Last Updated on August 20, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
20 years after Matthieu Ricard announced scientific data which are eventually revolutionary:
and sold us his best-selling book „Happiness“
We have another best-seller from Richard Davidson, and that is „Altered Traits“
But Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org
is asking: which other scientists do confirm these data? Is Richard R. Davidson, a scientist similar to Rob ter Horst who screws around his data to sell us something? But data which are not confirmed by other scientist in a convincing way?
Matthieu Ricard talked of the highest gamma wave oscillations in humans ever measured. Richard Davidson said, nobody ever has seen these kind of signals before:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101
But where there statements made on the wish of book-sellers?
And Peter Gamma from www.petegamma.org s conclusion. Don t trust YouTube and popular scientific books.
Are brain scanners sensitive enough for scientific studies about mediation?
20 years after Matthieu Ricards announcements, reports of self-experienced mediators such as Milarepa
https://www.lionsroar.com/the-life-of-milarepa
where much more helpful for us personally than scientific data which where not confirmed by other scientists in a way which could convince us personally.