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Shadow Politics with Senator Michael D. Brown and Co-host Liberty Jones

The Moral Arc of America: Marianne Williamson on History, Democracy, Resistance, and the Soul of Politics
Guest, Marianne Williamson

Michael D. Brown and Liberty Jones Welcome Marianne Williamson

In this episode of Shadow Politics, host Former D.C. Shadow Senator Michael D. Brown is joined by co-host Liberty Jones and special guest Marianne Williamson, whom Michael introduces as a former presidential candidate, bestselling author, and influential spiritual and political voice. The conversation begins with Michael praising Marianne’s writing and asking about an article she wrote concerning the period leading into the Civil War. From there, the discussion becomes an examination of America’s contradictions, the moral responsibilities of citizenship, the failures of party politics, and the question of how a new generation can meaningfully resist injustice and authoritarianism.

America as Both Promise and Contradiction

Marianne says the truth of American history cannot be understood by viewing the nation as either entirely noble or entirely corrupt. She points to the Declaration of Independence and its universal language of equality while noting that many of its signers were themselves slave owners. In her view, the United States has always contained both the forces of oppression and the forces struggling toward liberation: slaveholders and abolitionists, segregationists and civil rights workers, financial exploitation and labor organizing, the suppression of women and the suffrage movement. She argues that the arc of American history has repeatedly bent toward justice, but only because people in each generation chose to fight for it.

Lincoln, the Civil War, and Moral Leadership

Much of the opening discussion centers on Abraham Lincoln and the moral stakes of the Civil War. Marianne explains that Lincoln understood slavery as incompatible with the Declaration of Independence and its promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. She reflects on the human cost of the war and the political risk Lincoln faced when many Northern voters wanted peace rather than continued sacrifice. In her telling, Lincoln’s refusal to accept a settlement that would allow slavery to endure demonstrated genuine moral leadership: he was willing to risk his political future because he believed the preservation of slavery was fundamentally wrong. Liberty connects this history to the present, observing that moral leadership requires the courage to confront injustice even when doing so threatens one’s own power.

Reading History and Reclaiming Moral Imagination

Liberty asks whether the courage and injustice of earlier eras have been flattened or sanitized by modern media and politics. Marianne agrees that history has been distorted or erased in education and public conversation but urges people not to accept superficial accounts. Her answer is direct: read serious books, study the founders, Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, the suffrage movement, labor history, and the anti-war movement. She argues that the political left has lost much of its moral and spiritual imagination, contrasting the present with earlier movements shaped by religious leaders, nonviolent philosophy, and a clear moral vocabulary. Michael responds by suggesting that Shadow Politics begin recommending a book each week, while Marianne mentions her own books, Healing the Soul of America and Politics of Love, as resources exploring spirituality and politics.

The Democratic Party, Superdelegates, and the Loss of Trust

The conversation then turns to the Democratic Party and what the speakers describe as its internal failures. Marianne argues that political parties are not established by the Constitution and recalls warnings from George Washington and John Adams about party loyalty overpowering loyalty to country. She criticizes the Democratic National Committee’s handling of the 2016 primary, saying the party undermined Bernie Sanders in favor of Hillary Clinton and later defended itself as a private organization not legally required to operate democratically. Michael, drawing from his experience at Democratic conventions and as a superdelegate, discusses the creation of the superdelegate system and recalls pressure to support Clinton once party leaders considered her nomination inevitable. Both say the party has become disconnected from open democratic contest and from a clear commitment to working people.

Liberty Jones Asks What Resistance Looks Like Now

Liberty responds emotionally to the discussion, asking how younger people can resist when political obstruction appears embedded in official institutions and when online manipulation makes it increasingly difficult to distinguish truth from propaganda. Marianne says young people are confronting an extraordinarily difficult moment because they lack the lived memory of earlier periods when movements visibly changed society. She argues that resistance now must be broad, decentralized, and persistent: reading, speaking, posting, organizing, podcasting, building relationships, and refusing to become numb or disengaged. Using metaphors of guerrilla resistance and people keeping one another awake during a freezing emergency, Marianne says change cannot depend on one heroic leader, because movements centered on a few individuals can be silenced or destroyed. Instead, millions of people must continue telling the truth and strengthening one another.

