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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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A few recent publications
I’ve gotten behind on posting about my recent publications. So here’s a quick guide to the items I’ve published this summer, in parapsychology and in philosophy, in English and in French. An audio version of my 2016 scholarly philosophy book The Feeling of Value, narrated by me (except for the foreword by Thomas Nagel, which…
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Why an Afterlife Obviously Exists
Why an Afterlife Obviously Exists is the title of a new book being released this weekend, and I have to say, it does an admirable job of arguing its thesis! Written by Jens Amberts, who trained in philosophy at Linköping University in Sweden, it takes four well-established and uncontroversial premises about near-death experiences and argues…
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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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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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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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Is Life a Dream?
Today’s post on my Psychology Today blog, “Mysteries of Consciousness,” explores a question that has bothered skeptical philosophers for centuries, if not millenia: How do we know that life is not just a dream? I argue that this is not just an idle question and that the answer to it stands to have important empirical…
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Introducing my Psychology Today blog: “Mysteries of Consciousness”
Those of you who are particularly interested in the scientific and philosophical underpinnings of my research into coincidences and consciousness may also want to follow my new Psychology Today blog, “Mysteries of Consciousness.” My first post, yesterday, was called “What If Consciousness Comes First?” and discusses how finding an adequate explanation for the way the…
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My new book on coincidences is out!
It’s been a long time coming, but I am thrilled to announce the arrival of my new book: The Source and Significance of Coincidences: An Astonishing Look at the Hard Evidence. I am also thrilled to announce that less than 24 hours after its release, it is already the #1 new release in ESP on…
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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…
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Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, PhD 