September 04, 2019 10:11 AM UTC

Marianne Williamson: Use Your Brain To Wish Hurricane Away

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• by: Colorado Pols

Politico, though you’d be excused for thinking it’s The Onion:

Spiritual guru and self-help author Marianne Williamson on Wednesday posted and then deleted a tweet suggesting that the “power of the mind” helped turn Hurricane Dorian away from delivering a more dangerous blow to the United States.

“The Bahamas, Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas…may all be in our prayers now,” the Democratic presidential candidate said in the original tweet, adding, “Millions of us seeing Dorian turn away from land is not a wacky idea; it is a creative use of the power of the mind. Two minutes of prayer, visualization, meditation for those in the way of the storm.”

After deleting the tweet, she posted a replacement message that read: “Prayers for the people of the Bahamas, Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. May the peace of God be upon them and their hearts be comforted as they endure the storm.”

Before you laugh, consider how much less harm this would do than dropping a nuke! And at least as useful.

You might even say Donald Trump puts Marianne Williamson in perspective.