About the Author:
Alan J. Steinberg, M.D.
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Why doctors—and their patients—should be meditating.
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Alan J. Steinberg, M.D., is an Internal Medicine, primary-care physician practicing in Beverly Hills, California. His first book was a non-fiction consumer’s guide, The Insider’s Guide to HMOs. It was well received and helped sway the direction health care was heading in the late nineties. The book garnered him a short season of fame, including an interview with Matt Lauer on “The Today Show,” a segment on ABC’s “20/20,” an hour-long interview on C-SPAN, and a whirlwind of other appearances on nationally televised shows and radio interviews. His most recent book is To Be Enlightened, a novel best described as a work of visionary fiction that has received glowing reviews.
Dr. Steinberg lives with his wife of over thirty-five years in Los Angeles, California. They are the proud parents of three young adults.
Articles
- Psychedelics Give a Glimpse of Enlightenment
Our brains may be filters that are inhibiting us from experiencing reality. Posted July 1, 2022 Alan J. Steinberg M.D. The Meditating Mind KEY POINTS In 1954, Aldous Huxley proposed the concept of the “Mind at Large,” which held that psychedelic drugs could disable filters in our minds that inhibited us from experiencing the fullness of… Read more: Psychedelics Give a Glimpse of Enlightenment - Psychedelics and Meditation: Everything Is Consciousness
Modern quantum theory and ancient Vedic philosophy meet. Author: Alan J. Steinberg M.D. KEY POINTS This post is in response to Consciousness and the Quantum Mind By Thomas R. Verny M.D. In 1931, the father of quantum mechanics, Max Planck, said, “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.” Since then, quantum mechanics,… Read more: Psychedelics and Meditation: Everything Is Consciousness - Why Physicists Don’t Want to Understand Quantum Mechanics
Alan J. Steinberg M.D. To do so would mean adopting a ‘mystical’ worldview. KEY POINTS (This post is in response to Quantum Effects In the Brain By Robert Lanza M.D.) In his 2019 New York Times opinion piece entitled, “Even Physicists Don’t Understand Quantum Mechanics. Worse, they don’t seem to want to understand it,” physicist Sean Carroll wrote, “Few modern… Read more: Why Physicists Don’t Want to Understand Quantum Mechanics - Enlightenment Is Everything, Everywhere, All at Once | Alan J. Steinberg
Our brains can shed their evolutionary restrictions, allowing us a fuller life. Alan J. Steinberg M.D. KEY POINTS Einstein’s theory of relativity and quantum theory are arguably the most successful scientific theories ever. They explain how everything works and predict how everything behaves. Relativity theory and quantum theory describe reality. But we do not live… Read more: Enlightenment Is Everything, Everywhere, All at Once | Alan J. Steinberg - How Psychedelics and Meditation Both Promote Healing | Alan J SteinbergTheir effectiveness may come from their shared transcendence. Alan J. Steinberg M.D. KEY POINTS Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (PAP) and meditation have been repeatedly shown to be effective treatments for a broad range of maladies. They can also improve the lives of those who don’t have significant medical or psychological problems. On the surface, these two things seem completely different. Taking… Read more: How Psychedelics and Meditation Both Promote Healing | Alan J Steinberg