Articles Relevant to Parapsychology in Journals of Various Fields (XLVIII)

by Maurice van Luijtelaar and Renaud Evrard

In the forty-eight installment of our bibliography, we present 262 articles from 216 different journals. Twenty-three journals provided multiple articles.

We want to call attention to special issue 11(2) of the Journal for the Study of Religious Experience, devoted to AI and religious experience. We included three articles from this issue: Dunne (2025), “AI and the Mysterious”; Patryas (2025), “Summoning an Angel: Exploring AI’s Role in Religion, Spirituality and Psycho-Spiritual Healing”; and Treasure (2025), “From Chatbots to Astral Intelligences: Virtual Thinking and the Emergence of AI Cosmologies.”

Furthermore, we want to draw attention to special issue 15(2) of the journal Approaching Religion, onThe Witching of Art History—How to Approach Women, Art and Esotericism.” We chose four articles from this issue: Denniston (2025), “The Seeker as Weaver: A Matrixial Approach to Feminist Futurity in the Artistic Praxis of Paulina Peavy”; Foot (2025), “Repicturing the Past: Jane Stewart Smith, Spiritualism and Psychical History”;  Kokkinen (2025), “‘Get Yourself a Fire Body’: Intersections of Clairvoyance, Mediumship and Gender in Early-Twentieth-Century Art”; and Sugden (2025), “Embodying the Great Mother: Olga Fröbe’s Spiritual Authority at Eranos.”

We also want to draw attention to the special double issue 34(3&4) of the journal ReVision, dedicated to Stanley Krippner: https://revisionpublishing.org/. We included six articles from this issue: Cardeña (2025), “Stanley Krippner: The Liminal Psychologist”; Glenn & Jones (2025), “Altering Consciousness: A Tribute to Stanley Krippner”; Krippner (2025), “Parapsychology and Postmodern Psychology”; Krippner (2025), “How Healing Happens”; Krippner (2025), “Hypnotic-like Procedures used by Indigenous Healing Practitioners”; and Krippner (2025), “Anyone who Dreams Partakes in Shamanism.”

We appreciate input from our readers. PA-members are requested to forward titles of relevant articles to mauricevanluijtelaar4@outlook.com or evrardrenaud@gmail.com.

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Adams, K. (2026). ‘Imaginary’ friends: The roles of imaginary/invisible companions in the classroom. Education 3-1354(1), 137-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2023.2290666

Adhikari, T. E. (2025). Understanding the kichkini: Death, female ghosts, gender, and sexuality in Nepal. (2026). Himalaya44(2), 5-21. https://doi.org/10.2218/himalaya.2025.9232

Agai, J. M. (2025). The definition of bodily-death as the activation of the human psyche. Philosophy and Realistic Reflection, 2(2), 131-142. https://doi.org/10.55121/prr.v2i2.654

Ağralı, C. (2025). A narrative review of the impact of Reiki and Therapeutic Touch on sleep quality and health in women. Pediatrics & Nursology1(1), 39-43. https://pediatricsnursology.com/index.php/pub/article/view/8

Ajayi, O. C., Esangbedo, A., Lawal, A. A., Olanrewaju, A. O., Ojo, T. I., & Talabi, O. (2025). Moral injury, trance and possession state or a schizophrenic illness. Nigerian Journal of Medicine, 34, 76-79. https://doi.org/10.4103/NJM.NJM_4_24

Akhtar, Z. B. (2025). Voices in the night: Sleep paralysis & the intersection of brain, trauma, traditions. Journal of Pain Research and Management1(1), 62-74. https://doi.org/10.46439/Painresearch.1.007

Akpinar, N. B., Unal, N., Alıncak, G., Pörücü, C., Yurtsever, S., &  Karadurmus, N. (2025). The power of Reiki: Its effects on pain and biochemical parameters in patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation: A randomized prospective controlled study. Pain Management Nursing, 26(1), e24-e30. https://www.painmanagementnursing.org/article/S1524-9042(24)00235-2/fulltext

