Across The Mists, Behind the River

On one of occult spaces on the net someone posted  How Occultists Beat Physicists to the Punch: Clairvoyance, Atoms, and String Theory . Someone else posted the essay  Swedenborg and the Holographic Paradigm . The Beginning Theistic Science blog also has some stuff on Swedenborg & QM. As usual regardless of these cases being reality - my rule of thumb is never think this supernatural stuff can be used to avoid going to the doctor or taking medicine, and don't forgo logic in one's life decisions - for our game purposes it weds together ritual Psi-boosting practices identified as "Space Occultism" and scientific discovery. Were the Precursors just better at this particular kind of clairvoyance? Is that how they advanced so far beyond what Post-Cataclysm civs have managed to achieve on similar timescales (if the retrieved history archives are to be believed)? Will the civs serving as the setting's Points of Light be unable to achieve such heights without s...