Evolution of Good and Evil: Seeing the Ego Illusion for What It Is and Discovering the Divine in Reality and Truth

Part I of this book discusses how we are all becoming increasingly disconnected from one another and ourselves in a climate of moral relativism where the absolute standards of reality existing in unwavering universal laws that follow logical mathematical principles have given way to a haphazard morality of what feels right do it. This self- centered sense of morality naturally translates into each person creating their own self-centered moral code. Sometimes our moral code matches the code our fellow human beings follow and sometimes it does not. When it does not, clashes occur, and people are harmed.

I started this book thirteen years ago after personally experiencing one these clashes which changed the trajectory of my life forever and made me question and ultimately replace every assumption I held about human nature and the reality of the world in which I live. I had three questions that I intuitively knew I had to answer if I ever hoped to heal from the symptoms of trauma I was suffering as a result of their actions. The first question arose with regard to the innocent looking man who orchestrated an emotional and psychological assault against me in his quest to hide a truth that threatened his standing in the company in which we were both employed. He knew I was aware of the truth of what he did and was afraid I would tell once I was able to put together all the pieces of the puzzle. I have worked with some pretty difficult people in my life, but I have never, ever wondered if they were evil like I did with this man. I knew I had to find out what evil actually is.

The second question arose when a colleague who I thought was a friend turned out to be my own Judas Iscariot by faking her friendship with me in order to gain my trust and then betray that trust to help the vice president achieve his goal. Once the alliance with him was secured, she came by my desk and reminded me of an email I sent to her saying we all have to follow our hearts when it comes to doing what we think is right. Knowing she was going to be actively helping this man by feigning friendship with me to gain my confidence and trust, this colleague felt the need to tell me, “Like you said in your email, we all have to follow our hearts.” More than a year later, when I realized she had been complicit in his plan and continued her deception long after I was gone, that conversation came back to me and I had to ask myself what it was she was listening to in her own heart that prompted her to follow the course of action she consciously chose to follow.

And the third question came up when I walked out on the company and career I loved after pursuing every possible avenue for resolution and having all doors slammed shut tight on me. While in a state of complete despair I told a friend of mine that the worst sin a person can commit is to intentionally destroy another person's well-being. I do not know why my mind conjured up an ancient concept like sin to describe what was done to me, but I knew I had to find out exactly what sin is.

After obtaining the answers to these three questions, I came to an understanding for the motives and actions of the perpetrators of the mobbing and that understanding led me to experiencing joy for the first time in my life – not so much because I realized the truth about them but because in the process of understanding them, I came to an understanding of myself. What I found is that the divine is in all of us in the form of our human mind.

In Part II of this book, I attempt to make the logical case that God is not the all-powerful entity up in the sky somewhere. It is the Universal Consciousness in whose image we are all made and which resides in each of us as our human spirit of life during our time in this physical realm.