Messengers

In some way, everyone is a messenger.  

Based on my research and experience, here is a partial and expanding list of authors an seekers who published insightful and helpful spiritual works and told their stories. Please refer to the "Articles and Free Works" page and "Founders of Anthroposophy" for more references and continued research.

From Wikipedia and annotated by the Admin:

Air Chief Marshal Hugh C.T. Dowding, GCB, GCVO, CMG (1882–1970). Dowding achieved the rank of general during the first world war and was promoted to the Air Officer Commanding RAF Fighter Command prior to the Battle of Britain in 1940. In addition to be being a pilot during World War 1 in the RAF, he is widely accepted and credited with playing a crucial role in Britain's defense and defeat of Adolf Hitler's plan to invade Britain during the Blitzkrieg when England was brought to her knees through perpetual and indiscriminate bombing. How to deploy fighter wings and the strategy to conserve pilots and still hold out was due largely to Dowding's innovations. What is not commonly known is that in addition to being a rather dry and objective leader, he dedicated a significant portion of his life after his war-service to the matter of life after death. During his post-service years after 1940, Dowding conducted much research on the topic by way of those who died on the battlefield including RAF pilots who served under his command. 

Lord Dowding satisfied himself that these records should be made available as widely as possible believing that they carry with them the hallmark of truth. Thus, he is a great leader in at least two respects. First as a leader of Britain during the Blitzkrieg during the summer of 1940 when his strategy and organizational insights positioned the British perfectly for victory during her darkest hour. Second, with his post-1940 lectures on the subject of the nature of the spirit and life after death gained popularity, stimulated research, and brought healing to grieving parents, widows, and family members who lost loved ones during the war. Today, his ashes are interred at Westminster Abbey. Images here include 4 books that he published on the topic.

Sadly, Dowding was relieved of his command due to intrigues with the leadership of the RAF at that time. He considered it his ongoing obligation to help who had died under his command, and others, just as serious as those who still lived. He wrote on the topic through letters and books. He also delivered lectures and presentations after his retirement trying to bring reconciliation to families of soldiers who had died during the war.

From Wikipedia:

Elisabeth Haich (born Erzsébet Haich; 20 March 1897 – 31 July 1994) was a Hungarian spiritual teacher and author of several books on spirituality. Life  She was born and raised in Budapest in Hungary. In 1941 with Selvarajan Yesudian, who arrived in Hungary from India in 1937, they founded Europe's first yoga school in Budapest. After the end of World War II in 1948, due to the communist regime, they had to close their school and flee to Switzerland, where they founded a new yoga school.

In her best known book, Initiation, Haich describes early experiences of her life in Hungary, as well as details of her supposed past life during which she claimed to have been initiated as a priestess of Ra by her supposed uncle, Ptahhotep, in what she refers to as ancient Egypt. The book also describes a little of a more recent claimed previous life in which she was a washing-woman, was abandoned by her lover, lost contact with her daughter, and ended up a beggar on the streets.  Her book The Wisdom of the Tarot is based on the Oswald Wirth deck's images (but some colors are different, for some details), and it is about the archetypes of human development, each Tarot card identifying one archetype and its meaning.  Her book Sexual Energy & Yoga identifies how sexual energy (kundalini), when contained, builds among one's chakras, boiling the ignorance resident among them, eventually awakening them, and making possible enlightenment.  Elisabeth Haich claimed to have attained "ego-death". 

It was described by her followers (mentioned in the introductions to her book) as visible in her gaze: "her gaze wasn't the gaze of a person, it was the gaze of infinity, and it wasn't blind to one's unconsciousness or ignoring: a gaze that cut right through one's unconsciousness, a gaze very difficult to bear." 

From the Admin:

Elizabeth Haich was a modern spiritual initiate who brought a genuine path, and insights, regarding her individual spiritual initiation which was attained by way of an eastern path that is connected to India and Egypt. Thus, the primary mode of balance and harmony is achieved through yoga and breathing exercises. However, Haich referenced Rosicrucian exercises and diagrams in her book that led her to profound inner insights. Thus, hers was an East-West path. Her book, Initiation, had a large impact on my life and millions of others after it was published in the 1970s.

From Wikipedia and other sources:

Edgar Cayce (18 March 1877 – 3 January 1945) was an American clairvoyant who claimed to channel his higher self while asleep in a trance-like state. His words were recorded by his friend Al Layne, his wife, Gertrude Evans, and later by his secretary, Gladys Davis Turner. During the sessions, Cayce would answer questions on a variety of subjects like healing, reincarnation, dreams, the afterlife, past lives, nutrition, Atlantis and future events. As a devout Christian and Sunday school teacher, Cayce's readings were often criticized as demonic by his religious colleagues.[citation needed] Cayce, in contrast, believed that it was his subconscious mind exploring the dream realm where he believed all minds were timelessly connected. Cayce founded a nonprofit organization, the Association for Research and Enlightenment, to record and facilitate the study of his channeling and to also run a hospital. A biographer gave him the nickname "The Sleeping Prophet".

Edgar Cayce (pronounced Kay-Cee, 1877-1945) has been called the "sleeping prophet," the "father of holistic medicine," and the most documented psychic of the 20th century. For more than 40 years of his adult life, Cayce gave psychic "readings" to thousands of seekers while in an unconscious state, diagnosing illnesses and revealing lives lived in the past and prophecies yet to come. But who, exactly, was Edgar Cayce?  Cayce was born on a farm in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1877, and his psychic abilities began to appear as early as his childhood. 

