LEADER 04059nam 22005895 450 001 9910495219903321 005 20230718132942.0 010 $a3-030-67326-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-67326-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000011996262 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6696246 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6696246 035 $a(OCoLC)1263873006 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-67326-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011996262 100 $a20210810d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSensing the Divine $eInfluences of Near-Death, Out-of-Body & Cognate Neurology in Shaping Early Religious Behaviours /$fby Michael N. Marsh 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (215 pages) 225 1 $aNew Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion,$x2367-3508 ;$v9 311 $a3-030-67325-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aChapter 1. The ND/OBE & the ?Sensing of the Divine?: Introductory Review -- Chapter 2. Ancient Man: The Archeological Background -- Chapter 3. The Spiritual Nature of Mankind and its Genetic Components -- Chapter 4. An Account of the Near-Death Experience -- Chapter 5. ? And the Out-of-Body Component -- Chapter 6. State Boundary Control, including Sleep Disorders -- Chapter 7. Framing the ?Sense of the Divine? from ND/OBE Phenomenology -- Chapter 8. Additional Neurological Inputs to Religious Experience -- Chapter 9. Is Religion always an Adaptive Phenomenon? -- Chapter 10. Theological Considerations of ND/OBE as Sources of the Sensed Divine -- Chapter 11. Summary. 330 $aThis book proposes another unique basis for the origins of religion from disturbances in brain function. It proposes the novel idea that near-death and out-of-body experiences (ND/OBE) engendered ?a sense of the divine? in ancient man. As the author points out, key aspects of ND/OBE are thematic of all later established religions. These include journeys to heaven, sightings of brightly-lit godlike figures, and dead people now alive. Thus, ND/OBE could be the originating source of these spiritual motifs. To this, the author adds a fourth factor: various brain influences contribute to or modulate ND/OBE. Such cognate neurological disorders include REM-sleep intrusions, sleep paralysis, narcolepsy, and the Guillain-Barré syndrome. Errors due to aberrant switching between key neural control centers disrupt critical state-boundaries between consciousness and dreaming. This may induce NDE. Thus, in this state, subjects temporarily fail to understand where they are, undergo loss of self, and detached from the world. They imagine a ?union with Gods.? Here, then, is the biological basis of ineffability. Ancient humans gained beliefs about the "supernatural" through day-to-day existence. This book argues that near death experiences and cognate neurological conditions, some genetically-determined, could have facilitated, even augmented such beliefs. Hence, in configuring another realm of ?spiritual? experience beyond the known environment, these neurological possibilities offer effective traction. 410 0$aNew Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion,$x2367-3508 ;$v9 606 $aSpirituality 606 $aPhysical anthropology 606 $aPhenomenology 606 $aSpirituality 606 $aPhysical-Biological Anthropology 606 $aPhenomenology 615 0$aSpirituality. 615 0$aPhysical anthropology. 615 0$aPhenomenology. 615 14$aSpirituality. 615 24$aPhysical-Biological Anthropology. 615 24$aPhenomenology. 676 $a133.9013 700 $aMarsh$b Michael N.$0908260 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495219903321 996 $aSensing the Divine$92031406 997 $aUNINA