CONSIDER THIS: Do ‘Brain Jolts’ Really Explain Near-Death Experiences?
(171 WORDS) — Have you heard of “disturbed bodily multi-sensory integration?” That’s the technical name for a newly circulating alternative explanation for the many thousands of credibly reported and described near-death experiences, or NDEs. Many NDEs involve encounters with Jesus Christ and/or Heaven.
That’s why scientific materialists start getting agitated whenever conversation turns to NDEs. Since they assume God does not exist, that means NDE’s involving encounter with the divine must be imaginary or otherwise a product of natural factors.
Denyse O’Leary (Screenshot from the Web)
As the Discovery Institute’s Denyse O’Leary explains in a new post on the digital pages of the Discovery Institute’s Science and Culture Today site, these folks now have a new way to explain away NDEs that consists essentially of the idea that such experiences are the product of a staccato burst of stimuli in the brain occurring simultaneously.
O’Leary offers a multitude of reasons why this new explanation is so much like the previous attempts by scientific materialists to explain away NDEs. She is a freelance journalist based in Victoria, Canada. Specializing in faith and science issues, she is co-author, with neuroscientist Mario Beauregard, of The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul; and with neurosurgeon Michael Egnor of The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Existence of the Soul (Worthy, 2025). She received her degree in honors English language and literature.
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