Table of Contents
Introduction The Eye of the Heart xiii
Why I Could Kiss a Copt 1
We Can't Half-Ass Death 6
The First Powers Darkness
What We Have Forgotten 11
The Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet 15
How a Feminist Sees an Angel 19
The Secret Ministry of Currer Bell 24
Leviticus in Bunny Slippers 28
The Second Power Craving
The Girl Who Baptized Herself 33
The Passion of Saint Perpetua 39
Grandma Betty's Lightbulb Eyes 43
The Angriest Christian I've Ever Met 49
The Buddha Tara's Badass Vow 52
Misunderstanding Mr. Mister 56
The Three Marys 59
The Red Thread 63
The Third Power Ignorance
What Happens in the Wilderness 69
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene 73
What It Means to Be Saved What It Means to Be Human 81
What I Learned as the Burning Bush 84
How to Meditate Like Mary Magdalene 91
The Red Egg 96
The Body Never Lies 101
Mary Magdalene Was Not a Prostitute 105
No One Was There to Witness the Witness 113
The Power to Judge 116
The Red Spring 118
Like a Same-Sex Divine Feminine Noah's Ark 123
A Religion Every Body Belongs To 127
Why I Am Proud to Be Part Impala 130
How the Long Island Medium Answered My Prayer 139
The Fourth Powers Craving for Death
A Skip Without Sails 143
The Yoni of the Mountain 151
What I Heard in Mary Magdalene's Crypt 155
The Fifth Powers Enslavement to the Physical Body
The Princess of Mercy 159
The Cave of Eggs 165
She Who Confirms the Truth 175
The Sixth Powers The False Peace of the Flesh
The Whole Point Is That It Never Ends 183
Love Has Already Won 185
The White Spring 191
The Seventh Power The Compulsion of Rage
What We Have Remembered 195
The Woman with the Alabaster Jar 199
The Language of the Angels 203
The Prayer of the Heart 207
Afterword I Believe Mary 213
Appendix 1 The Soul-Voice Meditation 223
Appendix 2 Mary Magdalene's Red Thread Reading List 227
Appendix 3 Resources for Giving and Receiving Support 229
Endnotes 231
Acknowledgments 235
About the Author 239
