By Michelle McLemore • Photos by Hilary Nichols

Robert Jordan’s fantasy novel Wheel of Time describes the “breaking of the world.” First published in 1990, it portends a dark, de-evolution—a time of rampant chaos, evil running amuck (worse than the Sanderson sisters). And yet, spiritual communities have sung the emergence of a new positive world for many decades prior.

Certainly, in our history, heavy bonds—literal and figurative—of misunderstanding, anger, fear, pain, manipulation, and isolation have left their energetic impressions across centuries of family lines and continents; yet it is also true, that love, compassion, fortitude, and healing have been wielded by light workers, who humbly mend the woes in the background of all cultures. Dawn is roused by prayers as people greet the sun and four corners; gratitude is whispered to crops and rain for nourishment to endure drought, fire, and plagues; healers step lightly across battle fields—literal and figurative—to spread salve on burns and gashes—wounds physical and psychological—while whispering encouragement, strength, and reminders that the Divine has never left any of us alone.

Our Old World’s “breaking” has brought to light untruths which kept people shackled in ideas of isolation from our Divine selves. These ideas no longer serve the health of the planet nor its place in the larger cosmos. A revised world at a higher frequency is dawning, and Eve Wilson, (aptly named) is a for-runner—a herald of new life; she is a soul contract mediator guiding others’ evolution to help facilitate the new world ascension. And she believes she will see the New World within her lifetime.

At 64, this Ann Arborite lives at ease in her body, state, and station. Without pomp, she introduces herself as an intuitive spiritual healer and a World Healing and Ascension Worker. “Personal empowerment and soul evolution are the purpose of people’s lives, and therefore, of my work.” She tilted her head as she added, “I have a knack for perceiving what is behind challenges. That knack allows me to help people who are ready to use their opportunities to grow strong and whole.”

While meeting, I observed simple, focused artwork and minimal figurines on the shelves behind her. Wall hangings featured nature elements—various trees, leaves, and blossoms. The color palette stirred a faint memory of a “somewhere” you could walk barefoot comfortably—at ease within nature without the complicated machinations of physical society.

My gaze was drawn to ask about a particular picture of dark birds hanging over her left shoulder. She delightedly shared it was these special messengers who clarified part of her “Big Job” [purpose] here. “When my daughter was young, we were camping, and the sun was just getting ready to come up. Suddenly, I was awake and could see through the roof of my tent—as if it wasn’t there at all. Clearly, I could see crows sitting on the pine trees rising high above the tent… and one spoke.”

“I’m going to start cawing,” it said.

Eve was surprised and, naturally, intrigued. “Okay,” she replied. (For what does one say to such an accommodating crow?)

The crow started cawing, and others called back from across the distance.

“It was the first time Crow ever talked to me,” Eve confided. “It continued, ‘Your job is first crow—you carry the message, ‘God is Here.’ Then, the others will respond to it.’”

Others in this situation might feel a bit daunted: in the dark, on the literal eve of dawn, conversing clearly with a bird bestowing Divine assignments. Another camper might question the quality of her prior night’s dinner.

Yet, in relating the story, Eve’s face glowed, sweetness exuded through her being. Her short, feathered hair framed her face and twinkling eyes; earrings dangled—tinkling to earth-unfathomable music. Eve smiled. “I often initiate and then it/things start showing up.”

She continued to explain, “I have the gift of working directly with the One Source. It’s what I call the Essence—the Truth of God.” Not to be confused with a particular religion’s God figure, Wilson explained her role as “being employed by the One” full time since she was 26 years old.

The unique phrasing of employment reveals the casual, intimate, and yet simultaneously respectful relationship she abides in, and with, the One Source since a very young age.

One of Wilson’s earliest intuitive memories was created circa age four. A grandmother had been asked to babysit her. As the maternal-line matron entered the house, “I saw a black aura radiating from her. It was particulate like charcoal and sharp-edged.” Instinct said, “Run!” and that was what she did. “I ran up to my room and pushed everything I could in front of the door. Later when the woman’s voice came through the door inquiring what she was doing, Wilson told her, she was playing. With that, Grandma (who was the “angriest and scariest person” the four-year-old had yet met) left her alone. “Looking back,” Wilson reflected, “I had learned to recognize seeing people’s auras, then to trust to be guided by them.”

