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The *second* major conspirituality influencer that we've covered has now declared a primary challenge to Biden.

RFK Jr's conspirituality runs parallel to that of Marianne Williamson (the subject of our main feed episode today). /1 Image
MW leans with full devotion into New Age Jesus as the source of her political teleology, her battle against dark psychic forces, and her belief that meditation can help ward off COVID. /2
RFK Jr. is more opportunistic, willing to marshal apocalyptic evangelicalism and ally with the Nation of Islam to electrify his paranoid pseudoscience. /3
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Anyone saying that #MarianneWilliamson's politics can be separated from her religious commitments is being naive.

Understanding where she's coming from spiritually is essential to assessing the calculus of what she says vs. what she believes vs. what she would do. /1
Bits like this made MW stand out in the summer of 2019 because they were disruptive to the typical discourse, and they grounded her brand in outsidership.

But they also revealed Williamson’s real career as a spiritual influencer. They pointed at her sources. /2
If you listen closely, you can hear echoes of #ACourseinMiracles, the New Age Bible that MW has been meditating on every day since 1977, and lecturing from since 1983.

To get specific: /3
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Ego has God’s Son believing He is a body on a tiny rock, alone and technically autonomous, yet constrained by physics and the actions and intentions of other bodies. (ctd)
Cut off from His source in a vast dream and reduced to a body, God’s sleeping Child believes that the ego He dreamt is also limited to bodies.

Yet, just as God has only One Child, the Child is haunted in the dream by a lone ego, that shattered His mind into lonely bits. (ctd)
It is this broken belief in individual autonomy and egoic individuation that perpetuates the separation.

And it is irredeemable personal guilt and perpetual, unforgivable outrage that serve to deepen and entrench it. (ctd)
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