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A quantum soul is the closest approach between physics and the paranormal. if something invisible shows up in your room late at night, something that most people would call a ghost, and that invisible something touches you, pokes you, pulls your blankets down, blocks light, emits light, or in any way acts upon things in the physical world, than that invisible something has energy states; it can absorb, store and release energy. In a similar way when physicists solve the Schrodinger equation and obtain a wave-function solution, that wave function solution, which is also considered a quantum field, has energy states that can absorb, hold and release energy. Now admittedly, it's entirely possible that some ghosts, as they say, "go on into the light", and move on to higher planes in which case the resemblance to quantum fields might be sloughed off like snake skin or the physical body. I was simply trying to point out that spirits are not so different from quantum fields and are therefore a reasonable view of reality.Actually I think Ghost's point isn't that different from Alan Watt's -> the materialist evangelist, New Atheist movement doesn't really offer answers regarding meaning and as Benjamin Cain notes the truth is materialist science has a history of unseating our treasured notions.
So you have people peddling the multiverse* to avoid questions regarding fine tuning & observer-participancy - which offer the possibility of a reality with meaning - but not offering any livable truths in exchange.
Thus for people actually going about their lives it is arguably better to wander into various spiritual paths so long as one isn't completely divorcing themselves from things like modern medicine.
*Lanza suggest the multiverse allows for a "quantum soul" but I confess to not understanding that part of his argument. The man does have some interesting ideas though.
But I do agree, and you have articulated my point very accurately, that there does come a point when it is perfectly natural, reasonable and serene to embrace a religion or spiritual practice of one's choice.