The reason I’m supporting Marie in
Williamson‘s candidacy is because she has the wisdom to guide this nation
through the quick sand we find ourselves in.
Williamson represents my values; values that I
believe will give us the best chance of saving our democracy, and potentially
our humanity. Marianne Williamson represents my voice on that debate stage.
We need to wake up. Isn’t that what those of
us in the spiritual community have been working on for all these years? Anyone who has ever reached for a
self-help book, is practicing yoga, has sought spiritual enlightenment, and
those who go to any house of prayer, should consider supporting Marianne. She
is unapologetically suggesting that spiritual principles guide our political
process. However, here is the important distinction, spiritual principles, not
religious doctrine. So, what is are spiritual principles exactly? They support
our essential nature and humanity.
“Spirituality is the path of the heart and
compassion for the human condition”
“To the analytical mind, the journey of the
soul seems irrelevant, and that is the beast, from there we are lost”.
In his book “Waking Up”, neuroscientist and
author Sam Harris, makes the case for spirituality without religion. Harris
notes the animosity many of his peers and secular intellectuals feel toward the
term “spiritual” and seeks to disarm their objections by identifying the root
of the word “spirit” derives from the Greek “pneuma, meaning “breath”. Further illuminating the way in we
speak of the “Spirit” of a thing as its most essential principle.
A self identified atheist, Harris implores his
readers to take nothing on “faith” but to test his assertations in the
laboratory of their own lives. I invite the same scrutiny toward the
traditionally held liberal aversion to a discussion of the spiritual essence of
the body politic, and to the candidate, Marianne Williamson.
Early on, the idea of a Williamson candidacy
was thought of as a joke, the punchline to a late night host’s monologue. But
after the first debate, Marianne
was christened by the holy ghost of Google, as the most searched candidate.
Suddenly people started to pay attention to what she was actually saying,
rather than their preconceived notions of her lack of qualifications for the
job.
Marianne Williamson is sounding all the right
notes, for a nation desperate for hope, for sanity, and for the possibility of
redeeming ourselves. Marianne makes us believe that we still have a chance to
fulfill the promise of the “pursuit of happiness for all men”.
Through her analogy to the “Wizard of Oz” and
the notion over the past few decades of politicians being cut from some other,
more legitimate cloth than that of the ordinary person. Not that Marianne
Williamson is an ordinary person. She possesses one of the sharpest minds in
the political landscape. She can only be considered ordinary in that she is not
a “politician”. She doesn’t have a law degree, although she is as studied.
No, Marianne has devoted her studies to the
history of our world and the spiritual practices of humans throughout time. She
is well versed in all of the major spiritual belief systems, yet beholden to
none. Marianne speaks to the one spiritual principle of Love. For Marianne, parsing
political talking points and policies are scratching the surface - like waves
on the ocean, while moral principles, such as caring for our fellow man, and
justice that run as deep as the ocean floor.
Marianne Williamson represents the truth of
who we are at our core, and the ideals upon which The United States was
founded. She reflects to us our
highest possibilities, and our deepest selves. Marianne speaks to the best in
us, and points the way past our small-minded, self-centered egoic thinking. She
understands that our full potential can only be manifested by EVERYONE rising
together, contributing their unique gifts to the magnificence of our democracy,
leaving no one behind.
Marianne rejects scarcity thinking; that in
order for some to have enough, others must go hungry. She understands true
alchemy, and how positive, creative energy creates abundance. The parable of
Jesus turning bread into fishes comes to mind. Marianne understands that we can
create miracles, by harnessing the power of Love that resides in our hearts and
minds. She looks evil in the face, as represented by greed, division and racism.
She articulates a compelling vision of uniting as One American body, restoring
our place as the keepers of the shining light of a true democracy, within an
international community.
Marianne recognizes that we have to atone for
our sins as a nation in order move past the wrongdoings of our violent birth in
order to heal our collective trauma. To acknowledge our karmic debt to African
Americans, which has been accruing interest over the past 250 years, and must
be paid in order for us to walk together as one people.
For many of us, the election in 2016 left us incredulous
and stunned—more like bitch slapped— but beyond all that, terrified of what was
to come. The election of a slimy real estate tycoon and reality tv star to the
highest office in the land represented nothing if not the beginning of the fall
of any remaining dignity the American culture might have held. Worse, it began
the onslaught of the destruction of our democracy.
Many of the values we considered impervious to
the winds of change have since been challenged, and worse, destroyed. Since
that time, those of us in opposition to the current occupant of the White House
have suffered a collective PTSD. We are unsettled, easily triggered,
hypersensitive and holding our breath for the next shock to our humanity. Many
of us have been scratching our heads in disbelief at the depravity of our
current administration, particularly the treatment of the asylum seekers; our fellow
human beings.
During this dark time, many spiritual seekers
have begun to wonder if evolution of the masses is a misguided ideal. Some
dispute the belief that humanity can evolve, stating not part of cosmic
organization. We live in a dualistic plane, yin/yang, day/night, pleasure/pain,
good/evil. Equinimity may seem out of reach.
But if we look to science, we see that our
species has gotten this far as a result of evolution. My personal belief,
informed by my own study of spiritual texts, is that our evolution task is
elevation of consciousness. And in that scenerio, this is our moment.
As a human being, Marianne has character
defects, and she is aware of them. Thanks to the personal work she has done on
herself over the past 35 years, she is closer to sanity and to a deeper
understanding of what it means to be a human/being than potentially any candidate
before her.
