How to Meditate Like Mary Magdalene

Being human is our purpose. Being human is a privilege. Being human is the whole point. 

We’re not meant to be soil, or a rock, or a towering Cedar tree, a magnificent Redwood. 

We’re not meant to be a creature with that crazy looking tentacle that dangles out before an astounding set of teeth in the dark depths of the sea.

We’re not meant to be angels, to always and in every way be helpful, to be in service of others. We’re not meant to feel and know the fiery love that’s at the core of who we are at each and every second of our waking. We’re not meant to be anything other than human. 

And here’s what “being human” means according to the gospel of Mary Magdalene. 

Being human, being a true human being, a child of Humanity, means being both fully human and fully divine.

What does that look like exactly? That means we’re meant to be the raging desires and fears of the ego, and also, just as equally, we’re meant to know and express the great big unsayable love that lives within each of us. 

There’s the created world – which is the material world of this earth, the animals, the birds, the body of every ocean and all the life it contains, the plants and the trees that let us breathe, the essential world that we are dependent on and that is dependent on us.

There’s the creating world – which is the spiritual world of our ancestors who have passed on, of angels, and celestial beings, and the Good working from beyond the veil to increase joy, to increase the intensity and possibility of joy, to spread and communicate joy – this is the essential world that our souls are dependent on and that is dependent on us. 

The human being is the bridge between the created, material world and the creating, spiritual world. We are the possibility of love in action, of love being expressed and experienced. We are the keepers of the earth and of all these beloved creatures that inhabit it, and we are the hope of the creating world. We are the possibility of being the voice for the voiceless. We are the possibility of being the voice in this world for the sake of the created and the creating worlds. 

Being human is a privilege, it is our true purpose. Being human is the whole point. Being human is what we are with great seriousness only just beginning to understand. 

We are not just this trauma from our childhood, we are not just this fear of losing everyone we love, we are not just this panic attack, or that complex about our body, or that sense of shame, or that failure we still blame ourselves for, or that lack of forgiveness that has weighed on us for twenty years. 

We are also a love that is so powerful it has the possibility of changing the entire world within one lifetime. A love so unified and transformational because it is understood as more than just our own. 

Being human means arriving at the awareness, with practice, with devotion, that we are meant to be this sacred, paradoxical mix of being an utter mess, and a miracle in the flesh – all at once. 

Why is having an ego as important as having a soul? You’d grocery shop naked if you didn’t have one. You’d show up to every meeting late or not at all. You’d have no idea how to sign a check or have any cash in your bank account to begin with. Having a healthy ego is crucial. 

However, it’s just as crucial to become aware of when the ego is behind the wheel. 

We need the ego, we also need the ego to be in the backseat. And sometimes in the trunk. 

We need to be able to be aware of when the ego has derailed us completely. 

The gospel of Mary Magdalene reveals that Christ appeared to Mary in a vision. 

He gave her a roadmap to being fully human, to being the Anthropos, which translates from the Greek as both fully human and fully divine. 

He gave her the 7 ingredients of what goes into being human, which reads like a food label for the ego: darkness, craving, ignorance, excess, forgetting we are not just this body, denying the wisdom of the body, and the compulsion of rage. 

It’s so significant to know what the ego contains because then we can recognize when we are held captive to one of these 7 powers. What’s so significant about having these 7 egoic powers within us is that they allow us to practice returning to the ultimate power the soul contains. 

What would our love be if we didn’t have the ego and its mass of compelling issues as an opportunity to exercise, to grow our capacity to love? Our work is not to deny our humanity, our egoic needs, but to increase our return time to love. Our work is to become adept, masterful even, at recognizing when the ego has us trapped, and then with heaps of forgiveness, and compassion for what it takes to be fully human, we return home, again, to love.

This is our work. This is our collective purpose. Our greatest meaning in life, should we choose it. We return again and again for the sake of all creation to the love that’s within us, that wants us more than words could ever express, to be in service of love itself. 

This is how we move from the small “I,” of the ego, to the great big unsayable love within us and within the voiceless essence of both the material and the spiritual world. 

This is how we move from being alone in the world, to being connected to everyone and to everything. We listen, inward. We meditate like Mary Magdalene to free ourselves from the powers of the ego and return to the heart, to the soul, to the love that needs us right now to be its voice in this world. (Excerpt from Meditations With The Heart of The Divine Feminine) 

With only more love, 
M.

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