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BOOK: The Power of the Dark Side
The Power of the Dark Side

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Caveat Scriptor = Writer Beware

I.	DEFINING THE DARK SIDE		1
	1.	What Dark Side	2
		What is Evil?	2
		Who is Evil?	4
		Why is there Evil?	6
		What does Evil want?	11
		Why is Evil sometimes so alluring?	14
		What’s the difference between Evil and Bad?	15
		What can we learn from Evil?	16
		How do we defeat/defuse Evil?	17
II.	THREE LEVELS OF THE DARK SIDE		19
	2.	The Dweller on the Threshold – Personal	20
		Our own Shadow	21
		Illness, wounds, and death	24
		When bad things happen to silly people	27
		Dark night of the Soul	29
		Gang-related	31
		Karma	33
	3.	The Dark Forces – Impersonal	37
		Laws of physics	38
		Theories of other physics	40
		Time	42
		Duality	44
		Earth, Air, Fire, and Water	46
		Red in tooth and claw	49
		A plague on both your houses	51
		Techno trouble	54
	4.	The Dark Brotherhood – Supra-personal	58
		Who is this Dark Brotherhood?	59
		Where did they come from?	59
		What do they want?	60
		How do they get away with it?	60
		How can we resist and/or defeat them?	61
III.	THEY WALK ON THE DARK SIDE		63
	5.	Anti-hero	65
	6.	Bad Boys and Girls	69
		The Trickster	70
		The Rake and the Temptress	71
		Pimps, Panderers, and Pushers	74
		Mommie Dearest and Bad Dads	76
		Killer Kids	78
		Evil Twins	80
		Pirates, Rebels, and Traitors	82
		Bad Cop, Worse Cop	84
		Bumblers	87
		Dictators, Tyrants, and Cult Leaders	89
		Mad Scientists	91
		Psychopaths, Pedophiles, and Serial Killers	94
	7.	Group-think stinks	97
		Stereotypes, racism, classism	98
		Cultural clashes	100
		Kids and cliques	103
		Child warriors and child workers	104
		Vandals, Goths, Golden Hordes	106
		Soldiers of God	107
		Organized religion	109
		Organized crime	112
		Corporate corruption	114
		Secret societies and shadow governments	117
		Big Brothers and bureaucracies	120
		Evil empires	122
		War, huh, what is it good for?	125
	8.	Witches, Wizards, and Warlocks	128
		Shamans	129
		Witchcraft as science	131
		Wizardry as political science	133
		The Dark Arts	135
		Witch hunts	138
	9.	Ghosts, Ghouls, and Ghastly Gods	141
		Ye gods	142
		Nature spirits	144
		Ghosts	146
		Vampires, werewolves, zombies	148
		Monsters	149
		Aliens	151
		Haunted things and places	153
IV.	THE LURE OF THE DARK SIDE		157
	10.	The Devil Made Me Do It	159
		The ghost	160
		The fatal flaw	161
		I was under orders	161
		Ate the Twinkies, drank the Kool-Aid	162
		Gateway Dwellers	162
		Guilt, grief, and shame	163
		Born under a bad sign	163
		Karma	163
		Curses and voices	164
		Aliens	164
	11.	Devices of the Dark Side	166
		Sleeping with the enemy	167
		Seemed like a good idea at the time	167
		Slippery slope	168
		Deal with the devil	169
		Power corrupts	170
		Cover your ass	172
		Violence	172
		Go along to get along	173
		Dumb and dumber	174
V.	CONFRONTING THE DARK SIDE		175
	12.	Defense Against the Dark Side	176
		Charms and chants	177
		Therapy, drugs, self-help	180
		Ignore it	182
		Laughter	184
		Education	187
		Deception and diplomacy	189
		Exposure	192
		Non-violence	195
		Civil disobedience	197
		Fight fire with fire	199
		You say you want a revolution?	202
		Cut to the chase	204
		Seek sanctuary	206
		Trials, truths, and reconciliations	208
		The Primrose Path	210
		The Road to Damascus	212
		Get a sense of perspective	214
VI.	WORKING WITH THE DARK SIDE		219
	13.	Story Tools	220
		Selecting your hero’s worthy opponent	220
		The sliding scale	222
		The Dark Side of our future	223
VII.	CONCLUSION		227
Bibliography			228
Glossary			236
About the Author			240

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