“It is interesting that the people who think themselves metaphysical are often found looking to science for ‘explanations’ of phenomenon that is often boldly misapprehended. This is a curious agenda to begin with: the mystics have joined science in the quest to nail the nonordinary to the pegboard of analysis? Heresy! Matters of informal and mystical nature are, like light’s nature, immune to our common desire for specific, perfect descriptions. More, still, these phenomenon are alive, in and as us, and as such cannot be reduced to descriptions of any kind.

In any case, quantum physics has extremely little to do with most of what humans consider extraordinary — which are largely results of the relational nature of the human brain, the human heart, and the presence of the form of awareness unique to humans in the universe. As a way of knowing, science has about as much to do with most of the related topics as albatrosses have to do with electric scissors. They have to do with love and fear. With the mind. They are not the results of science, but of sentience.”

— an anonymous informant