The Healing Wisdom of Mary Magdalene

The author claims that Mary Magdalene is the actual author of the forth gospel. He talks some about the Gnostic gospels, remote healing and a shamanic world view.

What the book reminds me of is some of the New Age books. Good advice in some places but nothing very substantial. Further, there is no writing that is positively identified as being from Mary Magdalene. The material I have read that refers to her seems to refer to particular events (and Peter's hatred of women) but does not really fall into an overall philosophy. So basically Mary Magdalene actually never had to have any 'healing wisdom.,' at least as far as can be told from what very little actual writing about her has survived.

The book, then, was really disappointing.


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