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Michael Jawer

About

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, and Scientific American.

Books by Michael Jawer
Recent Posts
Children and Anomalous Perception
A primary form of consciousness — led by feelings — may dominate childhood. Kids may thus have deeply felt spiritual and anomalous experiences that are rare for the rest of us.
The Psychological Wisdom of Serena Williams

Where are you on the thick-to-thin Boundary spectrum? The differences affect what we view as worthwhile, desirable, funny, artistic, moral, and just.

Where are you on the thick-to-thin Boundary spectrum? The differences affect what we view as worthwhile, desirable, funny, artistic, moral, and just.

Becoming Unbound: Pain

For mirror touch synesthetes, the capacity to resonate with another’s injury or distress runs far beyond the norm. What are the implications for the rest of us?

For mirror touch synesthetes, the capacity to resonate with another’s injury or distress runs far beyond the norm. What are the implications for the rest of us?

Becoming Unbound: Empathy

An intensive, preconscious empathy is the default setting of certain autistic people, enabling them to "merge" into their surroundings. What does this imply for the rest of us?

An intensive, preconscious empathy is the default setting of certain autistic people, enabling them to "merge" into their surroundings. What does this imply for the rest of us?

Becoming Unbound: Autism

Offbeat perceptions—where people sense themselves as being outside their body or merging with someone or something else—may indicate how human beings are fundamentally "wired."

Offbeat perceptions—where people sense themselves as being outside their body or merging with someone or something else—may indicate how human beings are fundamentally "wired."

Becoming Unbound: Felt Sense

When a person’s accustomed bodily awareness is removed, it’s possible that the universe may effectively open to their inspection.

When a person’s accustomed bodily awareness is removed, it’s possible that the universe may effectively open to their inspection.

Unimagined Sensitivities—Series Conclusion

Death—and its close relative, trauma—may trigger perceptions that subvert the normal bounds of space and time. The fascinating evidence merits serious investigation.

Death—and its close relative, trauma—may trigger perceptions that subvert the normal bounds of space and time. The fascinating evidence merits serious investigation.