Unveiling the Hope for Healing Human Evil: An Exploration of People of the Lie

Ms: I have read only a few chapters of this book and find it quite compelling over the last 10 years I have unfortunately encountered numerous evil people hope understanding the concepts of evil will help me stay clear of true evil and your normal day to day narcissistic personalities I onced believed people were good and had to prove themselves evil I now believe the opposite I do believe as the auther does prayer helps

United States on Mar 23, 2024

john c. e. tucker: It is a must read .

Canada on Feb 16, 2024

Modern Solutionary: I was pleasantly surprised; I was moved with disbelief at times and affirmative resolve at other times. I am glad I read this book and will re-read parts I highlighted.

United States on Jan 30, 2024

GB: This book is topical for today's politics.

United States on Jan 23, 2024

verena: A classic book, written way before the current narcissists epidemic

Germany on Dec 01, 2023

Rodney Henchliffe: I've actually heard people say that The People of The Lie is an "enjoyable read," or, an "interesting" book. What the dang? No!!!! They are wrong. If you have actually encountered human evil then this book is both traumatising and remarkable, as well as enlightening. Hence it has remained an international best seller any writer would only dream of aspiring to. It is not a book you read; it is a book you personally relate your experience to in order to understand the gravity of what Peck is talking about. Having known human evil I have encountered in Africa and Great Britain, I criticize sections of the book for being too fleeting or less in depth at times. That said, it enlightens us also. This is a book that pushes our understanding of human evil which, personally, we can never truly account for in terms of actual origin. What Peck knows is that human evil exists, I know this having known and worked with human evil myself (I know that Peck had actual knowledge of evil attended to in this remarkable book). This is a great achievement indeed. It forms part of my own research into human evil, at the heart of this book, and I've only read half so far, is the concept of evil linked...

United Kingdom on Jul 24, 2023

Carroll Busher: If you can imagine the cross as symbolizing both the breadth and depth of the human experience and God’s full awareness and presence in each of these dimensions you can see this work as being a human effort to present a corollary explanation of a specific human tendency that has damaging effects at both the individual and societal level. That tendency is to Lie.

In this work this well-established author of the “Road Less Travelled” takes the reader both panoramically and microscopically into the regions of the human heart where we are shown the reality of self-deceit.

This deceit is exposed in the case studies of the author (A Harvard trained psychiatrist) as being a product of the psychiatrically sick individual unwilling to abide the call of conscience. To do so would demand exposing the patient’s ego to the shame of recognition and acknowledgement of their own self-deceit; At the heart of this is the sin of pride. These are the People of the Lie. And the fruit of their deceit is damage not to just themselves but as often as not to others subject to them and their sickness.

In its worst manifestation the author reveals something much, much deeper....

United States on May 10, 2023

siddhant: Its a good book . Enjoyed reading it .

India on Dec 04, 2022

MR D P PERCY: I have often encountered people who project their faults onto others, causing much chaos and pain. This book helps greatly in putting this scapegoating behaviour into a deeper spiritual context, supported by Peck’s professional experience as a psychologist.

France on May 29, 2021

Queen Esther: I almost could not read this book after reading the opening chapter. I found the author’s argument that God is a male to be bizarre. He equates what he sees as male penetrating, dominating sexuality with God. He described the relationship between God and humanity like the relationship between the male and female. That God wants to penetrate humanity and make it give birth to Christ. I found that rape visual disturbing. Although the author understands that God could have the female qualities of nurturing and gentleness, he apparently regards them as less important. I see this as a male bias that is also the bias of Christianity which is basically a male-glorifying religion. He says he does not apologize for his Christian bias, but neither does he recognize the evil of misogyny that runs through the Bible. The degrading of women, the claiming that the female should be under the control of the male, that the female is at fault for bringing evil into the world, the persecution of witches, none of this seems to concern the author who dismisses it with nominal nod to the women’s movement. My reaction to this bias as a woman is one of revulsion, which according to the author is the...

United States on Sep 27, 2018