Episode 17

Michele begins by describing all the types of love, and then suggests a new one—what she calls mystical or spiritual love. She goes on to describe three fascinating examples of this kind of love that exists in the sacred space of one’s consciousness. The first of these took place in the late 1980’s when the AIDS pandemic was just emerging in San Francisco. She met a beautiful young man named Michael Paulsen who became one of her spiritual mentors just as he learned he was dying of AIDS. However, his inspired guidance later allowed Michele, in spite of her Christian beliefs, to be open to meeting an Indian guru named Gurumayi Chidvilasananda. That encounter changed her world forever. As a meditator she then had a number of relationships inside meditation. One of these was with the Puerto Rican actor Raul Julia. Even though she’d never met him, their relationship became very real and she grieved when he died suddenly. Michele’s third mystical romance took place in Egypt in the year 2000. While with a group of her meditation friends on a two-week journey up and down the Nile, she did a mystical dance with their captivating Egyptologist guide, Emil Nazmy. The two obviously had a deep karmic connection which played itself out in many powerful ways on this mystical journey. Toward the end of the episode Michele has her second “burning bush” moment at St. Catherine’s Monastery, the site of the original Biblical burning bush event. You won’t want to miss a minute of this amazing episode.