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About Dr. Michael Wayne
Dr. Michael Wayne has a Ph.D. in the field of Quantum-Integral Medicine, which is about the science of emerging properties and how it relates to the innate healing system and human potential. He is the author of the book, Quantum-Integral Medicine: Towards a New Science of Healing and Human Potential, and has written articles that have appeared in numerous magazines around the world, and has been interviewed on radio and television around the country. He is the Director of the Center for Quantum-Integral Medicine, and the founder of the IdeaLab, a thinktank aimed at developing creative solutions to issues in medicine, technology, the arts and business. He is also the founder of the Saratoga Integrative Medicine Education Network, or SIMEN. This group’s mission is to educate the public on the benefits of Integrative Medicine, and supports its mission by holding public programs. Marianne Williamson has said of Dr. Michael Wayne, "Michael Wayne has brought us closer to the understanding we need in order to heal ourselves, each other, and the world." And Dr. Larry Dossey has said of Dr. Michael Wayne, "A revolution in medicine is taking place, and no one sees this more clearly than Dr. Michael Wayne." In addition, he has written a novel,
The Knuckleball From Hell,
and has a forthcoming book, The Secret to Freeing Your Mind: A Field Guide to Quantum Thinking. Now, let's hear directly from Dr. Michael Wayne: Hi, I'm Dr. Michael Wayne. I am an acupuncturist, practitioner of Chinese Medicine and Integrative Medicine, and author. I have a private practice in Saratoga Springs, NY, and in my clinical practice I work with my patients to help them become healthier, using a number of tools: acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine and nutrition, along with educating people in various mind-body approaches in order to help them become more mindful and more aware and more in control of their health and their life. One of things I discovered early on is that the biggest impediment to people healing, and for that matter, using more of their human potential, is the way we think. It's a way that sees the world in black and white terms, that desires things to be predictable and under control, and is extremely fear-based, with fear of the unpredictable and unknown as the number one fear factor. This way of thinking gets programmed into us at a young age, and then gets reinforced by all the institutions we come into contact with both in our younger years and as adults. Read What Others Are Saying About Dr. Michael Wayne And so, I decided to research this to understand the root cause of this way of seeing the world. The outcome of my research was my critically acclaimed landmark nonfiction book, Quantum-Integral Medicine: Towards a New Science of Healing and Human Potential, which came out in 2005. This well-researched book documented how we have become so rigid in our thinking, and discussed how this way of rigid thinking manifests in the problems inherent in modern medicine and modern science. I also outlined how we can change it. Here is a review from the British magazine Positive Health. I followed up the book with speaking engagements around the country, along with being interviewed by radio and televsion stations around the U.S., and either writing articles or being featured in periodicals around the world. I then decided to write a follow-up book, but in making the decision, I chose to do something very, very different. In Quantum-Integral Medicine I talked about how the path to freeing our mind lay in quantum thinking, which in essence is the ability to use creative thinking in order to think in a broad way, a way that allows you to be a well-rounded, complex and visionary thinker, and not one who gets stuck in dogmatic thinking. There are the qualities of someone who understands the importance of freeing the mind, tapping into their inner genius and accessing their visionary capabilities. In my new book I was going to outline these. But instead, as I said, I decided to take the road less taken and write something very, very different. What I decided to do instead was to have a little fun and apply the concepts of freeing the mind to myself, and instead of writing a serious nonfiction book about creative thinking and thinking like a visionary, I wrote a humorous and extremely irreverent novel called The Knuckleball From Hell, which came out in June 2007. Because humor is one of the qualities of a visionary thinker and also one that can help in freeing the mind, I made the book as zany as it gets, with all kinds of wild characters and plot lines. I wanted to show how easy it is to apply the principles of freeing your mind and being a creative thinker, and it worked like a charm. 
But I didn't stop there. My modus operandi continued with a very irreverent publicity campaign for the book, in which I claimed Paris Hilton put the book on her summer reading list. I got a lot of publicity for that in periodicals and on radio and television. It made no sense, and I was doing it tongue in cheek as a way to show people some more applications of freeing the mind and creative thinking.
Here is one article about Paris Hilton and The Knuckleball From Hell. And that is another part of freeing your mind: when you think in a more limited way, you pigeonhole people into compartments, and if they do something outside the public perception of who people think they are, it can be hard for people to understand. For instance, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, the famous German philosopher, poet, playwright and scientist, once won a major scientific award for his findings in the field of botany. Yet many scientists of his day sneered when he received the award, because they looked down on him as "the poet," and couldn't fathom how or why a poet would be given a serious scientific award. I now have a new book nearing publication, The Secret to Freeing Your Mind: A Field Guide to Quantum Thinking. In this book, I go to great lengths to discuss the hurdles we need to overcome in order to think like a visionary. I plan to continue mixing it up with my writing, going back and forth between serious and thoughtful nonfiction books that are aimed at prodding people into thinking at a visionary level, and other nonfiction books that deal with serious contemporary issues, and irreverent and offbeat novels that are aimed at tapping into the stores of creative thinking and imagination that are innate in each one of us. And so I ask you to explore the website and read the information entailed - you will learn a lot. And feel free to buy my books, or to avail yourself of the services and programs offered.
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Dr. Michael Wayne, Ph.D., L.Ac., is a practitioner of Acupuncture, Chinese Medicine and Integrative Medicine, with over 25 years experience in the health care field. 