Clearly, you aren't considering what was done to this man. He is taking a sledgehammer to corruption. Let's wait and see what happens. The last four years have been quite painful for most of the world and most of America as has been proven by how many voted for change. Are you suggesting that the former existence is greater than what he proposes? War, genocide, corrupt DOJ, and obvious crimes by our Govt? You can't be serious.
The glory of your imagination and privilege… imagining that the last 4 years in this country were tyranny, rather than recovery from Trump’s previous 4 years of wrecking the collective American soul. It’s devastating how deep the delusion goes with Trump’s ridiculous fan club and apostles. You serve a divisive, devilish philosophy and do so with pride and glee. It’s such an abomination. But, apparently, only those tethered in a heart-centered devotion can see & feel the full measure of this madness. 🤷🏽♀️
It's very difficult for me to hear that, of course. But tell me what I should do. Keep my mouth shut "to protect my brand?" Do you think that's what a Course in Miracles would have me do?
Honestly Marianne idk. I'm VERY new to ACIM. It's just odd to see based on what I know from a pillar in the ACIM community.
I'm a Canadian. I Came from the left and have watched your politics, and ours, closely for awhile. Algorithms seem to divide but I try to see both sides. I just don't even see the lefts anymore. The Overton window has shifted so much.
The election was a landslide. The people have spoken. Many don't know the truth about certain events. It was going to get even worse IMO under a continued Democrat administration. Let's just see what happens and not divide further. It won't be perfect but a change is wanted and of course you're entitled to your opinion and sharing, just as I am in commenting and being disappointed in it. But I'm going to try and focus on myself and the positive more which means turning some things off. All the best.
The election was far from a landslide. Look at our electoral college and learn how biased it is. It makes Kansas equal to NYS, etc. Plus that orange thing got less than 50% of the vote.
Look more discriminatingly at your own party (yourself). They have done all the things they fear Trump will do, and no one on the left notices. They are the authoritarians. They are what you fear, but fail to see.
I so wish we could have a real conversation. I don’t like how Democrats are proceeding, particularly. They have not called out the corporatization of America (as MW has). But what is far worse is to call it out- to mislead the American people, saying Yeah the economy sucks all you forgotten people !, then to OFFICIALLY turn the country into a lawless get rich scheme, no holds barred. That’s evil. And that, the Democrats have NOT done.
Marianne, I think you are doing everything you can and I respect it. I truly believe that anyone who cares for others, democracy, the living planet that is our home, must take action. Jesus turned over the moneychanger tables -- he too was a political activist. I feel the key is to speak truth to power, take action for positive change in whatever circles we are involved in, AND do our inner work to be able to keep our own consciousness above the battlefields that the new regime is going to be creating left and right.
I thought a lot about what A Course in Miracles might have you do, and how it might be expressed in politics. You have forgotten more from that book than I think I will ever know. But I do know from listening to your last two live stream lectures that when people say and do the things that 47 has said and done, they are driven by a terrible fear based on an insatiable ego that will eventually destroy them.
Their actions can be profoundly destructive. But if I respond to them with fear instead of with love I give their ego even more power as I build my own.
Last week I listened to you say that the Holy Spirit would intervene to the extent that a person is ready to receive intervention. And that The Miracle Worker is the first to ask for intervention.
How do I refuse the power of fear within myself and answer another person who seems so utterly lost in fear?
I don't know but I do know the Buddhists have an answer. It's in the progression of their Lovingkindness prayer. I start by showing exquisite love and kindness to myself and slowly extend it as I grow safe in the knowledge that my lovingkindness touches all the people in my orbit and all sentient beings.
Like I said, I consider you to be a master of that book. I listen to you very carefully and I read books that you have written that are saturated with its state of mind and heart. You know the ones I love. When I read them, I feel as if a great Light takes over my consciousness, and I have wisdom I did not possess when I was lost in my judgments and my fears.
So maybe the way forward is simple. See that people are lost in fear, and extend as much love as you can in the time you have to live the life you are given to live.
I don't always understand how you're doing it but I know that's what you're trying to do. For the times I don't understand I ask your patience and mercy. For the times I do, I offer my full and unreserved gratitude.
