We’re not at the mountaintop until any zone is comfortable. Love isn’t love until it’s unconditional.”
Return to LoveWhat is unconditional Love??? what can love do in politics? Today's Hero: Marianne Williamson; a inspirational author and speaker who is daring to speak up on a platform that she knows is going to mock her and her views and yet she still speaks from her heart. Honestly, she doesn't care what you think of her, this is unconditional love. Not compromising her belief that everyone is worth loving. Marianne Williamson for President!!Don't mock Marianne Williamson, Democrats need her spiritual politics in dark Trump era
Who won the Democratic debate second round was issues; health care took the lead, and race got lots of time, but some viral moments did well too. USA TODAYWilliamson is not a dingbat interloper in the 2020 Democratic debates. It's been frustrating to see my brilliant friend caricatured based on ignorance.
It turns out Marianne Williamson isn’t just some kook who levitated into the presidential debates through the sheer force of love.On Tuesday night, she wowed the crowd with her well thought out expositions on race, the Flint water crisis, gun safety, reparations and the “dark psychic force of the collectivized hatred” that President Donald Trump has unleashed on this country.Political observers seemed stunned to hear the best-selling author and teacher speaking so eloquently on issues near and dear to the average Democratic voter’s heart. They shouldn’t have been. A quick visit to her website or a Google search could have disabused them of the idea that she’s a dingbat interloper in the Democratic race.But why do research when you can snark and mock instead?Full disclosure: Williamson is a friend, so I have been well aware of her brilliant mind, well-honed worldview and deep thinking around the most important issues we face as a nation. I’ve been frustrated watching her be denigrated and caricatured based on a profound ignorance of her experience and abilities.Men don't get mocked like this
Meanwhile, the various random men who have decided they should be president and who have almost no chance of winning (yes, I’m looking at you, John Delaney, Tim Ryan and Steve Bullock) have been spared the mocking heaped upon Williamson.A Daily Beast headline called Williamson a “dangerous wacko.” Longtime Democratic strategist Bob Shrum dismissed her as full of “woo-woo talk.”
During the first debate, CNBC’s John Harwood tweeted, “Sorry, but Marianne Williamson does not belong on that stage.” A Salon.com piece deemed her “kooky” and nominated her for “secretary of Crystals.” Memes about Williamson and orbsabound, though she told an interviewer recently she isn’t even sure what an orb is.Detroit Night 1: Odd couple Marianne Williamson, Bernie Sanders stand out'Kooky' is better than misguided wars
Eyes roll when she talks of establishing a Department of Peace. Waging peace is nutty to the political gatekeepers, but invading country after country with disastrous results is sober-minded leadership. The front-runner for the Democratic nomination, Joe Biden, voted for a war to invade a country that had never attacked us and had nothing to do with 9/11. We will be dealing with the consequences of that decision for generations. But Williamson is the crazy one, with all her talk of harnessing love and waging peace.Like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Williamson is delivering a hard-nosed critique of the state of our country. She isn’t interested in nibbling around the edges because she recognizes that we are a country in crisis and that crisis goes well beyond the election of Donald Trump. She has pointed out many times that the United States has devolved "from a democracy to a veiled aristocracy." She has dinged the political establishment for ignoring the political revolution that was brewing under their feet and led to the election of Donald TrumpShe most recently has come under fire for criticizing the overprescription of anti-depressants. Any sentient being knows that pharmaceutical companies are predatory and not to be trusted. As a ProPublica article said of the Food and Drug Administration, “In 2017, pharma paid 75% — or $905 million — of the agency's scientific review budgets for branded and generic drugs.” The fox is guarding the henhouse.Also, did people miss the opioid crisis?Snarking at a spiritual worldview
In the rush to defend Big Pharma, many missed Williamson’s primary point, which was a critique of a culture that has left people feeling disconnected from one another and without a social safety net. Perhaps all of our anxiety is not caused by broken brains but by working nonstop, missing out on time with our friends and families because we are all so busy “hustling” and “grinding” just to survive in an immoral economic system skewed to favor a very few at the top while leaving the rest of the country to fend for itself.Who stood out in Miami? Mastio & Lawrence grade the 2020 Democratic debatesBy all means, if you have a chemical imbalance, use medication. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be allowed to have a broader conversation about the pharmaceutical industry and the deep structural flaws in our economic system.I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that much of the snark directed at Williamson is due to her spiritual worldview. “The Democratic Party sort of lost the thread in terms of talking about the spiritual dimension,” Williamson told me in an interview Tuesday in Detroit.“I talk to Democrats all the time who are deeply involved in their religious and spiritual lives. The problem isn't, once again, the rank-and-file Democrats. The problem is this megaphone in the hands of a corporate Democratic leadership machine that, yes, has adopted over the last few decades such an overly corporatist, secularized language that it makes many people of faith feel invalidated. The projection onto me that I'm some kind of New Age nutcase, for no other reason than that I'm a woman who values prayer and meditation, pretty much says it all.”Astute diagnosis of today's politics
In our interview, Williamson delved into the issue of the political realm being locked in what she calls 20th century thinking, which ignores the “psychological, emotional and spiritual factors that affect us and that drive us.” She contrasted this way of thinking with a 21st century mindset that is “far more holistic and whole-person than was the 20th century.”Most of us recognize that a holistic perspective has taken hold in medicine, education, business and even science. “This is not some radical fringe idea,” she said. “This is 21st century thinking, but the one major corner of the society that doesn't seem to have gotten the memo is politics. Modern politics is stuck in this late 20th century overly secularized mindset that is so entrenched. In its arrogance, it points to everyone else as fringe. In its blindness it doesn't realize, no, the civilization has moved ahead. You guys are behind, and you are increasingly fringe.”Call me crazy, but I think Williamson's on to something.Kirsten Powers, a CNN news analyst, writes regularly for USA TODAY and is co-host of The Faith Angle podcast. Follow her on Twitter: @KirstenPowersFrom: marianne.comMARIANNE’S BIO
Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed lecturer, activist and author of four #1 New York times bestselling books. She has been one of America’s most well known public voices for more than three decades. Seven of her twelve published books have been New York Times best sellers and Marianne has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Good Morning America, and Bill Maher. A quote from the mega best seller A Return to Love, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…” is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers.
Marianne’s other books include The Law of Divine Compensation, The Age of Miracles, Everyday Grace, A Woman’s Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America, A Course in Weight Loss, The Gift of Change, Enchanted Love, A Year of Miracles, and Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment. Her newest book, A Politics of Love: Handbook for a New American Revolution, will be published in 2019.Marianne is a native of Houston, Texas. In 1989, she founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area. To date, Project Angel Food has served over 11 million meals. Marianne also co-founded the Peace Alliance.A couple extra Marianne Williamson quotes because I can't resist:“If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability."“People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.”“When we attach value to things that aren’t love—the money, the car, the house, the prestige—we are loving things that can’t love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless.”“when we think we have things already figured out, we’re not teachable. Genuine insight can’t dawn on a mind that’s not open to receive it.”
Thursday, September 05, 2019
Mountaintop, Marianne Williamson
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