I loved this book. To me, it is a very happy and "realistic" look at the afterlife. I can imagine that when we leave here, many of us may need a kind of "celestial therapy" before we really move into "Heaven". I was a little disappointed that the protagonist, Daniel, does not actually meet Jesus...and he doesn't seem to be interested in meeting up with his parents. It's a neat vision...I think we (i.e., the whole world)...
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I have read this book twice and the subsequent reviews on your site and felt it was important for a certain viewpoint to be expressed. Peck is not maintaining that this will be your heaven or my heaven. He is not maintaining that his temptations will be your temptations or my temptations. So often I read reviews that seem to take some sort of personal insult from the printed material. I don't necessarily agree with every...
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I happened to read this book while my son was fighting cancer and was in bone marrow treatment. I was struggling with death and afterlife. Dr. Peck's book was heavensent. He offered me a such a delightful comfort in this compassionate vision of afterlife. He offers a wonderful sense of continuity of ourselves.It's heartening to believe all this love we share here is passed and carried on. That we all stay connected...
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The most devoted Scott Peck fan on the face of the earth, I read the article about him in last years October issue of Rolling Stone and thought, "it seems Dr. Peck is preparing for the final step of his journey - death. It would be cool if he wrote a book about it". Sure enough, a couple months later my wish came true. Dr. Peck's books have meant so much to me and many others. He has the unusual gift of enlightening...
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