'Marianne Williamson tends to talk about political transformation in the same way she writes about personal transformation: the material and the divine coming together to set things as they should be.' DemDebate
, is “just a shift in perception.” It is a “parting of the mists” and a “shift from fear to love.” Oprah Winfrey, who helped launch the career of the 66-year-old spiritual leader, social activist, and now-candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, once proclaimed she hadA Return to Love
Trump, she continued, was an “opportunistic infection.” “None of this could have happened if our immune system had been working properly,” she said. Her goal in running for president? For every American to be a “functioning immune cell” for democracy. It’s a metaphor—the American body politic as an actual body—that she loves invoking; at one campaign event, she impersonated a malignant cell, as if it were a spoiled toddler, her arms waving wildly.
If all you do is change on the level of policy, the next president can come in and undo whatever you did. There has to be a transformation in our hearts. We have to bring to light what the deeper issues are. Following a brief stint at Pomona College as a theater and philosophy major, she entered what in retrospect seems like a wandering phase in search of her life’s purpose—living in a commune’s geodesic dome in New Mexico after dropping out of school to “grow vegetables;” working as a cabaret singer and a temp in New York City. “I felt once that I sort of slept for a decade,” she told an interviewer in 1993.
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