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Hello, it is very good to be connecting with you again, especially as so much has been happening for most of us. Have sibling issues been up for you? Or painful power struggles? Let them go. Whether or not you want to, you have to.

Recent days (perhaps even weeks) and the days to come are a great time of birth. Birth, for those of us who have literally, physically given birth to children is rarely completely easy or pain free. However, the amazing fact is that once the baby is born, the joy and love that flows wipes out any of the proceeding struggle (unless you are unlucky enough to face complications, like post natal depression). Well, think of this as the birth. Much blood can be shed. Sometime surgery is even necessary. There is all the drama of a crisis. But, the result will be worth it. Sometimes, it is short, sharp and sweet, that could be your experience too. In that case any passing pangs will be forgotten even more quickly.

Then, I am going to be very practical. There is another issue to face, and it is vital. It is the delivery of the after birth. In childbirth, after the baby is delivered the next stage is the delivery of the afterbirth. This is the placenta and the elements in which the fetus was nurtured and grew: those parts of your life that you no longer need. They may have been vital to the growth, but once your “baby” is born- or your project, or next stage of endeavor, launched- it is vital that they are expelled. Their use is over. If they remain in the body they will cause grave danger.

Make sure that you have expelled any elements of your past that do not nurture and feed your future – even if they were important to your past. Of course it may feel uncomfortable to leave behind something that you feel was important, but often it’s the perspective on the importance that matters.

Look closely and you may see that it was not as important as you thought. (Maybe even a hindrance and not a help).

Realizing this frees you and makes it easier to let go. If on the other hand it seems as if what you are leaving behind played a vital role, and you are sorry- or even guilty- in letting go, then be sure to give gratitude. Thanks and humility are very powerful, and ultimately cornerstone tolls of transformation.

Gain ground now. Press ahead, spiritually, imaginatively, in your dreams and desires if the everyday does not allow room for advance, or your body needs or wants to rest or play. You can claim the place, and the space you need, even if you cannot physically own it now. Enjoy the summer- if you are in the Northern hemisphere, or perhaps the bracing winter if you are in the southern part of the world.

Listen to this month’s ELU to emphasize the message of the Intuitive Month and help you on your path to an ever brighter, stronger and more joyful future, for the benefit of us all.

Go well, be well.

Love

Michal

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Birth, and Afterwards – ELU 19 July 2010

You are born, my dearest one,
Blood of my blood flesh of my flesh
You look at me with your
Dark blue eyes that
Hold my image and my dreams,
My dazzling love, my dearest desires.

You will be my greatest teacher,
You will hold my darkest
Secrets in your wake,
You will be the cause of
My deepest sorrows, and
My wildest joys. You
Are my past, as you hold
The very seeds of my future.

Nine months within my body
Separated by a thin pulsating
Wall, sharing blood and flesh,
The line between us
Will slowly grow again.
This time, a firmer boundary
As the years pass,
And your crackling energy
Pushes impatiently past the
Shady confines of the willow
That is my spiritual sanctuary.

May you grow in wisdom and
Strength, beauty and humility.
May you serve as you reap, create
As you harvest. May the sun bless this,
My endeavor, and the moon
Nourish it with inspiration
And the power of dreams.

May I own and honor all
This potential, in my journey
Past the confines of myself –
My birth into my future.

© Michal Levin 2010

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My feet are hardly touching the ground. Thank you to all who joined with me at the marvelous retreat we have just returned from in France.

Something almost magical happened. Looking at the faces around the breakfast table on the last morning, every participant glowed. But I will leave them to tell you how they felt. Peter who came from London writes: “This experience was nothing more or less then a beautiful gift. Not only did I get the chance to grow spiritually at an amazing rate, I had lots and lots of fun. Thank you. I really felt loved and supported throughout.”

And another participant echoes his sentiment: “I just wanted to express once again how wonderful the retreat has been for me, even though I feel that words cannot possibly express the gratitude that I feel. Thank you so much for the love and wisdom that you are offering to all of us. It is such an invaluable gift. I am so happy to be able to connect with you. “

And Felicity who came from California says very simply, “What a wonderful retreat! Thank you. With much love & gratitude, Felicity”

Much love and gratitude- that is exactly how I feel for the privilege of connecting with all.

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Hello-it is very good to be connecting with you as I look at the energy of the four weeks ahead.

Most noticeable of all is the eclipse- in terms of the stars- that occurs on 26th June. I am no astrologer- or astronomer- but the energy of this event speaks loud and clear.

For most of us the last weeks have been incredibly busy. There really is a sense of events speeding, too much to do, too little time. In some cases this has been exciting, in others oppressive. Or a mixture of the two. Now, ahead of us, in the last week of June comes a dip.

The energies point towards conflict in the wider world. This does not need to mean conflict in our inner world, but they may suggest conflict in the outer world, which obviously will affect reality for all of us. I may suggest. I am not making a prediction about events on earth, just telling you that there is energetic conflict ahead. Of course it can clear situations and lead to good, as well as being a little difficult to live thorough.

The need is to stay very steady indeed. To look at all times to your higher self, and the greater good. This is a time to be especially wary of demonizing others, be they nations, people or organizations. But it is also time to be firm and clear, holding to your highest standards. Remember, means do not justify ends. Sometimes punishment, or firm means are necessary, but the need in those circumstances is to revert to normal as soon as possible. Do not drag out situations of conflict. Do not fuel conflict.

Keeping calm, remembering that the best influence you can offer comes from your inner, true self is the way ahead. Remember love. It may seem a curious point to make when faced with pressures, but it is the only point. Cast your mind back to a time or place where you remember the feelings of love. Hold onto those feelings and let them inform all actions and attitudes you hold to. That is the surest way of creating joy, peace and plenty.

Incase the conflict or pressure results in physical symptoms in your body manifesting or emerging- which it sometimes can do, the message is the same. This is an excellent time to deal with what needs to be addressed, and to do so quickly. If you act firmly, thoughtfully and immediately the prognosis is good. However, again this is not a prediction of physical problems. It is simply my view of best steps for you to take in dealing with the energies if they become physical issues.

There is a strong sense of entrepreneurial activity around too. It’s a good time to listen to your hunches, and follow up on ideas. You may have plenty of those.

So- remember Love, and trust in your creativity and the next four weeks, however busy or even turbulent they are, will be productive and bring you joy, and eventually, peace.

The ELU this month remembers Love!

Go well, be well.
With love and best wishes,
Michal

HOLY CITY
ELU 18th June 2010

Looking for the road
To the Holy City of my Heart.
Passing by the green fields
Each one stamped with
Your face.

I see your smile in
The waving corn, feel
The loving gaze of your eyes
In the piercing color all
Around. Green for growth
Green for my love,
And yours.

You are alive in my memory,
The fields surrounding me
Speak your name,
And my loss? If you match
My memory, if you love me
Still, if you remember-

Then the fields answer
Me. The sweep of the land
And the spread of
The trees are your reply:
Endlessly and forever.

As spring ripens
Into summer, and autumn
Follows close, year after year,
I yearn for you
And search for you.

In you, and you alone,
I know the road to
The Holy City of my Heart
The place where I belong to You.

Endlessly, and forever.

© Michal Levin 2010

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Frank Skinner (Brit comedian) on Desert Island Discs (cult radio) last weekend described “the tingle” (his words) he felt when hearing Placido Domingo hit a high “C”- he thought- for the first time. That’s energy making itself felt! Listen to the ELU. Nothing at all like the fantastic Placido, of course, but most people report feeling a “tingle” that could be similar. It’s the “hit” from the energy that accompanies the piece. Try it for yourself?

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I watched the water today- a wide ocean horizon, and was flooded with knowing. As I gazed out to sea, I was reminded of the importance of perspective. And as my inner vision blossomed, I remembered how the outer effects the inner; and that the energy of a place has a direct effect on the energy of the individual.

My spirits danced in the gentle sunlight and my soul joined with the rocks and the lines of the land and the lapping water. My perspective expanded and with it my reality.

In a place of inspiration, I am more- more open to possibility, more open to finer vibrations, more open to potential.

I look for that place of inspiration both inside me, in meditation, contemplation, and the consciousness of everyday reality. And then, when I can, in the many facets of the outside world.

In this way, I feed – you feed- joy and peace.

© Michal Levin 2010

Meet Michal Levin –
In France on June 25th – 28th 2010 – THE ENERGY OF RELATIONSHIPS -
Summer Retreat – To find out more please click here.
For costs, travel details and to book please contact Hilary
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In California on September 16th-19th 2010 – Retreats in USA
This intensive with Michal will take place at Commonweal Retreat Center.
For more information please click here or contact Felicity
Felicity@MichalLevin.com

In London on Monday 1st November 2010 – Alternatives -
7.00pm – 8.30pm (doors open 6.30pm)
St James Church, 197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL.
Michal will be giving a public talk – keep the date free!
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My first love held my heart
In his hand as if it were a fledgling,
Fallen from a broken nest in an
Old tree. The nest,
And the great fates, created
For my birth a drama; and
I fell to earth not yet fully formed.

My downy feathers barely protected
My soft skin, until you cupped
Your hands around my beating body.
But ignorance, confused memories
Of past and future, hopes and dreams,
Heroism and martyrdom in lives gone
Bye held me too. I lost you.

Does time deaden the pain?
In an unexpected moment,
I remember, and tears fill my heart.
His breath is everywhere,
Meeting me around each corner,
Wafting low over the hazy horizon
Penetrating my mind, my
Memory; until I turn to face you.

You remind me of the gifts,
My first love gave: the protection
His hands offered, the sense of belonging,
And the certainty. All mine,
Accepted unquestioningly –
Like you in me.

Then, your Eternal presence,
Strokes my face. I feel
My gift to myself. My innocence,
My joy and my optimism rise
Like steam from
A tropical rainstorm. Warm, fat
Raindrops wash me clean and new,
To welcome my first love again-
You, and me.

