Why do we not have scientifically validated long-term meditation practices which are controlled by medical doctors and taken over by health insurance companies or are integrated into our society in some other way (part II, Meditation)

Last Updated on March 16, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

  • Research on meditation has been done for instance at the center of healthy minds in Madison USA
  • Funding for instance at the Center of healthy minds is about 50 % research grand and 50 % donors:
https://centerhealthyminds.org/about/funding
  • But there are hardly any medical doctors exept for Deepak Chopra who teach mediation
  • And there are for instance centers such as the Laghsam Tibetan Meditation Zurich which is funded most probably either by companies such as Roche Pharma Basel or by private funds for instance by million heirs.
  • On the other hand patients who cannot let go are treated by psychotherapists and psychotherapists with drugs and talk therapy, and if they fail to heal their patients they are decared as people which cannot be healed, , since there is not scientifically validated cure to heal those patients.
  • But from a scientific point of view that such patients cannot be healed is not a satisfying answer, since there is knowledge available for instance from Buddhist tradition that we are completely sane if we are fully enlightened: