Note before we get things down to Earth.
You will note that most of the scientific, knowledge and technological realities realized at present were once speculated and encased in a hypothesis in thoughts only and played around in the minds of people.
This why Einstein stated “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
What I have proposed above is not exactly imagination but based on empirical possibilities.
Whatever benefits from Buddhism at the higher levels are supported by empirical evidences, it is just that these are confined to a small number of people. So the task is to deliver these benefits to a majority of people.
There are many research done on Buddhist monks who had done extensive meditations and other self-development programs; Here are a few links;
buddhistdoor.net/news/scien … hist-monks
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2944261/
There are also benefits from other non-theistic Eastern practices.
The above benefits are only reinforced in monks who has done many serious works and years of meditation.
The question is how to translate these benefits to the masses without the required slogging for it.
I am optimistic we can do it [with foolproof methods and voluntary] in the future given the trend of the present exponential expansion of knowledge and technology, e.g. in the neurosciences, genomics, and other advance fields of knowledge.
(just in case, this has nothing to do with the ‘Frankenstein’ method]