An author is about to claim that she is the living embodiment of the Holy Grail, a direct descendant of the physical union between Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ. She's American, she's 43, and she means it - every word.
Kathleen McGowan, a married mother of three, is about to tell her story in a "partly autobiographical" novel that hopes to trade directly on the vast worldwide audience captured by Dan Brown.
Simon & Schuster is publishing her book and ploughing a marketing budget of more than a quarter of a million dollars into promoting it. When asked how a publisher could authenticate the author's claim about her heritage, he said: "It's impossible to verify. It's all to do with a matter of faith. She makes a very convincing argument."
The Independent
5 comments:
You've got to be kidding us! This McGowan woman is a fake and so are her claims. She stole them from someone who's been online for years with a heck of a lot more credentials and believeability. She just never tried to capitalize on it or become a public figure...
www.jesus-kashmir-tomb.com
Who would you believe?
This is ridiculous. Having traced my family tree, I have to tell you that since every generation back increases your members of family exponentially, if your family goes back to Palestine in the first century BC, you would be related to everyone living in Palestine at that time.
So, whether Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ were married or not, is insignificant. Since they lived in the same area at the same time, and your family is primarily from that region, guess what? You are related to both of them.
And how does being related to a Sinclaire mean being related to Jesus? Ahh 'tis a mystery! I can say that after reading "Holy Blood, Holy Grail"
and the "Da Vinci Code". It is not clearer now to me that there is any logical connection than there was before I read the books.
Can't someone come up with something more creative. The story has been done to death.
Why don't you just read the book as it is? A fictional novel and then decide for yourself. I hate it when people talk about an issue without having the background information to back themselves up!
Get educated or is perhaps "Green Eggs and Ham" more your speed?
I noticed that it has already been listed on the New York Times best seller list! It looks like people are actually buying the book and reading it. What a concept? Reading anyone? Or do you just like to bash people you do not know or the books they write? I assume you all graduated from High School? Grow Up!
I notice there are many people who are debunking McGowan claims.Without mentioning her past legal troubles i the publishing world let's just examine a few claims she makes about 'The Expected One."
1. "I am a descendent of Mary Magdalene" (no proof offered). McGowan experienced a "blinding flash" in 1997 that she attributes to Mary Magdalene. Actually this is a signal of a dangerous medical condition (well-known to schizophranics)and requires phsychological and medical follow-ups.
2. " The ring was given to me mysteriously and is 400 years old." (as told to every interviewer on national television. Yet in her forum She publically admitted that she lied.She picked up the ring as something 'metallic' that she needed to go to a 'New Age' gathering at the Pyramids and she worked it into her story later. Now she also claims she will mass market the ring to sell with her book.
3. "I am the first and only one in the world to come forward and claim I am a descendent of Jesus and Magdalene." False again. There was one very prominent website that carried this claim for several years before McGowan, and McGowan knew the claiment.In fact McGowan knew at least two claimants because they had both appeared in her forum.She built her story up on their claims.
4.The 'hidden gospel of Magdalene' from secret societies in France actually was copied in part from the Kolbrin, from a selection published on- line with permission (by someone else) two years before McGowan published.. some f her wording is a direct copy of the Kolbrin as it appears in abreviated form at another website.
5. "McGowan was an editor for the Irish News." This was published for her by her Literary agent. It cretaed quite a stir when the real 'Irish News' in Ireland denied every hearing of her. Then the story switched to an Irish Newspaper in L.A. who wrote a glowing review of McGowan. Guess who the editor claimed to be for that newspaper? McGowan.
No one is 'bashing' McGowan but certainly people have the right to know when they've been blatantly bamboozled.
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