Journal of Anomalistics Volume 24 (2024), pp. 291–302 Editorial Fiction, Facts and the Disenchantment of Psi Gerhard Mayer is year, the 66th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association (PA) was held in the beautiful city of Mérida on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, organized by Ramsés D’León as Arrangement Chair and UPIDE/CISC, a group of young Mexican parapsychologists. 1 Erika Pratte took on the organizational task of Program Chair. UPIDE hosted its own first conference, “1er Encuentro Mexicano Sobre la Expansión de la Consciencia” [1st Mexican Meeting on the Expansion of Consciousness], which took place two days before the PA conference began. It was aimed specifically at a Spanish-speaking audience and, in addition to the presentation of scientific research in lectures, the aſternoons were devoted to in-depth discussions of individual topics and practical experiences in workshops. is shows the educational aspect of UPIDE, which aims, among other things, to educate a lay audience about what “parapsychology” means in the scientific sense. Even in our secularized Central European societies, knowledge of the objectives of academically-oriented parapsychology and anomalistics cannot be taken for granted, even if a worldview background that includes a belief in the existence of spirits and “otherworldly or supernatural entities” is not as pronounced here as in other cultures, such as Mexico. e porter at the small and beautiful hotel where I was staying wanted to know which conference I was going to attend. In response to my answer, he told me that Mérida also had something else to offer on the subject of parapsychology, namely the Museo Paranormal, where one could see a of things related to the topic. It is located outside the city center, but would be worth a visit. e busy conference program did not leave enough time to arrange such a visit, but there is enough image material on the Internet to get an impression of the museum. For example, in the online article “e Museum of e Paranormal in Mérida, Mexico: A Photo Essay and Inter- view with Founder and Proprietor Jorge Moreno Gonzaléz” by Joanna Ebenstein in the Morbid 1 UPIDE is an acronym for Unidad Parapsicológica de Investigación, Difusión y Enseñanza [Unit of Parapsychological Investigation, Dissemination, and Education]; CISC means Centro de Investi- gación de la Sintergia y la Consciencia [Center for Research on Syntergy and Consciousness]. https://doi.org/10.23793/zfa.2024.291