You’re both a bit hard on those who say things like “"these stones radiate power".
Fair enough, if it’s said with the certainty of Denkeworld… “it’s the emission of ZX24 magnetism, known to me and suppressed by jealous physicists”, then I’m with you. But most people use the phrase metaphorically or poetically, and mean no more than that they are experiencing a reaction to them, as you do.
But they don’t try to define it, other than perhaps to refer to the spiritual. Whereas the instinct of a scientist is to pin it down, or at least to assume that if it could be pinned down it would lie firmly within the realms of science.
To think like that lays the scientist open to a charge of Denkelike arrogance. Science speculates an infinity of possibilities, all contained within itself. Tombolism, on the other hand, is an attitude of mind that’s appropriately humble for creatures that are mere specs in an infinite universe. It is open to speculation without pre-conditions or, to put it how Tombo puts it, to Imagination. Such a world is much bigger and more fun than the world of science. What’s more, and this should appeal to scientists, it’s much more solidly rooted in logic!