The Science of Evil – Craig Childress , Psy D

There is something inside our minds, it’s not us but it is us. It is evil. It’s alive and moving in our minds.

It moves to a dark purpose. It moves in us, it moves in our minds.

The Terrorist Mind is a pathology of hatred and sadistic violence. The absence of empathy is the source of the cruelty. The sadism is our horror.

The goal of the sadism is to cause our suffering. It gratifies a place within the thing of our damage, it feels good, our suffering feels good to the damaged thing in our minds.

Grief. Our immense inconsolable grief. It feeds on that.

Shame. The sadism has its origins in their shame. The shame of the pathogen brings shame to everything it touches. Most of all, it brings shame to them.

So many stories. So much loss. So much grief. We watch helplessly as hearts are ripped out.

There is a pathogen within us, created in trauma it recreates the trauma it knows. It lays dormant as it waits for the context that supports it, when the context arrives it moves into life.

It’s moved into life.

Evil is not only evil because of what it does TO us, it’s also evil because of what it does IN us – our anger – our desire for revenge. Evil makes us evil as we descend into the abyss of the pathological hatred and pathological violence.

Horrors of suffering created by something within us, that’s not us but it is us. It controls our minds and motivates us to do bad things.

There’s a pathogen that lives in our minds. There. Here.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.

Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857