Michael Mackintosh
Author · meditation teacher · entrepreneur · mentor
Much love & blessings to you.
I help people reawaken their vision, bring their ideas to life and find more freedom in the spiritual and material parts of life.
A spiritual awakening at eighteen changed the direction of my life
Within a month, I stepped away from ordinary life and began a seven-year spiritual adventure into higher states of consciousness.
I travelled frequently to India, spent time with spiritual teachers and discovered deep states of peace, freedom and contentment.
I wanted to make spiritual ideas practical and useful in everyday life
I came back with visions and a desire to serve. I co-founded companies that have reached people around the world, including Awakened Academy, Superhero Training and OmBar.
The thread through all of the work is clarity. I love making complex, intangible ideas simple, practical and useful.
I care about both sides of life: the spiritual and the material. There is nowhere to go and nothing to escape from. The work is to master being alive and create the highest experience we can in both worlds.
Books, meditations, training and private mentoring
Free meditations on Insight Timer
Guided meditations for peace, sleep, healing, spiritual practice and everyday life.
Listen on Insight Timer →More than six books
My books include Your Wish Fulfilled, Spiritual Sense and Entranced. I am also preparing clean review editions of my Digital Detox books.
View my books →Awakened Academy
Spiritual life coaching, business training and certification for people who want to bring their work into the world.
Visit Awakened Academy →Awakened Meditation
Meditation training and certification for coaches, teachers and people building a meditation practice.
Visit Awakened Meditation →I love technology. I also know how easily it can take more than it gives.
I have loved technology since I was a child. We had a Macintosh Classic II with a little black-and-white screen, and I thought it was brilliant.
I later built companies and worked online, so I am not interested in pretending the internet is the enemy. Digital tools can help us create, communicate and get useful work done.
But I also know what it feels like when a phone, constant notifications and the endless stream of online media begin taking more of my attention than I want to give them. When I turn it all off, the first thing I notice is relief: more peace, more focus and more room to be present.
I created Digital Detox to share what I have learned and help people make phones, internet technology, digital media and online work serve their lives again.