05447nam 2200457 450 991049521990332120230629220709.03-030-67326-X(CKB)4100000011996262(MiAaPQ)EBC6696246(Au-PeEL)EBL6696246(OCoLC)1263873006(EXLCZ)99410000001199626220220424d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSensing the divine influences of near-death, out-of-body & cognate neurology in shaping early religious behaviours /Michael N. MarshCham, Switzerland :Springer,[2021]©20211 online resource (215 pages)New approaches to the scientific study of religion ;Volume 93-030-67325-1 Includes bibliographical references.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 &amp -- Its Facilitators -- Tool Production and Acquisition of Language -- Overview -- Addendum I:2: The Brain, the Frontal Cortex, the Social Brain &amp -- 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 -- Overview -- References -- 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 -- Summary -- References -- 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 -- References -- Chapter 6: The Neurophysiology &amp -- Phenomenology of the Out-of-Body Experience -- Preliminary Approaches to Out-of-Body Phenomenology -- Modern Views Concerning the Aetiology of OBE -- References -- Chapter 7: Upwards &amp -- Onwards: Flight as an Ancient Connection to the Divine -- Going Places -- Upwards and Onwards -- Dissecting the Ascension Motifs -- Overview -- References -- 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 -- Altered Religious Beliefs and Attitudes Towards Religion in General -- Dealing with the Omega Problem and Other Anomalous Experiences -- More Soberly, What Is It About the Paranormal and All the Rest? -- The Meaning of It All -- References -- Chapter 9: Developmental "Hows" of the Spiritual Dimension -- Animism -- Anima = Spirit -- and Spirituality -- Ancestor Veneration and Ancestor Spirits -- The Role of ND/OBE Phenomenology as Means of Sensing of the Divine -- Concerning Wider Genetic/Neurological Backgrounds -- Overview- Revelatory Origins and the Very Early Evolutionary Phases of Religion -- Addendum III.1: Shamanism -- Definitions, the Shaman's Public and Contributory Role -- The Shamanic Trance -- The Shaman's Outward Journey -- References -- References for Addendum III.1: Shamanism -- Chapter 10: Resume.ND/OBE Phenomenology, Altered States of Consciousness, Ketamine &amp -- Psychedelism -- ND/OBE Phenomenology, The Post-Experiential Subject, and Experiential Phenomenology -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Glossary -- Bibliography.New approaches to the scientific study of religion ;Volume 9.Near-death experiencesReligious aspectsNear-death experiencesReligious aspects.133.9013Marsh Michael N.908260MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910495219903321Sensing the Divine2031406UNINA