Mike Samuels was born in New York City in 1942 and grew up on Long Island. He attended Brown University and received an M.D. from New York University College of Medicine. He has worked as a research immunogeneticist, a doctor at a San Francisco hospital, and as a doctor on the Hopi Indian Reservation in Arizona. After moving back to California he was a professional photographer and taught photography. He then worked as a physician in county public health and in an innovative holistic clinic. He started working with visualization in medicine and healing in 1970. He has researched, lectured on, and taught about visualization healing since then. Seeing With the Mind’s Eye is Mike Samuels’ fourth book. He previously wrote The Well Body Book, Spirit Guides, and Be Well with Hal Bennett. All of these books deal with visualization in medicine and healing. He and his wife Nancy have been building their own house together over the last few years. They have one child, a boy named Lucas (Roo) who was born in 1972. Seeing With The Mind’s Eye is the first book together. They live in a small seasonal town in Northern California.