These gifts labeled the young Cayce as strange, but all Cayce really wanted was to help others, especially children.  Later in life, Cayce would find that he had the ability to put himself into a sleep-like state by lying down on a couch, closing his eyes, and folding his hands over his stomach. In this state of relaxation and meditation, he was able to place his mind in contact with all time and space — the universal consciousness, also known as the super-conscious mind. 

Although Cayce died more than 60 years ago, the timeliness of the material in the readings — with subjects like discovering your mission in life, developing your intuition, exploring ancient mysteries, and taking responsibility for your health — is evidenced by the hundreds of books that have been written on the various aspects of this work as well as the dozen or so titles focusing on Cayce's life itself. Together, these books contain information so valuable that even Edgar Cayce himself might have hesitated to predict their impact on the contemporary world.

The majority of Edgar Cayce's readings deal with holistic health and the treatment of illness. As it was at the time Cayce was giving readings, still today, individuals from all walks of life and belief receive physical relief from illnesses or ailments through information given in the readings — some readings were given as far back as 100 years ago! Yet, although best known for this material, the sleeping Cayce did not seem to be limited to concerns about the physical body. In fact, in their entirety, the readings discuss an astonishing 10,000 different topics. This vast array of subject matter can be narrowed down into a smaller group of topics that, when compiled together, deal with the following five categories: Health-Related Information; Philosophy and Reincarnation; Dreams and Dream Interpretation; (ESP and Psychic Phenomena; and Spiritual Growth, Meditation, and Prayer.  

Details of Cayce's life and work are explored in the classic book There Is a River (1942) by Thomas Sugrue. Members of Edgar Cayce's "Association for Research and Enlightenment" (A.R.E.), the nonprofit founded by Cayce in 1931, have access to the entire set of 14,306 readings in a database residing online in our members-only section. The readings can also be found in their entirety in our physical library, located in the Visitor's Center, second floor, at our headquarters campus in Virginia Beach, which is open to the public daily. 

From Wikipedia: 

George G. Ritchie (25 September 1923 – 29 October 2007) was an American psychiatrist who held positions as president of the Richmond Academy of General Practice, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry of Towers Hospital and founder and president of the Universal Youth Corps, Inc. for almost 20 years. In 1967 he entered private psychiatry practice in Charlottesville, Virginia, and in 1983 moved to Anniston, Alabama, to serve as head of the Department of Psychiatry at the Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center. He returned to Richmond in 1986 to continue in private practice until retirement in 1992.

At the age of 20, George Ritchie apparently died in an army hospital and was pronounced dead twice by the doctor on duty. Nine minutes later he returned to life. Ritchie wrote of his near-death experience (NDE) in Return from Tomorrow, co-written with Elizabeth Sherrill (1928-), and published in 1978. In the book he tells of his out-of-body experience, his meeting with Jesus Christ, and his travel with Christ through different dimensions of time and space. Return from Tomorrow has been translated into nine languages.  He also published another book, Ordered to Return, soon after to elaborate on his heavenly experience.  Ritchie's story was the first contact Raymond Moody had with NDEs, during his post-graduate studies and residency in Psychiatry at the University of Virginia. This led Moody to investigate over 150 cases of NDEs in his book Life After Life and two other books that followed. 

From Wikipedia: 

George G. Ritchie (25 September 1923 – 29 October 2007) was an American psychiatrist who held positions as president of the Richmond Academy of General Practice, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry of Towers Hospital and founder and president of the Universal Youth Corps, Inc. for almost 20 years. In 1967 he entered private psychiatry practice in Charlottesville, Virginia, and in 1983 moved to Anniston, Alabama, to serve as head of the Department of Psychiatry at the Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center. He returned to Richmond in 1986 to continue in private practice until retirement in 1992.

At the age of 20, George Ritchie apparently died in an army hospital and was pronounced dead twice by the doctor on duty. Nine minutes later he returned to life. Ritchie wrote of his near-death experience (NDE) in Return from Tomorrow, co-written with Elizabeth Sherrill (1928-), and published in 1978. In the book he tells of his out-of-body experience, his meeting with Jesus Christ, and his travel with Christ through different dimensions of time and space. Return from Tomorrow has been translated into nine languages.  He also published another book, Ordered to Return, soon after to elaborate on his heavenly experience.  Ritchie's story was the first contact Raymond Moody had with NDEs, during his post-graduate studies and residency in Psychiatry at the University of Virginia. This led Moody to investigate over 150 cases of NDEs in his book Life After Life and two other books that followed. 

From Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manly_P._Hall

Manly Palmer Hall (18 March 1901 – 29 August 1990) was a Canadian author, lecturer, astrologer and mystic. Over his 70-year career he gave thousands of lectures and published over 150 volumes, of which the best known is The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928). In 1934 he founded the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, dedicated to the study of religion, mythology, metaphysics, and the occult. The PRS still maintains a research library of over 50,000 volumes, and also sells and publishes metaphysical and spiritual books, mostly those authored by Hall. After his death, some of Manly Hall's rare alchemy books were sold to keep the PRS in operation. "Acquisition of the Manly Palmer Hall  Collection in 1995 provided the Getty Research Institute with one of the world's leading collections of alchemy, esoterica, and hermetica."

Link to free PDFs of Manly P Hall: https://archive.org/search?query=manly+hall