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has more generally fallen toward the opposite side of this dilemma: a failure to "get through" to the people and avert disaster. In the words of
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authority figures, would not accept. In her frightened, ego-less state, the
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they see it. Those who support the new vision are termed "Cassandras"—able to see what is going to happen, but not believed. Sometimes the name
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represent different qualities in the human psyche. The pantheon of Greek deities together, male and female, exist as archetypes in us all ... There are gods and goddesses in every person."
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