Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet Kindle Edition

Beautiful and powerful book. Very well written. It’s very hard to put it down. The truth of the love of Christ pours through this book and the true teachings of Jesus. The truth of woman’s heart and true divinity truly touched me. I cried multiples times reading this book and also felt a shift personally. We are reading this in my book club and I love the connection of the community of woman and the truth of how powerful of love. Thank you Meggan.

The media could not be loaded. This book touched me on a deep level. It is a perfect blend of theology and personal story, written in a style that is engaging, fun, funny, deep, intense and heartfelt. I found myself alternating tears and laughter, all the while noticing that memories were surfacing and that something new was churning within me.Meggan Watterson is not just knowledgeable about the facts surrounding the life of Mary Magdalene, she is also brilliantly insightful when it comes to turning inside out what Mary was made into by the Church. As she does so, we are able to understand ourselves more fully, we are able to see aspects of ourselves that have been dormant, overlooked, understated, and even reviled. We are able to remember the truth of who we are and this truth is profound, for it is the language of the heart; it is the truest of all loves.I found the pages of this book to be filled with healing transmissions. I'm changed as a result of it. Not only do I have a greater understanding of Mary and her gospel, but I also understand myself more fully. I'm more at home in my body.This is a book I will return to again and again as I feel like there are layers to the integration of the information and the transmissions that it contains. I'm filled with gratitude and a deep desire that these words find their way deep into the heart of our world and our culture for they are revolutionary in their healing effect.

I feel as though, as a male, i'v been evesdropping. By this I mean reading a book based on scarcity of unity and non dual. while was reading it I found myself squeezing to be included in some small way as a good man. I have found that to be fully human / divine, women and men must "vest" in otherness so as to be present to pristine goodness and image and likeness of The Divine. The fullest sense of the differentiates of our unity. Strangely, this past Holy Week I was inspired by my inner source Sophia, to follow Mary Magdalene and the other women on their journey. And suffice it to say in the end I found myself sitting on the ground beside her waiting.I was an ordained deacon for 33 years. This year in May, I was told by the pastor of our church that I was no longer needed. I am a contemplative, I read spiritually daily, journal volumes and do Centering Prayer meditation. The practice of inclusive mysticism is not supported by clericalism or the status quo of institutional church. When told I was no longer needed, I responded, "I understand" and I submitted my note of resignation. I am an inclusive, progressive, radical, paradoxical Catholic. A couple years ago a priest on Easter Sunday actually built a full size cross at each mass as his homily, skill saw hammer, nails and all. Alli could think was "get beyond the cross!" But that's where most of us are stuck, at the foot of the cross.I have been given the gift of an artist. I went home that day and made a copper tree of life, living cross vibrant and alive, and bearing much fruit. The center of the cross has a hole in it. The small sign I made says, "see through the cross." It's quite beautiful and holds much meaning for me. I have also removed the crucifix from my study wall and hung it more centrally so as to daily get beyond it with Mary and into New Life of love and heartfelt compassion. IIn daily life I practice healing and helping. I infuse natural Alaskan herbal healing oils and share them without cost to others. For me this is a great "unknowing", a release of all that I was conditioned to "know" in the past, so as to be present to immanent divine feminine who is closer to me than I am to myself, so as to ebb and flow into the tides of Her life and always be filled with optimism and inclusive dynamic love.With love, humility and blessings,Dave

I am marking this a 4 because the author is all about love and notes that she gets self-conscious about her work, but I honestly felt some parts of the book were a 3 and others 4.I finished the book not feeling like I learned much about Mary Magdalene, but a whole lot about a LGBTQ’s woman’s ADHD pick-and-choose feminist beliefs based on various things she read in Divinity School, an adventure to France, and things she sees when she meditates. ~5% of the book is scripture, 25% is about Mary Magdalene and 70% is a hodgepodge of various scripture, empowered women spiritual stories, miscellaneous spiritual stories, and then synchronicity’s that connect all of the above to the author’s life. It’s pretty scattered. Still, she manages to tie most of her ideas together, and I read the whole book because I too have a short attention span and enjoy personal narratives and the stories she shares.I’d 100% recommend this book to feminists and lesbians who perhaps walked away from their faith or relationship with Christ and are seeking a new perspective to connect again. It’s empowering to know there is a reason why the church developed to be so male centric, and why the Gospel of Mary was cut out in the first place.To those who are curious about what the Gospel of Mary actually says and want to interpret for themselves- 100% skip this. You won’t find that here. You’ll find a whole lot of feminist biases.She spends a lot of the book promoting Magdalene’s unique teachings about the aspects of the ego, and then explains her interpretations of them in the middle of the book for about 7 pages, and not a lot of insight with how to navigate them. Unfortunately, that’s the nature of the missing Gospel. I’m still mystified that the exact pages of the book are missing in all three ultra rare copies of the recovered texts.

Great book

This is my first read of the Gospel of Mary Magdalene and Megan Watterson’s writing creates a craving to connect with the divine feminine.