Political and spiritual activist Marianne Williamson remains unwavering despite not reaching her goal in two separate runs for U.S. President (2020 and 2024) and an unsuccessful race to become chair of the Democratic National Committee.
During those campaigns, and now, she is calling upon people — from politicians to everyday working men and women — to be a catalyst to transform U.S. policy into a government of love and justice for all.
Public policy, Williamson says, “is an expression of our collective behavior.”
“All of the great spiritual and religious teachings have this core element of love for others,” Williamson said. “So, spirituality in politics takes the stand that if that is the purpose … of all individual behavior, it should be the purpose of collective behavior as well.”
The spiritual book author has penned 16 books, 4 of which have been No. 1 New York Times best-sellers. Her most recent book, published last year, was titled, “The Mystic Jesus: The Mind of Love.”
Williamson talked with SaportaReport and LET’S Start Healing Podcast about her belief in the need for spirituality in politics, why it’s important for people to be aware of ongoing changes in U.S. policy, and how to take steps to push back in nonviolent ways. She posts videos daily across social media to update the public on how the latest political or political-related actions can impact them.
The Trump Administration is not adhering to court orders to release billions of dollars dedicated to congressionally funded programs, including nonprofits located in the Atlanta metro area. Separately, last Monday, Elon Musk, with a group of investors, made a bid in the amount of $97.4 billion to buy OpenAI.
Williamson believes that if Musk were to buy OpenAI then “his ability to control large segments of the global population would be unlike anything that we’ve ever seen in human history “…Given his access to control of U.S. computer systems and payments from the Treasury Department, as well as the billionaire’s ownership of X [Twitter].
The best-selling author is beloved in spiritual circles. But in politics, her takes ruffle feathers. During her first run for President of the United States in 2020, mainstream media and many established politicians thought Williamson didn’t belong. By her own nature, and for any political leader who wants Washington culture to remain status quo, Williamson is a disrupter.
She has also worked throughout her career on poverty, anti-hunger and racial reconciliation issues. In 2004, she co-founded The Peace Alliance and supported the creation of a U.S. Department of Peace.
Williamson founded Project Angel Food, a non-profit organization that has delivered more than 18 million meals to ill and dying homebound patients in the Los Angeles area since 1989. The group was created to help people suffering from HIV and AIDS.
Williamson said the idea that love can save the world is not trivial or unrealistic.
“Martin Luther King Jr. went to India, studied the principles of nonviolence, and came back and applied them to the struggle for civil rights in the 1960s in the United States,” she explained. “He said that [Mahatma] Gandhi was the first person who had taken the love ethic of Jesus … [the love ethic of all religions and] moved it beyond mere personal interaction to be a broad scale social force for good.”
“This same force [love] heals social, political and economical relationships,” Williamson said.
In her ongoing call to action to people, she adds that this is not only a revolution in love, it’s an evolution.
“The idea that love will save the world is not just you loving your child, or me loving my child, but evolving to the point that we have to see everybody’s child as important to us as our own children,” Williamson said. “And that, of course, affects things such as public policies in a very big way… We have to move beyond, “I’m trying to be a good person” to “I want this to be a good nation.”
