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Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet Hardcover – July 9, 2019

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--WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER-- The Gospel of Mary Magdalene reveals a very different love story from the one we've come to refer to as Christianity. Harvard-trained theologian Meggan Watterson leads us verse by verse through Mary's gospel to illuminate the powerful teachings it contains.

A gospel, as ancient and authentic as any of the gospels that the Christian bible contains, was buried deep in the Egyptian desert after an edict was sent out in the 4th century to have all copies of it destroyed. Fortunately, some rebel monks were wise enough to refuse-and thanks to their disobedience and spiritual bravery, we have several manuscripts of the only gospel that was written in the name of a woman: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene.

Mary's gospel reveals a radical love that sits at the heart of the Christian story. Her gospel says that we are not sinful; we are not to feel ashamed or unworthy for being human. 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 all we need to do is to turn inward (again and again); to meditate, like Mary Magdalene, in the way her gospel directs us, so that we can see past the ego of our own little lives to what's more real, and lasting, and infinite, and already here, within.

With searing clarity, Watterson explains how and why Mary Magdalene came to be portrayed as the penitent prostitute and relates a more historically and theologically accurate depiction of who Mary was within the early Christ movement. And she shares how this discovery of Mary's gospel has allowed her to practice, and to experience, a love that never ends, a love that transforms everything.
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"This book is a masterpiece. I haven't been this excited or awakened by a book for a decade. This is what it looks like when an artist follows her heart and her passion instead of the crowd."
- Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Love Warrior

"The evidence within these pages, both scholarly and lived experience, will change you on a cellular level as you remember what has been forgotten for thousands of years, but has never been untrue: that the feminine is sacred and holy. This book is a revolution."
- Kate Northrup, best-selling author of Do Less and Money: A Love Story 

"Meggan Watterson is a modern-day prophetess who sets souls on fire with her lyrical prose and courageous truth-telling. Her unearthing of the hidden and silenced realities of the first apostle's life and legacy ignites revelations that will transform the hearts and minds of readers who are ready to claim their own power and spiritual authority."
- Jamia Wilson, author of Step Into Your Power and executive director of The Feminist Press

"Mary Magdalene Revealed brings together the exquisite balance of personal experience and the uncovering of spiritual texts that quite simply rock and lovingly challenge the Christianity of the world today. Meggan Watterson is the spiritual teacher to spiritual teachers and this book is a road map to the heart of Christ's message."
- Kyle Gray, best-selling author of Angel Prayers and Raise Your Vibration

"Meggan Watterson is a conduit carrying the electrical charge of spirit and weaving this channeled energy into her work. She is a soul doula, gently holding our hands as we cross the river to spiritual healing and emotional salvation through these pages. If you ever wondered if the feminine is dormant in our spiritual traditions, Mary Magdalene Revealedmakes it clear that our past, present, and future lies within her."
- Latham Thomas, founder of Mama Glow and author of Own Your Glow

"Fierce, raw, compelling, disruptive, and deep-Meggan Watterson has penned a classic. Read it . . . savor it . . . read it again, then let it change you."
- Colette Baron-Reid,best-sellingauthor of Uncharted

"She is brave, she is beautiful, she is divine. Driven by passion, by a calling higher than she can see or know. She can deliver us all into a new stratosphere of love and divinity. Am I describing Mary Magdalene? Or Meggan Watterson? Both. They are sisters in this holy mission of bringing Mary's breathtakingly beautiful gospel to the world, today."
- Regena Thomashauer, New York Times best-selling author of Pussy: A Reclamation

"Like a feminist Indiana Jones, Meggan Watterson goes on a mystical adventure to uncover the hidden teachings of one of Christ's closest companions and disciples, Mary Magdalene, and her discovery could change history."
- Cheryl Richardson, New York Times best-selling author of The Art of Extreme Self Care

"With deep honesty, soulful artistry, and intellectual rigor, Meggan brings us a picture of the real Mary Magdalene-the one who is alive in each of our hearts-and leads us through how to experience and live from the Christ in each of us in our daily lives."
- Robert Holden and Hollie Holden, authors and teachers of A Course in Miracles

"After so much work, devotion, and innovation, Meggan Watterson deserves to be heard."
- Hal Taussig, Ph.D., author and editor of A New New Testament

"Mary Magdalene Revealed is one of the most beautiful, powerful, exciting, and sorely needed books of our time. Fiercely honest and courageous, Watterson rejects the lies and limitations of patriarchal bias and resurrects the heartbeat of genuine love and intimacy with God and one another through the teachings and life of Mary Magdalene. I couldn't put it down!"
- Sonia Choquette, best-selling author of Waking Up in Paris

"I have been waiting to read Mary Magdalene Revealed my entire life. Its pages will reveal the humble power of your soul and a truth that can be felt but cannot be put into words."
- Rebecca Campbell, best-selling author of Rise, Sister, Rise

"It is rare to find a book that catalyzes a mystical awakening, a book that feels like a reunion with a long-lost key to your soul's evolution."
- Sarah Drew, best-selling author of Gaia Codex

"Meggan has given us an extraordinary gift. Through her compelling and courageous work, we are called back to ourselves as bodies, as spiritual beings, to our wholeness and fullness, helping us to find our inner voice which will ultimately set us free."
- Celene Lillie, Ph.D.,director of translation for A New New Testament

About the Author

MEGGAN WATTERSON is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel, And the Christianity We Haven’t Tried Yet. She is a feminist theologian with a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in media outlets such as The New York TimesForbesThe Huffington Post, and Marie Claire. She lives with her beloved son and his exuberant goldfish, Bob. Website: megganwatterson.com

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hay House Inc.; First Edition (July 9, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1401954901
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1401954901
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 0.77 x 9.25 inches
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MEGGAN WATTERSON is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel, And the Christianity We Haven’t Tried Yet. She is a feminist theologian with a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. MEGG facilitates the HOUSE OF MARY MAGDALENE—an online community that studies ancient scripture (mostly the bits the bible left out) and mediates together to live in service of love. She leads an annual summer retreat at Omega on Mary Magdalene’s gospel and the soul-voice meditation. Her work has appeared in media outlets such as The New York Times, Forbes, The Huffington Post, and Marie Claire.

