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Preface | |
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List of Figures | |
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List of Abbreviations | |
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Introduction: Prospects for Life After Death | |
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Getting a Sense of the Other-Worldly Domain | |
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Having that Kind of Feeling: Being Out-of-Body and Other-Worldly | |
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Specific Case-Studies | |
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Surveying Past Horizons | |
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Making Sense of the Collective ECE Narrative | |
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Cultural Relativity: ECE in Historical and Geographical Context | |
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The Argument So Far | |
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Authors' Interpretations of ECE Phenomenology | |
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Authors' Perspectives on Subjects' Narratives: The Big Cosmic Picture | |
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The Problem of Pre-Cognition and Acquired Psychical Powers | |
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The Future Task | |
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Objective Analyses into ECE Subjectivity | |
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Initial Approaches to a More Objective Account of ECE Phenomenology | |
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Grammatical Critique of ECE Narrative: Semantics and Syntax | |
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The Intrusion of Cognitive Activity into the Subjective World of ECE | |
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Evidence that Pre-existing Cognitive Paradigms Influence the Experiential Contours of ECE | |
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A Re-Classification of OB and ND Experiential Phenomenology | |
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Conscious-Awareness: Life's Illusory Legacy | |
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The Illusory Foundations of Conscious-Awareness | |
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'Phantom Limb' Phenomenology: The Neurophysiology of Absence | |
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The Temporo-Parietal Cortex: The Configuring of Ego-/Paracentric Body Space | |
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The Posterior Parietal Cortex and Body-Image | |
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Abnormal Disturbances of Body-Image | |
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The Ups-and-Downs and Ins-and-Outs of Ego-/Paracentric Body Space | |
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Out-of-Body Phenomenologies: The Experiential Repertoire | |
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Falling Asleep, Perchance to Dream—Thence to Reawaken | |
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Sleeping and Dreaming | |
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The Neuropathology of Dream-State Modes | |
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The Paediatric ECE/Dream Problem Revisited | |
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Dreams, Dreaming, and ECE Reviewed | |
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ECE and the Temporal Lobe: Assassin or Accomplice? | |
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The Experiential Outcomes of Temporal Lobe Pathologies | |
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Transports of Joy, Love, and Ecstasy | |
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The Emerging Critical Relevance of Latent Temporal Lobe Dysfunction | |
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Other Neurophysiologies! Aspects Pertinent to ECE phenomenology | |
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Intrinsic Mechanisms | |
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The Tunnel and Related Phenomenologies | |
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Extrinsic Factors | |
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Insights into the Brilliantly Coloured Heavenly Pastoral | |
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Moving Onwards: Theological Perspectives on ECE | |
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Anthropological and Eschatological Considerations of ECE Phenomenology | |
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Biblical Accounts of Human Anthropology | |
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The Person, Death and a Future Hope | |
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Personhood, the Afterlife, and the Soul | |
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Personhood, the Afterlife, and the Resurrection of the Body | |
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ECE and Afterlife: Not an Enlightening Eschatological Paradigm | |
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ECE, Revelation and Spirituality | |
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'Spiritual' Dimensions in a Secular World | |
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ECE Phenomenology Considered as Spiritual Event | |
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The Brain and the 'Mystical' Experience | |
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Subjects' Interpretations of Their Experiences | |
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The NDE and the Subject: Consequential Outcomes | |
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NDE Outcomes: The Exaltation of Personhood | |
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Overview and Recapitulation | |
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Consciousness and Soul | |
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On True Resurrection versus a Hallucinatory Metaphysic | |
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The Forgotten Potential of the Post-Experiential Subject | |
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The Eschatological Meaning of Salvation | |
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Glossary | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |