Some important people that might be the focus of a presentation:
Any of the names already scheduled for text studies.
Plotinus
Proclus
Prophyry
Origin
The Cappodicians
Augustine:
Psuedo-Dionysius the Areopagite
John Scotus Eriugene
Bernard of Clairvaux
William of St. Thierry
Hildegard
Hugo of St. Victor
Evagrius Ponticus
Howard Thurmond
Hugo of St. Victor
Richard of St. Victor
Francis of Assisi
Beatrice of Nazareth
Mechthild of Magdeburg
Bonaventure
Ramon Llull
Julian of Norwich
Angela of Foligno
Marguerite Porete
Meister Eckhart
Hadewijch
Jan van Ruysbroeck
Henry Suso
Gregory Palamas
Johann Tauler
Richard Rolle
Brigitta of Sweden
Margaret Ebner
The Cloud of Unknowing
Walter Hilton
Catherine of Siena
Thomas a Kempis
Nicolaus of Cusa
St Catherine of Genoa
Teresa of Avila
St John of the Cross
Giordano Bruno
St Francis de Sales
Louis Claude de Saint Martin.
Pierre Berulle (accent over the first e)
Paracelsus
Valentin Weigel
Jacob Boehme
Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, Christian Kabbalist
Angelus Silesius
George Fox
William Law
Emanuel Swedenborg
Friedrich Christoph Oetinger
Abraham Kook Jewish
Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia Jewish
Moses ben Shem Tob de Leon Jewish
Moses Cordovero Jewish
Isaac Luria Jewish
Hasan of Basra Muslim
Fakhruddin Iraqi, Muslim and poet
Al Farabi Muslim
Students will also find the various authors in the Classics of Western Spirituality to be very good presentation topics.