Fluffy, from a spiritualists point of view, I'd say that science might one day have the tools to explain everything. But it's a child, that learned how to crawl and is now taking its first steps. Spiritualism is the belief there's more to life than what meets the eye, than what we know, and to not limit yourself to what you know and understand, but go beyond.
I firmly believe that with time, science will catch up. Science to me is basically us humans trying to catch up with...well whoever/whatever made all of this in the first place.
Perhaps the best field to have science meet spirituality is everything to do with psychology, our own brain. As there we are not only scientific observers, but also the ones that experience it all. And the more we learn about the brain, the more things like trance, hypnotism, empathy etc get explained. I also find it the one place where scientific explanation doesn't diminish the mystique or awe of it. Knowing how it works just allows you to enjoy those experiences even more as with that understanding of how things works you can now marvel at the genius that is the human brain
I know though what you are getting at. The whole 'divine' part. The life force, the energy, God. Yeah..we're still a while away from that one.
There is a hypothesis though...at least in pagan circles. Physics teaches us that energy can never be destroyed..it can change forms, become useless to us by doing so as the new form might not be harvestable to us, but it never really disappears. There's a belief that everything, including the soul, the divine spark, the influencing of the world through 'magic' is pretty much energy being exchanged and transmuted all the time
Not sure what you're asking, as I already provided both concrete and more general examples but here it is again, more in detail:
One of the things that Pagans, Spiritualists and New-agers like to work with are stones. Crystals, semi-precious gems, you name it. According to the books on the subject, stones can have an influence on you, and you can use them in different ways. For instance, amethyst is supposedly relaxing, healing, soothing, but also helps increase awareness and is therefore a very good help during spiritual exercises. Why this is, nobody knows. It's just..experiences that people have had with this type of stone, and ancient lore, basically.
Now, when scientists are actually done rolling their eyes at this, some of them are sometimes capable of mustering an interest in (dis)proving these theories and interesting results can occur. In the case of the stones, they found that every stone emits a vibration that is unique to them. They have no clue as to how this vibration effects the human body, but this 'energy' is often what is considered useful to spiritual people. Also, often the properties of the stones are related to the colour it has, and therefore, when you look at the study of colours done by scientists, it has been noted that certain stones have a certain effect on the human mind. Pink makes you tired, green makes you feel relaxed, blue works calming and healing, red makes you angry or passionate, etc etc.
So parts of the stone-puzzle are already solved. Other things that may have an effect are of course the placebo-effect, but also positive thinking, programming your brain to focus by using the stone as a focus, etc etc. These are all hypotheses in an attempt to explain why the stones could produce the effects they sometimes do.
So science can learn where to look for interesting things to research and keep its mind open and be reminded of how limited they still are in what they understand as well as realize that some things that have no explanation, still work, though we don't know how. Whereas spiritualism can look to science to explain the tools they use and therefore be able to use them more efficiently when they do get explained, even in part, as you are more able to use something efficiently when you at least understand it somewhat.
