The Obfuscating Effect of Contemporary Non-Materialistic Ufology (2023) Ario Elami July 11, 2023 …we still have no good working definition for what material itself is. Indeed, the very division into the “material” and the “spiritual” by some non-materialists — the idea, for instance, that the soul is materially transcendent, or insubstantial — ironically maintains the materialist, or Cartesian mind/body, paradigm.