For Wilson, perception of auras is not confined to people. She can also see the energy of settings and homes (though she doesn’t focus on them these days). “I grew up in Beverly Hills, Michigan (between Royal Oak and Birmingham. We had a sweet half-acre yard and lots of trees. It was a lovely home, and I spent most of my time out of doors.” Outside was in stark contrast to the pent-up dis-ease inside. Her home’s aura? “Soupy, dirty, pea green with specks. Life was scary, stressful, and strange growing up in the family,” Wilson confided. To survive she says, “I lived far outside of my body in spirit—that has always been my strong and safe place.”

“My parents were Pentecostal missionaries who worked in the jail system,” she shared. Wilson’s mom was a strict religious adherent, influenced personally—and in her parenting style—by the swift judgement and direction of the Old Testament while believing full-hearted in the literal presentation of Jesus in the gospels. This empowered Wilson’s mom to stand unyielding in thoughts and actions; it led her to hands-on healings, but also often to venting fury akin to the casting out of the merchants in the Temple square on Sabbath.

Wilson recounts evolution of survival skills despite difficulties such as having to be on constant vigil for unexpected physical and emotional attacks, unfortunately, sometimes by relatives. Today she understands it was part of their scripts—not choices by maleficent beings. Wilson recounted, “I learned from my mother not to believe things just because someone [else] believes them intensely, and [through her works] I learned that spiritual healing is possible.”

“The way I was raised taught me to be very independent and not need anything from anyone—to always follow my heart. This allowed me to find my own path yet made it hard to integrate socially. However, it ended up useful,” Wilson explained. “Others grow up dependent on others; that dependency often defines or influences the direction they can go in their lives. I’m a free agent—an independent. I can go wherever God needs me.”

Still, Wilson’s upbeat tone didn’t waver. If anything, she grew sassier and more confident. “I have had my heart broken many times—and in fairly catastrophic ways early on. But I am not a victim.” Wilson sat, head up, smiling, energy unwavering. “Healing through this journey has made me strong and self-confident. It has taught me compassion for myself and others which, in turn, helped teach me to heal others. It has also taught me that everything is in my life for a purpose. I’ve learned to embrace that, rather than to complain or resist…much,” she giggled. “Oh, and for those who knew me before. This is a good third marriage for me!” She laughed merrily.

Regarding the many challenges stated and implied, Wilson explained: “My Higher Self chose my challenges because they were the quickest way to build the strength and muscles that I needed in my human self to do my bigger work. I am reaping the benefits of that now.”

Choosing our own challenges in a soul contract, like volunteering for dodgeball as the scrawniest kid pre-birth, is not a new theory; still, it is definitely not a popular one—taking responsibility and transforming self-patterns flies in the face of current common trends.

Yet, imagine: youthful, glowing spirits raising their hands excitedly in the classroom of the All Consciousness, begging to be chosen for abuse, divorce, slander, loneliness, war, or persecution. “Put me in, Coach! I can do this! I can take it for the team!”

Wilson’s difficult relationship with her maternal line was tempered by a father of unconditional love. [A prime example of the energetic balance of challenge and love written into this life’s framework.] She shared, “When I was around eight, my father decided to read the Bible to my sister and I before bed each night.” She went on to describe that during those times, she could see a golden light surrounding him. “It was both healing and inspiring. It taught me about unconditional love.” Though Wilson would grow to not identify with any particular religion (“due to the limitations it would impose on who she needs to be in this lifetime”) parts of her father’s readings resonated as Truth to the child burgeoning into a multi-world walker.

Gratitude and joy vibrated in all directions as she reminisced on “those precious evenings” with her father. I could imagine a dim room, his steady, awed voice measured in reading an often-lyrical script; the kind heart illuminated in Divine light inspiring the young, intently listening Eve.

Wilson’s destiny began to take form at fifteen. “I was watching a Merv Griffin talk show about massage. It was like a switch turned on. That evening, I offered to do a massage for my very over-worked father who held so much stress in his body and only gave love on the outside. It changed his life and mine as well.” Guided by intuition, she learned hand placement could provide relief, and she would go on to offer it to others professionally for nine years.

