In Memory of Her: Mary Magdalene, Beacon of Light

Irina Kuzminsky (Irinushka) is widely published as a poet and scholar; she is also a classically trained dancer, pianist, and singer and passionately believes in the arts as a bridge into spiritual consciousness. A Commonwealth Scholar at Oxford, Irina wrote her doctorate on 'Écriture féminine or the Language of Women' and was elected Junior Research Fellow in Humanities at Wolfson College. Though she was raised as an Orthodox Christian, her search for women's voices from the past and for the feminine faces of God has taken her across diverse sacred traditions from Tantric Buddhism and the Shakta current of Hinduism, to the Mother of Ten Thousand Things of the Tao, and to the Sufi path, and on to studies of antiquity and the Christian Middle Ages. This led to her composition of long poetic narratives on the Tao, the meeting of Ibn 'Arabi and the Lady Nizam, the Neolithic, Heloise and Abelard, the faces of the Shakti, and Mary Magdalene.