The only way that i have been personally able to reconscile some kind of an answer is to take an integral/holistic viewpoint - that we are body, mind, soul & spirit, within environment - that accounts for whatever theory/approach there is - social/environmental, physiology/biology/neurology, psychological/emotional, & spiritual/transpersonal.

i think that some people are highly sensitive, more in tune with life & more spiritually aware. i do think there is what can be considered psychic/paranormal phenomena. Ego reinforced materialism will never see it.