Professor Michael Marsh, formerly in academic medicine, read Theology at Oxford in retirement, followed by his thesis on OB/NDE (OUP, 2010). Since then he published on assisted dying; of being disabled; and arguing a theologically-based approach to abortion, much summarised in "On Being Human:" (JH Hunt: NY, 2016). His background permits unusually biologically-based approaches to philosophical and theological problems.

Chapter 1. The ND/OBE & the 'Sensing of the Divine': Introductory Review.- Chapter 2. Ancient Man: The Archeological Background.- Chapter 3. The Spiritual Nature of Mankind and its Genetic Components.- Chapter 4. An Account of the Near-Death Experience.- Chapter 5. ... And the Out-of-Body Component.- Chapter 6. State Boundary Control, including Sleep Disorders.- Chapter 7. Framing the 'Sense of the Divine' from ND/OBE Phenomenology.- Chapter 8. Additional Neurological Inputs to Religious Experience.- Chapter 9. Is Religion always an Adaptive Phenomenon?.- Chapter 10. Theological Considerations of ND/OBE as Sources of the Sensed Divine.- Chapter 11. Summary.