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30-Day Reflections: 📚Gospel of Mary Study — Discussion Room
Welcome to the 30-Day Digital Fast for the Soul. If you are participating fully, this is where you anchor the practice. After reading each day’s passage and completing the soul-sitting: Share one of the following in the comments: • A sentence that stood out to you • A realization about yourself • A pattern you noticed • A question the text raised • A resistance you felt You do not need to impress anyone. You do not need to sound spiritual. You do not need to agree with the text. Something shifts when you put your experience into words. You don’t need to be polished. You don’t need to sound wise. You don’t need to agree with everything. Just be honest. Some days it will feel clear. Some days it will feel confronting. Some days you’ll want to skip. That’s part of it. This isn’t about being perfect for 30 days. It’s about noticing who you are when you stay. Let the reading work on you. Let it unsettle you if it needs to. Let it affirm you if it does. We’re not rushing through this. We’re walking it. And I’m right here with you. Sandi🌹❤ Link back to Course Page
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Day 16 thru 18. I am astonished by the very straightforward and apparently simple ways in which these teachings are presented along with how far off of most folks' radar they have been all these centuries. These teachings are really a way of reframing(!!!) lots of fairly common and ordinary life problems,. I spent most of the 2010s attending weekly meditations sessions at a local Buddhist center, and some of these teachings are similar, but here the resonate just a hair more powerfully. I love LeLoup's phrase (Day 17) about recognizing you are rooted in something "deeper than ego" For me a key point of wisdom the past several years is to learn to HAVE a healthy ego, and NOT be CENTERED on ego. (The left brained scholar side of me will also note that some of these teachings are buried in back pages of Thomas Aquinas, but I think they have largely lain there somewhat uselessly.)
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@Eva La Barbera-Hiraldo the 60s pop singer Donovan writing a song in the wake of his breakup with the then fanous guru the Maharashi Mahish Yogi had a line "Finally I realize Im to be my own surprise"
🌹 Last Seats. 48 Hours. The Book That Started It All.
🌹 48 hours. A few spots. One book. Margaret Starbird was a devout Catholic woman who thought Mary Magdalene's story was settled . So she set out to prove it. She couldn't. What she found became the research that inspired The Da Vinci Code — and one of the most quietly revolutionary books in modern Magdalene scholarship. We're reading it together. Starting April 9. Not just to discuss it. To be changed by it. The Woman with the Alabaster Jar — Sacred Book Circle ✨ 8 weeks · 12 women · Thursdays 5pm PST / 8pm EST ✨ A few seats remain ✨ Premium membership · $27/month · founding rate · locks in for life This closes in 48 hours. 👉 Grab your seat: LINK If it's calling you — trust that. 🌹
🌹 Last Seats. 48 Hours. The Book That Started It All.
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For those in the Pagels group, will recordings of the Starbird group be available?
Peanuts and Pagels
This afternoon I went to a local community theater production of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" and I suddenly remembered that in December of 2024 I visited the Charles Shultz Museum in Santa Rosa and saw a copy of Elaine Pagel's The Gnostic Gospels on Charles Shultz's bookshelf. (This was on my way home from a retreat with Kayleen Asbo, a prominent spokesperson on Magdelene-related material.) A bit less than half of the Shultz museum is the most popular Peanuts's cartoons with explanations of why they were important, and half is the life of Shultz. They have preserved Shultz's study exactly as it was when he died with all the books behind glass panels. Most of his books are either on the history of cartoons, animation, and general art. He had a few Bible commentaries, but right there is Elaine Pagels' book "The Gnostic Gospels". Schultz is generally believed to have been a fairly religious Christian when he was younger but got more agnostic when he was older. The animated Peanuts cartoon "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (1965) is very overtly Christian. It came out at the same time as a very popular (but really not very good) book "The Gospel According to Peanuts". This is my photo of Pagels on Charles Shultz's book shelf plus a photo from the front entrance to the museum
Peanuts and Pagels
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@Sandi Rufo My first year of middle school was at Magdalen College [no final 'e'] prep school in Oxford, England. The section of the Thames River that goes through Oxford is still referred to by locals as "The Isis" the older name of the upper half of the Thames before the 11th century. Allegedly(!) no connection to the Egyptian goddess. I was there fall of '66 and spring of '67
An equinox haiku
🌶🌀🌌 And the Fibonnaci sequence Is the curl of the Great Mother's toes As they tighten in ecstasy Big bang. Milky way.
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As a math guy I know that Fibonacci in the 15th century discovered a sequence related to the Golden Mean which was treated with an almost mystical / religious reverence in ancient Greece often called The "sacred ratio". It appears prominently in lots of Renaissance art including DaVinci's "The Last supper"
🌹 TONIGHT — Sisterhood of the Marys Circle
Resurrection. I’ve been thinking a lot about the resurrection story lately. Everyone goes to the tomb. Everyone sees the same thing. But Mary Magdalene is the one who recognizes the resurrection first. Why Mary? Did she see something the others didn’t…or did she understand something they weren’t ready to see yet? Tonight we’re exploring a fascinating possibility: What if resurrection was never meant to be understood only as something that happened to Jesus… What if resurrection is something that happens within us? Especially when we begin moving beyond the patterns described in the Seven Powers many of you are exploring in the 30-day challenge. Tonight we’ll talk about: 🥚 The symbolism of the red egg and resurrection 🌹 Mary Magdalene as the first witness ✨ The idea of Christ Consciousness 🌍 And how personal transformation may actually be a kind of resurrection happening in real time Some of the most powerful conversations in this community happen inside these circles. If something in your life feels like it’s shifting or awakening… this is the place to explore it. 🕊 Tonight — 5pm PT / 8pm ET 👇 Who’s coming tonight? Comment below.
🌹 TONIGHT — Sisterhood of the Marys Circle
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Wil be there. (Normally I can only come to these calls when there are 5 Wednesdays in a month, but this is an exception
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