Contributors

Douglas M Stokes holds a BA (magna cum laude) from Harvard University and a PhD in experimental parapsychology from the University of Michigan.  He is a frequent contributor to the academic  literature on parapsychology and has published three books on the subject: The Nature of... more

Lance Storm earned a B.A. (Honours) in psychology (1998) and a Ph.D. in parapsychology (2002) at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. He has published in Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Parapsychology, Journal of Scientific Exploration, the Jungian journal Quadrant, and... more

Andrew Tomlinson is a psychologist and psychotherapist. He has also been trained in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and Regression Therapy, and is a qualified Life Between Lives therapist from the Michael Newton Institute. Andrew has run a private practice dedicated to Regression Therapy since 1996... more

Jim B Tucker, MD is Bonner-Lowry Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. He is continuing the work of Ian Stevenson at the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies with children who report memories of previous lives. His first book on the research, Life Before... more

Michael Tymn has contributed more than 1,500 articles to some fifty publications over the past fifty years. Writing assignments have taken him to such diverse places as Bangkok, Panama, Glastonbury, Jerusalem, Hollywood, St. Paul, and Tombstone.  He currently serves as editor of The Journal for Spiritual... more

Maurice J. A. van Luijtelaar, MSc (Psychology) MA (Philosophy), worked as a researcher at Radboud University Medical Center. A recent large scale project in the field of parapsychology was to arrange and describe the archive of Dutch psychic Gerard Croiset. He has contributed articles to Tijdschrift voor... more

Professor Caroline Watt holds Edinburgh University’s Koestler Chair of Parapsychology and runs the Koestler Parapsychology Unit. Caroline was born in 1962, raised in Perthshire, Scotland, and has two sons. She graduated with an Hons Psychology degree from the University of St Andrews in 1984, and in 1986 was... more

Zofia Weaver is an independent researcher, translator and author whose academic interest is mediumship in her native Poland, leading her to write extensively about Franek Kluski and Stefan Ossowiecki. She joined the Society for Psychical Research in 1982, served as editor of its journal from 1999 to 2002, and is... more

KM Wehrstein, BAA (Journalism) is an independent reincarnation researcher, freelance writer and novelist, and one of the Psi Encyclopedia’s most prolific writers, also working as an editor.  Her interest in reincarnation dates back to personal experiences both in adulthood and childhood, and... more

Donald West (1924–2020) joined the SPR as a teenager and  made numerous contributions to its Journal and Proceedings. These included two surveys of apparitions and a series of collaborative ESP researches with the late GW Fisk, for which they received jointly the McDougall Award (1958) for... more

Bryan Williams is the Research Director of the Psychical Research Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Carrollton, Texas, USA, which is dedicated to research and education in parapsychology. He previously studied psychology at the University of New Mexico and had been a research student of... more

Melvyn Willin was born in St Albans and educated at Francis Bacon Grammar School. He took degrees at several British universities including doctorates in paramusicology (Sheffield) and history (Bristol). He was closely associated with Bob Morris, Koestler Professor Parapsychology at the University of Edinburgh for... more

Wellington Zangari is a professor of social psychology at the University of São Paulo who has an interest in the psychology of anomalistic/religious experiences, including mediumship, as well as altered states of consciousness, hypnosis and the philosophy of mind. Together with his partner Fatima Machado, he co-... more