The Other Goddess, Dr. Joanna Kujawa
The Other Goddess, Dr. Joanna Kujawa
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The Other Goddess
Mary Magdalene and the Goddesses of Eros and Secret Knowledge

Author: Dr. Joanna Kujawa

Narrator: Melissa Redmond

Unabridged: 6 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/06/2023


Synopsis

Is there a lineage of goddesses that claims the evolutionary power of female sexuality? Was Mary Magdalene one of them, and what were her teachings?

Dr. Joanna Kujawa argues that in the process of recovering the healing power of the Goddess we have focused solely on the mother archetype and left out the other Goddess, who is often represented in mythical, historical, and Gnostic sources as wise, mysterious, and in the possession of the healing power of Eros.

Looking into esoteric traditions that celebrated the Goddess and her art of sexual alchemy, Dr. Joanna Kujawa discovers that Mary Magdalene stands at the center of this investigation. Learn about her portrayal in the gnostic gospels as a teacher and Jesus's intimate partner, the possibility of her life as an alchemist in Egypt, and her last years in Southern France. Find out her connection to the mysterious Cathars, Black Madonnas, and Knights Templar.

Whether looking at Mary Magdalene, Sophia, Aphrodite, Inanna, Hathor, Isis, or the goddesses of esoteric Hinduism, Dr. Kujawa finds the archetype of The Other Goddess—the bearer of the mysteries of sexual alchemy that ends the division between sexuality and spirituality.

About Dr. Joanna Kujawa

Dr Joanna Kujawa is an author, scholar, and spiritual detective. She received her BA and MA from the Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada, and her PhD from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. As an active academic for over twenty years, she uses her scholarly training to investigate topics other academics often pass over, such as: Can spirituality and sexuality be experienced as one? Who was the real Mary Magdalene? Is there a lineage of Goddesses now resurfacing in our collective experience of spirituality? Apart from her writings for academic publications on spiritual travel, Joanna has also had her short stories and essays published through various media and in many prestigious anthologies, including Best Australian Stories, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, She Rises, and Rebelle Society. She is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Goddess Studies.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tod

A moving and inspiring account of the author's quest to rediscover the suppressed connection between spirituality and sexuality in the person of a culture spanning goddess of love, wisdom and liberation.......more

Goodreads review by Ken

Joanna Kujawa brings to us a conundrum. How is it that Christianity, a religion ostensibly about love, seems to have lost touch with her own feminine side? Ancient traditions and knowledge of the divine feminine have been subverted and brutally stripped leaving only a gaping wound that no amount of......more

Goodreads review by Alyssa

I’m a little obsessed with Mary Magdalene at the moment. I love the idea of this mysterious all knowing woman that followed Jesus. And the theories Kujawa has of her are so incredibly well researched and wonderful. This woman has been overlooked by the men of religion for too long. She was in fact a......more

Dr. Joanna penned a great read that is both entertaining with the stories and educational with the sources cited throughout the book. If you want a new book that explores the hidden history of Mary Magdalene along with some other alternative spiritual ideas and viewpoints, pick up this book!......more