In the world today, there are a seeming endless stream of people who are ready to get up and say they have the answer to all of life's ills and mysteries. Some will tell you the 'secrets' they say only they know that have brought them supposed untold wealth and power. Some will say that you will have to get down on your knees to come to meet them. Others tell you to go on pilgrimages that abuse the body 'to get clear' and still more will give a whole show with supported 'rah rah' to 'lift you up' but after leaving the workshop or presentation you hit the floor within a few hours or days. 

Do we ever take a glimpse of how these people live, or take the time to study these self-professed 'self help guru's' for the integrity and commitment they live by? And are their lives totally open and transparent for all to see how they live, or are there all the secrets and hidden pockets of behaviour that are protected from view? Are they living in the world, seeing the reality of life, living with a family and dealing with real family issues? 

I know that I have been to many of these presentations, read many books all promising the earth and leaving you with nothing. Each time I thought I’d found someone who was talking truth, I’d study how they live and found they were not living what they presented, far from it. This was the case for many years until I met Serge Benhayon. 

​I felt with no doubt, absolutely equal, worthy and appreciated with no imposition or underlying agenda and beyond words it offered a healing to have this reflection in my life concerning relationships between men and women. I decided that this was a quality in a man, in a human being that was worth exploring and finding out more about. And recognising this integrity, power and equality in him, brought the realisation from within me, that to see it in another I must already know it within myself. I began an unfolding path of redefining, reappraising and reestablishing of how I lived, cared for myself and expressed as a woman, and this continues to develop.

​Byron Bay and the local area are filled with any possible healing modality you can think of. The local newspaper and notice boards are jam-packed with advertisements from practitioners; there are a number of healing therapy directories available online and in print media to choose from, but Serge has never advertised his services. This in and of itself should stop anyone and everyone in their tracks. How do you become global without self-promotion?  

To provide some context to what follows, so impressed was I by Jenny right from the start of our first meeting, and similarly by a number of her close friends who were also students (as they refer to themselves) of Universal Medicine, that I took up my own study of this subject with great interest. There was something different about these people. I could see and feel it.

And so it was with quite some intrigue and anticipation, when the opportunity arose to attend Livingness 1, that I did attend that event and meet Serge Benhayon that first time. My email to Serge the following day, as shown below, captures the significance to me of that first encounter, how I was impressed by him and my feelings about what he presented.

​Over the years I have had the opportunity to listen to many of Serge Benhayon’s presentations consistently emphasising the power of movement. I recall his first demonstration of this was in a guided Gentle Breath Meditation years ago when he suggested we think a negative thought or an emotional situation with the negative series of thought that goes with that and then he had us adjust our posture in a gentle way, demonstrating that when we moved in that way we could not sustain the negative thinking.

​I skill-fully kept people at arm’s length, mastering social niceties and politeness to ensure I was not challenged. I am in no doubt that this would have perpetuated unchecked had I not met Serge, and I would be struggling now with a level of mental ill health that would be impacting my physical well-being and the health of all my relationships.

During these years of indoctrination into the education system in its’ current form – we develop our ability to write in a way that ‘fits in’ with the way the world recognises ‘competent, scholarly or professional’ writing. As adult learners – we are taught how to reference the written work of other authors, and that an essay or thesis cannot be written credibly without the backing of reference material. Given the way the world is – we can say that all this has its place for now and indeed serves a purpose, in the way we live and move in all facets of the temporal world.

Connection meaning – true connection with the soul that allows one to communicate and express freely and truly from that essence. ​

 I used to find myself saying out loud, to no one in particular, things like: 

• Goodness I must have been really bad in a past life/lives as look at all the ‘bad’ things that are happening to me now.  
• I feel like I’m in a ‘pressure cooker’ class in this life to get rid of all the karma that I have accumulated so why, what’s coming?  
• I don’t want to be a teenager again, it’s just way too hard!

When I look back now, all these moments seem to be not just questions that I was looking to have answered but little lights shining on a path to somewhere – but to where I had no idea, just that I needed to be patient.

How do you not underplay the man, his wisdom, and how do you represent fully such love for people, such an understanding of life that he has? How to marvel at such a powerful ability to expose corruption and rot, seeding forth a way humanity can live, that will eradicate the suffering, illness, disease and our violent abusive ways that we accept as normal.

In life, we typecast our view on things, making those views manageable and easy to digest. With Serge Benhayon you can’t do this without creating injustice to the representation of who he is, what he embodies and what he shares with all, for all.