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The Courage to Confront Evil: The Most Important Challenge of Our Time
The Challenge of Our To Know Your Light and Wield Your True Power
If you don’t understand the nature of evil, how can you be a force for good? As Caroline Myss teaches, “evil” and “good” are not simply abstract concepts―they are fundamental cosmic energies you can learn to feel in your body and soul. With The Courage to Confront Evil, Caroline Myss delivers one of her most powerful presentations a sweeping training in the practice of standing in your own light and integrity, so every choice you make becomes an act of healing in this extraordinary and challenging period of human history.
Discover How to Harness the “Power Tools of Creation”
In this time of profound transformation, your capacity to make a difference has never been greater―or more needed. “Darkness cannot be offset by bombs, bullets, or any external force,” Myss teaches, “but only by the power of the light within us.” In these seven audio sessions, she boldly investigates the spiritual nature of evil, the many masks it wears, and the temptations it offers us to be fearful, selfish, or disengaged. Here she trains you in the seven “power tools of creation”―the divine gifts of grace you can access with your words, prayers, and actions.
“Every act of love weakens the forces of hate,” Myss says. “Every act of compassion and grace weakens evil’s legislation against humanity.” The Courage to Confront Evil is a clarion call for you to discover your role in this great unfolding of human evolution―and to become an “instrument of holy power” as only you can.
[ HIGHLIGHT BULLETS ―Approx 6 bullets, Max 81 Characters w/spaces each]
• Is evil real? How our collective denial gives power to darkness
• The evolution of the soul in the atomic age―how we reached this turning point in history
• Becoming fluent in the language of light
• Activating your conscience
• Why temptation works―when we fear the light and seek refuge in darkness
• How entitlement shuts down your capacity for love
• The nature of angels and demons―and how we invite both into our lives
• How evil is a necessary factor in our own growth and awakening
If you don’t understand the nature of evil, how can you be a force for good? As Caroline Myss teaches, “evil” and “good” are not simply abstract concepts―they are fundamental cosmic energies you can learn to feel in your body and soul. With The Courage to Confront Evil, Caroline Myss delivers one of her most powerful presentations a sweeping training in the practice of standing in your own light and integrity, so every choice you make becomes an act of healing in this extraordinary and challenging period of human history.
Discover How to Harness the “Power Tools of Creation”
In this time of profound transformation, your capacity to make a difference has never been greater―or more needed. “Darkness cannot be offset by bombs, bullets, or any external force,” Myss teaches, “but only by the power of the light within us.” In these seven audio sessions, she boldly investigates the spiritual nature of evil, the many masks it wears, and the temptations it offers us to be fearful, selfish, or disengaged. Here she trains you in the seven “power tools of creation”―the divine gifts of grace you can access with your words, prayers, and actions.
“Every act of love weakens the forces of hate,” Myss says. “Every act of compassion and grace weakens evil’s legislation against humanity.” The Courage to Confront Evil is a clarion call for you to discover your role in this great unfolding of human evolution―and to become an “instrument of holy power” as only you can.
[ HIGHLIGHT BULLETS ―Approx 6 bullets, Max 81 Characters w/spaces each]
• Is evil real? How our collective denial gives power to darkness
• The evolution of the soul in the atomic age―how we reached this turning point in history
• Becoming fluent in the language of light
• Activating your conscience
• Why temptation works―when we fear the light and seek refuge in darkness
• How entitlement shuts down your capacity for love
• The nature of angels and demons―and how we invite both into our lives
• How evil is a necessary factor in our own growth and awakening
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Published October 22, 2019
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About the author
Caroline Myss
161 books1,046 followersCaroline Myss was born on December 2, 1952 in Chicago, and grew up with her parents, and two brothers, one elder and one younger, in the Melrose Park, Illinois neighbourhood near Chicago. Caroline was raised a Catholic, and attended the Mother Guerin High School, River Grove, Illinois, run by the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana in 1974, and started her career in journalism in Chicago.
