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Originally Posted by StClair
Sarah Palin and John McCain have retained their humanity, vulnerability and personal vision at a time when corruption of the human heart is at its strongest on planet earth.
At the core of the human being lies a flame of truth, a light that cannot be extinguished. So, dear Sarah Palin - please stay close to your own unique essence and soar above the corruption and insanity of the sell-their-soul-media - to know in your heart that you were an asset to John McCain (as he knew when he chose you).
Those who have sold out their humanity have called you a "diva", without realising that the Diva's are powerful archetypal forces working with all humankind to bring greater awareness, compassion and joy to mankind. Regardless of our need to live from the body of nature if we are to co-exist and survive on this planet, we are intimately part of life and nothing will change that.
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Michael, how does your perspective of Mrs. Palin include her extravagant shopping sprees for herself and her family? I mean, $40,000 just for Todd, including his silk boxer shorts? And 13 suitcases to carry her designer wardrobe?
It's not about the upgrade in her wardrobe, which she direly needed. It's about her unbridled euphoria, about her inability to accept limits (she was authorized to spend $25,000 by the RNC), about behavior that smacks of "entitlement" and a lack of concern about how her behavior might be perceived by the American public. This kind of behavior goes beyond being a Diva . . . her untamed ego and self-centered behavior has all the characteristics of
narcissism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism
Narcissism describes the trait of excessive self-love, based on self-image or ego.
The term is drived from the Greek mythology of Narcissus. Narcissus was a handsome Greek youth who rejected the desperate advances of the nymph Echo. As punishment, he was doomed to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. Unable to consummate his love, Narcissus pined away and changed into the flower that bears his name, the narcissus.
In psychology and psychiatry, excessive narcissism is recognized as a severe personality dysfunction or personality disorder, most characteristically Narcissistic personality disorder, also referred to as NPD.
Sigmund Freud believed that some narcissism is an essential part of all of us from birth and was the first to use the term in the reference to psychology.[1]
Andrew Morrison claims that, in adults, a reasonable amount of healthy narcissism allows the individual's perception of his needs to be balanced in relation to others.[2]
The terms narcissism, narcissistic, and narcissist are often used as pejoratives, denoting vanity, conceit, egotism or simple selfishness. Applied to a social group, it is sometimes used to denote elitism or an indifference to the plight of others.
We've had enough narcissists in the US White House . . . 8 years of George Bush should make that pretty clear.
Please . . . no more!
Sarah Palin also seems to be an archetypal American woman who runs more on her male polarity and isn't much in touch with what I would term the "deep feminine." Sorry, Michael. I didn't feel that energy from her in any of her public appearances.
The inability of women (not just American) to balance these polarities internally just reinforces the patriarchal perspective.
CW