Helen Martineau's Blog

Part 1 - an Introduction Our life on earth is framed by our birth and our death. From our soul’s point of view, it’s an amazing journey we undertake to help us to progress spiritually. Our spirit is like a light always shining ahead of us; our body is always in the now. The soul is a mediator between the two.   And this has implications: We came from spirit and will return to this our spiritual home. During our physical life our soul retains a connection with the spiritual realms, even if we aren’t conscious of it. Before we are born our spirit gives us a blueprint. It’s the purpose of our incarnation. Our soul chooses to incarnate into a certain family, place and into certain conditions. What we encounter throughout our lifetime needs to be experienced so we can work with and fulfil the requirements of our blueprint – for this life. In the big picture it’s part of a continuing process for the soul. We have lived before and we will live again in a new body. What we br...

I came across a website by women fed up with the patriarchal church and its centuries-long subjugation of the feminine. I liked their section exploring the importance of women in early Christianity and thought they might like to know about my novel  Marriages of the Magdalene.  S o I made contact. A message came back. ‘Sorry to be blunt when you have been so complimentary, but we couldn’t possibly have anything in common or continue to communicate. It appears to us that you are a Gnostic!’ (they had looked over my website). There was no explanation. Mystified I was motivated to find possible reasons for the rebuff. After all, Gnosticism didn’t  reject the feminine spirit or her human counterpart. Wisdom,  Sophia  in Greek was very much part of it, and Mary Magdalene was often cast as a guide to wisdom. A look at Gnostic origins Gnostic comes from  gnosis,  the  Greek word for knowledge, the kind of knowledge that enables insight into spiri...