Let's keep moving forward together because in the end there is no me and you. There is only one soul, and one Holy Instant that reveals the Light and the Love between us.
I appreciate you sharing your perspective Marc, but I could not disagree with you more. Marianne has shown herself to be a courageous and inspiring leader during these difficult times. She has put herself out there to help and connect with the broader public and started millions of conversations that are making a difference. She could have taken the easier route of simply engaging with those focused solely on ACIM but she made the more difficult choice to live her beliefs and use them to mobilize for good. We are all the better for it.
I think you are right on target, Marc. Even someone as advanced in the course as Marianne, can still get caught up in the propaganda and lose perspective. At least I do trust that she is coming from a good place. I think it is when we allow ourselves to go into fear that we lose perspective. The lefts campaign was all about fear. It can be hard not to get all caught up in it.
I think Marianne's responses are right on - incorporating the whole message of ACIM. We should call evil out, let it be seen in the light and then shed our own light and love and power on destroying it...turning it back into its native nothingness. For God, Love, is all. This is the time to live our beliefs. Love is not a brand. Miracles are not a brand.
An “Oligarchy” is where a small group of wealthy individuals controls the government - That’s what happens when Corporations and Billionaires are allowed to dictate legislation with their political donations -MARIANNE WILLIAMSON - supports Democracy and I support her for DNC Chair
The left has more billionaires supporting it than the right. Did you not notice and have a problem with Bill Gates? Curious. The left has embraced the military industrial complex. It is no longer the party of the people. The party has changed. If you have not you have no idea what you are now supporting. You need to pay closer attention. That's why so many lifetime liberals have left the party.
I find it interesting that the only cross section DJT didn't gain ground in was the rich white class. So everyone seems to want change except the rich white class, and everyone else is wrong in that?
I'd have to consider myself rich white class and I wanted change. I sure hope it's the right change but I know it wasn't going to happen, and inky going to get worse under the old admin.
Omigosh Marianne. I completely and thoroughly disagree. The past four years have been exhausting, surreal (there are NOT more than two genders) and dangerous (foreign criminal gangs taking over US apartment buildings -- people's homes -- bent on murder and destruction). THAT was sanity? Please. Let's take a collective deep breath and give this administration a chance.
So here’s a BIT of how you’ve been fooled. I live right near that apartment house in Aurora. It was NOT taken over -- in any way shape or form- by a gang. The landlord was not fixing stuff, people who paid rent did one demonstration. Out of that ...
You cannot be serious, or are you? Do you know what all those people did that he called out? Their laid out plans for the NWO and America? Technocratic enslavement, and barely being able to survive. Is that the America you envisioned? Genocide? Wars? Giving all our money away while everyday Americans suffer? WOW. Alarming ignorance.
Joe Biden IS a disgrace. While his mental decline was sad to watch in real time, his final hour (literally) pardons of family members means they actually are guilty of selling our country to the highest bidder. Worse, the media has been in their pocket for at least a decade. It is time for a change.
Oh Annie dear...you need to open your eyes. Why would this "dignified" man have to pardon his ENTIRE family before leaving office? What are the secrets that lie beneath and need to wiped off the table before he leaves office? He has been a "career politician"...years and years of so called public service and his is worth $10 Million. Doesn't that make you wonder? As public servants they currently make $174,000 a year....How? and that's their current salary....it was much less when he was younger... he's as crooked as the best of them...
I saw with my intellect and heart exactly what you stated. I am still amazed how easily the lovely people of our country drink the Trump koolaide….but here we are. He said all the right things and continues to bloviate to the point of embarrassment how we are at the Golden age which only Queen Elizabeth managed to build in 1558 - 1603 WHICH was time of increase in peace, prosperity, artistic, literary, and intellectual flourishing. Our present situation would love for us to NOT think!
Let’s all think of ways to help our communities, to be the light, speak the truth, and carry on moving forward. I already have a plan to form a women’s support group God knows we need it.
Do you not see the ripple effect of ‘Let’s Make America Great Again’! What a wonderful affirmation!
