Last Updated on February 18, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
Richard Davison found the highest levels of gamma wave activity in the left-perfrontal cortex of olympic level meditators such as Mingyur Rinpoche:
He has published this in this paper:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0407401101
And now Richard Davidson explains us that a daily practice of meditation of 20 min. can change our brains in an objectively measurable way:
But who is interested in the hobbists who meditate for 20 min. a day? Eventually the business scientists who want to sell us «Altered Traits»:
But are not the olympic level meditators the most interesting ones? But to become an olympic level meditator requires to meditate for around 13 years in solitary retreat. One of these olympic level mediators was Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche:
Who mediated for 20 years of his life as a full-time training. But then he became one of the most important teachers for the Dalai Lama the 14.th. The Dalai Lama who asked Richard Davidson to do scientific research about meditation. For whom is it interesting that a daily pracitice of 20 min. changes our brain? For all of us, but whould it be not more interesting how 13 years of full-time training changes our brain, and this observed in a long-term scientific study? Would this not be also what the Dalai Lama the 14. was interested in the most? And that is a scientific basis for the Tibetan Buddhist practice? And also for scientists who are looking for a Nobel Prize topic, how mental health can be trained:
All of this would certainly also be interesting for olympic level meditators such as Ajahn Amaro. Unfortunately olympic level meditators cannot afford to buy brain scanners, as explained here in the examle of Buddhis monk Ajahn Amaro. Amaro who has no money since 1984:
And Peter Gamma from the Meditation Institute Switzerland (MRIS) cannot afford to buy brain scanners either for his institute:
Therefore he continues to look for more affordable devices for meditators such as Ajahn Amaro and him. But neither Rob ter Horst’s smartwatches, the Muse 2, OpenBCI Cyton, HackEEG nor PiEEG fit’s Peters needs. So the only solution for Peter seems to start coding and soldering by himself: