Abrams, Michael 1951- (R. Todd Michael, Todd Michael)

PERSONAL:

Born 1951; married; children: one son.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Boulder, CO. Office—Essene Studios, 6125 Habitat Dr., #1082, Boulder, CO 80301.

CAREER:

Writer, speaker, physician, psychologist. Former emergency room physician.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Nautilus Award, Spiritual Book of the Year, 2005, for The Twelve Conditions of a Miracle: The Miracle Workers Handbook.

WRITINGS:

(With Albert Ellis and Lidia Dengelegi) The Art & Science of Rational Eating, Barricade Books (Fort Lee, NJ), 1992.

(With Albert Ellis) How to Cope with a Fatal Illness: The Rational Management of Death and Dying, Barricade Books (New York, NY), 1994.

The Evolution Angel: An Emergency Physician's Lessons with Death and the Divine, Abundance Media (Boulder, CO), 1999.

The Twelve Conditions of a Miracle: The Miracle Worker's Handbook, Abundance Media (Boulder, CO), 2001, published under name R. Todd Michael, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin (New York, NY), 2004.

The Hidden Parables: Activating the Secret Power of the Gospels, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin (New York, NY), 2006.

SIDELIGHTS:

Michael Abrams is a pseudonym for Todd Michael, a former emergency room physician who gave up medical practice to concentrate on spiritual advice. He looked at death and dying with his The Evolution Angel: An Emergency Physician's Lessons with Death and the Divine. His 2004 book, The Twelve Conditions of a Miracle: The Miracle Worker's Handbook, examines the biblical miracles Christ performed. According to Abrams, such miracle-working was taken out of its metaphysical context by Christianity. Abrams believes that Jesus had esoteric and technical metaphysical knowledge as well as scientific knowledge as deep as today's quantum physicists. Abrams attempts to show how all people can create such miracles in their daily lives. Working from the ancient Greek in which the Gospel according to St. Matthew was written, Abrams claims to have found the secrets of such miracle-working. In his book he presents twelve conditions, such as emptiness and alignment, necessary in order to create actual miracles in one's own life. Deanna Joseph, writing in BellaOnline recommended the book "to anyone interested in transforming their life and living a life of miracles." Written as Todd Michael, The Hidden Parables: Activating the Secret Power of the Gospels, further investigates "hidden" messages in the bible. Reviewing the work in the Library Journal, Steve Young found the author's knowledge of Greek, necessary for translating the bible, to be "limited," and his "knowledge of theoretical physics … that of a wide-eyed amateur." Nonetheless, Young found the author's readings and interpretations of portions of the Bible to be "sometimes insightful and inventive, and the spiritual exercises provided for implementing each parable are useful and empowering."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Library Journal, June 15, 2006, Steve Young, review of The Hidden Parables: Activating the Secret Power of the Gospels, p. 76.

ONLINE

BellaOnline,http://www.bellaonline.com/ (June 13, 2007), Deanna Joseph, review of The Twelve Conditions of a Miracle: The Miracle Worker's Handbook.

Evolution Angel,http://www.twelveconditions.com (June 13, 2007).

InnerSelf,http://www.innerself.com/ (June 13, 2007), Marie T. Russell, review of The Evolution Angel: An Emergency Physician's Lessons with Death and the Divine.

PlanetLightworker.com,http://www.planetlightworker.com/ (June 13, 2007), Myriah Krista Walker, interview with Michael Abrams, M.D.

PsiTalk.com,http://www.psitalk.com/ (June 13, 2007), "Todd Michael Is a Renaissance Man."

Spirit of Ma'at,http://www.spiritofmaat.com/ (June 13, 2006), Celeste Adams, review of The Twelve Conditions of a Miracle.

Zoominfo.com,http://www.zoominfo.com/ (June 13, 2007), "Todd Michael."