Most modern, right-thinking, science-believers don’t actually do science and wouldn’t recognize the scientific method if it bit them on the butt.
Most religious people never meditated, never had a vision, wouldn’t recognize elevated consciousness if it bit them on the butt.
Most of us just swallow the official narrative of our tribe and trust what the authorities say.
Which is of course a terrible way to acquire quality knowledge.
What kind of epistemology are you using to declare that meditation “elevates consciousness”? Also, what visions have you had?
That’s rather beside my point.
Which one?
I’m only making one simple point. It ain’t complicated.