Gary Lachman notes that today Bucke's experience would most likely be "explained" by the so-called "God spot", or more generally as a case of temporal lobe epilepsy, but he is skeptical of these and other "organic" explanations.
Gary Lachman points out that today Bucke's experience might be attributed to the "God spot" or temporal lobe epilepsy, but he doubts such organic explanations.