The Mary Magdalene Within

by Joan Norton

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 Ms. Norton’s first person narrative, Mary Magdalene describes the extraordinary story of her life and her love for Jesus. The following is an excerpt from this timely book:

From Chapter 1, Women’s Special Place with God


Yes. I was in the low estate women were held in, despite my being a woman of some substance. I enjoyed the house and the family traditions of stature, but the inner story of the times was that women were not seen. In myself I knew different and had some memory of those matriarchal times of power and regard. But I also had the knowing that those times were unbalanced and had not yet brought about God’s kingdom on Earth. I knew we were engaging in experiment on Earth to allow our Creator-selves to experience Itself. I knew this in my inner self and yet, there was the world outside the door. Even now as that thought memory is brought forward into your mind, it stopped the flow between us. Yes, it was frightening and you feel the fear even now. The vicious ones ruled the Earth it seemed, all outside my door. It’s true, where I went I was called whore. The feelings about women in all the thoughts of those times were that way. Whores who could only be saved by rules to make them acceptable to God. Women have always known that we are more than acceptable to God because we bear the children. The act of creation takes place in us. Yes. Jealousy from those who wish all the power over life is what creates the rules for women. And so it was at that time in the extreme, just as it is now in your time. Again, the thought of that stops your mind. Your earthly mind is tortured with remembrances of this fact and the experiences you have lived through. It stops you to feel it again.


It was a violent world and cold as well. I need not tell you its stories for they are in your Bible. It was a violent world and cold as well.


I held this knowing inside. I lived my life outside my feelings and without my heart. This is as with women today. Doing the work to be done and waiting; biding time. I began to hear about the man called Jesus. Truthfully, I knew of him. He was not so unknown; he was already with a reputation for learning and knowing and as a strange man. A strange man, not one who mothers would entertain as a suitor even though he was scholarly. He was a strange man, going about his own learning, driven by his curiosity. He was not making friends with life, he was not making peace with life as it was. He had a reputation. I knew of it. He had the cousin John and there was much feeling between them. They were both driven and their mothers were great allowing energy systems for these men. They were women of the Earth and carrying forth wisdom of the Earth.

Joan Norton, MA, MFT, has practiced Jungian psychotherapy for twenty-five years and has been a professional channeler for twelve years. Joan has two grown children and lives in Los Angeles with artist Robert Barrere, whose painting adorns the cover. For additional information about Joan Norton, as well as information regarding upcoming events, visit The Mary Magdalene Within.