Mary Magdalene, Jesus and I

We spent two nights in the citadel of Carcassone, France. It’s a labyrinthed city, surrounded by high stone walls in the south of France. It dates back to Roman times, but is most known for being a Cathar stronghold in 1209.

For a sensitive empath, this city wasn’t the easiest energetic experience. Perhaps the walls prevent the city from keeping its energy field open and refreshed. On the surface, all was charming and beautiful. But for those who have divine sight, it felt stifling. 

I was looking forward to leaving on that last morning, until I was inspired to follow the narrow cobble-stoned streets to the cathedral square. 

I’m always drawn to cathedrals, but I walked through this one as if I were looking for some golden secret. It wasn’t intentional. It was instinctual. 

I walked slowly through each shadowed corner, listening for the walls to speak — until I ultimately found what my soul was searching for. A seemingly simple statue of Mary Magdalene!

Within moments of pausing before her, unexpected waves of emotion (including tears, sadness, and love) rose to the surface. I was no longer Alania, as I knew myself to be. I saw myself as a small, aged woman, hunched over from the hardness of life, weathered by the years of labor and effort. I, she, we had walked a great distance to arrive here, before this particular statue.

Timelines were merging and crossing. I felt the same profound blessings of peace, love, healing, and forgiveness that this ancient part of me had felt. I knew that they were no less flowing to the Me that had just entered this cathedral a few moments ago. 

Somehow, my soul was connecting to the deep levels of healing and forgiveness I had been searching for. But I was no longer standing before the “statue” of Mary Magdalene. Her sweet compassionate light had begun to envelope me!

I had stepped beyond the veils of time and space — and the concepts of “here and there” no longer held the same meaning.

My soul simply regarded her as “Mary,” and I could not recall a moment when she and I were not intimately entwined. I felt as though her light had been flowing to me and through me, always. Only my reMembrance of it being so, was shadowed.

I had, at some point in time, denied her light as authentic and true. Which, in turn, had simultaneously denied that pure light within me, too.

In ancient days of Christianity, I succumbed to the false truths that were becoming wide-spread. For reasons that are long forgotten, and essentially unimportant, I denied the truth I had known within my own being.

Mary was calling to me. She was calling me here (physically and consciously) to awaken my own soul’s reMembrance. And as her words began to flow through, I knew, that this has always been my absolute truth. 

In her words:

Will you tell the truth? To heal the pains of betrayal and persecution.

God has never left. Jesus has never left. The tale that he died upon the cross was to subconsciously imply that our salvation, our connection, our God is ‘dead’. 

But for those who have eyes to see, they recognize that God, Jesus, You and I are not the ‘body’. We are the Spirit — which is unchangeable, immutable and pure.

Through our physical experience, we can identify with the density of a limited reality. But even that is a distraction from the ultimate truth.

There is no place that God is not!

There is no place that God, Light, Creation, Source is not.

No place. No moment. No thought. No experience.

God is ever-present and ever-resourceful, but our perceptions can create a personal experience of lack, separation, and loss.

There is no  pain when you are one with Source. There is no fear. There is no ailment.

Jesus did not ‘heal’ those who were sick! He reminded them of what love is, and they then shifted their awareness to BE at home in God’s Infinite Light.

When we speak of God, we speak of Universal Light Source in wholeness and harmony. The ‘I’ in I Am. The innate knowing that there is no place that God is not.

God is within!
God is within!
God is within!

God is You. 
You are God. 
You are Life. 
Life is You.

Waves of energy coursed through my body as I received these messages.

The teaching was so much greater than a few words can convey, and yet, these few words would easily speak to every bright Soul with eyes to see and ears to hear.

Love is the way through every challenge that can be.

Love is the secret we’ve been searching for.

LOVE IS ALWAYS OUR DESTINY!

But how do we embrace sacred love if we still believe in pain, betrayal, persecution, shame, and blame?

Currently, every Christian who believes that Jesus was persecuted and crucified, believes in a world filled with injustice, pain, betrayal, and death.

These fundamental beliefs are in direct opposition to Jesus’s message. Even these lies were designed to distract us from the Truth.

Jesus is LOVE embodied.

How can we believe that he is governed by or subject to any of the physical limitations that a “body” experiences? He is not the body. He is Spirit incarnate.

He came to remind us that we have the ability to rise above the physical limitations too. He saw each soul as pure and worthy of being whole, healthy, and prosperous in every regard.

So why do we all identify with his suffering? Why don’t we believe that he could rise above any perception of pain and persecution?

This is the LIE that keeps us bound to a world of duality.

This is the LIE which separates us from all of the miracles he performed.

This is the LIE that empowers the dark forces of this world.

In truth…

ONLY LOVE IS REAL

This is the truth that Mary Magdalene asks me to tell.

Jesus is with us always!

He is love embodied, in all ways.

© Alania Starhawk 2017