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Wait a minute, here is what it says about A Course in Miracles: "A Course in Miracles was “scribed” by Dr. Helen Schucman through a process of inner dictation that she identified as coming from Jesus. " - https://acim.org/acim/ Isn't that legit in Christianity? Isn't it valid to have a personal conversation with Christ? If so, then Williamson's spirituality might actually be accepted by Christians. "Father Garrigou-LaGrange recommends that we switch this inner dialogue to a conversation with God." - https://catholicstrength.com/tag/switch-this-inner-dialogue-to-a-conversation-with-god/ Bible verse quoted in the article: “Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells within you.” (1 Cor. 3:16)

Very good start of integral spirituality! Marianne Williamson said when talking to Bill Maher on his show that students from all religions come to A Course in Miracles, even atheists.

Williamson seems genuine enough and that will be really important during the campaign. People have, due to the massive amounts of social interactions on the internet, become very skilled at sensing truth directly. They don't even need to listen to the words. And when manipulative people realize that a rapidly growing number of people can see through them directly by feeling their content, they will become scared shitless. The same with the other presidential candidates. Those candidates who are puppets of the establishment will start falling like dominoes.

The personal ego is a bunch of mental patterns connected to tensions in the body. Transcending and including the ego is easy in theory. Just recognize that the ego has served its necessary and useful purpose of developing the unique individual person. What is needed to preserve the ego is already complete. So what is needed to transcend the ego is to simply allow life to remove parts of the ego that are the blocks, namely the tensions in the body along with the mental patterns connected to those tensions.

Williamson also needs to grab the political moderate center spectrum. That's especially important when it comes to people voting. She did one such move in the debate when she was reluctant about healthcare for all. The moderate stance is that it's too abrupt to just remove the private healthcare insurance industry. So it's a smart move to take an integral and less disruptive approach to healthcare where the existing healthcare system is preserved while healthcare for all becomes guaranteed too in a both/and approach.

It's possible to integrate all spiritual traditions and religions I think, and that's what I'm doing. But it requires a super broad brush with a very narrow top-down perspective. It's the wrong way to try to create some new world religion. Because that flattens out all the religions, which are not just about belief systems but also have lots of cultural and historical values. So a world religion like that is non-integral. Instead, for an integral approach the different religions need to be transcended and included. And if Williamson plays her cards right she might be able to achieve such integral solution when it comes to spirituality.

Marianne Williamson has Jewish background. That might make Christians accept her more easily than her New Age image. Or Christian Democrats will accept Williamson's spiritual beliefs in the same way that Oprah Winfrey is popular in the mainstream. Oprah is Christian but has the same kind of spiritual beliefs as Williamson it seems to me, and Oprah has also been called a New Ager.

@DrewNows Ok, yes from her own perspective her arguments are valid according to that value system, unless she was trolling or spoofing, haha. I didn't watch the whole video.

I disagree. If I heard correctly, the woman in the video said that vaccines should be MANDATORY. That's Orwellian IMO. What if I refuse to take one of the 300 mandatory vaccines? Should the police arrest me and force-vaccinate me? Or put me in quarantine forever? What if vaccines sometimes cause the very disease they are supposed to protect you from? Actually, I think I heard somewhere that that is actually the case, but I'm not sure.

I was thinking that the Chinese social credit score system was absolutely horrible and Orwellian, but then later I learned that it was introduced to deal with big social problems in China. So I have become a bit cautious regarding China. It may even be that the human right crimes are a mere smokescreen to fool the west! Very, very tricky and long-term politics, such as letting Great Britain develop Hong Kong for 100 years as a means of integrating the Chinese economy with the rest of the world. That's what I call long-term planning.

@Joseph Maynor Yes, China has thousands of years of political experience. They can run circles around the west if they want to. And today China is conquering the world with business deals, while they have tricked us in the west to focus on war.

Compare the western market economies to China. Huawei is already years ahead of all tech companies in the west. For example Apple's phones look like stone age technology compared to Huawei's foldable Mate X phone. The trick I think China has pulled off is to have the government regulate a free market economy in an efficient way.

