Robert N. Koppen, MD grew up in Amsterdam, the Netherlands,at the time when it was trying to recover from World War II, with the restrictions and challenges that were a part of that time.

He became interested in helping people as well as creating things with his hands, which resulted in his career choice in ear, nose and throat surgery, which he practiced for nearly 2 decades in Amsterdam, after which time, in the late eighties, he decided to move to the USA, and settled in Scottsdale, Arizona.

At that time it had become quite clear to him, that there are significant limitations in what modern medical therapeutic methods and rules have to offer, as they tend to address symptoms in ways that do not always remove the cause of the illness, neglecting the one century old, but still famous teaching by Edgar Cayce, which states :" Spirit is the life; mind is the builder, and the physical is the result " which points straight to the currently still underrecognized or ignored fact that physical problems often originate from mental, emotional or even spiritual imbalances.

Having studied with acclaimed spiritual teachers like Zohra Noach in the Netherlands and Ronald Beesley in England, he could integrate what he learned from them in his new holistic medical and spiritual approach to medicine, which he found to be much more rewarding; enough so, that he is, now as an octogenarian, still practicing in this modality.

He published many articles about his findings, which have, over time, been gathered together in the book Stepping Stones to Personal Healing, and which illustrate clearly, how recognizing and addressing mental, emotional and spiritual root causes of illness, greatly improves the quality of result of that intervention.