I don't need someone to tell me how prayer works technically and how it is measured. There are so many mysteries out there, and we don't have to see them as threats to our understanding. You can live by faith, and when you do that, then the soul comes more into play. If you don't, religion itself becomes secular, and I think there's been a great deal of secularization of religion. In mystery, we acknowledge divinity.
Deep soul is nurtured and fed by mystery.
We don't know how much we're influenced by the idea that our salvation comes from understanding. We have all these scientific investigations of everything. We study everything, and in some ways it does bring us closer to the natural world. But we're still killing ourselves as we kill nature. The study of nature hasn't translated into a love of nature, except maybe among a few specialists.