@boffin, I think the key to why your soul-science thing isn’t totally scientific is as follows (quoted from another page on the site you linked for me):
What Is Noetic Science?
no•et•ic:From the Greek noēsis/ noētikos, meaning inner wisdom, direct knowing, or subjective understanding. As defined by the philosopher William James in 1902, noetic refers to “states of insight into depths of truth unplumbed by the discursive intellect. They are illuminations, revelations, full of significance and importance, all inarticulate though they remain; and as a rule they carry with them a curious sense of authority…”
no•et•ic sci•ences: A multidisciplinary field that brings objective scientific tools and techniques together with subjective inner knowing to study the full range of human experience.
That’s the difference between what I think of as “pseudoscience” and regular science: that part about “subjective inner knowing”. Scientific hypotheses can come from anywhere – a dream, a gut feeling, symbols your dog pee’d in the snow, whatever. But then they must be tested, and they must hold up to testing. If it’s just accepting a gut feeling, it’s not science (imho).