The Mary Magdalene Within

I reference this book often when I am talking to others. I enjoyed the spiritual channel that was given by the reader. Divine Love is available to us all and this book helps to awaken that!

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..

I've read this about 5 times now, and every time I get more and more depth from it. Hats off to Joan Norton for listening so carefully!

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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.

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!

I write this seconds after finishing my first read of this affirming and energizing book. Suspend all belief or disbelief, hold all questions aside, just read this book with an open heart and an open mind, from beginning to end without stopping or thinking, if possible. Let it download into the ground of your being, the crucible of Truth, and let it speak to you from there. I was lead to it out of curiosity alone .prompted by wisdom teacher Cynthia Bourgeault's recent book on Mary Magdalene. Although I had one unexpected spiritual encounter with Mary's witness to Jesus' death and suffering, (interestingly in this account she was not at the crucifixion), I had no great call to understand who Mary Magdalene really was and I certainly have no experience with, or interest in, channeling. What I found was a biblical account of Jesus that suddenly made perfect sense to me as a teaching, despite the violence of Constantine to the early Christian writings. I found here in this book, a Jesus I had always known and loved. This is the first other voice that has ever described that Jesus, described knowing that Jesus. This book , according to Joan Norton, is a channeling of Mary Magdalene and what she wanted to say to our time now on earth about Jesus and about her relationship with him on earth then and now, after death. Interestingly Norton had no interest in channeling or Mary Magdalene either. Channeling just happened to her out of a long, intense, deeply interior searching to connect with her dead daughter ( with whom she has still never "spoken")..This writing, "announced" to her as Mary Magdalene speaking, just poured out of her over two weeks and she says she wrote it down without trying to edit it interpret or understand it. That is how it should be read, as well. The Jesus that the Mary Magdalene here speaking shares, says his life was about a complete trust in the "Godself" within..that the teachings and events recounted in the new testament were of a life lived in the moment and responding to what was around him in complete trust in God..in complete surrender to God's love and compassion for earth . As a teaching this work reminds me most of Raimon Panikkar's teaching only more simple and more accessible. As a contemplative who sometimes turns to teachings ,old and new, to understand what is happening in my spiritual journey, I am often disappointed at how super encrusted these texts are with scholarship, theology, deference to the Church and fear of going too far and saying too much. Pannikar is hard work. Tomberg is hard work. Thomas Keating is hard work. The gospel of Phillip, the Pistis Sphia, the Sophia Jesus and many other esoteric early christian writings, all very hard work. Even Cynthia Bourgeault is sometimes hard work..takes a bit of mining and excavation and sorting to get to the kernel that is the treasure, that is the teaching. Here in this work that is not so. It is clear and simple, not hampered by duty to scholarship, theology, the church or reputation. To me it is fresh and alive and feels right about Jesus.

The first time I read Joan Norton's THE MARY MAGDALENE WITHIN, I felt my heart open. I identified with Mary Magdalene initially because I thought of her as an outcast. But as I immersed myself in the book, I came to know a very different Mary Magdalene. This Mary Magdalene was Jesus' wife, equal, and teacher. This Mary Magdalene was not the outcast; she was the goddess. I read the book a second time, one chapter a day as my daily meditation for almost a month. I wanted the Mary Magdalene energies revealed in the book to awaken within me. They are. I am remembering my own goddess-self. That is the nature of this holy book of revelation. That is its beauty and power.

"The Mary Magdalene Within" is a fresh insight into Mary Magdalene. Joan Norton had a profound experience of channeling a message after visiting Sodona, a town in Arizona which has disturbing energies. Joan believes it was a direct message which came to her after a traumatic time in her life. Whether you are orthodox or not you may find this book refreshing and awakening a new vision for you. I was doubtful about a number of things- mainly her view of Mary Magdalene seemed to combine many other women from the gospels. Mary is said to have told her she was not at the crucifixion contrary to biblical recrds. There seems to be some veiling of Mary's encounter with the risen Christ- not the real life finding in the garden. Yet there is a wonderful message of love which seems to be coming for our time now. It is a soothing story that confirms that Mary was chosen to teach. The less orthodox story is derived from the "Golden Legend" some may accept as true, others as myth. it is a charming book enjoyable to read. You have to decide for yourself if it is true for you.

This is a short book that everyone should read so they understand the idea that Jesus did not work alone and his main support was Mary Magdalene, who was not a whore. It is a beautiful message of deep love for eachother. I want to read it over and over again and give it to all my friends.