Dear Friends,
What traumatic times we’re living in.
There are times when it seems like things are falling apart. We might believe they’re destined to come back together at a higher level, but it doesn’t always feel that way. At times it just feels like things are falling apart.
Such is the situation in the world today, whether regarding our personal lives or the world around us. Whether healing from personal challenges or witnessing the strains on our ecosystem or democracy, many of us are experiencing the anxieties that go along with cataclysmic change.
Personal and public crises, however, are opportunities for new possibilities. They are lessons, though often difficult, in becoming who we need to be in order to make the changes that will heal our lives. Crises are portals – should we choose to step into them – to a life beyond the one we experience now.
To endure those crises whatever form they take, and most importantly to transform them, is the challenge of this moment. Based on my work as a teacher and activist, I’ve created such a portal to help us face that challenge, providing a collective opportunity to deepen our understanding, sharpen our skills, and expand our ability to respond powerfully to this critical hour. I hope you’ll join me on a journey to the other side of chaos, to the peace that is still yet possible in a worn and weary world.
In the words of the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Come, my friends, ‘tis not too late to seek a newer world.”
I’m happy to announce my newest venture: the TRANSFORM substack.
What is Substack?
Substack is a newsletter, but it is so much more than that. TRANSFORM is a chance for us to journey together to a better place. It is a support for our individual transformation, but also a community through which we join with others to help transform the world.
Sometimes I’ll share a video or audio reflection in response to something happening in real-time, while other posts will be essays or interviews that take days to create. There will be audio and video conversations with fascinating people, as well as my new TRANSFORM podcast. One post might be spiritual, one might be political, one might be deeply personal and one might be a discussion of forces larger than any one of us. Everything, however, will be geared to providing ideas and actions that can transform our lives and the world around us.
Paying subscribers will have access to community discussion threads and bonus posts every week, with the ability to leave comments on each piece. I welcome the creative conversations that will follow, knowing they’ll spark the kinds of ideas that propel all of us forward. I’ll share additional bonus content as I feel moved, responding to the larger conversations happening on the page and in the world. Sometimes I’ll write, sometimes I’ll share an audio or video message, and sometimes I’ll bring on someone other than myself to up the level of our understanding. Both within ourselves and in the world, powerful energies will result from this community of hearts and minds.
I’ll use TRANSFORM as a hub for my work as a writer, teacher, and activist now living at this extraordinary time. I’m delighted to have the chance to invite you to join me, as we take a journey together through the portals of possibility presented by this moment.
In the words of Arundhati Roy, “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” And so can I.
Let’s do this! Let’s respond to the urgency of this moment with all the infinite potential that lies within us. With not a moment to lose, and so many miracles to gain, this is the moment and we are the people who I do believe, with all my heart, will turn this world into a better place.
With Love,
Marianne
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
– Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love
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People are ready to go deeper, be more truthful, and face challenges that confront us in more meaningful ways. We need to talk about causes and not just symptoms, face some inconvenient truths, and have more than prepackaged conversations among us. One question weaved into all episodes of The Marianne Williamson Podcast: how did we get to where we are, and how can we change things now?
