RUNNER-UP IN THE 2021 BIGELOW INSTITUTE FOR CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES ESSAY CONTEST
Does consciousness continue after death? For 150 years, scientists, doctors, and other highly qualified investigators have carefully collected evidence in hopes of answering this question. In this award-winning essay, Sharon Hewitt Rawlette analyzes the best of that evidence to date.
Starting with third-person phenomena such as after-death apparitions, mediumship, and telephone calls from the dead and moving on to first-person phenomena like near-death experiences, memories of previous lives, and memories of the period between lives, Rawlette lays out the vast landscape of evidence for life beyond the grave. She argues that extensive cross-validation between first- and third-person evidence cripples the strongest skeptical arguments brought against each type considered alone. Ultimately, she concludes that the survival of consciousness is the best explanation for the evidence taken as a whole and considers what implications this has for our understanding of the world we live in, even while we are still on this side of death.
Both readable and rigorous, Beyond Death is a fascinating distillation of a century and a half of afterlife research.
Author Interviews/ Presentations
THE SHEOL PODCAST with Justin Toppins — April 4, 2024
HELPING PARENTS HEAL with Elizabeth Boisson — March 2, 2023
EXPLORING A COURSE IN MIRACLES with Robert Perry and Emily Bennington — June 14, 2022
BUDDHA AT THE GAS PUMP with Rick Archer — May 14, 2022
JEFFMARA PODCAST — March 27, 2022
THANATOS TV EN with Alexandra Grasmik — March 22, 2022 (Auch auf Deutsch: THANATOS TV)
BEHIND GREATNESS with Luciano Volpe — March 4, 2022
THE PAST LIVES PODCAST with Simon Bown — Jan. 19, 2022
THE MYSTICAL UNDERGROUND with Trish and Rob MacGregor — Jan. 23, 2022
NEW THINKING ALLOWED with Jeffrey Mishlove — Dec. 5, 2021
Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, PhD 