The thing is - there is evidence, but it's ignored or dismissed. In physics it's absolutely heretical and career-ending to consider that materialism may not be

The thing is - there is evidence, but it's ignored or dismissed. In physics it's absolutely heretical and career-ending to consider that materialism may not be an ultimate and definitive truth. Or - much worse - that metaphysical experiences are actually relatively common. For example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26299061/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26299061/ In reality a significant proportion of kids have these experiences. They don't last long, but they're not at all rare. And sometimes they appear to be historically verifiable - not just in an "Someone told me or I read that in a book way", which may well apply to some, but in a "There's no credible way a child could have known this" way. Ignoring this is actually quite unscientific. It would be one thing to research them to try to find an explanation, if only for possible therapeutic reasons. But when they're largely ignored it's a tell that they're not being approached honestly or objectively.