I feel so powerful in my body that the concept of evil or opposition feels more exciting than terrifying. Almost clarifying, like the Olympics must feel to great athletes.
But that feeling of power required something first. It required understanding what evil actually is. And more importantly, what it isn’t.
There Is No Source of Evil
Here’s the uncomfortable truth most spiritual teachings dance around: there is no external source of evil. No dark lord. No cosmic villain. No opposing force battling God for control of the universe.
What we call “evil” is simply consciousness making choices on a spectrum. Every choice exists somewhere between love and fear, between truth and self-deception, between connection and separation. What we label evil is just the far end of that spectrum where choices become deeply unconscious and deeply harmful.
AJ Miller and the Divine Truth teachings put it this way: living in fear means we begin to prefer error to truth. While we justify not feeling our fears, we automatically become unloving. We contribute to what we call evil through our daily activities and interactions without realizing it.
Evil isn’t something that happens to us from outside. It’s something we participate in every time we suppress what we really feel and choose self-protection over truth.
The Law of Attraction as Mirror
Why do “bad things” happen? Why do we encounter people who seem genuinely malevolent? Why does darkness sometimes feel like it’s targeting us specifically?
The Law of Attraction provides a framework that’s uncomfortable but clarifying. We attract experiences that match our soul condition. Not as punishment. Not as karma in some punitive sense. But as a mirror.
When you encounter something that feels evil, something that triggers fear or rage or helplessness, that experience is showing you something inside yourself. It’s revealing trapped emotions you haven’t processed. It’s illuminating beliefs you hold that aren’t true. It’s pointing to patterns running unconsciously beneath your awareness.
This doesn’t mean you caused someone else’s harmful behavior. It means the Law of Attraction brought you into contact with that behavior because something in you needed to see it, feel it, and eventually process it.
How Evil “Hooks Into” Us
Evil, or what we might call dark energy, dark spirits, or harmful influences, can only hook into us through one mechanism: our unconscious material.
Think of your unprocessed emotions as doorways. Think of your suppressed fears as invitations. Think of your inherited trauma as vulnerabilities. Whatever you haven’t brought to consciousness becomes a place where external influences can attach.
The Divine Truth teachings describe how spirits in lower states can influence people on earth. But they can only do so through matching emotional frequencies. A spirit operating from rage can only connect with you through your own unprocessed rage. A spirit operating from fear can only access you through fears you haven’t felt through.
This is true whether you believe in literal spirit influence or prefer to think of it metaphorically. The mechanism is the same: unconscious patterns create vulnerability. Consciousness creates protection.
Shadow Work as the Awakening Process
This is why shadow work isn’t optional for anyone serious about spiritual growth. Every piece of yourself you leave in shadow becomes a place where you’re unconscious. And where you’re unconscious, you’re vulnerable.
Shadow work is the process of bringing the unconscious to consciousness. It’s feeling the feelings you’ve been avoiding. It’s questioning the beliefs you inherited without examination. It’s recognizing the patterns that have been running your life without your consent.
As you do this work, something remarkable happens. The hooks dissolve. The doorways close. The vulnerabilities become strengths.
What once felt like evil targeting you starts to feel like a curriculum designed for your specific growth. You realize every dark experience was pointing to something inside you that needed light.
The Mirror Never Lies
Here’s the part that’s hardest to accept: everything you encounter is a mirror.
When you see cruelty, something in you resonates with cruelty at some level, whether as a perpetrator in this life or another, or as someone who fears their own capacity for harm.
When you see manipulation, something in you has either manipulated or fears being manipulated.
When you see deception, something in you deceives, even if only through the small lies we tell ourselves daily.
This isn’t about blame. It’s about taking back power. As long as evil is something “out there” that attacks innocent victims, you’re powerless. You can only hope to avoid it, fight it, or be protected from it.
But when you understand evil as a mirror showing you your own unprocessed material, you become powerful. Now there’s something you can do. Now there’s work to be done that actually changes the equation.
Emotions That Attract Dark Experiences
The Divine Truth framework identifies specific emotional states that attract darker experiences:
Suppressed rage attracts situations that will force the rage to surface.
Denied grief attracts losses that will break the denial.
Unacknowledged fear attracts exactly what you’re afraid of until you finally face it.
Self-deception attracts situations that reveal the lies you’re telling yourself.
This isn’t the universe being cruel. It’s the Law of Attraction functioning as God’s messenger of truth about your soul condition. Every experience is feedback. Every dark encounter is information.
The question isn’t how to avoid these experiences. The question is how to process what they’re revealing so the pattern can complete itself.
From Evil to Curriculum
When you’ve done enough shadow work, something shifts in how you perceive opposition. What once felt like evil starts to feel like curriculum.
That’s what I mean when I say evil feels more exciting than terrifying now. It feels like the Olympics because I understand it as a training ground. Every opposition is an opportunity to discover what’s still unconscious in me. Every dark experience is pointing to a piece of shadow I haven’t integrated.
The athletes at the Olympics don’t fear their opponents. They’re grateful for worthy competition because it reveals where they need to grow. That’s the relationship I’m developing with what used to feel like evil.
Questions Worth Sitting With
What part of evil, if it’s real, am I consciously creating? What in my unconscious is attracting the dark experiences I encounter?
What is evil reflecting back to me about myself? What beliefs, fears, or trapped emotions does it illuminate?
Does evil exist only by my attention to it? Can I transmute it by seeing it differently?
Is this a game worth playing?
I believe it is. Because the alternative is remaining unconscious, remaining vulnerable, remaining at the mercy of forces I refuse to understand.
The End of Evil
There’s a version of awakening where evil simply stops being a relevant category. Not because darkness disappears from the world, but because you’ve done enough inner work that it no longer hooks into you.
You see harmful behavior and feel compassion for the suffering that created it. You encounter manipulation and recognize it without being moved by it. You witness cruelty and understand the fear underneath it.
Evil becomes what it always was: consciousness in extreme states of fear and separation, desperately trying to feel powerful because it feels so powerless.
And from that understanding, the only response that makes sense is love. Not passive love. Not enabling love. But love that sees clearly, holds boundaries, and refuses to participate in the fear.
That’s the game worth playing. That’s where the real power lives.
This is shadow work in action.
If you’re ready to process what’s been running your life, explore the Shadow Work practices.