© Michal Levin 2010

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Meet Michal Levin –
In France on June 25th – 28th 2010 – THE ENERGY OF RELATIONSHIPS -
Summer Retreat – To find out more please click here.
For costs, travel details and to book please contact Hilary
Hilary@MichalLevin.com

In California on September 16th-19th 2010 – Retreats in USA -
This intensive with Michal will take place at Commonweal Retreat Center.
For more information please click here or contact Felicity
Felicity@MichalLevin.com

In London on Monday 1st November 2010 – Alternatives -
7.00pm – 8.30pm (doors open 6.30pm)
St James Church, 197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL.
Michal will be giving a public talk – keep the date free!
admin@alternatives.org.uk

Or, if you would like to invite Michal to visit your home town, or your country, please be in touch with Peter
Peter@MichalLevin.com

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Hello- it is very good to be connecting with you again to take an intuitive look at the energy of the month ahead. I am sure we are all glad to be out of mercury retrograde, but now, a different pressure is building. This is a tension around activity! And at the same time, your feelings are very close to the surface.

Are you sad or are you glad? Are you in or are you out? It’s likely that the feelings, of all sorts, will be very high right now. And, in between, you will be tired. This is not a relaxing time.

The plans that you have been dreaming of, the ideas you have been mulling over are coming to the fore. The full picture is by no means clear yet, but it is getting much clearer. And it demands that you play a part in a new way. This new role could be very challenging. Change is often challenging, but the necessity now is to enjoy the change, and to embrace it. This is perhaps despite your exhaustion from time to time (exercise is good, remember).

At the same time, think about boundaries. It is increasingly important to work on firm boundaries. Know who you are and what is appropriate for you. This message will be repeated over and over again- until you “get it”. That does not mean limit yourself at all. It really means concentrate on what is important for you to do, and doing it really well. Concentrate on the widest, most inclusive vision and manifesting it in your own behaviour.

Of course there are those who will be, or could be, undermining from time to time. You will need to decide when to address these challenges (or challengers), and confront the obstacles in your path, and when to ignore them. Its possible that you are feeling hurt, and you may be the challenger. In which case look at your greater path. See where the hurt – or anger- is an expression of your smaller self, and choose to take the enormously difficult, brave steps that transcend your smaller self.

You can be successful now, working both for your own good and the greater good. Use the energy at your disposal- let your heart sing with the truth.

The ELU this month is about remembering the totality of you, and releasing the totality of you to embrace your love. First love is not just the giddy state we remember, sometimes tearfully. First love is the memory of possibility, and the possibility of being whole, of loving and of being loved. It is real, it is true, and it is yours, now.

Go well, be well,
With love and best wishes,

©Michal Levin 2010

Meet Michal Levin –
In France on June 25th – 28th 2010 – THE ENERGY OF RELATIONSHIPS -
Summer Retreat – To find out more please click here.
For costs, travel details and to book please contact Hilary
Hilary@MichalLevin.com

In California on September 16th-19th 2010 – Retreats in USA -
This intensive with Michal will take place at Commonweal Retreat Center.
For more information please click here or contact Felicity
Felicity@MichalLevin.com

In London on Monday 1st November 2010 – Alternatives -
7.00pm – 8.30pm (doors open 6.30pm)
St James Church, 197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL.
Michal will be giving a public talk – keep the date free!
admin@alternatives.org.uk

Or, if you would like to invite Michal to visit your home town, or your country, please be in touch with Peter
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Here’s a small extract that comes from a talk I gave in 1998, to The Medical and Scientific Network in London. I have been thinking about bliss recently, and about joy:

Bliss is something else. It can be connected to an other worldly situation.Let me explain. I’m always very careful about the progress of the spiritual because what I’ve observed is that when people are called by it, they can’t say no. One way or another when it calls, eventually, you come. And, you come, to whatever is the appropriate degree, that constitutes what I call the journey out. You go out to meet it – eventually. It calls and you go. When you reach the embrace with the spirit in some form or another – there is bliss, wonderful. It’s marvellous. But, you have to come back. You have to bring what you have gained in that embrace back to earth; and that often feels as if it’s giving up bliss. And it would be, surely for some people, or for many of us. You feel, why can’t I stay up there? Why can’t I stay blissed out, out there? And the fact is, you can’t because you are on earth, and you have an ordinary everyday human life to live, and that spiritual knowledge out there is of no use unless you reintegrate it into an everyday reality. And that often means giving up the blissed out aspect and its hard to do. Joy is what you gain instead. It is worth it.

©Michal Levin 2010
(November 17th 2006, blog post)

Meet Michal:
In London on May 15th 2010 -When she will be joining the monthly LEAP (Life Energy Activation) Group in Notting Hill Gate.
Click here to book a place now!

Monday 1st November 2010 – Alternatives – 7 – 8.30pm (doors open 6.30pm)
St James Church, 197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL.
Michal will be giving a public talk – keep the date free!
admin@alternatives.org.uk

In France on June 25th – 28th 2010 – THE ENERGY OF RELATIONSHIPS -
Summer Retreat – To find out more please click here.
For costs, travel details and to book please contact Hilary
Hilary@MichalLevin.com

In California on 16th-19th 2010 – Retreats in USA -
This intensive with Michal will take place at Commonweal Retreat Center.
For more information please click here or contact Felicity
Felicity@MichalLevin.com

Or, if you would like to invite Michal to visit your home town, or your country, please be in touch with Peter
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Be aware whatever race or religion is yours in this life in the next life it will probably not be the same. Karma will ensure that over the many, many lives of your soul you will experience the reality of all religions until you truly know their is only one overwhelming identity – our humanity. And only one reality – the human condition that we create and that we share.

Meet Michal:
In London on May 15th 2010 -When she will be joining the monthly LEAP (Life Energy Activation) Group in Notting Hill Gate.
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Monday 18th October 2010 – Alternatives – 7 – 8.30pm (doors open 6.30pm)
St James Church, 197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL.
Michal will be giving a public talk – keep the date free!
admin@alternatives.org.uk

In France on June 25th – 28th 2010 – THE ENERGY OF RELATIONSHIPS -
Summer Retreat – To find out more please click here.
For costs, travel details and to book please contact Hilary
Hilary@MichalLevin.com

In California on 16th-19th 2010 – Retreats in USA -
This intensive with Michal will take place at Commonweal Retreat Center.
For more information please click here or contact Felicity
Felicity@MichalLevin.com

Or, if you would like to invite Michal to visit your home town, or your country, please be in touch with Peter
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I saw a shape, in the wind,
That had no name. As I
Tried to call, it changed
Before my eyes – Shapeshifter.
It led me from person to person
Trying each against the figure Holding,
moulding my mind.

So time, and disappointment, rolled
One after another; the tide
Of my inward tears ate into
The shore, till I watched
From the safety of the dunes –
Poised, posed in sum and air.
I saw you still, but where?

Then one evening, in the
Drizzle of early fall, in a
Strange but comforting place,
Ringed by trees and built of wood,
The unexpected seemed to happen.
You reached out your hand
To me. Is it you?

Show me your face.
By your actions,
Show me your truth.
And by my deeds
I pledge my truth,
My eternal promise
To you, and to myself.

Travel well,

Go well be well.

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© Michal Levin 2010

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I do not see the colour of your skin, the shape of your nose or whatever other so called defining racial characteristics your physical form bears. I see the quality of your heart. I am not interested in your religion – whether of your birth or choice. I see the reality of your love. Spiritual evolution demands we all go beyond race and religion now.

Meet Michal:
In London on May 15th 2010 -When she will be joining the monthly LEAP (Life Energy Activation) Group in Notting Hill Gate.
Click here to book a place now!

Monday 1st November 2010 – Alternatives – 7 – 8.30pm (doors open 6.30pm)
St James Church, 197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL.
Michal will be giving a public talk – keep the date free!
admin@alternatives.org.uk

In France on June 25th – 28th 2010 – THE ENERGY OF RELATIONSHIPS -
Summer Retreat – To find out more please click here.
For costs, travel details and to book please contact Hilary
Hilary@MichalLevin.com

In California on 16th-19th 2010 – Retreats in USA -
This intensive with Michal will take place at Commonweal Retreat Center.
For more information please click here or contact Felicity
Felicity@MichalLevin.com

Or, if you would like to invite Michal to visit your home town, or your country, please be in touch with Peter
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We are now firmly into mercury retrograde, as if you could not have guessed that from the chaos caused by the Icelandic volcanic eruptions.

“Mercury retrograde” happens 3 times a year. It is the name given to the period of time when mercury, the planet that in astrological theory symbolizes communication, appears to move backward in the skies. Traditionally this is seen as disrupting communications.

This year, not only are communications being disrupted- and even if you were not trying to travel its likely that you will be affected by the fall out in some way, but the financial consequences of this time will be significant. They’re likely to be much more significant than would normally occur as the result of some interruption to travel or schedule confusion, particularly for those of us in Europe.

Actually, for some of us this period also marks the start of a few months where our finances will be strained and we’ll feel the need to tighten belts or walk very cautiously. Caution right now would be an excellent policy for the next 3 months or so, and a good defense against any troubling consequences.

Back to mercury retrograde. It is certainly a time to expect delays, and confusion, especially around travel and meetings. It is however a good time for going back over plans or agreement to re-consider the details. But you must realize that any new agreements you make at this time are likely to change before they are fully implemented.

In Britain for example, coming up to general election, it is particularly confusing to have mercury going retrograde. There is much talk of a hung parliament, but any agreements made now for example for one party or faction to support another, will not be kept.

Its fine to plan what you will be doing, but it is not so great to be committing to a new scheme or project. But, if you’re going over or re-making something that has already been initiated, you can be very successful. And beware of buying any big-ticket items or new major electronic equipment. (I am certainly feeling that pain personally. I am having chaos with my current laptop and need to buy a new one. But I know that if I splash out on a new lap top now the chances of much greater chaos ensuing are huge. So, I am waiting until May 14 – when it will be over- despite the hassle it is causing.)

The good news is that it will all be over around May 13th- so wait a day or two if you want to be double sure, but that’s it.

Despite the confusion mercury is causing this month, it is also a very eventful, creative time. It’s something of a double message. There are real, sometimes enormous obstructions being caused by the confusion being generated. At the same time, there are very creative, positive currents intertwined with the confusion. Knowing what is positive and sound is not easy. I suggest it is wise to look closely at the creative, and to set it a long-term test. One of my favorite sayings- “take the best and leave the rest” also comes to mind. And play for the long term.

