I think the procedures utilized within certain buddhist
   practices do lead one more efficiently to that particular mental
   state that meditation activates than most religions. But I've
   done both Vipassana Meditation at length and then later on,
   what's called 'Noetic prayer" (Eastern Orthodox) - "Prayer of
   the heart" they call it. The sensations are the same. Brought me
   to the same place. Different methodologies, same results. I also
   think most ppl do prayer "wrong" but that's another topic. = I
   think what drew me into the EO at the time was that it had a
   strong internal component to it. There's a notion in Eastern
   Orthodoxy called "Theosis"; it's a kind of very precise
   deification (precise in that they've been very careful to try to
   avoid pantheism, dualism and other mistakes in their
   definitions). If you remember an early line in Genesis, "ye
   shall be like gods", well, they kinda took that seriously. Maybe
   not so much in the big churches and stuff but certainly among
   the monastics. I think Gregory Palamas was a big writer in that
   one, but there were many through the years. It's one of the
   things that makes the EO methodologies a little different than
   the rest, which I kinda liked. == I remember thinking that when
   I saw the Matrix. Of course he'd wake up again finding himself
   an actor a little embarrassed by Bill & Ted's Excellent
   Adventures but also really glad he had a chance to work with
   George Carlin and a chance to do a little Doctor Who, American
   style smile emoticon == In short, by falsifiable, it means
   analogizing the logic of Buddhist doctrine to Western
   philosophical doctrine (the ways-of-considering things within
   Western Philosophy and other western disciplines) so that it can
   be given a rigorous Academic analysis that is distinct from
   Buddhism: The Religion. That seems to be what the idea is
   anyway. Falsifiability means parts can be shown to be false or
   true using our methods. ==