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Marsh, Michael N.

Sensing the divineinfluences of near-death, out-of-body & cognate neurology in shaping early religious behaviours /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sensing the divineby Michael N. Marsh.
Reminder of title:	influences of near-death, out-of-body & cognate neurology in shaping early religious behaviours /
Author:	Marsh, Michael N.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021.
Description:	ix, 216 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Near-death experiencesReligious aspects.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67326-0
ISBN:	9783030673260

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

Sensing the divineinfluences of near-death, out-of-body & cognate neurology in shaping early religious behaviours /[electronic resource] :by Michael N. Marsh. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021. - ix, 216 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - New approaches to the scientific study of religion. - New approaches to the scientific study of religion..

This 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-Barre 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.

ISBN: 9783030673260

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-67326-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

905747
Near-death experiences
--Religious aspects.

LC Class. No.: BL535 / .M37 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 202.3

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