Founder: Kevin S. Merigian, M.D.

As an individual, I walk the left-hand path of life, seeking to be everything possible and truthful. Recently, I have embraced an administrative, research, and educational role to promote and advance transformational medicine. I have donated significant assets from the Stone Institute, Inc. to The Raphael Institute, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, to ensure its long-term success in our community and region. Through this structure, we can now accept charitable donations and grants for service, research, and education.

I continue to embrace health theories and philosophical approaches to patient care based on complex constructs of holonic hierarchy and fractal patterns related to human unfoldment. At The Raphael Institute, healthcare providers examine responses to stress, map its effects on the body, and cross-match chemical, hormonal, immune, infectious, and nutritional matrixes to identify intersections of disturbances. The research team is actively growing, and we are developing educational activities for providers and patients.

My spiritual journey allows me to recognize the importance of stress reduction by identifying and living in accord with our authentic selves and understanding our relationship with God.

My artistic unfoldment allows me to communicate my ideas in the many visual and literary arts languages, often using stories and analogies to enlighten those held hostage by archaic cosmology and outdated medical and health-science information. I aim to provide health and life coaching as well as develop an art therapy program for our patients.