Ben Willemsen
Ben Willemsen Quick Facts
Main Areas:Human Energy, Personal and Spiritual DevelopmentBest Sellers:Don't Water the Stick: The Path of the Psyche, The Spirit and I: The Evolution of Soul, and Water Your Roots: Walking a Spiritual Path
Career Focus:Teacher, Speaker, Author
Affiliation:Centre for Human Energy Studies, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ben Willemsen was born in Rotterdam in 1936 and attended Ship Engineers college in Amsterdam. He immigrated to Canada in 1958 and worked in engineering-related fields and eventually as an industrial designer.
At 40, Ben began having experiences that his logical mind could not explain, demonstrating to him that there was a reality beyond the material world, a non-ordinary reality that influenced our everyday life and, most importantly, gave meaning and purpose to all physical existence. Leaving his engineering profession behind, he embarked on a path of psychic and spiritual development by means of mental disciplines and research. During this period, he was the subject of a two-year long study of diagnostic imagery and distance healing with anthropologist and shamanism expert, Dr. Joan Townsend. Ben taught for many years through Continuing Education and Creative Retirement Manitoba and was a guest lecturer at the Universities of Manitoba and Winnipeg.
In1987, Ben founded the Centre for Human Energy in Winnipeg, Canada where he offered workshops, development groups, and personal and spiritual counseling. In 1999, Ben and his wife Penny opened a new Centre for Human Energy Studies near Halifax, Nova Scotia. Ben is the author of three books about human energy: Don't Water the Stick: The Path of the Psyche (2nd ed., 1998), The Spirit and I: The Evolution of Soul (2nd ed., 2004), and Water Your Roots: Walking a Spiritual Path (2009).
Other Programs & Highlights
Ben Willemsen has been leading personal/spiritual development groups for over 25 years. In his latest book, the third volume of his Human Energy Trilogy, he probes the meaning of spiritual growth and the challenges encountered on a path of personal development. Using anecdotes from his student groups, he delves into the demands of finding a teacher and becoming a student, the importance of self-acceptance, the ego system and its resistance to change, the relationships between sex, love and spirituality and much more. Appendices for four meditative exercises are also included. Unifying the themes explored in the two earlier volumes of the Trilogy, Don't Water the Stick and The Spirit and I, his third book offers direction for genuine seekers of spiritual guidance.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Ben Willemsen
Many people have experiences that cannot be explained by prevailing beliefs and teachings. They are faced with a very difficult choice: either to ignore their experiences and continue living in ignorance and fear, or to honor them and begin walking their own, sometimes very solitary, path. Both choices involve hardships but only the second leads to growth. - The Spirit and I: The Evolution of Soul (2004)
One of the challenges of spiritual growth is learning to allow time - an act of giving - rather than waiting for something to happen - an act of wanting. Allowing time is being in a state of acceptance. - Water Your Roots: Walking a Spiritual Path (2009)
When we learn to focus our minds with full concentration, it is like focusing sunlight through a magnifying glass at a small point. The temperature of the focal point becomes many times greater than that of the light itself and can be used as a tool for starting a fire. Similarly, as the mind focuses on a single point, the energy directed to that point can be used as a tool to bring about a change. - Don't Water the Stick: The Path of the Psyche (2nd ed., 1998).
Getting Started With Ben Willemsen
Ben Willemsen has been teaching about the psyche, the spirit, and human energy for more than 25 years. His website www.humanenergy.net provides a vast amount of information on topics ranging from the role of the psyche in healing to the cause and removal of energy blocks, personal development and ego growth, spirituality and the world of the spirit, and the purpose of life. Visitors to his website can choose from a variety of topics such as "ego development," "creation," "spiritual paths," "soul," "healing," "human energy" and many others to access questions from readers listed under those topics, along with carefully considered answers.
Introductions to all three volumes of Ben Willemsen's Human Energy Trilogy are available for free download in PDF format, and all three books are available in printed and eBook format at www.humanenergy.net/books/
If you are dealing with serious illness or fears about dying, or require guidance during times of personal or spiritual crisis, you can contact Ben to arrange a telephone consultation. A fifteen minute consultation is often long enough for Ben to make an initial assessment and provide guidance and support. Longer consultations are also available. If you would like to speak with Ben to find out whether he can help you, there is no charge for a brief conversation ( www.humanenergy.net/content/freechat ). Your privacy will always be respected.
Contacting Ben Willemsen
Ben Willemsen
P.O. Box 4000
Tantallon, Nova Scotia
Canada B3Z 4G9
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