"We worry too much about whether our message is popular. We don't worry enough in life about whether we are saying the right thing." - Marianne Williamson

I'm a huge fan of individual freedom, but it seems to me that the way to get there is with more efficient governments by using information technology on a massive scale, even with international cooperation, and with artificial intelligence support. This will provide safety and vast amounts of services to the people. In theory, there may be a risk of an Orwellian New World Order with that kind of approach, but when I look at it practically, these functions will emerge along with increasing complexity, and for that to work and be sustainable, it will emerge with the consent of the people, not as some globalist Skynet.

Hi Bodigger, Here I found a good description by Leo why government is needed, from about 24 minutes: Conscious Politics - Part 1 - The Deepest Political Analysis You'll Ever Hear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klWq18u3GiU&t=24m

Interestingly, Alex Jones said about Marianne Williamson's performance in the debate: "Why was it she was so popular? Because she was the only one that was genuine. She was genuinely wrong, she was genuinely saying a lot of things that weren't true. But she meant well. It was from a position of a useful idiot, but at least there was humanity there." That's actually a good review, coming from Alex Jones, who I like by the way. Very interesting.

Another hurdle for Williamson is that she hinted at problems with vaccines, and now she is called kook and anti-science, such as in this video: I strongly agree with Williamson. And I hope that there will be a vaccine scandal (without anyone getting harmed) exposing the whole hoax!!! That will silence opposition like in the video.

@DrewNows I believe Williamson can win! Even over Trump. Unless she is too New Agie for Christians. She will be able to say "God bless America" and mean it though!

I actually support hardcore Christians because I believe it's important that some people keep the original meaning instead of the lukewarm kind of Christianity that seems to be on a slippery slope towards a mainstream science view that denies miracles and supernatural possibilities. But my own view is more like Marianne Williamson's who integrates spiritual traditions.

I wonder if Christian Democrats in general are like the Republican Christians who tend to think of the kind of spirituality Marianne Williamson promotes as being New Age. Hopefully not, or at least that Williamson can explain her teachings in a way that is compatible with traditional Christianity. Here is an example of what otherwise can happen:

@DrewNows Yes, I posted a video where Ray Maor talked about 4 types of breatharianism. And I realized that type 4, where the person lives totally without food and water, is actually the wrong way for the future, because as I see it we will transcend and include eating and drinking. Meaning, we will be able to live without food and water but still eat and drink for pleasure, enjoyment and in social situations. Ray Maor had some similar thoughts about that, and he himself is type 3.

@DrewNows I have done some short dry fasts, not more than a few days at a time. I kind of gave up on the idea that ordinary breatharianism is the right way for me. Could still be useful for others though. When it comes to a universal basic income, I came to think that it can be used for sustaining spiritual communities. With technologies getting cheaper and with low cost living, people can create spiritual communities and with a UBI without having to worry about money! As it is today, from what I have heard, there's always a lot of conflicts in the spiritual communities over money issues.

The economy of a universal basic income, that all citizens receive say $1,000 per month, without demands attached and no questions asked, is fairly easy to sustain, especially with a steady improvement of price/performance through the progress of technology. The bigger problem is what are all people without jobs going to do with their lives? So what is needed is a fairly quick transition into a new kind of society where meaning through jobs is replaced with something else. Information technology will be useful for the transition to a jobless society. It connects people and allows for creativity and even entertainment is an important part. And then through augmented reality, the participation spreads out into the physical world. Just interacting through a screen all days is not good enough. The idea with social progress is that we will be able to do MORE things, and learn more things, and experience more, even without having jobs.

Another good point by Williamson: "We should see large groups of desperate people as a national security risk." - Marianne Williamson I think a strong social safety net reduces much of that danger. Also, when people feel secure there is increased health, even physical health! Because stress is a major cause of physical disease. And poverty and fear of survival are huge stress causes.

Presidential candidate Andrew Yang as I mentioned earlier talks about automation and a universal basic income. Will Marianne Williamson address those issues? Yes, she already has. She said that a "tsunami of automation" is coming to America and she also talked about a universal basic income. Williamson is on top of a lot of things. She is well-prepared!