The Meaning of Mary Magdalene
Cynthia Bourgeault and Ken Wilber

There are few figures in Christian literature as provocative, as controversial, and as mysterious as Mary Magdalene: the "apostle of apostles" who, according to some apocryphal texts, was Jesus' most beloved disciple. For millennia she has challenged Christian ideas of sexuality, gender, and spiritual embodiment—especially in light of the so-called Gospel of Mary, discovered in the late 19th century somewhere in northern Egypt.

In this latest installation of our Exploring the Future of Christianity series, Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault talks to Ken Wilber about her latest book The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, exploring the life and lessons of one of Christianity's most important women. Listen as Cynthia and Ken reveal a startling new understanding of the radical intimacy shared by Jesus and Mary, as well as a largely-unacknowledged path of conscious love that might be called a type of "Christian Tantra"—a path of devotion and mutuality that is full of ecstatic bliss, and free from inhibition or repression of any kind.