Marianne cut her teeth lecturing about the
Course in Miracles, a text that has its origins as a channeled work, scribed by
Helen Schucman and William ('Bill') Thetford between 1965 through 1972.
Schucman reported that the book had been dictated to her, word for word, via
"inner dictation"
from an entity she determined was Jesus.\
I admit, this has always been difficult for me
to fathom, and yet, the principles of the Course closely relate to principles
of ancient Vedic and Buddhist philosophy, and so, I focus on the wisdom of principles
themselves rather than how they came to be.
However, much of our Western civilization has
been founded on an equally far out story, that of Jesus of Nazareth. If we can
organize our culture for the past 2000 years around a story of a man coming
back from the dead, the idea that a miracle is simple “a change in perception”
seems quite tame, whether channeled by a researcher or not.
Though she’s obviously been thinking about politics seriously
enough to have written a still-relevant forecast of our current storm more than
20 years ago, India says the conversation about becoming president began in
earnest after the 45th man to lead the United States was voted into office.
Marianne Williamson’s understanding of the
history of the United States, and the context within which it was founded is
comprehensive. I suggest anyone read her treaties on the politics of love,
which were first introduced in 1997, in her book “Healing the Soul of America” and again refined in the more
recent “The Politics of Love”.
Marianne Williamson is no push over – she’s sharp,
understands economics, foreign policy, boundaries and fair trade. Listen to her speak; she has a great
mind, and can articulate economic and spiritual principles in laymen’s terms. Despite
what her critics would have us believe, she’s not floating on some unicorn
rainbow colored cloud. She understands quite well what is going on and applies principles
of spiritual truth applied to practical concerns of humanity. She beckons us to seek a “moral” awakening; really, who
can argue with her?
Marianne quotes FDR that the most important
function of the President of the United States is philosophical leadership. The
role of the president, at this time in our history, has more of a visionary
function.
Congress
and the Justice Department are there to keep the powers of the President in
check. But the face we are showing to the rest of the world is reflected by who
we elect to the highest office of the President. I would be proud to have
Marianne Williamson’s politics of love be the clarion call for our nation. To
be the beacon of light, and fulfill our promise of a “government of the
people, by the people, and for the people”.
Yes, Marianne Williamson represents a
metaphysical candidate in our cold political process and all I can say is Alle-fucking-luia
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It is a task of our generation to recreate the American
politeia, to awaken from our culture of distraction and re-engage the process
of democracy with soulfulness and hope. Yes, we see there are problems in the
world. But we believe in a universal force that, when activated by the human
heart, has the power to make all things right. Such is the divine authority of
love: to renew the heart, renew the nations, and ultimately, renew the world.
Amen
Heirs to the European Age of Enlightenment – a movement
proclaiming the inherent goodness of man-our founders expressed their philospophical
vision in the Declaration of Independence and their political genius in the US
Constitution.
Our founders primary genius was to rethink political power.
They transformed political authority from a governmental source to a citizen
source. It was not to be wealth or power of one’s outer circumstances, but the
spirit of intelligent goodness which resides inside all of us that was
entrusted with the authority to rule this nation.
Every generation must relearn and recommit to the
foundations of democracy, as they are something that can never be taken for
granted.
What would love do now, if called in to help us?
Love changes people and when people change we change the
world around us
“We need to think deeply about our ancestors and more
responsibly about our descendants. We need to awaken to“the cries of children,
to the cries of the desperate, and to the cries of the earth. We need a
revolution of the heart.”
“America’s democratic values—that we are created equal; that
we’re given by God inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;
that governments are instituted to secure those rights—are the rock on which we
stand. They come from the higher mind, and are the sacred calling of
citizenship. More than any law or institution, those values are our only sure
protection from tyranny. ”
“A person who lacks empathy or conscience is a sociopath.
Similarly, an economic system that is essentially amoral—that does not factor
empathy or conscience into its determination of right action—is a sociopathic
economic system”
“What threatens our democracy today is an amoral economic
worldview that puts money before love and things before people.”
“A new politics will emerge from a new conversation,
speaking to both external circumstances and deeper truths. ”
“In the words of the French philosopher Teilhard de Chardin,
“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall
harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the
history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
“It’s not naive to suggest that we reorient our politics
around love’s purposes. What’s naive is to think that we can afford not to, and
retain either our freedom or our survival as a species. ”
“Responsibility means response-ability. Fear is speaking
loudly in the world today; now we the people need to respond.”
“Spirituality is simply the path of the heart, and if it
applies to anything, then it applies to everything.”
“Our current unrest can lead to a national reset if we’re
willing to become the people we need to be in order to do the things we need to
do.
America has fallen, and now it’s time for us to rise.”
“Another fundamental American principle was articulated by
Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address: that “government of the people, by
the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Those ideas are not just abstract concepts. They are living,
breathing forces for which hundreds of thousands of people have struggled,
lived, and died. Every one of them represents a freedom in the absence of which
every American would live a very different life.”
“Whether for an individual or for a nation, every crisis
comes with two things: a reflection of who we have been, and an invitation to
become who we need to become.”
“A new kind of American—a new kind of thinker and a new kind
of citizen—needs to arise now.
And quickly.”
Excerpt From: Marianne Williamson. “A Politics of Love.” iBooks.