Last Updated on May 22, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
Matthieu Ricard gave us hope about a scientific revolution in meditation research 20 years ago:
Around that time, Matthieu Ricard also has published his best-selling book about „Happiness“
But 20 years later Diego Hangartner, who also participated in these scientific studies about meditation basically repeats what Matthieu Ricard hat told 20 years ago:
There are some new insights which Diego Hangartner mentioned, which where also mentioned by Richard Davidson, when he gave talks about his best-selling book „Altered Traits“:
And what is the conclusion of Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org?
about all this 20 years of meditation research?
These scientific studies gave us hope for a scientific revolution in the field of meditation research. But did this revolution really happen? Really revolutionary for Peter is the knowledge he learned from self-experienced teachers from Asia. And did we not learn a lot from those? Things we do not learn from psychiatrists? And according to the little experience of Peter, there remains a lot of work to be done in the field of meditation research. And is a lot of what we can learn from teachers from Asia not difficult to proof with the scientific methods an brain scanners? And if brain scanners would be really that revolutionary devices, would they not be used more often by psychotherapists for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes? But aren´ t these devices only rarely used for this purpose?
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