26-09-2015, 08:53 AM
Drew Phipps Wrote:Ok I watched the short video, and had that same feeling listening to her, that I get when listening to a car salesman, or watching a shopping channel. So I went to wiki. Is there any truth to the wiki statement that she has "a long history of delusions"?
Sorry, but her claim to be a "CIA asset" based merely on another CIA asset asking her to do him a favor seems a bit of a reach, and her "backchannel attempts to avert war" consist of leaving handwritten letters for her cousin Andrew Card on his porch? Pardon my skepticism about the magnitude of her claims.
I do agree that her mistreatment by the government was a shameful episode. Hopefully at least the apparently documentable claims about her mistreatment will be a wake-up call for the justice system.
Oddly enough Drew, I also went straight to Wiki to get some background and the report there was convincingly written to focus on the delusional aspect that also left me thinking. But then I figured that you don't get all the secret court treatment for being delusional. You only get that if you're considered a genuine threat. So, if there is good evidence that she did get hauled into an intelligence court and treated the way she has explained then it's a slam dunk. But did she get treated that way?
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14