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Mary Magdalene’s Life & Teachings Unveiled in Magdalene’s Journey
Cast Aside for Millennia, Discover Mary Magdalene’s Truth, a Far Cry from her Portrayal in History & Holy Books
San Francisco, CA (January 7, 2025)—Magdalene’s Journey, the rich and visionary tale of Mary Magdalene’s life and teachings, was launched today. Led with deeply personal revelation and ancient, yet still timely wisdom, this passionate and raw chronicle explores the life of Magdalene, otherwise known as Miriam of Magdala. In this riveting historical fiction and visionary literature book, authors Renee Blodgett and Anthony Compagnone take us deep into the heart of Miriam’s time in ancient Judea and later Gaul, now modern France. The story shares Miriam’s relationship with the apostles—both male and female—and her experiences with Yeshua, most renowned to the world as Jesus of Nazareth. The narrative challenges a much-filtered and archaic narrative that has dictated to humanity how to understand history, the Abrahamic religions and women’s pivotal role during that time. This account serves as a significant upgrade to an outdated paradigm and distorted storyline.
Tossed aside like an inconvenient truth by the powers behind patriarchal Roman thrones and later the Catholic hierarchy, she was mostly unknown. People who took the time to probe deeper still looked through that tainted lens, leading them to misunderstand and devalue her role as a healer and teacher. This role, one could argue, was equal to that of Yeshua’s as the yin to his yang—complementary and interconnected forces that together deepened the power of their healing abilities.
“You won’t find religious dogma in the book nor in Yeshua’s teachings which are layered into Magdalene’s Journey like an exquisite and treasured tapestry from yesteryear,” said author Renee Blodgett. “When we reference Biblical texts, it is to suggest that omitting or changing Yeshua’s original teachings in these texts served Roman and later Catholic Church power structures.”
“When Yeshua walked the planet, rather than relying on external authorities, he emphasized an inward journey, a teaching that remains paramount today,” added author Anthony Compagnone. “This teaching was the essence of his message that the kingdom lies within.”
The Characters
In the reactions and growing understandings of the main characters, Rochelle and her partner Angelo, who live in the recognizable reality of modern-day New England, readers are invited to accept an alternative reality of Miriam of Magdala and Yeshua of Nazareth from two thousand years ago. They are taken down an extraordinary and otherworldly path, guided by Miriam and Yeshua’s teachings they never expected to follow. Love and resilience stand out in the parallels between two sets of couples, one from the past visiting the other in the present.
Although this is a work of fiction, it was inspired by experiences in the authors’ own lives. The book presents a modern enhancement to reality as humanity has been conditioned and wired to accept it with our linear minds and constructs.
“Reading this remarkable book will open up the depth of your awareness and consciousness that the reader never knew she had,” said renowned scholar, philosopher, futurist and award-winning author Dr. Jean Houston. “The perspective illuminates realms of consciousness and our relationship to personal and cosmic archetypes.”
It attempts to capture a universal and revolutionary message about Miriam’s and Yeshua’s lives, now recreated in a period that can show us a new, fuller, and more tangible understanding of it. In response to the distorting power for far too many years, the book also shares the need to rebalance the masculine and feminine energy in the world, starting within each one of us. Part of this task is understanding not just the important role of Miriam alongside Yeshua but also the vital, never-recorded roles women have played over the millennia.
Miriam of Magdala’s evocative and enthralling voice represents the divine feminine in all of us, emerging at this time in human evolution. This rebalancing requires the inward journey Yeshua spoke about to intuitively know a different history. “The authors move beyond historical rhetoric, and through sacred storytelling invite us on an inward journey so we may discover how to embody the divine masculine and feminine in our world and in our daily lives,” said psychologist and best-selling author Dr. Shamini Jain.
The inward journey allows us to hear the clarity of our own Higher Self’s wisdom and connect to an innate truth that expands beyond humanity’s linear constructs and conditioning. In countering old storylines, the book weaves modern science into ancient esoteric wisdom at surprising times. “Read with an open mind,” says Nobel Prize nominee and systems scientist Dr. Ervin László. “Magdalene’s Journey conveys the sense of awe and significance that envelopes the ultimate meaning of our existence.”
This rich, bold, and at times emotional story, provides a fresh perspective on an imposed and antiquated narrative about Miriam and Yeshua, two powerful, spiritual teachers from yesteryear. The authors also hope that Magdalene’s Journey shifts how people perceive and experience God/Godde, consciousness, science, and our role on this planet.
As a literary text that portrays new understandings, the book may also stretch people beyond the expectations of traditional categories they might be prone to use as labels for this book, such as science fiction, fantasy, or simply a novel. “As readers push beyond their comfort zone, perhaps they might reconsider their definitions of imaginary, visionary, reality, and truth,” said Blodgett.
Magdalene’s Journey is available on Amazon in paperback (ISBN: 978-0-9842507-0-7), hardcover (ISBN: 978-0-9842507-3-8) and eBook (ISBN: 978-0-9842507-1-4) and numerous online bookstores, including BarnesandNoble.com. An audio version will be released later in 2025.