Chapter 1—The Question That Wont Go Away
Chapter 2—What Are Near Death Experiences
Chapter 3—A Brief History of NDE Research
Chapter 4—The Strongest Cases, Veridical Perception
Chapter 5—The Pam Reynolds Case Revisited
Chapter 6—NDEs in the Blind
Chapter 7—NDEs in Children
Chapter 8—ndes across cultures
Chapter 9—Deathbed Visions and Shared Death Experiences
Chapter 10—The Dying Brain Hypothesis
Chapter 11—Oxygen Deprivation, CO2, Chemical Explanations
Chapter 12—The Temporal Lobe Objection
Chapter 13—Out of Body Experiences and the Temporo-Parietal Junction
Chapter 14—Phantom Limbs and the Illusory Body Argument
Chapter 15—Dreams Hallucinations and Altered States
Chapter 16—The Ketamine and Drug Induced Experience Objection
Chapter 17—The Timing Problem
Chapter 18—Memory Confabulation and Narrative
Chapter 19—Confirmation Bias and Researcher Bias
Chapter 20—Cultural Conditioning, Expectations
Chapter 21—The Vivid Doesnt Mean Veridical
Chapter 22—The Consistency Objection
Chapter 23—Consciousness, and the Brain, The Hard Problem
Chapter 24—Substance Dualism and the Evidence from NDEs
Chapter 25—The Physicalist Objection to NDEs
Chapter 26—Biblical Anthropology and the Case for the Soul
Chapter 27—Resurrection vs Soul Escape
Chapter 28—NDEs and Christian Theology
Chapter 29—The Transformative Power of NDEs
Chapter 30—Answering the Heaven Tourism Critics
Chapter 31—The Cumulative Case, Why NDE Skepticism Fails
Chapter 32—What NDES Mean For Us
Appendix A—Comprehensive NDE Case Index
Appendix B—Annotated Bibliography
Appendix C—Glossary of Key Terms
Appendix D—Marsh Arguments Quick Reference