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TruthTalk reminds me of attending a
cocktail party. You walk into a roomful of people who are enjoying pleasant
conversations in various groups of two or more. You listen for a while before
deciding which group you’d like to participate in, and then join in the
exchange of ideas. Occasionally someone comes along who is a bit too inebriated
to make much sense, but that is usually easy to ignore. But sometimes there is the problem of the
one who enjoys a party by interrupting every conversation, not to pleasantly participate
in the exchange of ideas, but to challenge every statement made, and to correct
every opinion. It is a
tragic example of poor party manners. At
first you try to ignore the unpleasant interruptions, but at some point you must
decide whether the distractions are worth it. When you are provoked to
the point of no longer being able to enjoy the conversation, the polite thing
to do is to quietly leave the party. Obviously, you conclude, your presence
there is not appreciated. Shall I leave the party again now, Judy? Izzy From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Judy Taylor M. Scott Peck's books are a tragic example of the means by which
professing Christians are being deceived. See Four Ways Christians Are Being
Deceived 1. M.
Scott Peck, M.D. a.
"Educated at Harvard (B.A.) and Case Western Reserve (M.D.), Dr. M. Scott
Peck has served in administrative posts in the government during his career as
a psychotherapist. He has been the Medical Director of the New Milford Hospital
Mental Health Clinic and a psychiatrist in private practice in b.
"After many years of vague identification with Buddhist and Islamic
mysticism, I ultimately made a firm Christian commitment - signified by my
non-denominational baptism on the ninth of March 1980..." (People of the
Lie) 2. Books
a. The
Road Less Traveled - 1978 A Touchstone Book by Simon & Schuster, Inc.
"A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth"
(See quotes in section 4) b. People
of the Lie - 1983 A Touchstone Book by Simon & Schuster, Inc. "The
Hope For Healing Human Evil" (See quotes in section 7) c. The
Different Drum - 1987 A Touchstone Book by Simon & Schuster, Inc.
"Community Making and Peace: A Spiritual Journey Toward Self-Acceptance,
True Belonging, and 3.
M. Scott Peck's books can be found in both Christian and New Age bookstores.
4. Evolving
to god-hood a.
"God wants us to become Himself (or Herself or Itself). We are growing
toward godhood. God is the goal of evolution." b.
"To put it plainly, our unconscious is God. God within us." c.
"I am indebted for this analogy to [Carl] Jung, who, [described] himself
as 'a splinter of the infinite deity'..." d. M.
Scott Peck has never refuted or modified in subsequent books the views
expressed in The Road Less Traveled. In fact, his later books continue to
express the same metaphysical world-view. 5. Mystical
Transformation a.
"Patterns of Transformation" - "Stages of Spiritual Growth"
b. Stage
II Conversion
c. Stage
IV - Becoming a Mystic
a. Hindu
Mystic Krishnamurti
b.
Emptiness - What Comes In Is Beyond Our Control
7. Psychology
and Education a.
"God does not punish.... God cannot destroy; He can only create." b.
"In one [scenario] all human souls, having been converted to light and
love, reach out to the spirit of hate and falsehood in friendship. Finally
realizing itself to be totally defeated, with no human body left to possess,
with all immune to its power, out of utter loneliness it breaks down and
accepts the offer of friendship, and thereby in the end even Satan is
converted. That is the scenario I pray for." c.
"The final major model [of evil], that of traditional Christianity, I
label 'diabolic dualism.' Here evil is regarded as being not of God's creation
but a ghastly cancer beyond His control. While this model has its own pitfalls,
it is the only one of the three that deals adequately with the issue of murder
and the murderer." d.
"It is the principal thesis of this work that these specific [evil] people
- as well as human evil in general - need to be studied scientifically..... A
psychology of evil must be a healing psychology.... a psychology of evil must
be a religious psychology...it must not only embrace valid insights from all
religious traditions but must also recognize the reality of the
'supernatural'". e.
"The effort to prevent group evil - including war - must therefore be
directed toward the individual. It is, of course, a process of education. And
that education can be conducted most easily within the traditional existing
framework of our schools. This book is written in the hope that someday in our
secular as well as religious schools all children will be carefully taught the
nature of evil and the principles of its prevention." 8. Community
- Salvation of the World a.
"In and through community lies the salvation of the world.... peacemaking
must be the first priority of civilization..." b.
"I am dubious, however, as to how far we can move toward global community
- which is the only way to achieve international peace - until we learn the
basic principles of community in our own individual lives and personal spheres
of influence." c.
