In this second installment on the theme “Psi & Fiction” for Mindfield: The Bulletin of the Parapsychological Association, we are pleased to offer several open-access essays. These include an editorial examining the challenges of getting the message out there in the digital age by Anastasia Wasko and Jacob Glazier. Everton Maraldi contributes a Presidential Column highlighting the importance of indigenous epistemologies and the increasing influence of Latin America on the evolution of parapsychology. Annalisa Ventola, in her Executive Director Column, reflects on the 2024 AAAS Annual Meeting. We are honored to include Stanley Krippner and Álex Escolà-Gascón’s overview of the 66th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association. David Mitchell discusses the Netflix show Paranormal, including the similarities and differences in framing the paranormal from a Western or Egyptian perspective. Renaud Evrard offers a translation of Bertrand Méheust’s “The Limits of a Phenomenon, or Reflection by the Absurd Applied to Ufology,” which shows the persistence across time of UFO phenomena and the inquisition around their nature.
The essays reserved for members only include Joanna Ebenstein’s review of the 66th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association, highlighting the diverse nature of talks and researchers as well as their careful approach to science. Sydney Chesley explores NDEs and their influence on popular culture. Jorge Villanueva discusses the images of ghosts and mediums in cinema from the perspective of Argentina. Finally, Maurice van Luijtelaar and Renaud Evrard present their expansive and invaluable forty-third installment of “Articles Relevant to Parapsychology in Journals of Various Fields,” which includes 406 articles relevant to parapsychologists and scholars of related fields taken from 333 different journals and four conference proceedings.
