Awakening America with Marianne Williamson

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"Within the next ten years, America will experience a renaissance or a catastrophe. Something is going to happen to take us back to who we are," says author Marianne Williamson. Her energy is contagious. She tells us we can face life from two positions--simply reacting to our circumstances or becoming proactive in the service of a vision. "Our children need our commitment," Williamson says as she urges Americans to reinvolve themselves in social and political action. She points us toward a return to the political tenets of our founding fathers, pointing out that the principles on which America was founded are "powerful principles that can withstand almost any assault, except the one prevalent today--the diminished commitment of individuals to those principles." (hosted by Michael Toms)

Bio

Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher, author and lecturer.

She is the author of:

• A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" (Perennial Currents 1996)
• A Woman's Worth (Random House 1993)
• The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life (HarperSanFrancisco 2006)

To learn more about the work of Marianne Williamson, go to www.marianne.com.

Topics Explored in This Dialogue

• How to overcome a sense of powerlessness
• What it takes to keep democracy alive
• Taking spirituality into the social and political arena
• Americans' mass denial
• Reawakening a sense of responsibility as citizens of a democratic nation
• What happened to the political activism of the '60s
• Going beyond the political right and left
• Words from Thomas Jefferson still relevant today
• Economic vs. humanitarian principles
• "Political yoga" and "holistic politics"