Marianne Williamson’s Deleted Tweet About Moving Hurricanes With Your Mind Is Just Her Usual Playbook

Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson urged her Twitter followers to pray for the Bahamas and the Southern U.S. coast on Wednesday morning, as Hurricane Dorian made its devastating path northward. This in itself was not a remarkable thing for a presidential candidate to do. The unusual thing was that Williamson also seemed to suggest that “the power of the mind” could alter the hurricane’s path.

“Millions of us seeing Dorian turn away from land is not a wacky idea,” Williamson tweeted. “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.” The sentiment didn’t last long. By 10:15 a.m., it had been deleted and replaced with a more anodyne message of support: