In this month’s episode we introduce Vanessa Irena, author of ‘Ecstasy, A devotional guide to the female mystics’, one of Hadean Press’ Guides to the Underworld.

Vanessa and I discuss her personal experience of negotiating and re-contextualising her relationship with Catholicism, specifically by exploring the female mystics of medieval Europe.

Vanessa’s work offers us a unique window into a living and enfleshed Christian experience, which, far from denying the material body, is instead vitalised within it, as the vehicle through which divinity is experienced. This is a queer, erotic and transgressive mysticism, centred upon the women who reclaimed their autonomy from the strictures of medieval society and independently explored the divine to become some of the most phenomenal women in European history.

You can find ‘Ecstasy, A Devotional Guide to the Female Mystics’ here:

https://hadean.press/products/ecstasy-a-devotional-guide-to-the-female-mystics

As well as Vanessa and Al’s Guide to Saint Raphael the Archangel: https://hadean.press/products/saint-raphael-the-archangel

You can find more from Vanessa at her site: https://vanessairena.com/

And her store: https://swordandscythe.com