For centuries, Mary Magdalene has been misunderstood, diminished, and misrepresented, cast as a repentant sinner rather than recognized as one of the most important spiritual figures of early Christianity. Yet the earliest texts tell a very different story: one of a woman who carried profound spiritual authority, intimate teaching, and a radical vision of inner awakening.

In this expansive episode, we journey into the life, legacy, and gospel of Mary Magdalene. Beginning with a quiet microstory at the tomb, we explore how Mary became the first witness to the resurrection, why her voice unsettled the early Church, and how her teachings, preserved in the Gospel of Mary, offer a spirituality rooted not in obedience or hierarchy, but in remembrance, discernment, and inner authority.

We examine how and why Mary Magdalene was later miscast as a prostitute, what her gospel reveals about the nature of the soul and liberation from fear, and why her voice was sidelined as institutional Christianity took shape. Drawing from biblical scholarship, early Christian texts, and mystical theology, this episode invites listeners to encounter Mary Magdalene not as a symbol of shame or redemption, but as a teacher of wisdom and an apostle of the inner kingdom.

This is an episode for anyone drawn to a spirituality that is embodied, mature, and deeply personaland for those who sense that something essential was lost when women’s voices were removed from the center of sacred tradition.

 References
The Gospel of Mary (Berlin Codex)

Barbra Banner is a Certified Psychic/Trance and Evidential Medium with Helping Parents Heal and Certified Mediums by Mark Ireland. She came into this work later in life during the pandemic, after some dramatic "supernatural nudges" got up close and personal. She later found out from numerous channelers that she'd been doing this for centuries. And then her 104-year-old mother confessed that Grandma Anna had the juju. She's known for bringing joy and light to grieving families, with sessions that are as spiritually powerful as they are unexpectedly hilarious. She truly believes laughter is one of the most profound healers — and she's got the studies to back it up. She also has a treasure trove of "you can’t make this stuff up" moments from sessions that still leave her and her clients in awe and stitches. Her unique delivery of evidence brings her intense passion and calming energy to light. No wonder she received over 350K views in the first 30 days of a recent podcast.

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Dr. Linda Howe’s life’s work is to empower her students to live spiritually authentic and effective human lives. Recognizing that every aspect of Life holds spiritual potential, Linda counts among her students: business professionals, healers, parents, artists, writers, therapists, and mystics. Her mission is to awaken and increase each soul’s awareness of their essential goodness so as to express it in practical ways.

Spiritual Pioneer, first to provide the world community with a key to unlocking the Akashic Records, a dimension of consciousness containing the vibrational record of everything that every soul has ever thought, said, and done.
Practical Visionary working to promote applicable spiritual principles and truths that transform the quality of everyday life.
Master Teacher and Award-Winning Author doing her part to ignite the Light of Awakening Spiritual Awareness across the globe.

She is the author of How to Read the Akashic Records.

You can find her at:

https://lindahowe.com/
https://www.instagram.com/drlindahowe/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/LindaHoweAkashicStudies/

What does it actually mean to be at peace when life isn’t calm?

In this episode, we move beyond the surface-level idea of peace as quiet, still, or untouched by difficulty and explore something far more real. Because if you’re alive, engaged, and paying attention, you’re going to feel uncertainty, tension, and emotional movement. The question isn’t how to eliminate that… it’s how to remain steady within it.

Drawing from philosophy, contemplative traditions, and direct experience, this episode unpacks the difference between avoiding life and meeting it with clarity. You’ll explore how the mind creates unnecessary suffering, why peace isn’t the absence of disturbance, and how a deeper kind of stability becomes available when you stop resisting your own experience.

This isn’t about becoming perfectly calm. It’s about learning how to return to yourself again and again, even when things feel uncertain.

Inna Segal is an internationally recognized intuitive healer, bestselling author, and pioneer in grounded, practical spirituality. Her spiritual awakening became profoundly personal after the devastating loss of her child — an experience that opened her perception to the invisible worlds. During this time, she encountered an angelic being who offered precise guidance that later unfolded exactly as described. This moment ignited a lifelong commitment to understanding the spiritual realms with clarity, discernment, and depth.

