John Stephenson

John Stephenson came to Hawaii in the early 1960s to surf the famous North Shore of Oahu and he eventually graduated from the University of Hawaii at with a degree in fine art. 
More importantly, he studied with the great Twentieth Century mystic, Joel S. Goldsmith, who was living in Kailua at that time. Goldsmith bridged the spiritual gap between East and West, and introduced the words meditation and consciousness into the common lexicon. 
During his time with Goldsmith, the author had many experiences that revealed the nature of the mystic and opened his consciousness to the undiscovered land of transcendent reality.