Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, PhD
In addition to the blog posts featured below, you may want to check out Sharon’s Psychology Today blog Mysteries of Consciousness.
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Runner-Up in the Bigelow Essay Contest
I’m thrilled to announce that I have been selected as a runner-up in the essay contest sponsored by the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS)! The contest, entered by 204 parapsychological researchers from 38 countries, was for essays on the best evidence for the survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. I am delighted Read more
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A Wealth of After-Death Research on Thanatos TV
I was recently interviewed by Thanatos TV, a YouTube channel that specializes in documentaries and interviews on near-death experiences (NDEs) as well as more general research into consciousness and death. I not only wanted to share with you a link to my own interview on Thanatos but also let you know about some of the Read more
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My Interview on The Mystical Underground
I recently had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Trish and Rob MacGregor on their podcast The Mystical Underground. Trish and Rob are both prolific authors, writing both fiction and nonfiction on paranormal topics. It was a lot of fun discussing coincidences with two people who have so much experience on the subject! Here’s Read more
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The Reluctant Psychic
When I posted my 15 favorite paranormal memoirs a few months ago, I left out one very important book: Suzan Saxman’s The Reluctant Psychic. I originally borrowed this memoir from the library several years ago, which is why I didn’t have a copy on my shelves to jog my memory. But I’ve now rectified the Read more
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Top 15 Paranormal Memoirs
What is it like to see ghosts on a regular basis? Or to grow up knowing things about the future that then come true? What’s it like to try to live a normal life after having a near-death experience and coming back from the “Other Side”? Or to discover that you appear to be able Read more
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Greening the Paranormal
The latest issue of the Journal of Scientific Exploration includes my review of Jack Hunter’s recent book Greening the Paranormal, an anthology of essays about how the natural world and the “paranormal” world turn out to be one and the same. Packed with fascinating firsthand experiences as well as more scholarly reflections on the role Read more
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A Review to Celebrate the One-Month Anniversary of The Supreme Victory of the Heart
A few days ago, a reader emailed me to let me know that she’d posted a review of my new memoir The Supreme Victory of the Heart on Amazon. I’ve been lucky enough to have gotten several enthusiastic reviews of this book, but this latest one–by a woman named Kellie Heath–really bowled me over. Not Read more
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Upcoming Interview on B-NOW Radio
This Wednesday, May 20, at 10am Eastern Time, I’ll be live with Jeanie Brosius King on her B-NOW Blog Talk radio show, discussing my new book The Supreme Victory of the Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Synchronicity. Jeanie is a delightful, vibrant woman who brings great energy and heart to her interviews of Read more
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Publication Day! My Memoir on Love, Loss, and Synchronicity Is Out.
I’ve written a lot about coincidence and synchronicity in the past couple of years–from my “Coincidence or psi?” article in the Journal of Scientific Exploration to my 618-page book The Source and Significance of Coincidences to my Psychology Today blog Mysteries of Consciousness. And while, in each of those places, I’ve briefly described some of Read more
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Phone Calls From the Beyond?
The Journal of Scientific Exploration has just published my essay review of a recent book on a highly intriguing phenomenon: phone calls that seem to be coming from dead loved ones. This phenomenon–which might seem laughable at first–is surprisingly prevalent. And there’s a lot more to it than you might expect. It’s not just cases Read more
Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, PhD 