Psychological scientific perspectives on out-of-body and near-death experiences / / Craig D. Murray, editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910972748303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2009
• ISBN: 1-61668-241-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Collana: Psychology research progress series
• Altri autori (Persone): MurrayCraig D
• Disciplina: 133.9
• Soggetti: Astral projection; Near-death experiences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES ON OUT-OF-BODY AND NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES -- PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES ON OUT-OF-BODY AND NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES ON OUT-OF-BODY AND NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES -- EARLY AND MODERN DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- NINETEENTH CENTURY -- EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY TO 1940 -- 1941-1970 -- 1970 TO THE PRESENT -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- A PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY OF THE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE -- ABSTRACT -- REFERENCES -- THE DISEMBODIED SELF: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF DISSOCIATION AND THE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- METHOD -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES OF THE OBE UNDER SCRUTINY -- POSTSCRIPT TO 'A PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY OF THE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE' -- REFERENCES -- POSTSCRIPT TO 'THE DISEMBODIED SELF: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF DISSOCIATION AND THE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE' -- REFERENCES -- PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE SUGGESTING A TYPOLOGICAL MODEL OF THE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE -- PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE SUGGESTING A TYPOLOGICAL MODEL OF THE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE -- FLIGHTS OF FANCY? -- REFERENCES -- TAKING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH: BLACKMORE AND IRWIN IN ; CONTEXT -- REFERENCES -- ATTEMPTS TO EXPLAIN OBES BY SUSAN BLACKMORE AND HARVEY IRWIN -- REFERENCES -- COMMENTS ON TWO ANGLO-SAXON THEORIES OF THE 'EXIT OUTSIDE THE BODY' -- REFERENCE -- UNDERSTANDING THE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE FROM A NEUROSCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE: ETIOLOGY AND ANATOMY -- MULTISENSORY DIS-INTEGRATION IN OBES -- EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF THE BODILY SELF IN HEALTHY SUBJECTS -- VISUO-TACTILE INTEGRATION, OWNERSHIP AND SELF-IDENTIFICATION -- THE MULTIMODAL FIRST- PERSON PERSPECTIVE.; CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCES IN THE CONTEXT OF HYPNOSIS: PHENOMENOLOGY, METHODOLOGY, AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- PHENOMENA -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- MANAGING ANOMALOUS EXPERIENCE: MEANING MAKING AND THE OBE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- STUDY DETAIL -- THE SOCIAL EXPERIENCE OF SHARING THE EXPERIENCE -- THE POSITIVE IMPACT OF THE OBE -- PLACING THE OBE WITHIN A BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PREVALENCE, PHENOMENOLOGY AND BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- PHENOMENOLOGY -- CULTURAL ASPECTS -- NEUROBIOLOGY -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES, OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC PARADIGMS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF EXPERIENTIAL ACCOUNTS -- PARANORMAL THEORIES -- COMPARISONS OF OUT-OF-BODY AND NEAR-DEATH ACCOUNTS -- VARIABLES CORRELATED WITH THE INCIDENCE OF NDES AND OBES -- OBE AND NDES IN AN EVOLUTIONARY CONTEXT -- REFERENCES -- THE 'URASHIMA EFFECT': A CULTURAL ILLUSION? A JAPANESE PERSPECTIVE ON DEATH, LIFE AND THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- NDES AS A DEVELOPING TOPIC OF STUDY -- NDE AS A CROSS-CULTURAL TOPIC OF RESEARCH -- RIVER OF NO RETURN: NDES IN JAPAN -- A SMALL-SCALE STUDY IN JAPAN -- RESULTS -- SENSE OF EMERGENCE INTO ANOTHER 'PLACE' -- OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCES -- BORDER OR A POINT OF NO RETURN -- ON CULTURAL COMPARISON -- TEACHINGS FROM THE SAKURA -- POSSIBLE INTERPRETATIONS OF AN NDE -- THE MIDDLE WAY: A NON-REDUCTIONIST, NON-DUALISTIC VIEW -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- OUT-OF-BODY AND NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES AS EVIDENCE FOR EXTERNALIZATION OR SURVIVAL -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCES (OBES) -- NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES (NDES) -- REFERENCES.; ENDLESS CONSCIOUSNESS: A CONCEPT BASED ON SCIENTIFIC STUDIES ON NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE -- THE DUTCH PROSPECTIVE STUDY ON NDE IN SURVIVORS OF CARDIAC ARREST -- OTHER PROSPECTIVE STUDIES ON NDE -- ABOUT CONCEPTS IN SCIENCE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES AND THE BRAIN -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- AN OVERVIEW OF NEUROSCIENTIFIC APPROACHES TO NDES -- NDES: A FUNDAMENTAL CHALLENGE TO NEUROSCIENCE? -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- FINDING MEANING IN NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- STUDY DETAIL -- NDES WITHIN A BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT -- DEVELOPING NEW UNDERSTANDINGS FOLLOWING THE NDE -- SELF-ACTUALIZATION FOLLOWING THE NDE -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
• Sommario/riassunto: In recent years there has been a surge of scientific interest in the related phenomena of out-of-body (OBEs) and near-death experiences (NDEs). These experiences are altered states of consciousness in which the person may feel that their consciousness has become separated from the confines of their physical bodies.