Alfian, R. M., Hardi, Y. F., Madhadi, S., Dirwanto, L., & Japaries, W. (2025). Therapist’s belching: A unique extrasensory response to patient’s pathologic condition – An observational case report. Asian Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 13(3), 49-51. https://ap.lc/SClXk

Alldredge, C. T., Vagner, M., Corlett, C., & Elkins, G. R. (2025). Clinical utility of mystical experiences: An overview and conceptual framework. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis73(4), 432-448. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2025.2526351

Andersson, F. K., Ezra, B., Roodakker, K. R., Berntsson, S., Zetterling, M., Gauffin, H., & Landtblom, A. M. (2026). Numinous-like symptoms in epilepsy and/or insular tumors: A hospital cohort study. Epilepsy & Behavior, 176, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2026.110901

Atreya, A., Maharjan, S., Nepal, S., Risal, A., Chaudhary, S., & Rasaely, N. (2025). Possession syndrome in rural Nepal: A case study examining cultural, clinical and forensic implications. Case Reports in Psychiatry, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1155/crps/6680684

Au-Yeung, Y. K. (2025). Extrasensory perception and digital connectivity: Manifestation and validation of telepathy in networked society. The Development of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.71204/09ax3f04

Avdeeff, A. (2025). Chanting horoscopic narratives: Exploring performative and therapeutic efficacy among the Valluvar of Tamil Nadu. Asian Ethnology, 84(2), 226-54. https://tinyurl.com/ybj6c7kf

Baird, I. G., & Soukhaphon, A. (2024). The Belt and Road Initiative and spirit mediums: The Lower Sesan 2 Dam and sacred space in northeastern Cambodia. Modern Asian Studies, 58(5), 1342-1363. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X24000258

Barbato, M., & Currow, D. C. (2025). Why hasn’t the “new pornography” inspired hospice/palliative care to probe more deeply the myths of unconsciousness? Journal of Palliative Medicine, 28(6), 1, 702-703. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2025.0174

Barbieri, C. R. (2025). Impact of distant Reiki on owner assessment of health and wellbeing of adult dogs: A blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized trial. Journal of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association, 78, 11-19. https://doi.org/10.56641/WAGB9632

Baruss, I., Padilla, E., Mandoki, M. J., & Ens, N. (2025). Testing cell phone applications used for after-death communication. Journal of Consciousness Exploration and Research, 16(5), 640-649. https://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/1230

Baxter, T., & Park, S. (2026). Felt presence and psychosis risk in the general population. Psychopathology59(1), 36-55. https://doi.org/10.1159/000548612

Bicego, A., Alnagger, N., Cardeña, E., Sombrun, C., Martial, C., Annen, J., … Vanhaudenhuyse, A. (2025). Exploring mystical-type experiences through auto-induced cognitive trance. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 73(4), 469-484. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2025.2544055

Bien, D. V. (2025). The Marian apparition and Christian arduous hope amid political repression: The case of Our Lady of La Vang in eighteenth-century Vietnam. Indonesian Journal of Political Studies, 5(2), 184-199. https://jurnalfisip.uinsa.ac.id/index.php/IJPS/article/view/1330

Biggs, L. R. (2026). Thoughts on resonance — Valency, dreams, and a-causality. Group Analysis, 59(1), 89-102. https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164251393329

Bomfim, É. (2025). Between two realms: A study of the superhexatonic scales. Journal of Mathematics and Music, 19(3), 213-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/17459737.2025.2538439

Bondani, M., Galano, S., Malgieri, M., Onorato, P., Sciarretta, W., & Testa, I. (2024). Development and use of an instrument to measure pseudoscientific beliefs in quantum mechanics: the PSEUDO-QM scale. Research in Science & Technological Education, 43(4), 1330-1351. https://doi.org/10.1080/02635143.2024.2390847

