Stacey Lawson is the first-time candidate running with 11 others to take retiring Democratic Rep. Lynn Woolseys North Coast seat. The wealthy tech entrepreneur backed by major Democratic funder Susie Tompkins Buelll is focusing her candidacy on biz background. <\/p>\n
But she also has had a longstanding interest in spirituality and meditation and posted regularly on The Huffington Post a blog called Conscious Living. But after launching her Congressional run last year, Lawson pulled down all those posts. But now, she tells The Chronicle that shes ready to start talking about them. <\/p>\n
Youd think. Geez, if there was one Congressional district in the country where an appreciation of spirituality and meditation might be an advantage, it would be one where Marin County voters are expected to supply a large chunk of the ballots. <\/p>\n
On a different level, the attempted scrubbing has an odd ring, especially for a Democrat. With President Obama promising but not always succeeding to run the most transparent administration in history, it is odd that a candidate would try to scrub a portion of her past. Especially a candidate with a tech background, who knows the difficulty in erasing online history. Some of her posts are archived, like this one. <\/p>\n
But these are deeply personal blogs and Lawson told us that as brand-new candidate introducing herself to voters, she didnt want them to distract from her core economic message. Here Lawson tells the San Francisco Chronicle\/SFGate.coms Shaky Hand Productions about why she pulled down her posts.and now she sounds like shes ready to talk about them: <\/p>\n
Here is a clip of one of those posts: <\/p>\n
Todays post is a personal journey. I havent written in several weeks as Ive been in a terrible state lost, confused, despairing. Raw and vulnerable. Shattered. My only small comfort has been knowing this is a well-worn path. Many mystics have written about the Dark Night of the Soul, the narrow passage tread by those seeking freedom and union with the Divine. <\/p>\n
I debated whether to write this post, questioning what value I could really offer from a place of such agony and confusion? Yet, some internal voice prodded me forward. Share the process, share the experience <\/p>\n
These last months have taken me into a depth of spiritual despair previously unimaginable. The experience has been a ruthless stripping away of my false, idealized sense of self. Having studied with a spiritual master for many years, this process is not new, of coursebut it has never been this ruthless. This has taken me to ground zero a massive deconstruction of the remaining image of who I am. It has mercilessly dissolved my most cherished beliefs, and shattered every assumption about what I thought was true. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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