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Credo
We abide by this wisdom:
"The only cohesions which experience in the literal sense of the word produces in our mind are... the proximate laws of nature, and habitudes of concrete things, that heat melts ice, that salt preserves meat, that fish die out of water, and the like. Such 'empirical truths' as these... form an enormous part of human wisdom. The 'scientific' truths have to harmonize with these truths or be given up as useless... Even those experiences which are used to prove a scientific truth are for the most part artificial experiences of the laboratory gained after the truth itself has been conjectured" - William James, founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research. (quote from The Genesis of the Natural Sciences, in J.J. McDermott (Ed.), The Writings of William James. The University of Chicago Press, 1977, page 91-92 (my emphasis)).
In other words, it is not the place of science to tell you what you have or have not experienced; it is the place of science to explain the experience that you had.