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Perhaps I have a longer historical perspective that this is an accurate assessment.  Classical physics is no help so to any QM theory, were does that leave the parapsychologically faithful?

Just fine, as data points are collected.  

Hypnosis is a confirmed event and has yet to be scientifically explained.

Instinct is a confirmed behavioral category in animals.  Yet - certain events and behavior by humans still exhibit instinct and intuition and is not understood.  Data is gathered in huge numbers (many being subjective accounts) and again there is no classical traction into how instinct works.  Research in to Epigenetics, a now confirmed process, is recent significant progress.  The data for Epigenetics was there for years and years and only recently has destroyed the Weismann Barrier a standard Physicalist theory in place for 100 years.

Telepathy is a strong candidate for confirmation.  The data points and recorded events are all there, but it is still politically a hot potato.  It is only held back from confirmation by deep metaphysical beliefs in the science community.

The religious influence has been drastically reduced and is not influential in parapyschological research.  Your constant reference to it is just a distraction.  Paranormal events, unlike religious ethical perspective, are subject to observation and measurement.

The trend in biology is to bioinformatics.  Slowly, but surely, how sensory information and affordances contribute to biological "mental understanding" is the key work, in my humble opinion.  Each discovery pushes the metaphysical magical powers of the physical  brain into a corner and data-based process knowledge revealed how the mind is in the heart, in the regulatory systems, in the gut and in the informational environment outside the body.

Materialism is on a ever quickening death march.  I believe that natural process (many being new understandings from information science) will account for all of the above non-normative events.

Please feel free to respond with how classic materialism describes the physical means of Hypnosis, Instinct, Intuition, Telepathy, Mental Understanding and mind itself work as physical processes.