Last Updated on August 17, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
In 2004 Richard R. Davidsons group published a paper in PNAS with around 16 Tibetan Buddhist monks:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101
Altered Traits:
co-author Daniel Goleman reviews the results of this paper in this video:
Lhagsam Tibetan Meditation opened shortly before Altered Traits has been published. Does Roche pharma Basel want to reproduce the data of Richard Davidson?
Or is Lhagsam full of brain scan meditators from all around the world?
A woman who moderates in Lhagsam has a connection to Roche pharma Basel. We previously reported about this.
So is the goal of Lhagsam to show that meditation is bad, while pharmaceuticals from Roche pharma are better?
Or does Roche offer brain scans if your budget allows?
Million heir & animal rights activist & Zen teacher Vanja Palmers said about Psilocybin
He said in the above video he was not able to induce the same mental states with meditation as with Psilocybin. And this although he is the founder and funder of the Felsentor meditation retreat center on the Rigi mountain near Lucerne.
Do these Swiss project happen since it is easier to make money out of drugs than out of meditation?
In 2024, Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan’s total compensation reached CHF 19.2 million (approximately $21.4 million USD), according to SWI swissinfo.ch. This is a significant increase, making him one of the highest-paid CEOs in Europe:
In 2024, Roche CEO Thomas Schinecker earned 10.0 million Swiss francs, equivalent to approximately $11.1 million USD.
Do we have around 16 Rene Feusi s who are brought to Zurich and back to teach their as well as for brain scan studies?:
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