The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety | M. Scott Peck

The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety | M. Scott Peck | The Bing and Bob of Spirituality in daily life.

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The Road Less Trav...

	The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety M. Scott Peck Touchstone, 1998 - 324 pages average customer review:based on 20 reviews view larger image
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A powerful book, challenging and confronting

Initially I found the book a little slow and less exiting than "The Road Less Travelled" and this disappointed me at first. However it gets better and more confronting. I struggled to keep up my reading pace due to the implications of what the writer touched on. Its not easy to be a 'conscious thinker' as Peck puts it and this brought home the difficulties that I have experienced in my own life. Every person has their own way to avoid being true to themselves.

I think that "The Road Less Travelled" is a great book to read if you've just started on the journey to mental/spiritual health. "The Road Less Travelled and Beyond" is helpful for those who have taken up the challenge of personal growth for some time and are ready for more challenges.

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The Bing and Bob of Spirituality in daily life.

Messers Scott and Peck have done it again. They deliver in their easy style, home truths that broach the profound. With this third 'Road", they are becoming the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby of the Spiritual circuit! I love their style and content. It comes close to my all-time favourite - "The Autobiography of Jesus of Nazareth and the Missing Years" by Richard G. Patton. Both Patton and Peck have the ability to appear relaxed while illuminating difficult and profound themes that would test lesser authors. If you read the two previous books, you won't be dissapointed by this either. Keep it coming.

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Paradoxically I'm in two minds about this book

It's a summary but also a mild extension of Peck's previous works (although I have only read two others). I very much like his notion of 'paradox' being central to life and the system of which we are part. His words on the reality of death I found confronting but very sensible and challenging, and felt that this was an important part of the book for me. I found other parts of the book fairly self-indulgent, for example his constant references to his marriage and the mistakes he had made, his descriptions of his foundation (FCE) having to learn about business and the realities of retrenchment etc, and also his poetry. It takes effort to read this book. I would not recommend it to any of my friends, but am glad I pushed on and finished it myself.

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