How to effectively critique New Age ideas?

[Confused Ape]

Best focus on the actual hard control trial based evidence they present, or the lack of it. You can speculate about all kinds of things as soon as anyone actually makes any kind of claim about anything it's all about the evidence.

Amit Goswami isn't the first physicist to go off in a mystical direction. I've added extra information in brackets to save people from having to click on the links for people.

Quantum Mysticism

David Bohm (a theoretical physicist) was deeply influenced by Jiddu Krishnamurti, (speaker and writer on philosophical and spiritual subjects) crediting him as a source for understanding the worldview he proposed in his interpretation of Quantum Mechanics that he put forth in Wholeness and the Implicate Order

The Harvard historian Juan Miguel Marin noted also the "“lucid mysticism,” a synthesis between rationality and religion" favored by Wolfgang Pauli (a theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner) that Pauli "speculated that quantum theory could unify the psychological/scientific and philosophical/mystical approaches to consciousness".

From the wiki article about Pauli.

Pauli had a severe breakdown. He consulted psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Jung who, like Pauli, lived near Zurich. Jung immediately began interpreting Pauli's deeply archetypal dreams,[4] and Pauli became one of the depth psychologist’s best students. He soon began to criticize the epistemology of Jung’s theory scientifically, and this contributed to a certain clarification of the latter’s thoughts, especially about the concept of synchronicity. A great many of these discussions are documented in the Pauli/Jung letters, today published as Atom and Archetype. Jung's elaborate analysis of more than 400 of Pauli's dreams is documented in Psychology and Alchemy.

Then there's Erwin Schrödinger and Eugene Wigner being into the Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism.