Michal Levin
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Michal Levin is a writer, spiritual teacher, and pioneer of her own independently developed LEAP (Life Energy Activation Process) Meditation, that she also describes as a chakra
meditation. Since 1991 she has been involved with teaching about subtle Energy and how working with it can, as she claims, transform both the individual and the wider world. Levin has published four books to date.
’s high-profile current affairs programme Newsnight. Levin has also worked as a management consultant and held the post of Beauty Editor of upmarket British magazine Tatler
. Levin has written for a number of UK newspapers and publications, including The Telegraph
, Vogue
, Evening Standard and The Times
, both as contributor and columnist.
In 1990, Levin, suffering from what she described as a sense of unease and physical discomfort, took a sabbatical and attempted meditation. Despite having no belief in anything esoteric, Levin found herself experiencing what appeared to be another level of reality, a domain where there were ‘beings’ or 'presences', and a distinct geography (which in later experiences she recognised as constant).”. Over the months that followed Levin meticulously recorded the significant quantity of input she was given in meditation, and her experiences, in a diary. It was during this time, that Levin gained, according to her own claims, the ability to 'see' and understand ‘energy’. Levin's experiences were sufficient to confirm to herself Carl Jung’s observation:
“Subtle body energies are both corporeal and semi-spiritual in nature.” Dr. Carl Jung
Levin also painted prolifically at this period. Many of these paintings were later used to illustrate the book, Meditation, Path to the Deepest Self.
Levin states that in 1991 she was pressed to use her gifts to help clients. As a consequence of this stated pressure from her inner experiences, throughout the 1990s, she gave a series of seminars called Line of the Light that included key subjects such as Relationships and Death and the Dark. In 1994, Levin claims that her intuition saved her life when it led her to identify a tumour that no specialist, orthodox or alternative, had been able to detect. Levin recounts the story of her professed transformation in her autobiography, which was endorsed by former Times editor Lord Rees Mogg
, writer Bel Mooney
, and academic and specialist in near death experiences Professor Kenneth Ring
. The book was the subject of a major interview in The Times newspaper. An extract from Levin’s second book, Spiritual Intelligence, was published in the Times
In 2004, Levin participated in setting up a venture capital fund in New York dedicated to new medical technologies. Levin's specific brief was to investigate technologies utilising frequency and vibration - energy - capable of influencing health and well being. As a result Levin travelled throughout the USA surveying and assessing emerging energy medicine
technologies. During that time, 2004/5, Levin also gave a series of seminars at Penn State Medical School
, for medical professionals, called Essential Practise for Advanced Medicine, around her theories and experience of the energy body, known in part also as the biofield (USA NIH). In 2006, Levin was involved in formulating protocols for experiments at Penn State University Medical School investigating the efficacy of energy medicine.
In October 2009, Michal recorded an interview with philosopher and founder of Integral Theory
, Ken Wilber
exploring the relationship between her work on the chakras as an energy system within the body and his work around developmental levels. The result is a comprehensive, illuminating and unique guide to the chakras – what they are and how they operate - and the way in which understanding and working with them, particularly through the LEAP Meditation, is essential to the developmental, evolutionary process of being human.
Michal Levin has two grown-up children and two grandchildren.
Chakra
Chakra is a concept originating in Hindu texts, featured in tantric and yogic traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism. Its name derives from the Sanskrit word for "wheel" or "turning" .Chakra is a concept referring to wheel-like vortices...
meditation. Since 1991 she has been involved with teaching about subtle Energy and how working with it can, as she claims, transform both the individual and the wider world. Levin has published four books to date.
Biography
Michal Levin was born in South Africa and later lived in Zimbabwe and the USA. She is currently living and working in England. A self-professed strong believer in social justice, Levin became a successful television journalist in the UK in the 1980s, working on the campaigning programme Hard News for the newly-formed Channel Four and as the Medical and Science correspondent for the BBCBBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
’s high-profile current affairs programme Newsnight. Levin has also worked as a management consultant and held the post of Beauty Editor of upmarket British magazine Tatler
Tatler
Tatler has been the name of several British journals and magazines, each of which has viewed itself as the successor of the original literary and society journal founded by Richard Steele in 1709. The current incarnation, founded in 1901, is a glossy magazine published by Condé Nast Publications...
. Levin has written for a number of UK newspapers and publications, including The Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...
, Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
, Evening Standard and The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
, both as contributor and columnist.
In 1990, Levin, suffering from what she described as a sense of unease and physical discomfort, took a sabbatical and attempted meditation. Despite having no belief in anything esoteric, Levin found herself experiencing what appeared to be another level of reality, a domain where there were ‘beings’ or 'presences', and a distinct geography (which in later experiences she recognised as constant).”. Over the months that followed Levin meticulously recorded the significant quantity of input she was given in meditation, and her experiences, in a diary. It was during this time, that Levin gained, according to her own claims, the ability to 'see' and understand ‘energy’. Levin's experiences were sufficient to confirm to herself Carl Jung’s observation:
“Subtle body energies are both corporeal and semi-spiritual in nature.” Dr. Carl Jung
Levin also painted prolifically at this period. Many of these paintings were later used to illustrate the book, Meditation, Path to the Deepest Self.
Levin states that in 1991 she was pressed to use her gifts to help clients. As a consequence of this stated pressure from her inner experiences, throughout the 1990s, she gave a series of seminars called Line of the Light that included key subjects such as Relationships and Death and the Dark. In 1994, Levin claims that her intuition saved her life when it led her to identify a tumour that no specialist, orthodox or alternative, had been able to detect. Levin recounts the story of her professed transformation in her autobiography, which was endorsed by former Times editor Lord Rees Mogg
William Rees-Mogg
William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg is an English journalist and life peer.-Education:Rees-Mogg was educated at Clifton College Preparatory School in Bristol and Charterhouse School in Godalming, followed by Balliol College, Oxford...
, writer Bel Mooney
Bel Mooney
Bel Mooney is an English journalist and broadcaster born in Liverpool.-Early life:She was born in Broadgreen Hospital to Gladys Norbury and Edward Mooney. She initially grew up in Liverpool on a council estate called The Green on Queen's Drive...
, and academic and specialist in near death experiences Professor Kenneth Ring
Kenneth Ring
Kenneth Ring is Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of Connecticut, and a researcher within the field of near-death studies...
. The book was the subject of a major interview in The Times newspaper. An extract from Levin’s second book, Spiritual Intelligence, was published in the Times
In 2004, Levin participated in setting up a venture capital fund in New York dedicated to new medical technologies. Levin's specific brief was to investigate technologies utilising frequency and vibration - energy - capable of influencing health and well being. As a result Levin travelled throughout the USA surveying and assessing emerging energy medicine
Energy medicine
Energy medicine is one of five domains of "complementary and alternative medicine" identified by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States...
technologies. During that time, 2004/5, Levin also gave a series of seminars at Penn State Medical School
Penn State Hershey Medical Center
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, located in Hershey, Pennsylvania, 10 miles east of Harrisburg, is Penn State’s medical school and academic medical center, and is the only medical school and university hospital in Pennsylvania located outside the urban areas of Philadelphia and...
, for medical professionals, called Essential Practise for Advanced Medicine, around her theories and experience of the energy body, known in part also as the biofield (USA NIH). In 2006, Levin was involved in formulating protocols for experiments at Penn State University Medical School investigating the efficacy of energy medicine.
In October 2009, Michal recorded an interview with philosopher and founder of Integral Theory
Integral Theory
Integral Theory is a philosophy posited by Ken Wilber that seeks a synthesis of the best of pre-modern, modern, and postmodern reality. It claims to be a "theory of everything," and offers an approach "to draw together an already existing number of separate paradigms into an interrelated network of...
, Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber
Kenneth Earl Wilber II is an American author who has written about mysticism, philosophy, ecology, and developmental psychology. His work formulates what he calls Integral Theory. In 1998, he founded the Integral Institute, for teaching and applications of Integral theory.-Biography:Ken Wilber was...
exploring the relationship between her work on the chakras as an energy system within the body and his work around developmental levels. The result is a comprehensive, illuminating and unique guide to the chakras – what they are and how they operate - and the way in which understanding and working with them, particularly through the LEAP Meditation, is essential to the developmental, evolutionary process of being human.
Michal Levin has two grown-up children and two grandchildren.
Books and recordings
- What Welcome? Reception and Resettlement of Refugees in Britain pub. Acton Society Trust (1982)
- The Pool of Memory: The Autobiography of an Unwilling Intuitive pub. Gill and Macmillan Ltd (1998) ISBN 978-0717129485
- Spiritual Intelligence: Awakening the Power of Your Spirituality and Intuition pub. Hodder and Stoughton (2001) ISBN 978-0340733943
- Meditation, Path to the Deepest Self pub. Dorling Kindersley Publishing (2002) ISBN 978-0789483331
- Energy The Real Story: Step One CD/download (2007)
- Energy The Real Story: Paths to the Deeper Self CD/download (2007)
External links
- MichalLevin.com
- Interview on Paltalk - Newstalk: http://www.paltalk.com/newstalk/webapp/GuestDetails.wmt?id=241&Type='U'.
- The Times newspaper (http://www.timesonline.co.uk)