Contributors

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

Karen M Wehrstein, BAA (Journalism) is a journalist, novelist, reincarnation researcher 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 she has been a member of... 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