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| 398.1 | "The Road Less Traveled" | FDCV13::PAINTER | | Fri Jun 26 1987 19:11 | 67 |
| Table Of Contents
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Introduction
I: DISCIPLINE
Problems and Pain
Delaying Gratification
The Sins of the Father
Problem-Solving and Time
Responsibility
Neuroses and Character Disorders
Escape from Freedom
Dedication to Reality
Transference: The Outdated Map
Openness to Challenge
Withholding Truth
Balancing
The Healthiness of Depression
Renunciation and Rebirth
II: LOVE
Love Defined
Falling in "Love"
The Myth of Romantic Love
More About Ego Boundaries
Dependency
Cathexis Without Love
"Self-Sacrifice"
Love is Not a Feeling
The Work of Attention
The Risk of Loss
The Risk of Independence
The Risk of Commitment
The Risk of Confrontation
Love is Disciplined
Love is Separateness
Love and Psychotherapy
The Mystery of Love
III: GROWTH AND RELIGION
World Views and Religion
The Religion of Science
The Case of Kathy
The Case of Marcia
The Case of Theodore
The Baby and the Bath Water
Scientific Tunnel Vision
IV: GRACE
The Miracle of Health
The Miracle of the Unconscious
The Miracle of Serendipity
The Definition of Grace
The Miracle of Evolution
The Alpha and the Omega
Entropy and the Original Sin
The Problem of Evil
The Evolution of Consciousness
The Nature of Power
Grace and Mental Illness: The Myth of Orestes
Resistance to Grace
The Welcoming of Grace
Afterword
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| 398.2 | "People Of The Lie" | FDCV13::PAINTER | | Fri Jun 26 1987 19:11 | 64 |
| Table Of Contents
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INTRODUCTION: Handle With Care
Chapter 1 - THE MAN WHO MADE A PACT WITH THE DEVIL
Chapter 2 - TOWARD A PSYCHOLOGY OF EVIL
Of Models and Mystery
A Life-and-Death Issue
The Case of Bobby and his Parents
Evil and Sin
Narcissism and Will
Chapter 3 - THE ENCOUNTER WITH EVIL IN EVERYDAY LIFE
The Case of Roger and his Parents
The Case of Hartley and Sarah
Mental Illness and the Naming of Evil
The Case of the Voodoo Dream
The Case of the Spider Phobia
Chapter 4 - CHARLENE: A TEACHING CASE
In the Beginning, Confusion
One way or the other: Infant or Adult
A Law Unto Herself
The Dream of the Marvelous Machine
No-Win
Evil and Power
If I Had It To Do Over Again
Chapter 5 - OF POSSESSION AND EXORCISM
Does the Devil Exist?
Caution: High Voltage
Aspects of Diagnosis and Treatment
Research and Teaching
The Father Of Lies
Chapter 6 - MYLAI: AN EXAMINATION OF GROUP EVIL
The Crimes
Preface to Group Evil
Up the Ladder of Collective Responsibility
The Individual Under Stress
Group Dynamics: Dependency and Narcissism
The Specialized Group: Task Force Barker
The Large Speciality Group: The Military
The Largest Group: American Society in 1968
Human Killing
Prevention of Group Evil
Chapter 7 - THE DANGER AND THE HOPE
The Dangers of A Psychology of Evil
The Danger of Moral Judgement
The Danger of Cloaking Moral Judgement in
Scientific Authority
The Danger of the Misuse of Science
The Danger to the Scientist and the Therapist
The Dangers In Perspective
A Methodology Of Love
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| 398.3 | "The Different Drum" | FDCV13::PAINTER | | Fri Jun 26 1987 19:12 | 114 |
| Table Of Contents
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Prologue
Introduction
PART I: THE FOUNDATION
Chapter 1 Stumbling into Community
Friends Seminary, 1952-1954
California, February 1967
Okinawa, 1968-69
Bethel, Maine, June 1972
Chapter 2 Individuals and the Fallacy of Rugged
Individualism
Chapter 3 The True Meaning of Community
Inclusivity, Commitment, and Consensus
Realism
Contemplation
A Safe Place
A Laboratory for Personal Disarmament
A Group That Can Fight Gracefully
A Group of All Leaders
A Spirit
Chapter 4 The Genesis of Community
Crisis and Community
Community by Accident
Community by Design
Chapter 5 Stages of Community-Making
Pseudocommunity
Chaos
Emptiness
Community
Chapter 6 Further Dynamics of Community
Patterns of Group Behavior
Interventions in Group Behavior
Community Size
Community Duration
Commitment to Community
Community Exercises
Chapter 7 Community Maintenance
The Order of St. Aloysius (OSA)
The Basement Group
Maintenance or Death?
