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Out-of-Body and Near-Death Experiences - Brain-State Phenomena or Glimpses of Immortality? (Hardcover)
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Out-of-Body and Near-Death Experiences - Brain-State Phenomena or Glimpses of Immortality? (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Theological Monographs
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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 "dying brain" 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 other
reported phenomenologies attending recovery from antecedent states
of unconsciousness: the "re-awakening brain" hypothesis. From this
basis, Marsh also offers a re-classification of NDE into early and
late phase sequences, thereby dismantling the untenable concepts of
"core" and "depth" 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 in
appropriating the expectant biblical promises of a 'New Creation'.
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