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. This Goddess is often represented in mythical, historical, and in Gnostic sources as wise, mysterious, and in the possession of the healing power of Eros. Was Mary Magdalene one of them, and what were her teachings?
Learn about her portrayal in the gnostic gospels as a teacher in her own right and Jesus’ intimate partner, the possibility of her life as an alchemist in Egypt, and her last years in France.
Is there a lineage of goddesses that claims the evolutionary power of female sexuality? And if so, why were they pushed to the shadows and demeaned as harlots? Was Mary Magdalene one of them, and what were her teachings?
Joanna will discuss the lineage of goddesses that now reveal themselves to us again as the balancing act of the dance of the feminine (‘anima’) and the masculine (‘animus’) as well as sexuality and spirituality. In her research on Mary Magdalene, she has found many unusual links to feminine divinities of the past and has reached the conclusion that Mary Magdalene has become a focal point for the lost archetype of the Other Goddess in her conspicuous absence in our lives.
The stories of the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge, the Serpent and the Resurrection of the young king in the presence of the Goddess were previously recounted in Ancient Sumer, Babylon and Egypt with Inanna and Isis. Is Mary Magdalene at the centre of the archetypical story of the importance of the Other Goddess?
DR. JOANNA KUJAWA has a PhD from Monash University, and MA and BA from the University of Toronto. She is the author of “The Other Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the Goddesses of Eros and Secret Knowledge” (April 2022); she has published many short stories (Best Australian Stories 2004 and 2005), and essays, as well as an academic volume on spiritual travel. She describes herself as a Spiritual Detective who asks difficult questions about spirituality, such as “Can spirituality and sexuality be experienced as one?”
Tickets for Joanna’s presentation are available here.
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Date: 12th August 2022 at 7.00
Venue: Zoom
Cost: Members $Free Non-Members $20 Non-Member
Concession $15
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