Flat Earth theory serves well enough for a trip from the cave to the water hole and back, and a third dimension going up into the sky and down underg… - Peter J. Carroll

We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.

An old joke puts its thus, "when a man speaks to a god its prayer, when a god speaks to a man its schizophrenia"... Many people hear voices without suffering any of the debilitating and dysfunctional effects associated with schizophrenia, some treat these as sources of inspiration of develop religious ideas around them, others become mediums or occultists.

Physical processes alone will never completely explain the existence of the universe, life, and consciousness. Religious answers are just wishful thinking and wanton fabrication cast over a bottomless pit of ignorance. To explain their occult and mystical experiences, magicians are forced to develop models beyond the scope of materialistic or religious systems.