PART II: THE BRIDGE
Chapter 8 Human Nature
The Problem of Pluralism
The Illusion of Human Nature
The Capacity for Transformation
Realism, Idealism, and Romanticism
Chapter 9 Patterns of Transformation
The Stages of Spiritual Growth
Transcending Culture
Israel
Chapter 10 Emptiness
Chapter 11 Vulnerability
Chapter 12 Integration and Integrity
What Is Missing?
Paradox and Heresy
Blasphemy and Hope
PART III: THE SOLUTION
Chapter 13 Community and Communication
Chapter 14 Dimensions of the Arms Race
The Arms Race as Institution
The Psychology of Helplessness
The Psychiatry of Force
The Obsolescence of the Nation-State System
The Arms Race as a Game
The Unspoken Payoff
Nationalism: Healthy or Sick?
Chapter 15 The Christian Church in the United States
Where Are You, Jesus?
The Maundy Thursday Revolution
Pseudodocetism: The Heresy of the Church
The Church as Battleground
Signs of Hope
Chapter 16 The United States Government
Balance of Power or Chaos?
The Unreality of the American Presidency
Toward a Community Presidency
Chapter 17 Empowerment
What to Do Now?
Postscript
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| 398.4 | Why Peck? | SHIRE::CRAIN | | Wed Sep 16 1987 09:30 | 10 |
| Cindy,
Why did you dedicate a section to Peck. Have you read his readings?
What prompted you to read his works? What did you get out of them
or discover about yourself? I have only read "The Road Less Travelled".
I thought it to be one of the best I have read and it really gave
me the ability to analyze why I had certain behavior. Has anyone
else read Peck?
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| 398.5 | " PEOPLE OF THE LIE's 'splash' put me off..." | CURIE::COSTLEY | | Wed Sep 16 1987 15:43 | 13 |
| Curiously enough, although I sell copies of his books @ a bookstore
& gave a copy of THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED to my son (22) because
he asked for it for Christmas 2 years ago, I actually have yet
to read anything more than the Tables of Contents of his books in
this note, but that's been useful in itself. Thank you, Cindy.
I was a bit put off by the supermarket tabloids splashing his name
& face when PEOPLE OF THE LIE came out which put me off on reading
that book immediately. Just the way I've always been...fad-wary.
It gets me to some books as much as 5 years late.
-Boleslaw
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| 398.6 | amazed | SHIRE::CRAIN | | Thu Sep 17 1987 05:23 | 12 |
| I was somewhat amazed that a 22 year old would request the book.
Although I think that it is a good idea to learn about oneself at
a younger age than I did.
I live in Geneve, so I am not aware of the supermarket "splash".
In fact, unless I search thoroughly about geneve, do I find books
such as Peck's available.
I recommend "The Road Less Travelled" to all..........do you recommend
his other books?
Jeff
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| 398.7 | " Like a cassette of Peck reading Peck? " | CURIE::COSTLEY | | Thu Sep 17 1987 17:49 | 24 |
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{ -.1 I havn't read them, so I shouldn't until I do, of course.}
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My son had been told by his work-mates (in a Boston photo-studio)
that he 'marched to a different drummer' (a quote from Henry David
Thoreau, a 19th century Concord, Massachusetts naturalist/writer)
and that he had taken 'the road less travelled' (a quote from poet
Robert Frost, a California native moved to New Hampshire). Why?
He's gay, for one thing; lives on his own in the city, for another.
Is self-supporting and lives alone in very expensive Boston...but
has found a very inexpensive shared-house on Fort Hill in Roxbury.
(Boston's equivalent to Notting Hill in London, if you know London.)
I imagine Peck's books have been picked up by a British publisher,
and can be had on The Continent. He's even on cassette, reading
from THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED. It's in the bookstore beside the
paperback, but nobody's bought it yet. Interested? I should be
able to dub it & send you a free cassette of Peck reading.
Just give me your mailstop in Geneve.
-Boleslaw
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| 398.8 | Peck Made an Impact | REGENT::WAGNER | | Fri Sep 18 1987 11:48 | 28 |
| So far I have read "The Road Less Traveled "and " People Of The
Lie ". I am now in the middle of " The Different Drum." The
First I enjoyed because it was a re-affirmation of my own experiential
understanding. Reading "People of the Lie" was a moving experience
for me because I long believed Evil could be explained from a socio-
psychological point of view although generally experts have refused to
consider a psychological definition or classification of this aspect
of mankind.
"The Different Drum" is revelent to my experiences because while
I was employed at DEC Phoenix (PNO), I was a member of a community
that never got past the chaos stage as described in the Present
Book I am reading. The members agreed that there should be no
designated authoritarian to run the group, but still couldn't put
the group needs before their own. This resulted in rare transcendences
into true community. The two years that I shared with them I saw
only a few times when the group transcended chaos and became community;
This usually happened only with the small number of the existing
core group. Any time the group expanded, it regressed back into
chaos and couldn't seem to get past that point with more members.
