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Paula Seymour-Holanchock: Mary Magdalene: Women, Sex, and Sin

Recording of the oral dissertation defense by PhD candidate Paula Seymour-Holanchock at the Women's Spirituality Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California, October 9, 2023 DISSERTATION TITLE: Mary Magdalene: Women, Sex, and Sin DISSERTATION ABSTRACT: Early Roman Catholic Church fathers often used the traditional iconography of a woman's body to symbolize sexual sin. This false view of Mary Magdalene has been used throughout history to demonize women's sexuality and perpetuate the oppressive virgin/whore dichotomy. Through this process, Mary Magdalene and her Seven Powers of Wrath became a counterfeit narrative used by the Catholic Church in support of biblical claims that women are inherently sinful. One outcome of this detrimental process is that many women have lost agency over their stories. Instead, the stories told are those written by men for men. Moreover, suppressing women's stories, like hiding Mary's gospel, has led to the loss of important information, such as that revealed in The Gospel of Mary Magdalene regarding soul ascension. Throughout my dissertation, I have addressed the following questions: how does the Roman Catholic Church and Christianity, in general, define sexual sin for women, and can the patriarchal religious conventions of this understanding of female sexuality be overcome through a path of spiritual realization as taught and experienced by Mary Magdalene? My research methodology combines spiritual feminist hermeneutics with intuitive inquiry. By combining subjective and objective knowledge of experiential, intuitive experiences, I was able to overcome obstacles posed by inflexible scientific rules or religious ideologies if I had chosen intuitive inquiry alone. In my intuitive inquiry, I have found that documenting women's lived experiences is crucial to liberating them from the oppressive and false narratives of some church teachings regarding women, sex, and sin. During the course of this study, some important conclusions have been drawn regarding The Gospel of Mary Magdalene and her Seven Powers of Wrath or her soul ascension model. Firstly, women's embodied experiences must be observed and documented. The significance of Mary's message would most likely have remained unknown if I had not discovered it through intuitive inquiry. My discovery of her model of soul ascension provided me with a fundamental piece of information that led to the discovery of the seven forms of the fourth Power. Further, when women's stories are rejected and false narratives are held as truths, we become trapped in the fourth Power of Wrath, as demonstrated in Chapter 5 with the Magdalene Laundries. Lastly, when women's stories are heard, we can access essential knowledge, such as Mary's model of soul ascension, demonstrating our ability to attain spiritual liberation.       In conclusion, this study highlights the harmful effects associated with the entanglement of counterfeit narratives and their damaging effects on women. However, this study also reveals that we can overcome the patriarchal religious conventions of this understanding of female sexuality through spiritual realization as experienced and taught by Mary Magdalene. In order to change the current narrative, women's stories must be documented and heard. In this study, I hope to contribute to a repository of women's stories so that those who have been silenced and whose stories have been suppressed may finally have their voices heard. By using intuitive inquiry, I hope other researchers will focus on the findings presented in this study to challenge the patriarchal narrative that limits women's agency. Dissertation Committee Chair: Cindy Shearer, PhD Dissertation Committee Member: Anna Corwin, PhD Dissertation Committee Member: Judith Burdan, PhD