For more than 20 years, Inna has studied both Eastern and Western esoteric traditions, with a deep resonance for the work of Rudolf Steiner. Her new book, Understanding Modern Spirituality, bridges ancient wisdom with contemporary insight, bringing nuance, structure, and maturity to a field often dominated by vague or oversimplified teachings.

Inna’s work dives into subtle bodies, astral intelligence, soul evolution, karma, ancestral healing, spiritual hierarchies, and the essential (yet misunderstood) role of the ego in awakening. She encourages seekers to think deeply, question bravely, and approach spirituality with grounded awareness rather than passive belief.

You can find Inna Segal at: W W W . I N N A S E G A L . C O M
Instagram: @innasegalauthor

In this contemplative and deeply grounded episode, we explore the invisible healing power of flowers and the quiet intelligence of nature that has supported human healing for millennia. Moving through myth, mysticism, and early scientific insight, this conversation traces humanity’s ancient relationship with flowers as living, responsive beings capable of influencing emotional, mental, and spiritual states. At the heart of the episode is the life and work of Dr. Edward Bach, a physician who walked away from conventional medicine to develop the Bach Flower Remedies: subtle vibrational medicines designed to restore harmony between the soul, the emotions, and the body.

This episode also carefully distinguishes Bach Flower Remedies from flower water essences, exploring how each tradition emerged, how they are made, and how they are worked with ethically and safely. We consider why flowers are uniquely powerful healers, how their vibrational intelligence interacts with the human nervous system and heart field, and why flower-based remedies are especially relevant in times of emotional overwhelm, grief, spiritual transition, and collective uncertainty. Woven throughout are reflections from philosophy, ancient traditions, and lived experience, inviting listeners to reconsider healing not as force or control, but as relationship, coherence, and remembrance. This episode is for anyone seeking a gentler, wiser approach to healing, one that honors the living world as a conscious partner in human transformation.

What if knowing the divine is not a matter of belief, but of becoming?
In this extended episode of The Intuitive Awakening Podcast, we enter one of the most radical and transformative teachings of Hermetic wisdom: that divine knowledge is participatory. In the Hermetic tradition, God is not observed from a distance or understood through doctrine alone. God is known through likeness, through alignment of character, clarity of perception, and the cultivation of divine qualities within the human soul.

Drawing from the Corpus Hermeticum, the Asclepius, Platonic philosophy, and ancient cosmology, this episode explores what it truly meant, in the ancient world, to “know God.” We meet Hermes Trismegistus not as a mythic curiosity, but as a voice of initiation, guiding seekers toward awakening Nous, divine intelligence, within embodied life. Along the way, we examine why virtue was understood not as moral obedience, but as ontological alignment, and why transformation of being was considered the prerequisite for true knowledge.

This is not a conversation about imitation as performance or spiritual superiority. It is an exploration of humility, responsibility, and the disciplined refinement of perception. We reflect on how everyday choices, speech, restraint, and silence become the living field in which divine likeness is formed and how false godlikeness leads not to wisdom, but distortion.

This episode is for listeners who sense that spirituality is not about accumulating insight, but about becoming capable of it. For those who feel that the divine is not distant, but waiting to be recognized through clarity, reverence, and inner order.

The idea of the “divine spark” appears across ancient traditions, but what does it actually mean to live from it?

In this episode, we move beyond abstract spirituality and into the lived reality of embodiment. Drawing from Gnostic teachings, we explore the concept of the divine spark as an inherent presence within you, not something to achieve, but something often forgotten.

This conversation looks at why that forgetting happens, how modern life pulls us away from our inner knowing, and what it really takes to return. Not as a single moment of awakening, but as a steady, honest process of no longer abandoning yourself.

If you’ve ever felt the tension between what you sense is true and how you’re expected to live, this episode offers a deeper way of understanding and a more grounded way of coming back to yourself.