Terje Gerotti Simonsen is a Norwegian writer and historian of ideas, who teaches and writes predominantly on the esoteric traditions – hermeticism, occultism, mysticism. His works include the introductory essays to the Norwegian editions of The First Book of Enoch and Martin Buber’s I and Thou in two prestigious series (The World’s Holy Scriptures and The Cultural Library). In 2019, the English edition of A Short History of (nearly) Everything Paranormal was awarded the American Parapsychological Association Book Award, generally considered the most prestigious distinction within the field of parapsychology.