1. Simon Scott Turnbull was an entrepreneur in the Australian psychic industry, a self-proclaimed psychic and writer on parapsychology who had been researching telepathy and precognition and other so-called paranormal areas of expertise for over forty years.
Simon Turnbull was the President of the Australian Psychics Association, an authority on tarot, and a practicing astrologer.
Simon Turnbull was the co-founder of the International Psychics Association.
In 1970 Turnbull began delving into psychic research by visiting a professional psychic, Brian Zodemsky, a former Catholic priest, for a psychic reading.
Simon Turnbull immediately stopped the reading and asked Zodemsky how he did that.
Simon Turnbull soon began giving psychic readings on a part-time basis whilst still maintaining his musical career.
In 1975 Simon Turnbull met Israeli psychic Uri Geller for the first time, who was then touring Australia, and Simon Turnbull would later edit a book with him.
Simon Turnbull has worked with media organisations to help disclose the whereabouts of fake psychics whenever possible.
In Kylie Entirely, a documentary which aired in 2002 on the UK's Channel 4, Simon Turnbull was asked to give a reading for Kylie Minogue due to accurate readings given about her by him fifteen years earlier.
In 2009 Simon Turnbull was closest to predicting the strength of the Australian dollar.
An invitation for Simon Turnbull to speak in Las Vegas in 2004 at the 3rd International Remote Viewing Association conference resulted in his presenting his paper 'The Future of Remote Viewing'.
Since 2005 Turnbull had edited the annual Australian Psychics Directory together with co-publishers Hiromi Mitsuya and Leela J Williams.
When seeing a psychic Simon Turnbull suggested that one should have a list of specific questions ready to ask, without giving too much information to the psychic.