Mago Academy offers Wisdom of Mary Magdalen , as an elective course of the Creatrix Studies Programs (CSP). You may take it as 1 credit course toward your M.A. or Ph.D. in Creatrix Studies programs or audit it not for academic credit.

Wisdom of Mary Magdalen (1 Credit)

Course no: 402

Instructor: Judy Grahn, Ph.D.

Time: Nov 3-Nov 24 (Mondays, 4 hour-long 4 weekly sessions)

Description: Resurfacing after 1500 years, the unique “Gospel of Mary Magdalen” is full of wise, counter-patriarchal teachings on peace, justice, emotional intelligence and more. Studying the text plus scholarly sources including Professor Karen L. King of Harvard Divinity school, and poetic deciphers of Dr. Grahn’s poetry, students will be encouraged to learn to interpret an ancient text through what experts have said, what you see in it, and what your own intuitive art approach tells you.

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Fee for 1 credit course toward M.A. or Ph.D. degree program: $700 (if you register for a 2 unit course, choose 2 in product quantity).

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Course Summary

Method: Methods consist of in-class lectures, interactive discussion with student questions, a written paper, and student original art sharing, interpretive of some part of Mary Magdalen’s teaching. We ask students to engage with three ways to delve more deeply into the Gospel of Mary Magdalen:

First is through reading the Gospel plus supplementary materials, and listening to online video, as well as taking notes during in-class lectures and discussion.

Secondly write a researched paper on some part of Mary Magdalen’s Gospel that interests you.

A third way of delving more deeply is to produce your own art response to parts of the gospel as a way of increasing your understanding, letting your own artful self lead the way. Arts will be shared in class. These can include up to four minutes of written or recorded poetry; a drawing or painting; or up to four minutes of an original dance video, shown to the class. All art presentations must be pertinent to the subject of Mary Magdalen’s Gospel.

Expected Student Outcomes:

–learn to construct criteria to distinguish male-centered from female-centered characteristics.

–determine what qualities of the two-thousand-year-old heretical text embody principles needed to address today’s problems.

–practice how to closely read and interpret the somewhat obscure text by thinking through what a particular set of imagery or a single short phrase is trying to convey.

–experience what the addition of an interpretive art form provides in deepening understanding of a teaching.

–understand that a possible source of Magdalen’s Gospel could remain in underlying matriversal religious practices from the Mesopotamian region that extend far into the distant past, and survive despite patriarchal overlay and oppression.

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Organizer/Instructor: Judy Grahn, Ph.D. in U.S.A.

Biography: Judy Grahn is an internationally known poet, writer, and theorist. She has been teaching and writing about the literature of Sumerian goddess Inanna for forty years. As co-director of an MA program in Women’s Spirituality housed first at New College of California and then at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Judy established a course, “W