Short bio: Steven Richheimer, Ph.D. is a retired research chemist who received his doctorate from Stanford University and has practiced tantric meditation for over fifty years. He is the author of numerous scientific papers and patents in the arena of natural products and the author of several books on science/spirituality including, The Unity Principle: The Link between Science and Spirituality; The Nonlocal Universe: How Science Validates the Spiritual Worldview; Reincarnation: Science of the Afterlife; and The Fallacy of Materialism: How Consciousness Creates the Material World and Why it Matters. You can contact him via his contact page.
Longer bio: Steven L. Richheimer obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Lehigh University in 1968, and a MS degree in 1971, and his Ph.D. degree in bioorganic chemistry from Stanford University in 1974. His PhD advisor at Stanford was the illustrious, two-time Nobel Prize winning chemist Linus Pauling.
After completing his PhD, Steven taught chemistry at several colleges in California, Missouri, and Colorado, after which in 1980, he took a job as Director of Quality and R&D at a small pharmaceutical company in Denver, CO.
In 1990, he joined Hauser, Inc. in Boulder, CO as a research and development senior staff chemist. There he specialized in the isolation and purification of valuable drugs and nutraceuticals from natural sources, project management, analytical methods development, and scale-up/ process development. During his 38-year career in pharmaceutical and natural products chemistry, Steven authored numerous scientific papers and patents.
Steven began practicing yoga in the summer of 1968 after his graduation from Lehigh University. He was formally initiated into the practice of Tantric meditation by an acharya of Ananda Marga (Path of Bliss) in 1970, and soon afterword traveled to Ranchi, India to have personal contact with his guru Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. Known affectionately as Baba, Anandamurti taught that consciousness is primary and that mind and matter evolve from consciousness. Since consciousness creates reality, in essence everything is simply a manifestation of the One. Being a scientist by training, Steven quickly realized that the spiritual ideology of Anandamurti was both rational and completely consistent with scientific principles. He developed an interest in how evidence from the physical and behavioral sciences confirmed the spiritual worldview.
In 2008, Steven and his wife Jeanne moved to the retirement home they built in Steamboat Springs, CO. There Steven continues to enjoy the activities he loves such as golf, skiing, fly-fishing, biking, hiking, and flying sailplanes.
Steven has written four books in the arena of science and spirituality. These include The Unity Principle: The Link between Science and Spirituality, The Nonlocal Universe: Why Science Validates the Spiritual Worldview, Reincarnation: Science of the Afterlife, and The Fallacy of Materialism: How Science is Discovering the Role Cosmic Mind Plays in the Unfolding of Reality (in publication). In addition, he wrote a chapter in the book: Economic Renaissance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence entitled “The New Age of Science and Spirituality,” where he argued that science confirms that reality emerges from a subtle domain of wholeness.
