Her subconscious knows.

This reminds me of my dad. I've shown him the actor / oBiden comparisons before but he refuses to believe..which I can deal with.

BUT, if we find out we never went to the moon (I still think we did) he will be crushed. He was in the USAF during the peak of the moon missions and collected space stamps, built 3 ft tall Apollo models, collected souvenirs that went up in the ships and even met John Glenn. He will be absolutely crushed like your mother.

And there it is. Just like my SIL. She can't believe her country and the people in it could do something so evil. Their entire life and belief system is shattered. Most people can't handle it

The best book on this type of thing is Awareness by Father Anthony de Mello.

All suffering is caused by my identifying myself with something, whether that something is within me or outside of me.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed: after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed. But there’s a difference: I don’t identify with it anymore.

You want freedom? Here it is: Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality.

Rumor has it the Jesuits had him killed. He was a Jesuit priest, but brought too many people too close to the Truth.