Bordeleau, G., Lévesque, M., Gloaguen, E., & Giroux, B. (2025). Modern-day dowsers: What possible contribution to groundwater research? Geoscience Canada, 52(2), 103-103. https://tinyurl.com/3db89hvu

Bos, J. (2026). Of modern mediums and susceptible psychologists, and of things we do not know. History of the Human Sciences, 39(1), 144-170. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951251363772

Bosco-Ruggiero, S. (2026). Evolution of the English language, nonfiction, near death experience book genre over the past fifty years. OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, 92(3), 1582-1609. https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228231209859

Brewer, P. R., Holtz, A., Mey, C., Oittinen, E., Caplan, S. E., & Wright, H. (2026). UFOs, ghosts, and cryptids on TikTok: How short-form videos on a social media platform present paranormal phenomena. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 34(1), 36-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2025.2489367

Brigo, F. (2025). The soul reconsidered: Antonio Fogazzaro (1842-1911) reads Charcot in For a New Science (Per una nuova Scienza, 1898). The Charcot Journal, 1(1), 4-12. https://tinyurl.com/55rc3r32

Brisuela-Blume, L., Avendaño, D., & Fasce, A. (2026). Beyond secularism: Exploring non-traditional forms of spirituality within the political left. Personality and Individual Differences, 252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2025.113600

Bruehl, S., & Villarroel, B. (2025). Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena. Scientific Reports, 15, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-21620-3

Busi, D. (2025). “For the first time in my life, I don’t know what to believe.” Conspiracy and gender in The X-Files. Eger Journal of English Studies, 25, 81-99. https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/2841

Campillo-Ferrer, T., Iadarola, A., Cordani, R., Veneruso, M., Demirel, Ç., Nobili, L., & Oostenveld, R. (2026). Facilitating unusual bodily experiences and out-of-body experiences across wakefulness and sleep: A high-density EEG and neurophenomenology study. Consciousness and Cognition139, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2026.104002

Canavan, G. (2025). The truth is out there: UFO conspiracy and science fiction. JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 64(3), 150-155. https://tinyurl.com/mrx5mpbr

Cardeña, E. (2025). Mind-manifesting hypnosis: Phenomenological similarities and differences in hypnotic and psychedelic contexts. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 73(4), 398-413. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2025.2554069

Cardeña, E. (2025). Stanley Krippner: The liminal psychologist. ReVision, 34(3-4), 1-2. https://tinyurl.com/jaesh2kd

Carrion, J. (2025). Flying saucers: An opening salvo of the Cold War? International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 38(4), 1331-1357. https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2024.2436673

Carvalho, S. M. de, Tucker, J., & Moreira-Almeida, A. (2025). Who does report past-life memories? Claimers’ profile, religiosity/spirituality and impact on happiness and mental health. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 35(4), 285-300. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2025.2521573

Cavallarin, A. (2026). Neo-perennialism and mystical exceptionalism: Against the narrow focus on mystical experiences in the cross-cultural study of altered states of consciousness. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 38(1), 28-52. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700682-bja10161

Cawdron, H. (2025). Can you remember what it was like to be a bat? The knowledge argument, memory, and reincarnation. Journal of Dharma Studies, 8, 875-893. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42240-025-00227-x

Chang, Y.-F. (2025). Torsion field: Theoretical research and some applications. Oriental Journal of Physical Sciences, 10(2), 97-104. http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/OJPS10.02.01

Chang, Y.-F., & So, A. (2025). Full electromagnetic spectrum of parapsychology. ISRG Journal of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, 3(6), 260-263. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17758072

Chang, Y.-F. (2026). The comparative research of China and world parapsychology, and some characters of Chinese parapsychology. UKR Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies (UKRJMS), 2(1), 10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18200516

Chattopadhyay, S. (2026). A sociological study of paranormal beliefs and experiences in a village in West Bengal. Research Review. International Journal of Multidisciplinary11(1), 18-27. https://doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2026.v11.n01.004

