A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles

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In 2010, Williamson launched "Sister Giant", a series of conferences to "start a new conversation about transformational politics" and encourage more women to run for office: [17] [131] Gibson, Brittany (June 20, 2023). "Marianne Williamson loses second campaign manager in two months: Other staff departures have also been rampant". Politico. Archived from the original on June 20, 2023 . Retrieved June 20, 2023. Williamson became the spiritual leader for the Church of Today, a Unity Church in Warren, Michigan, where she had 2,300 congregants and 50,000 television viewers. [16] Her position also included administrative leadership; her actions as leader included booking Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, expanding the bookstore, and increasing the congregation's racial and sexual orientation diversity. As a result, the Church grew rapidly. [25] [14] [26] [27] [28]She has also criticized overprescription of antidepressants, [84] [93] questioning whether antidepressants play a role in suicide, saying that the prescriptive definition between sadness and clinical depression is "artificial", and having called the process by which clinical depression is diagnosed "a scam". [94] [89]

Williamson was born in Houston, Texas in 1952. She is the youngest of three children of Samuel "Sam" Williamson, a World War II veteran and immigration lawyer, and Sophie Ann Kaplan, a homemaker and community volunteer. [6] [7] In 2014, Williamson ran as an Independent for California's 33rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. [41] Williamson supports universal health care under a " Medicare for All type of plan". [1] Williamson also supports independent regulation of the pharmaceutical industry to prevent what she has called "predatory practices". [84] Ginsburg, Merle (June 21, 2019). "Marianne Williamson Doesn't Mistrust Vaccines, Just "Big Pharma" ". Los Angeles Magazine. Archived from the original on July 1, 2019 . Retrieved August 16, 2019.a b c d Yadidi, Noa (February 28, 2019). "Marianne Williamson: Everything you need to know about the 2020 candidate". Axios. Archived from the original on February 28, 2019 . Retrieved March 1, 2019. Williamson supports the creation of a United States Department of Peace to aid in her proposed redesign, which also includes a plan to establish a Peace Academy modeled after military academies. [101] In 1973, Williamson dropped out of college and lived "a nomadic existence" during what she calls "her wasted decade". [7] [9] [13] a b c d Fortini, Amanda (April 25, 2014). "Marianne Williamson is Campaigning for a Miracle". Elle. Archived from the original on September 4, 2019 . Retrieved August 16, 2019.