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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.…
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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…
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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),…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, PhD 