It’s a time to keep your nerve. It is not a time for short termism. Remain very much fixed on the long term and the strategies necessary to produce a real, solid, meaningful long term outcome. Unfortunately there is a tendency to be dazzled, or waylaid, by the sudden appearance of new solutions. Beware. Nothing is quite as it seems under this mercury retrograde, and only too soon reality will re-assert itself. So – concentrate on what is really the best in every situation you encounter, and building on it.

The ELU this month emphasizes the need to check out what is offered to you, and the importance, always, of truth the cornerstone of our well-being. It also promises that the love that we all search is waiting for us. Of course.

Go well, be well,

With love

Michal

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Is It You? ELU 21st April 2010

I saw a shape, in the wind,
That had no name. As I
Tried to call, it changed
Before my eyes – Shapeshifter.
It led me from person to person
Trying each against the figure
Holding, moulding my mind.

So time, and disappointment, rolled
One after another; the tide
Of my inward tears ate into
The shore, till I watched
From the safety of the dunes -
Poised, posed in sum and air.
I saw you still, but where?

Then one evening, in the
Drizzle of early fall, in a
Strange but comforting place,
Ringed by trees and built of wood,
The unexpected seemed to happen.
You reached out your hand
To me. Is it you?

Show me your face.
By your actions,
Show me your truth.
And by my deeds
I pledge my truth,
My eternal promise
To you and to myself.

Travel well,

Go well be well.

© Michal Levin 2010

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I worship true humanity and all its connections to the greater reality that we share. That is my religion.

My work is to help all in the evolution of their true humanity – our true humanity- to encompass all levels of being, and all realms. I am dedicated to helping my fellow humans to find, embrace and know purpose and meaning in all that they do, so that we may live truly valuable lives.

In this endeavor neither formal religion nor race is relevant. I was born into a race known as the Jews. But whether you were born Muslim, Catholic, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian or anything else, whether your skin is black, brown, yellow, muddy, clear or anything else, whether you are Texan, Kosovan, Indonesian, Chinese, European, Zulu or anything else, our challenge in life is the same.

I work to ensure that our aims and our paths are the same. We are travelling to the same place. May we travel together. Please join me and my values family so that we can publicly share our commitment to the values of true humanity, and to their evolution in all realms. I look forward to working with you and to meeting you.

Meet Michal:
In London on May 15th 2010 -When she will be joining the monthly LEAP (Life Energy Activation) Group in Notting Hill Gate.
Click here to book a place now!

Monday 1st November 2010 – Alternatives – 7 – 8.30pm (doors open 6.30pm)
St James Church, 197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL.
Michal will be giving a public talk – keep the date free!
admin@alternatives.org.uk

In France on June 25th – 28th 2010 – THE ENERGY OF RELATIONSHIPS -
Summer Retreat – To find out more please click here.
For costs, travel details and to book please contact Hilary
Hilary@MichalLevin.com

In California on 16th-19th 2010 – Retreats in USA -
This intensive with Michal will take place at Commonweal Retreat Center.
For more information please click here or contact Felicity
Felicity@MichalLevin.com

Or, if you would like to invite Michal to visit your home town, or your country, please be in touch with Peter
Peter@MichalLevin.com

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Come and meditate with Michal on Saturday May 15th 2010 when she will be joining the monthly LEAP (Life Energy Activation) Group in Central London. You will go deeper and further than you have ever been. A great opportunity to explore under Michal’s extraordinary, wise and loving guidance. Don’t miss this opportunity.

To book a place please click here (making sure to enter your name as well as LEAP under “payment for” and make payment of only £35 for each place) OR payment of £40 can be made on the day Or please email Hilary@michallevin.com

Meditation is from 10:30am – 12:30pm;
Essex Church
112 Palace Gardens Terrace
Notting Hill Gate
W8 4RT

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Lasting change comes from a change in consciousness in all of us. It comes from the deeper application of the principles that we are already working with, the understanding of the need to break down the division between “them” and “us”, between “inner” and “outer”, between knowing and being. That’s where we all are and where we all need to be. What’s happening in the world at the moment is not doom and gloom but it’s a clarion call. It’s a clarion call to all of us that will lead the way to hope and transformation.

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On the London underground at around 5pm today, with rush hour building up, I entered a crowded compartment and squeezed onto a ledge, a sort of “standing seat.” A stop or two later an elderly couple were propelled into the carriage; such an ordinary occurrence.

She was bent over a walking stick and made for the seat marked “Reserved for anyone who is pregnant, elderly or disabled.” A healthy looking, large young man in his 20s sat there. He seemed to take no notice of her. She glanced across at the opposite seat, also marked for priority users, and occupied by a young woman also in her 20s, who was glued to a game-boy. The young lady did not look up.

The elderly couple looked at one another, looked down, looked away. Neither made a request of the young occupants of the priority seats, and no one- in any seat – offered the old lady a place.

Of course I got up, tugged at the husband’s arm and offered his wife my “ledge”. Interestingly she took it with barely any acknowledgment.

What is going on? I don’t feel the youthful occupants of the disabled seats were “bad people”. On the contrary, I rather suspect that, unbelievably, they simply did not know that the right thing to do was to get up!

They failed singularly to put themselves in the shoes of the other. Would they have done so if asked? Perhaps. And why were the elderly couple so reluctant to ask? Perhaps the old people did not expect a request to be met positively? Were they so accustomed to being ignored, or worse, by young people? (Why so frozen about saying “thank you” too?) They may not even have thought they were entitled to ask!

What is going on? We struggle under the burden in the UK of an entitlement culture, but when it comes to simple courtesy, and ordinary concern, it seems we are not sure what we are entitled to ask for, or expected to offer.

We need to be very clear about what is right and proper, and about taking responsibility for doing it. I believe in the potential for goodness of all. We need to expect others, and ourselves, to do and be forces for good in our world. Simple, but true.

©Michal Levin 2010

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Peace! It might seem elusive at the moment but it’s exactly “what the doctor ordered”. Or at least what I am telling you.

The pace is gathering tremendously. In many cases it hasn’t been appropriate to go full steam into new projects, though where decisions have been essential to your well-being you have made them. Congratulations! Now it is certainly time to be planning and ordering both the past and the future. Recently it may have been difficult to see what to go ahead with, and what to leave behind. The coming month will make it much clearer. You will know far more often, and there are many opportunities for the joy that you have planted to grow.

But the real key to both growth and joy now is peace. With so much happening – and it will continue – on all sides, you need peace! That peace may not be possible to find in the outside world. However you can always find it within.

Surrender to peace – let go of imaginary fears, tune out the “noise” around you and re-connect with the innermost, deepest joys. Then the world within will be reflected in your world without. Holding joy and peace, you will see the path of joy and peace ahead of you.

Go well, be well,

with love,

Michal

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The White Swan ELU 26th March 2010

Backwards, forwards time moves
At a tremendous pace.
Life is swept up in a whirlwind
Of activity, needled by the damp
Fear, and sometime despair, that lurks beneath
The common, shared surface – crocodiles
With glowing eyes waiting for
Unwary victims.

Searching for peace,
A single swan, gleaming white
Beneath the bridge, signals to me.
White for peace?
Or a white flag for surrender?

On the ever moving river
Ripples race in quick, fluid
Motions, like an old film
Flickering. I am waiting
To understand the message.
Now I know it.

The river, like the film, like time
Seems to move so quickly
But it’s essence is unchanging:
Surrendering to peace.
Be the white swan under the bridge.
Glide in stately circles, ignoring
The perturbations of the water, imaginary
Crocodiles, or some other whimsy.

White is for peace, and
It’s no surrender.

The distant snow capped mountains
And the dusty plains call. I
Belong to the overarching sky.
Let the flotsam and the jetsam
Of the river float by. You call
Me, and I hold you to my heart,
My distant mountain,
Keeper of my deepest desire.
Dearest.

© Michal Levin 2010

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“My knowledge has been tried and tested in a really wide range of situations, over many years. Now it’s time to come out and offer it to as many people as possible – because so many are suffering or simply aching to expand to the next level – or sometimes to break through the glass ceiling.” Copyright © 2010 Michal Levin.

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Here is a question that I’m asked over and over, in slightly different forms. This week it reached my inbox from Canada, with its own “tweak”. Of course there’s a long answer and a short answer. I’m printing a good, short answer below. Not so short actually! The piece below is pretty comprehensive; it covers all the basics. But, of course, it is only information – however excellent. Information without “the work” is largely academic. It’s useful, important (sometimes) but not the key to application. Doing “the work” is different, very different.

We’ll be on retreat, doing the work in Northern France June 25th-28th 2010 (contact Hilary@MichalLevin.com), and in Northern California September 16th-19th 2010 (contact Felicity@MichalLevin.com). If you are interested, it would be great to work with you.

And I’m talking to good people in Australia, Winnipeg, Vancouver, South Africa, and Hawaii all of whom are keen for retreats. So if you’d like to organize a retreat, or join others organizing one, please let me know. Michal@MichalLevin.com.

Looking forward to working- and playing- together!

Mediums, Healers and clairvoyants:

Q: “As a healer in training, I understand that mediumship is a part of this ability. While my intent first and foremost is to become a healer, I am curious, are all mediums healers and vice versa? If not why?”

