Steve,
Thanks for the post. I didn't know Hill wrote the book. However, if this snippet is true:
"In it Hill interviews the Devil and the Devil claims that his most effective tool to put a person in hell is to condition them to be a drifter who accepts the thoughts of others as gospel truth instead of being an independent thinker..."
then I can see why he didn't want it published until well after his death. I guess guys like DaVinci, Newton, Einstein, Copernicus, et al, have paved the way to hell for all of us

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There is a better series of books, a trilogy actually, called Conversations With God by Donald Walsh that IMHO everyone should read. If you don't develop your independent thinker persona after reading this trilogy, you probably never had that ability in the first place.
Thanks again for the post. Just thought I'd toss out my 2¢...
Tom