You went away.

Well, I had to hear from people, let's go again.

And we're here tonight with somebody known for being on the dance floor with a

tambourine on her hip or maybe having an

Atlantis more set song written about her but you probably know her because she's

running for president we have Marianne Williamson. How are you doing today?

I'm doing great. Thank you. Thank you for having me on.

So this would probably be a good time for you to tell everybody all the stuff that the

media really doesn't put out about your background because when you look you up basically

you're told that you're a self-help guru and that's all we get

Well, I have had a 35-year career and you know today we're talking on World AIDS Day and when my career began in the early 80s I was

giving lectures in Los Angeles and very very soon after I began lecturing the

AIDS epidemic exploded to the scene and at first and for quite a while

Western medicine not that it wasn't trying it certainly was but they kept

playing cards and coming up empty it was a definitely and at that

time an incurable situation if people were told that they had contracted the virus

it was an almost certain death sentence.

And also it took a while before the organized religious institutions had much to say either

working through whatever they had to work through. I at the time was a young woman talking over at a place called the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles.

And I was talking about spiritual matters, very non-denominational, but I was talking specifically

about a God who loves us no matter what and about how when we love each other miracles happen.

And so gay men, particularly in Los Angeles, everyone

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