For the past 18 years, Gene Ang has been actively involved in studying major spiritual and esoteric traditions and their relationship to healing.  He is a student of Grand Master Choa Kok Sui, founder of modern Pranic Healing and Arhatic Yoga, and is an Associate Certified Pranic Healer.  Currently, he works in the department of Neurobiology at Yale University School of Medicine as a post-doctoral fellow.  He studies how the brain develops in general and specifically how the cerebral cortex is formed during gestation.  He earned his B.A. from Stanford University in Human Biology and Philosophy & Religious Studies and his Ph.D from Yale University in Neurobiology.