About the Authors

Master Stephen Co, Eric B. Robins, MD, and John Merryman are the writing team that produced Your Hands Can Heal You (Simon & Schuster/The Free Press, 2002).


Master Stephen Co is a personal student of Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui and one of only two Certified Master Pranic Healers in the world. He is a senior instructor at the World Pranic Healing Organization and has taught thousands of people throughout the world including, the United States, Asia, and Europe. He is the author of The Power of Prana (Sounds True, 2011) and Your Hands Can Heal You (Free Press, 2002).

Eric B. Robins, MD, is a board-certified urologist and surgeon in private practice and affiliated with a major hospital in Los Angeles. He received his MD degree from Baylor College of Medicine in 1989 and his BA in biology from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Robins completed his training in surgery and urology at LA County/USC Medical Center. Dr. Robins has received additional training in various alternative healing therapies, including the Emotional Freedom Technique, and newer consciousness technologies, such as Holosync and Matrix Energetics. He is a certified clinical hypnotherapist, a neurolinguistic programming practitioner, and a certified Pranic Healing instructor.

John Merryman is a Los Angeles-based writer specializing in alternative healing, energy medicine, and esoteric and Eastern thought. He has been published in numerous periodicals and newspapers, including Los Angeles Magazine, California Magazine, LA Reader, Playboy, Cleveland Magazine, Orange Coast Magazine and the Copley papers, among others.