The ‘Sedona Method’ of Meditation

Wanting to share what he had learned, Lester Levenson traveled to speak at seminars and to small spiritual minded groups of people. Soon, people flocked to hear his amazing and inspirational story, and his audience swelled to several hundreds and thousands of people.

In 1958, he felt a sudden urge to head west, perhaps to California. On his way to San Diego, he passed through Arizona and spotted a sign that read ‘Sedona’. He heard an inner voice tell him “go there!” Guided by this inner voice, he went immediately to Sedona and was overpowered and overwhelmed by the unique combination of breathtaking beauty and spiritual energy he found there. He decided to purchase land in a remote area of Sedona on which to establish a meditation and retreat center. Here he told people of his experiences and shared the methods by which they too might experience the realization that he had. This eventually became known as the ‘Sedona Method.’

The ‘Sedona Method’ of meditation became known all over the world, with thousands of people practicing its techniques. His closest students in New York visited him often in Sedona, with some of them moving to be near him. One of them was Dr. David Hawkins, the renowned author of Power vs. Force, who worked with Nobel Prize winning physicist Linus Pauling. Lester Levenson, who expected to die at the age of 42, lived until he was 84, and was active until the end of his life.

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