Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, PhD

Deep Weird

Deep Weird: The Varieties of High Strangeness Experience is a new essay collection edited by Welsh anthropologist and parapsychologist Jack Hunter. It just came out last week and features a chapter I wrote on deeply weird synchronicities, along with a lot of other fascinating and diverse material. If you ever get the feeling that we…
My talk from Dec. 3 Inquiry Event in NYC

The video from my talk at December’s An Inquiry into Anomalous Experiences conference in New York City is now available. This is a fairly short talk–only 35 minutes–but it’s packed with big ideas about the new paradigm we need to make sense not just of extraordinary experiences but also of quantum mechanics, consciousness, and ethics.…
A few recent publications

I’ve gotten behind on posting about my recent publications. So here’s a quick guide to the items I’ve published this summer, in parapsychology and in philosophy, in English and in French. An audio version of my 2016 scholarly philosophy book The Feeling of Value, narrated by me (except for the foreword by Thomas Nagel, which…
Why an Afterlife Obviously Exists

Why an Afterlife Obviously Exists is the title of a new book being released this weekend, and I have to say, it does an admirable job of arguing its thesis! Written by Jens Amberts, who trained in philosophy at Linköping University in Sweden, it takes four well-established and uncontroversial premises about near-death experiences and argues…

Deep Weird