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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What Are the Odds of THAT?
Lots of people–myself included–are persuaded of the existence of psychic phenomena by their own personal experiences. But how can we know if the strange events we experience are really psychic or if they are merely very rare chance occurrences? Just this week, I published an article in The Journal of Scientific Exploration that provides a statistical method Read more
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Autism and Psychic Gifts
One of the points I make in my forthcoming book, The Source and Significance of Coincidences, is that coincidences can sometimes serve as a means of communication between people when other channels have been blocked. For instance, I include the stories of several people who were far away from their loved ones and unable to connect Read more
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Can a Heart Transplant Change Your Identity?
When I was in graduate school for philosophy, I took a class with Derek Parfit who was known for his work on the relationship between personal identity and ethics. One of the thought experiments he asked us to consider (taken from his book Reasons and Persons) involved our brain’s being transplanted into two separate bodies–half of Read more
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Children Who Remember Communicating from the Afterlife
I’ve posted before about children who remember living in heaven before their births or who remember having lived previous lives on earth. Recently, I’ve found some pre-birth memory cases that are particularly relevant to the new book I’m writing on coincidences. These are cases in which children remember dying in a previous life and then Read more
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Is the Universe a Hologram?
If I haven’t posted much lately, it’s because I’ve spent the last eight months hard at work writing a new book! The subject is one that has long been dear to my heart: coincidences. Over the next few months, I’m going to try to post more regularly, but as you might expect, given where my Read more
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Jumping Over Shadows
I’ll admit there was probably no way I wasn’t going to love Annette Gendler’s 2017 memoir Jumping Over Shadows. I’m a sucker for cross-cultural romances, and for international dramas liberally sprinkled with phrases in foreign languages–especially when those languages are French, German, and Hebrew. And I can’t remember ever reading a novel or memoir of Jewish Read more
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Meant to Be
I love asking couples the story of how they met. Falling in love has always seemed to me something of a miracle. In the space of mere days–or even hours–you can go from not knowing another person exists to wanting to spend the rest of your life with them. If that’s not magic, what is? And then there are the Read more
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The Way of the Heart: Arnaud Desjardins
Last month, I returned to France for the first time in several years, and one of the highlights of my trip was getting to browse my favorite French bookstore. As you can see from the photo, I didn’t leave empty-handed! The top three titles in the pile are all by a fellow named Arnaud Desjardins, well-known in France Read more
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Journalist Leslie Kean With More Impressive Evidence for an Afterlife
I almost didn’t buy Leslie Kean‘s new book Surviving Death, because I was worried it was nothing more than an overview of the afterlife evidence I’m already quite familiar with. But while there was certainly some description of the seminal case studies, there was also so much new material that it was absolutely worth the money I paid for a Read more
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Difficult Feelings
I was wrestling with some difficult feelings yesterday–the kind that good, spiritual people aren’t supposed to have. You know what I’m talking about? In this day and age, we’re all supposed to be enlightened and know that our circumstances aren’t responsible for how we feel–we are. And yet…that’s not how life is all the time. Read more
Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, PhD 