Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology Of Love, Traditional Values And Spiritual Growth

The Road Less Traveled A NEW PSYCHOLOGY OF LOVE, TRADITIONAL VALUES AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH M. SCOTT PECK, M. D. A TOUCHSTONE BOOK Published by Simon & Schuster New York London Toronto Sydney Tokyo Singapore Flexibor/l Touchstone Rockefeller Center 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10020 Copyright © 1978 by M. Scott Peck, M.D. Introduction copyright © 1985 by M. Scott Peck, M.D. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form TOUCHSTONE and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster Designed by Dianne Pinkowitz Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 55 54 53 52 51 50 Pbk. 10 Flex-bind Library of Congress CatalOging in Publication Data Peck, Morgan Scott, date. The road less traveled. A Touchstone Book Includes bibliographical references. 1. Maturation (Psychology). 2. Psychiatry and religion. 3. Psychoanalysis and religion. I. Title. 158'.1 79-15410 BF637.S4P43 1979 ISBN 0-671-24086-2 ISBN 0-671-25067-1 Pbk. ISBN 0-671-67300-9 Flex-bind The author gratefully acknowledges permission to reprint excerpts from the following: "Beyond the Norm: A Speculative Model of Self-Realization," by Michael Stark and Michael Washburn, in Journal of Religion and Health, Vol. 16, No.1 (1977), pp. 58-59. Used by permission. "Child Custody Contests in Historical Perspective," by Andre P. Derdeyn, in American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 133, No. 12 (Dec. 1976), p. 1369, copyright © 1976, the American Psychiatric Association. Reprinted by permission. The Cloud of Unknowing, translated by Ira Progoff, copyright © 1957 by Ira Progoff. Used by permission of the Julian Press, a Division of Crown Publishers, Inc. The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Bollingen Ser., No. 20, translated by R. F. C. Hull, Vol. II, Psychology and Religion: West and East, copyright © 1958, 1969 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission. Journey Into Christ, by Alan W. Jones, copyright © 1977 by The Seabury Press, Inc. Used by permission. "The Journey of the Magi," copyright 1936, in Collected Poems 1909-1962, by T. S. Eliot, copyright © 1963, 1964 by T. S. Eliot. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. Learning Psychotherapy, by Hilde Bruch, M.D., copyright © 1974 by President and Fellows of Harvard College. Harvard University Press. Reprinted by permission. "Love Is Everywhere," by John Denver, Joe Henry, Steve Weisberg and John Martin Sommers, copyright © 1975 Cherry Lane Music Co. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Love and Will, by Rollo May, copyright © 1969 by Rollo May. Delta Books by arrangement with W. W. Norton. Used by permission. Memories, Dreams, Reflections, by C. G. Jung, recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffe, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, copyright © 1961, 1962, 1963 by Random House, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Pantheon Books, a Division of Random House, Inc. "On Synchronicity," by C. G. Jung, in The Portable Jung, edited by Joseph Campbell, copyright © 1971 The Viking Press. Reprinted by permission. 6 PERMISSIONS The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran, copyright 1923 by Kahlil Gibran, renewal copyright 1951 by Administrators C.T.A. of Kahlil Gibran Estate and Mary G. Gibran. With permission of the publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. To a DlJ1Icing God, by Sam Keen, copyright © 1970 by Sam Keen. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Harper at Row, Publishers, Inc. The Way of the Sufi, by Idries Shah, copyright © 1968 by Idries Shah. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, E. P. Dutton. To my paren