Spiritual Politics, Peace, and Refusing to Go to Sleep

In the final portion, Marianne emphasizes that political action must be rooted in humility, receptivity, availability, and self-examination. She says people seeking justice must also confront hatred within themselves and reclaim a politics based on moral principle rather than party loyalty or personal advantage. Michael raises concern that national defense discussions focus on military confrontation without making peace a serious objective, and Marianne criticizes what she describes as a powerful military-industrial-technological system that profits from war. Liberty closes the discussion with an image from Greek mythology in which chaos gives birth to Gaia, suggesting that new creation may emerge from the present upheaval. Michael thanks Marianne and Liberty, before asking how listeners can find Marianne’s books, and Marianne provides her Substack information and describes the upcoming book-club discussions. Michael closes the episode with music dedicated to his guest.

Dare To Dream with Debbi Dachinger

Maja D’aoust, The Part of You You've Been Avoiding Is Actually Your Greatest Power

What if the darkest parts of you aren't broken - they're just unfinished? Practicing witch, alchemist, and shadow work scholar Maja Daost joins Debbi Dachinger to reveal the truth about shadow integration that pop culture gets completely wrong. From dark archetypes like the cannibal mother and hubris to the hidden serpent power blocking humanity's access to its own source, Maja dismantles the watered-down version of shadow work and replaces it with something ancient, precise, and transformational. She also does a live card reading revealing the exact shadow preventing humanity from stepping into its power — and the antidote hiding in your reptilian brain. Your darkness isn't your enemy. It's your unfinished story.

Topics:
– The shocking truth about shadow self that pop culture gets wrong
– What shadow really is: dark matter, death & the unconscious realm
– Tools for shadow work: psychopomp, ancestors & underworld journeys
– Dark archetypes vs. archetypes: the inversion that changes everything
– The Shadow Seer Tarot: hands, cave art & the birth of a new deck
– The cannibal mother, hubris & recognizing dark energies in your life
– How to call someone out on shadow behavior without triggering defense
– Synchronicity vs. omens: there's a crucial difference
– Common shadow patterns destroying relationships & how to break them
– LIVE card reading: what shadow is blocking humanity's power source
– The serpent, the Nephilim & your reptilian brain as the antidote
– First safe steps into shadow work without creating a crisis
– Most transformative readings: healing disease & winning an election
– Maja's next dream: rainbow light codes & color healing

ABOUT THE GUEST: MAJA DAOST

Maja Daoust is a practicing witch, scholar of alchemy and occult lore, transformational psychologist, and creator of the newly released Shadow Seer Tarot — published through Inner Traditions. With a master's degree in transformational psychology focusing on shamanism, the I Ching, and ancestral wisdom, Maja Daoust has spent over 20 years reading tarot and guiding clients through the hidden architecture of the psyche. Her work transpersonalizes the shadow, helping individuals and groups recognize dark archetypes, integrate unconscious patterns, and reclaim their original power source. She works as a live oracle, individual guide, and group facilitator — and deliberately stays off social media to protect client privacy and personal sovereignty.

Apple Pie Playground with Valerie

Title: It's an Inside Job

We are evolving toward creation’s reset point. How do we make sure we'll get there? It's an inside job. Let's talk.

The Inside Job: Returning to Source Through Silence and Conscious Awareness

A Heavy Week and the Choice of Peace

Valerie opens Apple Pie Playground by acknowledging what she describes as an emotionally and energetically difficult week, speaking directly to listeners who may be struggling. She frames the episode around choosing peace, bringing spirit into the body, and asserting personal light in the face of darkness. Her opening message emphasizes encouragement, resilience, and the idea that listeners can consciously command healing, balance, life force, and source light within themselves.

Listening, Silence, and an Inside Job

The host then introduces the central premise that the work of the spirit is an inside job. Reflecting on a recent conversation and a referenced book that she has not yet read herself, she explores the idea of cosmic silence as source consciousness: a still, receptive space before vibration or material creation. Valerie suggests that people often fill silence with religious sound, speech, prayer, and effort while overlooking the possibility of quieting themselves enough to experience inward connection.

