“When I was 14, I made the postulate that I would look above me rather than around me for inspiration. Ever since, I have done just that. If your attention is on the physical, then you see the things that might hurt you or you might be vulnerable to. But if you keep your attention on the spiritual, you will quickly get into the lighter areas. Your attention will be on the qualities of people, rather than the limitations or liabilities.”
Ken Dyers is an Australian, a World War II veteran and co-founder alongside Jan Hamilton, of Kenja Communication. After raising a family and completing a successful business career, Ken has dedicated much of his life to the meditation technique he pioneered – Energy Conversion.
Energy Conversion meditation is unique to Kenja Communication, but it is not new. It was originally used by Tibetan Buddhists who refer to it as “psychic osmosis - the highest method of imparting higher learning”.* It was also practiced by the North American Indians in the form of a healing process. The result is a simple, contemporary technique, used by thousands of people regardless of age, race, sex or religion, to pursue their potential and explore their spiritual heritage. From its initial sources of inspiration, it has evolved to suit modern day needs.
Ken has spent over 60 years researching and simplifying Energy Conversion meditation – beginning when his earliest influences as a child inspired him to pursue a spiritual viewpoint.
“My father was the first to put me in touch with those things outside our immediate life. He learned the philosophy of the aboriginals. To be detached from life and death. He was reared in the Northern Territory on Daly Waters Station – which was really Aboriginal country. At the age of three, Dad was picked up by a wandering tribe – they had nomads up there in those days. So he got picked up by a wandering tribe of Aborigines and he joined them – they just took him with them. Three years later he was noted by a drover and taken to the Station. So he was reared with men and male values. I’m 84 now, and Dad was 54 when I was born, so we’re going back a long way.
Dad had no formal education, he learned to read with a hurricane lamp and old newspapers. But he knew a lot. By the time he became my father he understood navigation because he’d bought a yacht and sailed it from Cairns right round the north of Australia down to Western Australia.
From his experience with the Aborigines, he understood what it is to be detached from life and death. You just wait for the next body. So being conscious of yourself as a spirit – which survives the death of the body– is naturally paramount. The Aboriginal people know, and Dad came to know, that the life of the body is not the life of the spirit. And he passed that on to me. ”
Ken’s childhood also allowed him to observe and understand first-hand, the limitations of the mind.
“I came to understand that an animal’s reality and mind varied depending on its specific survival needs. There was a horse – Dark Lady – and I had to go out when I was quite small and put a bridle on her. And when I got near her she’d roll her eyes and rear up and paw the air. I went back and said to Dad ‘I’m not going to get near her, she’ll trample me if I get any closer.’ But he shook his head. “No she won’t. Not if you just stay there. She’s trying to say to you ‘Who goes there?’ So you stay still and have a lot of love for her, a lot of affinity and understanding for what she’s trying to communicate to you. And you respond back, ‘Friend.’ Then she’ll calm. Her eyes will come forward and she’ll put her head down and let you put the bridle on.” Which she did do! And that was a tremendous lesson to me. Why do animals behave like they do? First of all they want to present to you their mind’s survival mechanism – but if you’re really willing to respond as a spirit, they will change. Same as people."
Ken’s early interest in spirituality and his growing awareness would later ensure his safe passage through the Second World War when he served as a combat soldier with the Australian Army in El 'Alamein and the landings at Lae and Finschhafen. It was there that he relied on his natural spiritual knowing to survive.
“My perception told me which track to take. I just knew which track to take to avoid the sniper's bullets.”
War exposed Ken to the best and worst in humanity, from stupidity and cruelty to great caring and compassion.
“I could perceive the good and the bad. I didn’t just want to avoid the bad and only experience the good – I wanted to see the whole lot. I wanted to understand everything so I didn’t have any illusions. I realised the importance then, of being able to remain detached – of meditation. Of developing and maintaining your spiritual viewpoint. To be able to perceive that part of you which is outside the game, outside the realities and agreements of your peers. And also to be aware there are realities beyond that. That’s why I came back (from the war) unscathed. It helped me to let go the things that happened and move on. Because life is the life of the spirit. If it was only the life of the body, you wouldn’t let go – what happened in the past would be a part of you. But meditation is just separating the past from the present. And so life then becomes a journey – and a very interesting one. And worthwhile taking risks. And there are a lot of risks if you’re going to maintain the viewpoint of the spirit because it often gets out of agreement with the reality of the mind.”
Back in Australia post-war Ken was determined to embrace the lessons learned.
"Serving in combat, I realised that perception, the human viewpoint and communication were the most important tools for survival. I returned to Australia determined to preserve this human viewpoint in all of my communications and actions. I realised that if the human viewpoint was adopted, the atrocities of war would never eventuate."
Ken furthered his exploration of communication through an extensive and successful business career, including publishing and public company directorship. His skills in effectively managing communication did not go unnoticed: US-based holding companies began calling on him as an executive communications adviser.
At the same time, Ken continued developing his understanding of meditation, researching meditation techniques and the world’s religions, with the purpose of removing dogma, significance and belief from the spiritual equation.
“Dogma and belief are the packaging that spiritual truths are presented to us in. When we unwrap a present we don’t keep the packaging. I realized many years ago that believing is only necessary when we are unwilling to experience for ourselves. When you are able to experience the realities of the game of life, rather than the apparency, then we don’t believe, because we have observed first hand”.
Eventually Ken began working with people individually with Energy Conversion Meditation.
“Energy Conversion meditation converts the energy that solidifies an idea or a viewpoint and makes the person trapped in that viewpoint. With Energy Conversion you convert the energy that’s locking in that viewpoint or reality, from the heavy energy that makes it go solid – into light energy – which means you can still have that viewpoint, but it releases you from being stuck with it. That’s all it does do – it just converts energy.”
In the early 80’s Ken met Jan Hamilton. Jan had completed a Bachelor of Science majoring in physics, and diploma of Education from Melbourne University before winning an Australia Council grant to study full time acting for 3 years at E15 acting school in London. Returning to Australia and eager to pass on what she had learned, Jan was running classes in clowning. Then she met Ken and, keenly interested in what he was doing, invited him to contribute to her work. His input dramatically increased the awareness, perception and ultimately the communication effectiveness of the class and in 1982, Ken and Jan co-founded Kenja training. “I had realised that physically, everyone is different, like a fingerprint. But spiritually, we are one.”
Now at 84, and after nearly six decades of personal research, Ken has lectured and demonstrated the practical use and handling of personal energy across all areas of human endeavour, at Kenja lectures as well as diverse organisations covering industry, business, defence and human resources.
Ken’s ongoing research into Energy Conversion meditation, and the lectures, classes, workshops and articles that come from that work continues to directly help thousands of individuals and families world-wide to develop their own ‘spiritual understanding in a physical world’.
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* Psychic osmosis (Energy Conversion) documented in the Tibetan book of the great liberation, General introduction, part VII, illiteracy and Utilitarianism, last paragraph). “ It is not commonly recognised among occidentals that there are methods of imparting culture other than through literacy, which, according to the Gurus, is the least efficient of all. Four methods are employed in the orient: (1) through telepathy or psychic osmosis: (2) through abstract symbols, such as mandalas inscribed in the earth or painted on paper, cloth or wood: and also through concrete symbols which may be geometric forms: (3) through sound, as in music or audibly expressed mantras, or spoken words, which are often whispered into the ear of the neophyte in initiations: (4) through written words, setting forth the secret doctrines, usually in symbolical and very obtrusive technical and metaphorical style. The first method is the highest, the fourth is the lowest method of imparting the Higher Learning.