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Sensing the divine : influences of near-death, out-of-body & cognate neurology in shaping early religious behaviours / Michael N. Marsh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marsh, Michael N.
- Series:
- New approaches to the scientific study of religion
- New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Near-death experiences--Religious aspects.
- Near-death experiences.
- Knowledge, Theory of (Religion).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- References
- Part I: Anthropological Perspectives
- Chapter 2: Tracing Our Origins
- Putting the Jigsaw Together
- Timeline - Going Through the Species Variants
- Out of Africa: Once, Twice
- or More?
- Considering Anatomically Modern Humans and Their Successive Societies
- Social Milieu - And Its Evolutionary Importance
- Overview
- Appendixes
- Addendum I.1: Language and Speech
- Language and Speech, Speech Production and Hearing
- The Origins of Speech & Its Facilitators
- Tool Production and Acquisition of Language
- Overview
- Addendum I:2: The Brain, the Frontal Cortex, the Social Brain & Ideas of Morality
- Brain Structure - General Anatomical Considerations
- The Structural Domains of Pre-frontal Cortex
- Functional Aspects of PFC
- A "Theory of Mind" (TOM): What I (Should) Know About What You Know
- Moral Issues
- Addendum I:1
- Addendum I:2
- Chapter 3: Evolving Man, Evolving Social Animal
- Societal Evolution Envisaged Through Child-Rearing and Women's Roles
- The Origin of the "Unit-Family" - And Its Wider Outcomes
- References
- Part II: Near-Death/Out-of-Body Experiences and Cognate Neurological Aberrations
- Chapter 4: The Phenomenology of the Near-Death Experience
- Critical Aspects Concerning the Phenomenology of NDE
- Neurological Basis of NDE as a Re-awakening Phenomenon
- Further, Independent Empirical Corroboration that ND/OBE Are Brain-Derived
- NDE Narratives: Critical Interrogations of Their Semantic Content
- Hellish Experiences
- Summary
- Addendum II: 1: Sleeping - Perchance to Dream
- Sleeping
- Sleeping and the Brain
- The Beginning and the Ending: Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Dream Hallucinations
- Addendum II: 1
- Chapter 5: Pathological Dream-States: Comparisons with ND/OBE
- Neuropathological Influences on Dreaming and Dream-Sates
- Functional Aspects
- On Having Nightmares, or a Visitation by the Night-Mare - and More
- Neuropathology of Heightened Dream Activity
- Dreaming and NDE Compared
- Whose Brains Are "Normal"?
- A Cautionary Note in Ending
- Chapter 6: The Neurophysiology & Phenomenology of the Out-of-Body Experience
- Preliminary Approaches to Out-of-Body Phenomenology
- Modern Views Concerning the Aetiology of OBE
- Chapter 7: Upwards & Onwards: Flight as an Ancient Connection to the Divine
- Going Places
- Upwards and Onwards
- Dissecting the Ascension Motifs
- Part III: The Origins of Spirituality and Religion
- Chapter 8: The Post-experiential Subject
- Aspects of the Post-experiential Changes in Personality
- Death Anxiety
- Re-formulated Attitudes to Daily Life
- Newer Approaches to Other People and Their Needs
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- ISBN:
- 9783030673260
- 303067326X
- Publisher Number:
- 99988287247
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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