In the course of her career, she interviewed Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., the author of the famous book, On Death and Dying, which inspired her to pursue a Master's degree in theology from Mundelein College, Chicago, which she completed in 1979. She also claims to hold a Ph.D in "intuition and energy medicine", but the degree was granted by Greenwich University, a now-defunct correspondence school that was never accredited to deliver higher education awards by any recognized government accreditation authority.
She started giving medical intuitive readings in 1982 and co-founded a small New Age publishing company, Stillpoint Publishing in Walpole, New Hampshire, where she also worked as an editor in 1983, next she began consulting with holistic doctors, which in 1984, led to her extensive collaboration with Dr. Norman Shealy, an M.D. schooled at Harvard, and the founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, with whom she later co-authored, "Aids: Passageway to Transformation," in 1987, followed by "The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses that Promote Health and Healing," in 1988. Deriving from her practice as a medical intuitive, she started writing books, in the field of energy medicine, and healing, all of which became New York Times Best Sellers.[18] Starting with Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (1996), which overlapped seven Christian sacraments with seven Hindu chakras and the Kabbalah's Tree of Life to create a map of the human "energy anatomy"; this was followed by Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (1998), which explored the reasons people do not heal through her concept of "woundology." Her next book, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential (2002) dealt with the issue of finding "Life Purpose," while describing Sacred Contracts as "a set of assignments that our soul had formed around before incarnation". She has since appeared on the The Oprah Winfrey Show numerous times.
By 2000, she discontinued doing private medical intuitive readings, and instead started teaching it, through her workshops, seminars, radio shows and guided tours. She tours internationally as a speaker on spirituality and mysticism, and lives in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago. In 2003, she started the Caroline Myss Educational Institute, with Wisdom University in San Francisco.
Her 2007 book, "Entering the Castle" draws upon the writings of Saint Teresa of Ávila, a 16th century Carmelite nun, who wrote her most important work, The Interior Castle, towards the end of her life.
In the course of her career, she interviewed Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., the author of the famous book, On Death and Dying, which inspired her to pursue a Master's degree in theology from Mundelein College, Chicago, which she completed in 1979. She also claims to hold a Ph.D in "intuition and energy medicine", but the degree was granted by Greenwich University, a now-defunct correspondence school that was never accredited to deliver higher education awards by any recognized government accreditation authority.
She started giving medical intuitive readings in 1982 and co-founded a small New Age publishing company, Stillpoint Publishing in Walpole, New Hampshire, where she also worked as an editor in 1983, next she began consulting with holistic doctors, which in 1984, led to her extensive collaboration with Dr. Norman Shealy, an M.D. schooled at Harvard, and the founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, with whom she later co-authored, "Aids: Passageway to Transformation," in 1987, followed by "The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses that Promote Health and Healing," in 1988. Deriving from her practice as a medical intuitive, she started writing books, in the field of energy medicine, and healing, all of which became New York Times Best Sellers.[18] Starting with Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (1996), which overlapped seven Christian sacraments with seven Hindu chakras and the Kabbalah's Tree of Life to create a map of the human "energy anatomy"; this was followed by Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (1998), which explored the reasons people do not heal through her concept of "woundology." Her next book, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential (2002) dealt with the issue of finding "Life Purpose," while describing Sacred Contracts as "a set of assignments that our soul had formed around before incarnation". She has since appeared on the The Oprah Winfrey Show numerous times.
By 2000, she discontinued doing private medical intuitive readings, and instead started teaching it, through her workshops, seminars, radio shows and guided tours. She tours internationally as a speaker on spirituality and mysticism, and lives in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago. In 2003, she started the Caroline Myss Educational Institute, with Wisdom University in San Francisco.
Her 2007 book, "Entering the Castle" draws upon the writings of Saint Teresa of Ávila, a 16th century Carmelite nun, who wrote her most important work, The Interior Castle, towards the end of her life.
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April 13, 2025
Ten stars. Another one I HIGHLY recommend each person read.
