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Question: I’ve spent a couple of years not being able to forgive the separation that’s happened with my son. I keep wanting to talk things over in order to heal them and it doesn’t work. Then I find myself with a grudge that I have to suck it up and go on, and I haven’t released it.

In the larger sphere, I want to take steps to make a difference in the world, yet let go and let myself be used for whatever purpose it is that I’m being used for. I want hope of making a difference, healing, or forgiveness, while not being trapped by reactivity to what I see in the world that is really out of balance.

Mary Magdalene: Most of what people think of as forgiveness is not an effective process. It is, again, the Masculine separated from the Feminine.

You have been given teachings of forgiveness that are not whole. They are partial. Many people have the idea that forgiveness is to love the other being. There is truth in that, but it is not the whole truth.

The outcome of forgiveness is to love the other being. But this is not the process of forgiveness. Love is what you get to through forgiveness.

You must begin with the Feminine. This is what most people don’t understand.

Most people who are contemplating forgiveness are aware that they are in pain. They are using forgiveness as both a way to alleviate their own pain and also to move into what they hope is a spiritual process with the other parties are involved.

You must begin with the Feminine. You must always begin with the Feminine. This is one of the great truths that most people do not understand. The Feminine leads to the Masculine. The Feminine loves the Masculine. And the Feminine always leads to the Masculine.

If you start with the Masculine, you are starting with the ending. This does not tend to get you to the Feminine. The Masculine has a different purpose. The Masculine guides the Feminine.

It does not work to begin with the Masculine. It works to begin with the Feminine. Of course, I am speaking to the archetypal Masculine and Feminine that lives within all beings. I am not talking about men and women. I am talking about Masculine-Feminine.

Relative to forgiveness, you begin with the Feminine. You begin with your pain. The grieving process is to feel your pain. But do not stop there. If all you do is feel your pain, it will likely be a very long process of being immersed in pain. If you are willing to go all the way through the feeling of the pain—which for many people is very hard—this will eventually lead you through. But there are much easier processes for doing this work through the Feminine.

You are in pain because something in you has gotten disconnected from your inner divinity. It is not because of what the other person has done. Your pain is not because anyone else did something to you. You were affected by what someone else did and that effect caused you to disconnect from your own divinity.

The feelings you have are telling you that you have become disconnected from your inner divinity. You must use those feelings to find out what part of your inner divine nature you have lost touch with and then reconnect with that part. When you do that, you will heal yourself.

The healing does not come from others. The healing comes from you reconnecting with God. Anytime you are lost in wounding of some sort or other—whether it is grief, anger, resentment, blame—you are fundamentally at war with yourself. That is where the healing must occur.

For example, if you have been in a love relationship that has ended and you are still suffering from that relationship ending, if you still feel grief or blame or whatever about it, those feelings are your help. They are guiding you to the place within yourself where you have lost your connection to God.

If it’s a love relationship, then it’s often in the domain of love where you have lost your connection to God. Love is one of the God-qualities that lives within you. Whatever the outer events were that occurred, you got disconnected from your own connection to love. You got disconnected from the God-quality of love that lives within you, your well of love, your own access to love, the bridge that unites you with God through this particular aspect of yourself—love.

I’m just giving this as an example, but an example that is real for many people in their lives.

Your work is to find the place where you have gotten cut off from love and reconnect. Reconnect with your own knowingness of love. You cannot mourn something that you do not know within yourself. If you are mourning or grieving or in anger, it is a sign that you know this place within yourself and you are missing it. You know what it’s like to have that particular God-quality fulfilled. Go to that place where you know what it is to have that God-quality. Reconnect there and then the healing will begin.

If it is a very deep wound with someone you are very close to—a son, or someone else in your life that you are very close to—this will not happen instantly. It will take time. You will need to come back to this and reconnect over time. You will need to find your God-source within, in the particular form that you disconnected from. Eventually you will be fed again through that particular source or stream. Then love will come alive again within you.

It is at that point where you can turn to the other, not before. When love comes alive in you, then you can turn to the other. When you turn to the other, it is to ask the same question for them. What was motivating them? What part of their inner divinity were they trying to support through the actions that they took? What beautiful God-part of themselves were they doing their best to fulfill, even if it was not in the way you would have liked or you would have chosen. But in their divinity they were doing their best, even perhaps desperately, to stay connected to some part of them that they so needed.

