Further Along the Road Less Traveled The

Further Along the Road Less Traveled takes the lectures of Dr. Peck and presents his profound insights into the issues that confront and challenge all of us today: spirituality, forgiveness, relationships, and growing up. In this aid for living less simplistically, you will learn not to look for the easy answers but to think multidimensionally. You will learn to reach for the "ultimate step," which brings you face to face with your personal spirituality. It will be this that helps you appreciate the complexity that is life. Continue the journey of personal and spiritual growth with this wise and insightful book.

M. Scott Peck, M.D., is a psychiatrist and bestselling author of many books. Educated at Harvard (B.A.) and Case Western Reserve (M.D.), Dr. Peck served in administrative posts in the government and was a psychiatrist in private practice. Recently, he has devoted much of his time and financial resources to the work of the Foundation for Community Encouragement, a nonprofit organization that he and his wife, Lily, helped found in 1984. He lives in northern Connecticut.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

PART ONE

THE FIRST STEP: GROWING UP
ONE Consciousness and the Problem of Pain
TWO Blame and Forgiveness
THREE The Issue of Death and Meaning
FOUR The Taste for Mystery

PART TWO

THE NEXT STEP: KNOWING YOUR SELF
FIVE Self-Love versus Self-Esteem
SIX Mythology and Human Nature
SEVEN Spirituality and Human Nature
EIGHT Addiction: The Sacred Disease

PART THREE

THE ULTIMATE STEP: IN SEARCH OF A PERSONAL GOD
NINE The Role of Religion in Spiritual Growth
TEN Matter and Spirit
ELEVEN New Age: Symboline or Diaboline?
TWELVE Sexuality and Spirituality
Epilogue: Psychiatry's Predicament

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Further Along the Road Less Traveled The Unending Journey Towards Spiritual Growth

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