Last Updated on February 14, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
After we saw a poster with a picture of Matthieu Ricard at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich Hönggerberg, we became interested in Matthieu Ricard, his books, and in gamma waves.
We have read Matthieu Ricards book Happiness and Meditation, and we have read Richard Davidson paper in PNAS:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15534199/
Matthieu Ricards books have been criticized, that Matthieu has not written something really new. New for us personally was that a scientist which a PhD. in cellular genetics writes books about happiness and meditation.
Richard Davidson PNAS paper stroke us, since we found there scientific explanations for own personal experiences, experiences we made not during practicing meditation, but experiences which we made spontaneously.
We have neither bought nor have read Altered Traits from Richard Davidson and David Golemann to this date.
But we have watched Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche YouTube video “How Meditation Changes the Brain”:
And we were completely happy with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoches YouTube video about this topic. He participated in scientific studies, and his user exerperiences and his reviews where really helpful for us personally.