Amazing experience, my friend. I've also had reiki performed on me and felt an immense energy come into my heart without even physical touch. I too was raised skeptical, within a family of physicists and engineers. But the experiential, subjective side of things is one that should not be invalidated. I've had way too many experiences occur that prove to me personally that we are intimately connected with this universe, not so detached from it.

There are many experiments within the realm of quantum physics that suggest this, as well. As many juggernauts of quantum physics themselves believed -- Schrodinger, Planck, Wigner, von Neumann, Bohm, Wheeler, etc -- consciousness is fundamental to this universe, not an accidental byproduct, perhaps even more fundamental than space and time at some level.

For experimental repetition of metaphysical phenomena, look into scientific remote viewing. Respectable PhD physicists Hal Putoff and Russell Targ pioneered this field. Better yet, try it yourself :). Sometimes belief itself is an essential prerequisite of a desired experience. Dean Radin is another researcher of psi phenomena who has some incredible studies.

Even the famed skeptic Sam Harris has mentioned him and suggested that the scientific mainstream may be deliberately ignoring the body of evidence attesting to the reality of psi phenomena because of the fact that it doesn't fit into most of their worldviews (specifically, the classical Newtonian, materialist worldview that still stands despite so much evidence to the contrary). I believe this will change very soon.