http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/ The latest Profiles from Fortean Times UK en-GB Tue, 13 Aug 2013 04:16:13 +0100 Tue, 13 Aug 2013 04:16:13 +0100 webmaster.bizarre@dennis.co.uk webmaster.bizarre@dennis.co.uk http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/78/nikola_tesla.html On the 150th anniversary of the birth of brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla, Mark Pilkington explores the enigma of the man who lit up the world. Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:16:57 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/84/david_lynch.html David Lynch’s films have always conjured up a surreal, nightmarish world of physical and psychic violence – but the man behind movies like Eraserhead and Wild at Heart has long been pursuing a surprisingly different agenda. Mitch Horowitz discovers why cinema’s Master of Darkness is on a mission to promote meditation, bliss and world peace. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/105/charles_fort_photo_album.html Charles Fort’s friendship with author Theodore Dreiser lasted from 1905 to Fort’s death in 1932. The collection of Dreiser’s papers (including books, letters, diaries, scrapbooks and photographs) housed at the University of Pennsylvania (and initiated through the efforts of pioneering teachers of American literature such as Arthur Hobson Quinn, E Scully Bradly and Robert Spiller) bears numerous testaments to this long-running literary relationship, including the rare and fascinating photographs reproduced in this article. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/109/rudolf_steiner.html On the 80th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's death, Gary Lachman celebrates the life, work and enduring legacy of one of Western esotericism's most ambitious and unusual thinkers. All images of Steiner and his work courtesy of Rudolf Steiner House library. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/122/hg_wells.html With the release of a new film version of the science fiction classic War of The Worlds, interest has been revived in HG Wells, the father of the modern genre. SF author and commentator David Langford takes a look back at the life and career of one of the key figures in 20th-century literature. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/118/arthur_koestler.html A look back at one of the pioneering researchers into coincidence and parapsychology Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/120/tiffany_thayer.html Doug Skinner traces the early days, the dissent and the heresies of the Fortean Society through its eccentric and iconoclastic founder, actor and author Tiffany Thayer. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/153/hp_lovecraft.html Was the most influential horror writer of the 20th century a believer in the paranormal? Daniel Harms examines the evidence. Main illustration by Dave Carson. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/167/august_strindberg.html Writers have often accessed a level of visionary experience beyond that of everyday consciousness, but what happens when that vision, fuelled by occultism, alcohol and a nervous breakdown, begins to cross over into madness. Gary Lachman examines the case of August Strindberg Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/168/aldous_huxley.html Aldous Huxley was already a legendary figure in the literary sphere when he was introduced to the milieu of mind-bending drugs. Antonio Melechi takes a trip down memory lane to fling wide The Doors Of Perception and seek the pathway to Heaven and Hell. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/180/juan_r_posadas.html Juan R Posadas was no ordinary Trotskyite; socialists from outer space, the benefits of nuclear war and communication with dolphins were all part of his revolutionary programme. Matt Salusbury tells the story of one of the World’s strangest political thinkers. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/193/grindell_death_ray_matthews.html The Death Ray is ubiquitous from science fiction to Conspiracy Theory. Dr David Clarke and Andy Roberts review the career of the man who invented it... Or so he claimed Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/222/edgar_cayce.html A recent poll showed that three quarters of history students at American universities believe that Atlantis will resurface in the near future. Jack Romano profiles ‘the Sleeping Prophet’, Edgar Cayce (1877–1945), the man whose pronouncements did more than any other to raise Atlantis in the New Age imagination. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/261/ron_wyatt_gods_archaeologist.html Ron Wyatt wandered the middle east for 22 years, claiming to have discovered Noah’s Ark, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Ark of the Covenant and many other long-lost biblical objects and locations. he was attacked, arrested, kidnapped and deported, but – says Jack Romano – he providentially survived everything that was thrown at him Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/497/candy_jones.html How a leading American fashion model came to be experimented upon by the CIA mind control team Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/499/the_count_of_stgermain.html Immortal, ascended master, alchemist, space tourist or charlatan, the Count of St-Germain is one of the most intriguing mystery-men of the 18th century. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/503/austin_osman_spare.html Phil Baker profiles the strange career of this extraordinary artist, visionary and magician. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/507/john_whiteside_parsons.html One of the founding fathers of American rocket-science was a character strung between Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, and the Devil himself. Colin Bennett considers the short but remarkable life of a blazing star, Jack Parsons. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/663/harry_smith.html Ian Simmons looks back at the eccentric career of Harry Smith - filmmaker, musicologist and magician Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:59 +0100 0