So is there immaterial influences that we just have not discovered? Daniel Peterson has an opinionVery roughly speaking, when most people think about an immaterial soul that persists after death, they have in mind some sort of blob of spirit energy that takes up residence near our brain, and drives around our body like a soccer mom driving an SUV. The questions are these: what form does that spirit energy take, and how does it interact with our ordinary atoms? Not only is new physics required, but dramatically new physics. Within QFT, there can’t be a new collection of “spirit particles” and “spirit forces” that interact with our regular atoms, because we would have detected them in existing experiments. Ockham’s razor is not on your side here, since you have to posit a completely new realm of reality obeying very different rules than the ones we know.
I found water running through a buried pipe of which I was unaware. I didn't even know I was looking for anything.
I was simply told to allow the two metal rods free play.
They crossed at a certain point, then uncrossed. It was very distinct.
Only after repeating that several times was I told that a clay pipe ran under the floor right where the rods crossed.
I had several other people undertake the same experiment throughout that day. With one exception, they all had the same experience. (The one exception was a big burly mechanic with huge hands. I suspect that he didn't allow the rods free enough movement.)
I wasn't expecting what happened. Nothing in my worldview predicted it. It didn't fit my scientific notions, and nothing in my beliefs depended on it happening.
Yet it happened.
I found it very strange and unsettling.
And a video here https://youtu.be/gylaYQ04PIk?t=246
Did Daniel leave out something? According to the video by Gospel Tangents Dr. Jesse James claims that most dowsing experiments work because they watch someone do it first.