You have been such an inspiration to me.
I listen to all of your talks about ‘ The Course on Miracles’. I have difficulty thinking this is you. Wanting to be part of a system that we do not need more of. Have you not heard of the Great Awakening? Sending you much Love❤️. Carolyn
OMG! So melodramatic! What if?? he's right and you're wrong. The Democratic party has been censoring YOU! and all of us for the past 4 years. The first....not the fifth amendment... is the most important to our democracy and I am already grateful that has been recognized and dealt with in his very first day in office. There are many other points of view on environmental issues and he is absolutely correct that unless the entire world makes an effort.... there will be very little change. Do you not think that the bombs we sent to Israel and Ukraine are not affecting the environment? That's a bit hypocritical that we sign an accord to take charge of the environment and then send billions of dollars to people who are polluting it. I am HOPEFUL! and more importantly PROUD once again to be an American. I believe he will be different this go around and you CANNOT Deny the fact that God spared his life for a reason.
Marianne- I totally agree. The thing that hit me hardest yesterday was Trump telling the same old lies--and no one daring to say a word. Just dressed in their finery, perfectly coiffed, standing by.
Dear Marianne and all of the people of South America. I in Canada of the north. Feel your pain, when i saw on cnn. Dt signed an order
Denying birthright citizenship. Melalnia wearing a hat to cover her eyes. Says it all to me. If she had worn all black, that would be interesting.
Thank you for never ever giving up in the efforts to make a change, wake us up, to helping the truly hungry. Our granddaughters will be proud of us one day.
Someone else noted, on another forum, that Mr. Trump "forgot" to put his hand on the pair of Bibles that his wife was holding. Interessante, n'est-ce pas?
Dear Marianne / Team Marianne, I tried multiple times to contribute to your DNC campaign via the link with your video message but it did not go through. I tried through both PP and Venmo, with and without the tip, each time it took me to other, unrelated, sites and not PP or V to complete the transaction.
I wanted to alert you. It appears there may be a need for a technical fix.
I support you bringing your values, vision, and voice to the DNC! Thanks for being willing.
In the same way that you saw black when she wore navy, you should question your own perspective. I have woken up from the inappropriate trust in the democratic party that threatened our very democracy by illegally pressuring media to censor speech. And even when the truth is out, the mesmerized left merely accepts it. Where is what should be the appropriate outrage? Of course, most of the party remains ignorant because they are captives of the media that is a propaganda machine for the left. Many of us are celebrating the possible end to the carnage in Gaza, and the restoration of sanity and protection of women's rights with the removal of men from women's sports and women's prisons. Biden, himself, has cemented in the moniker of "The Biden Crime Family," which to me, is how he should always be referenced, as the 46th president, of the Biden Crime Family, and has pardoned the Mengele of our time. The horror that the left fears is the horror that they, themselves have become, projected outward. They have become that which they hate. It's easy to do. I would have hoped you would have been more observant.
Marianne, Keep your critiques of the Trump administration coming. The fact that you're getting trolled so heavily shows me that you're getting through. After all if you're so off base why would they bother.
Clearly, you aren't considering what was done to this man. He is taking a sledgehammer to corruption. Let's wait and see what happens. The last four years have been quite painful for most of the world and most of America as has been proven by how many voted for change. Are you suggesting that the former existence is greater than what he proposes? War, genocide, corrupt DOJ, and obvious crimes by our Govt? You can't be serious.
We were already in tyranny.
The glory of your imagination and privilege… imagining that the last 4 years in this country were tyranny, rather than recovery from Trump’s previous 4 years of wrecking the collective American soul. It’s devastating how deep the delusion goes with Trump’s ridiculous fan club and apostles. You serve a divisive, devilish philosophy and do so with pride and glee. It’s such an abomination. But, apparently, only those tethered in a heart-centered devotion can see & feel the full measure of this madness. 🤷🏽♀️
Lol. I can’t.
Oh Marianne 😔. Your TDS is showing. You push people away from ACIM with this divisive rhetoric.
It's very difficult for me to hear that, of course. But tell me what I should do. Keep my mouth shut "to protect my brand?" Do you think that's what a Course in Miracles would have me do?
