Helen Wilmans-Post (1831-1907) was an American journalist, publisher and proponent of the mental science movement which stressed control of mind over matter. She started her own paper, The Woman's World, and published a weekly magazine, Freedom.

A one time student of Emma Curtis Hopkins, Helen Wilmans was a very important and influential figure in the theory and practice of what in the latter part of the nineteenth century became known as mental science.

Not only a teacher in her own right, but a teacher of teachers, this pioneer metaphysician gave to hundreds of teachers and healers a vision of what they could do for their students and patients, and a vital impulse and force irresistible and inexhaustible

Helen Wilmans was one of the many wonderful women that the New Thought movement has produced.