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Do Coincidences Give Good Guidance?
Many of us experience coincidences that feel meaningful, even if we don’t see how they could be anything other than chance. Maybe you’re thinking about calling a friend you haven’t talked to in years, and then your phone rings and it’s them. Or maybe you’ve been thinking about changing careers, and then out of the…
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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…
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My Talk From the 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…
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“Beyond Death” Interview With The Mystical Underground
Yesterday, Trish and Rob MacGregor had me back on their podcast The Mystical Underground to talk about my new book, Beyond Death: The Best Evidence for the Survival of Human Consciousness. We talked a lot about apparitions: not just apparitions of the deceased, but also apparitions of living out-of-body experiencers and apparitions of people having…
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Using Coincidences to Tune In to Your Intuition
Just before Christmas, I did a lovely interview with Luisa Carel of Passion Harvest where we talked about how to decipher the meaning of coincidences and the ways they can guide us in the big decisions of our lives. Specifically, we talked about how coincidences can help us (have helped me!) tune into our intuition…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Uncomfortable Coincidences
Coincidences aren’t all fun and games. As psychiatrist and parapsychologist Jules Eisenbud was fond of reminding us, coincidences often reflect the aspects of our mental life that we are most anxious to hide. I discuss the usefulness of these “uncomfortable coincidences” in today’s post on PsychologyToday.com.
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Are Coincidences Signs From God?
Coincidences aren’t always what they seem. Today on PsychologyToday.com, I discuss two essential things to keep in mind before embracing any event as a direct line to the divine. Hint: One of them has to do with research on ESP and psychokinesis, and the other with Santa Claus!
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Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, PhD 