I wasn't first. Plato found "The Forum Of The Good" and "Allegory Of The Cave". Everyone was pretty smart. Saw things. Aleister Crowley's "True Will". Pascal's "Pensees".
William James, Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank, Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow, and Roberto Assagioli
were into transpersonal pyschology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpersonal_psychology
THE SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF SURVIVAL AFTER DEATH
By Michael Roll
http://www.cfpf.org.uk/articles/background/scientificproof/scientificproof1.html