Christopher, T., (2026). Non-philosophical arguments challenging scientific materialism. International Journal of Clinical Case Reports and Reviews, 33(5), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.31579/2690-4861/1025

Clark, I. M., & Cameron, B. (2026). Grant Allen’s folk horror mediation of the science and spiritualist debate. Humanities, 15(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.3390/h15010007

Coolidge, F. L., Srivastava, A., Chappelle, C., & Segal, D. L. (2026). Characteristics of people who believe in conspiracy theories: Personality disorder traits, paranormal beliefs, and political ideologies. International Journal of Personality Psychology, 12, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.21827/ijpp.12.43021

Corrigendum to “Factors moderating the impact of after death communications on beliefs and spirituality” (2026). OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, 92(3), 1683. https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228231208353

Cummings, R. (2025). Spiritual transitions at the end of life. Anthropologica67(2), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.18357/anthropologica67220252697

da Cunha, C. R. O. B. e. J., & Scorsolini-Comin, F. (2025). Effects of spiritual treatment on the psychological well-being, spiritual guidance, and life satisfaction among visitors of Brazilian Spiritist centers: An exploratory study. International Journal of Latin American Religions, 9, 552-566. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41603-025-00302-y

Dagnall, N., Denovan, A., Murphy-Morgan, C., Drinkwater, K. G., Powell, D., & Neave, N. (2026). Mind over matter? The cognitive styles of scientific scepticism and paranormal belief. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1699045

Dalle Ave, A. L., &  Sulmasy, D. P. (2025). Does sedation affect patients’ spiritual experience at the end of life? An intersection between medicine and spirituality. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 69(1), e86-e89. https://tinyurl.com/26hr8rbx

D’Amico, G. (2026). “Is it you, Bjørnson?” Ragna Nielsen’s spiritualism as a hauntology of the modern breakthrough. Women’s Writing, 33(1), 133-151. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2026.2583645

Darack, E. (2026). Uncloaking mysterious skies: The science behind UFO sightings. Weatherwise, 79(1), 26-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/00431672.2026.2591585

Decena, C. U. (2025). Francisca’s spirit work. Journal of Folklore Research, 62(3), 149-160. https://dx.doi.org/10.2979/jfr.00028

Della Bella, G., Picatto, A. V., Rial, D. S. G., Cukier, S., Torres, G. F., Catanzariti, M., … & Barttfeld, P. (2026). The neurophenomenology of a self-induced transcendental visionary state: A case study. NeuroImage, 328, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2026.121784

Denniston, R. (2025). The seeker as weaver: A matrixial approach to feminist futurity in the artistic praxis of Paulina Peavy. Approaching Religion15(2), 70-88. https://journal.fi/ar/article/view/161753

Diamantopoulos, K. A. (2025). The battle of good and evil through the rite of exorcism according to Greek Christian Orthodox and Roman Catholic perspective. MEΘEXIS. Journal of Research in Values and Spirituality5(2), 85-116. https://doi.org/10.71210/mjrvs.9.a.3

Dodd, S. (2025). The significance of flying saucers in Yukio Mishima’s Beautiful Star. Japan Review, 40, 129-149. https://doi.org/10.69307/japanreview.0418.01

Dohardt, R. (2026). Voodoo on Hispaniola: Language choice and spirit possession (mounted speech). Atlantic Studies, 23(1), 36-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2025.2517004

Dunne, J. (2025). AI and the mysterious. Journal for the Study of Religious Experience, 11(2), 38-53. https://rerc-journal.tsd.ac.uk/index.php/religiousexp/article/view/170

Dyer, N. L., Baldwin, A. L., Pharo, R., & Gray, F. (2023). Evaluation of a distance Reiki program for frontline healthcare workers’ health-related quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Global Advances in Integrative Medicine and Health12, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/27536130231187368

