Marianne Williamson - It Just Gets More Curious... And here is why: Ms. Williamson readily admits that the book,  A Course in Miracles (ACIM) has been the overwhelming guiding force in her life since 1979. But who exactly wrote ACIM? The Course (aka the "scripture") was said to be channeled over a seven year period by Helen Schucman, "an emotionally tortured psychologist" (LA Times) and "scribed" with the help of colleague William Thetford who she met during her  tenure at Columbia University, in early 1958. Thetford acted as a calming, encouraging and stabilizing influence for Schucman during the period of transmission which was given to her by an inner voice whom she later identified as "historic Jesus". The main transcription process took seven years, from 1965 through 1972. Let's take a look at William Thetford.  He was, among other things a research psychologist in the Institute for Psychosomatic & Psychiatric Research & Training at the Reese Hospital in Chicago from 1949-1951 and a senior psychologist for the United States government in Washington, DC from 1951-1954. In 1953 he was a consultant in Beirut, Lebanon at the Foreign Service Institute.  Coincidently, it was in 1953 that Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état orchestrated by the United States' CIA and the United Kingdom's MI6.  The kicker?  From 1971 to 1978 Mr. Thetford, along with David Saunders, headed the CIA Mind Control Project MKULTRA Subproject 130: Personality Theory, which was concurrent with his "helpful influence" and transcription of Helen's "Voice" transmissions. In 1972 Thetford and Schucman were introduced to Kenneth Wapnick through their mutual friend Father Groeshel. (Interesting Factoid: In 1960, Groeshel became the chaplain for the Children's Village, a facility for emotionally disturbed children based in Dobbs Ferry, New York. In 1985, Groeschel co-founded, with Christopher Bell, the Good Counsel Homes for homeless pregnant women and children. A very giving man, was the good Father). Through the assistance of Wapnick A Course in Miracles was finally published in 1975, coinciding with the rise of the New Age Movement. BTW, A Course in Miracles is so vapid, I could not get through a quarter of it.  Marianne Williamson has said that ACIM "contains no holes", and consulting it can solve every problem, except perhaps her conflict between staff and the board over Williamson's leadership and "explosive temper."  during her stint as a co-founder of a non-profit dedicated to helping victims of HIV/AIDS in the 1980's. Oprah gave free copies out to her studio audience extolling the fact that she herself had experienced exactly 157 miracles since reading the book.  Let's have a brief look at Ms. Williamson: Upon graduating high school in Houston Texas, Ms. Williamson enrolled at the geographically distant Pomona College in Claremont, California in 1971 studying theater and philosophy. She dropped out in her Junior year to pursue a stellar career as a cabaret dancer. Interestingly enough, when Marianne was a Sophomore, Lynn Forester de Rothschild was a Freshman,  later to graduate from Pomona in 1976. In 1979, after discovering  A Course in Miracles, she returned to Houston, where she ran a combination metaphysical bookstore and coffee shop, which must have been highly profitable,  since beginning in 1983 she began to travel nationally and internationally to lecture on ACIM. Travel IS expensive, after all...  Marianne is involved in public charity - good for her. She also is pushing reparations which never mind how many HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of white folks died in bringing an end to slavery, will destroy America in a race war. This IS the Progressive agenda - Destroy America. It was NOT the agenda when the CIA was toppling Mossadegh because Americans WERE NOT AWAKE!  Waking from the lulling sleep of mass programming is an existential threat to the Deep State in America and its ultimate goal of GROUP THINK disguised as "love" - think placid cows in a pasture. Those who self identify as "spiritual" teachers are agents of the worst kind. Religious beliefs  have always been regarded as soft targets because they are so easy to co-opt, especially in the groovy, "it's all good" New Age Movement Marianne Williamson said this during a speech given to a group of women after the October 27, 2018 synagogue shooting: "I am speaking to you as a Jewish woman. Where fear has been turned into a political force in America, we must turn love into a political force. With the history of Muslims and the history of Jews and of blacks and of immigrants it is time... for something fierce to rise up out of us. To say you did it to my grandparents and you are not going to do it to my kids." Just who did what to her grandparents since one can assume that at least 2 were in Soviet Russia? Who is going to do what to her kids? Who is the "you" that she is referring to? Who is left out of the aforementioned quote? Conservative Americans?  You can bet that, this "love" she is referring to is a touchy-feelie version of programmed GROUP THINK that the Soviet Socialist Republic was famous for, and that MKULTRA perfected in hideous ways. And that if you question this "fierce" something rising up out of them should they (God forbid) come to Power? "Welcome to the Gulag, Comrade. We have all kinds of persuasion to make you better ".