The Lost Sisterhood: The Return of Mary Magdalene, The Mother Mary, and Other Holy Women [Paperback]

Julia Ingram (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: DreamSpeaker Creations (August 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1893641023
• ISBN-13: 978-1893641020
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #868,964 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Julia Ingram (1940-) was born in Pocatello, Idaho, to a devout Mormon couple. Blessed with a beautiful singing voice she did graduate work in Vienna, with an eye to a career in opera. She soon discovered was that while music fed her soul, it was psychology, and spirituality that drove her. She returned to graduate school and got her M.A. in Counseling Psychology. She has been a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist for over 40 years. Her first book, "The Messengers,"(co-written with G.W. Hardin) was a NY Times Bestseller. Its sequel, "The Lost Sisterhood," includes her journey away from Mormonism, and to a belief in reincarnation. She still practices hypnotherapy in Portland, Oregon. www.juliaingram.com

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Who were Mother Mary and Mary Magdalene ... REALLY?, February 15, 2005

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This review is from: The Lost Sisterhood: The Return of Mary Magdalene, The Mother Mary, and Other Holy Women (Paperback)

What an amazing journey! Master regression therapist Julia Ingram opens the door to a hidden world where these historical women can finally speak for themselves.

Ingram's journey led her to 15 women who, when regressed, provided first-person accounts of their lives in the company of Jeshua (Jesus). ("Jeshua," which is ancient Aramaic, is the name he actually answered to.) They offer eyewitness reports of Jeshua and the women who were an integral part of his mission---most prominently, his mother and teacher Mary and his wife Mary Magdalene. Even small details about their everyday activities and the relationships among them are startling enough to freshen our view of that world, and show how distorted later accounts have become.

Jeshua was an inspired visionary. Ingram's work suggests that the women close to him shared that vision with greater authenticity than the men who succeeded him as the founders of the early Christian church. The female role in that vision was ignored, or even concealed. As one contemporary woman exclaimed after re-experiencing parts of her life as Jeshua's younger sister Ruth, "The Bible leaves out half the story"---the women's half. Ingram performs spiritual archeaology, bringing to light this buried treasure and showing us its urgent relevance in rebalancing the chaotic energies of today's world.

The women of the lost sisterhood are speaking out. Spiritual seekers who want to truly understand the mission of Jeshua, Mary Magdalene, Mother Mary, sister Ruth, and the others will miss vital pieces of the historical puzzle if they overlook the personal accounts in Ingram's work. Read this book!!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Historical Fiction?, February 13, 2007

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Paul Henry (Bay City, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lost Sisterhood: The Return of Mary Magdalene, The Mother Mary, and Other Holy Women (Paperback)

Whether or not you choose to believe the incidents in this book, if you read with a curious and open mind it will propel you into a new reality. It is the "herstory" that male authors did not allow into print for 2000 years. Considering the personal interpretation of history that we have been subjected to, this book offers a very plausable alternative and one which can change our spiritual visions for years to come. Is it history? Maybe not. Is it truth? Very likely!

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Reincarnations Find Forgiveness in the Present for the Past, February 21, 2005

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Rev. Dr. Arlene J. Colver "Author of Magdalen... (Cable, WI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lost Sisterhood: The Return of Mary Magdalene, The Mother Mary, and Other Holy Women (Paperback)

In this series of dialogues with women visionaries who see themselves as reincarnations of biblical heroines, Ms. Ingram reveals the possibility that the Divine Feminine is emerging in the 21st century through the personalities of spiritual devotees today.

Following her subjects through their hypnotic investigation of early Christianity, the author makes clear her point that there is currently a call for the Sisterhood to be found.

Written with candor and a lack of personal judgment, this work opens the door of the mind and allows the reader to walk in the shoes of those who have gone before us. Common threads of recollection seem to give credence to these stories and the collective unconscious, or Akashic Records, from which they are drawn.

Reviewer: Rev. Dr. Arlene J. Colver, Author of Magdalen's Way and From Whence They Came, Vice President of Lifelight University, Founder and Chaplain of the Society for Universal Concordance