As far as I know ( I lost touch moving to Mass), the core group
still exists at this time five years later. I still like the
idea of community, and "The Different Drum " might give
me clues as to how to make it happen with a larger group than the
three or four people I knew in the community in Phoenix.
Ernie
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| 398.9 | Still skipping down the road... | FDCV13::PAINTER | | Fri Sep 18 1987 19:58 | 31 |
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Re.4
Jeff,
Yes, I have read all of Peck's works (even "What Return Can I Make?").
They have made a very significant impact on my life.
I joined the DEJAVU conference in June and found this a refreshingly
positive group compared to other conferences. I wanted to share
my newfound knowledge with everyone here, so that is why I entered
in the tables-of-contents, thinking that they might be of some use
to the other participants. Glad to see that this has indeed been
the case!
Recently I created another topic called "Religions and World Peace"
where I entered quite a portion of text from "The Different Drum".
You may want to take a look there.
I read through all of his books in a very short time (4-6 weeks)
and found a lot of answers to questions and explanations for feelings
that I've had for most of my life. For once things finally made
sense to me and it was nice to finally not feel so alone anymore.
To fully explain what really happened to me after reading his works
would probably fill a book...and it's only been 3 months. If you
would like to correspond further on this offline, that would be
fine.
Cindy
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| 398.11 | " Want that tape? You'll have to write me! " | CURIE::COSTLEY | | Wed Nov 11 1987 14:24 | 11 |
| You still haven't sent me your mailstop in Geneve & tomorrow's my
last day @ DEC on this current contract. You'll have to write me
@ home thereafter: Bill Costley
One Sunset Road
Wellesley Center
MA 02181-4615 usa
note: having consulted myself off-line,
I've co-agreed thet my address is
not strictly-private information.
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| 398.12 | for Peck lovers everywhere (I'm not one.) | WRO8A::GUEST_TMP | HOME, in spite of my ego! | Wed Feb 17 1988 23:58 | 33 |
| an ad in a local paper--->>>
An afternoon with M. SCOTT PECK, M.D.
author of "The Road Less Traveled"
Over two million copies sold
TWO TALKS:
ADDICTION: The Sacred Disease
PRAYER: How Not To Waste Your Time
Dr. Peck is nationally recognized as an authority on religion
and psychology.
Sunday, March 6, 2-6 PM
at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
13601 Saratoga Ave., Saratoga, CA.
Send $25 to: Counselors and Consultants, Inc., 3082 Driftwood Dr.,
San Jose, Ca. 95128
Include self-addressed envelope, and daytime phone number.
ONLY CALIFORNIA VISIT IN 1988
Frederick (who gets to have less time to play with Notes these days
but is still alive and *well*)
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| 398.13 | digression moved to note 814 | VITAL::KEEFE | Bill Keefe - 223-1837 - MLO21-4 | Tue Aug 02 1988 12:27 | 5 |
| Replies .13 thru .32 have been moved to a new topic in note 814.
Reply .10 was also deleted - it had zero lines and was stuck in
the "note being written" state.
- Bill Keefe (moderator)
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| 398.14 | fyi - Peck in Boston | ATSE::FLAHERTY | Evolving, not revolving | Mon Apr 24 1989 11:56 | 38 |
| Scott Peck conference being sponsored by Lifecycle Learning Workshops:
Further Along the Road Less Traveled
Growing Up Painfuly, Blame and Forgiveness,
and the "New Age": Myth vs Reality
with M. Scott Peck, M.D.
Boston, May 20
The Lafayette Hotel
Overview: An increasing array of persuasive evidence from
self-help and recovery programs, personal experiences, and even
recent medical school research, strongly suggests that _spiritual
growth is an essential and often lacking component of human health,
growth and well-being._ In this workshop, noted psychiatrist and
author M. Scott Peck, drawing from sources in Christianity, Mythology,
Literature, and his rich personal and clinical experiences, will
suggest and illustrate ways in which confronting and resolving our
problems - and suffering through the changes - can enable us to reach
higher levels of understanding, personal meaning, and professional
contribution.
Objectives: Dr. Peck's lectures and substantial interaction with
participants' questions will provide a foundation to recapture
spiritual growth, reach higher levels of meaning, confront personal
problems and enhance personal and profession effectiveness.
Preregistration: $90
Fee at the door: $100
Ro
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| 398.15 | Registration number | ATSE::FLAHERTY | Evolving, not revolving | Mon Apr 24 1989 11:58 | 4 |
| Ooops, forgot the number for LifeCycle Learning is 617/964-5050
EST 9 am - 6 pm M-F
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