The first three parts of "Spirit Quest" address some incredibly hard hitting questions, reinforced with scholarly biblical discussions and enjoyable anecdotes. The first three parts also create and explain a concrete plan for living a conscious, spiritual life, that will appeal to both Christians and Non-Christians alike.

Often times, in this fast paced world, individuals can become confused on their spiritual paths. McElfresh on page 53 offers the following advice, "If you do not have 'inner peace' continue until you find it." Clearly this is sound solid advice for any spiritual being and I ecstatically applaud the author's unifying bold words. Somewhere at the end of part three however, McElfresh's work becomes more dogmatic and extreme and his fundamentalist rhetoric crosses the line to offending other religions, and equals in its intense ferocity, the mindset of terrorist religious extremists from other religions-extremists that McElfresh boldly condemns (and rightfully so). Unfortunately, the hypocrisy of the- slightly buried in spiritual double speak- radical written stance McElfresh alludes to as acceptable from Christians, but as evil and unacceptable from others; will not go unnoticed by an objective reader. Additionally, if the reader has paid attention to the first few parts of "Spirit Quest" and learned McElfresh's well thought out lessons, they should easily be able to sift through the zealous rhetoric in later chapters and find deeper, unifying, spiritual truths rather than becoming caught up in passionate one-sided rants that unfortunately show little if any true tolerance and understanding of other religions beyond the superficial and cursory.