing effects in human judgment.

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    Anthony Pratkanis

    The social psychologist who tested mass-market subliminal self-help tapes and separated what users believed from what was measured.

    Co-author of Age of Propaganda whose five-week tape experiments separated what participants believed they gained from what the tests measured.

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    Antoine Faivre

    French scholar who built the academic study of Western esotericism into a university discipline at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris.

    The historian who gave Western esotericism its first systematic scholarly form and held the first French university chair devoted to the field.

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    Antonio Damasio

    Portuguese-American neuroscientist whose research connects bodily emotion, feeling and human decision-making.

    The neuroscientist and author of Descartes' Error, whose somatic-marker hypothesis showed that emotion and bodily signals participate in rational choice.

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    Austin Osman Spare

    English draughtsman, painter and occult writer whose 1913 method of condensing written intentions into graphic sigils influenced modern esotericism.

    The London artist and author of The Book of Pleasure, whose graphic sigil method and critique of ceremonial pomp shaped later twentieth-century occult art.

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    Bill Burnett

    Designer and educator who co-created Stanford’s Life Design approach.

    A design educator whose work applies curiosity, reframing and small experiments to choices about work and life.

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    Bruce Lipton

    Developmental cell biologist turned New Age lecturer whose books link cellular biology with subconscious belief.

    The author of The Biology of Belief, whose popular lectures extrapolate from cell-membrane and epigenetic research to mind-over-body claims.

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    Byron Katie

    American speaker and author who developed The Work, a four-question method of self-inquiry for examining stressful thoughts.

    The creator of The Work and co-author of Loving What Is, whose four structured questions invite methodical examination of stressful beliefs about other people.

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