“To know that I am larger and better than I thought.” – Walt Whitman

“To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself to us as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms – this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of all true religiousness.”       – Albert Einstein

Believe it or not, she’s the granddaughter of God: the lost and found daughter of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, via reincarnation in the form of Red Hot & Holy author Sera Beak. But she doesn’t need you to believe it and had all kinds of trouble believing it herself as she testifies in her latest book: Redvelations: A Soul’s Journey to Becoming Human (Sounds True, 2018), now a bestselling title on Amazon.

For a hot and holy (age-old body/spirit split resolved!) Harvard-trained scholar of comparative religion, whose ‘brand’ is blowing formalized, doctrinaire, sectarian religion out of the box, it appeared to be a career skewing move to ‘come out’ as her alter-soul, Sarah. Aside from the erotic liaison of Jesus and Mary being historically suppressed, Sera confesses that she had been repressing her soul’s truth (never a good move for a genuinely spiritual role model).

The dramatic impact of the book results from a blow-by-blow description of the spiritual battle Sera endured as Sarah emerges from an over two thousand year exile: thanks to upholding the voice of the soul vs. the received wisdom of patriarchal, politicized religious tradition. (Not much competition there with a divine power couple having your back while you subvert the religion they engendered). Spoiler alert: the inner authority of her soul’s sovereignty eventually holds sway. Yet when it came to the inner summons of “remembering and reclaiming Sarah”, Sera Beak was the first to doubt it.

Consider Sera’s own disclaimers that eventually couldn’t prevail against her soul’s demand to be known and make herself known. (Redvelations features red typeset in poetic verse format, which takes some getting used to. It’s in keeping with the Red signature theme of Sera’s, not to mention Mary Magdalene often being depicted wearing red in religious art.)

“For it is one thing to know and embrace your Divine Soul.

It’s another thing to know and embrace your human soul.

And it’s something else altogether

when a fragmented piece of your human soul

that is seeking integration

identifies herself as Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene’s

abandoned love child.

Especially if you are a critically minded, psychologically reflexive,

energetically astute, spiritually rigorous modern woman

who went to Harvard.” 

Later Sera thoroughly examines her conscience in order to confront what the ‘spiritual ego’ might have construed as soul retrieval in her case.

“I’ve explored many possibilities, starting with the obvious: A previously unconscious part of me is using the symbol, metaphor, story, and possible reality of Jesus and Magdalene’s lost daughter in order to process trauma and heal my wounds.”

“Other possibilities I’ve explored are that Sarah is a: delusion, sub-personality, complex (messianic, most likely), PTSD, shadow, projection, inner child, imaginary friend, active imagination therapy, part of the collective unconscious, ancestor, genetic memory, lineage link, karmic agreement, New Age fantasy, childish fairy tale, walk in, lost soul (but not mine), descended master, spirit guide, nefarious being,energetic overlay, cosmic counterfeit, metaphysical manipulation, etc.”

Yet Sera goes on to say what she’s learned the hard way about reclaiming her original identity…

“… if we’re not careful, our intellectual, spiritual, and psychological  credentials and acumen can kill that which is genuinely trying to come back to Life in us.”

Although present-day Sera is a radiant thirty something beauty, and at risk of incarnating “The Sexy, Successful, Spiritual Woman ideal” that is the very converse of her soul’s purpose and latter-day mission. Hers is not the ‘synthetic’ perfection of egoless serene higher consciousness. Organic divine/masculine reality forbid! It’s about an imperfect, messy, raw, and awkward real life and love story, informing our own soul work.

Call it fully embodied, full-spectrum spirituality, with your human soul a fractal or missing piece of the new and improved trinity; in the name of the divine masculine (Jesus), divine feminine (Mary M.) and what your own soul makes of that synergy. Needless to say (and featured as a murder mystery in Redvelations) the original disciples and church weren’t too happy with the conundrum of a daughter in the Messiah’s bloodline, Da Vinci Code notwithstanding. However, they weren’t counting on a comeback thanks to the daring soul seeking of a red-blooded American woman.