Noetic Silence

So, thanks to this girl I know bugging me about it all week, I finally got round to reading my copy of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, something that you'll either never do, or did about a year ago. Because I'm useless at doing anything to a deadline, even something that's meant to be relaxing. And, having read in the front of this book that a field mentioned in it, noetic sciences, was real, I thought I'd write about that today. What I didn't realise was this: it's impossible to find any information on this field. I wonder why that could be...
Right, let's start at the beginning. In the book, this field is a kind of blend of science and mysticism, combining the focus and observation of physics with the cool effects of magic. The character who's involved in it mentions that, following the events of 9/11, researchers found that all these random number generators where no longer generating truly randomly. Or something. To be honest I skim-read that bit... anyway, it's about how the mind can change the world around us.
So, when I got home I Googled it. There's no Wikipedia page on "noetic sciences", just a few on associations of noetic theorists, and one on noetic theory. According to that page, the theorists hold that "there exists an additional purposefulness... found in cosmological principles of consciousness." So far, so illegible. Wikipedia, what was I thinking. Here we go, a group called NASI, that looks important... so I go to their Wiki page, to try to find a domain address and, just whilst scrolling, notice that it's in the Religion portal.
Now I'm worried.
And I find their domain (www.noeticadvancedstudies.us, if you're interested). And I see their logo. It's a blend of superimposed octograms above what looks like a wormhole. It looks a bit culty, but hey, I've not read anything yet, who am I to judge?
Oh, yeah. Before I forget, the Director of Noetic Sciences at this Institute is currently writing a book called, "Orbiting the Moons of Pluto: Complex Solutions to the Maxwell, Einstein, Schrodinger and Dirac Equations." (yeah, he misspelt Schroedinger in his book title...)
Anyway, this page is basically empty... it's upsettingly empty. Maybe I missed something.
Also, one of the fellows is publishing everything under a pseudonym. It's odd...
And none of these results are anything like Dan Brown's book, or even like actual results. There are some failed "remote viewing" experiments, and some complex-looking maths (although I'm not gonna spend £80 to check their figures... if you want, send me the money), but nothing actually advancing physics or the sciences in a significant way. Maybe I'm being dismissive. Obviously this is just my opinion.
But maybe Wikipedia had a point, about the Religion thing?