Murray Korngold was born in the same city and in the same year as the pope, namely Krakow in 1920. Subsequently he made his way to Detroit where he learned to speak English and during the thirties of the last century he attended college, organized auto workers and college students, married, and served in the U. S. Infantry in WW II. He says that he joined up to fight fascism and discovered that the U. S. Army WAS fascism.

In the forties he and his family moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a screen writer and playwright, which afforded him such a scanty income that he returned to school at UCLA where he received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1953.  He devoted the next twenty years of his life to teaching and practicing clinical psychology, existential psychotherapy, research into psychedelic states, and parapsychology.

 Since 1973 Murray has also been working as a licensed practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He has also been teaching patient counseling at the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine for the last twenty years. He has taught and conducted workshops and seminars in various meditation practices and Huna tactics in distant healing.

Most recently he has been practicing and teaching psycho-anergetic techniques in dealing with phobias, PTSD, and obsessive/compulsive disorders. His technique uses a combination of paradoxical affirmations and the tapping of acupuncture points.  This approach is variously described as Instant Emotional Healing; Emotional Freedom Therapy; and Tapping.  Dr.Korngold spends the rest of his time writing, playing with his three adult grandchildren, traveling and trying to stretch his mind to the limit in the time he has left.