Marianne Williamson – The Heart of Conscious Politics

OMTimes: In your bestselling book “Return to Love” you write: We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? How insecure is this nation?

Marianne Williamson: We are a Nation of about 300 million people. We are not a monolith so when you ask “how insecure we are”, I think that the American people are not insecure. The American people are spunky. The main characterological trait of Americans has been well demonstrated in a test recently and our young people scored bottom on everything compared to every other nation academically, but the one thing they scored highest on was self-esteem. However we like ourselves, I don’t think that our problem as Americans is we lack self-esteem. However, our government has absolutely been behaving like a paranoid bully for a very long time now.

OMTimes: Yes, the government has of course a lot of influence on the behavior of the nation.

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Marianne Williamson: I think that our leadership’s response after 9/11 was very unfortunate because 9/11 could have been such an opportunity for making Americans wiser. Wiser as a society, more loving as a society and much more mature and conscious as a society and I think that the first 2 or 3 days after 9/11 you could feel that. People wanted to know about our foreign policy, why do people hate us so much. People really wanted to know, but our government at the time told everybody “don’t worry about it, just go shopping and keep the economy going”. That was very dangerous because we became vulnerable to ideological capture neoconservative forces in this country who would have us think that the only problem here is that there are all these horrible people out to get us. It messes with your mind after a while and it messes with the national psyche. I am not saying we should not have appropriate defense, but the mentality of paranoia and the mentality of aggression that can come from that paranoia is unhealthy in any individual and it is unhealthy in the nation.