A: This question is not quick and easy to reply to! To answer properly I have to explain what constitutes a healer, how healers are trained, and what mediums do and how they are trained too. So- I’d better begin.
Over the years I have been fortunate enough to meet many different healers. Some of them have been trained in a variety of different schools or traditions, from medical practitioners, to energy healers of different disciplines, to traditional healers in indigenous cultures. Yet others, a few, are self taught. And then there are those who would never call themselves healers but who are exactly that – the aunt who always had the right word, the gardener who seemed so peaceful to be with, the receptionist in the doctor’s office who “only” organized appointments, but actually, by her presence did a great deal more. Clearly there is a wide variation in what constitutes a healer, and how that person is trained, or not. However, my guess is that you are training in some energetic, perhaps “hands on”, and school of healing. I’m going to answer the question with that in mind.
Hands on healers, like all other healers, have different stories about what they think they are doing. For example some hands on healers believe that they act as vessels for energy from god to pass through to their clients or patients. Others believe that they are masters of universal formulas on the handling of energy. In fact there are diverse beliefs about how a healer can or should manipulate energy, both to help the client’s healing, and for the safety of themselves and the client or patient.
Then, most schools believe that the personal qualities of the healer play a part in the success of their work. Some think they are inherited or innate, others that they can be cultivated, or a mixture of the two. Then, there are different ideas on how to cultivate them, or train healers. Giving up ego, whatever that means, or more precisely, means to the teacher who is using the expression, is often considered a requisite. Another frequent suggestion for training healers is that a certain amount of time be spent in meditation -of whatever sort is preferred by the trainer. Clearly there are numerous different ways suggested to prepare the individual for healing work!
Personally, I believe that individual psycho spiritual development is crucial for training healers, and indeed for anyone serious about developing their consciousness and/or doing energy or client or creative work- that’s just about everyone! For the last 14 years teaching, and learning, psycho spiritual and energetic development has been my passion. The basis of the system which I teach was given to me in a series of channeled sessions many years ago, even though then, as now, I am not especially keen on so called channeling (that’s another story). It is a well structured set of teachings that add up to an extraordinary system for developing the understanding and energy that is essential for evolving consciousness and raising the vibration.
Developing energy, involves supporting and clearing the chakra system. And all that works to produce a fully supported well functioning heart, (as well as other benefits). Of course good healers work from their hearts; but their hearts need to be fully supported. A fully supported heart is an open heart chakra, with equally well functioning charkas below it – which is a wonderful state to achieve. And the process of achieving this state of energetic development goes hand in hand with personal development.
Then, whether or not they engage with psycho spiritual development, in most healing schools, the underlying belief is that the healer either puts energy into the patient, removes energy/toxins from the patient, or moves the patient’s energy in some way, or all of those, or a combination. They also understand that this is an interaction with the energy body- the energy immediately around and in the physical body – though it may go beyond that into the causal realm, which is often thought of as existing beyond the individual energy body.
A medium is different. Mediums have access directly into the causal realm from which they either bring back what might be called energetic impressions, which then need to be converted into information; or sometimes they allow in energies or presences of those who have deceased .(Or perhaps, sometimes, the one can be thought of as the other?)
One way of describing this is to say that mediums go beyond the energy body into the causal. The causal is the universal realm that all human energy links into. Literally its called Causal because it is this is the realm from which causes emanate. And energy moves from the causal into the energy body and finally the physical body. Mediums are channels who connect directly with the causal. Of course good mediums work with their hearts engaged and fully supported, like healers –and as we all aspire to do. Sadly, some mediums sometimes work from the Third Eye alone. (See my book “Meditation: Path to the Deepest Self “for more information on how the Third Eye functions.)
Clairvoyants and intuitives are different again! An intuitive reads the energy body, which holds the individual’s history. A clairvoyant goes into the causal realm for information. Of course the distinctions are not rigid. I work as an intuitive, helping individuals to develop in the process of psycho spiritual and energetic growth. I aim to help my clients grow to become their best, fullest most complete selves: to heal their wounds, become empowered, integrated, and more. I never like to work as a clairvoyant looking into the future, though sometimes information just pops out before I can hold it back. Occasionally I work as a medium, again when a client really wants to contact a deceased person (or sometimes a deceased person simply appears).
In all cases, with healers, mediums, intuitives, and clairvoyants, the development of the individual will have a significant impact on the quality and kind of information or healing they offer, the way they offer it, and its effect on the client. All healers can be trained to develop mediumship to a degree. All mediums can be trained to develop healing abilities to a degree, and the same with clairvoyants and intuitives. But, it is not automatic. The development of the individual is a crucial factor, and the innate talent or gifts of the individual.
An orderly process of human energetic development, which is the same as saying the orderly development of the whole person, is the goal. This supports each chakra and its function. It allows the heart to open beautifully, and brings myriad qualities into play. These include intuition – to an appropriate extent, and healing abilities too, again to the extent that is appropriate for each particular individual.
In the orderly developmental process, it is only after the heart, and all the energy centers below it, are functioning properly, that the Third Eye, the mediums tool, will open spontaneously or receive attention. When that happens, it will bring the gifts each individual needs and is best suited to. Its then that those who are really suited to be mediums blossom.
Forced development of the Third Eye, which often happens quite separately from real whole person psycho spiritual energetic development, will almost always bring problems. Though it sometimes produces mediums, and is sometimes used to do that.
So the brief answer to your question is that healers can sometimes be trained to work as mediums, and vice versa, but the truest way for all to work is to concentrate on the development of themselves as energetic beings, and inhabitants of our psycho spiritual energetic reality. When we do that, then we will all be privileged. We will be able to offer our best for our own benefit, and the benefit of our world; we will raise the vibration. And the best for each may be to work, with appropriate training, as a healer, a medium, or metaphorically, as the receptionist in the doctors office, the gardener or whatever else. From this place, we will be able to fulfill our responsibilities to the highest degree, to enjoy our blessings, parent our children, and leave a better world when we move on.

© Michal Levin 2005

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The cashier at my local small supermarket and I always exchange smiles and a brief chat. Interaction like that makes a difference to the day. Today’s dreary news, more scandalous behavior had us both despairing. We’re alike in having families, grown children and caring about our community. She wears a red bindi mark on her forehead, and might even wear a sari at home. “No faith, that’s the problem” she said to me, “You know, ships once sailed on faith alone- they set off with blind faith, and almost nothing else to guide them to their destinations! Just think of that”. I did think Actually they had the stars, and a little more. But- they had faith too. I do think on that : the huge difference that faith makes.

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My dear friend Ken and I had a great, long conversation recently exploring the relationship between my work on the chakras and his work around developmental levels. The congruence is fascinating! We recorded our conversation and I am glad to post it here for you. Happy listening.

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Another month. This one opens with the wound that never heals completely. Are you feeling its effects? The month ahead offers the opportunity to loosen its grip. Indeed to slip from its hold. The plans you have formulated face the rigors of reality. As ever reality’s first hurdle is the past.

Will the wound that never heals completely sabotage your best efforts? Will it take you back to the furrows you have ploughed before, ground you have abandoned as too stony, or simply needing a fallow year?

This month message says very simply- healing is more than possible. It is your growth edge. It is your obligation, and, it is your path of pleasure too. Look for healing in a sense of space. Create spaciousness around you and the effects will – almost magically – bind and allow that wound to heal. Then power, joy and satisfaction will have their way.

This month’s ELU emphasizes the message. click here to listen to the ELU OR download the ELU as an MP3.

The Wound That Never Completely Heals

The past is jumping
On my grave -
Thump, thump, thump.
It’s calling me, pushing
Me towards a cold confinement,
Driving me into the frosty earth.

Now the river is still.
Its dark, silent depths obscured.
Its surface is barely broken
By the beating oars
Of the racing row boats
That flash across its
Glittering but opaque face.

I am listening for your voice.
Silence. Instead, the hills call,
And the lines of the land
Whisper their wisdom-
Space, space, space.
O- you are speaking to me!

Pure oxygen pours into
The wound that never
Completely heals and works
Its blessed ways,
Bringing color to my cheeks
And tender succor to my heart.

Now ripples float away
From the pull of the oars.
Suddenly the river’s surface
Is alive as the past recedes.
The air is light with
The hint of spring and
Coming blossom. The
Curve of the hills is sweet,
And I see signs of you
In the regeneration everywhere.
O -thanks be given!

Go well, be well. May the month ahead bring you peace and joy.

© Michal Levin 2010

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Here is the ELU for you to listen to (listen online or download MP3) in conjunction with this month’s Intuitive Month (below). Remember, the Intuitive Month helps you to understand the message of the ELU, and the ELU helps you to get the best from the Intuitive Month’s guidance for the month ahead.

However- the ELU works entirely alone too. You just need to listen and be with it! Click to listen to the ELU: Listen online | Download MP3

Choosing As Above So Below.

I watch the water
And see the sky reflected.
As above so below,
Always.

Yesterday the tide
Breached the river banks,
Today the water has sunk back,
Low and rippling, as if waiting -
Is further chaos, another torrent coming?

All along the sodden river banks
Boats lie, breached, or
Hauled to safety.
Mud covers the footpath
That I walk with you,
Old issues and rotted leaves
Squelching underfoot.

I watch the water
And see the sky reflected-
As above so below,
Always.

As the light dims
The river sparkles-
I see Heaven
Shining thorough,
And choose the calm and clarity.

As above so below
Always.

Go well, be well.
May the month bring you peace and joy.

© Michal Levin 2010

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The world has see sawed. Whether the highs and lows have been fast and furious, small and slight, or simply surprising, you will be lucky if you have escaped any of the effects of the see saw.

However, there’s calmer water ahead. It does not mean there is no activity ahead- on the contrary, for some the pace will only intensify. The wind will build behind you. This month’s key question is “what sort of person do you wish to be?”

You will have opportunities to use the massing energies to be both-or either- you higher or lower self, or even your greater, elevated self. The trouble is you may not always know instantly whether it is the higher or the lower you are feeding. If you even suspect that might be the case – pause.

A pause, time to breathe deeply, will serve you well this month. Don’t worry about loosing out if you do not act immediately. Focus your concern instead on the quality of your decisions. Be like a sailboat, cutting smoothly through the water with a fine wind filling your sails. If you want to change direction, or choose a new course, plot the course carefully- take the time- then move swiftly.

Remember wherever possible sail with the wind behind you; when you can this is a time to use the energies around you, not to go against them, unless it is essential. Above all, look for the course and the choices that support your higher self. You may be surprised at the direction you find yourself taking.

The ELU for the month ahead, which emphasizes this message and helps you to work with it, follows.
Go well, be well. May the month bring you peace and joy.

