What a powerful Lion’s Gate practice. I’m still processing what opened for me. Over the weekend I kept coming back to this idea that perhaps we are being asked to learn how to walk in both worlds. Can we remain completely human, with our bodies, relationships, fears, memories and messy emotions, while also allowing the deeper Soul self to lead? Can we look back at experiences that hurt us and still find the places where love existed? Can we hold compassion for another person without denying what happened to us? Can we hold the old self and the woman we are becoming at the same time? That is what Thecla suddenly means to me. She awakens. She sees the conditioning she has been living inside. She begins listening to something deeper than the expectations around her. And then the lioness recognizes her. I keep wondering: Am I Thecla? Are we all Thecla at some point in our awakening? I’m still integrating this one myself. The practice opened something much bigger than I expected. If you were there, I would love to know: What did the Lion’s Gate reveal to you? If you didn't get a chance to attend the live, I encourage you to watch for yourself. Link to replay: https://youtu.be/d2ZuOfUX7MU

Extra! Following our regular writing inspired by a prayer, I add another written work. I am usually introduced to a poem through some odd way and the words just hit. This week was really powerful - especially if you have risen from your darkness or are feeling yourself doing so now The author is Christopher Sexton i didn’t need to repent. i needed to reparent the parts of me that had been abandoned mid-tantrum. maybe heaven is just the part of hell you’ve decided to hold. you wanna be holy? try sitting with your hurt long enough to hear its origin story. what if the devil you’ve been at war with is just your inner child wearing all the armor you were too young to carry? what if you stopped trying to cast your demons out and started rocking them to sleep? what if the bravest spiritual practice isn’t light or love or transcendence? what if it’s dragging a chair across the floor of hades, sitting down beside the part of you you were taught to hate, and saying, “i’m not leaving.” what if you didn’t come here to be fixed? what if you came here to fall in love with every version of you that survived a crucifix? some of you won’t understand this. some days i believe in jesus. some days i am jesus, but not the whitewashed sunday school one. the brown-skinned revolutionary one who broke generational curses like bread and cried in gardens because he still loved the ones who hurt him. stop looking for god in places you’ve never bled. the divine doesn’t live in your perfection. they live in your pussy. in your panic attacks. in your dickhead opinions. in your porn search history. in the silence after you almost called your ex. god isn’t hiding from you. they’re hiding as you. this might sound crazy, but the part of me that wanted to fuck everyone was the same part that just wanted to be held as a child. i asked my shadows what they believed in. they said: "you. the version of you that kept going when you couldn't see the light." when no one chose me, my darkness did.

I thought I was researching Mary Magdalene. Then I realized she had been explaining what had already happened to me. ✨📚If you'd rather read this in my Substack: The Magdalene Heresies “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” I’ve read that passage from the Gospel of Thomas for years. I’ve quoted it. I’ve taught it. I’ve highlighted it in books and nodded knowingly whenever it appeared in discussions about Gnosticism, consciousness, and spiritual awakening. And then recently I had one of those strange moments where a familiar idea suddenly revealed an entirely different meaning. Not because the words changed. Because I did. Have you ever had that happen? A phrase you’ve heard a hundred times suddenly lands in a completely new way. You don’t learn something new as much as realize you’ve been looking at the same thing from the wrong angle, and all at once, something becomes obvious. That happened to me while I was thinking about the Magdalene Method. For years, I assumed this passage was talking about hidden gifts, spiritual purpose, or some untapped divine potential waiting to emerge. Now I think it is talking about something much more immediate, much more personal, and honestly, much more uncomfortable. I think it is talking about the things we refuse to see. The fears we inherited. The beliefs we absorbed. The wounds we buried. The stories we keep repeating because they have become so familiar that we mistake them for reality. The parts of ourselves that quietly shape every decision we make while remaining largely invisible to us. And as I sat with that realization, another one arrived right behind it. The entire Magdalene Method grew out of this exact process.

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