Last Updated on March 4, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
Million heir and Swiss Zen priest Vanja palmers most probably can afford his own brain scan study and lived in a Buddhist monastry in Californa for 10 years. Vajna Palmers gives talk now at the Mind Foundation in Switzerland about Meditation and Psychedelics – Two Ancient Tools for Transformation:
Vajna Palmers Palmers says in this talk that is one of the view at this presentation who is not a scientist.
And that he is happy that many came for viewing his talk, and that the topic meditation and pychedelics is so popular.
Born in Vienna, Austria Vajna Palmers grew up in Switzerland. Classical Hippie Drop out from the University of Zürich. He had a 10 years traditional training as a Zen monk and priest. He is Co-founder and teacher at the retreat centers Puregg in Austria and Felsentor Switzerland. He is a life-long animal rights activist, and a member of SÄPT (Swiss Medical Association for Psycholytic Therapy) and father of a grown up daughter.
The situation in Tibet is completely different than the situation in Tibet. Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche has taken the responsibility of transmitting Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche’s teachings, and is bringing his vision for the preservation of Tibetan Buddhist teaching and culture to fruition:
Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche tells sometimes western friends: Why has Tibet so many great masters? It is because of that out of 6 million Tibetans more than 10 percent of the Tibetans became monks and lamas and are practicing:
Also in Switzerland we have many monastries, but many of them have been given up:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Kl%C3%B6stern_in_der_Schweiz
But there will be eventually new one’s in the future, which offer brain scanners, some of them eventually funded by pharamceutical companies like Roche Basel. And some of them funded similarly as the Meditation Research Insitute Switzerland:
Which does not give any information about it’s funding.