The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife
by Marianne Williamson

The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife
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Author: Marianne Williamson
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-01-01
ISBN: 1401917194
Number of pages: 187
Publisher: Hay House

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Book Review: The scope and praxis of fear
Summary: 1 Stars

Ms Williamson has made a career of identifying the scope and praxis of 'fear' in our contemporary moment. Identifying fear is a noble pursuit, but when it also comes at the expense of a political engagement which perpetuates fear tied to interminable war, covert strikes on children and other non-combatants, needs to be spoken despite our false beliefs. Ms. Williamson continues to advocate for a political praxis mired in a right of center politics. Most recently, she has publically supported the candidacy of Barack Obama who is now engaged in escalating the war in Afghanistan and asserting that between 50-70K troops will remain indefinitely in Iraq, along with covert drone missions dropping US munitions on non-combatants resulting massive loss of life of women and children in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Furthermore, Obama named last week Cheney's assassination general - McChrystal to take over command of the war efforts in Afghanistan presumably to insure that occupation and killing results in a more efficient body count.

I am just wondering if anyone else recognizes the contradictions to Ms. Williamson's own fear based political agenda, while she refuses to acknowledge that only the Green Party calls for complete withdrawal of Afghanistan and Iraq without conditions? The Green Party is actually the Party supporting her call to exam `fear' and act against it!

Chris Hedges recently published an article on Common Dreams (the progressive news wire) noting that: "fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power."

I am wondering if Marianne will ever 'own' her own rhetoric and start walking her talk?

Summary of The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

The need for change as we get older-an emotional pressure for one phase of our lives to transition into another-is a human phenomenon, neither male nor female. There simply comes a time in our lives-not fundamentally different from the way puberty separates childhood from adulthood-when it's time for one part of ourselves to die and for something new to be born.

The purpose of this book by best-selling author and lecturer Marianne Williamson is to psychologically and spiritually reframe this transition so that it leads to a wonderful sense of joy and awakening.

In our ability to rethink our lives lies our greatest power to change them. What we have called "middle age" need not be seen as a turning point toward death. It can be viewed as a magical turning point toward life as we've never known it, if we allow ourselves the power of an independent imagination-thought-forms that don't flow in a perfunctory manner from ancient assumptions merely handed down to us, but rather flower into new archetypal images of a humanity just getting started at 45 or 50.

What we've learned by that time, from both our failures as well as our successes, tends to have humbled us into purity. When we were young, we had energy but we were clueless about what to do with it. Today, we have less energy, perhaps, but we have far more understanding of what each breath of life is for. And now at last, we have a destiny to fulfill-not a destiny of a life that's simply over, but rather a destiny of a life that is finally truly lived.

Midlife is not a crisis; it's a time of rebirth. It's not a time to accept your death; it's a time to accept your life-and to finally, truly live it, as you and you alone know deep in your heart it was meant to be lived.

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