Is there a global «secret»screening study about the effect of meditation going on? – and if so – what is the goal of it – and what are the consequences?

Last Updated on May 10, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

  • How meditation changes our brain, with Mingyur Rinpoche (English subtitles)
  • Mingour Rhinpoche mixes scientific findings with terms which come from Buddism about how the brain works.
  • Will we learn more about this based on scientific findings, for instance of brain scan studies of full-time meditation practitioners?
  • So that old terms from Buddhism can be replaced by scientific findings?
  • Richard Davidson talks about the benefits of meditation and its effects on the brain on Landguet Ried:
  • But are many of Richard Davidson’s talks not rather theoretical?
  • And from where are his statements?
  • Exusively from scientific papers?
  • And are the statments of Mingour Rhinpoche mixed statements from scientific findings and from Buddhism?
  • But will some of these scientific papers not be outdated, soon?
  • For instance Richard Davidson has a vision:

“I envision a day when mental exercise will be as much a part of our daily lives as physical exercise and personal hygiene.»

  • Is this statement a statement from a scientific paper?
  • But are not some spiritual teachers much ahead to meditation researchers?
  • For instance in this example: Richard Davidson said:

“I envision a day when mental exercise will be as much a part of our daily lives as physical exercise and personal hygiene.»

  • But Richard Davidson’s vision was already a reality for Yogi Bhajan 30 years ago:

«Yogi Bhajan said, the daily practice of Sadhana gives you mental clarity»

  • This is a statement of self- experienced Yogi’s.
  • But do we already have a scientific proof for this?
  • And if so, where?
  • And who will apply it?
  • And will we have in Laghsam Tibetan Meditation in Zurich a «spiritually oriented» center for Tibetan Buddhism?
  • And will Landguet Ried be a purely secular meditation center which is is purely secular?
  • Similar to that the Center of Healthy Minds in Madison will be a center for secular meditation?
  • But is there also a «spiritually oriented» center in Madison?
  • Does not Richard Davidson sometimes give talks from a place which looks like Laghsam Tibetan Meditation in Zurich?
  • And does not Vanja Palmers say on the Mind Foundation site, that he lifes on the mountain Rigi?
  • But at other places it looks as if he would speak from his Villa in Lucerne?
  • And is there some computer program behind it who contols all of this?
  • For instance, from where does Richard Davidson speak?
  • From a «spiritually oriented» center?
  • Or from Landguet Ried?
  • And is this all controlled by a «global computer network»?
  • And what are the criteria from where Richard Davidson speaks?
  • And the more scentific data we have, the more secular meditation practices which are based on scientific findings will be available?
  • And is there a screening study going on, which centers will survive, and which die?
  • And where Antoine Lutz will find a place to stay?
  • Or will he never find a definite place to stay, to do research and to teach?

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