by Neil Gamble
In the past four years I have come upon the teachings of Serge Benhayon and attended his retreats and workshops. I have read his substantial philosophical works and listened to his podcasts. Over that time I have adopted Serge’s suggestion to track my own feelings and have, as a result, made changes to my lifestyle that initially seemed alien and contrary to common practice but that have gradually made such sense and had a significant and positive impact on my life.
His teachings have had a profoundly positive effect on pretty well everything that I do – my work, my friendships and my relationships with my family. In my experience I can also say that these changes brought about by Serge’s teachings are brick building processes towards a much happier and healthier life in general; a never ending process of increased awareness and improved wellbeing.
I am now retired from executive roles; I have been CEO of internationally publicly listed companies for most of the past twenty years. I have been a registered member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ACA) up to my retirement from that institution this year. My role as CEO was primarily one of leadership of large teams of people.
I now look back at the corporate world with a much clearer understanding and see so many businesses driven by executives that, without the benefit of these teachings, have little understanding of well being for themselves and their related communities. There is corporate irresponsibility on a massive scale. Serge Benhayon’s teachings would profoundly change the thinking and behaviour of the corporate world that would lead to much more responsive and responsible business models.
I have come to understand that you are what you eat, you are what you think/ say and you are whatever energies you choose to let in. It is clear the energies of the business world are largely based on the wrong philosophies.
Leading the dysfunctional list of corporates is the food and beverage industry which plays a major part in conning humanity to eat and drink rubbish; hence the enormous increase in modern lifestyle illnesses.
In general the directors and officers of industry have a lot to be accounted for, often involving insidious behaviour as they reach out for profits at the expense of the well being of staff, customers, communities and themselves. There is little in business’s key performance indicators that promote healthy lifestyle choices.
It comes down to a new education system. We should train ourselves to experiment with lifestyle choices, to listen to the messages from the body and thereby to make the much needed changes. It should not be an education so heavily weighted on knowledge and sciences but rather one that also teaches people to really choose how they want to live. It is not what we do that matters – it is who we really are.
The world has been deceived by the “glamour and illusion” that needlessly drives people to strive for self recognition. Our mostly irresponsible media help to embed these inappropriate behaviours.
Serge Benhayon’s teachings expose and then answer these big questions posed here and many more. His highest level of ethics and exemplary living are certainly worth considering.
I recommend Serge Benhayon’s books and I am certain that the reader will ask, as I do “How did these works come into being? Is it possible for one man, with so many other non book writing teaching tasks, to produce these substantial works in so few years? How was this possible? Perhaps there is more at work here than men usually considers? Perhaps there is a bigger than conventional philosophical view.”
There are more books to follow the six currently published works.
I believe that humanity’s current course needs to be changed to incorporate the Universal Medicine teachings and practices. It is worth it.
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
I have had a business for a number of years and it was run before I met Serge Benhayon and obviously after. I have learnt a lot from being in the retail industry, one few sole operators now venture into. How I have been able to support myself with the support of Serge Benhayon has knocked on into now my businesses. Many don’t last like I have been able to, let alone expand like I have been able to and now many are copying the business we do. It’s not that that is the focus but the key has been that I am the business, not that I carry it on my shoulders but whatever is going on for me, how I am, my thoughts, how I live are all alive within the business. It’s been and continues to be a great relationship between myself and the business, always using it as a reflection for what is going on with me. Prior to Serge Benhayon I was shown that business was just something you did and now I know it’s much much more then that, it’s always living and always expanding and while the doors may close at the end of the day the way I am and then the way this impacts the business never sleeps.
How crazy it is that what we currently view as ‘normal’ is so far from what is actually our true way of being, to the point that when we are presented with the truth it seems foreign, way out, extreme, radical and far-fetched. Have we rambled that far away from sensing, knowing and feeling truth, from living who we are, and understanding our purpose for all being here together that it is unrecognisable to us when we come across it? If not truth, what is the quality of energy that we are being led by, and does this confirm who we are and support us to live in our true power? As you have pointed out Neil the climate we have created is not working, does not support our health and well-being, us living in a more harmonious way or working together as a humanity. Yet over the past few years I have witnessed how a group of people’s lives have transformed, my own included, through applying The Ageless Wisdom Teachings as presented by Serge Benhayon. What is inspiring is these changes are not only enduring, but tremendously improving the quality of life, that is visibly lived with greater connection, truth, love, vitality and a dedication to Brotherhood.
