Near-Fearlessness Women Leaders and Their Shadow: U.S. Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson

Abstract

Across the globe, there is a recent under-examined critical history of important, and relatively effective, leadership by women in political spheres (e.g., Aung San Suu Kyi, Marianne Williamson). The author situates these women within a unique and virtually unknown consciousness movement he calls the global Fearlessness Movement throughout time, across cultures, transcending party-political lines, and across vast geographies. From that position and his own critical integral fearanalysis of such women leaders, including his introduction of the reference for a new fearlessness psychology, this paper argues for the upside and downside (shadow) of such women’s leadership. He makes recommendations for how to avoid some of the pitfalls that such women leaders and their followers seem to inhabit unconsciously. Avoiding any kind of blame of only these women leaders, he takes his fearanalysis to a systems integrative understanding where there are multiple complex factors intersecting that add to the degree of the pitfall—a ‘Fall’ that all are susceptible to in the world of a ‘Fear’ Matrix and no more exacerbated and vulnerable is such a Fall as in the political sphere with its toxic, if not psychotic, patterns.