The Healing of America

We must each mature into a deeper understanding of our lives and why we're living them, for such understanding is the womb out of which will come new life for American culture." With the publication of The Healing of America, Marianne Williamson became a powerful voice for social conscience in American society. This is a time, according to Williamson, for Americans to once again return to first principles - political and spiritual. "In a nation of 260 million our healing is actually extremely personal. While citing the virtual abandonment of social justice as a dominant political theme since the 1960s, Williamson notes historian Arthur Schlesinger's contention that Americans express renewed political interest every thirty years. The Healing of America is a blueprint for all three.. According to Williamson, we need a new paradigm of political understanding, a moral commitment to express it, and a new kind of activism to bring it forth. In this landmark work, Williamson draws plans for the transformation of American political consciousness and the re-emergence of powerful citizen involvement in a genuine healing of American society

More politicians should read this book. A Customer Here is a heavy dose of what we all need. Williamson shines the light in places too long in shadow. Once you get past the first third of the book and its overindulgent imagery and mixed metaphors, you find yourself heart-deep in truth. This book will help you see what's important out there. So turn off the TV and pick up a copy, then write a letter, or make a noise, or take a stand.. Repetitive, Unoriginal, Boring A Customer Williamson offers very little here that we don't already know. The message, of course, always falls back to love, but the author tends to beat this notion to death, over and over and over. The one lucicrous suggestion in "Healing" America is by disregarding Columbus Day as a means of "healing" the injustices suffered by Native Americans. What Williamson does not mention, is the bulk of atrocities committed aga. Important now, more than ever Mad Max I'm tempted to say this is Marianne Williamson's most important, yet most under-appreciated, book. You probably already know her for her work on spiritual healing. Most of her other works focus on inner healing, this book is about taking our inner journey outward, and how we can share our new thought/new energy with the worldand why this is vital.I say this is more important now than ever before. It's very int