Walking M. Scott Peck's Less-Traveled Road

Abstract

“In [The Road Not Traveled], Peck clearly sees himself among a tiny and elect group of saints who, by participating in God's omniscience, also ‘share His agony,’ and who walk ahead, utterly alone…. This is a curiously elitist view of mystical development, and it is sharply at odds with his understanding of community in [The Different Drum]. He has apparently learned, in the intervening years, that spiritual development means not isolation, but the capacity for community.”