In Reply to: "Please keep with the program?" posted by Oldtimer on March 09, 2004 at 13:14:34:
I'd say there were plenty of explanations for what I observed, but those explanations didn't do much to change what I FELT. Sometimes the process of working together as a team on a tough, out-of-control case would create this bizaare, surreal state of affairs--like we'd gone into some alternate universe. When you're under a lot of stress, reality has a way of bending and warping.
People who do this kind of work often have a spiritual perspective of some sort. I tended to think of certain individuals as generating malignant energy, which is not exactly the same as a demonic intelligence that can act independent of the individual it inhabits.
I am fundamentally an optimist, and although I have seen evil, I have never interacted with someone that I thought was completely lost and consumed by evil. I always believe there is some mystery to another human that I cannot fathom, but that mystery is essentially good.