Māori Marsden’s writings on Māori spirituality and the natural world

Record summary

Māori Marsden’s teachings and writings on Māori religion, cosmology, sacred relationships and the natural world became important reference points for later scholarship on Māori spirituality. They may help researchers compare relational models of personhood and environment with individualistic Western accounts of altered consciousness. The material should be handled as Indigenous intellectual and cultural knowledge, not as a set of laboratory claims or retrospective NDE testimony. Publication dates vary because some work circulated orally, in lectures or through later edited collections, making transmission history especially important.