The contributors to this issue of Mindfield expound on the literature revolving around health and contemplative practices. In their editorial, Jacob W. Glazier and Anastasia Wasko call attention to the way that normative notions of health prescribe specific ways of being at the expense of those more conducive to exceptional experience. Everton Maraldi discusses the rise of research on spirituality and non-ordinary states of consciousness and urges parapsychologists to incorporate these phenomena into their own research. Annalisa Ventola emphasizes how embodied spirituality bridges the gap between the spiritual and physical with implications for parapsychology and ecological sustainability.
There are not only alternative ways of being healthy, but as Anjuelle Floyd notes, there are also alternative phenomena that go along with traditional medicine during heart transplantation, including synchronicities, near-death experiences, and paranormal memories. Bonney G. Schaub and Richard Schaub explore the use of imagery for accessing higher consciousness and spiritual development thereby enabling profound spiritual experiences and alleviating suffering. Cory Nakasue advocates that movement, sensation, and personal narrative foster physical and emotional healing and how this body awareness and re-patterning of narratives can create transformative experiences. Dan Gilhooley explores telepathic and precognitive phenomena in the context of psychoanalysis that challenge our conventional notions of self, time, causality, and the therapeutic relationship. Maurice van Luijtelaar and Renaud Evrard present their forty-fourth installment of “Articles Relevant to Parapsychology in Journals of Various Fields” with 106 articles from 99 different journals, including two conference proceedings.
