Please keep going....your ability to communicate the spiritual basis of your message without sounding "preachy" is just amazing!!! We have to keep hearing this -over and over and over again. It can feel so disheartening to hear and read MSM, etc. about you having no chance of winning, but I am hopeful that your messaging is winning hearts and is helping to transform and heal the Democratic Party and our democracy.
Mariann is so far ahead of our current standard of living bell curve thinking in her acute observation of what is really going on in this country. May God bless her and her every effort to make Americans aware of where we are already living, not simply headed into.
Lately, I have had a schizophrenic reaction to seeing you run for the American Presidency. I TRULY DO NOT WANT TO SEE YOU IN A POLITICAL CONTEST, and do not see myself casting a vote for you as my POTUS, because I believe that job is a bad fit for you. Abundant evidence everywhere on your social media, in the press, and in the honest current polling of this contest says I'm right.
But another part of me sorely wishes that people would take some of what you say about the condition of this nation and its people seriously. I think you are making some very serious, legitimate points in this essay. The facts it reveals are chilling, and they DO create a primordial societal soup that can give rise to all kinds of social evil. Evil like the rise of the Trump Presidency, the rise of right wing social media ideology, an attack on science and authentic spirituality, and the emergence of crackpots like JFK Jr in the current political arena. These people want to become POTUS at this point because "What the hell, Trump is a buffoon and a monster and he got in, so why not me?"
When I see this part of your essay:
**It will take a revolution of the heart - what Martin Luther King, Jr. described as “a qualitative shift in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our circumstances” - for America to heal itself.**
I think to myself "She needs to *listen to herself*, because this is not a POLITICAL process; it's a spiritual one." King understood that the power of his voice would be diminished if he trued to turn his work into a POLITICAL movement. He got people to march by exercising the power of his voice as a RELIGIOUS leader with a powerful MORAL conscience.
I think a part of you is trying to do the same thing - leverage the power of your accumulated spiritual experience into a movement generating people motivator. You could achieve that end easily if you were speaking in the right media to the right audiences - the ones who still go to church/synagogue/spiritual meetings and still subscribe to the cultivation of spiritual practice.
I've been listening to your Livestream Lecture this week on the Power of the Truth - based on Lesson 104 of ACIM. Its so healing, and helpful to me at this time. I really wish you were more able to link all you know about ACIM to your political messaging, and I truly wish you were doing it as a spiritual thought leader, not as an aspiring politician. Because you have substantial qualifications for the first role in American life and almost none for the second.
Anyway, those are my sincere thoughts on this very interesting day for me. It's the anniversary of the beginning of my marriage to a man I met in an ACIM Study group. And the birthday of a woman who continues to lead a spiritual community that I later shared with him, mostly because the ideology of ACIM aligns closely with the ancient spiritual teachings of that path to Enlightenment.
I'm wishing you well, and wishing your daughter and new baby granddaughter the same.
One problem we have in American politics is competency. To graduate from high school, one needs to meet a basic standard of knowledge. One must demonstrate driving competence to earn a driving license. Every job or roll in our society requires competence.
What is the competency test for being POTUS?
Trump proved you don’t have to have any governing experience, no knowledge of U.S. history, no knowledge of the Constitution; no statesmanship, no since of honesty or decency; just claims that you are wealthy and can foment hatred.
I don’t want to fly in an airplane whose pilot just decided he thought he could fly without practice or experience. If I need brain surgery, I don’t want my surgeon to be some wealthy person who thinks that they can buy the privilege of being a surgeon and bypass medical school and proper training.
It goes without saying that the people we elect for our local, state, and national governments need to abide by some sort of standards that demonstrates their competence to do the job.
Thank you for your strength, Marianne. Mine is yours, for love we share. What we do does not help if doing it does not fill us with joy. Stay one step back from being overwhelmed. You give me extra motivation to stay in the light in order to share that space with you, to strengthen you. I remind you of what you know, that there are many of us with you. The right actions will happen as effortlessly as breathing, when we do nothing about breathing. But breath discipline makes a difference, also. There is only One of us.