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So many people are enquiring about the retreat in Northern California with me that we have changed to dates to secure more accommodation. It will now take place on September 16th-19th 2010, when more space is available at the center in Northern California. Do hope that you can join us! It will be a very personal experience – and places will be strictly limited to ensure that.
For more info please contact felicity@michallevin.com

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Going on retreat is like offering yourself to the forces of life to take you where they will. I am back from a wonderful retreat, buried deep in the dark alleyways of the old city of Marrakech. I stayed in a small house that looked entirely inward. There were no windows to looks out of – but a beautiful small patio at its heart, open to the wide sky, that I could reached by a winding staircase. The stairway wound up to the roof past the terraces where Moroccan woman hung their washing, but where I gazed at the stars beaming in the clear sky, and listened. More in IntuitiveMonth, coming soon.

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The date for the Northern California retreat is March 4th – 7th 2010 (not May as previously stated). Apologies.

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Northern California March 4th – 7th 2010
This intensive with Michal will take place at Commonweal Retreat Center on the edge of a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the Point Reyes National Seashore. It is one hour north of San Francisco.
The retreat will be an introduction to Michal’s energy work, covering the chakras and her own unique meditation technique, known as LEAP or Life Energy Activation Process.

For more information please contact felicity@michallevin.com

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England is icy as 2009 gives way to 2010. Freezing air with arctic undertones is blanketing the country. The sky in many parts of London is illuminated by fireworks, and the Thames is flowing slowly as if ruled by the memories of the days when it froze right over. The sky is mottled as cloud banks move slowly across the beautiful, impassive moon. The morning will see a sparkling frost, even a blanket of snow perhaps, the gleaming particles repeating the lesson of this time: it is the virtue of clarity.

The cold is clear. The ice outlines all it touches in sparkling lines. So it needs to be with us mere mortals. May we see the truth clearly in the New Year, may our vision be blessed with clarity, and may we act with the benefit of the clarity that is ours, at the deepest levels.

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Good will and good energy to all for the festive season and for 2010. I am unable to reply personally to the wonderful messages I’ve received, but again, please know I have read them all – and they mean a great deal to me!

May the year ahead bring joy and peace to you, and to all. May our values family strengthen in the sharing of our values. May Light and Love increase, always.

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Here is the ELU for you to listen to (listen online or download MP3) in conjunction with this month’s Intuitive Month (below). Remember, the Intuitive Month helps you to understand the message of the ELU, and the ELU helps you to get the best from the Intuitive Month’s guidance for the month ahead.

However- the ELU works entirely alone too. You just need to listen and be with it! Click to listen to the ELU: Listen online | Download MP3

The Fledgling

My heart is like a fledgling
Bird, sheltering in my hand.
Each pulse-beat transmits
A new message, received
By every nerve:
Alive and almost overwhelmed.

My feathers are glued
To my fragile skin, and
Pieces of the shell
Of my old life
That nurtured and protected
Me still stick,
Here and there.

Cradled by the warmth
Of my palm, your palm,
My fledgling soul will
Soon preen those
Damp feathers till
They surround me like
A downy halo, and carefully
Detach the fragments
Of the shell that once
Enclosed me.

My fledgling and I move
Together now, jerkily,
Preparing for the time
When you will raise
Your hands to release us,
To join the sky.
Then, we will fly
To be with you.

Go well, be well.

May peace and joy be yours in the month ahead.

Michal

© Michal Levin 2009

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It’s the intuitive time of the month again – time for my intuitive take on the month ahead. The core of this month’s message, as we move from 2009 to 2010 is simple: protect the structure that you are building like a fledgling bird, newly hatched, held in the palm of your hand.

I am writing on the longest night of the year- the winter solstice. It is prescient. From the time this post is up on my blog, the season will be changing. With each change of the season a new set of opportunities and constraints emerge. We are entering the next phase in the cycle. As you enter this phase of the cycle- in the northern hemisphere it will co-incide with the night slowly, slowly shortening, in the southern, with the darkness inching forward- the emphasis is on protecting the structure that is emerging in your life.

Whether you are protecting your fledgling – your emerging structure- from the sudden flames of inspiration that burn too bright and urge you to precipitous action, or from a despair that might possibly be engendered around the time of the lunar eclipse (whose effects will be fleet at the very end of December/ beginning of January) protect it you must.

A lunar eclipse is a time when something passes out of your life, or moves away to a different, less crucial position. It will certainly be a “something” whose time has come. Even if you feel sorrow at the passing of the person or event or position from your life, be assured you will not lose anything you really need. You will be letting go of someone (or thing) whose time has come. She (perhaps a she because the moon is female) needs to go. Bless her on her way, and rejoice in the new life you are holding.

So- the essentials are to protect the structure emerging in your life, and to let go of the form that needs to move on. Perhaps its a child who you must allow to become more independent? Perhaps a friend whose path beckons in a different direction? Perhaps even a job, or a home you don’t really want or need anymore? (or one that no longer fits the new form?)

Look ahead. Meanwhile, from the end of December to 16th of January, is a pesky mercury retrograde phase. That means communications are muddled, plans (especially travel plans) can be troublesome (expect delays). But, it’s a great time to go back over arrangements from the past that need to be reviewed. It is a very good prelude to going forward with the future that you are already holding in the palm of your hand.

Protect the fledgling that has come to you. It is yourself, and a gift to you. Nurture it, for it will fly, and you with it.
And – enjoy the holiday season.
With love good wishes for the New Year.
Go well, be well,

Michal
PS ELU (energy link up message) to follow!

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So many thanks to all those who have emailed or sent messages of love and good wishes. I know you will understand that I cannot reply to everyone personally- but that does not mean that I do not feel deep gratitude to each and every one of you for all your good energy. Thank you! Go well, be well.

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The eyes are the windows of the soul. Today the stitches holding my right eye closed were removed. My eye opened – another window on the world! Some of you may know that I have been having surgery as part of the ongoing process of looking after my right eye damaged by the brain tumor operation I suffered many years ago. Forgive me for my silence as the process has taken over.
As ever, the genius that can be surgery amazes me. Though my eye is much reduced in size at the moment, I am exulting in the blessing of vision. Of course, with my eye closed and the interaction with the physical form of world outside diminished, the world of the other senses, and the greater world of beyond, strengths. But today, the blessings of peace and joy smile from both eyes. May you share those blessing. Michal.

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We have entered the time of planning and detail. The next few weeks are about the details of the agreement, or the plan, or the way ahead. And the structure of the same.

Go slowly and steadily is my advice. The pace may be fast, you may be clearing up issues that need to be cleared up. Be generous, be kind, but also be scrupulous.

The emotions that were stirred up in the previous few weeks are strong. They will not immediately settle, and they may color your thinking. You need to pause as necessary, and think clearly now. It is not a time for resting though.

The wind has turned; there is a new path ahead. Plan your way ahead. Honor all existing agreements. Listen to your deepest heart- the place where truth and transcendent love reside. Combine your heart and your wisdom. The devil is in the detail, be sure to iron it out. Give thanks for past joys, gifts and learning, and welcome, plan the way ahead with honor.

Go well, be well.

May the month ahead bring you peace and joy.

Love

Michal

Wind Whistling ELU 26 Nov 2009

The wind whistles across
The barren ground
And through the bare trees.
The sky above blazes
A clear and cool blue.

A fine, piercing light
Shows the detail
On the parchment leaves
That lie scattered across the path,
The ridges made by the veins of the past.

Stark and illuminated
Brown as the earth,
Brown as old blood.
Still, they feed a deeper reality
That nurtures the changing
Of the year, the eternal
Process of the wheel
And all eternity that sings
In my own blood.

You are dead but alive.
We are crucified and risen.
You are mine for ever,
Your place engraved on my heart
In honor of the ages.

One god in three.
Three gods in one,
Delivered now as my Soul
Runs free in the wailing
Of the wind and the stirring
Beneath the soil.

© Michal Levin 2009

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Feeling a very strong desire for Peace and Wholeness at the moment? The Pool of Memory Organization will be offering a retreat with me from Thursday 4th March until Sunday 7th March 2010 at Commonweal Retreat Center, Bolinas, CA.

We’ll be working on the chakras, and my form of meditation also known as LEAP (Life Energy Enhancement Process). For those who follow Ken Wilber’s work, I’ll be showing you exactly how and where my input and Ken’s theory fit very well indeed, and what that means for your development. At the same time, you don’t need to know anything about Wilber’s work for this retreat to take your intuition and personal evolution to a whole new level. And there’ll be a heavy emphasis on Peace and Wholeness. For more details, please contact Felicity at felicitycrush@mac.com

In Europe, the annual retreat in France will be a little later than usual, June 25th-June 28th 2010. More details nearer the time. To put your name on the list, or register interest, please contact Hilary, at Hilary@MichalLevin.com.Peace and Wholeness will definitely be part of the package- but a lot else too.

Look forward to seeing you!

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Here are some thoughts on energy and protection practices. I think they may have relevance right now.

“As you do more of this work, you’ll become more aware about what you can potentially take on board from other people, places and things. And sometimes you’ll need to protect yourselves.

Places and things in a way are the easiest to handle. If you find yourself in a place you can’t handle then it is easy enough to leave. If you are required to use something that you don’t like, well, it is easy enough to change that. Be sensitive to the things you do and don’t like. If there are things in your life, objects, that you don’t want, then you have the choice to say, no, I don’t need to use that, I can change it. If you don’t like your bedspread, that’s fine. Don’t say, well, it’s got plenty of wear in it yet. Feel free to say, ‘Actually it doesn’t suit me for some reason or another, and so I’m going to change it.’ The same principle applies to all the objects in your life.

People are the most difficult to deal with, because we’re talking about personal relationships. What about working out a relationship, and helping the other person? My view is that you don’t have an obligation to help. If what is being transmitted and what is being received is difficult, then you don’t have an obligation to help the other person. You always have an obligation to help if somebody asks you for help, and you feel you can offer it. But in a situation where there is a large amount of negative or difficult energy, are you obliged to stick it out until the bitter end? Are you obliged to stick with it until there is a resolution? No.