Dyer, N. L., Rodgers-Melnick, S. N., Fink, K. E., Rao, S., Surdam, J., & Dusek, J. A. (2025). Evaluation of a Reiki volunteer program within two cancer infusion centers. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management69(3), e211-e219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2024.11.017

Edelsztein, V., Méndez, P. R., & Cormick, C. (2025). Attacking a straw man? A theoretical alternative and an exploratory empirical approach on how to “inoculate” students against astrology. Science & Education, 34, 3751-3784. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-024-00609-w

Engels, K. (2025). The unacknowledged other: Sartrean phenomenology and encounters with Non-Human Intelligences (NHI). Sartre Studies International, 31(2), 76-93. https://doi.org/10.3167/ssi.2025.310207

Erfan, A. (2025). The play of authorial voice in Lafcadio Hearn’s Japanese ghost stories. Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies, 8(1), 1-21. https://journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/volupte/article/view/1919/2025

Ettorre, E. (2025). “There is no limit to the effect of mind upon matter”: Lettice Galbraith’s spiritualist challenge to Victorian medical orthodoxy. Humanities, 14(11), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3390/h14110216

Evans, D. (2026). When the dead speak in verse: Collective writing and hauntological rhythms at Victor Hugo’s Jersey séances. Modern Language Review, 121(1), 56-80. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mlr.00146

Everist, M. (2025). Resonances from beyond the grave: Music and the occult in nineteenth-century Paris. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 78(3), 665-713. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2025.78.3.665

Exline, J. J., Wilt, J. A., Pait, K. C., & Schutt, W. A. (2025). Making sense of a transformative, mystical psychedelic experience: Will people frame it as spiritual, supernatural, psychological, physical, or a sign of mental illness? Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 12(4), 415-432. https://doi.org/10.1037/scp0000353

Expósito de Vicente, C. (2026). The necromancer of Endor (1 Samuel, 28): Body, power, and transgression in the visual construction of witchcraft. Religions, 17(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel17010120

Fehr, R. M. (2025). High strangeness in Ontario’s history. Ontario History, 117(1), 5-9. https://doi.org/10.7202/1117622ar

Feng, K., & Yang, M. (2025). From “mind-matter” duality to “body-situation” mechanism – The phenomenology of the body on how shaman soul retrieval heals the sick. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine: PEHM20(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13010-025-00192-0

Ferreira, A. S. M., & Facco, E. (2025). Psychedelic resurgence, spirituality and psychological disorders: Epistemological and clinical implications. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 12(9), 85-106. https://doi.org/10.14738/assrj.1209.19359

Ferreros, R. (2025). An exploration of deception and belief: Spirit photography in the mid-19th to early 20th centuries. The iJournal: Student Journal of the Faculty of Information, 11(1), 71-84. https://doi.org/10.33137/ijournal.v11i1.46631

Foot, M. (2025). Repicturing the past: Jane Stewart Smith, Spiritualism and psychical history. Approaching Religion15(2), 6-25. https://journal.fi/ar/article/view/162600

Forstmann, M., & Burgmer, P. (2026). The Nature of Mind Scale (NOMS): Validation of an eight-dimensional scale assessing beliefs about the relationship between mind and matter. Consciousness and Cognition, 137, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2025.103961

Fritz, P., Pichelin, A., Ancion, A., Alnagger, N., Lejeune, N., Ghuysen, A., … Martial, C. (2025). Near-death experience during emergency ketamine use: A case report. Brain and Behavior15(10), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.70939

Fritz, P., Martial, C., Gosseries, O., Bonhomme, V., Kondziella, D., Nelson, K., & Lejeune, N. (2026). Reply to ‘Recalled experiences of death: Need for empirical research without prejudice’. Nature Reviews Neurology22(3), 198. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-026-01187-x

