Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'. . . The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.