In her twenties, she additionally supported herself as a professional wedding singer, sang in coffee houses, and held a regular job at Om café. Wilson found herself playing guitar and performing her original songs at the cafe in Ferndale two nights a week. “One day I got a message direct from Essence of Truth to advertise as a healer.”

I was told I would know what to do when people came, and I did. I would look at their aura and see their chakras and energy flows and be guided how to teach them to go within to receive the messages their unconscious held about what was causing their troubles. Then, I would guide them to release blocks, heal themselves, and open to becoming whole and empowered in their lives and bodies.

With full faith, she put ads on her tip cups and on the bathroom wall. “I was pleased to receive tutoring by Ascended Masters and Archangels each time I worked with a client. Within six months of beginning my practice, I had a full schedule! I was new and effective, and people were really searching at that time.” She recalled posting flyers all over Southeast Michigan and bartering with clients to help keep a full schedule.

I shook my head in awe. The trust that she had in her twenties, for a healing modality that only now is making it into mainstream culture yet is still mostly ridiculed in movies and television—it was in stark contrast to the hesitancy so many energy workers feel as they test the waters of service.

Wilson brought vocal sound healing into her massage and healing sessions. “I could always hear spiritually. I’d sing dissonance into harmony, sing into the auras—transform it into something beautiful, spiritual, and healing. It was great fun.”

“I spoke to groups about my work and led people in meditations–everywhere from the Theosophical Society and Holistic Nurses to the Troy Library! I did something kind for someone, and in turn, they built me a website. Later a graduate of mine took it over and keeps it up to date for me. I am extremely blessed to have someone who loves my work to do this for me.”

In addition to healing and teaching, Wilson has been a prolific holistic writer through Body Mind Spirit Guide Magazine—16 years as a monthly columnist. She has also published a book, Riding the Wave of Change: Hope, Healing, and Spiritual Growth for Our World, and maintains her own blog.

In 2017, Feedspot.com highlighted her blog at spiritualhealers.com/blog as one of the “75 Best Healing Blogs on the Planet.” Currently her blog ranks 13th surpassing one of her highly respected peers, Marianne Williamson. To prepare to write her blog Wilson described, “Every week I meditate on what people need to bring positive influences into our world. I give practical instructions for how to work effectively with the changes we are all undergoing.”

A friend taught her about crystals and the Kaballah, and this led to teaching classes. Along the way she learned Reiki and chakra balancing as well. “Gradually I realized that I knew what was wrong with people—what was causing the issues they were requiring help for. I began counseling them intuitively while I worked. A year after I started my practice, people asked me to teach, and I began the Healer Development Program which ran for about 36 years.”

“To make it easier for students, I developed lessons like Inner Child Work, Body Communication, Chakra Tuning and Balancing, Aura Reading, Guiding others through their own healing processes, and others.”

Wilson also studied hypnotic regression in a long weekend course early on. However, she realized she didn’t need to put people in trance to be effective. Thus, she only adapted the relaxation part to help “people get out of their heads and deeply into their bodies to do Body Communication and Inner Child Work.” When I asked for clarification, she explained, “Body Communication is going deep into the subconscious to listen to pain and find out why it hurts there” as different parts of the body can hold memory. In Inner Child work, clients “look within to find their inner child and rework their stories to empower them. It is to weave strength [backward] through life as if the healing had always been there. It allows them to reclaim gifts” that may have been muted due to trauma or self-beliefs.

Wilson has the longevity in the healing world to have experienced Michigan before and after Western Medicine lobbyists got involved. “When people asked me to teach them to be healers, I was in a community of alternative practitioners and some of them were being taken to court for working unlawfully without a medical license.” Wilson was guided to a Spiritualist Church in Royal Oak initially to safeguard her work but delightedly found additional worth there. “The head of that church became my dear friend and spiritual mother. She was ordained by UCM and sponsored me because she was very impressed with my work.”

