Comparison of the Felsentor Retreat Center of Swiss Zen Priest Vanja Palmers to the Spirit Rock Meditation Center of Jack Kornfield

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

The Felsentor Retreat Center of Swiss Zen Priest Vanja Palmers near Lucerne in Switzerland was opened in 2004:

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

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/

https://www.unilu.ch/fakultaeten/ksf/institute/zentrum-religionsforschung/religionen-schweiz/forschung/kuppel-tempel-minarett/gebaeude/zendo-felsentor/

and had offered and partly still offers courses where meditation practitioners took Psylocybin and practice Zen with animals.

The retreat center Stifung Felsentor reminds as far as the building is concerned strongly to the Spirit Rock Mediation Center. Was is a marketing agency who adviced Vanja Palmers to build it?

The Spirit Rock Meditation Center near San Francisco, California

was opened up 1985 by Jack Kornfield an others.

https://www.spiritrock.org/

It is a reatreat center where Jack Kornfield

https://jackkornfield.com/

lives an unblemished life with no branding:

Matthieu Ricards brain was scanned in the Center of Healthy Mind of Richard Davidson in Madison Wisconsin. After that, a British Newspaper gave Matthieu Ricard the title to be the happiest man in the world. Did the newspaper have the brain data of Mattieu Ricard?

And can Zen Priest Vanja Palmers and Jack Cornfield compete with Matthieu Ricard on the happiness scale? We need more scientific data to answer this question.