It occurs to me that sensation is the path to both Good and Evil. In the former case, it is attending to what comes up naturally, to learning over time our true nature, that of light and goodness. It consists in learning to embody and express spirit, in a motion of through: the spirit travels into us, then through us, into the world.
Evil is rooted in the pursuit of EXTERNALLY rooted sensation, of thrills. Sadism, really, is just a pursuit of sensation, of strong sensation, which one does not earn or work for.
As I’ve commented in various ways at various times, the connection of the hippies and Satanism, of San Francisco with, eventually, Anton LaVey, consists in the pursuit of sensation without moral compass, without grounding, without rules. There are rebels with alternative positive visions and rebels who are simply tearing down and destroying for the sensations it gives them.