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Alana Levandoski - Human One

Human One directed, filmed, and edited by Alana Levandoski song written, performed, and produced by Alana Levandoski electric guitar - Murray Pulver Mixed and Mastered by Don Benedictson with thanks to my beloved Ian, for building a space big enough for me to create music videos in! Listen on Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/album/1fL2Qm... To explore how to work with Alana, go to www.alanalevandoski.com Over the last number of months, after the kids are tucked in, I have been sitting out in our rugged, homemade sauna nearly every night, chanting the trisagion, sitting in silence, then turning on a little torch to do a spiritual reading. Mostly what I have been reading in that context are books about Mary Magdalene. The foundational book and springing off point, is without a doubt, Cynthia Bourgeault's The Meaning of Mary Magdalene. I have read this book more than once before, but at a time when I was in the throes of mothering toddlers. It didn't sink in the way it recently has in the solitude of the womb/tomb, with the scent of salvaged cedar around me, and our dead fall poplar burning. This "sink in", is also mixed with the alchemy of the times we are in. After reading quite a large spectrum of books on the subject of Mary Magdalene, and listening to lectures and documentaries to hear specialists and scholars' perspectives, I set aside the research and finally just sat in the sauna with no books, closed my eyes, and walked through the Easter story through the eyes of Mary Magdalene. Cynthia Bourgeault, ever in her robust yet daring way, situates Mary, descending with Jesus into the "harrowing of hell". Suggesting that not only Jesus went into the very heart of the world, in an ahistorical evolutionary moment, reconciling all things... making two become one. As I sat in the dark, in the heat of the sauna, and looked through Mary's eyes... I "went there" too. There's so much to say about all of this. The impact it has on orthodoxy for one. And... I won't say much about this except perhaps a Bruce Chilton quote from his book Mary Magdalene: A Biography: "Mark's gospel displays a mastery of the rhetoric of the unspoken." And... I will say, that Cynthia's call for what we might do moving forward, includes bringing Mary in as a central figure into the liturgy, and especially at Easter. So this is my contribution to a more rounded out Easter telling. If you read The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, you will soon see a radical but balanced beauty revealed there. Honouring the monastic traditions while also exploring the power of love. In this exploration, we find that "Agape = Eros + Kenosis"... and Jesus is observed as coming out of the desert, not standing in previous asceticism, but instead of conserving energy, he "squandered himself". This may seem unsustainable at first glance, but as a farmer who loves the ancient (timeless) practice of permaculture, I can attest that a sacred fountain of cacophonous life is the natural behaviour of a healthy ecosystem. This journey of seeing Easter through Mary Magdalene's eyes has caused a spiritual free fall for me... and now nothing less than tender, merciful, love - held fast to what seems irreconcilable - will do. There is now no need to spend my energy focused on the kind of Jesus follower I am not. The cynicism bred from that impasse has been exhausted. But if anyone is interested in, or confused about why I "stay"... it is simply this: Because I am in love. With the Christ Mystery. With the anointing way of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. With all people. With all traditions, including perhaps especially, indigenous wisdom. And with all things. Now is the time for holding fast to this kind of love. The kind that sends such a ripple across the universe that it comes back. Because after all, it is anywhere, and everywhere. It is deeply radical, but rooted in a sober core, that trusts in the free fall, as though it is a dear friend. This Holy Week, what would it look like to walk in the way of this Agape equation? The free fall I am talking about is really what the creative process is. It is surrendering to what abundantly multiplies when we plant ourselves, and die like a seed. This Easter, in thanks to the example of Cynthia Bourgeault and Mary Magdalene, we won't be hiding out somewhere waiting to see what happens. Instead, we can walk with Mary, who never left Jesus, through it all, and go to the very heart of this planet, reconciling all things, and come Sunday, find out that we are more involved in the resurrected presence than we think. With thanks to any and all who have taken seriously the call to go deep with Mary Magdalene. Including especially, Margaret Starbird, Karen King, Bruce Chilton, Jean-Yves Leloup, Meggan Watterson, and Cynthia Bourgeault.