I encourage you to work with any situation as long as it feels productive, but there may be cases where you have to say, ‘Look: we can’t find a resolution here. I’m going to have to put this one down – maybe permanently, or at least for the time being.’ That’s a clear illustration of the most extreme case where you are locked in a transmit-receive situation and it is abrasive to you.

There are a lot of myths in this area of energy emissions. One of them is that everything can be worked out, that you can talk it through until you reach a resolution. But sometimes you can’t. You can always, with good will, find ways to handle a situation, but you may not necessarily be able to resolve it in the way you’d like to see it resolved. Sometimes this means that you have to let go of it.”

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Thank you to all those who wrote about this month’s Intuitive Month – identifying your proper, or real Desire, and following it, really is the current lesson. My in box is groaning. In future, I hope you will understand if I cannot reply to everyone individually. But I do read your emails, and very much appreciate them. From time to time, I will post an email that I have received, and reply to it here, on my blog- so please keep on writing.

Go well, be well,

Michal

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The time of desire is upon us. As the nights lengthen and leaves turn in the western hemisphere, the language of love is in the air. In the southern hemisphere the heat is rising, too – albeit a different heat. But it goes to the same place. This is a month before all else to recognize and acknowledge your real desires, in the cradle of love (that’s the complex part of it.)

Part of the process is not only knowing what you want -and need- but perhaps what you need less of, or differently.

Its not necessarily an either or choice you’ll be making (or just have). The month’s message very rarely needs you to exclude something, someone, a dream, or a practice- though it may need a change of attitude. My friend Ken Wilber’s wonderful phrase “transcend and include” is so often the best dictum. But now you need to choose the “weighting” of your love. How much to give to the different aspects of your life? Which passions do you want to pursue? How much to the new that you are bringing to life? And how much to the old? At all times though honor and truth must be aligned to your desire.

Give honor where it is necessary. Acknowledge desire, but be sure let love, with all is knowledge of responsibility, lead. You can make strong efforts now to allow your life to be shaped by the reality of what it is you love and desire, providing you are sure of the honor and truth of that desire. (No wild flights of fantasy that ride rough shod over others needs! Or your duty!). You choose your heart’s path; and watch the signs around you as you follow that choice.

It’s also a month where art and beauty may play their part too. You may be particularly susceptible to the energy that comes together in the construction or revelation of beauty. Perhaps this will be a month where you will see truth and beauty align?

Finally this month may bring positive finances too. I hope it does just that for you.

The ELU (EneryLink Up message) that follows is about recognizing Love.

Go well, be well,

May the month ahead bring you joy and peace,

Michal

© Michal Levin 2009

The EnergyLink Up message below is about finding your Love- the love that will fulfil your desires.

Is it you?
ELU 30 Oct 09

I saw a shape, in the wind,
That had no name. As I
Tried to call, it changed
Before my eyes – Shapeshifter.
It led me from person to person
Trying each against the figure
Holding, moulding my mind.

So time, and disappointment, rolled
One after another; the tide
Of my inward tears ate into
The shore, till I watched
From the safety of the dunes -
Poised, posed in sum and air.
I saw you still, but where?

Then one evening, in the
Drizzle of early fall, in a
Strange but comforting place,
Ringed by trees and built of wood,
The unexpected seemed to happen.
You reached out your hand
To me. Is it you?

Travel well,

Go well be well.

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Hello especially to anyone in Cape Town, or South Africa. I will be visiting Cape Town the first week in January 2010, and will be delighted to meet or talk to anyone who is interested. If you can organize a talk, or a radio interview, or anything similar, please do be in touch – Michal@MichalLevin.com (please mark your email “Cape Town”). I look forward very much to seeing you.

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This is a short extract from a seminar I gave a few years ago. Of course context always makes a difference. But, the central point here is on my mind today.

“If you say, “Everyone is good,” you’re not embracing the fact that actually everyone is mixed. I’m mixed. Jimi Hendrix was very “mixed”. I’d be in real trouble if you were to see me just as good. Often when you work with someone, your inclination is to see them as only “good” or “light”. Then you discover, ‘Golly! There’s something about them that isn’t good or that isn’t perfect or that isn’t light.’ Then you’re can be dreadfully disappointed and swing to the other extreme. You could feel, ‘Oh, they’re terrible. They failed me; they deluded me. They are absolutely awful.’

We do that in personal relationships all the time. We do that with our parents. They’re absolutely wonderful and all powerful and then they are diabolical and useless. And the truth is in a very different place. The truth is in the place of balance where you can honestly appreciate the light and the dark.

Now if you look at yourself, unless you appreciate or recognize your own dark- or shadow- and bring it out and unfold it, it’s going to cause you a lot of problems. It’s going to occupy your unconscious, the unacknowledged realms and it’s going to come up, literally like some kind of dive bomb, from the deep and take you totally unaware. When somebody says to you that you’re selfish, or inclined to be nasty, etc. etc. you’ll react: ‘What me? No way!’ because you won’t recognize it.

That process of unfolding your own dark, or shadow, is one of the most difficult you’ll ever face. In that process of unfolding your own dark, your greatest allies are others, because they show it to you. But the problem is, what are they showing you? Are they truthfully pointing a finger at a problem you have, or are they pointing out a problem they have? Or are they trying to gain power over you?”
… to be continued!

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Why not let your spirit and your soul dream a little? You have the skills to handle your present responsibilities with relative ease. Why not let your spirit free, rather than confine it by imagined boundaries? It will repay you many times over by speaking to your dreams, and filling you heart.

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Never let humility undermine your self-respect.
Never let pride obscure humility.
When in doubt, remember that you know who first to give your precious trust to – yourself.

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Today a new client, who is participating in a telegroup with me, sent me this poem. He’s a talented young man in his early 30s. He holds a demanding role in the corporate world, and is grappling very seriously with wider perspectives of spirituality and energetic development.

As we work together he, like all the group, will share further and further in the energetic calibration, and the evolutionary or personal development that accompanies it, and that members of all the groups experience.

In honor of his journey, and all our journeys, whether we use these words or different words, here’s the poem – I deeply respect the feeling behind it.

My intention be the catalyst
Leading me to source
Closely I will listen
To natures divine course
 
My journey is my own
Alone I will find
But companions I seek
For sharing in kind
 
Mindful of my thoughts
My ego does not rule
My energy does not suffer
The influence of the fool
 
Connected with Spirit I am
Deep faith be true
My potential be realized
Daily balance I do

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An idea I often express when I’m teaching is on my mind now. I’ve said it many times. For example:
“I don’t see my role as just passing on knowledge. Unless you can make it part of you, unless the implications resonate with you, then I haven’t really done anything.”
Or
“It’s not the passing on of knowledge that is important, it is the way in which it becomes part of you and what you do with it.”

Striving for wisdom, is the true application of knowledge. May it be our quest today, and every day.

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Jon Amiel’s film “Creation” is about Charles Darwin’s tormented struggle to write and then to allow his now famous book “On the Origin of Species,” to be published in 1859. It’s about Darwin’s own painful loss of faith, and his great turmoil at the anguish his work and scientific beliefs caused his wife.

I had not realized how huge a personal battle writing his book was for Darwin. The film show the terrible trauma of loosing his faith at a time when religion, the Christian faith, was the absolute backbone of society and family life in Britain (and much of the civilized western world).

Today, stepping away from conventional religion seems commonplace to so many. However, what to put in its place is not so commonplace. This film shows a seminal event both in the debate about the existence of God, and in the search for how to come to terms with a God who is not defined by the New Testament (or the Old). It’s very moving. If you are interested in the history of God, see this film.

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Here’s the sound recording to go with my IntuitiveMonth posting of 24 September 09. It’s called The Rhythm and the Balance.

Remember, the ELU is like an energy pill (in Zen Buddhism they might call it a koan). The action of listening to it is designed to help you integrate its message. It’s a way of taking you closer to the meaning of the words- it does not depend on your understanding- the energy of my voice does the work.

If you’d like to know more about the ELU click here for an extract from a talk I gave that includes more information .

Remember too that every Sunday there is a virtual link up, where you can connect with a group in meditation or contemplation to benefit from the energy of the ELU.

For your local time, and instructions to join the LinkUP, please check out http://www.michallevin.com/energy_link_up.php

For past IntuitiveMonths and ELUs go to http://michalblog.com/category/energylinkup/

May the month bring you peace and joy.

Michal

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Intuitive Month
24th September 2009

It’s time again for my intuitive take on the month or four weeks ahead.

And this month’s EnergyLinkUp, or ELU follows my intuitive take on the month. Read the ELU notes on how to use it. It’s a poem (or a koan as a wise friend said to me) to reinforce the meaning of the Intuitive Month’s message. So, read on:

A time of balance is approaching. It is as if you have been dealing with varying degrees of chaos- some of them very fertile indeed, others backward looking and reminders of a past that no longer serves you. Or you have been wavering, undecided. But all that is being eclipsed in the next week or two. Instead- balance, and renewed vigor are calling to you.

“Balance” means the desire and the imperative to find a place of harmony. In its positive form that can be immensely “grown up”- real mature behavior. In its negative form, it can mean simply sitting on the fence. Don’t sit on the fence. Use all your persuasive powers, your intellect and the great force of your heart to strive for balance, an empowered balance. Take decisions where necessary; forge paths if you need them. But always strive to keep, or establish, equilibrium.

That does not mean compromise at any cost. Compromise can reek of disempowerment. There’s an expression “everything matters but nothing matters terribly”. It is sometimes trotted out to deal with romantic agonies, or awful emotional excesses. It has its virtues. When the heart is out of balance, feelings can run away with you and rivers can run red. However, it can also be stifling – a memento of a crippling gentility.

Everything matters. It matters greatly, not terribly. The enormous responsibility, and joy, facing us all is to find the place of balance, to hold all that matters so much in a powerful balance.

Well, for approximately the next four weeks, that is our task. It will be followed by significant change. So, use this opportunity to put all in order, before the change that is coming. And make it useful, productive order. Don’t bury issues under the pretense that you are ordering and balancing the situation. Shake them out, wash and iron them and put them away in good condition to be used again. Then all will be balanced. The force will be behind you!

