((For selected excerpts, click on the underlined topics that interest you.)

1. A review of the book, The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck, M.D., from a self developmental and personal enhancement point of view. Many positives of human encounter derived from the expression of honesty and and the on-going examination of personal responsibility, accountability, and well-being are accentuated.
   
   
2. A personal test of Reality is undertaken with an expressed intention to give the reader some insight into different reality perceptions and how our beliefs and value systems get shaped by this.
   
   
3. Trust One is written to inform about the advantages and disadvantages of ways trust is built in a relationship. Major emphasis is on close, personal, family situations, viz., parent/child, spouses/mates, siblings, etc., that require a higher element of trust in order for satisfying relationships to be sustained and nurtured.
   
   
4. A compilation of poetry and musing by the Archangels is presented in a rather rambling style to allow tlhe reader to study what is interesting, ignore what is uncaptivating, and perhaps, re-write parts or add thoughts of one’s own. Feel free!
   
   
5. Choice as a basic life opportunity is looked at from a personal task analysis and need/satisfaction continuum as applied within in a social framework. The basis for effective choices is good information. Good information results from knowing what you are dealing with, and if that happens to be yourself, you need to make the best choices of which you are capable.
   
   
6. Good communication processes within relationships including parent/child, men/women, employers/employees, spouses, members of a social or work group and the like requires some basic understanding of what is going on with each other. We describe a communication framework that allows for a quick check of this...as well as some communication tips that are found useful.
   
   
7. As one learns self-control as a basis for exploring his/her environment more safely, he/she gains an adaptive process that can be fruitful in almost any situation. The Archangels provide an interesting article that might shed some useful light.