Fusillo, M., & Lino, M. (2025). Introduction: From séance to screen: Media, ghosts, and the spectral imagination. Cinergie – Il Cinema e le Altre Arti, 27, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.60923/issn.2280-9481/22452

Gallo, F. T., Herrero, N. L., Tommasel, A., Godoy, D., Spiousas, I., Gasca-Rolin, M., … Forcato, C. (2025). Differences in emotional content, dream awareness, and dream control between lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences: Report analyses. Dreaming, 35(Suppl 1), S145-S160. https://doi.org/10.1037/drm0000283

Gavurová, M. (2025).  Articulating the irrational: Beliefs in witches in the Šariš dialects. Etnolingwistyka. Problemy Języka i Kultury / Ethnolinguistics. Problems of Language and Culture, 37, 313-325. https://doi.org/10.17951/et.2025.37.313

Gbadamosi, O. A., & Adeniyi, O. A. (2025). Religion, science and near-death experiences. The Journal of Positive Psychology and Counselling, 16(1), 1-11. https://ppacjournals.com/2025-june/religion-science-and-near-death-experiences/

Glauber, S. (2026). Demons, dybbuks, and a water medium: Possession in early twentieth-century Warsaw. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 38, 54-74. https://doi.org/10.3828/polin.2026.38.54

Glenn, C. G. & Jones, S M. S. (2025). Altering consciousness: A tribute to Stanley Krippner. ReVision, 34(3-4), 3-7. https://tinyurl.com/u828tjkt

Goedert, M. (2009). Oskar Fischer and the study of dementia. Brain: A Journal of Neurology132, 1102-1111. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awn256

Grane, K. (2025). “Nones” and near-death experiences: A critical insight. The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society, 16(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.18848/2154-8633/CGP/v16i01/1-17

Greyson, B., Long, J., Holden, J. M., Jourdan, J.-P., King, R. A., Mays, S., … Tressoldi, P. (2025). The veridical Near-Death Experience Scale: Construction and a first validation with human and artificial raters. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1661390

Hangargekar, A., Jadhav, A., Hawale, D., Kamble, A., & Gujare, K. (2025). Pandit G -AI powered astrology and palmistry assistant. Iconic Research and Engineering Journals, 9(5), 2111-2120. https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV9I5-1712413

Hasan, S. F. (2020). The practices of Maleficium in English literature. Koya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences3(1), 73-80. https://doi.org/10.14500/kujhss.v3n1y2020.pp73-80

Heilman, J. S. (2025). Omens in the sky: A Historical and comparative examination of the Mothman and other winged legends. Capstone, The UNC Asheville Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship, 38(2), 1-22. https://janeway.uncpress.org/capstone/article/id/2453/

Herrera, M. P., Williams, S. L., Reisler, R., Perez, J., & Fitzsimmons, A. M. (2026). Acute stress symptoms following cardiac arrest: Result of a frightening near-death experience. Psychiatry Research Case Reports, 5(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psycr.2026.100311

Herrero, N. L., Corfdir, Y., Vázquez-Chenlo, A. A., Capurro, L., & Forcato, C. (2025). Exploratory study of non-ordinary states of consciousness during sleep show distinct electrophysiological features from wakefulness and canonical sleep stages. Scientific Reports, 15, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-18748-7

Herzfeld, N. L. (2025). Experience vs. explanation: Jinn and demons in Islam and the Desert Fathers as a case study in spirituality. Religions, 16(9), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16091114

Hicks, M. R., & Harris, R. E. (2025). Shamanism as a clinical intervention: A scoping review. Journal of Restorative Medicine15(1), 54–62. https://doi.org/10.14200/jrm.2025.0005

Holbraad, M. (2021). The house of spirits: Care and the revolutionary state in Cuba. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology39(2), 112-127. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27308991

Höllinger, F. (2025). The impact of paranormal belief, spiritual practice, and religiosity on attitudes to the COVID pandemic: Empirical findings from Austria. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 40(3), 473-489. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2025.2576416

