In this issue of Mindfield, the contributors center their analysis on UAP from a variety of perspectives with supplemental essays on history, healing, and intuition. Mike Cifone argues that UAP require an expanded epistemology – grounded in radical empiricism and non-dual metaphysics – that acknowledges experiential, psychophysical, and anomalous data as legitimate, even when they resist existing scientific frameworks. Bob Davis and Russ Scalpone explore how interactions with UAP and non-human intelligences (NHIs) affect individuals’ consciousness and worldview, often leading to lasting psychological, spiritual, and behavioral transformations. Jack Hunter investigates a series of anomalous UFO and apparition sightings in Wales, highlighting recurring patterns of luminous, geometric phenomena across centuries and suggesting they may reflect a blend of cultural storytelling, spiritual interpretation, and possibly real, unexplained experiences. Michael Jawer argues that UAP may exhibit signs of sentience or organic intelligence, behaving more like living beings than machines, with characteristics such as telepathic interaction, emotional resonance, and animal-like awareness. David Mitchell examines how exceptional human experiences related to UAP and parapsychology challenge conventional understandings of reality, emphasizing the cultural, psychological, and spiritual significance of these phenomena through the lens of the African sankofa principle, which encourages reclaiming forgotten knowledge to foster personal and collective transformation.
In addition to the issue’s theme of UAP, Claude Berghmans hypothesizes that energy healers enter a self-induced cognitive trance – an altered state of consciousness similar to shamanic trance – during the preparation phase before treatment, as part of a ritualized process involving meditation, visualization, and prayer to enhance receptivity and therapeutic effectiveness. Eberhard Bauer reflects on over fifty years at the Freiburg IGPP, detailing his formative experiences with founder Hans Bender, the evolution of parapsychological research, and the institute’s transformation from a modest operation into a well-funded, multidisciplinary research center. Drew Nwabueze relates her journey through pregnancy and postpartum opened a transformative portal into psi phenomena – such as intuition, telepathy, and spiritual visions – which were expressed and integrated through artwork featured in the essay. For the forty-fifth installment of “Articles Relevant to Parapsychology in Journals of Various Fields,” Maurice van Luijtelaar and Renaud Evrard collected 231 articles that were taken from 204 different journals and one conference proceeding.
