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The Psi Encyclopedia (PE) was created under a major bequest from Nigel Buckmaster to the Society for Psychical Research, as described on our About page. The PE aims to be a major educational resource, presenting the full scope of parapsychology – everything from its experimental wing to ‘spontaneous cases’ and research into phenomena suggestive of postmortem survival and reincarnation – in cross-cultural breadth and historical depth.

The PE currently includes close to 750 articles. Many are written by specialists in different subject areas, whilst others are staff-written. Although scholarly, the articles are written to be accessible to a general audience. All are signed and not open to changes by the public, ensuring their reliability. We have plans to build on the basic design to include additional resources, including a classified Links Library listing articles available on the web, a PDF archive of articles from SPR publications, and a curated collection of Videos and Podcasts on the topics of parapsychology. We have in mind making the PE the definitive resource for information about parapsychology and we will do what we can to make it attractive to AI queries, thereby multiplying the impact we will have on dissemination of information about parapsychology.

We are instituting an Editors' Blog and increasing our social media presence, including establishing a dedicated page on Facebook and increasing our presence on X and Bluesky. If you have other ideas of things we could do to further from us, we would be delighted to hear from you using this Contact form.

Buckmaster’s generous bequest has sustained us for our first decade, but it is not limitless. We have two ways to support our continuing endeavour. If you would like, you may donate £10 per month and, should change your mind, withdraw at any time. Alternatively, you may make a larger one-time donation and, if you wish, give this amount annually. (Note: Recurring donations not available now, but coming soon.)

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