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Santo, D. E. (2025). The racial lives of Chilean aliens: Prospective genetic hybridity in abduction and contact narratives. Anthropological Quarterly, 98(3), 449-478. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/anq.2025.a971226

Saud, R. K. (2025). The paranormal in Shakespeare’s plays. KVM Research Journal6(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3126/kvmrj.v6i1.85992

Schäfers, M., & Kastrinou, M. (2026). Martyrs, dreams, and past lives: Insurgent immortality and the expansive logic of debt. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 68(1), 39-63. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417525100157

Schulze-Makuch, D., & Reichhardt, T. (2025). Toward a reliability scale for assessing reports of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). Universe, 11(10), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3390/universe11100326

Sendag, D. (2025). Healing as multimedia practice: Contemporary spirituality in Turkey. Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, 23(2), 195-215. https://tinyurl.com/2ew5avhw

Sepioni, F., Metastasio, A., & Monti, M. A. (2026). Distressing near-death experience with veridical perceptions during coma: Psychiatric and clinical reflections from a rare case. Rivista di Psichiatria, 61(1), 33-36. https://ap.lc/RVigH

Seshadri, D., & Seshadri, H. (2026). A brief history of Traditional Indian Medicine; in particular, Yoga and Siddha System of Medicine: Part 3b – Frontiers of human physiology and ‘Siddhis’ unlocked by Yogis. NMO Journal, 20(1), 98-105. https://doi.org/10.4103/JNMO.JNMO_94_25

Sharbin G. K., & Metzger, K. (2025). The urgency of stress reduction amongst medical students: Is therapeutic touch the answer? A literature review on therapeutic touch in students and healthcare personnel. Medical Science Educator, 35, 2595-2603. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-025-02463-z

Shilpa K., & Prasad, D. S. (2025). The power of vague words: Investigating the Barnum Effect. International Journal of Indian Psychology13(3), 3700-3704. https://ijip.in/articles/barnum-effect/

Smith, C. H. (2025). Invited essay: Wallace reconsidered. Journal of the History of Biology, 58(2), 157-162. https://ap.lc/TCQvU

Smith, S. H. (2026). Possible psychological explanations for the post-resurrection appearances of Jesus: A rejoinder to Andrew Ter Ern Loke and Nick Meader. Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, 24(1), 23-47. https://tinyurl.com/5n7snnk4

Solomonova, E., Lindahl, J. R., Gold, I., Cooper, D. J., Little, C., Arteca, D., … & Britton, W. B. (2025). “I was trying to save the world”: Delusion-like ideation and associated impacts reported by Western practitioners of Buddhist meditation. Frontiers in Psychology16, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1644684

Stanovich, K. E., & Toplak, M. E. (2026). Actively open-minded thinking and liberal ideology: Associations and dissociations. Thinking & Reasoning, 32(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546783.2025.2520186

Starkey, C., Bullock, J., & Powell, A. (2026). Pub psychic nights: Spiritual and social transformation beyond institutional boundaries. Implicit Religion, 26(4), 366-386. https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.33028

Steadman, C., Venkatesha, V., Poulos, C., Cleary, A. M., Blanchard, N., & Mills, C. (2025). Involuntary thoughts in older versus younger adults: A multidisciplinary approach to investigating déjà vu, involuntary autobiographical memories, and unexpected thoughts. Technology, Mind, and Behavior6(2), 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000150

Strehovec, T., & Pevec Rozman, M. (2025). The meaning of prayer in Mary’s messages of Medjugorje. Unity and Dialogue: Journal for Ecumenical Theology and Interreligious Dialogue, 80(2), 149-72. https://doi.org/10.34291/Edinost/80/02/Strehovec

Stripp, T. A. (2025). Lights and landscapes: More-than-human nature in near-death experiences as reconciliation in a time of ecological crisis. Dialog, 64(4), 196-203. https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12890

