Terje Gerotti Simonsen

Terje Gerotti Simonsen (born 23 April 1963 in Kristiansand) is a Norwegian writer and historian of ideas. His dissertation from the University of Oslo, a cultural analysis of the influential anthroposophical journal JANUS was in 2001 published as a book with the title JANUS - A Journal and a Time.
In the early nineties Simonsen was employed at the University of Oslo, department for the History of Ideas, giving introductory courses on central philosophical and literary works in the Western canon. Later, as a writer, Simonsen has worked predominantly with esoteric traditions - hermeticism, occultism, mysticism - and has also released works related to these topics. Among other things, he has written "In the Beginning is the Relationship", the introductory essay to the Norwegian release of I and Thou, the main work of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, published in the prestigious series "The Cultural Library" (2003). He has also written "Enoch - The Forgotten Prophet", the introductory essay to the first Norwegian translation of the antique Jewish pseudepigraphon First Book of Enoch in the renowned series The World's Holy Scriptures (2004).
In 2013 Simonsen published the book Vaare Skjulte Evner—Telepati, Klarsyn og Fremsyn (transl. Our Secret Abilities - Telepathy, Clairvoyance and Precognition)—a historical and scientifically based presentation of various so-called paranormal phenomena, emphasizing PSI. E.g. phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, telekinesis and healing. The book received favorable reviews in several journals and other media, including The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association (Nr. 7-8 April 2014).
An upgraded and extended version of the work was in 2018 released in English under the title Our Secret Powers: Telepathy, Clairvoyance and Precognition—A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal. The book has received praise from psychologists, parapsychologists and historians of religion and ideas, e.g. Stanley Krippner, Dean Radin, Etzel Cardeña and Jeffrey J. Kripal, as well as the Pulitzer-prize winning feature-writer Teresa Carpenter. In 2019 the book was granted the Parapsychological Association Book Award. https://www.parapsych.org/articles/51/497/2019_pa_book_award_winner__a.aspx

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