Source Consciousness and the Material World

Valerie develops a metaphysical interpretation of human life, distinguishing eternal spirit from physical identity and describing the material realm as a limiting or deceptive backdrop. She poses questions about incarnation, control, false light, ascension, and revelation, asking listeners to approach them with the curiosity of an inner child rather than accepting her conclusions automatically. Throughout this section, she urges listeners to reconnect with what she calls source consciousness through stillness and conscious awareness.

Remembering the I AM and Childhood Creativity

A major theme of the episode is Valerie's concept of the "I AM" as a true inner beingness that becomes covered over by identity, ego, fear, duty, and social conditioning. She contrasts that limitation with childhood imagination, using symbolic play as an example of children expressing themselves freely before becoming self-conscious. She argues that wounded or dimmed inner light can be called back through intention, spiritual command, and a renewed willingness to remember one's essential nature.

The Mantra of Being Anchored, Safe, Unified, and Conscious

Valerie connects teachings about stillness and spaciousness with her episode mantra: "We are anchored. We are safe. We are unified. And we are conscious." She discusses the possibility of building spiritual "playgrounds" grounded in light and sovereignty rather than fear or confinement. She also uses the idea of mirror self-reflection to invite listeners to recognize a spiritual self beyond physical identity and to consider whether their everyday attention is centered on environment and material concerns rather than inner essence.

A Guided Four-Box Self-Reflection Exercise

The episode concludes with an expressive self-therapy activity in which listeners divide a page into four boxes and respond to four prompts: what anchors them to spirit, what makes them feel safe, what unifies them with spirit, and what conscious awareness means for them. Valerie asks listeners to rank their answers by certainty and use any uncertainty as a focus for reflection during the week. She closes by thanking BBS and inviting listeners back to Apple Pie Playground the following Sunday.

A St. Thomas Show with Aero

Be Your Own Teacher: Jubilee, Presence, Grace, and Creating From Within

Remembering Identity and Introducing a Co-Host

Aero opens A St. Thomas Show with a theme centered on inner truth, awakening, and reclaiming personal power, then introduces herself as Saint Thomas, also called Aero. She describes her mission as helping people remember who they are and participate in creating peace on Earth. For this episode she welcomes Rob as co-host, thanks the BBS Radio support team and production manager Sheila, and invites listeners to submit questions or connect through the related Sunday programming.

Jubilee, Music, and the Episode's Spiritual Frame

Aero frames the discussion through her personal spiritual interpretation of "jubilee," describing it as freedom, self-ownership, and the end of conflict within her own experience. Before moving into the main conversation, she references the film Jupiter Ascending and performs part of Blondie's "Rapture" while connecting its imagery to her disclosure-oriented beliefs. She also mentions Avi Kaplan's "Change on the Rise" as music that powerfully represents jubilee and inner transformation for her.

Learning From Others Without Giving Away Authority

The central conversation begins with Sheila's statement that everyone has their own song to dance to. Sheila explains that poetry often functions as a message to herself and that her lesson has been to become her own teacher rather than expecting Spirit or outside teachers to provide every answer. Aero agrees that mentors can demonstrate qualities a person seeks, such as calmness or peace, but says any guidance still must be taken inward and discerned personally.

Presence, Self-Trust, and Letting Old Stories Go

Rob reflects on being raised Catholic and on society's tendency to teach people to look outside themselves for spiritual validation. He says that, over time, he has learned to trust his own inner authority rather than repeatedly retell painful events or seek outside confirmation. Aero and Rob discuss The Power of Now, noticing mental habits, returning attention to the present moment, and treating lapses in presence with humor rather than self-punishment.

Recovery Experiences and Differing Personal Paths

The three speakers share differing experiences with recovery and emotional processing. Sheila and Aero describe twelve-step recovery as meaningful in their lives, with Aero explaining that meetings helped her learn to speak publicly and that she still identifies as a recovering alcoholic. Rob explains that twelve-step programs were not right for him and presents his personal belief that his substance use related to unresolved trauma rather than an identity he wished to claim. Aero emphasizes that the show is not offering one answer for everyone, but encouraging listeners to find their own truth.