Neil it is so true that many if not most businesses are more about profit than the wellbeing of their staff and customers. It all seems back to front when you consider that your staff are your primary asset and your business will not thrive without customers.
Neil, what you and Serge Benhayon present makes so much sense it is just weird that we as a collective don’t listen. For example surely anyone can see that our education is not giving young people life skills. What is the point of knowing that the Battle of Hastings (as I learned at school) was in 1066 if you don’t know how to look after yourself and are unemployable as so many are?
It will be interesting and for many absolutely devastating to see just how far gone we have to go before we listen to the answers that are so freely and lovingly available to us all? How many bankrupt countries, wrecked bodies and wars inside and outside the home will it take?
Thank you for sharing your experience Neil. Serge Benhayon most definitely is a voice of reason is a very chaotic world. If someone reads even a page of one of Serge’s books and lives inspired by the wisdom that is shared they would completely turn their life around. If Directors of corporations considered the true consequences that their actions had on themselves (let alone all the people that are harmed by their decisions) the business world would become unrecognisable in the best possible way.
I used to think choosing to take better care of myself, eating well and so forth was strictly personal matter and would not have been able to see it any other way – but really, the same principle can be equally applied to communities large and small as well for there to be true change. We may see various kinds of problems in various scales in the world but they all point to the same thing – either we choose love, or not.
To take responsibility for the way I choose to live makes absolute sense to me even though I forget sometimes! Yet this has not always been the case as I blamed anyone and everyone for everything before I came across Universal Medicine. Attending Universal Medicine confirmed that getting recognised for what I did left me feeling empty yet connecting to myself through my inner heart was a different ball game inspiring me to connect to a stillness and feeling content within my own body. The journey of discarding that which is not me to live who I truly am (love) is a journey I have chosen, a journey that doesn’t happen overnight but a journey I am truly grateful for without it there would be no purpose to my life.
I echo this Neil, ‘I believe that humanity’s current course needs to be changed to incorporate the Universal Medicine teachings and practices.’ The world is a mess and what we are presently doing is not working, what Universal Medicine offers I believe is the answer.
“I believe that humanity’s current course needs to be changed to incorporate the Universal Medicine teachings and practices. It is worth it.” I completely agree with you Neil, 100%. What a different, loving and supportive society we would have.
Humanity – and that means all of us – are offered inspiration by the presentations and teachings of Serge Benhayon and the Ageless Wisdom to bring integrity, responsibility and true love back to the world in the way we live.
Well said Neil and I agree the way humanity is living is just barely ticking the boxes, many have given-up on what it is to live a life with true love, vitality and joy. That’s why Serge Benhayon’s teachings are so powerful and key to thousands of people choosing to live a different way that allows for true change in all areas of your life.
Neil, you certainly are a man who has a authoritative voice on the matters you talk about. I agree, I am the same in the industry I work in. The way I work is much simpler and it is about working together for the benefit of all and not just a minority. This change has been due to my reawakened awareness through the teachings of Serge Benhayon.
When the management of any business or the corporate world places ‘profits at the expense of the wellbeing of staff, customers, communities and themselves’ it erodes the integrity of all that they do.
Neil with your past experience and your high level of awareness of what is going on in the corporate world you would be the perfect man to bring this awareness back to them.
The current course has changed already. Every little choice counts and everyone who does make this choice, to take responsibility again and start to life a life of integrity makes a difference.
I agree Neil we need to listen to the messages from the body in order to make the much needed changes to our lives. Our bodies are our ‘go to’ authority on everything. When we listen to our bodies we bring a consistency and balance to our lives; a responsibility that is reflected in everything we do.
One of the most valuable things I have ever learnt from Serge Benhayon and the esoteric teachings is to not value any part of our lives as either greater or lesser than another part, for they are all equal parts of a grand whole, equally grand in themselves if we bring all who we are into all that we do.
