The Mary Magdalene Within | Joan Norton | A beautiful addition to the body of Magdalene material...

The Mary Magdalene Within | Joan Norton | Superb. Made my heart sing.

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	The Mary Magdalene Within Joan Norton iUniverse, Inc., 2005 - 90 pages average customer review:based on 11 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Advance praise for The Mary Magdalene Within: ?The Mary Magdalene Within is an achingly beautiful, powerfully moving, and profoundly original story and teaching. Everyone who has been intrigued by The DaVinci Code will want to read this book. The deeper truth told in this book is that men need to find the divine feminine in the ordinary women who are already around them, and so to be led to discover it also in themselves.? ?James Lawler, contributing author, Mel Gibson?s Passion and Philosophy

Early one morning in April 1996, author Joan Norton took up her writing instruments and asked her Cosmic Intelligence (as she calls her inner guidance) what ?they? wanted her to write about. She was told that Mary Magdalene wanted to speak through her. The result of this intense emotional experience is The Mary Magdalene Within.

In many current texts, Mary Magdalene is acclaimed as the root of Christian wisdom?as well as one of its most controversial figures. In The Mary Magdalene Within, details of her teachings are disclosed as she leads the reader into a profound experience of the Sacred Feminine. In Norton?s first person narrative, Mary Magdalene describes the extraordinary story of her life and her love for Jesus.

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A beautiful addition to the body of Magdalene material...

Joan Norton has created something truly special with her small but mighty book. This lovely, experiential account of Mary Magdalene, her days with Jesus, and their teachings together is layered with wisdom and beauty. A must read for those who are on this path of discovery.

Let me also say that as a trained investigative journalist and researcher, I do not normally embrace channelled material quickly or openly. However, Joan's book feels incredibly pure to me and I found all of my reservations melting rapidly away as I read. In fact, while my own research on Mary Magdalene brought me to some very different conclusions, I realized while reading Joan's book that none of that mattered. It is the message that matters - a message of divine union and love, of restoring balance and equality, of making that kind of harmony the natural state for all people - that truly matters. The rest is just details. I am finding that Mary and her message speak to everyone in a unique and personal way, all of which are valid and fascinating.

With that realization, Joan's work truly taught me something powerful for which I am very grateful.

I also applaud the layout of this book. The short chapters make it a perfect tool for meditation and/or teaching, something that I think is unique in the currently available Magdalene material.

Margaret Starbird, the brilliant author and pioneer of Mary Magdalene's legacy, calls this "a remarkable book." I couldn't agree more.

Thanks, Joan. What a gift you have given us!

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Superb. Made my heart sing.

The book is told from MM's perspective and reveals both a respect between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, a treasuring of her feminine wisdom and reverence for the feminine divine.

"This he knew of me, that my ways in the world belong to another time and place and not merely to the time we lived in. He knew this, in his way of being a 'seer.' He saw the older temple life of women living separate from men, he knew these ways of life to be sacred to women."

What a powerful statement for recognition of the feminine divine.

Mary Magdalene speaks frankly, but not explicitly, about their sexual union, their sharing of thoughts and teaching each other while teaching others together as a team. It also speaks of the hardships of being accepted for who they are and in gaining acceptance of their vision of the Divine and Divine Love:

Sacred sexuality should be part of all our lives. Our sexuality is a divine creation, so why would it be hated by the divine? For what reason did we come to this earth if not to experience it in its fullest? Did we come to reject that which our creator loved? If something is divinely created, how can it be profane? Why should we hate it? This book provides a rich alternative with gentleness and grace: "...he said he know how the rivers loved the earth, how the oceans felt about the shores. I gave him knowing of love of the body as love of the Earth. He loved my body as a teach of the rhythms of the Earth. Men are without know of the rhythms which are the ebb and flow of all Creation, without know woman's bodylife and her experience as an Earth."

If we knew how the rivers loved the earth and how the oceans felt about the shores, would we dare pollute them or force them apart? We do both, along with all other manner of destruction to the sacred, innocent purity of nature. We do the same destruction to ourselves when we reject that which is divinely given.

We can divorce ourselves from the divine nature of sexuality, but we cannot do that without warping our spiritual selves and our natural place in this world. This is true if we separate the sexual experience from the divine via indulging without spiritual connection and is also true when we despise it, thus avoiding our sexuality completely. Women enjoy a special connection with nature via their creative and nurturing abilities. The recognition of our natural feminine essence is refreshing and uplifting.

A read well worth the time.

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the mysterious mary magdalene

this is a very interesting and controversial book. I read it after I read The Expected
One by Kathleen Mcgowan..which I resonated with very strongly..this book is a channeled book.. it tells of the deep and passionated love between Jesus and Mary Magdalene...It is beautiful, sensual and esotereic in it's approach..I believe this kind of information will become more and more available as the feminie principal is restored as the missing link of true Christianity..

A Unique and Inspiring Book

The Mary Magdalene Within is a unique and powerfully moving book. This little gem of a book is not to be missed! This book of channeled writing delivers a profound teaching from the voice of Mary Magdalene. I believe, as many do, that Mary Magdalene was a Priestess of the Old Ways, a Priestess of the Mother Goddess. There are many now alive who will channel the Mother Earth energy for a bruised and bleeding planet. As we have learned so much about, "The Father", it is now time to learn about our Mother, the Great Goddess of 10, 000 names. SHE of the sacred heart who will not ignore the cries of her children. Mary Magdalene is a channel for the Goddess energy, as all women are, and I agree with Joan when she states, "Her consciousness is alive to many at this time". The Magdalene is a role model, a healer, and a woman who continues to share her wisdom with those who have ears to hear and the heart to understand that wisdom.

This work also confirms the fact that Jesus was an extraordinary man who loved and respected women. Jesus spoke of a new age, a golden age of love, when the imbalance between the two forces of nature would be rebalanced. There are many who have incarnated at this time to bring forth the new age of Wisdom. We are in this Age now when new knowledge will be discovered, and when "Wisdom" will be remembered. It is has been Jesus himself, through books, movies, and art who has uplifted, and who will continue to uplift the role that Mary Magdalene played in his life. Through his love for Mary Magdalene, a new story of balance, respect, and love between men and women will be revealed to the world. This is the true secret.

The Mary Magdalene Within also confirms that Jesus and Mary Magdalene taught the Way of the Heart - the Way of Love. I see this book as an initiatory guide that when read with an open heart, the wisdom of its words can be experienced through Gnosis, direct knowing. Jesus taught many things: healing, love, forgiveness, but at the heart of his teachings he sought to bring about enlightenment to the world through his partnership with Mary Magdalene. He saw himself as equal to Magdalene, and to all other women - an equal partnership of divine union between male and female that will heal the world.

C.A. Thomas, Author of King and Queen: The Greatest Love Story Ever Lived.

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Enter with an Open Mind

This book is channeled material and offers a new perspective on the time period during Jesus' life as a prophet. It pushes the boundaries of the more accepted Christian version of the story of Jesus while describing the repression and "position" of women at that time.

Though I am skeptical of anyone who claims to channel beings...I read this book with an open mind. Since this book did not claim to teach a "way to believe", only to share a story, I remained open to what the author wanted to share. If anything, it would have been great to learn more about Mary Magdalene's views of her own experiences with healing and herbs and how this helped form her life, rather than so many pages on how she aligned with Jesus' teachings...but maybe that's another book.

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