Honestly Marianne idk. I'm VERY new to ACIM. It's just odd to see based on what I know from a pillar in the ACIM community.
I'm a Canadian. I Came from the left and have watched your politics, and ours, closely for awhile. Algorithms seem to divide but I try to see both sides. I just don't even see the lefts anymore. The Overton window has shifted so much.
The election was a landslide. The people have spoken. Many don't know the truth about certain events. It was going to get even worse IMO under a continued Democrat administration. Let's just see what happens and not divide further. It won't be perfect but a change is wanted and of course you're entitled to your opinion and sharing, just as I am in commenting and being disappointed in it. But I'm going to try and focus on myself and the positive more which means turning some things off. All the best.
The election was far from a landslide. Look at our electoral college and learn how biased it is. It makes Kansas equal to NYS, etc. Plus that orange thing got less than 50% of the vote.
Orange thing? ☺️. And there it is. I'll be more clear. Swing state landslide. 7-0. Looking forward to change in my life and the countries life.
What country do you live in?
Do your homework please.. 1 % is not a landslide!
Canada. I've done my homework. All 7 swings is pretty much a sure thing is it not? Anyway, he won and time to move forward but I doubt that happens.
Look more discriminatingly at your own party (yourself). They have done all the things they fear Trump will do, and no one on the left notices. They are the authoritarians. They are what you fear, but fail to see.
I so wish we could have a real conversation. I don’t like how Democrats are proceeding, particularly. They have not called out the corporatization of America (as MW has). But what is far worse is to call it out- to mislead the American people, saying Yeah the economy sucks all you forgotten people !, then to OFFICIALLY turn the country into a lawless get rich scheme, no holds barred. That’s evil. And that, the Democrats have NOT done.
Well lesson 21 is quite timely isn't it. What a coincidence.
Marc you have an anger issue perhaps you are a bot?
Your partially right, but I think it's more a truth issue. Trying to learn thru ACIM why it's so important to me.
Marianne, I think you are doing everything you can and I respect it. I truly believe that anyone who cares for others, democracy, the living planet that is our home, must take action. Jesus turned over the moneychanger tables -- he too was a political activist. I feel the key is to speak truth to power, take action for positive change in whatever circles we are involved in, AND do our inner work to be able to keep our own consciousness above the battlefields that the new regime is going to be creating left and right.
I thought a lot about what A Course in Miracles might have you do, and how it might be expressed in politics. You have forgotten more from that book than I think I will ever know. But I do know from listening to your last two live stream lectures that when people say and do the things that 47 has said and done, they are driven by a terrible fear based on an insatiable ego that will eventually destroy them.
Their actions can be profoundly destructive. But if I respond to them with fear instead of with love I give their ego even more power as I build my own.
Last week I listened to you say that the Holy Spirit would intervene to the extent that a person is ready to receive intervention. And that The Miracle Worker is the first to ask for intervention.
How do I refuse the power of fear within myself and answer another person who seems so utterly lost in fear?
I don't know but I do know the Buddhists have an answer. It's in the progression of their Lovingkindness prayer. I start by showing exquisite love and kindness to myself and slowly extend it as I grow safe in the knowledge that my lovingkindness touches all the people in my orbit and all sentient beings.
Like I said, I consider you to be a master of that book. I listen to you very carefully and I read books that you have written that are saturated with its state of mind and heart. You know the ones I love. When I read them, I feel as if a great Light takes over my consciousness, and I have wisdom I did not possess when I was lost in my judgments and my fears.
So maybe the way forward is simple. See that people are lost in fear, and extend as much love as you can in the time you have to live the life you are given to live.
I don't always understand how you're doing it but I know that's what you're trying to do. For the times I don't understand I ask your patience and mercy. For the times I do, I offer my full and unreserved gratitude.
Let's keep moving forward together because in the end there is no me and you. There is only one soul, and one Holy Instant that reveals the Light and the Love between us.
This piece is the most searingly truthful thing I’ve read this morning. Truth and love have never felt so connected as this morning.
I would lite to reply. Need to know what a handle is to get through the gate.
