Join Trish and Rob for a conversation with... Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, a writer and philosopher fascinated by coincidences, those strange, enigmatic experiences that are so often personally meaningful and yet push the boundaries of what we consider scientifically possible. Her May 2019 book "The Source and Significance of Coincidences" presents a wealth of evidence concerning the statistical significance of coincidences, their range of probable causes, and how we can best interpret their implications for our lives. She also writes about coincidences on her "Psychology Today" blog, "Mysteries of Consciousness," and she has presented some of my most recent research at the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. In May 2020 she published a memoir, "The Supreme Victory of the Heart," about her first encounters with meaningful coincidence, which happened in the difficult months after her French fiancé told her about an old flame who had come back into his life. She has also written several personal essays on the topics of relationships, spirituality, and the environment, which have appeared in Salon, Orion, and other places. While she now lives back in the rural area of eastern Virginia where she grew up, she spent almost all of her 20s elsewhere: getting a Ph.D. in philosophy at New York University, falling in love in Paris, teaching philosophy at Brandeis University outside Boston, and living on a 200-year-old retired dairy farm in Brittany, France. All of these experiences have found their way into her writing, in one way or another. https://sharonrawlette.wordpress.com

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