When you find that in the other, on the basis of your own reconnection and strength, then the forgiveness will happen. That is the process.

Questioner: I hear you.

In terms of the world and what appears to be a lack of sanity in our political behavior with each other, are we to just remember that everybody is just trying to fulfill that?

Mary Magdalene: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! The pain is in you. Go to your pain. Go to your source. When you call the world insane, you are saying that it is wrong. You are locked into the third-dimensional model of right and wrong. Go beyond that into your pain. Then you have reentered the domain of the Feminine.

What you’re really saying is, “Ouch, I hurt! I want compassion. I want love. I want spiritual communion carried out in everyday actions.” Yes?

Questioner: Yes!

Mary Magdalene: Your pain is that you have gotten disconnected within yourself to those wells of God-ness within yourself.

You must begin by getting out of your right-and-wrong thinking of who’s insane and who’s sane. Bring it back to you and your connection to God. “Oh yes, I want compassion. I want love. I want spirituality lived in practical life, moment-to-moment guiding our decisions as individuals and a culture.” That’s it. At that point your light of consciousness has found the disconnection in you, and your consciousness is already repairing it.

Then if you want to take it into forgiveness, do so on the basis of asking “What is the beautiful God-part that these people are trying to support in themselves?” These beings that you’re calling insane, there is some great beauty that they are trying to support. Find out what that is. Then your God-self and their God-self can meet. Then you can transform anything.

Questioner: So it’s the remembering of the root.

Mary Magdalene: Always. Thank you.

Questioner: Thank you

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• Light-Filled Intimacy™ Instruction
• Spiritual Mentoring

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Question: I’ve been thinking of the story of Adam and Eve and I wanted to hear your version.

Mary Magdalene: There is a very great deal behind this story [laughter]. It is one of the messages I have given for the next book. Can you be more specific as to what are your questions?

Questioner: The story that I learned as a child doesn’t appeal to me and doesn’t seem correct. I don’t think there is anything wrong with taking the fruit of our beautiful world, enjoying that, and finding pleasure. So I was wondering what that mythology really means. How does it speak to us about the truth of who we are?

Mary Magdalene: There are so many levels to this.

It is indeed a mythology that was put forth. Yet there were also pearls. There were secrets encoded in it as well.

It seems you want reassurance that your understanding you have come to relative to this is accurate, on the path, and supporting you. Is this your question?

Questioner: My question really was to hear the truth of what the story means, because when I hear it in this one-dimensional way it doesn’t seem like it makes any sense.

Mary Magdalene: It makes a great deal of sense if you want to suppress people, control them, and convince them that they are bad.

Questioner: But what are the pearls from that story?

Mary Magdalene: The first pearl was about the serpent, which was the serpent power of kundalini. And the tree of life was the spine. It was about the process of ascending and moving into the higher dimensions. It was talking about the essentialness of the Masculine and Feminine being in union. The apple represents the Feminine. The apple is a symbol of the Feminine in many traditions. So it was the knowing, the embodying, the taking in of the Feminine.

Just as Eve was said to have been created to partner with Adam—that it was not enough to only have a man, it also required a woman—as well, it required the union of the Masculine and Feminine. This was the next instruction as to what to do with this.

It was all about awakening what is called kundalini in the Indian tradition. In the Egyptian lineage, we called it sekhem. This awakening was known in many ancient traditions. It was known in the temples. It was part of the mystery schools, which came out of what had developed in the temples.

All this was twisted and turned, as a means of suppression and control. You had the knowingness within yourself to say “No, this is not accurate.” But there was instruction being given, ultimately about moving into the higher dimensions, with the fourth dimension being the next dimension. This is what was practiced in the mystery schools.

For those who are ready and available for it, this is what is awakening at this time. Many who are incarnated at this time have this remembrance. Many have come back to be here at this time who were part of the mystery schools, who received this training, this consciousness, this awareness, this understanding. So many, and very likely yourself, are remembering.

But when you incarnate in this world, the veils close and the memory largely goes away, until you are spiritually developed. Or perhaps you have gifts that remained with you of being able to open the veils and remember, to understand the help that is being given.

So yes, there were most definitely great gifts in that story.

It is similar with your Bible. Much of it has been changed to a different interpretation, yet there are still gifts within it.

Is that helpful?

Questioner: Yes. Thank you.

Mary Magdalene: You are welcome.

