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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Eyewitness to the Afterlife
A few months ago, I founded a new organization called the Mind & Meaning Institute, to help further scientific and philosophical research into big questions about consciousness, synchronicity, destiny, and the meaning of life. Last week, we released our first publication, the book Eyewitness to the Afterlife: My Two Weeks in Heaven by Elizabeth G.… Read more
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She Met Her Husband in a Near-Death Experience
A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of sharing the stage at the 2023 Archives of the Impossible conference with Dr. Scarlett Heinbuch, who told the amazing story of how she met her husband in a shared near-death experience — while he was in a terminal coma! I actually first discovered Scarlett’s story… Read more
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May 2023: Archives of the Impossible
In May, I’ll be giving a 25-minute flash talk at Rice University’s Archives of the Impossible conference in Houston. The Archives of the Impossible is a relatively new set of archives featuring the papers of writers, researchers, and others who have lived and investigated “impossible” phenomena. It began with the papers of UFO researcher Jacques… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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The Beyond Death Audiobook
My first audiobook is now available! With the assistance of Mike Clelland, who is an excellent narration coach and audio editor (in addition to being an accomplished author), I was able to narrate Beyond Death myself and produce an audiobook that I am very proud of. You can listen to a five-minute sample for free… Read more
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The Behind Greatness Podcast
This month, I had the privilege of being interviewed by Luciano Volpe on the podcast Behind Greatness, which profiles accomplished people from a huge variety of professions, including a fair number of parapsychologists and other people with interesting paranormal experiences. Since learning about this podcast, I have listened to a number of their episodes and… Read more
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Are Paranormal Beliefs a Result of Lazy Thinking?
The following article originally appeared on my Psychology Today blog Mysteries of Consciousness on Feb. 15, 2022. In their 2021 New York Times bestseller Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein remark that “belief in ghosts, astrology, and extrasensory perception” is associated with lower Cognitive Reflection Test scores, implying that belief in… Read more
Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, PhD 