Frederic W. H. Myers

Frederic William Henry Myers (6 February 1843 – 17 January 1901) was a British poet, classicist, philologist, and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research. Myers' work on psychical research and his ideas about a "subliminal self" were influential in his time, but have not been accepted by the scientific community. However, in 2007 a team of cognitive scientists at University of Virginia School of Medicine, led by Edward F. Kelly published a major empirical-theoretical work, Irreducible Mind, citing various empirical evidence that they think broadly corroborates Myer's conception of human self and its survival of bodily death.

Frederic William Henry Myers
Portrait by William Clarke Wontner
Born6 February 1843 (1843-02-06)
Died17 January 1901 (1901-01-18) (aged 57)
Rome, Italy
Occupation(s)Psychical researcher, writer
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