Marianne Williamson – The Heart of Conscious Politics

OMTimes: You just mentioned your book “Healing the Soul of America”, calling for a holistic perspective on America’s political system. What is the major change you have seen in the past 17 years in America?

Marianne Williamson: Well I think that although the American people are fine, in terms of the American government, I think that in many ways things have gotten worse rather than better. We are experiencing a kind of corporate takeover really, not just nationally but globally. Multinational corporations have begun to accrue power that in some cases makes them stronger than the governments of the world. This is a very serious issue, not just for my country but for the people of the world. For my country that so prides itself in the words of Abraham Lincoln of being a government of the people by the people and for the people, this is a very serious transition into a government of a few of the people by a few of the people and for a few of the people. That is not democracy, that is really the reversion to an aristocratic paradigm and we repudiated an aristocracy 200 hundred years ago and I think there is a real need to repudiate an aristocracy again.

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OMTimes: You have said: “A Nation is as sick as its secrets: Deep inquiry is necessary to heal a country.” How will you contribute to heal your country? It seems that we need a serious pattern interruption in order to move towards more conscious politics.