Last Updated on May 16, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
If we search under Google Scholar Richard Davdison we cand find papers co-authored by Davidson about this topic.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=de&user=vP-2P9wAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdat
- We can find some other papers about meditation which are co-authored by Richard Davidson under Google Scholar.
- We haven’t studied those in detail yet.
- We do not know of a scientific long-term study about meditation which is performed at Richard Davidson ‘s Center of Healthy Mind with long-term meditation practitioners at the highest level.
- We haven’t read Richard Davidsons book “Altered Traits” yet.
https://www.orellfuessli.ch/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1049568889
- We do not know of any systematic follow-up studies with long-term practitioners which followed Richard Davidson PNAS paper:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101
- papers, which study meditators at the level of the “olympic champions”, which where investigated in mentioned PNAS paper.
- Are the olympic level meditators investigated in Richard Davidsons PNAS paper not also guiding stars as teachers?
- Guiding stars, who bring us from darkness to light, and give us direction?
- We haven’t studied Richard Davidson’s work in detail yet. But do we have to see Richard Davidson’s statements not in the light of the statements of great spiritual masters?
- Well known spiritual masters as for instance Yogi Bhajan, Thích Nhất Hạnh, and the Dalai Lama the 14., mentioned to practice for a much longer periods daily than only 20 min. daily.
- 20 minutes was mentioned by Richard Davidson as the time period necessary to be able to find an effect which can be measured objectively in the body and the brains of meditation practictioners.