In Heaven As on Earth: A Vision of the Afterlife

Imagine you can choose or un-choose anyone in the after-life, take any path that calls you. The end of the book was life-changing for me.

Although garnering respect from his earlier works (e.g., The Road Less Traveled), M Scott Peck is out of his league with his second novel. Mostly belonging in the category of wishful thinking and conjecture, this story starts out borrowing the same tired, age-old Christian tenets driving the belief system to write, say, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven." I got the feeling that Peck...more

Although garnering respect from his earlier works (e.g., The Road Less Traveled), M Scott Peck is out of his league with his second novel. Mostly belonging in the category of wishful thinking and conjecture, this story starts out borrowing the same tired, age-old Christian tenets driving the belief system to write, say, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven." I got the feeling that Peck needed to muddle the line between fiction and non--which, at first blush, was intriguiging--but the barely plausible, entirely fabricated "ultimate destiny" was deflated and anticlimatic. My high hopes came tumbling down once I felt Peck had painted himself into a corner and pulled the ending out a place of desperation instead of enlightenment. As other reviewers have mentioned, I found the reading to be almost entirely devoid of spiritually uplifting verbiage, which, although cheesy in some cases, might have given this "vision of the afterlife" a little something for Christian readers to identify and cling onto.   hide

Awesome and enlightening. Must read