Physicists would call this the quantum vacuum. Religious people would call it God. Buddhists would call it the soulful being. Doesn't matter what you call it. Even in psychics there is a kind of fundamental reality as the base of things.
Evil is a lack of response.
And the whole thing about psychopaths is they simply cannot feel what their victims are feeling. They just don't tune in like the rest of us. The rest of us normal people, it would hurt us terribly to do something evil because we would feel the pain of the victim we were inflicting it on. Well, any species that didn't have empathy wouldn't be likely to survive. Back to business, I still think altruism could go too far.