Bad and Evil-Wisdom Leading to Joy, Inner-standing of Spirituality, Principles for Humanity
What is bad, and what is evil? Does evil really exist, or is it merely a religious myth? If one makes a bad mistake with disastrous results, is it evil? If one doesn’t know any better, is it evil? If one does a very bad thing, even an evil thing, is one evil? Do love, kindness and forgiveness turn the heart of evil toward good? If we encounter evil, how can we deal with it effectively?
Current revision: paper March 12th, 2022 (first version 25th February 2021); recording: December 2020 - March 2021. New versions clarify or expand points in the original thesis; the points are unchanged.
Author’s note: Evil is a difficult and dangerous topic. It is hoped that people will read or view this material just enough to grasp what they might learn from it. Dwelling on these subjects is detrimental to our minds and hearts.
Referenced works: The Donut Machine Story On Enemies and the Compass, p. 3-8 or video/audio 2-4 Real Intelligence p. 10-11 or video/audio 4 Carolyn Hamlett, 2012 interview (42:27) MatthewTowards Justice 2 Injustice and 8 Justice of Higher Order, or video/audio 2 and 8
M. Scott Peck, People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil (1983) Ch. 6: An Examination of Group Evil Forgiveness and “Karma” p. 1-3 or video/audio 1 Anatomy of Harm and Forgiveness
Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1532)
Malachi Martin, Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Americans (1992, 2013, Harper)
M. Scott Peck, Glimpses of the Devil (2005, Free Press)
Jeery Alan Johnson, Daoist Exorcism: Encounters with Sorcerers, Ghosts, Spirits and Demons (2006, daoistmagic.com) To Give or Not to Give footnote 4, p. 4
Michael Jaco, The Intuitive Warrior: Lessons from a Navy SEAL on Unleashing Your Hidden Potential (2011), Ch. 1; video interview Joy Luke 17:3 Forgiveness and “Karma” Towards Justice footnote 7, p. 14
The content of these presentations has been garnered through observation, contemplation, hopefully insight, and, most importantly, experience. Ideas and assertions are simply presented for consideration. The effort is not to prove or convince, but rather to present ideas for one’s own thought, research, innate common sense, and experience.
References are included only if information is specific and may not be generally known. No offense whatsoever is taken at any disagreement or counter-assertion. Many disagreements are due to semantics. Take whatever is useful and ignore the rest. If something fits and is useful, wonderful!
Deep gratitude is expressed to developers and everyone who has assisted in making open-source software available to all. These presentations have been made possible by LibreOffice (Open Office), Audacity, SimpleScreenRecorder, RecordMyDesktop, Glimpse, Gimp, Inkscape, ImageMagick, Pitivi, ffmpeg, OpenClipart, PublicDomainVectors, and Linux. Appreciation is also expressed to FreeThesaurus.com. In addition, gratitude is expressed to all the wonderful artists who have made their work available, for pictures speak to the soul. Gratitude is also expressed to people who have contributed comments that have helped to improve these presentations, and for the expert advice of Sweetwater, which made possible the quality of these recordings and the continued sanity of the editor.
This website does not collect personal information or store "cookies," and does not maintain a mailing list. To see new postings, simply visit the website periodically, and pass on links to others if something here may be helpful to them or to the world.
The brilliant spectrum in the banner is the closest representation of the absolute joy of a realm of which I have memory since childhood. No one owns the spectrum. It is used here because of its joy.
In case it seems that it took a lot of work to create these multi-media presentations, it was negligible compared to acquiring the inner-standing required to write the content.
Listen (7:32)
