Review of Lester and Me by Stephen Seretan

“Lester and Me” by Stephen Seretan
84 pgs. Available from http://lesterandme.com

When I read this, I was amazed at how much truth could be told so simply. Very, very few of us ever get to meet a real Master in the flesh – and Seretan has done so.

You only have to look up those people who are still around who did talk with Lester Levenson in his Sedona days to verify that this was one incredible being. As well, copies of Levenson’s recorded lectures are available, as well as some rare videos.

What Seretan offers as well is the personal glimpse into how Levenson affected his life – and what he went through on his own road to greater understanding of himself and why his own world was working as it did.

Now much of this book could be straight out of a sci-fi novel – and in fact, it has all the makings of a good movie. The characters, the pathos, as well as the ultimate triumph possible where Seretan actually did understand Levenson and took it to heart.

For instance, when he couldn’t get into an advanced class, Seretan applied the techniques he learned and got into the Inn where it was being delivered, then called Levenson – who arrived in his room and gave him more personal attention then he would have gotten in that seminar. However, Lester himself had to point out how much of a remarkable event Seretan just created for himself – and yet chided him that instead of getting that room at a sizeable discount (as he had) he could have gotten the room for free.

There are other tales of supernatural events, and out-of-body experiences, even UFO encounters. But there isn’t space here to tell these tales.

My own understanding of Lester’s work is simple, but indirect. And too many times, a person of this magnitude is simply lionized and sanitized for public consumption by those who would profit off their memories.

Seretan, in his own style, just tells about his friend and mentor as he met him and as he knew him. To him, Lester would pull no punches. One time, he told Stephen in front of a whole class that he would make better progress if he taped his mouth shut. But the meaning – even if it seemed to hurt – was obvious to Seretan, and assisted him to understand himself on a deeper level.

And for those who may be familiar with Hale Dwoskin or Larry Crane’s or others’ re-telling of Levenson’s story, it is really requisite that you get this book to get the honest, inside story of the very real Lester Levenson.

You might even see a new side of yourself.

The 4 steps to miracle making

Ho-oponopono, as taught by Dr. Hew Len and promoted by Joe Vitale, is able to create miracles in your life. If you get Vitale’s Zero Limits, you’ll be told stories of how this has happened to people who used it. For Vitale and others, life moved into the “miracles-as-usual” band.

While Dr. Len based his procedure on his mentor’s, Morrnah Simeona – who in turn had been refining very traditional healing techniques from the earlier Huna traditions.

There are, to my understanding, just 4 points to this – which, when understood in their depth – are able to reverse any situation you have going in your life.

1. Be responsible for what is. This means welcoming it fully in all its aspects and accepting that you somehow, and in some way created this. As you consider and accept that we are all connected, then you see that this is true – even if you don’t see how in the present moment. You may see initially that something could be improved. But also look for the perfection that is in that solution you are seeing. Look simply at what is.Drop any resistance, or wanting to change it, just welcome it for what it is.

2. Recognize all the effects it has caused up to this point. Again, as we are all connected, the Golden Rule is bringing effects forward from the original cause that started from that creation. Accept these and be responsible for them. Again, drop any resistance to this or need for change – welcome whatever you are looking at for what it is and be willing to let it be or let it go.

3. Create it newly with love. See that it now is a new creation, a more optimal solution than ever before. See that now it creates a win-win solution for everyone involved. Completely create it with absolute and elemental Love such that it spreads throughout all you are aware of, and benefits all it touches and effects – which is everyone.

4. Let it go for the Universe to manifest newly. Feel the gratitude present that any effect has already been created. Feel the calm, cheerful expectancy that you are now experiencing the echoes of this Love you just sent into the Universe. Know it’s already complete and everyone has benefitted from your actions and thoughts and creation.

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This is really the answer to everything in your life which is non-optimal. As you see something happening (like government interference, taxes, wars, poverty, disease, etc.) then apply these four steps to them. As you consider and create optimal solutions for everything around you that you are connected directly with, you’ll start seeing “miracles” occur with greater and greater frequency. Accept these and validate them.

Of course, as you practice with this, your ability will improve. And you can take on bigger and bigger situations. Like World Peace and Global Prosperity.
You may see parts and pieces of various training systems in this – all quite in addition to the original Huna techniques. Silva Method, Levenson releasing, even Earl Nightingale’s “Strangest Secret”. For all these roads lead to the same place and all these story tellers have the same plot-line.

The point is that anything you feel is incomplete or non-optimal around you can now be changed with those four simple points above.

And they obviously work best when you get into a quiet, reflective, and even meditative attitude. Quiet the mind as best you are able, then simply consider each of these steps above.

You might want to learn Dr. Len’s short-hand for this:

“I’m sorry.”

“Please forgive me.”

“I love you.”

“Thank you.”

You’ll see that the four steps above just fill in the background information which these four statements address. And were found through researching the background of Ho-oponopono, Huna, and a wealth of related materials.

Please use this, improve it, and share it with all who are interested.

Love to all.

The difference between I, We, and Us – or is there?

My decade in the “wilderness” was self-enforced for a reason. And, just as the hermit, I was never really left alone. But I did have substantial time to simply reflect.

I found that time to be very rewarding. The more I dropped away connections to this outer world, the more intimately connected to it I became. Because I quit seeing it for what it was and started seeing it, and living it as it just is.

Pronouns (and nouns) have limited use. Mostly, they are placeholders. And this is a difficult concept for most, since this is exactly what we’ve been working at all this time – to remain separate, to find differences.

And the people we hold as true statesman and leaders are those who resolve differences. Those who we hold as outcasts and villains were those who sought to raise or hold one group above the others. (Gandhi vs. Hitler)

Those politicians we’ve elected on the hope for this who then disappoint may or may not be working toward greater resolution. But politicians live in the realm of politics, whose highest accomplishment is in compromise, which is where no participants are truly satisfied with the results.

Government is no answer. And can, for the most part, be ignored.

The individual is the point to work with. And of course, that gives you a moving target, since the “individual” is a hard thing to pin down.  Hale Dwoskin’s latest movie, “Letting Go” really goes into this point that we are all connected Self.

Of course, that is no less than what the ancient philosophies have held since before our recorded times.

So I’ve been independently going outside the mainstream in order to look at these flows for what they are. And see that they are all really going in the same direction, for the most part. If you follow popular, bestseller self-help authors, you will see that they both cross-influence each other and also have the same underlying theme. And that if you compare these with the most ancient recorded texts, you’ll find them simply echoes of what went on before.

Certain people like Thomas Troward have been the bridge between those texts and our modern times. Similarly Lester Levenson and to a degree, Greg Braden.

The essence of this solitude has been to simply build understanding of who and what I am – and then go beyond that into how this fits into the rest of this universe.

The results are, to me, astonishing. And have taken me through some incredible adventures – meeting all of Joseph Campbell’s archetypes along the way. All were successes. All lessons learned.

These don’t mean I don’t still cast stones without being pure myself, first. Old habits die hard. But communication (and satirical parody) is another learning experience.

Every message you give is simply a message you receive. I’ll often refer to the Golden Rule, but this concept is Universal in every philosophy. As you give, you will receive. So what you put out, you get back. And in order to get, you have to give away first.

A corollary is that the less you have to have, the more you are able to give away. And Wayne Dyer has laid out an interesting test along this line: give away something you really value and prize. Instead of giving your “old” clothes to charity, give the ones you love the most – the newest and most expensive. Helluva learning moment.

Teachers are learners and learners teach. The word “mystic” has two meanings, “initiate” and also “adept”. What goes around comes around.

But enough about me. How about you?