Smiling, here, as I don't expect science to prove anything about my mental or spiritual life any time soon. It would be fascinating if it did, but it doesn't make any difference to the reality of the experience if it doesn't. Like you, I'm not postponing these things until the world of science gives them its stamp of approval: life is too short for that, and too good!
What gets my goat a bit (not the whole goat, but maybe a few hairs) is when people make unfounded claims about what 'modern science shows', when in fact it shows nothing of the kind.
An example would be the claim that the 'observer effect' in qm 'shows' that we can create our own reality. In fact the majority scientific opinion is that this is a measuring effect that doesn't require a conscious observer. And in any case, there is absolutely no question of the observer's choices in the two-slit experiment affecting the outcome at all; it's just that things always come out the same way when the observation/measurement is made.
Of course, this doesn't prove that our choices and intentions don't affect reality, either.
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