That sounds right to me!
Since this man's mind did function without any brain, it is therefore proven that mind and brain are independent. It is mysterious to think of these two as separate, but this is only so under the paradigm of philosophical materialism, which must now be discarded. We must now admit that Consciousness drives evolution.
"Ultimately we need a global shift in thinking, in behaviour, away from the material and towards the spiritual, and in my view this study has the potential to help foment that."
It is more elegant and far easier to accept as a working hypothesis that sentience exists as a potential at the source of creation, and the strongest evidence has already been put on the table: Everything to be observed in the universe implies consciousness.
Louis Pasteur and many other eminent researchers thought that it was more probable that mind came before matter, and Hammeroff has presented evidence that feelings came before the brain.