The teachings of Universal Medicine are not owned by anyone but rather speak the wisdom of the ages we all hold deep within our hearts. This is why everything Serge Benhayon presents just makes so much sense because it strikes a knowing cord inside us all. As such we can either choose to ignore, react or respond to such a sound. Personally for me it is the same as Neil. These teachings have formed the basis of how I now live my life. Once I was a like a helium balloon in a storm, lost without a tether in a world I felt extremely overwhelmed by. But these teachings have become the bricks and mortar of how I now live. Solid, steady and able to weather any storm without exploding in the process!
Thank you Neil for this powerful blog. You wrote: “We should train ourselves to experiment with lifestyle choices, to listen to the messages from the body and thereby to make the much needed changes.” That would be great as this would let us also take back the responsibility for ourselves.
‘I have come to understand that you are what you eat, you are what you think/ say and you are whatever energies you choose to let in.’ This is powerful Neil, once I realised this myself, my life also started to change. It revealed to me my responsibility for all my choices and how they impact my life as well as others is undeniable. So many things started to make sense to me when I started to view the world with more clarity, understanding and love.
“Perhaps there is a bigger than conventional philosophical view.” A very good question to ask to open up to that there is more to life than we allow us to see and a good start to a greater understanding is to bring our hearts to everything we do and make it about people and not outcome as Serge Benhayon and his business Universal Medicine role model so consistently.
A great read Neil and who would not agree? Corporates based on a drive for profit only feel to me like they’ve reduced themselves to something very basic, especially if the profit is at the expense of people. We need to return to feeling a sense of aspiring to something greater, expand our view, and contribute to making this world the truly amazing place it could be. For me also the work of Serge Benhayon is revolutionary in its approach and has the potential to transform the world on every level.
And we are all responsible for that change…. one by one, step by step, and a lovely reminder that for every one person who chooses responsibility, and reconnects back to their bodies, everyone they meet gets this reflection. One person can have a great impact on so many others as Serge Benhayon has shown us all consistently and lovingly so.
I agree Neil there is a lot of irresponsibility in the world and we see this reflected in the corporate world. Businesses should be first and foremost about people, how to serve people and what is best for their health and well-being. This would only be possible when they make all people aware of their own responsibility in this and that they are not just puppets of the industry that is around. Like because chocolate is being sold and promoted you do not have to buy and eat it when you know it is not good for you. It is yes about the leaders of the companies not taking responsibility to make there business one that truly serves all, like not selling chocolate as it is not healthy for us, but it is equally up to all of us to take this responsibility for ourselves and not eat the chocolate for instance even if it is there.
‘There is corporate irresponsibility on a massive scale.’ Absolutely, Neil. Whichever way you cut it, our understanding of the word ‘responsibility’ and how this is played out in ourselves as individuals and collectively in corporates, is so watered down and denatured from its true requirement, that we can kid ourselves we’re being responsible when in fact we’re just playing the game, following the crowd, going with the flow or alternatively trying to be different, pushing the envelope, boldly going. These approaches might look to be working well, but the responsibility for humanity is sadly on vacation and that’s the worst form of short-sightedness to entertain.
Hear hear on corporate irresponsibility, Neil. ‘There is little in business’s key performance indicators that promote healthy lifestyle choices.’ I’d take this further and say there is nothing substantial or of real integrity in most businesses’ KPIs that truly reflect a valuing of the human being beyond the commoditised aspect. Enter ‘Resilience Training’ – a form of support given so that corporations can continue to make unrealistic, exacting demands on their workforce having given them the so-called tools they should use to keep their exhaustion levels out of the office. There is much lip service and window dressing in KPIs but little that truly addresses the toxic soup of corporate culture or that truly unleashes the untapped potential of each and every employee.
“I can also say that these changes brought about by Serge’s teachings are brick building processes towards a much happier and healthier life in general; a never ending process of increased awareness and improved wellbeing.” I agree Neil. The teachings of the Ageless Wisdom by Serge Benhayon are the medicine that humanity is desperately in need of, in business, home life and communities everywhere on Earth.
Thank you Neil, for saying it so simply and as you see and have experienced I know that it is actually frowned upon if you take the time to look after yourself in the corporate world, or you care to care about people or do things differently. But the ease and JOY that comes with being able to live your life as you see fit, in a way that benefits everyone, is in fact very very freeing. The teachings and presentations from Universal Medicine certainly supports people to do that.
