WAS THAT A BRAIN JOLT? As the number grows of credibly reported and analyzed Near-Death Experiences (NDE) involving claims of divine experience, folks who deny the existence of deity are scrambling to come up with an alternative explanation. And, according to the Discovery Institute’s Denyse O’Leary, their latest one consists of the argument that such experiences are merely the product of a staccato burst of stimuli in the brain occurring simultaneously. Hmmm.