"We tend to admire the game a person plays rather than the person themselves. After all, it is what you do, rather than who you are, that dictates your contribution to the bigger game of life."

Born in 1922, Ken Dyers was a young man when he joined the Australian Army. A combat soldier in the Second World War, he saw action in El 'Alamein and the landings at Lae and Finschhafen. Ken said of that time, "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 the 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."

Back in Australia post-war, Ken furthered his exploration of communication through an extensive and successful business career, including publishing and public company directorship. Ken's skills in effectively managing communication did not go unnoticed: US-based holding companies began calling on him as a communications adviser, to consult on executive mental health.

In the late 70's, Ken was working individually with people, using what we now know as Energy Conversion meditation as a training tool to help  people from all walks of life to pursue their own purposes in life, through greater spiritual awareness and understanding. It was at that time he met Jan Hamilton - a former physics teacher and trained actor who'd recently returned to Australia after studying in the UK on a Government grant, to pass on what she'd learned.

Jan invited Ken to work with her clowning class participants - and the quantum leap in their ability to communicate, to relate to an audience, to take direction and duplicate - was immediate. Demand for a training that combined Ken and Jan's disciplines was immediate - thus in 1982, Kenja was formed.
 

KEN AND KENJA

"You get wisdom by listening to life, listening to people and understanding the pain that causes their problems. Not listening with your body's ears - they hear only the sounds of the physical world. Rather, listening with your perception."

Over nearly six decades of personal research, Ken 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.

Although Ken had an international reputation as an expert in this field, unfortunately like many 'tall poppies', he also had his detractors. Beginning with the rants of a right-wing religious group, an anti-Kenja movement began in the early 90's. It initially attracted only a couple of disaffected former Kenja participants. But when their first round of provocations failed to garner interest, they came up with a bigger plan - one aimed to destroy Ken and Kenja's considerable credibility and with the stated aim of ultimately taking out Ken and Kenja. Their false weapon? The most serious accusation that can be levelled against any person: child abuse.

In 1992 when he was 70, the first orchestrated attacks against Ken and his work began. Only when they failed, did the tactics of using charges to destroy him emerge. Ken stood in court for over ten years - listening to lies about his character, his work, and portraying him as the opposite of the reality. All charges were shown to be false. To this day, Ken does not have a conviction against his name.

Ken consistently demonstrated his consciousness of the spiritual universe. Everyone who knew him marvelled at this inspirational, caring, courageous and highly evolved man who could never be in company without helping the people he was with. His human bubbled with warmth, and he used it to enhance our own ability to confront our own weaknesses. He has established consciousness which will remain on the planet forever. He was a true spirit warrior, fearless, who would stand up at any time to the suppression of the human, and the right of the individual to evolve.

"If, as people, we are just relating on a physical level, then it can be a long days' march before we find anything really inspiring. Yet every time I meet a person and become aware of them spiritually, I am inspired by their qualities and inherent potential. Every time - without fail!"

 
On 25 July, 2007, the attack took a tragic turn when Ken Dyers decided to end his own life. He had recently turned 85, and was an ex-combat soldier, a father, grandfather, beloved husband and hero to many. He had, with unwavering dignity and nobility, withstood a relentless attack on himself and Kenja for over 20 years. In the years leading up to his death however, he had been suffering serious ill-health. It is clear that Ken decided he could not, in this state of health and with no end to the onslaught in sight, continue to fight any longer.

This attack was launched by spurious, so-called anti-cult groups, some politicians and individuals with criminal intentions, who have fabricated false allegations of child sexual abuse against him. No conviction was ever upheld against Ken Dyers, and all allegations were rejected by the courts. Yet the police continued to hound and harass Mr Dyers, working with disaffected and hostile people, who wanted to destroy Ken to hide their own dishonesty.

This was a terrible tragedy. The irony being that Ken always had compassion for the perpetrators of this attack and what they were doing to themselves in betraying honest help, friendship and love. Kenja representatives have always said that anybody in the media or elsewhere wishing to genuinely investigate the history of this persecution and reveal the truth about what happened, would be readily welcomed.

We in Kenja feel a great loss, and we will cherish and honour Ken's memory and his work forever.