Last Updated on December 27, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
Science Journalist Daniel Goleman says about this topic:
“Their brain waves shows gamma as a lasting trait all the time, no matter what they are doing.
We have no idea what that means experientially. Science never has seen it before“.
Goleman is talking about this PNAS paper from 2004:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101
We are asking now. Where these experiments performed by people who are not self-experienced? Did they lack the experience of some mental states? And if the brain waves of long-term meditators differs from those of ordinary people, should the meditators not be also be different if we observe those in real life? But how do they differ there?
One of these „superhumans“ and meditators who as tested in a brain scanner was Buddhist monk Mingyur Rinpoche:
How does Mingyur Rinpoche differ from ordinary people in real life if we observe him? He makes for instance good jokes about scientific studies about meditation, as in the above video. And how does the Dalai Lama who triggered these scientific studies about meditation differ from other people?
Around 20 years ago, Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org visited a talk of the Dalai Lama in the Hallenstadion Zurich. And there during this talk, Peter asked himself: „Why is this guy so happy?“ This was Peter s own observation and experience about a Buddhist monk in real life in Zurich. But how can this difference to ordinary people be explained? It could be explained by a long-term meditation practice of those monks, which induces an increased gamma wave activity in their brains.