Anyone else think Quantum Mechanics doesn't fit? Maybe it should be scratched from the list.
Personally I don't know enough to say one way or another.
Possibly Quantum Mechanics might be useful for establishing that the materialist model for reality no longer holds as the dominant model in the mind of a reader such that there is really no going back to the comfortable confines of materialism. But this would have to be a commentary on the history and politics of the development of QM, rather than trying to lay out an argument based on QM itself. There is a bit of very useful background on the politics in Nadeau & Kafatos's 'The Non-Local Universe: The New Physics and Matters of the Mind. And Jeff Kripal has a potentially useful POV in Secret Body. Here are 2 passages from a decent extensive discussion:
(Commenting on the naysayers) “But in fact these rhetorical sneers are, at best partial and, historically speaking, simply wrong, since it was the physicists themselves who first made the case for some haunting resonances between the philosophical implications of quantum physics and the reported experiences of mystical literature.”
“I pretend no adequate knowledge of these sciences. I invoke them to observe two things: (1) first, that the days of some simple mechanistic-materialist Darwinian model that works in a strictly linear, local, and causal fashion after old-fashioned Newtonian physics appear to be numbered; and (2) second, that the old and new vitalistic, holistic, semiotic, and quantum models are already providing experiencers and authors with new forms of plausibility and new sources of metaphor, with a new
imaginaire, through which they have been creating new spiritual worlds.”
But I would be content if the matter was not raised at all if there is no consensus - it would have to be raised succinctly and boldly or not at all