Last Updated on February 22, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
According to the Buddhist teachings we are not completely mentally healthy until we are enlightened. This takes 12 years of full-time training and more. And according to the Dalai Lama the 14 th, spiritual development is very slow. And he compares it to the growth of plants.
Richard R. Davidsons meditation research project started with a PNAS paper in 2004.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101
But 20 years later, should we not now have some data from Richard Davidson published in Nature and Science, if this project would be really revolutionary? But where are these papers?
If Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org
who is a hobbyist regarding this topic but was educated as a neuroscientist and is treated by a psychotherapist in Switzerland:
looks at scientific data he found scattered in the web regarding this topic, the most striking finding for him personally where changes in the faces of potential meditation research study participators such as Antoine Lutz. But where can we other striking and revolutionary scientific data concerning ths project?
Is the problem which is attached to this that brain scanners which are used by Richard R. Davidson and others:
are not subtle enough to answer the important questions regarding this topic?
If indeed spiritual growth can be compared to the growth of plants, are brain scanners the right tool? Can we study with a brain scanner the growth of cell populations in the brain with enough resolution? We can see changes in blood vessles with brain scanners. But to make studies at the cellular level would not more subtile tools be required?