Michael Jawer – An Emotional Universe?  Sentience, Panpsychism and the Paranormal

 
What if sentience is fundamental?

For thousands of years, philosophers have speculated that the universe may be conscious. The idea – variously known as panpsychism, panexperientialism, or cosmopsychism – is making a comeback today.  Leading neuroscientists and cognitive philosophers are its newest advocates.   However, nearly all of them view consciousness as a product of the neocortex. 

What if consciousness is not solely brain-based, and what if  sentience  is the more fundamental property to consider?  How would this alter the prospects for panpsychism? Michael Jawer, a Washington, D.C.-based writer and researcher, suspects not only that creatures’ capacity to  feel  underlies consciousness but that many kinds of psi phenomena – such as apparitions, poltergeists, telesomatic experiences, and synchronicities – can be seen to illustrate the workings of a feeling cosmos. 

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About the speaker:

Michael Jawer is a Washington, DC-based writer, speaker and researcher. His expertise is the nexus of personality development, body/mind, emotion, and spirituality.  Jawer is the author of three books: ‘Sensitive Soul’ (Park Street Press, 2020) and, with Marc Micozzi, MD, PhD, ‘The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion’ (Park Street Press, 2009) and ‘Your Emotional Type’ (Healing Arts Press, 2011). His papers have appeared in Frontiers in Psychology–Consciousness Research, Journal of Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies, Science & Consciousness Review, Explore, Seminars in Integrative Medicine, and the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, while his feature articles and interviews have run in Psychology Today, Spirituality & Health, Aeon, Nautilus, Minding Nature, Advances in Mind-Body Medicine, Edge Science, Noetic Now, PsychCentral, and Scientific American. 

Michael also blogs for Psychology Today (“Feeling Too Much”). 

Further information about his work can be found at www.michaeljawer.com.   

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