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Title:Psychic Phenomena
Notice:Please read note 1.0-1.* before writing
Moderator:JARETH::PAINTER
Created:Wed Jan 22 1986
Last Modified:Tue May 27 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2143
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398.0. "M.Scott Peck, M.D." by FDCV13::PAINTER () Fri Jun 26 1987 22:05

    
    I would like to dedicate this topic to discussions of Peck's 
    writings and and anything remotely related to them.
    
    The next 3 notes will be the tables of contents of "The Road Less
    Traveled", "People Of The Lie", and "The Different Drum".
                                        
    Cindy
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398.1"The Road Less Traveled"FDCV13::PAINTERFri Jun 26 1987 22:1167
	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		Transference: The Outdated Map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
398.2"People Of The Lie"FDCV13::PAINTERFri Jun 26 1987 22:1164
	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
398.3"The Different Drum"FDCV13::PAINTERFri Jun 26 1987 22:12114
	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
398.4Why Peck?SHIRE::CRAINWed Sep 16 1987 12:3010
    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?
    
    
398.5" PEOPLE OF THE LIE's 'splash' put me off..."CURIE::COSTLEYWed Sep 16 1987 18:4313
    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
    
398.6amazedSHIRE::CRAINThu Sep 17 1987 08:2312
    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
398.7" Like a cassette of Peck reading Peck? "CURIE::COSTLEYThu Sep 17 1987 20:4924
    
    { -.1  I havn't read them, so I shouldn't until I do, of course.}
    -----------------------------------------------------------------
    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
                                                   
398.8Peck Made an ImpactREGENT::WAGNERFri Sep 18 1987 14:4828
    	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 
      
     
398.9Still skipping down the road...FDCV13::PAINTERFri Sep 18 1987 22:5831
    
    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
             
398.11" Want that tape? You'll have to write me! "CURIE::COSTLEYWed Nov 11 1987 17:2411
    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.
                       
398.12for Peck lovers everywhere (I'm not one.)WRO8A::GUEST_TMPHOME, in spite of my ego!Thu Feb 18 1988 02:5833
       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*)
    
398.13digression moved to note 814VITAL::KEEFEBill Keefe - 223-1837 - MLO21-4Tue Aug 02 1988 15:275
    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)
398.14fyi - Peck in BostonATSE::FLAHERTYEvolving, not revolvingMon Apr 24 1989 14:5638
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

    
	
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398.15Registration numberATSE::FLAHERTYEvolving, not revolvingMon Apr 24 1989 14:584
    Ooops, forgot the number for LifeCycle Learning is 617/964-5050
                                                       EST 9 am - 6 pm M-F