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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 | |