All this and Heaven too-and what does our House of Representatives majority have to say? Why, "off with the heads,of those opposing mandatory student loan repayments! Down with the Communists who want a higher minimum wage! How Unamerican, to call for Universal Health Insurance!" These fools claim to speak for "Joe Sixpack", the prototype of the blue collar workers, whose best interests they claim to support. They are, in fact as beholden to the oligarchs as the pseudo-Progressives who castigate anyone who thinks outside THEIR box. Yes, it's time for a sea change!
"Our society is troubled because so many of our people are! Issues of education, healthcare and economics all meet at the intersection of hopelessness and despair."
Ms. Williamson, this very Platonic statement is why I support you. No one else has the guts to admit this to the American people, except perhaps President Jimmy Carter during his 1979 "Malaise Speech."
If society is nothing but an arena of the millions of spheres of free will and influence of millions of people, then it must follow that if society is sick, most of us are too. I see it every day, and everywhere living in a Midwestern city.
An individual that recognizes this can either reel back in disgust and engage in destructive projection of what you hate, because they reflect a part of you that you do not want to admit exists. Or you can channel that disgust into accepting and recognizing that all of us are reflections of each other, and what is in you is also in me, and what is in me is in you too.
It is obvious what path Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would choose.
So well put...I think her last sentence refers tothe state of hopelessness and powerlessness that the vast majority feel. Things may have to get a lot worse before they get better,to get people motivated.
One of the hallmarks of a healthy organism is the ability to reject and destroy other organisms or beliefs or attitudes which will injure or destroy the host organism. We need to get rid of trump effluvia like garland (even though he was ok'd by Obama), chris wray, dejoy and a host of other toxins. ASAP
Please keep going....your ability to communicate the spiritual basis of your message without sounding "preachy" is just amazing!!! We have to keep hearing this -over and over and over again. It can feel so disheartening to hear and read MSM, etc. about you having no chance of winning, but I am hopeful that your messaging is winning hearts and is helping to transform and heal the Democratic Party and our democracy.
Mariann is so far ahead of our current standard of living bell curve thinking in her acute observation of what is really going on in this country. May God bless her and her every effort to make Americans aware of where we are already living, not simply headed into.
Nailed it on all points!
So true! We really need to realize this! It's all connected and it's up to us to make the change.
Lately, I have had a schizophrenic reaction to seeing you run for the American Presidency. I TRULY DO NOT WANT TO SEE YOU IN A POLITICAL CONTEST, and do not see myself casting a vote for you as my POTUS, because I believe that job is a bad fit for you. Abundant evidence everywhere on your social media, in the press, and in the honest current polling of this contest says I'm right.
But another part of me sorely wishes that people would take some of what you say about the condition of this nation and its people seriously. I think you are making some very serious, legitimate points in this essay. The facts it reveals are chilling, and they DO create a primordial societal soup that can give rise to all kinds of social evil. Evil like the rise of the Trump Presidency, the rise of right wing social media ideology, an attack on science and authentic spirituality, and the emergence of crackpots like JFK Jr in the current political arena. These people want to become POTUS at this point because "What the hell, Trump is a buffoon and a monster and he got in, so why not me?"
When I see this part of your essay:
**It will take a revolution of the heart - what Martin Luther King, Jr. described as “a qualitative shift in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our circumstances” - for America to heal itself.**
I think to myself "She needs to *listen to herself*, because this is not a POLITICAL process; it's a spiritual one." King understood that the power of his voice would be diminished if he trued to turn his work into a POLITICAL movement. He got people to march by exercising the power of his voice as a RELIGIOUS leader with a powerful MORAL conscience.
I think a part of you is trying to do the same thing - leverage the power of your accumulated spiritual experience into a movement generating people motivator. You could achieve that end easily if you were speaking in the right media to the right audiences - the ones who still go to church/synagogue/spiritual meetings and still subscribe to the cultivation of spiritual practice.
