Last Updated on January 21, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
From the Felsentor Retreat Center on the Rigi in Switzerland we know that founder and funder is Zen priest, million heir and Mind Foundation speaker Vanja Palmers, who:
“is particularly concerned about the rehabilitation of those substances that gave his life a fundamentally new, expanded perspective in the context of scientific or therapeutic use”:
https://www.felsentor.ch/vanja-palmers
And Vanja Palmers said in one of his talks, he was not able to induce the same mental states with meditation as with Psilocybin.
But who is the funder of Lhagsam Meditation in Zurich? Is Lhagsam not even more expensive than the Felsentor? Who pays for the flights of teachers from around the world to Zurich and back? And is there a Jack Kornfield among those teachers from which it would be possible to make a lot of money in Zurich? Or is Lhagam rather a secret scientific study of a pharmaceutical company?
Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org
has learned about Tenzin Michael who is a Swiss Buddhist monk and teacher at Lhagsam:
Many other teachers fly from all over the world on a weekly basis to Zurich and back. If Lhagsam Tibetan Meditation is indeed a project of for instance Roche Pharma Basel, as we previously speculated on www.petergamma.org, will we have soon a statistically relevant group of around 18 Swiss Buddhist monks who teach at Lhagsam in Zurich, trained in brain scanners and funded by Roche in Basel? Does this not seem rather unlikely? So what could then be the motivation? Officially the funder of Lhagsam is the:
The Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT)
But could not a secret funder fund Lhagsam over the FPMT? And could this secret funder, for instance someone like Roche Pharma in Basel want the data Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org is waiting for since Richard R. Davidsons paper from 2004?:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC526201
And that is for instance more and new scientific studies with long-term meditators about gamma wave oscillations in their brains by researchers who are independent of Richard R. Davidson.
Was there not a lot of publicity about the “extraordinary brain waves of high level meditators” during the last 20 years?
Especially from best-selling authors such as Matthieu Ricard, Richard Davidson and Daniel Goleman? But who else has confirmed these scientific data? As far as we know Richard R. Davidsons results where confirmed by one other group of researchers who have used brain scanners.
There are scientific studies which compare the effect of Psilocybin with brain scanners to the effect of meditation with brain scanners. Companies like Roche Pharma Basel and Novartis in Switzerland make a lot of money out of psycho pharmaceuticals. And were there not a lot of interviews with long-term meditators on YouTube and on TV stations around the world during the last 20 years, without any really new and striking scientific data from brain scanners published in high level scientific journals? And that is since these studies started in 2004?
Are there eventually pharmaceutical companies as for instance Roche Pharma Basel who are interested in having these long-term scientific data of high-level meditators investigated in their own scientific studies? What could the motivation of a secret funder of Lhagsam in Zurich be?
To make a scientific study which compare the mental states of long-term meditators to the mental states of people who take psychopharmaceutical drugs?
Similar to what Vanja Palmers mentioned he did with meditation and Psilocybin in a brain sanner? Or is Lhagsam an alternative study to the following scientific study of Richard R. Davidson:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101
which is now already 20 years old? And has eventually someone in Switzerland the goal to show that drugs are better than meditation and funds Lhagsam for this purpose? Since do not drugs sell better than courses for meditation?
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