Go well, be well- with love and best wishes,

Michal

The Rhythm and the Balance

The rhythm of the waves beats an
Irregular pattern as the swell
Crashes onto the shore. Sometimes
It’s deceptively meek, a watery blue,
Where I see your face reflected.
Sometimes wild and hungry almost oranges,
And muddy browns, do the devil’s work.

Then I jump at their fearsome collision,
Dodging hundred upon hundreds
Of gallons of water carrying
Sharp needles that graze my skin,
While applying an antiseptic
Salt burn at the same time.

But now my pace changes.
As if the magnet that drives the tides,
Drives me too.
I hear the rhythm anew.
It beats seven times, in the swells
Before repeating the pattern.
Over and over again.
Then the numbers change, but
Still I hear the rhythm. No surprises
Take me unaware.

I slow my pace
And see the waves with different eyes.
No ravenous power threatens me,
No harsh breakers assail me,
But a great force unfolds
Playing with its power
Backwards and forwards.
Offering me the energy of a millions facets-
Reflecting all the shades of the sky
Above and the sandy bed below.

So you turn to me and sing
To my soul, till I hear your melody
And finally recognize the tune.
How sweet is the sound.

Travel well,

Go well, be well.

© Michal Levin 2009

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How we evolve (or devolve) into more successful, effective, fulfilled and joyful people depends on our reaction to our experiences. That is our everyday experiences, not simply peak experiences, or special events.

Our response either develops our resources and spiritual capital- so to speak- or limits, confines or reduces us to the level of our fears.(And the greater the fears the greater their power to reduce us.)

This process happens in our energy. We know it in our hearts and minds. It is how we think and feel. Our thoughts and feelings respond as if to an opportunity or a threat.

Both are necessary. But a perspective, or a default or habitual position that sees all as a threat, inevitably leads to limitation and reduction. The more one is able to see opportunity in circumstances, the greater the potential for growth. So –how to see opportunity?

That is an issue I am dealing with in the telephone groups I am working with, and will be teaching more about as the year unfolds. Read my blog and join classes or seminars when you can.

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Love has been on my mind, as I travel to the USA. Crossing the Atlantic almost always penetrates my thoughts. Changing places somehow opens a door to a fresh layer of my unconscious. Today I realize, as if for the first time, how love and fear fight for possession of life. I pray for a vision of the future driven by love, inspired by the energy of love, and a whole supported in joyful balance, whatever the strategies of fear.

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All I’ve heard today is doubts and questions. Of course I remember “when in doubt don’t”, but I also remember the importance of information. Its not a time to feel bad about being hesitant or confused. Its a time to relish the opportunity to collect more information and scrutinize the information you already posses. Glad to share my recipe for now – hope it is useful!

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This is my intuitive take on the month ahead. I am sorry not to be writing personally to my loyal subscribers- but this way, as I have explained before, not only can I reach out to more people, but also I can write more often (as I have been). Please do not hesitate to let me know your reactions.

So, in the northern hemisphere the summer is ending, in the southern hemisphere the winter is drawing towards a close. But has it been, is it, a season of love, or of sickness? What does the month ahead hold?

For some of us the original summer of love was a time of immense possibility. It was the wonderment of adolescent, the sense of omnipotence colliding with a universal energy that offered boundless horizons. Of course realism was the missing ingredient.

I raise the summer of love because the month ahead may show the shadow side of that earlier flower power, in some ways. The question of realism is all around. Is it real? What is real? How to shape reality? The power and the passion may be the same- you may well experience intense bouts of emotion- but the specter of realism looms large. What to do? How to make it real?

I suspect indecision will be the order of the day for many of us, and I have no problem with that.

If its indecision you feel, then stick with it. Don’t try to force a solution, yet. Mercury moves retrograde in September (the 7th -29th) you will be going over past decisions, or fine print, or details of your life or work. This is purification time, and realism in action.

At the same time, as August moves into September, you may experience malice or projection from others. Indeed, you may have already experienced this, but it is not over. This is a time when many are unwilling to own their issues- for want of a better word. This may be apparent in business or in your private life. It’s no use trying to make those people understand, or “hear” you. But it’s important that you stay realistic. Just because an accusation is made, does not mean you need to answer it. Indeed you must not! And you must not allow it into yourself, it is the other’s issue.

Draw on the passion of the moment to hold the vision of possibility before you. Use the grinding sense of realism to strengthen your vision and your offering to the world. Be prepared to wait a little while before you put it into action. You will be stronger, and your presence more powerful, for reflection and engaging with the purification process, or reality test.

One aspect of reality that may be particularly testing is illness. It is as if many of our bodies are being tried now. In simplest terms I believe this is because, as I first said more than twleve years ago, the vibrations are changing. The vibrations on planet earth are quickening- see how quickly changes in the economic and financial situation are swirling around us? Similar changes are besieging our bodies. I suspect we are coming into contact with many different viruses and bacteria- if that is the correct description. (The late Sir Fred Holye, English astronomer was one of the first to speak about viruses coming from outer space). Of course different people react differently, but for many our bodies cannot react quickly enough, the normal process of developing immunities – physical evolution- is impaired. So, if this is a testing time physically, take it step by step.

Nonetheless, physically, emotionally and cognitively, in the inner and the outer realms, you are facing real positive developments at the end of this time of reality testing and realism. There is great strength and energy ahead! Prepare yourself.

Remember the Energy LinkUp that takes place on Sundays (check it out). But, feel free to use the ELU message that follows throughout the month to strengthen you heart, and feed your inner, true sense of reality.

The ELU message this week is about exactly how to do that: be strong, be sure. Open to your vision.

With love and best wishes,

Michal

P.S. My new telegroup starts September 1st- I am really looking forward to it. Details of activities, click on the Events, Courses and Meditations link here, or email me at Michal@MichalLevin.com

Gossamer Reality (2) ELU for 26 August 2009
For the recording of this ELU, click here

I turn my eyes to myself,
My inner vision scans my body,
Till a movement across its surface
Draws me to the mirror
At my heart.

Ripples, in fluid colors-
Every mercury shade
Races over the surface
Of my heart, that is like a mirror.
Quickly they form a myriad
Heavy liquid peaks, solid
For a moment, before they fracture into
Sharp angles and angry words; heavy water
Scatters over the surface of the mirror
Only to come together again
To repeat the process.

This picture at my heart
Is one perspective on the World,
The state of my reality.
I must watch, see puppets, not people.
Observe – guard my full feelings.
Meanwhile, above the world of power
And performance my High Heart beats.
It offers me a glorious cloth,
A diaphanous, multi colored river,
A gossamer gale
That moves through my fingers
And covers my heart, as I
Wind it – around and around.

I offer my Love to myself,
And to the world,
The sweet knowing and
Deep empathy of my
High Heart that holds
The gossamer reality
Of my soul and protects
Me in the everyday,
Allowing me to move
Towards the Source:
To be with the beginning
And the end, to be at
The place of all power
And none.
To be with you in my heart, and
In every day’s reality.

Travel well.

Go well, be well.

©MichalLevin 2009

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18 is an impressionable age. Age 18 I heard Jerry Cohen lecture, had tutorials with him and learnt from him. This month he died,
Emeritus Professor at Oxford, UK, and a Fellow of All Souls, having held one of the grandest chairs in philosophy, the Chichele Professorship of Social and Political Theory

Cohen was a Marxist all his life. He examined Marx’s theories by the light of contemporary analytical philosophy, and with the perspective of the history of philosophy.

He was also utterly authentic. My 18-year-old self had no idea of the validity of his arguments (not sure that I do now!). But with an adolescent sixth sense, I knew he was real, authentic, ethical, and that he cared.

So, a grand Marxist philosopher surely had little time for spirituality? or developmental theories, or the study of consciousness?

Well, I know he came to love art, sculpture and architecture. I also know he had a radical line on conservatism. He wrote a paper called “A Truth in conservatism: Rescuing conservatism from the Conservatives”, in which he says: “A conservative regulation gives life continuity. We cannot reinvent ourselves, or our language, or anything that really matters, every day according to what our resources now are and what our opportunities now are. We cannot keep everything ‘under review’.” Then he goes on to bash Conservatives.

Conservatism isn’t consciousness, let alone spirituality of course. However, recently I learnt that towards the end of his life he became fascinated with Christianity. Of course he remained a Jew – always a Jew, but he came to believe that outer change could not be achieved without inner change first.

So, Britain’s greatest Marxist philosopher, and a leading world philosopher, came to believe that inner change is the pre-requisite to all real change! No wonder I was so impressed with him at 18.

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The media are still making much of swine flu. Of course it is a real issue, there’s an identifiable virus and it will be an even more serious if it mutates and returns later in the year or next year. What are it’s origins? Or why now? Those are very relevant questions.

At the same time the tiny sample of those whose paths cross mine is also revealing a curious pattern. I’m hesitant to say it is more than co-incidence, but its similar to a pattern I have seen over the years. Many people talking to me over the last week- from different parts of the world- are complaining about bloating, or digestive disturbances, or problems with elimination. As a statistic this has no meaning, it’s merely anecdotal! It’s highly unlikely that they are all affected by the same virus. But, perhaps it may say something different.

In the years where I offered energy remedies to clients, and I sometimes still do so at retreats, I frequently noticed that on a given day a variety of very different clients all seemed to need the same energy remedy. (I make energy remedies by putting my own energy, in different ways, into a liquid or a similar container in a way that I have learnt.) So, perhaps people are affected by a given or several given atmospheric energies in the same way at the same time? Perhaps our physical bodies are affected similarly in response to similar, subtle energetic atmospheric pressures which may even be present across vast distances?

If so, its one more avenue about the workings of energy that needs to be understood. And it reminds me of literally the protection that being in a place of physical peace and beauty can offer. May we join in creating that peace and beauty in our lives and in our universe.

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This evening, in the long Northern hemisphere summer dusk, I walked along a riverbank. Behind me the lighthouse blinked, going out to sea. Ahead of me a small craft motored slowly upstream, going home. Three groups of rambler passed me bye, over the course of perhaps 40 minutes. “Evening”, “Hi”, “G’d evening”.

