Theistic Inclinations

[Whateverist]

As a Hindu, would you not agree that within your religious tradition there are highly developed and deliberate practices for sorting out the veracity of subjective experiences? It seems to me that first-person experience with the Divine has an immediacy that is every bit as real and as rational as interpretations of third-person phenomena. The tools may be different but no less empirical. Anyone could in theory practice the required austerities and confirm for themselves the reality of the Divine. The fact that not all people do is no different from the fact that not all people practice the scientific disciplines necessary to confirm natural theories. And I would also note that those so-called objective findings are ultimately mediated by minds in the first person.

I can't tell if you a taking exception to something implicit in what the OP had said or meaning to agree with him.  

But would you really put the preparations for divine experience on the same level as for scientific practices (as indicated where I bolded).  In the case of scientific practice there is the possibility of replication and peer review.  We're talking about third person phenomena available to others.  But even if religious practitioners follow the same carefully prescribed procedures there would not seem to the possibility to review each other's results, no?