Really well written piece Neil, absolutely loved it. Its great to hear your insight into the corporate world and how people who live with love for themselves, can then in turn love other people and make that the philosophy in all business models rather than “profit before people’, which is the dominating trend of everywhere today.
“We should train ourselves to experiment with lifestyle choices, to listen to the messages from the body and thereby to make the much needed changes. It should not be an education so heavily weighted on knowledge and sciences but rather one that also teaches people to really choose how they want to live. It is not what we do that matters – it is who we really are.” So much gold here Neil. This article should have a wider outreach.
Thank you for this article Neil. “I have come to understand that you are what you eat, you are what you think/ say and you are whatever energies you choose to let in.” I totally agree with your words here and how awesome it will be when all of humanity knows it too. Thank goodness for Serge Benhayon and all that he presents in offering people a different way, a choice to be the love they are.
How did we get where we are at indeed. Recently an esoteric practitioner told me that despite the turmoil and catastrophes the world is currently experiencing there is more love in the world than at any time before. Through the teachings of Serge Benhayon the student body is expanding and reflecting love all around. I can feel a time when there will be so many people living the life that was always theirs to live that the world as we know it will be unrecognisable.
The current model of business will have to be turned on it’s head. The business model will have to no longer see the success as the margin of it’s profits but the ability to be in harmony and provide a purposeful product that truly serves.
How right on you are Neil Gamble: humanity must change it’s ways. I met an air traffic controller from Heathrow today and we were talking about how busy it is and how they manage to handle so many aircraft. I then asked if most people drink coffee to get by and his response was to laugh and say absolutely; everyone drinks coffee, including me he said, he’s a coffee an hour guy, along with a cigarette each break to cope. While he knew mentally this wasn’t a sustainable way of living, he accepted it as normal and par for the course, also accepting that he’ll probably be burnt out by 40 years of age. The business of air traffic control is driven by efficiency, but at what expense? There is no understanding by the executives of what is health and wellbeing, just a constant nod to keep trying to get the most out of people before they break. And I don’t see air traffic control as being all that different to most other industries.
This is awesome to read Neil, I have worked for a large corporation for over 25 years now and they would certainly benefit from reading Serge Benhayon’s philosophies and applying the principles into their own lives. How companies would transform if everyone became more responsible and made choices based on love and true care – there would be less people absent from work and more engaged and working harmoniously together.
I agree Neil, I think the corporate world could do with some of Serge Benhayons teachings and presentations
Both my husband and myself work for big corporations and I couldn’t agree more with your comments Neil about the way such conglomerates are anything but being based on love and harmony. What a difference it would make if all concerned understood and lived by the philosophies of Universal Medicine before worrying about anything else.
I agree Neil – you make a much needed point here about mass corporations operating in the wrong way. I work for these sorts of companies – and it is very clear what the underlying objectives are – competition, a good reputation, higher sales and higher profit margins. It always comes down to this – no matter what angle is taken.
What about people? what about health? what about care? Working in these sorts of companies and offering my input into how things can change (even if it is as small as being more honest to the consumer in how we talk to them) feels like a small step to a much needed journey. Universal Medicine should be a company manual.
Well said Vicky – businesses that are selling illness and disease in the guise of pleasurable experiences – we must see them for what they are, and discern what we consume.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if the corporate world started changing it’s drive from the profit bottom line to one that embraced the philosophical view of being a responsible servant of humanity with an important role to play. They would still surely be economically viable. Imagine a food industry whose vision was to nourish people.
I agree Neil, humanity’s current course does have to change and Serge Benhayon has the answers we need to make that happen and there is a large group of people that has recognized that and will make that happen to the benefit of all of humanity.
Yes Deborah, true education is a major key along with self responsibility. These two factors would change the world dramatically.
So true Nikki, it seems common sense is something most feel they have, but after reading and listening to Serge Benhayon one realises that perhaps they have it but chose not to live it.
Right with you Neil, well said. For one man to offer as much as Serge Benhayon has and continues to this day, and for the fact it is as a direct result of his living way, it can not but (at the very least), arouse the attention of those ready to see that change is desperately needed in the current course of humanity.