I've been listening to your Livestream Lecture this week on the Power of the Truth - based on Lesson 104 of ACIM. Its so healing, and helpful to me at this time. I really wish you were more able to link all you know about ACIM to your political messaging, and I truly wish you were doing it as a spiritual thought leader, not as an aspiring politician. Because you have substantial qualifications for the first role in American life and almost none for the second.
Anyway, those are my sincere thoughts on this very interesting day for me. It's the anniversary of the beginning of my marriage to a man I met in an ACIM Study group. And the birthday of a woman who continues to lead a spiritual community that I later shared with him, mostly because the ideology of ACIM aligns closely with the ancient spiritual teachings of that path to Enlightenment.
I'm wishing you well, and wishing your daughter and new baby granddaughter the same.
One problem we have in American politics is competency. To graduate from high school, one needs to meet a basic standard of knowledge. One must demonstrate driving competence to earn a driving license. Every job or roll in our society requires competence.
What is the competency test for being POTUS?
Trump proved you don’t have to have any governing experience, no knowledge of U.S. history, no knowledge of the Constitution; no statesmanship, no since of honesty or decency; just claims that you are wealthy and can foment hatred.
I don’t want to fly in an airplane whose pilot just decided he thought he could fly without practice or experience. If I need brain surgery, I don’t want my surgeon to be some wealthy person who thinks that they can buy the privilege of being a surgeon and bypass medical school and proper training.
It goes without saying that the people we elect for our local, state, and national governments need to abide by some sort of standards that demonstrates their competence to do the job.
Thank you Marianne for continuing to tell these truths. I support you for president.
You're awesome marianne!
Excellent points. I hope more people will share these viewpoints in their conversations with family and friends
Thank you for your strength, Marianne. Mine is yours, for love we share. What we do does not help if doing it does not fill us with joy. Stay one step back from being overwhelmed. You give me extra motivation to stay in the light in order to share that space with you, to strengthen you. I remind you of what you know, that there are many of us with you. The right actions will happen as effortlessly as breathing, when we do nothing about breathing. But breath discipline makes a difference, also. There is only One of us.
All this and Heaven too-and what does our House of Representatives majority have to say? Why, "off with the heads,of those opposing mandatory student loan repayments! Down with the Communists who want a higher minimum wage! How Unamerican, to call for Universal Health Insurance!" These fools claim to speak for "Joe Sixpack", the prototype of the blue collar workers, whose best interests they claim to support. They are, in fact as beholden to the oligarchs as the pseudo-Progressives who castigate anyone who thinks outside THEIR box. Yes, it's time for a sea change!
"Our society is troubled because so many of our people are! Issues of education, healthcare and economics all meet at the intersection of hopelessness and despair."
Ms. Williamson, this very Platonic statement is why I support you. No one else has the guts to admit this to the American people, except perhaps President Jimmy Carter during his 1979 "Malaise Speech."
If society is nothing but an arena of the millions of spheres of free will and influence of millions of people, then it must follow that if society is sick, most of us are too. I see it every day, and everywhere living in a Midwestern city.
An individual that recognizes this can either reel back in disgust and engage in destructive projection of what you hate, because they reflect a part of you that you do not want to admit exists. Or you can channel that disgust into accepting and recognizing that all of us are reflections of each other, and what is in you is also in me, and what is in me is in you too.
It is obvious what path Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would choose.
"As above, so below. As within, as without."
Thank you for this profound, challenging timely wake-up call.
Democrats wake up!
So well put...I think her last sentence refers tothe state of hopelessness and powerlessness that the vast majority feel. Things may have to get a lot worse before they get better,to get people motivated.
One of the hallmarks of a healthy organism is the ability to reject and destroy other organisms or beliefs or attitudes which will injure or destroy the host organism. We need to get rid of trump effluvia like garland (even though he was ok'd by Obama), chris wray, dejoy and a host of other toxins. ASAP
I just reposted on my Facebook page. I support you and have contributed. Thank You!