Myron J. Stolaroff was born in Roswell, New Mexico, August 20, 1920. He graduated from Stanford University in 1941 with great distinction. A year later he got his Masters Degree in electrical engineering. After World War II he worked for Ampex Corporation as a design engineer and eventually became the Director of Instrumentation Marketing. From 1960 to 1970 he was the President of the International Foundatin for Advanced Study. During that period he was the executive administrator for a research group conducting clinical studies with LSD and mescaline.

He co-authored many of the Foundation staff papers on psychedelic therapy. After 1970 he worked as a Consulting Engineer and as a General Manager of Multi-Media Productions, a manufacturer of social studies and sound filmstrips for public school. He retired in 1979 to focus on personal studies. He published professional papers in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Gnosis and the Yearbook for Ethnomedicine and the Study of Consciousness. At present he serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Albert Hofmann Foundation.

Thanatos To Eros was first published in 1994.