646. Sharon Hewitt Rawlette

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Sharon Hewitt Rawlette is a philosopher and writer who studies extraordinary experiences and what they have to tell us about consciousness and the deeper nature of the world we live in. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy from New York University and taught for two years at Brandeis University before leaving academia in 2010 for a career as an independent writer and researcher. Her foray into the realm of extraordinary experience began with synchronicities, and her first non-academic book was The Source and Significance of Coincidences, published in 2019. In 2020, she published a memoir about her personal spiritual journey—The Supreme Victory of the Heart—and then in November 2021, she was named a runner-up in the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies essay contest for her essay “Beyond Death,” on the best evidence for the survival of human consciousness after death. She has also contributed to a forthcoming collaborative volume on “deep weird” and a French collective work on the role of the Trickster in paranormal phenomena. Another book, (forward by Thomas Nagel): The Feeling of Value: Moral Realism Grounded in Phenomenal Consciousness Website: sharonrawlette.com Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. Summary and Transcript of this interview Interview recorded May 14, 2022 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:04:40 - A Difficult Transition out of Religion 00:09:18 - A Serendipitous Encounter in Brittany 00:13:37 - Stories of Synchronicity 00:17:06 - A Mysterious Phone Call 00:21:00 - The Invisible Network of Consciousness 00:25:28 - The Intelligence and Gravity Connection 00:29:47 - The Evolution of Inhabitants of a Planet 00:34:06 - The Emergence of Consciousness and the Illusion of a Continuous Physical World 00:38:26 - The Mechanics of Observation and Consciousness 00:42:24 - The Paradoxes of the Universe 00:46:48 - Welcoming Anomalies and Going Beyond the Party Line 00:50:51 - The Impact of Specialization on Progress and Perspective 00:55:26 - The Intrinsic Value of Consciousness 01:00:17 - Ethical Boundaries and Unity of Consciousness 01:04:25 - Consciousness and the Holographic Nature of the Universe 01:08:27 - The Universe as a Playpen 01:12:33 - The Importance of Looking in the Mirror to Prevent Accidents 01:15:57 - Guardian Angels and Divine Interventions 01:20:11 - Higher Levels of Consciousness and Celestial Beings 01:24:13 - Imaginative capacities and renewal 01:28:35 - Overcoming Fear and Promoting Flourishing Consciousness 01:32:45 - The Power of Making Unpopular Decisions 01:36:42 - Between Consciousness and the Body 01:40:51 - Memories of Previous Lives and Afterlife Communications 01:45:10 - The Soul's Entry into the Body 01:49:03 - Memories of Past Lives and Reincarnation 01:53:13 - The Value of Positive Consciousness and the Cycle of Life 01:57:17 - The Ethics of Abortion and the Soul 02:01:41 - The Possibility of Life after Death 02:05:20 - Organizing Content on batgap.com

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0:00.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump. My name is Rick Archer. Buddha at the gas pump is an ongoing series of conversations with spiritually awakening people. We've done well over 600 of them now. And if this is new to you,
0:39.2	then you'd like to check out previous ones. Please go to batgap.com, B-A-T-G-A-P, and look under the
0:47.9	past interviews menu. This program is made possible through the support of appreciative listeners and viewers.
0:55.2	So if you appreciate it and would like to help support it, there's a PayPal button on every page of the website and a page that covers a few alternatives to PayPal.
1:04.9	My guest today is Sharon Hewitt Rowlett.
1:07.2	Sharon is a philosopher and writer who studies extraordinary experiences and what they have to tell us about consciousness and the deeper nature of the world we live in.
1:16.4	She has a PhD in philosophy from New York University and has taught for two years at Brandeis University before leaving academia in 2010 for a career as an independent writer and researcher. Her foray into the realm of
1:30.3	extraordinary experience began with synchronicities, and her first non-academic book was the source
1:36.5	and significance of coincidences, published in 2019. In 2020, she published a memoir about her
1:43.8	personal spiritual journey, the Supreme Victory of the Heart.
1:47.6	And then in November 21, she was named a runner-up in the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies essay
1:54.0	contest for her essay beyond death on the best evidence for the survival of human consciousness after death.
2:02.2	And that's how I found out about her.
2:03.9	I hadn't even heard about the Bigelow thing until it was over.
2:07.3	And then I was looking down the list and saw Sharon and she looked interesting.
2:11.2	So we invited her.
2:12.9	She has also contributed to a forthcoming collaborative volume on Deep Weird and a French
2:19.5	collective work on the role of the trickster in paranormal phenomenon.
2:24.2	Oh, also, she wrote a book in 2016 called The Feeling of Value, Moral Realism, Grounded in
2:31.0	Phenomenal Consciousness, which, as I understand it, is a discussion of whether
2:37.2	moral values, ethical values are just human constructs, you know, which might be somewhat
2:43.8	arbitrary from one culture to the next, or whether they are intrinsic to consciousness or
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