Alison Hine. The Divine Feminine in Mary Magdalene
1/10/25 Release
In Episodes 42-43, we explore Alison Hine's book, A Journey of Inquiry into the Gospel of Mary Magdalene.
Episode 42 is the first part of our interview with Alison Hine on her new book, "A Journey of Inquiry through the Gospel of Mary Magdalene." We explore how Alison is able to enliven and intensify our understanding of Mary Magdalene in the first two dialogs of the Gospel. She provides an opening to a new understanding of the archetype of the divine feminine, weaving cultural context and her own musing with the translation of the Gospel.
We'll explore several of the questions that Alison poses:
What archetypes might we call forward in the midst of other’s trauma around us?
What is the value of Mary asking the recently deceased Jesus, “What is it that sees you now.”
In Episode 43, we'll explore the power of the divine feminine, not in how she steps into the openings within the dominant culture, but rather what happens when these openings close. Listen for the ways Alison talks about how these dialogs mirrors our own personal work. At first, openings, and then the closings as our ego structures and our instinctual ways of being rise up and try to re-establish the homeostasis of cultural norms.
In this interview, We’ll also explore similarities between the Gospel of Mary Magdalene and the myth of Persephone and her travels into the underworld. Again, we will play with how the experience of these parts can change our understanding of the whole story of Jesus and his disciples.
A Journey of Inquiry into the Gospel of Mary Magdalene
Like the true human, the pearl of great price grows and matures within the human heart within the encounters of the trials of life. page 65