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Dr. Lee,

I am so grateful for the work you and your colleagues are doing to get the word out about the serious nature of another Donald Trump presidency. I realize he is not the only source of violence, divisiveness, and aggression currently. However, the dangerousness of him is one that, as you all stated, has catapulted and could continue to catapult our precious Earth into a tumultuous period we may not be able to come back from without extreme losses of life, etc. I just wanted to make clear that there are those of us out here that are listening, praying, and hoping right along with you. Thank you!! May God bless our world!

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"This year, the Nobel Peace Prize has gone to Nihon Hidankyo..." [that has] "struggled almost eighty years for nuclear disarmament amid silence and shunning, as reminders of the human capacity to engineer apocalyptic horror."

Psychology and psychiatry are struggling to express the relevance of probing inward, defining Self, and illuminating the Ego, which is a major archetype in Self driving us toward apocalyptic horror. Left untamed, Ego (from which the power of what psychologists refer to as the subconscious and id arises) will destroy the species. Yet psychology and psychiatry barely have a seat in today's society.

Recently, it's been suggested Dr. Lee should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. A few commentators asked, "Why? It's obvious Trump is crazy!" The lack of understanding about the depths, structure, and danger of the psyche in our culture is profound. Today's psychiatrists and psychologists will probably struggle decades amidst silence, disparagement, and ignorance, but this is the price of mindful insight and compassion.

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