Instagram– @megganwatterson. Website- www.megganwatterson.com

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Most amazing book, so much so that my dog is demanding my attention. Great, easy and full of historic text that I’ve longed for and haven’t had the ambition to on my own. This book called my soul - page after page. I feel like everyone ought to read this. Thank you Meggan Watterson!!!
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Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2019
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 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.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2023
I used this book along with 3 more traditional translations of The Gospel of Mary Magdalene and it spurred a four week PowerPoint series of what is the message of Mary Magdalene for us today. Engaging. Inviting. Well written.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2019
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. I
In 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
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Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2023
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.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2024
I loved how Maggan woven her own transformation into Mary’s gospel..
It changed me as I read through and stepped into Maggan and Mary’s experience with Christ
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Marie-Josee Gagnon
5.0 out of 5 stars Such an important message
Reviewed in Canada on March 2, 2021
This is such a beautiful book and the message in it is so important to all of us, Christian or not. I've rejected the church and its teachings long time ago. The story that we are all sinners didn't sit well in my heart, the patriarchy and hierarchy in its organization neither, and I never believed that we would be judge at the end of our life and send either left or right, to heaven or hell. Anyway, Mary Magdalene Revealed started to call me to read it. I kept seeing it everywhere and I resisted for a while, because I'm not a Christian and I didn't think it was relevant to me. BUT, when I finally read it, it was magic! The lost gospel of Mary has been hidden for centuries and it's the most powerful and precious piece of gospel from the early Christians. Its message is simple and yet, so profound and powerful: the divine is within each of us and at any moment, we can connect to it, we can connect to this pure divine love that is inside of us. This message makes any form of control over our beliefs and the way we live completely irrelevant. It makes all the distractions that we're all chasing to fill the void inside of us completely irrelevant. It gives the power over our life, our mind and our heart back to us. It's such a beautiful book, beautifully written and it's simply a must read.
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Manoela
3.0 out of 5 stars Interessante
Reviewed in Brazil on February 10, 2021
Livro relevante por apresentar dados invisbilizados sobre a história e a formação do cristianismo moderno. Triste ver que existiam possibilidades mais humanizadas que foram negligenciadas. Minha única crítica é o teor repetitivo do livro.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Heart opening
Reviewed in Mexico on December 31, 2019
The feeling of joy it gives you to know that truth and love are at the core of Catholic Church is heart opening and soul warming.
Rosa Goodridge
5.0 out of 5 stars Read it!! A book full of hope and beauty.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 16, 2020
Already over half way through this book within a day of receiving it!
What a find!
I’ve never felt able to connect myself to any of the patriarchal religious beliefs, wondering how (referring to Christianity here) a man such as Jesus who preached love and peace to all beings could be so out of touch as to not include all people who followed him. It certainly hasn’t ever added up, there has always been something missing, something that rendered the scales uneven, surely this man who turned the world upside down would not exclude women from his ministry? Obviously the church’s hidden agenda perpetuated the myth of the untouchable, holy and unsullied man, it’s not something that connects us to the age old search for spirituality as I personally find the church lacking in both soul and spirituality.
The uncovering of the gospel of Mary is the missing piece for me and the possibility that a spiritually advanced and aware movement existed outside of ‘the church’ which indeed exalted the true message of Christ has always given me cause for hope.
This book isn’t about ‘feminism’ as a movement in itself but the reverence of the feminine, the balance of all things which has to be so for life to exist.
Read it, just because it’s so full of hope and beauty, I feel that it’s sparked a need to find out more about this side of Christ, the completeness of him through Mary and I’m now looking to read other books that the author recommends.
It’s well written, little personal anecdotes connect you to her research and story and enable you to see how a woman looking at all aspects of femininity has been able to reconcile her feelings about theology. I felt immediately connected to the understanding of my own frustrations with conventional Christianity and it’s explained why I had vehemently rejected it so many years ago.
I’m never going to become a follower of the church, it hasn’t changed that for me and I hadn’t wanted it to, but it has confirmed what I’d felt all along, that Jesus as a man would have been a complete man who experienced transcendence of his heart and was able to do so because of his love for all who chose to walk with him, including women.
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Kordula Irina
5.0 out of 5 stars A journey into the heart
Reviewed in Germany on February 4, 2020
Mary Magdalene Revealed is one of my favourite books because by reading it I end up in a state of deep contemplation. Sometimes by reading the book or listening to the audiobook it also feels like a meditation to me. Personally I am able to relate very well to Watterson's personal journey she shares in the book. Her interpretation of verses from Mary's gospel is unique and refreshing. 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. In my opinion Mary Magdalene Revealed can be categorized as Christian mystic literature.
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