In Search of Stones: A Pilgrimage of Faith, Reason, and Discovery. M. Scott Peck

In Search of Stones: A Pilgrimage of Faith, Reason, and Discovery by M. Scott Peck, M. D. Author of the Road Less Travelled. Soft cover book in well read condition with some foxing to the pages. Published by Pocket Books 1997. 426 Pages. See my other listings for more books by the same author. I will combine postage for multiple purchases. Synopsis: From the acclaimed author of The Road Less Traveled comes the personal story of his own journey of self-discovery. On a three-week spiritual quest with his wife to see the ancient megalithic stones in the countryside of Wales, England, and Scotland, he gained insight into such issues as parenthood, holiness, romance, art, and his own shortcomings. From Booklist: The psychiatrist who has so successfully merged psychology and Christianity--his Road Less Traveled has spent 11 years on the New York Times' best-seller list--turns out to have a thing for megaliths, and so does his wife. Together, the couple roamed western Great Britain, from Wales to the Hebrides to Inverness, during May 31-June 20, 1992, looking for and at the mysterious standing stones (the most famous of them comprise Stonehenge, which the Pecks skipped), and Scott kept notes, which he greatly expanded upon for this book. There is a chapter for every day of the Pecks' journey, but they are not entitled with the days' destinations. Rather, they carry the names of the big topics--"Reason," "Romance," "Holiness," etc.--that the events of particular days made Peck contemplate, then or later. These topics elicit from Peck both the kind of rumination for which he is famous and wonderful little lessons in British religious history as well as the prehistory the megaliths bring to mind; for example, in "Religion," Peck relays the life and teachings of the original Quaker, George Fox (1624-91). Meanwhile, Peck also gives us some perfectly adequate travel writing about the actual trip.