The Magic of Mary Magdalene with Joanna Kujawa

Summary

Author and self-described spiritual detective Joanna Kujawa argues that Mary Magdalene was never a prostitute, but Jesus's most advanced disciple and the keeper of his esoteric teachings. Drawing on the Gnostic Gospels, Tantra, Egyptian mysteries and Cathar history, she claims this 'divine feminine' wisdom of intuitive inner knowing was deliberately suppressed. She also proposes that Mary Magdalene may have become the alchemist Mary the Jewess in Alexandria, and that a recurring goddess presence returns across cultures in times of crisis.

Key takeaways

• 1Pope Gregory the Great's Homily 33 (591 AD) merged the unnamed sinner of Luke 7 with Mary Magdalene, creating the prostitute myth; the Vatican acknowledged the error in 1969
• 2The Greek word for the sinner, 'hamartolos', means a general sinner, not a prostitute ('porne')
• 3The Gospel of Philip calls Mary Magdalene Jesus's 'koinonos' (companion), and the line saying he kissed her falls on a torn section of the manuscript
• 4The Gospel of Mary teaches four levels of consciousness (wrong identification, desire, nous, union with the source); in it Jesus tells Peter 'there is no sin'
• 5Kujawa theorizes Mary Magdalene went to Alexandria and became Mary the Jewess (the Alchemist), whom Zosimus of Panopolis called the greatest alchemist; she links this to the gospel manuscript's discovery at Akhmim (ancient Panopolis)
• 6She disputes Margaret Starbird's bloodline thesis (which inspired Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code) and the Merovingian lineage claims, citing a 400-year gap
• 7She connects Mary Magdalene with Isis, Hathor, Inanna and Kali, and suggests a recurring goddess entity returns in times of crisis (from her books 'The Other Goddess' and 'Alien Goddess')

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Transcript excerpt

And for me, it is not about feminism of any sort, you know? For me, it is, we need this wisdom. It was suppressed for a reason. This wisdom is available for both women and men. And we suffer as a species, as humanity, and as a civilization, I mean, anybody with any sense knows that we are not going in the right direction, right? Keep watching to learn more. New Thinking Allowed is presented by the California Institute for Human Science, a fully accredited university offering distant learning graduate degrees that focus on mind, body, and spirit. The topics that we cover here, we are particularly excited to announce new degrees emphasizing parapsychology and the paranormal. Visit their website at cihs.edu. For early access to our videos and livestream events, sign up for our free weekly newsletter at newthinkingallowed.org. Book 4 in the New Thinking Allowed dialogue series is Charles T. Tartt, Seventy Years of Exploring Consciousness and Parapsychology. Now available on Amazon. Thinking Allowed conversations on the leading edge of knowledge and discovery with psychologist Jeffrey Mishlove Hello and welcome. I'm Emmy Vadness, co-host with Jeffrey Mishlove. Our topic today is The Magic of Mary Magdalene with my guest Joanna Kujawa, who is a Polish-born author, scholar, and spiritual detective based in Australia. She is author of the book The Other Goddess, Mary Magdalene and the Goddesses of Eros and Secret Knowledge and Alien Goddess, UFOs, AI and the Goddesses of Ascension. If you enjoy this program, please like, subscribe, press the bell icon and share. Now I'll switch over to the internet video. Welcome, Joanna. It's a pleasure to have you back with me on New Thinking Allowed today. Thank you for having me back, Emmy. ...

Excerpt from New Thinking Allowed, Sep 18, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.