“I love UCM because they don’t require anyone to embrace one specific doctrine yet seek to support people of integrity to do their authentic work.” The association enabled Wilson to legally certify students as Healer Practitioners once she herself became an ordained minister in 1986. Wilson chuckled. “I sometimes think of myself as the irreverent Reverend Eve and this attitude works fine with UCM.”

Another transition shifted Wilson from healing physical bodies to a larger need: “World Healing became more pre-eminent in my consciousness.” Over the last fourteen years, people were increasingly coming to work with her that were ready to work on what she refers to as their “Big Jobs” for the world. “They are people who have come here to bring change for good into particular areas of life.”

Wilson’s Big Job emerged as a facilitator of world ascension. That meant narrowing her clientele to work with people who “swing open the door. Those who are the hinge pin [for the] door. They think it’s [the healing] personal, but it’s really about the job they came to facilitate. My job [has evolved] to facilitate the facilitators.”

She went on to explain that areas requiring transmutation for the elevation of the world are usually great challenges: Hatred, fear, abuse, scarcity, judgment, bigotry, feeling bad about ourselves, grief, depression, psychological issues, jealousy… any of these could be big jobs. It can even be resistance to something necessary for success. “These challenges are like bookmarks in their story of this, and all lifetimes, guiding them to return to unity and open the way for others in their soul groups to do that also.

“Big jobs involve evolving and muscle building of the individual. Often their healing ties into hereditary lines or soul groups working on the same projects.” Interestingly, Wilson explained, “This includes the folks that make life hard—those who hold oppositional roles that make us deal with challenges. They are servants of the Big Job as much as those who get to swing the door.”

How does it all come together? In a healing session, “we contact them [higher selves as well as oppositional souls] so they can make the job easier—so we don’t feel trapped in whatever it is.”

When I asked about an example of working with a family line, Wilson recounted the situation with a five-month-old boy. The child had been diagnosed with systemic kidney disease and had short-term life expectancy.

Wilson sat on her couch and tuned in to the child. “I asked telepathically, ‘why are you sick?’”

He replied, “I’m here because it’s part of my job, to help my family work through things.”

It doesn’t get much direct than that. Each time Wilson prepared to work, she asked him, “What do you want to work on?” The child would designate a relative with an issue. At that point, his grandma (one of Wilson’s students) and Wilson tuned telepathically in with the designated family member.

“We would say, ‘Your grandson would like to help you overcome something. Are you willing? The answer was almost always ‘yes.’”

They met and mingled with family members’ Higher Selves for figurative power lunches or coffee tête-à-tête where they agreed to revisions in soul contracts enabling advancement of Big Jobs back on Earth.

She clarified, “We worked with God to find the place in the hereditary line where healing was ready to begin. We would clear traumas around connections, weaving the shifts across time, as if they had always been that way.” When the child would develop a symptom—such as all valves leaking–they’d work with what was causing it. On the next doctor’s visit, doctors would re-examine the boy and suddenly say, “We must have not really seen it” as the symptoms would have disappeared.

The outcome? The child is currently a teenager. “He’s totally normal, really smart, way ahead of growth markers. His symptoms aren’t growing despite the body growing. The doctors remark, ‘if we look at his current blood tests, we’d think he never had the disease.’” Let the trumpets blaze the effectiveness of ancestral line healing.

As Wilson’s work transitioned, in the spring of 2022, she received the impression that the time had come to end teaching her original class. In place of it, she began training World Healing and Ascension Workers. She now focuses on Healing and Ascension Monthlies. “It makes a huge impact for World Healing to raise the vibration of the body, aura, and soul to a higher level so the enlightened self can live more fully in the world.” This, in turn, raises the overall vibration of the world simultaneously. Wilson’s smile broadened. “Currently I feel like a midwife, on call for the birthing and constant rebirthing of our world as it step by step ascends.”

I wondered if working with higher guidance had always been immediate and easy. Without arrogance nor pride, Wilson admits, “I have always been strong in spirit and have a strong relationship with the ascended master, Jesus.” Wilson described it was near the end of a dark period, when Jesus came to her while she was sitting in her meditation chair. “He put his arms on my chair and looked right into my face. I said, ‘Hi. I see you, but would you go away?’”

