Every Church a Peace Church #51 Pt. 1

Guest Host Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy interviews John Carmody. This interview comes to you in 2 parts addressing the subject of "The Neuroscience of Peace or Violence" In both episodes, John, a neuroscientist and highly decorated Viet Nam era Marine, explains how the young are recruited into the military at an age when the brain centers of higher reasoning, compassion and empathy are still immature, and while the lower brain functions of aggression and violence more developed and is more susceptible to the training to kill without mercy or conscience. John explains how he became a subjected to the skillful mind games used by the military to recruit him and join the Marines. They discuss the inherent conflict of the mind of Christ (compassion, forgiveness, empathy) and the mind of a combat soldier ( aggression, violence, conformity, lack of sympathy, survival) and the effort required by the military to subjugate the Christ-like mind into developing "a good soldier."