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In this absorbing and equally inspiring companion volume to his classic trilogy—The Road Less Traveled, Further Along the Road Less Traveled, and The Road Less Traveled and Beyond—Dr. M. Scott Peck brilliantly probes into the essence of human evil.

People who are evil attack others instead of facing their own failures. Peck demonstrates the havoc these people of the lie work in the lives of those around them. He presents, from vivid incidents encountered in his psychiatric practice, examples of evil in everyday life.

This book is by turns disturbing, fascinating, and altogether impossible to put down as it offers a strikingly original approach to the age-old problem of human evil.

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M. Scott Peck, M.D. is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Road Less Traveled, with six million copies in print. His other books include Further Along the Road Less Traveled, The Road Less Traveled and Beyond, Meditations from the Road and Golf and the Spirit.

Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Touchstone; 2 edition (January 2, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0684848597
ISBN-13: 978-0684848594
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The best rational discussion of evil in human life that I've yet read.

November 24, 2017

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At some point in life, some percentage of the population will have a confrontation with evil. They may, as was the case with me, previously have thought they understood the concept or even dismissed the idea entirely.

Then, suddenly, when the confrontation occurs, one is left trying to understand what one has experienced, and looking for answers high and low—perhaps in books, perhaps in religion, perhaps in talk with friends and mentors.

This is probably the most satisfying resource I've come across on the question of evil in human psychology. Peck doesn't avoid the question or the word; instead, he tackles them head on, proposing that if you've seen it, you understand that evil is real. He seeks to understand what the experience and the quality amount to when articulated through reason, rather than purely through theology.

His definition of evil ends up being quite concise, rather than wandering and metaphysical and listless as is so often the case, and more than that, it's a satisfying definition; it rings true to to me, at the very least, as someone that was confronted with the question. The case studies that he provides are fascinating and run the gamut from the individual scale to the nuclear family scale to the social scale.

While there isn't much in the way of actionable information presented, I suspect that most people reading on the topic of evil aren't looking for tips and tricks so much as they are trying to come to grips with their own thinking about the topic—to clarify their own experience and make sense of what they've learned and how it's changed the way that they look at the world.

If this sounds like you, get this book and read it. I suspect it will take what is already a dim light somewhere in your consciousness and bring it to full brightness and understanding—in a way that is somehow a relief and a balm.

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Michael A Podgorski

Excellent and Insightful

February 17, 2017

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Scott Peck really does an excellent job of discussing the nature of people who are pathological liars. And he comes back to what I feel is the most prescient point of the book: We are responsible for the reality that we create and we create that reality either with truth or lies. When we create a reality that is based on lies, only pathology can follow and our reality becomes twisted by that.

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Skaboomsky

Peck does an excellent job of illuminating just how mundane evil can be

October 26, 2016

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If you have difficult people in your life, you should read this book. It's simultaneously a classic yet timely topic. Peck does an excellent job of illuminating just how mundane evil can be, and just how present in can be in our environment, yet in many cases go undetected. Why? Because it looks like a mother, a father, a sibling, a lover.

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The best book I've read on toxic family members. I wish he had written more like it. Read this if you have confusing/contradictory people in your life you end up researching to figure out what the heck is up...It's definitely not you as they would like you to believe! Anyone that leads you to research them because of the chaos and confusion they wreak in your life is a toxic individual that is actually amused at the power surge they feel from emotionally and psychologically manipulating you. Their goal is to win and by win I mean emotionally manipulate you whether it's a good feeling or bad feeling it's all with an agenda that is rooted in evil. Evil is the abuse of free will and these are the people that this book describes. A person that is able to chip away at your self worth in such a subtle (covert) way that you think it was all your own ideas/thoughts by the time you wake up one day distraught with self-condemnation and self-loathing. Even if you are non-religious I recommend it for it's insights and unique perspective. I have people in my life this book describes who if I did not have a strong and transparent relationship with God would have totally turned me off of Christianity because of their religious abuse and thinking they can quote scripture at me and take me on guilt-trips through feeling as though I am not forgiven by God or that they somehow have a window into my heart. Only God and I know my heart. And he knows it best. I do not have to live under the condemnation of pretend Pharisaical Christians who think I'm still under the old law. We need to and are warned to stay away from people like this. Psalms 101:4-5,7-8 The people M. Scott Peck describe are truly soul-killers - people out to murder your spirit and self-worth.
I hope it's able to help others as much as it helped me. As I mentioned, I wish he had written more books on this topic and I hope the awareness continues so you are able to piece together the trauma from your childhood raising or even just right now if you are currently in it. Highly Recommend!

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