Yesterday, Williamson was a guest on ABC’s News Live. Below is an excerpt from this interview. It’s followed by Williamson’s latest substack piece and an 8-minute video commentary she shared on social media this past weekend.
An Invisible Army of Decent Souls
By Marianne Williamson
Transform
September 17, 2025
Tn so many ways it’s actually getting worse. On the level of the external world, what Trump has done and is doing to this country is disastrous. For those of us who believe in the basic tenets of American democracy this is beyond our worst nightmares. He is chipping away at our freedoms, from due process to free speech. He is militarizing cities, extorting businesses, controlling cultural institutions. His personal paramilitary is terrorizing immigrants, grabbing innocent people and throwing them into concentration camps. The Supreme Court and Congress are giving him permission to do all of it. And he is threatening much more to come.
I say it’s getting worse “on the external level” because internally he cannot touch us unless we allow him to. In many ways, he is waking us up. Millions of people who hadn’t really thought about what freedom means, much less what it means to them personally, are thinking about it now.
I hope you’ll tell everyone you know, and make your plans now, to be at the next No Kings Protest on October 18th. This one needs to be massive. We need many millions of people on the streets of America, in a nonviolent show of extraordinary citizen power. See it in your mind’s eye as a sea of patriotism and love.
Pray it will be peaceful. Plan for it to be amazing. And remember you’re not alone. You’re part of an invisible army of decent souls.
Of course it’s hard.
Watching an entire rules-based order being demolished by such unworthy characters, right in front of our eyes, is soul-shattering. At times you feel motivated to push back, at other times the awfulness of the whole thing hits you like a ton of bricks. That’s okay. It’s normal to feel that way. The entire situation is an assault on our nervous system. Don’t blame yourself for feeling exhausted, or scared, or depressed about it all. When you feel such overwhelm, take a break and rest up. Prayer and meditation will help you adapt to the moment.
We will endure. Love will prevail. But we cannot give up.
PRAYER FOR THE EXHAUSTED
Dear God,
We surrender to You this difficult moment.
Pour forth Your spirit on our country and the world.
Lift our minds and hearts above the chaos.
Pour forth Your spirit on all of us,
and guide our feet to better days.
Amen.
This past Saturday, Marianne shared the following video commentary, one that includes a guided mediation for the times we are living through. In introducing this video, Marianne writes the following:
As we change our consciousness, we’ll change the world. As we surrender our anger, we’ll bring peace to the world. As we learn to love, we’ll heal the world.
I hope this meditation helps you shift your perceptions beyond fear to love. At the end of the video, try to remain several more minutes in the space of the Light beyond the body.
Love is the ultimate Answer, revealing our oneness in a realm beyond what we can see with our physical eyes. Nothing less will do. It’s the next stage of our humanity. It will save us from ourselves.
Related Off-site Links:
Democracy Needs a Fearless Press and Vice Versa – Trump Is Killing Both – Robert Reich (Common Dreams, September 18, 2025).
Rep. Ko Khanna Moves to Subpoena FCC Chair Carr Over Effort to “Shred the First Amendment” – Brad Reed (Common Dreams, September 18, 2025).
Led by Demise in U.S. Under Trump, “Democracy Around the World Continues to Weaken” – Brad Reed (Common Dreams, September 11, 2025).
The U.S. Is Becoming What It Once Fought Against – The Australian Independent Media Network (August 26, 2025).
America Tips Into Fascism – Garrett Graff (Doomsday Scenario, August 25, 2025).
Trump’s Gestapo-Style Raids Mimic Nazi Dictatorship Playbook – Chuck Idelson (Common Dreams, August 25, 2025).
The Militarization of America – Marianne Williamson (Transform, August 13, 2025).
Hello, Fascism – Christopher Impiglia (Common Dreams, August 13, 2025).
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• “We’re Moving Into Totalitarianism”
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – July 26, 2025
• “It’s Here, and We Are Sleepwalking Through It”
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 20, 2025
• “He Is Enacting an Authoritarian Agenda”: Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Donald Trump’s Militarization of Law Enforcement
• Marianne Williamson: “We’re Living in Very Serious Times and We Need to Be Very Serious People”
• Brent Molnar on the “Cold War in Our Own House”
• “This Is Fascism”
• James Greenberg: “The Choices We Make Matter”
• “This Is What Fascism Looks Like”
• Brent Molnar on the MAGA Cult and Its Intentions
• The Declaration of Resistance
• “Protesting Is What Patriotism Looks Like in Public”: The “No Kings” Protests of June 14, 2025
• Peter Bloom: Quote of the Day – June 10, 2025
• “This Is How Democracy Unravels”
• Speaking Truth to Power
• Marianne Williamson on MSNBC’s The Weekend – 1/12/25
• Breaking the Mold: Why Progressives Should Push for Marianne Williamson to Lead the DNC
• Marianne Williamson Is Seeking to Restore Honesty and Integrity to the DNC
• Marianne Williamson Makes Her Case for Being the Next DNC Chair
• Marianne Williamson on the Kind Mind Podcast– 12/2/24
• Marianne Williamson on How Centrist Democrats Abuse Voters with False Promises
• Jeff Cohen on How Obama’s “Corporate Liberalism” Led to the Rise of Trump
• “We Have an Emergency On Our Hands”: Marianne Williamson On the “Freefall” of American Democracy (2020)
• Saying “No” to Trump and His Fascist Agenda (2016)
• Marianne Williamson and the Power of Politicized Love
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