Feature Friday-Michelle Hankes, Author of Divine by Nature

Feature Friday with author Michelle L.Hankes

We are really honored to have Michelle on our blog-thanks Michelle! Read more about this interesting and intriguing author and her interview with Hotlit Books co-founder Xavier.

I have been reading your work I kept going back to the same thing should I say that you are an author or a messenger of spiritual information or would it be easier to say both?

I would say I am both. My intention as an author, particularly when writing Divine by Nature, has been to express the spiritual message that we are all connected to everything on this planet, as well as in our Universe. There is nothing we are not, so why not connect to all things in your own unique way? And the more we connect, the more we see ourselves in everything else. That sort of connection allows us to become more divine in our own nature because we connect more deeply to ourselves through the understanding that there is nothing we are not. If I can express this understanding and experience it more myself and give others the opportunity to choose to experience it for themselves too by way of my experience, then we’re all better off. 

The book you have out now is “Divine byNature: Spiritual Messages from the Planet's Natural Elements”, where did the inspiration come from?  

What inspired me and still inspires me is the essence of nature and the beauty of everything all around us. I love being outside and when I walk amongst the trees or down a sandy beach, I just find myself transfixed in the present. It’s the best place to be and the fact that just being amongst beings who are so present themselves can bring me into a state of ultimate presence – that just illuminates me.

In 10 words or less tell what you want a reader to experience from reading “Divine by Nature?

Align with your true self and choose your experience.  

I have read “Being Divine” within it you have that Angels really do not care if we learn to communicate with them, but would it not be a more harmonious world if there were better communication with not only Angels but with everything in the universe?

I wrote Being Divine (a free downloadable e-book on my website) to help people become connected to how they communicate with the non-physical aspect of our world. In essence, the Angels and other non-physicals really don’t care, as per se, whether we learn to communicate with them or not. They communicate with us all the time in all sorts of ways and they will continue regardless of whether we are aware of it consciously. The benefit to accessing them and other non-physicals is that we learn two-way communication. We get to access a level of dialogue - which will be different for every person – and ultimately, this would create more harmony in our world and in our Universe. When we access the non-physical aspects of creation, we are accessing the other parts of ourselves; and in the case of Angels and our higher Selves, we are accessing higher vibrational aspects of who we really are. And that will allow us to become more harmonious. The journey is not about what the Angels want for us – it’s about what we want for ourselves and what will make the journey more fun.



Author Michelle Hankes

  I enjoyed this in the Epilogue: “We spend so much of our youth learning how to use our brains, but little to no time is spent learning how to be the soul that we are.”, and how tell the readers how do you think we should teach our children to better understand their souls.

Our school systems, as divine as they are in their intention to educate our children, really have a lot lacking in the department of spiritual attunement. Our schools weren’t really designed that way. I’m not talking about religious doctrine, so much as the desire for spiritual awareness and attuning to oneself as an individual soul. Every child is taught the same things, for good reason, but they aren’t taught how to stay in tune with who and what you are. Children come forward knowing full well what they are at a soul level, even if they can’t express that in words. This is where soul attention would be helpful. Many of us as adults spend a great deal of time learning how to not think as much, how to regain our sense of self, how to reconnect with our own divinity, and how to figure out what it is we really want inside of ourselves. But if this was taught and held at a younger age, it wouldn’t be so challenging for so many. It’s not just up to our school systems to do this – teachers, parents, adults of any kind could help our young people stay on their divine path long before they find themselves careening off. And in a beautiful way, it would help all of the adults involved too.

What age do you feel that we should begin teaching them?

From day one, allow them to be who they are and encourage them to find their own sense of purpose.

What do you feel is the opposite of Angels, as we are taught the opposite of light is dark?

The opposite of Angel is just another Angelic type being. Light or dark, energy is just energy; it’s just a matter of what and how you want to experience yourself. They choose their existence just as we choose ours, but from a higher, wider perspective of the Universe and how to create within it. Angels come in all shapes and sizes, etherically; it’s all about creation. Many people call dark Angels negative or evil – I don’t see them as such. They are just another form of energy – another type of perspective in this dual Universe we’ve created. There is light and dark in everyone – each of us possesses these divine dueling energies. It really comes down to how we want to express ourselves and what we want to express ourselves as. It’s the same for the Angels.

What genre do you like to read?

I like most genres, except horror. I have a hard time reading graphically violent books because I get so involved in whatever I’m reading. I enjoy novels, children’s books, non-fiction, literature – pretty much all types of books because each one offers a different perspective on life. The writer who is writing the book gives me and all the readers a different idea about how life could be and that’s just fun for me. It’s all about the different perspectives on reality. That’s the fun of being the beings that we are. We are all collective souls in the soup of the Universe, but it is our unique perspective on something that allows us to be the identity that we are and create from that space. I love that.

Besides your books, what book do you think everyone in the universe should read and why?

There’s not one single book that will work for everyone. There are too many great books out there! And every book written by whatever author from their unique perspective will help someone find what they are looking for, hopefully within themselves. The author’s job is just to inspire that through their own experiences and their own voice. When I was little, I was deeply connected to the book, A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleline L’Engle. I can still see the imagery in my head. As an adult, I find other books that inspire me and particular authors whom I resonate with, but I cannot say there is any book that fits all, nor even a whole book that will make all the difference. Oftentimes, I find myself flipping through a book and pulling out what I need in the moment. I have lots of books like this from fiction and non-fiction authors all around the globe. I say, don’t discount any book – every book has something to offer someone, somewhere.

   If you could only choose one of the Angels of Pleiades to have a human form and accompany you daily which would you choose and why?

Plei, the Angel of Pleiades. For those who don’t know, Plei is the Angelic being who oversees all of the Pleiadian existence and she was the first one I channeled actively. Her energy resonates so closely to mine, it makes me flood with love when I think of her. We often joke when people ask why she’s called Plei and I tell them that her first name is Plei and her last name is Ades. When I first began communicating with her, it was what she told us we could call her to simplify the longevity of the Angel of Pleiades. Plei is a loving, kind, generous being who exudes love and wisdom with everything she does. She has an amazing spirit and if I couldn’t have them all in physical form, I would choose her to walk this journey with me. She is amazing in her connection to everyone, how gentle and wise she is and what she wants for all of us: to be our own truth. Her expansion is our expansion and the love she has for us is infinite.

You can find more about Michelle at the following links:

http://www.michellehankes.com http://www.angelenergyalignment.com/ http://www.angelsofpleiades.blogspot.com/  http://www.divine-by-nature.blogspot.com/

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