I appreciate you sharing your perspective Marc, but I could not disagree with you more. Marianne has shown herself to be a courageous and inspiring leader during these difficult times. She has put herself out there to help and connect with the broader public and started millions of conversations that are making a difference. She could have taken the easier route of simply engaging with those focused solely on ACIM but she made the more difficult choice to live her beliefs and use them to mobilize for good. We are all the better for it.
Thank you, Elaine. I appreciate your words.
Maybe I'll see that as I move along in the course. How one balances politics, division, and ACIM. Time will tell just like this new administration. ☺️
I think you are right on target, Marc. Even someone as advanced in the course as Marianne, can still get caught up in the propaganda and lose perspective. At least I do trust that she is coming from a good place. I think it is when we allow ourselves to go into fear that we lose perspective. The lefts campaign was all about fear. It can be hard not to get all caught up in it.
I think Marianne's responses are right on - incorporating the whole message of ACIM. We should call evil out, let it be seen in the light and then shed our own light and love and power on destroying it...turning it back into its native nothingness. For God, Love, is all. This is the time to live our beliefs. Love is not a brand. Miracles are not a brand.
I guess it all depends on where you see the evil.
I'm still working on the love is all part. Not sure it is possible in politics and perhaps this is where my issue lies with Marianne's comments.
Lies are not good. For starters
You're right. Another good reason for an administration change. But if your gauge is lies on politicians, you're gonna need a big scale ⚖️.
How can we think anything rise? Bonhoeffer. See evil call it out. Hardest thing. Only thing
Wrong. Please try and hear again.
An “Oligarchy” is where a small group of wealthy individuals controls the government - That’s what happens when Corporations and Billionaires are allowed to dictate legislation with their political donations -MARIANNE WILLIAMSON - supports Democracy and I support her for DNC Chair
The left has more billionaires supporting it than the right. Did you not notice and have a problem with Bill Gates? Curious. The left has embraced the military industrial complex. It is no longer the party of the people. The party has changed. If you have not you have no idea what you are now supporting. You need to pay closer attention. That's why so many lifetime liberals have left the party.
I find it interesting that the only cross section DJT didn't gain ground in was the rich white class. So everyone seems to want change except the rich white class, and everyone else is wrong in that?
I'd have to consider myself rich white class and I wanted change. I sure hope it's the right change but I know it wasn't going to happen, and inky going to get worse under the old admin.
Less than a minute before I watched your video, I looked at that hat and thought the same thing .
Omigosh Marianne. I completely and thoroughly disagree. The past four years have been exhausting, surreal (there are NOT more than two genders) and dangerous (foreign criminal gangs taking over US apartment buildings -- people's homes -- bent on murder and destruction). THAT was sanity? Please. Let's take a collective deep breath and give this administration a chance.
So here’s a BIT of how you’ve been fooled. I live right near that apartment house in Aurora. It was NOT taken over -- in any way shape or form- by a gang. The landlord was not fixing stuff, people who paid rent did one demonstration. Out of that ...
Dear God
please help us.
it starts at the top and to hear this man disgrace Joe Biden, and try to strip any dignity in his final hours is appalling to me.
I truly will pray and lift him up as best as I can
our country depends on it
You cannot be serious, or are you? Do you know what all those people did that he called out? Their laid out plans for the NWO and America? Technocratic enslavement, and barely being able to survive. Is that the America you envisioned? Genocide? Wars? Giving all our money away while everyday Americans suffer? WOW. Alarming ignorance.
Joe Biden IS a disgrace. While his mental decline was sad to watch in real time, his final hour (literally) pardons of family members means they actually are guilty of selling our country to the highest bidder. Worse, the media has been in their pocket for at least a decade. It is time for a change.
Oh Annie dear...you need to open your eyes. Why would this "dignified" man have to pardon his ENTIRE family before leaving office? What are the secrets that lie beneath and need to wiped off the table before he leaves office? He has been a "career politician"...years and years of so called public service and his is worth $10 Million. Doesn't that make you wonder? As public servants they currently make $174,000 a year....How? and that's their current salary....it was much less when he was younger... he's as crooked as the best of them...