Synchronicity, Grace, and Living in the Flow

The episode closes with the speakers discussing inherited patterns, synchronicity, everyday presence, and grace toward oneself and others. Aero references an article from ForThePeople.space and shares practices she associates with remaining in the present moment, including nature, rest, breathing, and focusing on peace rather than fear. Rob shares examples from daily life in which he felt the difference between forcing efficiency and moving in flow, while Sheila concludes by encouraging listeners to sing their own song, even if they must create the words themselves.

Tony Alamo with Tony Alamo World Wide Ministries

Sermon 758A
Overcoming to the End: Tony Alamo on Revelation, the White Stone, and the Rod of Iron

An Archival Message About Continuing in God’s Work

In this archival sermon presented by Help from Christ Ministries, Tony Alamo opens in prayer and focuses on the teaching that believers must continue doing God’s work until the end of their lives. Drawing from Revelation chapter 2, he emphasizes Christ’s promise to those who “overcome” and “keep” His works, stating that faithful believers will receive power over the nations. Alamo prays that listeners will become deeply rooted in the Word of God, resist Satan, remain steadfast in faith, and receive the strength needed to continue what he describes as God’s work in the world.

“No Man Is an Island” and the Need for Christ

Alamo introduces a recording of “No Man Is an Island,” identifying the performers as himself, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, H.B. Barnum’s Life Choir, and the Hollywood Choir, with an arrangement by H.B. Barnum. He uses the song’s message to argue that people cannot successfully live on their own or according to their own desires, especially in what he describes as the end times. In his teaching, people need Jesus Christ, the Word of God, and the indwelling presence of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in order to endure spiritually and remain faithful.

The White Stone, Overcoming, and the Rejection of Continued Sin

After the music, Alamo returns to Revelation 2 and discusses the “white stone” and the new name promised to believers. He interprets the white stone as representing complete spiritual purity, unwavering faith, redemption, and a believer’s firm establishment in Christ. Using the image of a tree rooted beside living water, he says Christ and the Scriptures must become so deeply planted in a person’s mind, soul, and spirit that the believer cannot be moved away from faith. Alamo rejects what he describes as a false version of “once saved, always saved,” arguing that a person cannot claim salvation while continuing in sin; in his interpretation, genuine believers must keep Christ’s works continually and remain without spiritual blemish.

Personal Calling, Ministry Work, and Claims About World Government

Alamo then recalls praying for direction after the death of Susie, whom he identifies as the ministry’s former preacher. He says he asked God for the ability to write gospel literature, teach people across nations, and continue the ministry’s work. According to Alamo, he was instructed to remain confined to the work of preaching, writing, and recording teachings rather than pursuing his former interests in travel and outdoor activities. He says this work eventually led to worldwide radio broadcasting. During this portion, he also makes political and religious claims about government, Rome, Barack Obama, Islam, and what he regards as a one-world system opposing biblical truth; these claims are part of his sermon’s worldview and are not independently established within the transcript.

The Rod of Iron and Alamo’s View of Spiritual Authority

Continuing his reading from Revelation, Alamo focuses on the promise that the overcomer will rule with a “rod of iron.” He interprets this rod as the unyielding power of God’s Word operating through faithful believers. Alamo says those rooted in Christ should not be swayed by everyday worries, worldly pressures, or demonic opposition. He describes Satan as attacking people who might become effective preachers or teachers, and he urges listeners to actively plant the Word of God within themselves rather than expecting spiritual strength to come without effort. In discussing Jesus driving merchants from the temple, Alamo presents strong confrontation and discipline as legitimate expressions of religious authority.

Enforcing Order in the Church and Closing the Sermon

Near the end, Alamo applies the “rod of iron” theme to the operation of his own churches. He says disruptions or public complaints within a service should be dealt with firmly and that people who challenge the church’s order or leadership should be removed rather than allowed to remain. He presents himself as exercising this authority in order to preserve what he considers righteousness, justice, and proper worship. The program concludes with Alamo inviting listeners to return for a continuation of his teaching from Revelation, followed by the archival program’s contact information for Help from Christ Ministries.