I am asked what answer New Thought has to evil. Seen from a certain perspective, New Thought's answer--though the tradition rarely ventures any of meaning--is validation of its world-as-self perspective. Hostility is the human story. One might better ask: what answer does evil have to New Thought? Evil validates it. Which is good news for no one.
I am republishing this piece from June 25, 2018, after learning from a colleague that a suffering friend found succor in its urgingโone that I reemphasizeโto wait just twenty-four hours when suicide seems the inevitable choice. Just twenty-four hours. This article appears as it did then. It is gratis. -M-
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