Sugden, C. (2025). Embodying the Great Mother: Olga Fröbe’s spiritual authority at Eranos. Approaching Religion15(2), 89-110. https://journal.fi/ar/article/view/162346

Surace, B. (2025). Between the mediatic and the mediumistic: Haunted media in contemporary horror cinema. Cinergie – Il Cinema E Le Altre Arti, 14(27), 99-112. https://doi.org/10.60923/issn.2280-9481/21150

Svampa, L. (2025). Dreams and history: Reinhart Koselleck’s perspective. Contributions to the History of Concepts, 20(1), 75-92. https://doi.org/10.3167/choc.2025.200105

Szymanek, P., Nenadalová, J., & Van Leeuwen, N. (2025). Revisiting feeling of threat and agency detection: A preregistered virtual reality study. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 17(3), 161-174. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000538

Tadajewski, M. (2026). Beyond Kotler and Böhme, towards postmaterialism? Tracing neglected theorisations of atmospheres and atmospherics. Journal of Marketing Management, 42(3-4), 422-525. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2025.2492874

Tait, A. (2025). Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories of gothic spiritualism and/as feminist counter-narratives. Humanities, 14(11), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3390/h14110217

Teece, J. (2025). Beyond synchronicity—Tarot, compassion, and empathy with the world and beyond: An interview with Terry Iacuzzo. Jung Journal19(3), 15–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/19342039.2025.2521245

Teovanović, P., Purić, D., Živanović, M., Lukić, P., Branković, M., Stanković, S., … Žeželj, I.  (2025). The role of cognitive biases in shaping irrational beliefs: A multi-study investigation. Thinking & Reasoning, 31(3), 287-330. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546783.2024.2421367

Testoni, I., Vischio, A., Ciappa, C., Gentile, M., & De Vincenzo, C. (2025). Social psychological and spiritual discomfort: Legitimization of the need for transcendence and psychological listening. Pastoral Psychology, 74, 713-726. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-025-01225-3

Thomas, D. M., Rycroft, E., Allan, K., & Sharif, S. (2026). New methodological directions for involving children in past life memories research. Explore, 22(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2025.103283

Thome, E. K., & Finn, P. (2025). Developing and validating the Susceptibility to Pseudoscience Scale. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 35(1), 317-339. https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_AJSLP-25-00166

Tidelius, C. (2025). Occulture as a predictor of paranormal beliefs in Sweden. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 40(3), 455-471. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2025.2570570

Tita, M. (2025). Witnessing the Big Grey Man on the Scottish peaks: Interpretations and engagement with the environment of the mountain summits. Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 19(2), 163-179. https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2025-0023

Tomlinson, M. (2026). Voice and agency in Spiritualist mediumship: Or, who speaks when spirits speak? Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 32(1), 224-243. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70008

Toren, K., Tromberg, J. S., & Norton, S. A. (2024). Metoposcopy redux. Clinics in Dermatology42(1), 100-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clindermatol.2023.11.002

Treasure, S. L. (2025). From chatbots to astral intelligences: Virtual thinking and the emergence of AI cosmologies. Journal for the Study of Religious Experience, 11(2), 15-37. https://rerc-journal.tsd.ac.uk/index.php/religiousexp/article/view/173

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Tümkaya, S. (2026). Beyond physicalism? Quine’s open-ended naturalism and the possibility of the “supernatural”. Metaphilosophy, 57(1-2), 119-128. https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.70027

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Van Eyghen, H. (2025). Psychedelic mystical experiences are authentic. Religions16(10), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16101294

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Maurice Van Luijtelaar

Maurice Van Luijtelaar

Maurice is a psychologist and philosopher who was employed as a research assistant at Radboud University Medical Center (Nijmegen, the Netherlands). He wrote a number of articles on subjects related to parapsychology in Dutch and English. He has been engaged in bibliographic activities for Mindfield bulletin since 2018 together with Renaud Evrard.

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