Hillary Clinton’s Counselor
Move over, Joan of Arc, to make room for Jean Houston, who is being burned at the stake of ignorance. Houston has spent her entire adult life in the service of bettering the lives of others as a communicator, writer, philosopher and pioneer in the field of mind expansion, including the powerful use of imagination. Are we entering the 21st century or retreating to the dark ages of the witch hunts and the persecution of those who dare to go beyond the ordinary?
It is very telling of our public mentality that we malign Hillary Clinton for her association with Houston instead of congratulating her. Has Houston simply been caught in the cross-fire of the constant media attack on Hillary Clinton or are we a society terrified by brave, powerful women?
The negative spin on the character and work of Houston is not only a cruel personal attack but it is a huge threat to a free society when those of vision and humanity are so maligned.
LYNNE GOLDKLANG
Sherman Oaks
* As a reasonably successful research scientist I have indulged in occasional imaginary conversations with Albert Einstein, Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur. It was a useful exercise that helped me look at my problems from a different point of view.
I suspect that those Republicans who are jumping all over Hillary Clinton have been having their own imaginary conversations with the likes of those paragons of Republican values, Spiro Agnew, Joseph McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover.
ALBERT L. ROCKLIN
Laguna Hills
* Republicans are mocking Hillary Clinton’s meditations relating to Eleanor Roosevelt.
Meanwhile their own party is being taken over by those who claim to have received their instructions directly from God.
DAVID S. ROBINSON
Laguna Hills
* Now comes the Gary Aldrich book full of innuendoes and unsubstantiated rumors about the Clintons (July 1). How long will political merchants of venom continue to peddle their poison? Buyers beware! Ignorance and prejudice are their chosen legal tender. We must not let them buy our votes so meanly.
RUTH SMITH