It’s a great interview with a woman who I consider the “Cassandra of U.S. politics,” and who philosopher and social critic Cornel West says is “one of the few in the higher echelons of public life and public conversation who understand the intimate relation between the spiritual and the social, the personal and the political, and the existential and the economic.”
Continues West: “It’s very rare that people have this synoptic vision, [one that ensures that] spirituality, morality, and integrity sit at the center and at the beginning of any serious discussion about the relation of a self and a society.”
This “synoptic vision” is greatly needed in today’s fractured world, and it was on full display throughout both Marianne’s presidential campaigns of 2020 and 2024 during which she never wavered in changing the conversation from symptoms to root causes in a way that the political and media establishments routinely avoid. She also talked about the need to fundamentally disrupt the political and economic status quo so as to initiate a “season of moral repair.” Her “politics of love” was informed by both her love for democracy and her decades-long work with and for people in crisis, especially spiritual or meaning-making crisis.
In her hour-long conversation with Todd Fink below, Marianne reflects on the deeper lessons of 2024 and her campaign. She also discusses a vision of hope for the future.
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Progressive Perspectives on Where Democrats Went Wrong in the 2024 Presidential Election
• Marianne Williamson: “A New Chapter of the Democratic Party Needs to Begin”
• “We’re Living at a Time of Spiritual Evolution”
• “We’re Living in Very Serious Times and We Need to Be Very Serious People”
• “My Gratitude Is as Deep as the Sea”
• Yes, Just Imagine
• “We Don’t Need More Data Analysis. We Need More Courage”
• The Mystic Jesus: “A Name for the Unalterable Love That All of Us Share”
• In the Garden of Spirituality – Marianne Williamson
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