Wayne Dyer

He made me laugh with his first book in the '70s called "Your Erroneous Zones". No, the book itself wasn't funny - it was all about self-esteem and defeating negative self image and ACCEPTING YOURSELF AS YOU ARE. If you get a copy, look at the cover. His photograph is deliberately trimmed at the forehead level to hide his premature baldness!

Flash-forward: Was watching his PBS show on 'Intention' where he describes the 'Law of Attraction'. Whatever you most fear will come to pass, he states.

Later in the show he features a Rwandan woman (Elibigiza?) who hid in a secret bathroom with five other women for 90 days to escape the genocide going on. While her story is indeed inspirational and emotionally stirring, she counterdicts his "Law of Attraction'. A group of murderers with machetes are in a nearby room searching for her and telling how they would hack her to pieces if they catch 'the cockroach'. She is overcome with such fear that it causes extreme pain as if a million pins were stuck all over her body.

I have never heard of fear that extreme. While understandable, her fear (read: negative energy) did NOT attract the men to her hidden location and she survived.

On another note, Larry King interviewed one of the authors of 'The Secret'. Larry asks if ALL of the 9/11 victims attracted that sort of death. Were they imagining such a scenario? Of course not the guest replies - sometimes there are larger universal currents that we cannot understand... S*** happens.

Um, OK.

When in doubt, make something and claim it's all part of the universe's beautiful and mysterious plan.

Michael

coalesce said:

When in doubt, make something and claim it's all part of the universe's beautiful and mysterious plan.

Michael

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You know, that always works pretty well as a pick-up line.

Wayne Dyer on some presentation he was doing on PBS said that he asked his son to hold out his arm and hold a banana in another hand and see if he could stop his father from pushing his arm down, he could. Then he said he got his son to hold a "rap CD" instead of a banana and see if he could overpower his father, he couldn't.He was trying to claim that the "negative energy" from the rap CD actually weakened his son so that he couldn't overpower him.

Of course I tested it, I tried curling a dumbbell in 1 hand while holding a banana in another and then repeated it with an old Eminem CD. My strength was the same...

"My theory works, except when it doesn't."

Dustin said:

He was trying to claim that the "negative energy" from the rap CD actually weakened his son so that he couldn't overpower him.

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I tried the same experiment only I used a Celine Dion CD. It caused a piercing pain in my ears and I became nauseated.

I knew Wayne Dyer when we were in school in Detroit in the 60's. He was a phony then and he's a phony now. A very rich phony. I see him on PBS pledge drives dripping with sincerity while spewing his latest spiritual baloney. A newage huckster recycling the same crap over and over for a greasy buck.

fishbait said:

I tried the same experiment only I used a Celine Dion CD. It caused a piercing pain in my ears and I became nauseated.

I knew Wayne Dyer when we were in school in Detroit in the 60's. He was a phony then and he's a phony now. A very rich phony. I see him on PBS pledge drives dripping with sincerity while spewing his latest spiritual baloney. A newage huckster recycling the same crap over and over for a greasy buck.

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How did you know him in the 60's?

Dustin said:

Wayne Dyer on some presentation he was doing on PBS said that he asked his son to hold out his arm and hold a banana in another hand and see if he could stop his father from pushing his arm down, he could. Then he said he got his son to hold a "rap CD" instead of a banana and see if he could overpower his father, he couldn't.He was trying to claim that the "negative energy" from the rap CD actually weakened his son so that he couldn't overpower him.

Of course I tested it, I tried curling a dumbbell in 1 hand while holding a banana in another and then repeated it with an old Eminem CD. My strength was the same...

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Oooh, we need an ROTFL smilie.

Of course, you know that the banana is a shining example of God's design...

I read "Erroneous Zones" about 15 years ago. I didn't believe all of the woo stuff, but I like the thought that I control my destiny (to a large degree) and I can change my life for the better if I'm not happy with it. Obviously, this doesn't apply to everybody, but as a 22-year-old, it actually helped me. I tried to read some of his other stuff later, but I couldn't get past the BS factor.

Dustin said:

Wayne Dyer on some presentation he was doing on PBS said that he asked his son to hold out his arm and hold a banana in another hand and see if he could stop his father from pushing his arm down, he could. Then he said he got his son to hold a "rap CD" instead of a banana and see if he could overpower his father, he couldn't.He was trying to claim that the "negative energy" from the rap CD actually weakened his son so that he couldn't overpower him.

Of course I tested it, I tried curling a dumbbell in 1 hand while holding a banana in another and then repeated it with an old Eminem CD. My strength was the same...

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What is most sickening is the reality that schmucky slimeballs like this guy manage to thrive in our society. and I don't mean Eminem.

I noticed Dyer used the debunked '100th monkey' myth to make a point in his presentation, then referred to his good friend Sixpak Chopra...

'Nuff said!

Dustin said:

How did you know him in the 60's?

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I was attending Wayne State University in Detroit where he was a student also. Knew him from one class we both had.

fishbait said:

I was attending Wayne State University in Detroit where he was a student also. Knew him from one class we both had.

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Which was?