📖 Book Overview:
Visionaries and Seers is a compelling collection of biographical portraits detailing the lives and experiences of individuals who claimed to have mystical visions, psychic insights, and supernatural encounters. Historian and author Charles Neilson Gattey explores the stories of saints, mystics, and lesser-known figures who were gifted—or burdened—with extraordinary spiritual perception. Through vivid storytelling, this book offers insight into the mystical traditions of both religious and esoteric worlds.
✍️ Author:
Charles Neilson Gattey (1920–2005) was a British writer and biographer known for his interest in unusual historical figures and spiritual phenomena. With a background in both music and the arts, he brought a literary elegance to his accounts of mystics and psychics alike.
📚 Genre & Themes:
This title falls into the genres of mysticism, biography, and psychical research. Themes include spiritual visions, prophecy, clairvoyance, mystic experience, and the historical treatment of those with paranormal gifts.