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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’ve just added a beautiful Mozart Sonata video to my Media page. This is one of my favorite piano pieces. The energy is just wonderful!

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images-7Refining your energies is always key to living a life worth living.

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MichalGardenHello,

It is very good to be connecting with you again.

Now, housekeeping first of all. You have been very patient seeing the IntuitiveWeek through all its changes from its original form as the ELU or Energy Link Up to its current mode, which includes the ELU.

Well – there is another change coming, and I do hope you will be as accommodating. Ultimately, I trust it will be to your advantage. Due to pressure of time, and the competing claims on my time, I can no longer write and record an edition of the IntuitiveWeek every week. (As most of you know, its not something I trip off in a casual half an hour! It’s more like a labor of love; I especially love writing the ELU message). I wondered what to do – and came up with a solution that I hope you will accept. Read the rest of this entry »

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MichalGardenHello,

It is very good to be connecting with you again.

As ever, housekeeping dictates that I remind you of the copyright conditions –that the copyright of this message belongs to me in all forms. Thank you.

As ever too, please feel free to pass this message on to anyone whom you think might benefit. The potential benefit for everyone working with the weekly prediction and the ELU is considerable. But, the more people who share and benefit from the weekly energy prediction, and the vibration of the ELU message, and even participate in the Link Up, the stronger it will become, the greater the benefit in the world.

In practical terms, that means that support in the world for the values, ethics and principles that inspire the ELU message, and are behind the weekly prediction that comes with it, is strengthened as more people who read and participate with it. Read the rest of this entry »

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