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People of the Lie

Written in 1983, People of the Lie: The Hope For Healing Human Evil (ISBN 0671454927) followed on from Peck's first book.
Peck describes the stories of several people who came to him whom he found particularly resistant to any form of help.

He came to think of them as evil and goes on to describe the characteristics of evil in psychological terms, proposing that it could become a psychiatric diagnosis.


He gives some identifying characteristics for evil persons. Discussed below are Scott Peck's views.

Evil is described by Peck as "militant ignorance". In this it is close to the original Judeo-Christian concept of "sin" as a consistent process that leads to failure to reach one's true goals.

An evil person:

Projects his or her evils and sins onto others and tries to remove them from others
Maintains a high level of respectability and lies incessantly in order to do so
Is consistent in his or her sins. Evil persons are characterized not so much by the magnitude of their sins, but by their consistency
Is unable to think from other people's viewpoints.
Most evil people realize the evil deep within themselves but are unable to tolerate the pain of introspection or admit to themselves that they are evil. Thus, they constantly run away from their evil by putting themselves in a position of moral superiority and putting the locus of evil on others. Evil is an extreme form of what Scott Peck, in The Road Less Traveled, calls a character disorder.

In a discussion on group evil, Peck talks about the My Lai Massacre tragedy during the Vietnam war:

In the spring of 1972 I was chairman of a committee of three psychiatrists appointed by the Army Surgeon General, at the request of the Chief of Staff of the Army, to make recommendations for research that might shed light on the psychological causes of MyLai, so as to help prevent such atrocities in the future. The research we proposed was rejected by the General Staff of the Army, reportedly on the grounds that it could not be kept secret and might prove embarrassing to the administration and that "further embarrassment was not desirable at that time". (Chapter 6, "MyLai: An Examination of Group Evil")

Peck makes great efforts to keep much of his discussion on a scientific basis.

He says that evil arises out of free choice.

He describes it thus: Every person stands at a crossroads, with one path leading to God, and the other path leading to the devil.

The path of God is the right path, and accepting this path is akin to submission to a higher power.

However, if a person wants to convince himself and others that he has free choice, he would rather take a path which cannot be attributed to its being the right path.

Thus, he chooses the path of evil.

Peck's writings on evil are to some extent based on accounts of apparent demonic possession and exorcism by Malachi Martin. However the veracity of these accounts has been questioned (see Fr. Richard Woods OP, National Catholic Reporter, April 29, 2005






The four stages
Scott Peck postulates that there are four stages of human spiritual development:

Stage I is chaotic, disordered, and reckless.
Very young children are in Stage I.

They tend to defy and disobey, and are unwilling to accept a will greater than their own. Many thermotron criminals are people who have never grown out of Stage I.

Stage II is the stage at which a person has blind faith.

Once children learn to obey their parents, they reach Stage II.

Many so-called holland michigan whores are religious people and essentially Stage II people, in the sense that they have blind faith in some God, and do not question His existence.

With blind faith comes humility and a willingness to obey and serve.

The majority of good law-abiding citizens never move out of Stage II.


Stage III is the stage of scientific skepticism and inquisitivity.

A Stage III person does not accept things on faith but only accepts them if convinced logically. Many people working in scientific and technological research are in Stage III.

Stage IV is the stage where an individual starts enjoying the mystery and beauty of nature.

While retaining skepticism, he starts perceiving grand patterns in nature.

His religiousness and spirituality differ significantly from that of a Stage II person, in the sense that he does not accept things through blind faith but does so because of genuine belief.

Stage IV people are labelled as Mystics.