Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, PhD

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Month: September 2019

  • Can an Organ Transplant Alter Your Identity?

    Can an Organ Transplant Alter Your Identity?

    In 1988, Claire Sylvia received the first heart-lung transplant performed in New England. In the days and weeks following her surgery, she realized that she had some strange new cravings. For one thing, she found herself “dying for a beer,” even though she’d never liked beer before. She also began to add green peppers to…

    Sharon Rawlette

    September 27, 2019
    consciousness, Parapsychology, psychology
    Claire Sylvia, organ transplants
  • Why It’s Simpler to Believe That Everything Is Conscious

    Why It’s Simpler to Believe That Everything Is Conscious

    Physicalism is often seen as being a simple, no-nonsense theory of reality, well suited to hard-nosed, scientifically minded folks. But, in fact, the classic physicalist view postulates much stranger, more mysterious entities than another type of view that’s now gaining currency in philosophical circles: the view that everything that exists is conscious. I explain this…

    Sharon Rawlette

    September 17, 2019
    consciousness, Philosophy
    mind-body problem, panpsychism, physicalism
  • The Couple Who Met in a Near-Death Experience

    The Couple Who Met in a Near-Death Experience

    I recently had the great pleasure of discovering Dr. Scarlett Heinbuch‘s new book Waking Up to Love, about the way she met her husband during a shared near-death experience. You may have never heard about shared death or near-death experiences, as they are not nearly as well known as near-death experiences (NDEs) as a whole.…

    Sharon Rawlette

    September 13, 2019
    Book Reviews, love, near-death experience
    NDEs, Raymond Moody, Scarlett Heinbuch, shared death experiences, soul mates
  • My interview on Chasing Reality

    My interview on Chasing Reality

    My video interview with molecular biologist Ryan Bissett of the new consciousness-focused podcast Chasing Reality is now available on YouTube! We cover so much ground: the place of consciousness in our world, laboratory research on psychokinesis, our personal spiritual journeys, and of course the source and significance of coincidences! Ryan is a wonderful host, and…

    Sharon Rawlette

    September 2, 2019
    coincidences, consciousness, Interviews, Spirituality
    Chasing Reality, psychokinesis

Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, PhD

  • About
  • Blog
  • Books
    • Beyond Death
    • The Source and Significance of Coincidences
    • The Feeling of Value
    • The Supreme Victory of the Heart
  • Events
  • Home
  • Interviews
  • Memoir
  • Scholarship
  • Twitter

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