Not one to give up, he came in again later when she was in the shower. “He had dark skin, was gorgeous with long hair. “You are nothing like my mom said,” she stated humorously. She said it was at that point, she opened up to the idea of cooperation. “Okay, you’re cool; we’ll work on this.”

An important epiphany came from working with enlightened masters. She related a life-threatening incident when someone from the dark period of her life sent an entity at her. It temporarily blocked her connection and manipulated her into driving into an intersection with oncoming traffic.

I saw the light as green. It was red. I didn’t realize it until I was literally in the middle of the intersection and folks were coming at me. In the next breath, my car was a mile away. I had heard this happening to another couple–moved their car out of the way of a truck on a winding cliff road. The seed had been planted, so I knew it was possible. And then, it happened to me.

She continued, “I learned you aren’t getting out of this life until it’s time. I’m a 5’1”, 100 lb. woman and you can’t really fuck with me. I just get stronger. I had to overcome being a victim, a woman with no walls, no skin, no protection, [living in spirit] 300 feet out of my body filming my life going to elementary school [–watching it happen versus living it in my body.] Tender and fragile, yet strong underneath. And now I know that.”

Amidst the narrative of Wilson’s life and work, we discover healing for within and without depends upon embracing a higher, clearer perspective. “Everything in life is there to make you grow. If we think our situations and challenges are burdens or faults, we are missing the point. Some challenges can make you feel like a victim: don’t buy that role. You are an eternal being of unconditional love hidden within a human lifetime. Find yourself within and everything else will follow.” Wilson adamantly shares, “doing this work can help your hereditary line, soul group, and ultimately our world to heal and ascend.”

“People really need to learn what they are dealing with is the work they were brought here to do–to build the soul energy. If they need help, it will show up. If help doesn’t surface…they’ve got this.”

She went on: “It’s like when you are pregnant, and someone tells you do Kegle exercises. You question, ‘How do I even find a Kegle? What even is that muscle?’ And then you find it!” (With a smirk she nearly winks saying, “That’s an important muscle to find control over!) Soul muscles are like that. You’re almost there, but not quite. Big hardships make you find them.” Her voice dropped lower. “You dig in there and find them. Have a good cry, if needed, and then get to work.”

“There is no greater satisfaction than knowing you have mastered your own challenges and can co-create life through unconditional love with guidance from your Higher Self. This is a joy that no one can take from you.”

Maintaining a high frequency while working with struggling clients may be challenging for some. When asked to describe her self-care, Wilson shared, “I spend two hours in the morning doing personal and World Healing and Ascension Work. This has grown as I have grown to own this work as my job.” I tentatively asked her recommendation for readers. “Everyone should begin each day from a place of centered owning of their inner truth. Make that a priority, then you can co-create, and everything will work out as it optimally needs to. Without that, people flounder with their own judgments and fears—and those of others—about what their life should look like. Inner Guidance is the solution to confusion!”

Wilson has a series of videos designed to help people with their daily centering. Anyone can access them for free on her website spiritualhealers.com/videogallery. They are under “The Three Most Important Things” video series.

Her ongoing hope for students, clients, and all? “That everyone will rise in vibration to release the darkness and illusions of the old world and enter unity with Inner Wisdom to become whole.” Excitedly, we await the birth announcement of the new world. Wilson contends contractions are coming along nicely, and I’m sure she will be the first crow to announce the crowning achievement.

If you are interested in taking Wilson’s class, she will begin her fall Monthlies Series, Thursday, August 15 from 7:30-9:30 pm by teleconference call. Enroll for the series of six Thursday night meetings every four weeks.

To contact Eve, email evew@spiritualhealers.com or visit spiritualhealers.com/heal. You can also follow her at bodymindspiritguide.com/author/eve-wilson/, on Facebook at EveWilson.BridgeToWholeness, Twitter at healereve8, and LinkedIn.

Michelle McLemore is a freelance writer, energy practitioner, and stress management guide for schools, businesses, workshops, and one-on-one clients. Her background as an English, history, psychology, and literacy teacher support clients drawn to write-to-heal through journals, memoirs, and genealogy stories. She hosts writing retreats a few times a year. Learn more at michellemclemore.com or facebook.com/MichelleMcLemoreHealingGuide.