Michal has been called the intuitive’s intuitive by the thousands of people who, over the years, have benefited from her psychic or intuitive readings, healing workshops, books and seminars.
But to most, she is more than just an outstanding intuitive, she is a spiritual teacher.
As a spiritual teacher, she is an adviser, mentor and guide for individuals who are poised to take the next steps in their personal evolution. For more than seventeen years she has been a sought after teacher, helping others on an evolutionary path, connecting them with purpose and meaning to enable them to enjoy a valuable life.
At the same time, because she sees energy and understands how to interpret it, she teaches the lessons of subtle energies and the chakras, and how to work with them, including by the use of a special meditation technique.
As a spiritual teacher and an intuitive, Michal works to transform each individual, and so the wider world, for the greater good.
Ken Wilber’s Integral Naked Part 1
Baker Roshi once said: “Enlightenment is an accident. Meditation makes you accident prone.” There are those who have chosen to dedicate their lives to this ancient practice of waking up, and there are the rare few who are simply an accident waiting to happen. Michal Levin is such a one, blessed by a spontaneous realization or awakening.
For most of her life, Michal was one of the most unlikely people to be associated with anything “spiritual.” With a degree in psychology, a passion for social justice, and a dream job at the BBC, Michal pursued the refinement of intellect and its sensible application in a suffering world. Yet, for all the rewards of professional journalism, she was exhausted and deeply unhappy with her life. What was to be discovered later on was that she had had a brain tumor since early childhood, and that it had been growing all this time. As it grew, the more intense was the stress on her body and the more debilitating the exhaustion.
During a six month sabbatical in which she resolved to get to the bottom of her malaise, Michal tried a variety of more alternative approaches to healing such as massage, homeopathy, and finally, meditation. “I closed my eyes and within a minute, two minutes, it was as if I stepped out into another reality…. It seemed as if I had stepped out into the middle of a story…. And the most extraordinary time followed.” Of course, as a long-term rationalist confronted with a non-rational situation, Michal was quick to consider that she might be having a psychotic breakdown.
Michal soon went to see a psychotherapist (who happened to also be a very experienced Buddhist practitioner) to make sure she wasn’t losing her mind. Michal described her experiences to the therapist who sat there, “looking completely shattered.” After hearing everything, the rather astonished therapist explained to Michal that she was experiencing a very advanced Buddhist ritual usually reserved for senior students.
Not only that, but Michal was simultaneously being dowsed by what could only be called psychic or paranormal experiences. Information would come to her, entirely unbidden, about the lives of people around her and about her own life. For example, inner voices would tell her what teachers to go see; teachers she hadn’t even heard of before.
As Ken points out, Michal was being subject to a kind of spiritual “double-whammy.” She was opening to the infinite nature of Reality itself and she was compelled to receive, write down, and digest an enormous amount of psychic information. Either of these life-changing processes on its own is difficult enough to integrate into one’s life, let alone both.
Ken goes on to explain that higher levels of experience and intelligence initially often appear somewhat alien to one’s conventional sense of self. If that intelligence chooses to speak, there is literally the sense of an “other” speaking to us. As growth and development occur people often begin to recognize those initially foreign voices to be their own. Instead of being in dialogue with someone or something else, you begin to experience both “sides” of the conversation as integral voices of your own highest Self.
Michal is pursuing an integrating and integral approach in her own work. She suggests that spiritual or psychic talent not be measured merely in terms of its own depth, but in terms of how well the other lines of development have managed to keep up with that leading edge.
We hope you’ll join us on this intimate tour through the life of one of the most inspiring women in contemporary personal and spiritual growth.
Ken Wilber’s Integral Naked Part 2
Michal Levin is a unique and wonderful reminder that the territory described by the great spiritual traditions exists independently of those institutions. Her awakening to the numinous, subtle realms of existence occurred spontaneously, outside the context of a religious lineage. These interior realities simply presented themselves to her, and only later did she learn that her experiences correlated with the teachings of the world’s wisdom traditions.
Michal has been blessed with a kind of spiritual “double-whammy.” Not only has she seen into the spiritual unity of all things, she also has what appears to be some authentic psychic capacities. She shares that it was her ability to “read energy” that alerted her to the fact that something was seriously wrong with her body on a physical level. After consulting orthodox doctors that didn’t take her seriously and alternative practitioners that nearly killed her, “the voice” directed her on a journey that would lead her to several clues about the cause of her illness. And find the cause she did: a tumor the size of a small peach lodged in her brainstem.
The results of having the tumor removed were similar in severity and symptoms to having a major stroke; her hearing, vision, balance, and ability to speak were all impaired. A skeptic might have said that Michal’s spiritual experiences were simply the byproduct of the tumor pressing on her brainstem, but after the operation her experiences not only continued, but deepened.
As Ken explains, nondual realization, or sahaj is when you experience all things from the inside as the same Oneness that you are. Michal relates that sometimes when she is working with a client tears will come to her eyes, not because she is empathizing with them, but because she is them at that moment. But sahaj is not synonymous with psychic, and one does not require the other. Psychic or intuitive ability has to be dealt with on its own terms. Part of that process is checking interior information and illumination with exterior reality. Much to Michal’s surprise, when put to this test, the information coming to her seemed to be remarkably accurate.
Although at times Michal helps to awaken intuitive abilities in others, she is adamant that the person have a solid developmental foundation to work off of. Since Michal works primarily with energy, she uses the chakra model (as part of AQAL) as one way to understand human growth. But the principle is the same if one is looking at psychological structures: human beings develop through stages, and at each stage psychic information will be received and understood differently. Trans-rational information can be distorted through the subjective lens of the psychic, and likewise, the ability for the client to understand the information given to them can be compromised for the same reason.
Michal is a clear, intelligent, and heartfelt voice in the world of spiritual and psychic exploration. We hope you enjoy this dialogue with our friend from across the pond.