May 19, 2021
I find Caroline Myss to be incredibly harsh (and hypocritical) at times, but most of what she has to share is beneficial. Her messages are important even though I feel like she’s a boxer and the reader/humanity is a punching bag.
October 2, 2021
Unless you are a conservative Catholic, this audio presentation has little to offer on the topic of confronting evil. It is a mish mash of Christianity and mysticism that is spectacularly unconvincing. She offers as proof, her subjective feelings about things she has experienced. This is not evidence. This is subjective emotionalism passed off as insight and profundity.
She asserts that angels exist and that each of us has an angel watching over us. She offers no evidence for this. It is a baseless assertion. A question I would like to ask: where were people's guardian angels during the Rwandan genocide? They appear to not exist when confronted with actual evil.
Her comments on health are equally idiotic. She purports to be medically intuitive, which means she is not a doctor and what she has to say on the subjective is about as authoritative and factual as the drivel emanating from the mouth of Gwyneth Paltrow. Paltrow is at least absurd enough to laugh at. This woman takes herself way too seriously and provides no more insight into health issues than a Goop advertisement.
I regret having wasted my time listening to this.
Earlier this year I read Adam Smith's A Theory of Moral Sentiments. That book offers more useful advice on ethical issues that anything in this presentation. Read that instead.
She asserts that angels exist and that each of us has an angel watching over us. She offers no evidence for this. It is a baseless assertion. A question I would like to ask: where were people's guardian angels during the Rwandan genocide? They appear to not exist when confronted with actual evil.
Her comments on health are equally idiotic. She purports to be medically intuitive, which means she is not a doctor and what she has to say on the subjective is about as authoritative and factual as the drivel emanating from the mouth of Gwyneth Paltrow. Paltrow is at least absurd enough to laugh at. This woman takes herself way too seriously and provides no more insight into health issues than a Goop advertisement.
I regret having wasted my time listening to this.
Earlier this year I read Adam Smith's A Theory of Moral Sentiments. That book offers more useful advice on ethical issues that anything in this presentation. Read that instead.
November 27, 2021
0 Stars.
This is truly a horrible offering: Christian mumbo jumbo about angels and demons, structures of heaven. She asserts that each person has a guardian angel and makes such assertions with zero evidence. Such a lack of intellectual rigour is alarming. Who listens to this nonsense? And takes it seriously?
Well, I won't. After 1/2 of the first session, I quit.
DNF
This is stomach-turning "woo-woo" stuff which does nothing to have individuals take responsibility for their shadow, individually or collectively, but instead masks any access to responsibility with religious/spiritual preaching. And she's not even a good preacher.
This is truly a horrible offering: Christian mumbo jumbo about angels and demons, structures of heaven. She asserts that each person has a guardian angel and makes such assertions with zero evidence. Such a lack of intellectual rigour is alarming. Who listens to this nonsense? And takes it seriously?
Well, I won't. After 1/2 of the first session, I quit.
DNF
This is stomach-turning "woo-woo" stuff which does nothing to have individuals take responsibility for their shadow, individually or collectively, but instead masks any access to responsibility with religious/spiritual preaching. And she's not even a good preacher.
January 11, 2025
This is a thought-provoking exploration of good and evil, offering profound insights into personal responsibility and the courage needed to confront moral challenges. While some of her ideas—particularly around angels and divine structures—may feel overly dogmatic or speculative for certain readers, her core message is undeniably important.
Her direct approach and emphasis on integrity push readers to reflect deeply on their own values and actions. This book may not resonate with everyone, but it contains powerful ideas that are worth considering for those open to spirituality and enlightenment
Her direct approach and emphasis on integrity push readers to reflect deeply on their own values and actions. This book may not resonate with everyone, but it contains powerful ideas that are worth considering for those open to spirituality and enlightenment
June 9, 2021
Clips of Myss' lectures around the topic evil. Sometimes there was too much Catholic overtone to it for me, compared to her other work, but understandably she is influenced by her upbringing in certain ways.
August 5, 2021
Review coming
June 24, 2025
It felt very relevant for the times we are currently experiencing.
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