Jim Blackmann

Jim Blackmann was born in Liverpool. His family emigrated to Canada when he was young and he spent his formative years there. He then returned and trained as an engineer in the north of England. This was followed by a period of travel until he finally settled in Somerset.

He began writing in his early twenties and subsidised his income through a series of jobs, including office, shop, manual, and catering work. During his formative years he developed an interest in philosophy and psychology, both East and West. In addition to being an author, he is also a musician and songwriter, and performs regularly in and around the Southwest of England.

In 2012, he set up a group of tests to measure intuition. This led to a series of magazine articles, and then finally to the book The Intuition Test (2016). This was followed by Intuition in the West (2021), which is a history of the influence of the intuitive mind on Western culture. A romantic comedy, The Witch & The Skeptic (2022) followed. In 2020, he set up the magazine Nascent State, to outline all aspects of intuitive thinking and its culture.