subtitle: The Return of Mary Magdalene, the Mother Mary, and Other Holy Women Near the end of the millennium, Julia Ingram"s spirit guides prompted her to close her busy therapy practice, put all of her belongings in storage and hit the road—destination unknown. During a Spirit-led year of exploring the United States, Ingram met dozens of people who identified themselves as reincarnated Essenes from the time of Jeshua (Jesus). Most astonishing were meetings with women who through past-life regression, discovered they had been Jesus" relatives, friends, teachers, and lovers. These remarkable encounters convinced the author that the perspective of women was missing from most accounts of Jesus" mission, that Mary Magdalene"s considerable role as a priestess/apostle had been vastly underrated, and that Mother Mary was a teacher and healer who sought to overcome the fundamentalism of the male-dominated Hebrew religion. These fifteen visionaries announce that the Sisterhood is back today to restore the Divine Feminine to her rightful place and to bring desperately needed balance to our world. In a sequel to The best-selling book, The Messengers, Ingram presents a revisioning of a religious past that will help shape our spiritual future.