Fans of psychiatrist Peck‎'‎s bestselling The Road Less Traveled will enjoy this self‎-help sequel‎,‎ a collection of edited lectures that offers a tough‎-minded‎,‎ liberating guide to learning to live and die with dignity‎,‎ creativity and meaning‎.‎ Peck maps four distinct steps of spiritual growth‎.‎ The first stage is exemplified by antisocial persons‎;‎ in the second are those who depend on religious or other institutions for meaning in their lives‎;‎ next are religiously skeptical truth‎-seekers‎;‎ the fourth stage embraces ‎"‎mystical/communal‎"‎ people attuned to the interconnectedness of all things‎.‎ At times sounding himself like a mystic‎,‎ he urges readers to discover the meaning of their lives by confronting the mystery and inevitability of death‎;‎ envisages God as a sexual being who endowed human lovemaking with a spiritual component‎;‎ outlines his vision of heaven and hell‎;‎ and fuses psychiatric insights with his highly personal approach to Christianity‎.‎ He also critiques the New Age movement‎,‎ explores myths as guiding metaphors for psycho‎-spiritual growth and plumbs the roots of addiction‎,‎ guilt‎,‎ blame‎,‎ self‎-hate and self‎-acceptance‎.‎ BOMC featured alternate‎;‎ QPB alternate‎.‎