Laboratories are not ideal settings to investigate the intangible. Yet, this has not dissuaded researchers. Several metaphysical phenomena are no longer dismissed as unproven speculations. The science of parapsychology is even officially recognized and taught in some universities.

The difficulty to verify parapsychological or psi manifestations is their elusiveness. Consider electromagnetic communications. They are simple and reliable. We dial a phone number and in seconds we are connected faraway. On the other hand, telepathic communications are seldom established at will and remain generally inconsistent. Then, modren media cover today the entire planet and millions have their personal camera. Why don’t we have indisputable records of levitation, telekinesis, or ghost appearance?

Here are the two major reasons:

1. We have a thin layer of perception.
The Earth’s shell is quite thin but covers a mass of molten rocks we never see unless it oozes upward in volcanic eruptions. Our perception is somewhat the same: a thin layer of ordinary events covers a large hidden reality not usually accessible to us except for its rare intrusions in our everyday world. Like volcanic eruptions, these intrusions are unpredictable and cannot be produced on demand.

2. We do not control chaotic phenomena.
What we call chaos rules interactions of immense numbers of Eternons. Our minds and our instruments have no way to reckon the countless waves that interfere, cancel, or reinforce each other. And chaos is found everywhere, from macrocosm to microcosm. Take the solar system. It appears to be a perfectly regular mechanism. Still, so many celestial bodies act upon each other that we cannot forecast precisely their long term positions. Take the human brain. The number of possible connections between our neurons exceeds the number of particles in the entire universe. If any structure is ruled by chaos, surely this is the one.