Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, PhD

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Category: consciousness

  • My talk from Dec. 3 Inquiry Event in NYC

    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. […]

    Sharon Rawlette

    January 26, 2023
    coincidences, consciousness, Parapsychology, Philosophy
  • New Thinking Allowed Interview

    New Thinking Allowed Interview

    While in Las Vegas last month for the awards ceremony for the Bigelow prize, I got the chance to be interviewed by the first-place prize winner, Jeffrey Mishlove, for his YouTube channel New Thinking Allowed. If you don’t know about his channel yet, you’re in for a treat. He has many distinguished guests–many of them […]

    Sharon Rawlette

    January 21, 2022
    after-death communication, consciousness, Interviews, near-death experience, Parapsychology, Philosophy, reincarnation
    New Thinking Allowed, poltergeists
  • My new book, Beyond Death, is out!

    My new book, Beyond Death, is out!

    This past Nov. 1, my essay “Beyond Death” won a runner-up prize in the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies essay contest for the best evidence on the survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. On Dec. 4, I went to Las Vegas to receive my award from Robert Bigelow (R) and Colm Kelleher (L), […]

    Sharon Rawlette

    December 17, 2021
    after-death communication, consciousness, near-death experience, Parapsychology, reincarnation
    afterlife, Bigelow, books, new nonfiction
  • Bigelow Contest Essays Now Online

    Bigelow Contest Essays Now Online

    The winning essays of the recent contest sponsored by the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies are now available online in PDF format. All of the essays address the question “What is the best evidence for the survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death?” I haven’t read even half of the essays yet (there are […]

    Sharon Rawlette

    November 30, 2021
    after-death communication, consciousness, near-death experience, Parapsychology, reincarnation
    BICS, Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies
  • Runner-up in the Bigelow Essay Contest

    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 […]

    Sharon Rawlette

    November 2, 2021
    after-death communication, consciousness, near-death experience, Parapsychology, reincarnation
  • A wealth of after-death research on Thanatos TV

    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 […]

    Sharon Rawlette

    June 13, 2021
    after-death communication, coincidences, consciousness, Interviews, near-death experience
    NDEs, synchronicity
  • Inner Experience Is Real, and It Matters

    Inner Experience Is Real, and It Matters

    Our culture tends to devalue things that can’t be observed by multiple people, but some of the most important aspects of life (for instance, pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, the very feeling of meaning) can’t be observed by anyone but the person experiencing them. In today’s post on PsychologyToday.com, I argue that it’s time […]

    Sharon Rawlette

    October 14, 2019
    consciousness, Philosophy
    metaphysics, pain, pleasure, psychology, subjectivity
  • 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
  • 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
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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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