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brain-state phenomena or glimpses of immortality?
1 online resource (xxv, 309 pages) : illustrations
Personalised accounts of out-of-body (OBE) and near-death (NDE) experiences are frequently interpreted as offering evidence for immortality and an afterlife. Since most OBE/NDE follow severe curtailments of cerebral circulation with loss of consciousness, the agonal brain supposedly permits 'mind', 'soul' or 'consciousness' to escape neural control and provide glimpses of the afterlife. Michael Marsh critically analyses the work of five key writers who support this so-called "dying brain" hypothesis. He firmly disagrees with such otherworldly 'mystical' or 'psychical' interpretations
Getting a sense of the otherworld domain -- Surveying past hoizons -- Authors' interpretation of ece phenomenology -- Objective analyses into ece subjectivity -- Conscious awareness: life's illusory legacy -- The temporo-parietal cortex: the configuring of ego-/ paracentric body space -- Falling asleep, perchance to dream -- thence to reawaken -- ECE and the temporal lobe: assassin or accomplice? -- Other neurophysiological aspects pertinent to ece phenomenology -- Anthropological and eschatological considerations of ece phenomenology -- ECE, revelation and spirituality -- Subjects; interpretations of their experiences -- Overview and recapitulation.
Includes bibliographical references and index.