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Title: The Healing of America by Marianne Williamson ISBN: 0-684-84270-X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.94 (16 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: New age liberal's plea for even more government!
Comment: Marianne Williamson: The Healing of America, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.New age philosopher Ms. Williamson argues that either a renaissance or catastrophe is coming to America. She argues passionately for a new politics of healing spirit based upon "divine Truth" (a term originating with the founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy). She is rightly concerned that America has lost its spiritual foundation, has become materialistic, and that we have corrupted government by turning Washington into a funding mechanism for special interest lobbies. Both political parties are failing to reverse tis course. She is right so far. But now Ms. Williams goes off course. For to "fix it", Ms. Williamson goes beyond lifting our individual thought to a more loving and giving basis. She wrongly puts her faith in government, of all things, to lead this great change. She advocates, for instance, adding a cabinet "Secretary for Childhood and Teen Development" to coordinate services to young people. She wants more entitilements such children's health insurance (which was, in fact, passed by Congress as "KiddieCare" after the book was published). Such entitlements always sound great at first. Then they grow ten fold larger in size than planned and we all have to pay grossly higher taxes -- in this case because too few Americans take the personal responsibility to buy their own family insurance and to support charities for those who "can't afford it".Williams ends up, in the end, sounding like an old fashioned liberal, but with God on her side. I had one point of agreement: there are, as she notes, "nonprofit models of success" all over America. But it is by only making government smaller, not larger as she advocates, that the Third, or voluntary, Sector still has a chance to florish the way it did for Tocqueville in the 19th century. The change will take prayer and spiritual commitment. But these virtues are in poor company with Ms. Williamson's well conceived, but poorly executed, book. Hint: read her "Illuminata": beautiful; nonpolitical.
Rating: 5
Summary: I see it as a daring book.
Comment: Wow. First of all my apologies for intellectually selling out and going with the book on tape - I do a lot of driving. I think Marianne really went out on a limb with this one - I'm sure people that don't agree with her politics will attack the work. But what no one can really intelligently do, I think, is disagree with her message that a wake-up call is sorely needed NOW by our country and our world. Her bold statement that "we are a country in denial" can't be, well, uh, denied. This work was for me the very first time that I found myself thinking that I would ever have an interest in politics - I still don't, but I DO have an interest in the healing of America. This book gave me some ideas how to express that interest socially and politically. Thanks, Marianne.
Rating: 5
Summary: Food for Thought!
Comment: Written in 1997, "The Healing Of America" calls for people to have a more conscious involvement in politics and world events. Author, Marianne Williamson, cites our current levels of affluency as a key ingredient that has lulled the typical American into a state of disinterest with world events.
Williamson says, "No doctor can guarantee physical health to a patient who refuses to take care of her body, and no leader can guarantee social health to a people who refuse to take care of their society." (p. 176).
Prophetically, Williamson predicts that America will experience a renaissance or a catastrophe which will take us back to who we are. She further says, "Nothing short of a spiritual awakening will heal this wounded nation."
Williamson makes a strong case for needing to take care of your own healing via cleaning up old unfinished business. She points out that this is step one and needs to be handled before involvement with healing the larger society. She provides examples and insights into how one can do this.
Timely and beautifully written, this book provides food for thought.
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Title: Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential by Barbara Marx Hubbard ISBN: 1577310160 Publisher: New World Library Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Waking Up to Personal and Global Transformation by Thom Hartmann, Neale Donald Walsch, Joseph Chilton Pearce ISBN: 0609805290 Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA) Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Future of Love: The Power of the Soul in Intimate Relationships by Daphne Rose Kingma ISBN: 0385490844 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth by John Robbins ISBN: 0915811812 Publisher: H.J. Kramer Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium by Robert Theobald ISBN: 0865713677 Publisher: New Society Publishers Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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