When body and mind are in charge instead of the soul, fear …

When body and mind are in charge instead of the soul, fear is the main driver of behavior, not love. In this lamentable state, the truth isn't important at all. What's important is how to survive (by any means necessary). Power is the most attractive thing for those "just trying to survive". The greater the fear, the greater the urge to control everything and everyone around us (power). Interestingly, we tend to masquerade our fear-driven actions as grandiose, selfless and good. We hide our evil behind a supposed greater good, claiming that the supposed end justifies the means. Surprisingly, we don't just hide it from others, which would be strategically understandable, but also from ourselves. Even the most evil people - with very few exceptions - are completely convinced that they are the "good guys", the heroes of the story and that their actions are justified and, all in all, ethical. This says a lot about human beings and, in fact, points toward the existence of the soul, even when it is in a coma, for all intents and purposes. We don't just fool others pretending that our evil is actually good. We first and foremost fool ourselves into believing that our actions are selfless when they are selfish to the core. The mind mimics the soul. It replaces being good with self-identifying as good, while doing objective evil. It is impossible to overstate to what extend the battle against evil has to take place inside of ourselves.