Marianne Williamson – The Heart of Conscious Politics

OMTimes Exclusive Interview with Marianne Williamson

Interview by Dirk Terpstra

OMTimes: You are a spiritual teacher, author and lecturer and you have published ten books, including four New York Times #1 bestsellers. You are also known as a spiritual leader. You have now decided to run for Congress in California’s District 33. How has your decision been received so far and what do people think about the connection between your spiritual influence and politics?

Marianne Williamson: I don’t feel that I changed careers, I just feel that I’m taking on a conversation that I have been involved with for the last thirty years and broadening it to include national issues, international issues and political issues.

First of all, I’ve been doing this for a long time – that conversation, I wrote a book in 1997 called “Healing the Soul of America”. I think that the zeitgeist of our times is the transformation of the world and I think each of us feels called in our own way to do what we can to contribute to this transformation. People are aware that we are moving in various ways, in an unsustainable direction as a civilization.

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The fact that I feel moved to run for Office is just one way that people can feel called. Some people feel called to step it up in business, some people are called to step it up in arts, some people are called to step it up in education – there is this evolutionary conversation that is uplifting everything. That conversation is not prevalent within the political domain and as a consequence, it is not surprising to me, that I, and I am sure other people as well, am feeling called to crash those particular ramparts. Politics as we know it, at least in this country, are dominated by very entrenched, calcified thought forms that do not allow for much influence from anything outside that thought system. So, it feels the right thing to do for me, and I see a lot of heads nodding when I talk about what it means to see politics in a way that we are more than economic creatures, is proactively wage peace. We must have a more sacred connection to the earth and we must be more responsible caretakers of our democracy. I think it has been very well received. Most importantly it has been received by the heart of people because it is my heart that I am speaking from.