I saw with my intellect and heart exactly what you stated. I am still amazed how easily the lovely people of our country drink the Trump koolaide….but here we are. He said all the right things and continues to bloviate to the point of embarrassment how we are at the Golden age which only Queen Elizabeth managed to build in 1558 - 1603 WHICH was time of increase in peace, prosperity, artistic, literary, and intellectual flourishing. Our present situation would love for us to NOT think!
Let’s all think of ways to help our communities, to be the light, speak the truth, and carry on moving forward. I already have a plan to form a women’s support group God knows we need it.
Thank you.
Dear One,
Do you not see the ripple effect of ‘Let’s Make America Great Again’! What a wonderful affirmation!
You have been such an inspiration to me.
I listen to all of your talks about ‘ The Course on Miracles’. I have difficulty thinking this is you. Wanting to be part of a system that we do not need more of. Have you not heard of the Great Awakening? Sending you much Love❤️. Carolyn
OMG! So melodramatic! What if?? he's right and you're wrong. The Democratic party has been censoring YOU! and all of us for the past 4 years. The first....not the fifth amendment... is the most important to our democracy and I am already grateful that has been recognized and dealt with in his very first day in office. There are many other points of view on environmental issues and he is absolutely correct that unless the entire world makes an effort.... there will be very little change. Do you not think that the bombs we sent to Israel and Ukraine are not affecting the environment? That's a bit hypocritical that we sign an accord to take charge of the environment and then send billions of dollars to people who are polluting it. I am HOPEFUL! and more importantly PROUD once again to be an American. I believe he will be different this go around and you CANNOT Deny the fact that God spared his life for a reason.
My God does not care for liars. My God weeps for us, to be fooled and led by a liar. Who enriches himself at our expense.
Marianne- I totally agree. The thing that hit me hardest yesterday was Trump telling the same old lies--and no one daring to say a word. Just dressed in their finery, perfectly coiffed, standing by.
It killed me, this smashing of the truth.
Dear Marianne and all of the people of South America. I in Canada of the north. Feel your pain, when i saw on cnn. Dt signed an order
Denying birthright citizenship. Melalnia wearing a hat to cover her eyes. Says it all to me. If she had worn all black, that would be interesting.
Thank you for never ever giving up in the efforts to make a change, wake us up, to helping the truly hungry. Our granddaughters will be proud of us one day.
Thank you
Sincerely
Marianne
Of the north.
No, not just words! God bless all! Thank you Marianne for all you do for the goodness of all!
Someone else noted, on another forum, that Mr. Trump "forgot" to put his hand on the pair of Bibles that his wife was holding. Interessante, n'est-ce pas?
Dear Marianne / Team Marianne, I tried multiple times to contribute to your DNC campaign via the link with your video message but it did not go through. I tried through both PP and Venmo, with and without the tip, each time it took me to other, unrelated, sites and not PP or V to complete the transaction.
I wanted to alert you. It appears there may be a need for a technical fix.
I support you bringing your values, vision, and voice to the DNC! Thanks for being willing.
🙏😊🇺🇸❤️
In the same way that you saw black when she wore navy, you should question your own perspective. I have woken up from the inappropriate trust in the democratic party that threatened our very democracy by illegally pressuring media to censor speech. And even when the truth is out, the mesmerized left merely accepts it. Where is what should be the appropriate outrage? Of course, most of the party remains ignorant because they are captives of the media that is a propaganda machine for the left. Many of us are celebrating the possible end to the carnage in Gaza, and the restoration of sanity and protection of women's rights with the removal of men from women's sports and women's prisons. Biden, himself, has cemented in the moniker of "The Biden Crime Family," which to me, is how he should always be referenced, as the 46th president, of the Biden Crime Family, and has pardoned the Mengele of our time. The horror that the left fears is the horror that they, themselves have become, projected outward. They have become that which they hate. It's easy to do. I would have hoped you would have been more observant.
Marianne, Keep your critiques of the Trump administration coming. The fact that you're getting trolled so heavily shows me that you're getting through. After all if you're so off base why would they bother.