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"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it."

"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."

"You can never get enough of what you don't want."

"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality."

"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."

"We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive."

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Most notably recognized for his first book Your Erroneous Zones, Dr. Wayne Dyer has since been hailed as the "father of the modern self-help movement." One can hardly open a self-help book without seeing his name somewhere as a reference. He is a best-selling author of countless of his self-help psychology books, and their companion audio tapes, including: You'll See It When You Believe It, The Sky's the Limit, and Pulling Your Own Strings.

Wayne Dyer currently travels the lecture and talk-show circuit promoting his motivational materials. He was born into an abusive, economically disadvantaged family and spent most of his young life being shuffled between orphanages in Detroit. He attributes his strength, resilience, and ultimately his success in life to these painful beginnings -- and to his love of reading.

Wayne Dyer holds a Doctorate in counseling and psychology from Wayne State and the University of Michigan respectively. He has taught students from grade school through graduate school.

He is married, has 8 children, and lives in Florida with his family. ~ Sandy Lawson, All Music Guide
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Wayne Dyer

Wayne Dyer in 2009
Born May 10, 1941 (1941-05-10) (age 68)
Residence Maui, Hawaii
Occupation Teacher, Author
Spouse(s) Second wife was Susan Casselman [See "The Ledger," Lakeland Fla, "Fearless Wayne Dyer has Phobias of His Own," by Marian Christy, November 20,1977]
Website
http://www.drwaynedyer.com/

Wayne Walter Dyer (born May 10, 1940 in Detroit, Michigan, USA) is an American self-help advocate, author and lecturer. His 1976 book Your Erroneous Zones is said to have "[brought] humanist ideas to the masses".[1]

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Biography

Dyer, born to Melvin Lyle (deceased) and Hazel Irene Dyer, spent much of his adolescence in an orphanage on the east side of Detroit.[2] Dr. Wayne Dyer is a 1958 graduate of Denby High School; he received his D.Ed. degree in counseling from Wayne State University. Dyer was a guidance counselor in Detroit at the high school level and a professor of counselor education at St. John's University in New York.[2]

He first pursued an academic career, publishing in journals and running a successful private therapy practice, but his lectures at St. John's, which focused on positive thinking and motivational speaking techniques, attracted students beyond those enrolled. A literary agent persuaded Dyer to package his ideas in book form, resulting in Your Erroneous Zones; although initial sales were thin, Dyer quit his teaching job and began a publicity tour of the United States of America, doggedly pursuing bookstore appearances and media interviews ("out of the back of his station wagon", according to Michael Korda, making the best-seller lists "before book publishers even noticed what was happening"[3]), which eventually led to national television talk shows including Merv Griffin, The Tonight Show, and Phil Donahue.[2]

Dyer proceeded to build on his success with lecture tours, a series of audiotapes, and regular publication of new books. Dyer's audience was not limited to business as with Dale Carnegie or Stephen Covey, and so his message resonated with many in the New Thought Movement and beyond . He often recounted anecdotes from his family life, and repeatedly used his own life experience as an example. His self-made man success story was a part of his appeal.[2] Dyer told readers to pursue self actualization, calling reliance on the self as a guide to "religious" experience, and suggested that readers emulate Jesus Christ, whom he termed both an example of a self-actualized person, and a "preacher of self-reliance".[1] Dyer criticized societal focus on guilt, which he saw as an unhealthy immobilization in the present due to actions taken in the past. He advocated readers to see how parents, institutions, and even they, themselves, have imposed guilt trips upon themselves.[4]

Although Dyer resisted the spiritual tag, by the 1990s he was altering his message to include more components of spirituality, in Real Magic, and higher consciousness, in Your Sacred Self.[2] Currently, his focus is on interpretations of Tao Te Ching and he has many US speaking engagements.[5]

Personal life

Dyer lives in Maui, Hawaii. He has been married three times, having seven of his eight children by his third wife, Marcelene.[6] Wayne and Marcelene Dyer's children are Shane, Stephanie, Skye, Sommer, Serena, Sands and Saje. His oldest daughter, from his first marriage, is named Tracy. All of his children live in Florida.

In 2009 Dyer announced that he has Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.

Religious beliefs

"My belief is that the truth is a truth until you organize it, and then becomes a lie. I don't think that Jesus was teaching Christianity, Jesus was teaching kindness, love, concern, and peace. What I tell people is don't be Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be Buddhist, be Buddha-like."[6]

"Religion is orthodoxy, rules and historical scriptures maintained by people over long periods of time. Generally people are raised to obey the customs and practices of that religion without question. These are customs and expectations from outside the person and do not fit my definition of spiritual."[7]

Dyer's philosophy embraces all religions in an indirect way defined as spirtual and is[citation needed] more or less a modified version of the philosophy of solipsism.

Controversy

Since 2000, he has appeared many times on PBS during their pledge drives. Although PBS' local station managers believe that he is a popular speaker and successful in helping their stations raise money, some PBS viewers found the appearances disturbing in the sense "that PBS might be seen as lending its prestige to Dyer's spiritual views and aligning itself with his teachings". Other criticisms included skepticism of his status as a "spiritual mentor" and characterizing his teachings as consisting of superficial platitudes. Viewers also expressed displeasure at the idea that Dyer himself must be profiting financially from this exposure of teachings they considered non-rigorous and lacking practical or intellectual value.[8]

Bibliography

Films

  • Ambition to Meaning [January 2009], rereleased as The Shift [April 2009] by Hay House

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Dan P. McAdams (2006). The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live by. Oxford University Press. http://books.google.com/books?id=kKsMZxwux7wC&pg=PA121&ots=vatFVgdBBc&dq=wayne.dyer+self.help&sig=6xFvhJxosOW1Ib1nexUcBL7_mQ0. 
  2. ^ a b c d e Dan Coffey (2002). St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture. Gale Group. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200345. 
  3. ^ Michael Korda (2001). Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900-1999. Barnes & Noble Publishing. http://books.google.com/books?id=isnf42j5rRUC&pg=PR15&dq=wayne.dyer+self.help&sig=HGsHrTbJrZ9P42ENP8U-Dm1NiDQ. 
  4. ^ Henlee Huxlee Barnette (1982). Exploring Medical Ethics. Mercer University Press. http://books.google.com/books?id=ETKoWzNyupwC&pg=PA61&ots=PxpczAng94&dq=wayne.dyer+self.help&sig=VwqhSLly7pLE7hwIhbNth5MbXh4#PPA61,M1. 
  5. ^ Boca Raton News, November 13th, 2002.
  6. ^ a b Wayne Dyer Interview
  7. ^ There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem
  8. ^ PBS The Ombudsman Column, March 24th, 2006

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