Sensing the divine : influences of near-death, out-of-body & cognate neurology in shaping early religious behaviours / / Michael N. Marsh

• Autore: Marsh Michael N.
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 pages)
• Disciplina: 133.9013
• Soggetto topico: Near-death experiences - Religious aspects
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 & -- Its Facilitators -- Tool Production and Acquisition of Language -- Overview -- Addendum I:2: The Brain, the Frontal Cortex, the Social Brain & -- 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 & -- 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 & -- 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 & -- Psychedelism -- ND/OBE Phenomenology, The Post-Experiential Subject, and Experiential Phenomenology -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Glossary -- Bibliography.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sensing the Divine
• ISBN: 3-030-67326-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495219903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New approaches to the scientific study of religion ; ; Volume 9.