Ron Shane's Biography

Ron Shane, Medical and Research Director, Millennia Concepts Biotech, LLC/American Academy of Anti-aging Medicine

Dr. Shane graduated with high honors from CSU Northridge studying Psychology and Philosophy and completed a Masters in Educational and Counseling Psychology. His PhD blended visionary literature with social psychology where he did his dissertation on William Blake and the English Romantics concerning the activation of the etheric body. Dr. Shane completed post-doctoral study at UCLA in the Renaissance Institute where he did advanced research in the mystical aspects of William Shakespeare and Edmond Spencer under the aegis of Dr. Michael Allen, a visiting professor from Oxford University; and likewise completed a MSA training in theater and experimental video during his tenure as post-doc at UCLA. Dr. Shane was a faculty member in the Department of English at UCSB and SDSU. Furthermore, he studied cross-cultural shamanism under the aegis of Dr. Donald Tuzin, a world authority on this aspect of cultural anthropology; and for many years he had an academic relationship with Dr. Norman O. Brown who is the original founding member of UCSC’s history of consciousness program. Dr. Shane, as a research scholar at UCSD, did advanced studies in Western Medicine, Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Neuroendocrinology under the tutelage of Dr. Koob, a leading authority in neuroendocrinology in the department of psychology as well as Scripps Research Institute.