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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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    Norman Vincent Peale

    American minister whose The Power of Positive Thinking brought pastoral optimism into mass-market self-help.

    The long-serving Marble Collegiate Church minister whose 1952 bestseller blended Protestant pastoral encouragement with popular self-confidence techniques.

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    Oprah Winfrey

    Broadcaster, producer and author whose interviews have made questions of purpose widely accessible.

    A broadcaster and author whose work gathers public conversations about meaning, responsibility and service.

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    Pam Grout

    American journalist and author whose E-Squared turned manifestation ideas into short personal experiments.

    The travel writer and author of E-Squared, whose short attention experiments became a popular touchstone in contemporary manifestation culture.

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    Pamela Colman Smith

    Anglo-American artist, illustrator and folklorist whose 1909 paintings created the enduring visual language of the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot.

    The Pratt-trained artist, stage designer and folklorist whose seventy-eight illustrations for the 1909 tarot deck transformed modern symbolic illustration.

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    Paramahansa Yogananda

    Indian monk and yogi who founded Self-Realization Fellowship and introduced Kriya Yoga and meditation to Western audiences.

    The author of Autobiography of a Yogi and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship, who spent three decades teaching meditation and yoga philosophy in America.

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    Parker J. Palmer

    Writer and educator whose work frames vocation as attentive listening rather than career branding.

    A writer on vocation, education and integrity whose work makes room for uncertainty before a person names a direction.

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    Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

    Maine practitioner and writer whose ideas became a disputed precursor to New Thought.

    An early mind-centred practitioner whose writings matter as background to New Thought, not as evidence that thought controls illness or circumstance.

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  • Author · Researcher

    Pierre Janet

    French psychologist, philosopher and physician whose studies of dissociation and automatisms shaped early dynamic psychology.

    The French psychologist at the Salpêtrière and Collège de France who coined the term “subconscious” to describe dissociated mental processes.

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    Prentice Mulford

    Nineteenth-century essayist and journalist whose writing became an early current in New Thought.

    A journalist and independent New Thought writer whose essays on thought and prosperity anticipated themes later made central to the movement.

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    Ralph Waldo Trine

    Early New Thought author whose In Tune with the Infinite made harmony, character and mind-power widely legible.

    An early New Thought writer whose bestselling spiritual prose connected inner harmony with an expansive account of life and character.

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    Ram Dass

    American psychologist turned spiritual teacher whose Be Here Now linked Western counterculture with bhakti devotional practice and service.

    Born Richard Alpert, the former Harvard psychologist and author of Be Here Now who bridged Hindu bhakti devotion, mindfulness and compassionate service.

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    Ramana Maharshi

    Indian Advaita sage of Arunachala whose silent presence and dialogues centered on self-inquiry and the question "Who am I?".

    The sage of Arunachala in southern India, whose concise dialogues on self-inquiry shaped modern Advaita Vedanta and contemplative self-examination.

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