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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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    Timothy D. Wilson

    American social psychologist whose research examines the adaptive unconscious, introspection limits and narrative change.

    The University of Virginia psychologist and author of Strangers to Ourselves and Redirect, who studies self-knowledge and personal narratives.

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    Timothy E. Moore

    York University psychologist whose reviews weighed laboratory findings against claims of powerful hidden influence.

    The psychologist who asked whether advertising's hidden-message claims were ever warranted by what laboratories actually found.

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    Vance Packard

    Journalist and social critic whose reporting turned postwar advertising's private methods into a public argument about influence.

    The author of The Hidden Persuaders made postwar advertising's private methods a public argument — and is still misremembered as a subliminal alarmist.

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    Viktor Frankl

    Psychiatrist, and the author of Man's Search for Meaning.

    The psychiatrist who argued that a reason to live is not a luxury but the thing that decides whether a person endures.

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    W. B. Yeats

    Irish poet and dramatist whose occult practice — Theosophy, the Golden Dawn, and the automatic writing behind A Vision — is documented beside his public work, not hidden under it.

    The Nobel Prize poet who moved from Blavatsky's Theosophists to the Golden Dawn to a private symbolic system — and turned all of it into verse the public kept.

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    Wallace D. Wattles

    New Thought writer whose prosperity manual joined imagination, action and a spiritual theory of wealth.

    The author of The Science of Getting Rich, a New Thought prosperity text that linked wealth to thought, gratitude and action.

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    Wayne Dyer

    American educator and author whose career moved from practical self-direction to spiritual intention teaching.

    The counselor and bestselling author of Your Erroneous Zones and The Power of Intention, whose work bridged cognitive self-help and contemporary spirituality.

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    William James

    American philosopher and psychologist whose studies of habit, attention and religious experience shaped modern thought.

    The Harvard psychologist and pragmatist philosopher whose writings on habit, directed attention and early New Thought remain foundational.

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    William Walker Atkinson

    Attorney, publisher and prolific writer who moved between New Thought and occult publishing.

    A prolific New Thought publisher whose many attributed identities require readers to separate documented texts and influence from speculation about authorship.

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    Wilson Bryan Key

    The American writer who taught a mass audience to see hidden messages in advertising — decades of scrutiny never bore out his readings.

    The author of Subliminal Seduction, who read sex and death imagery into ordinary advertisements — and the scholars who tried to check his readings.

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