British occultism, spiritualist investigation

Oliver Bland

Oliver Bland was an early twentieth-century British occultist and author whose memoir The Adventures of a Modern Occultist (1920) recounted personal investigations into spiritualism, mediumship, automatic writing, and psychic phenomena. Writing under deliberate anonymity, he described himself as a lifelong student of psychic matters endowed with unusual gifts, and his book stands as a first-person document of the Edwardian occult revival. No birth or death dates are recoverable from any public source.