"But what is spiritual salvation, particularly when we think of the spirit
as immortal? Here the work takes on more the meaning of healing... Spiritual
healing is a process of becoming whole or holy. Most specifically, I would
define it as an ongoing process of becoming increasingly conscious. Even Freud,
an atheist, said that the purpose of psychotherapy - healing of the psyche -
was to make the unconscious conscious. And Jung ascribed human evil to the
refusal to meet the Shadow - the Shadow being those aspects of ourselves that
we do not want to own or recognize and that we continually attempt to sweep
under the rug of consciousness." d.
"The key to community is the acceptance - in fact, the celebration - of
our individual and cultural differences. Such acceptance and celebration -
which resolves the problem of pluralism and which can occur only after we learn
how to become empty - is also the key to world peace." e.
"And that community, which includes all faiths and all cultures without
obliterating them, is the cure for 'the core of our greatest contemporary
trouble.'" f.
"One of the roots of the community movement was what has been called the
T-Group.... [which] became the model for the sensitivity-group movement." g.
"Empowerment - What to do now? Start communities. Start one in your
church. Start one in your school. Start one in your neighborhood." h.
"But there are rules!...The hope of the book is that we will learn them
first in our personal lives, then apply them universally. For that is how the
world will be saved." i.
"But what, then, does such a rare group [a true community] look like? How
does it function? What is a true definition of community?" j.
"Community is a spirit - but not in the way that the familiar phrase
'community spirit' is usually understood.... The spirit of community is a manifestation
of the Holy Spirit. This does not mean that community is solely a Christian
phenomenon. I have seen community develop among Christians and Jews, Christians
and atheists, Jews and Muslims, Muslims and Hindus. People of any religious
persuasion or none whatever can develop community." 9. One
World Government - "The Obsolescence of the Nation-State System" a.
"Instead, our primary goal should be as rapidly as possible to turn our
swords - and our guns and bombs and tanks and missiles - the whole kit and
caboodle - over to the United Nations or another variety of supranational
government." b.
"In fact, a supranational government is incompatible with the nation-state
system." c. "A
society must be able to work through an economic depression in order to make
the changes it needs to make to remain a sane and healthy society." d.
"If we were willing to undergo an economic depression voluntarily, there
would be time for planning, for gradual change, for innovative changes it needs
to make to remain a sane and healthy society." e.
"If we were willing to undergo an economic depression voluntarily, there
would be time for planning, for gradual change, for innovative strategies that
would minimize economic disruption. The key to large social change is
substitution - not demolition of institutions but their transformation." f.
"In the process of achieving peace I would not, for example, suggest that
we simply do away with our military.... I would propose the transformation of
our military into a national service corps, an idea that many of our best minds
have long been espousing.... [to be used for] slum clearing, education, and
conservation... self-defense through nonviolent means: a cadre of brave men and
women thoroughly trained in the techniques of passive resistance and nonviolent
action." g.
"In December 1984 nine of my colleagues and I met together to form The
Foundation for Community Encouragement (FCE). The purpose of this tax-exempt
public foundation is 'to encourage the development of community wherever it
does not exist, and to assist existing communities, whether secular or
religious, to strengthen themselves and their relationships with other
communities ultimately thereby fostering the movement toward world
understanding.'" 10. Endorsements
a. People
of the Lie - "The b. The
Different Drum
11. Aquarian
Conspiracy a. The
Aquarian Conspiracy, was written by Marilyn Ferguson in 1980. b. Called
the "Handbook of the New Age" by "USA Today", it describes
an "underground network" that is "working to create a different
kind of society based on a vastly enlarged concept of human potential." c. The
Road Less Traveled is listed under "ReadinThe Human Potential Movementgs and
References" for chapter 11, "Spiritual Adventure: Connection to the
Source" 12. New
Age Catalogue a. The
New Age Catalogue, was published in 1988 by the editors of "Body, Mind,
and Spirit" magazine. b. The
catalogue includes books on channeling, Edgar Cayce, crystals, tarot cards,
meditation, yoga, etc. c. The
Road Less Traveled, is featured in an audio tape format in the section called
"Create Your Reality" ("Dr. Peck... shows you how to cultivate
your own religion and open up to the positive force he calls grace.) The
Aquarian Conspiracy, is featured in the section called "The Planet". d. The
Different Drum, is promoted in a section called, "New
Lifestyles/Communities - The Meaning of Community".
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