I have known for a long time that the picture the church painted of Mary Magdalene was not accurate. There are so many gems of original writing, themes and insights that makes it a book of great importance if we are to fully integrate our history and reclaim our sense of worth in a culture that is misguided by the insatiable quest to acquire material worth, power over others, and supremacy. In fact, our purpose is to be fully human, to be a “true human being”- that is, a person who has remembered that, yes, we are a messy, limited ego, and we are also a limitless soul. In fact, our purpose is to be fully human, to be a "true human being"- that is, a person who has remembered that, yes, we are a messy, limited ego, and we are also a limitless soul.

And I think most of those bitches were pretty competent women who were tired of being treated as inferior by guys who weren't as smart as they were. Mary Magdalene Revealed is one of the most beautiful, powerful, exciting, and sorely needed books of our time.I was so excited for this book, but she goes on and on about feminism and retells stories already in revealed.

Interesting analysis of the Gospel of Mary, one of the gospels that did not make the cut at Nicea (where flat out forgeries DID make the cut).Every son of a bitch I've ever known, if you knew his family background, really was a son of a bitch.

According to the author Mary Magdalene was the only person who was able to fully perceive Christ in her heart and this was the reason she had also been His first apostle, the apostle to the apostles. most believe that Mary Magdalene arrived first in Saintes-Marie-de-la-Mer and preached for many years along the coastal parts of Southern France. It speaks of a message quite different from the one that has been spread by Christian leaders for the past two millennia. Of course this book is so much more and what is notable is the authors ability to penetrate deeply into the current ways of how we have become disconnected from what is true and what is real.When I say, I ‘heard’ the answer, it’s not a voice as if on an intercom at Target, or on an airplane. Another distinctive feature of the gospel Mary is that God is not referred to as the Father, and this gospel does not say that Jesus is the son of God. Meggan Watterson spends 226 pages trying to convince the reader that we are all inherently good, and that sin doesn’t mean what the Christian church has said it means.

Watterson speaks with such authority on the subject of a gospel she barely even goes into, you would think that she would have something more backing her word up. When told I was no longer needed, I responded, "I understand" and I submitted my note of resignation. Mary’s gospel and other more recently discovered sacred texts focus on the internal transformation that Christ went through and that we can all go through. I am only 2 hours in and while the author's autobiographical narratives are nice stories, they do little to teach me about what I came to this book to learn. I was hoping for a more historical account, maybe a translation of what remains of the gospel of Mary, but this is just a personal memoir riddled with poor (invented?

A thought provoking, insightful, humble, reflection of an ancient manuscript and a kind of coming-of-age of the author, as she navigates the challenges and the yearnings her own life presents. Her thesis, as I understand it is largely that a lot of pertinent stuff was left out of the Bible as it stands, because all of it tends to undermine the patriarchy, because the early Christians were very equal, and that didn't work for a hierarchical church in the service of an Emperor. The gospel here is about the soul coming alive to love, and God is not a gendered person but rather always referenced as “The Good. If this is all you read, if you put down this book at the end of this sentence, know that this is the most important message of Mary’s gospel: we are inherently good. Even in one of the first chapters, where she talks about how Mary Magdalane's Gospel was discovered, I wanted to hear more about how we're absolutely, positively sure it's not a forgery (especially more than just mentioning which century it's from).