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EBOOK Out-of-Body and Near-Death Experiences:Brain-State Phenomena or Glimpses of Immortality?

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191610127
EAN: D8695073EB
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Stron: 336
Data wydania: 2010
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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 "e;dying        brain"e; hypothesis. He firmly disagrees with such otherworldly 'mystical' or        'psychical' interpretations, ably demonstrating how they are explicable in terms of        brain neurophysiology and its neuropathological disturbances. The original basis and        thrust of Marsh's claim sees the recorded phenomenology as reflections of brains        rapidly reawakening to full conscious-awareness, consistent with otherreported        phenomenologies attending recovery from antecedent states of unconsciousness: the        "e;re-awakening brain"e; hypothesis. From this basis, Marsh also offers a        re-classification of NDE into early and late phase sequences, thereby dismantling        the untenable concepts of "e;core"e; and "e;depth"e; experiences.Marsh further provides a        detailed examination of the spiritual and quasi-religious overtones accorded        OBE/NDE, highlighting their inconsistencies when compared with classical accounts of        divine disclosure, and the eschatological precepts of resurrection belief as        professed credally. In assessing the implications of anthropological, philosophical,        and theological concepts of 'personhood' and 'soul' as arguments for personal        survival after death, Marsh celebrates the role of conventional faith        inappropriating the expectant biblical promises of a 'New Creation'.

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