Meet Samantha Keen

We were lucky to catch up with Samantha Keen recently and have shared our conversation below.

Samantha , we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.

I was a financial journalist at the age of 25 years old, and then a couple of years later I got very sick. I had the symptoms of an endless virus, deep seated fatigue, unexplained headaches and severe digestion issues. I went to many doctors to find out what was wrong, but for the first three years of that, I did not find an answer. Many things helped with the symptoms, at least prematurely but nothing really helped me understand the cause of what was happening and nothing really made me better.
In that time, I was searching for something more than a cure for my physical illness, although I did not know it. I was looking for a deeper sense of purpose, something that would really give my life meaning and direction.
At that time, the finance world looked empty and meaningless to me. I was reporting on the stock markets, and big corporations in Sydney, Australia. Later then in London, UK. I was relatively successful in my career, published in newspapers and magazines all over Australia. And then later, I was also working for big media groups in the UK.
But I was not happy. I was not well and I was not happy.
At the time, I kind of merged those two things in my consciousness somewhere. Yet they still drove me to look for something more in my life.
On a trip to Zimbabwe, Zambia and the place where I was born in Malawi, something really changed inside of me. It was outside of the realms of what I had consciously experienced before that time. I had something of a spiritual awakening. I started to see non physical things, like the cause of people’s emotional and health issues just written in their bodies, and see what people were thinking. I started to have a different level of spiritual awareness than I had ever had before.
My life changed.
In that time, I began to want to meditate. I recognized that I had a spiritual aspiration and I started to move towards it., When I went back to London, UK I began to meditate with a Buddhist group. And actively changed my whole life.
Honestly at that time, it was probably a very radical change in my life, particularly for everyone around me who knew me before then. But I had to follow this impulse to go inside and find something else beyond the ordinary mind. So I started to meditate and the experiences of inner vision or inner knowing continue to grow inside of me.
This became my purpose really. To know from the deepest part of myself, to experience inner being, free from the pulls and drivers of the outside world and the ordinary mind.
This has been a quest for over 25 years now, and it has been deeply satisfying. It is also the quest that I help others with, facilitating that others can grow in their own spiritual self, and break free of the shackles of the ordinary mind.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

My business is called Keen Heart Consulting, and my title is the Transformation Catalyst. I am a practitioner of Inner Space Techniques, and I have seen many thousands of clients over more than 20 years. Working with people from all over the world, and from many different cultures and social backgrounds has been a passion of mine, helping them to move closer to the source of their true inner self.
The techniques that I implement help people to find the real source of whatever it is that is in the way. This could be an emotional blockage, an energetic issue, or a spiritual impediment. Whatever the real source of the issue is on the level of subtle bodies or non physical vehicles of consciousness, we find it and see it. In the seeing of this barrier there is a knowing of one’s self. You can know yourself in the seeing of the source in a way that is not available from the ordinary mind.
This work is incredibly gratifying and feeding for me, because I get to witness so many people connecting with their deepest truth and highest selves. Everyone is different, unique in this sense. And it is a tremendous honor to support each individual in this way.

Last October I launched a book “Reclaiming Vitality: A Healing Journey Through Chronic Fatigue and Burnout”. The book is available on Amazon. It was an amazing experience and it did get to best seller on three different categories on Amazon at the time. This book really shows what it is to heal from issues that are really caused at the level of subtle bodies or non physical vehicles of energy. It uses a model of consciousness and subtle bodies put together by Dr Samuel Sagan, the founder of the Clairvision School where I have studied now for over 25 years. And the book also includes case studies that illustrate how it might work for an individual.

See the book on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-Vitality-Healing-Journey-Through-ebook/dp/B0DJZ8C24B

I also have a blog at www.samanthakeen.com, feel free to sign up for the first couple of chapters free and articles that come out from time to time on these topics.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

I have a keen (pun intended!) sense of curiosity. I love to dive in and really find out everything about something or someone, and get to the bottom of it all. To see, to know, to find out more. I love the mysteries and diving into them to learn more.

Cultivation of being and inner peace has been a real journey for me, and continues to be. I see it as a pathway of fire, not a journey of relaxation. To become truly a vessel for Peace in this world is a fiery aspiration. Cultivating this aspiration on a daily basis, without backing down, and making it really meaningful is a quest. Especially because this is not about saving the world externally, but turning something around inside of myself that goes against the flow of ordinary human expectations.

Love is also a fire of consciousness that has cooked me. Growing in love, becoming a force of love, learning to give and receive in a way that is very real and deconstructing of my own ideas and past patterning has made me who I am today. I hope it continues to do so for the rest of my life and beyond.

Alright so to wrap up, who deserves credit for helping you overcome challenges or build some of the essential skills you’ve needed?

My spiritual teacher, Dr Samuel Sagan, the founder of the Clairvision School was hugely influential for me. He was a powerhouse of spiritual knowledge and techniques that gave massively to everyone in his sphere but also left a legacy that will continue to give for many generations.
His commitment to integrity and truth and his teachings on what those things really are helped me to grow and question the world, to see and to develop inner vision.
I learned a lot from Dr Sagan, including training personally with him for a number of years. But I think his biggest gift to me was one of learning how to cultivate my own relationship to inner vision, and how to continue to grow in that ability with no limits.

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