And how was the scientific method determined to be “humanity’s most dependable method for knowing and understanding our reality?”

Ignoring the missing ™️ symbol in that sentence, and probing deeper than just regurgitating a factoid heard, it can only be the case that the scientific method “was proven to be humanity’s most dependable method for knowing and understanding our reality” through objective long-term observation of repeated results,” which is the exact same process by which traditional meditation has been validated.

And that is my standard.

In fact, if you studied traditional meditation practices, you would find that the underlying methodology of all of them is objective long term observation. And this is not an invented thing, it is a natural ability of all humans.

Contemplate that.