Taken from an interview with M. Scott Peck . . . In the 1970s, when you wrote The Road Less Traveled, where were you spiritually? Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember. In poetic form, there is a footnote in The Road Less Traveled about my earliest memory: In the autumn, when I was three, my mother woke me from dark sleep to see the northern lights dancing in the cold. In her warm night arms, I danced all the way to China before she carried me in. I still dance, and I do not know if I can ever forgive her for such love. That is quite a first memory. I credit my mother with that, rather than credit God. In my senior year at Friends Seminary, a little Quaker school on the edge of Greenwich Village in New York City, I took an elective course in world religions. … business.highbeam/136989/article-1G1-92849366/m-scott-peck-wrestling-god-life-difficult-wrote-m-scott
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