Marianne Williamson’s New Age Bible Invites New Age Delusions
Is Trump a “Lightworker”? Yes, Says A Course in Miracles
Why do some New Age influencers believe that Trump is a “lightworker”? What do they mean by that? Nicole Karlis examined these questions for a report in Salon, published Thursday.
Karlis interviewed me for the piece, because many of the influencers I podcast about on the conspirituality beat adore the term “lightworker”. I told her that the first time I’d heard it was in the late 1990s, in the context of my membership at Endeavor Academy, a now-mostly-defunct cult in Wisconsin Dells. The charismatic leader was an ex-alcoholic WWII vet and real estate salesman who used A Course in Miracles — a 1300-page book supposedly channelled from a New Age Jesus—for his sermon material. While in the cult, I memorized large portions of the text, and made audio recordings of whole chapters for the propaganda department.
“Lightworker” does not appear in the tome, but “light” appears on almost every page. It features prominently in the training affirmations called “Lessons”, of which there are 365. Some examples:
Lesson 44: God is the light in which I see.
Lesson 61: I am the light of the world.