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• Guidance from Mary Magdalene (and other beings of light)
• Akashic Healing and Soul Path Guidance
• Heart-Source Life-and-Relationships Coaching
• Light-Filled Intimacy™ Instruction
• Spiritual Mentoring

Mercedes is available in-person or long distance (by phone and Skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.

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Question: I would like to hear you share about the energy of shame, how to open ourselves to looking at shame, without punishing ourselves for it or the things we want in life.

Mary Magdalene: Can you share more specifically what the source of the shame is that you’re asking about?

Questioner: I’ve had a long journey to explore shame in myself, especially as a woman, because women have been so held back from saying what we see, hear, or feel. It keeps us from living our lives fully and feeling what we have to birth in our hearts.

Mary Magdalene: That is the purpose of shame. Shame was cultivated to remove people from their power. It’s a technique of control, through convincing people they are bad, wrong, sinful, evil, or whatever the variation is. A hallmark of the third dimension is thinking that there is such a thing as right or wrong, good or bad.

Power and control is also a hallmark of the third dimension. It is what most souls have come here to explore. Power and control are the arena of this exploration. Good and bad are the methods of playing in that arena, by attempting to create power for some and take power away from others. This is one of the power games your world tends to be consumed with.

Shame is a part of that. Shame is a particular segment of the much-larger thinking and programming that says that there is such a thing as right or wrong. If there were no such thing as right or wrong, you wouldn’t feel shame.

Questioner: It feels like it goes into a place of polarization, taking us out of feeling our heart and having compassion and acceptance for our situation and our challenges. I want the clarity to not get into “I’m right and they’re wrong,” in moving out of shame.

Mary Magdalene: The greater practice is to go beyond right and wrong all together. In that process, healing shame is so important.

There are different arenas that most people tend to have shame. The first one is body shame. Most people in your world, especially in the United States, have great shame around their body. They don’t like their body, it’s not acceptable, and especially it’s not lovable. Most people have very specific ideas of what they would have to have to be lovable in their body—and they don’t qualify. Their body doesn’t match whatever that criteria is. This is a huge arena that needs healing for people and it is spiritual. It is a spiritual imperative that this healing be done relative to body shame.

Most people have shame relative to their sexuality. They feel it’s evil, sinful. They feel that they shouldn’t be involved with it, especially if they want to be spiritual or somehow more evolved or elevated. But even people who aren’t specifically interested in spirituality or religion tend to carry the general cultural message that sex is bad. On the other hand, sex is attractive. Sex is something people want and that they have a lot of attention and energy for. But there’s a secret quality to it, because they believe it is really bad.

People have shame relative to their emotions. Men have shame if they feel fear or sadness. Many men receive the message that they’re not a real man, or a real boy if they’re still young, if they show fear or sadness. Women often have shame about anger. There’s great healing to be done in these areas.

These are the Feminine arenas that have been identified as wrong, bad, unacceptable—your body, sexuality, and emotions. The Feminine arena is also where your power comes from. The mind does not have power. Your power comes from your Feminine.

There are other kinds of shame, where people have a sense at their core that there’s something the matter with them: “I’m just not OK. Everyone else is OK, but I’m different. I’m defective. I’m deficient.” Then they have ideas and beliefs that seem to back that up. This is extremely debilitating.

The healing work of all of shame is essential and most important. But as I said earlier, the real healing is the healing of the very idea that it is possible to be wrong; that it’s possible to be bad. That is the greatest healing you can bring, because this is what really binds and enslaves people. It is the very idea that “badness” or “wrongness” exist. This is what people’s true liberation will be.

I am not suggesting that people therefore take any action within the realm of possibilities. All actions have consequences. Some actions support love and light and some actions do not. The discernment is: Does this action support love and light or does it interfere with love and light? Not because the being or the action is inherently bad. All beings are on the path of incarnating love and light. The discernment is simply whether a particular action is moving you forward on your path of light and love or holding you back. That is all.

So that is the healing that is called for.

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Mercedes Kirkel is a multi-award-winning author and channel for Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light. Her first book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. Mercedes’s latest book, Sublime Union: A Woman’s Sexual Odyssey Guided by Mary Magdalene, is available at www.sublime-union.com.

To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.

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• Guidance from Mary Magdalene (and other beings of light)
• Akashic Healing and Soul Path Guidance
• Heart-Source Life-and-Relationships Coaching
• Light-Filled Intimacy™ Instruction
• Spiritual Mentoring

Mercedes is available in-person or long distance (by phone and Skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.

Note from Mercedes: If you feel served by Mary Magdalene’s messages and would like to make a donation to support the posting of these messages, I would greatly appreciate it. Just click on the button below. Thanks so much!

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SUBLIME UNION: A Woman’s Sexual Odyssey Guided by Mary Magdalene

A Sacred Sexuality Manual and Erotic Memoir

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QUESTION: I’ve studied A Course in Miracles and I like some of the lessons. But the way it’s written upsets me.  I feel angry that it’s so much in the Masculine, with pages that just say “He,” “him,” “his,” “brothers,” etc. I don’t believe that’s the way Yeshua spoke. I want to hear the Sacred Feminine, using the Feminine words that I believe Yeshua spoke in Aramaic.

MARY MAGDALENE: This is the beginning, right now, of this changing. When I say “right now” you must understand time. Right now is, for many, a vast period of time. But in terms of eternity, in terms of the wholeness of time, it is a very, very short period of time.

I came with Yeshua. We came to teach together and we knew the world was not ready. We gave our teaching. Those who had ears to hear, heard. What was recorded, and what was brought through in your world, was primarily the Masculine, because that was what most people were ready for. Now that is changing.

A Course in Miracles is an example, just as you sense, of a Masculine teaching in separation from the Feminine. A Course in Miracles contains gifts, just as you have received. The Masculine has very important gifts. Most of you are well on your way in receiving the Masculine gifts, because this has been so greatly supported in your world.

Most of you are starved for the Feminine, starved. It is not just your culture that is starved. It is not just your politics that is starved. It is your inner being that is starved for the Feminine. This is as true in your spiritual world as in all your other worlds. Most of those who teach in the spiritual world are men. But this perspective is not limited to men. Men and women alike have been denied the Feminine.

This is my work, to bring forth the Feminine. I am not alone—there are others. But it is specifically what I have come to do. It is the reason that so many respond to me, especially women.

The world was never successful in denying the Feminine. It never was truly possible. But your minds have been greatly fooled. Most of you need great help finding your way out of the labyrinth of your mind. When you do, your mind will be of great service to you. The mind is a tremendous gift from God. But it was never meant to be a gift to be used against the Feminine.

As I have spoken all along, and especially as was brought through in the messages that are recorded in Mary Magdalene Beckons, the work for all of you is to first and foremost bring in the Feminine within yourself. This means bringing forth the Feminine through your body, sexuality, and emotions.

You will probably notice that these three arenas—your body, sexuality, and emotions—are not very popular in most spiritual teachings. Many teachings go so far as to say these are the things that are the blocks to your spiritual growth. They teach that if you want to grow, you must separate yourself from your body, sexuality, and emotions. Many teachings assert that your body, sexuality, and/or emotions are not real and they are what will hold you back from your spiritual growth.

This is very sad. This is the perspective of the Masculine separated from the Feminine It was never Yeshua’s intention for that to be his teaching. Your intuitions are, of course, your truth. And your anger is your way of saying “No!” It is a way of calling back your power.

When people have given away their power, there is a stage they go through of great anger, often rage. In shamanic terms, this is understood as bringing back a piece of your soul that you have let wander away. So your anger is important. Anger is not to be denied. Yet it is to your benefit, and as directly as you are able, to get underneath the anger.

What is underneath is great grieving for what you have lost, what you have given away, what you have been separated from. So allow the anger to arise, but protect yourself and others. Do not make others a target of your anger. Do not make yourself a target of your anger. Let the anger lead to what is underneath. And there will be wailing and grieving. Then you can begin the process of reconnecting with the great Feminine.

Grieving is very unpopular in your world. People are often told not to grieve. People are told strategies to suppress grief, to deny it and move on with their life. But grieving is essential. Grieving is what grows you, in your soul. Grieving is what heals the pains. Grieving is not meant to be an eternal state that you get stuck in. The reason most people get stuck in grief is because they do not allow it. Grieving is therefore scary to many people. They have not seen how to grieve. They have not seen others grieve and understood that it is safe. They have not felt welcomed in their grief. So it takes courage to allow grief.

At this time, which is the beginning of the Feminine coming forth, your process is to let your anger turn to grief. You must let the grief go all the way down in your body to your second chakra, which is its home. Let it begin to open your second chakra and to purify you. Let it allow your beautiful Feminine energy to flow once again.

