When you talk about human possibility, that's really what American democracy stands for.

The founding of our country was the repudiation of a system of entitlement for king, queen,

and aristocracy. The founding of this country turned that entire paradigm on its ear,

the idea that all men are created equal, all men given by God inalienable rights of life and

of liberty of the pursuit of happiness,

that it's the role of government to secure those rights,

to broker individual liberty and the balance between that and a care for the common good.

These are very, very enlightened principles, but from our very beginning, the entire narrative

of America's political journey has been that from the beginning, there in our DNA, has been

the struggle between those principles and our oftentimes failure to live them.

Hi, where are we going? failure to live them.

Welcome to Commune, where we're going, and practices that bring us together and help us live healthy, purpose-filled lives. That clip at the

top of the show was Marianne Williamson. We had her on the show a couple of weeks ago, discussing how

her spiritual journey informed her political worldview and paved her life path as a spiritual teacher,

author, activist, and former congressional candidate.

In this episode, we dive a bit deeper and ask the question,

what is the relationship between politics and spirituality?

While the separation of church and state is one of our country's founding principles,

spiritual faith has often been

at the center of positive political change. Over the past two generations, the religious right has

flourished, particularly amongst evangelicals. Once upon a time in America, there was a religious left,

based in the Catholic Church, but in the

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