Wow Neil that’s an amazing article and so clearly expressed. It is so true what You are writing here, it’s about who we are and what we bring to the world, and the doing is just the reflection and can always be refined. Companies need brotherhood and true qualities again. I totally agree. I also feel there is (at least for me and what I also observe) a huge lack of selfworth and misconception about different jobs. As we are, every job we do is equal and therefore really important and needs to be appreciated. If we would talk less about our problems that roll in emotions and focus more on that we are all in the same boat then appreciate each others unique qualities and stregths instead of focusing on what we lack..that would already be a graet turnaround. Perfectionism is really an illness and so harming. I chose to heal this in my life so that eventually others can also, if they chose so. I chose to commit to the way of the livingness in my own rhythm and speaking with my true voice again. It’s a process to return and I chose to be as gently as I can with myself. The more I can do so the deeper is my understanding. I love people and I love to work together for a grander purpose.
Keep talking Zofia, this is music to my ears, I would love ” performance plans” to be based on how much love I am giving myself and therefore all others. What a change that would be!
Not that I would,be perfect, but I would love to be called into the office to see why my self love has dropped….
Yes it would!
Thank you Neil. I agree the education system of today is still take the archaic stance of ‘I will tell you what is fact and you will take it on as truth without question’, effectively disempowering us and making us slaves of the capitalist society. Universal Medicine has brought a much needed stop and a refreshing change in my life. Listening to my body and how I feel is now the first port of call and this simple act has made so much difference. There truly is another way based on love and simple common sense.
I love your practical and no nonsense approach Neil. As a person with extensive corporate and media experience, it is heartening to know that you are not blind to the truth of what is going on in society today and the much needed true philosophical approach to life that would turn things around for humanity.
Nothing airy or fairy here. Thank you Neil Gamble for your straight up and honest experiences with the work of Serge Benhayon. Many have benefitted and I know many more will.
‘I believe that humanity’s current course needs to be changed to incorporate the Universal Medicine teachings and practices.’ I am definitely with you here, the teachings and practices of Universal Medicine bring back what is truly important.
awesome Article Neil. There is great power in your writing and when you speak, you speak for humanity.
Neil, I totally agree with you. It is without doubt that ‘Humanities current course needs to change’ for its present momentum seems to be only speeding up and becoming more and more destructive and sad as evidenced by the escalating rates of disease and illness, and rates of violence, misery and disharmony that is affecting us all. It is all of societies responsibility to clear these patterns and to bring this change from a place of integrity, honesty and absolute commitment.
I so agree with this too, it comes back to the quality in which we live and therefore effects all that we do. There is much to be learnt from the teachings of universal medicine.
Neil a great post that highlights for me not only the fact of the state of business and the world and the very real need for the presentations of Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and the Ageless Wisdom to be incorporated into the fabric of everyday life but that the very process of doing that is not through dictation and dogma but instead through a support and allowing for each person to develop their connection to this truth for themselves. I can feel absolutely the need for a new way of business to be in all business and one that is based on these teachings – because if they are we will then have true business.
A powerful and true statement ‘that humanity’s current course needs to be changed to incorporate the Universal Medicine teachings and practices.’
I totally agree Carmel, the focus and importance for most businesses is on the outcome, generally meaning profit, and not about people, whether it be clients or employees. I feel that companies will become much more ‘successful’ by being completely honest and transparent in the way they work. As a manager of a small business over the last 6 years, I have watched the business expand hugely without me having to try, by addressing whatever is needed at the time, always focussing on understanding clients, evolving the business naturally depending on what is needed, and making the product and the way we work as supportive and gorgeous as possible. It is a little surprising how we have gone from strength to strength when the current market is struggling.
‘It comes down to a new education system. If we could train ourselves to experiment with lifestyle choices, to listen to the messages from the body and thereby to make the much needed changes. It should not be an education so heavily weighted on knowledge and sciences but rather one that also teaches people to really choose how they want to live. It is not what we do that matters – it is who we really are.’
People choosing how they live based on who they are not what they do? Imagine that.
Thank you Neil. 🙂
It is so true, Neil, there isn’t one area of life that could not be improved by the teachings of Serge Benhayon. You may have to come out of retirement and show big business how it can be done in truth and with making it about people first.
I love what you say Neil and I agree totally.
