Here in Bristol a woman A. met has asked us to come clear her workplace. The building was at one time a Victorian workhouse and later, a psychiatric ward. The whole staff says the energy there is dark and difficult. We are stilll thinking about this ---- when I've done this kind of clearing before in my life, I didn't plan it, it just happened, so doing it deliberately seems like a whole new ballgame to me.
What this relates to is that one of the main IT guys at Abu Ghraib, who didn't work in the main prison area but who visited it several times, said that it had dark, psychotic energy from the beginning (torture, murder under Saddam happened there frequently).He compared it to the "Outlook Hotel" in a Stephen King Novel. (in fact, he said the execution room was a "tourist" attractin for visiting poiticians and military brass).(my source for this info. is a recent article in The Guardian) So, the Americans went in there and unleashed there own demons...
This is not what I meant when I said that sometimes Americans strike me as playful puppies.