Funding of the Felsentor Retreat Center Rigi, Lucerne?

Last Updated on August 15, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

We can see here the wonderful building of Felsentor Meditation Retreat Center on the beautiful Mountain Rigi near Lucerne in Switzerland:

https://www.unilu.ch/en/faculties/faculty-of-humanities-and-social-sciences/institutes-departements-and-research-centres/center-for-research-on-religion/religionen-schweiz/forschung/cupola-temple-minaret/gebaeude/zendo-felsentor/

Teachers there are for instance Vanja Palmers and Diego Hangartner, Founder and Teacher of Pharm D. PCC and Certified Coach:

https://www.felsentor.ch/seminare

Architect was Paul Discoe Founder / Chief Designer at Paul Discoe Design Studio in Oakland California

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-discoe-2407949a/

The building reminds of the Spirit Rock Meditation Center of Jack Cornfield near Los Angeles. California. In the web we can find complaints about the Spirit Rock Center that even online courses are very expensive and that they are a fraud.

How are these centers funded? Is it possible to make a lot of money out of meditators? And is it a good choice to build meditation retreat centers at such beautful places as the mountain Rigi near Lucerne, where only rich people can afford to build houses?

Founder and President of the Felsentor Retreat Center on the Rigi is Vanja Palmers, Zen Priest and million heir of the world-renowned textile company Calida.

https://www.felsentor.ch/vanja-palmers

Was Vanja Palmers the main funder of the Felsentor Retreat Center on the Rigi, eventually together with the MIND Foundation who promotes psychedelic reserach where Vanja Palmers is speaker? The funding of the center is not published.