Nothing remarkable. Only, in my London life, in any city I have ever visited it would never happen. Of course, the same has occurred in numerous rural locations (but not all) around the world.

But tonight I felt in my very core how important it is to be recognized by one’s fellow humans. After all, we are fundamentally connected. I want to live in a reality where that is acknowledged, and honored.

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I watched the water today- a wide ocean horizon, and was flooded with knowing. As I gazed out to sea, I was reminded of the importance of perspective. And as my inner vision blossomed, I remembered that of course the outer effects the inner; that the energy of a place has a direct effect on the energy of the individual. My spirits danced in the gentle sunlight and my soul joined with the rocks and the lines of the land and the lapping water.

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Time to remember that “things” are not necessarily the way that they seem. What you see, as well as being a function of what’s there may also relate to your past experience, your expectations, your history, your intentions, your karma or even your DNA- all of which go towards making up your perspective, or bias.

I always start workshops with a few fundamentals, including my hope that how you see “things’ will not be the same at the end of the workshop. I want you to contradict yourself by the end of the day (or week). I want you to have made a statement (to yourself or to the group) that you do not want to hold at the end. If that happens, then I know your perspective- how you see things has changed.

And change, development, even evolution is what we are aiming for.

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I was honored today. Jill Furmanovsky- one of rock’s most accomplished photographers and an old friend, came to take my photograph. Jill has photographed many of the biggest names in rock music, including: Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, Bob Marley, Eric Clapton, Blondie, The Police, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Pretenders, and Oasis. You can see her work at www.rockarchive.com – well worth checking out. So, imagine my delight at being in such good company.

Actually, this is not the first time I’ve been honored in this way. The cover photograph of my book The Pool of Memory, The Autobiography of an Unwilling Intuitive (its at www.MichalLevin.com or Amazon) was taken by Jill in 1998. She really understands my approach, which is very complimentary to her work as she instinctively aims to capture her subjects’ energy on camera. She is a genius! Our session was quick, completely painless, and fun even though photographing me is difficult because the right hand side of my face is partially paralyzed, but Jill achieves marvels. I’ll post the result of the session for you to see.

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God is love. Those kind of statements are tremendously common. You take for granted that you “know” them, or that they’re relevant in one way or another. But it is very difficult to really experience them- know them as part of you, know them so that you cannot but BE the knowledge. That’s completely different.

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NEW TELEPHONE GROUP WITH MICHAL
(For those who have not done a telephone group with Michal before)

STARTING IN SEPTEMBER 2009

Explore who you really are and who you want to be – and who you can be! Release your potential, untie the cords that bind and limit you.

WORK WITH MICHAL LEVIN IN A SMALL INTIMATE GROUP

A new telegroup starts September 1st 2009 once a month for six months at the regular time of 11.30am EST, 8.30am PST, or 4.30pm UK. Registration is for the course of all six sessions.

Dates : 2009 September 1st, September 29th, October 20th, November 17th, December 15th, January 12th 2010

FOR FURTHER DETAILS CLICK HERE

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A LONDON MEDITATION AFTERNOON with MICHAL

Sunday 20th September 2009 3-5pm

Meditating with Michal is a unique and powerful experience that can take us to places within ourselves that we would never reach alone, which can deepen our individual practise and, not least, offer the opportunity to hear Michal’s interpretation of our journeys.

For those of us who are working with IntuitiveWeek and the ELU, this meditation session will be very helpful in intensifying the effects of the ELU, and also offer a chance to discuss how best we can benefit from IntuitiveWeek and the ELU.

This session also marks the start of a new series of monthly group meditations at Essex Church, using Michal’s LEAP practice, which all those who have attended Michal’s afternoon session will be welcome to join.

Venue: Essex Unitarian Church, 112 Palace Gardens Terrace,
Notting Hill Gate London W8

Closing dates for payment: September 5th 2009

To book a place please email Hilary@michallevin.com

Cost: £35 (inc. VAT) for payments by cheque
or £36.40 (includes 4% Paypal charge) on the website — click here to pay.

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“The Girlfriend Experience” is the name a small group of prostitutes give to their business activities in a play at London’s Young Vic at the moment. Its been hugely celebrated, and its highly innovative. The script is drawn from verbatim recordings of conversations in a British brothel. Critics describe it as “absolutely filthy, hugely entertaining”, “wicked, guilty, down to earth pleasure”, “absorbing and hilarious.”

To me, and the 27 year old girl sitting next me, it was devastating. The punters want affection and acclaim – to be told the sex was great, they are great. They also want to know the prostitute they are paying cares about them. And with a terrible pathos, the play demonstrates the enduring nature of the female fantasy – “one day my prince will come”. Even an obese 50 year old prostitute longs for “him”, and still believe “he” will come.

So, we all want to be loved, and we damage ourselves terribly in the process of trying to obtain that love. There must be a better way – and there is.

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MichalGardenHello,

I have missed being in weekly touch with you; it is very good to be connecting again now.

Practicalities first. To overcome the gap of not being in touch, with considerable help, I am setting up a blog. You can choose to receive my blog as an email, or access it by simply clicking on the blog site. (More details next week, at the moment it is in the testing phase ) But once it goes public, I can communicate with you at least once a week, and probably more, even if it’s only a few lines. (And you can respond!). I plan to write about what I am thinking, doing seeing, etc.— also to post teachings.

Then, the blog will be used to post the monthly IntuitiveWeek really ought to be called IntuitiveMonth) and EnergyLinkUp message. So, technology permitting, I look forward to being back in more regular contact soon. (There will continue to be no charge to you to subscribe.)

Now, moving on to the month ahead. The key to the month ahead is to let go of limitations and constraints. Often it’s hard to see where the constraints are. One clue is fear, or sometimes a grim, un-joyful persistence that signals resignation.

Wherever there is fear, or resignation, there is contraction. Contraction is the power of the dark that reduces us, or limits us. We often turn to it under the guise of keeping “safe”. Only “safe” achieved in this way is highly unsafe because it is disabling, limiting and/or dis-empowering.

If you are familiar with my chakra model, contraction moves the centre line out of balance and usually restricts the functioning of the most affected, or targeted charkas. If you are not so familiar with the chakra model, just understand that this is the reality you create when you restrict your reach, or restrict your activities, or otherwise contract yourself because you believe that keeps you safe.

Another variant of keeping safe that is similarly limiting, is trying to be safe by aiming for total control of a situation. It doesn’t work. This strategy blinkers your perception and so threatens your balance. It restricts your actions and prevents you from seeing, hearing what is really going on and benefiting from it. When you try to take maximum control you contract a vital part of yourself. Trying to control all your circumstances (and usually everyone else around too) doesn’t work, it doesn’t make you “safe.” It just increases the problems.

Letting go of fear or constraint is not the same as acting foolishly. Acting foolishly means no preparation, no forethought, just the proverbial wish and prayer.

Becoming truly safe lies in is submitting to the knowledge that you can’t control the future. It is about authenticity. Don’t try. Relax into accepting that you can do your best to plan, but not all eventualities are going to be covered. Nor should they be. This is the antidote to contraction.

Adaptability is the best gift to ease the path of development, and overcome the fear. Adaptability means being able to adapt to whatever circumstances transpire, and using them to best advantage.

My hunch is that for many people the chakra that may be feeling the tightest pressure at the moment is the second, which rules anything to do with consumption. That’s consumption of love, of money, of food, of sex. Its not the desire to control for controls sake, or the immersion in ideas that can take you literally “on a trip”. This is good old material reality with all its on earthly challenges.

To meet that challenge, and deny the dark, accept what you need to accept. Denial, fantasies of omnipotence, delusions of grandeur, even attempts to be “too clever” to gain advantage – are all messages from the dark. It is old, destructive energy calling you. Do not contract in this way, that would be giving way to fear and its accompanying restraint.

Simply accept and seek out authenticity- the place where you are yourself. The truth, your truth. Then work on establishing constructive behavior, behavior that does its best with the circumstances while acknowledging that the future is hidden, for now. In modesty and authenticity lies adaptability. That’s a real mark of serious development.

So, this month’s ELU is about denying the hold of the dark. It’s about resisting fear and constraint, without swinging into the need for control (or fantasies of omnipotence, or narcissism for that matter.) As ever it is the story of a personal quest- but I know so many share that experience. Going “Beyond The Dark’s Hold” it is how to balance your energies, and stand in the place of authenticity that enables you both to gain and to give of the highest – to be your best, most complete self.

As ever the EnergyLink Up on Sundays continues exactly as before. The times are on my main website at http://www.michallevin.com/energy_link_up.php. We meet every Sunday, in our virtual space. I look forward to our connection.

Please do remember that if you would like to work with my vision on moving to the next stage of your journey, I am always very glad to offer help. There is a new telephone group starting in September for those who have not joined one before- see my website. The old groups are continuing the exciting work, again starting in September. (If you have not been in touch with my assistant Clare to reserve your place better hurry- consultations@MichalLevin.com.

May the month ahead bring you peace and joy.

Go well, be well.

Love and best wishes,

Michal

© Michal Levin 2009
www.MichalLevin.com
www.MichalLevinConsulting.com

“My lesson is love: in the marriage of the dense and the fine, the dark and the light, the masculine and the feminine.”

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BEYOND THE DARK’S HOLD
ELU July 24th 2009

The blue horizon beckons.
The hilltop gazes serenely
At the peaceful fields below.

I touch this picture book reality
In my mind’s eye as I tramp
The mountain path- around
And around, on the route
To purification, that demands
Persistence
And unrelenting subjugation.
Or does it?

Your face obliterates the sky.
Our history records my fall
From grace- or does it?

Mea culpa, mea culpa
Over and over again.
Is this the dark pattern’s power?

Facing my life afresh- or
Trying to- I offer up my soul
To myself, and pledge to
Stand on the hilltop, forsaking
The path around the mountain,
That eternal pursuit of
An elusive purification.

Instead, I fill my eyes
With the light of the sky,
And the curve of
The hill that delights
My soul and raises me
Beyond the tempter’s dark hold.

I call the up my dreams and
Dare my desire –
You will come to me,
As I am coming to you.

Travel well,
Go well, be well.

© Michal Levin 2009

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