The Psi Encyclopedia (PE) has been developed by the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) under a major bequest from Nigel Buckmaster, who died in 2010. Buckmaster left instructions to publish works that would make the evidence for psi and survival phenomena better known. Robert McLuhan proposed the PE concept to the SPR Council and it

Thanks to a bequest left by Nigel Buckmaster to the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), the Psi Encyclopedia (PE) was founded in 2014, in response to perceived bias on Wikipedia. The latter encyclopedia was founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Robert McLuhan has shared some reflections on his thinking back when he

In a recent Editors’ Blog, I provided a written tour of the Psi Encyclopedia, the organisation of the materials, and examples of various types of finding tools built into the text. The importance of the PE was presented not only as a compendium of the field’s academic and experiential history, but also as a map

This blog presents a series of questions and answers to provide some details about the archive of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) and how we are using them or plan to use them in the Psi Encyclopedia (PE). See here for a longer article about the SPR archive. Where examples are given it must

The Psi Encyclopedia (PE) is sponsored by the Society for Psychical Research (SPR). The PE was founded in 2014 by journalist and SPR member Robert McLuhan. As its ‘principal architect’, McLuhan began building an extraordinary resource for students, psi researchers, experiencers, mediums, historians — indeed for anyone seriously interested in psychic matters. Earlier this year,

At the time of writing, the Psi Encyclopedia (PE) includes more than 750 entries, including about 350 biographies of researchers and authors. The biographies are now subcategorised into 30-year age cohorts, providing a picture of the historical development of parapsychology. There are some stylistic differences to the entries, and their depth necessarily varies, partly due

About a year and a half ago, someone I know asked ChatGPT to name five reincarnation researchers. In the list it spat out in seconds, Ian Stevenson was first, of course, followed by Jim B Tucker, James G Matlock and another name I knew though I can’t recall, plus a Jane somebody, of whom I

As the Psi Encyclopedia (PE) has developed under the new editorial team and the staff writers, the General Editor, James G Matlock, has been particularly keen to expand our use of social media in order to bring these important materials to educators, organisations, and individuals seeking a reliable reference resource. When Robert McLuhan founded the

In April 2026, James G Matlock took over from Robert McLuhan as General Editor of the Psi Encyclopedia (PE). Matlock is joined by a team: Associate Editors Nemo Mörck, KM Wehrstein, Melvyn Willin and Nancy Zingrone and Staff Writers Courtney Block and Roberto R Narváez, supported by Software Consultant Hugh Matlock. Besides writing extensively for