You are bringing this forth. You are a clear visionary and you are standing for this truth. So allow it in yourself. Stand for and as the Feminine, through allowing this process of grief in yourself, all the way through to opening your second chakra and your Feminine energy. Through that, be a demonstration to others that this is the way.

QUESTIONER: So then it’s alright if the grief and the anger come up? It’s OK to just express the grief?

MARY MAGDALENE: OK with who?

QUESTIONER: You. [laughter]

MARY MAGDALENE: See if it’s OK with you.

QUESTIONER: If it feels right.

MARY MAGDALENE: Yes.

QUESTIONER: Thank you. This was very, very helpful.

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Mercedes Kirkel is a multi-award-winning author and channel for Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light. Her first book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. Mercedes’s latest book, Sublime Union: A Woman’s Sexual Odyssey Guided by Mary Magdalene, is available at www.sublime-union.com.

To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.

Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA, including:

• Guidance from Mary Magdalene (and other beings of light)
• Akashic Healing and Soul Path Guidance
• Heart-Source Life-and-Relationships Coaching
• Light-Filled Intimacy™ Instruction
• Spiritual Mentoring

Mercedes is available in-person or long distance (by phone and Skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.

Note from Mercedes: If you feel served by Mary Magdalene’s messages and would like to make a donation to support the posting of these messages, I would greatly appreciate it. Just click on the button below. Thanks so much!

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By Mercedes Kirkel

As many of you know, I am in the process of creating the new spirituality of COMMUNION^TM, which is focused on supporting people in “the ascension process,” or the transition to higher planes of reality. The guidance for this spiritual path has come through Mary Magdalene, and it has everything to do with uniting the Masculine and Feminine as our next step in the ascension process.

I have asked for feedback to my vision of COMMUNION and recently I received this from someone:

I would like to suggest names for the divine other than “God,” because for me that implies that the divine is male only and excludes the Divine Feminine.  The word “God” is fraught with such a destructive and painful history on this planet.  Wars have been fought in the name of God.  People have been excluded, oppressed, and even killed in the name of God.  I think that names such as Great Spirit, All That Is, the divine, Divine Father/Mother, etc. give us a broader image of the divine that does not assign a particular gender to it or exclude the other gender.

I appreciated this person offering their feedback, because I believe that whenever anyone has a concern, they are often representing a whole sector of people who feel similarly. I offered my response, explaining why I chose to use the word “God.” Afterward, I felt moved to share my explanation with everyone, because I believe there are others who hold this same question. Here’s what I wrote, which I share with the permission of the person I wrote it to:

I used to have the same reaction to the word “God,” and much preferred other words, including the ones you’re suggesting, for the same reasons.

When Mary started coming to me, she very specifically used the word “God,” and she used it with tremendous love and devotion, just the way you’d relate to the most beloved being you could possibly imagine, because that’s exactly what God is for her. She helped me to change my relationship to the word “God.” I came to love the term “God,” and what it referred to, the way that she does.

I absolutely know that Mary is not excluding the Feminine when she speaks of God. She could just as well say “Mother-Father God” or “Father-Mother God,” and sometimes she does. But she prefers to just say “God,” I think because it feels more personal and direct and intimate. I would say that for her, God is beyond gender and inclusive of all genders. God is absolute love and light. That definitely includes the Feminine, I have no doubt of that.

I hope that’s helpful to you. I hope that you’re able to go through the kind of healing I went through, in whatever way it happens for you, because it won’t necessarily take the form it took for me. I know now how wonderful it is to love God, unreservedly. The things that happened in the past that people connected with the term “God,” were about the people who did those things. Let the healing occur with them, so that you can become free in your relationship with God.

I was very amazed whenever Mary talked about painful things that were done by others in relation to her. She didn’t hold any anger or resentment toward them. She was clear that those things were about them and not her, and she wasn’t taking on their karma or pain. It was a profound demonstration for me.

I hope that’s helpful to you. My heart is touched by your honesty and I sense your longing of wanting to heal this. May it be so.

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Mercedes Kirkel is a #1 best-selling and multi-award-winning author, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light. Her first book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. Mercedes’s latest book, Sublime Union: A Woman’s Sexual Odyssey Guided by Mary Magdalene, is available at www.sublime-union.com. All messages and practices are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.

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SUBLIME UNION: A Woman’s Sexual Odyssey Guided by Mary Magdalene

A Sacred Sexuality Manual and Erotic Memoir

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