Mindsheep,
I can understand your frustration. I was in pretty much the same situation while considering the long-term use of another entrainment product, which admittedly relies a bit more on the brute force of entrainment rather than meditation as such. Despite passing itself off as a research institute, and having a sizable business, the developers of that product had remarkably little research in the scientific sense, and hardly any of it their own. I followed their links as well as hunting on Google for a couple weeks, but there was precious little to be found.
In the end, for me it came down to what was credible. Of course, some texts are written to enhance the placebo effect (which, incidentally, is a good thing, despite its current reputation.) This is an everyday phenomenon: When I saw my doctor about my crippling wrist and arm pains after years of working with computers, he recommended that I exercise for an hour each day. He explained that this would increase the blood flow through the whole body, including my arm, and this would contribute to its healing. He completely neglected to mention that running often on hard surfaces without shock absorbing shoes can lead to permanent knee damage, or that biking can result in fatal damage from fall or collisions, swimming could lead to drowning etc. Because in that situation, piling up such possible side effects would serve to undermine my motivation, and in any case he was recommending only a moderate amount of exercise.
I hope you see the analogy here. Before buying an exercise bike, I did not actually spend two weeks looking for studies of possible side effects of using those contraptions for several decades. (Actually, there ARE side effects, especially for males, if you use any bike too much.) I knew that with my intended use, it was highly unlikely that the bad effects would be anywhere near the good ones. Of course, it would be highly welcome if the producer of the exercise bike had invested some of their profit in a broad and long clinical study of the long-term effects of using their product. They didn't, however, and so I used my reasoning capabilities. With brainwave entrainment, I had to gather some more information first, but in the end the decision was very similar.
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