Title: Out-of-body and near-death experiences : brain-state phenomena or glimpses of immortality? /
Authors: Marsh, Michael N.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Parapsychology; Attitude to Death; Brain physiology; Body Image; Death; Near-death experiences.; Astral projection.; Neurophysiology; Unconscious, Psychology
Abstract: Discrediting 'mystical' or 'psychical' interpretations of out-of-body and near-death experiences, Michael Marsh demonstrates how these phenomena are explicable in terms of brain neurophysiology and its neuropathological disturbances, and discusses the theological and philosophical implications of his hypotheses.
Contents: Getting a sense of the other-worldly domain. Having that kind of feeling : being out-of-body and other-worldly ; Specific case-studies -- Surveying past horizons. Making sense of the collective ECE narrative ; cultural relativity : ECE in historical and geographical context ; The argument so far -- Author's interpretations of ECE phenomenology. Author's perspectives of subjects' narratives : the big cosmic picture ; The problem of pre-cognition and acquired psychical powers ; The future task -- Objective analyses into ECE subjectivity. Initial approaches to a more objective account of ECE phenomenology ; Grammatical critique of ECE narrative : semantics and synatx ; The intrusion of cognitive activity into the subjective world of ECE ; Evidence that pre-existing cognitive paradigms influence the experiential contours of ECE ; A re-classification of OB and ND experiential phenomenology --^