Thank you for your heartfelt testimony and deep appreciation, written in the authority and power that the work of Universal Medicine deserves.
Thank you Neil for sharing with us the extent to which many of those that impact our lives from the business world, have separated from themselves. It is ‘cunning’ how that separation is supported by ‘good’ food, drink, lifestyle perks and holding ‘High-powered’ positions in society. One day this will be very different – we are the beginning of that change. The Teachings of Universal Medicine are a living and breathing template which will continue to grow.
This is so lovely unimposing, Neil, and yet clearly straight forward. Love it.
We do have a responsibility to talk unimposingly about this to people.
Neil your testimony is a true indictment of the corporate world. How amazing would it be for you to write a book reflecting upon your experience from today’s perspective.
Thank you Neil for speaking from the corporate world, embracing the teachings of Serge Benhayon and seeing what is needed in that world to make a real change
“It is not what we do that matters – it is who we really are.” That insight alone is for an CEO like coming from an other planet. Yes it is time to re-introduce it into the corporate world like you do so well with writing this amazing blog Neil.
Many areas of the food and beverage industry are shocking in their lack of regard for people’s health and wellbeing. We as consumers play a part in this, with the level of responsibility that we are willing to take for our own health and what we call for or accept from these producers. Universal Medicine is a shining model of a business that runs successfully whilst truly supporting everyone, and there is much that can be learnt from this.
Neil this is such a fresh take on the way the world is – and how things could change enormously to benefit from the teachings made available through Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
A brilliant exposition, thank you. We can walk into any supermarket and pay attention to what is on the shelves, notice everyday how many of us are overweight (especially so, our younger generation) and look to current health statistics for a true sense of the much, much ‘bigger picture’ being ignored for decades. As Neil here says…’Leading the dysfunctional list of corporates is the food and beverage industry which plays a major part in conning humanity to eat and drink rubbish; hence the enormous increase in modern lifestyle illnesses’… I am in absolutely agreement, in that, with incorporating the teachings of Universal Medicine, as presented by Serge Benhayon, humanity will benefit, immeasurably so.
Great comment Zofia… I can see the Accountant’s role here (speaking as one) that success gets measured by the very limited and narrow set of performance (usually £), and not what actually generates the success businesses crave – which is the people ( employees, customers, suppliers). While stakeholder analysis was supposed to address this, the problem is that it is mere lip service, and really delivering profits continues to be the primary driver, quite often at the expense of those people.
You are someone who has been there, in the Boardroom, leading these firms, so when you say ‘There is corporate irresponsibility on a massive scale’ it should make us sit up and listen. Serge Benhayon’s teachings would be of such benefit, not only personally to these executives but also to the corporations that they run. And I have no doubt that over time these teachings will filter through as the body of people that have been inspired grows and spreads into every walk of life.
Yes, the world needs to change including the areas you mention, Neil. I agree humanity would benefit immensely by adopting and putting into practice the teachings of Universal Medicine as presented by Serge Benhayon. We as students of this way of living are agents of change.
I agree Neil that the corporate world would hugely benefit from taking the teachings of Serge Benhayon into account when making business decisions so that it became about people and what is best for humanity rather than about systems which are usually to the detriment of staff and customers. I love how you sum it up by stating that ‘It is not what we do that matters – it is who we really are’ and the more we all individually take responsibility for this the more this will change. Thank you for speaking up.
Serge Benhayon’s teachings have helped me to take a different view of how I am at work so that instead of being emotional over decisions I have no control over, I am much more accepting of how life is, at the same time having the confidence to speak up if I feel something is not right. As a result I am far more calm and a lot less exhausted.
Like the church and other major institutions worldwide, the corporate world needs to have a light shone on its darkest corners to expose the deliberate deceit and lack of regard for humanity. I agree entirely, that the teachings of Serge Benhayon could help usher through the much needed changes, to bring business back to being about people not $$$.
Well said Janet, I totally agree.
Yes Janet, and if business is not about dollars but all about people, then no one has to worry about the dollars, the people will come. Just look at Universal Medicine courses and clinic – they never advertise, yet are fully booked year in year out.
I agree with your comment flickchris about CEOs taking responsibility for the products they produce and everything they do, which equals less rubbish and more quality. That would be a great start to changing business ethics.