What do you think about this?
The conventional history is that Mary Magdalene died in Ephesus or somewhere in Provence, in the south of France, somewhere between 60 and 80 AD. The Provence tradition is strong enough that her supposed relics still sit in the basilica of Saint Maximin la Sainte Baume to this day.
There is another tradition, much smaller, much older in some lines, and quietly carried in the spiritual underground of Northern California for the last hundred years. It says she did not stop in France. It says she kept going west.
The teaching, attributed to various Native and esoteric sources, places her final years in the redwoods of the Coast Miwok lands, on the eastern slopes of what is now Mount Tamalpais. Some versions say she carried a child. Some versions say she carried a knowledge the early church did not want preserved. All of them agree she walked away from Europe and never came back.
There is no archaeological evidence for this. There is no document signed by Magdalene herself confirming it. What there is, all over Marin County, is local sensitives, channelers, indigenous spiritual practitioners, and even a few clergy who have, independently of each other, described the same feeling about that mountain. They describe a Christed feminine presence on Tamalpais that has its own coordinates and its own name.
If you have ever sat on that mountain at sunset, looking out over the Pacific, you may have felt what they are talking about.
Is it possible the most consequential mystic of the New Testament finished her work not in the south of France, but here in California, and the mountain has been remembering her the whole time?
