This book went from ok to weird, like Ancient Aliens weird. Smh ( )

This is a Law of Attraction book. It has all of the standard concepts that are typically presented in these types of writings and it remains faithful to the efforts by Holmes, Fillmore and Neville, who is referenced heavily throughout the book. What I found to be daring, and what might turn off some readers, is Dyer's concept that not only are we part of the Universal Mind (God) but, as creators of our own reality, we ARE God. Dyer also places a lot of emphasis on the idea of "I AM" and living as a being of love from your highest, godly self.

The basic steps to Dyer's practice include:

* Imagine a clear picture of your desired life.

* Live from that mental picture.

* Assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled.

* Apply subjective attention to keep the dream alive.

* Hold the vision in your mind just prior to entering the sub/unconscious world of sleep.

I'm new to the ideas of New Thought and have just started my studies. The older texts are esoteric but Dyer makes the concepts easy to understand using modern analogies and providing examples from his life. ( )

This book went from ok to weird, like Ancient Aliens weird. Smh ( )

Many years ago I tried to read a couple of Wayne Dyer’s books but found them hard to get through. More recently I’ve tried others of his and found them more approachable, and in fact inspiring. Now at last I feel that Wayne’s work is about as good as it can get. He has really worked on himself and developed tremendously through the years – I feel now on the same wave-length as him – not to imply in any way that I’ve reached his stage of development but this is my objective.

This is an amazing book and I aim to emulate Wayne in his daily processes – though he may prove hard to live up to.

Apparently Wayne has immersed himself in the teachings of both Saint Francis and Lao-Tzu in recent years and felt their presence.

He refers us to the book “Dying to be me” by Anita Moorjani, a book he encouraged her to write. It describes Moorjani’s healing journey after a “certain death prognosis”.

In this book Wayne is wonderfully open about his own experiences and synchronicities. He meets significant people owing to these synchronicities and is instrumental in helping people to heal themselves.

Throughout the book Wayne refers to the metaphysician/writer/speaker Neville (Goddard) whose main theme was how to fulfil your wishes by feeling that they had already been fulfilled. Neville is one of my absolute favourites – he was one of the great ones. The main theme of the present book obviously mirrors that of Neville.

We are also referred to Uell S. Andersen and his book “Three Magic Words” and to St. Germain’s channeled “I am discourses”.

Wayne reads widely and continually refers to and quotes from the work of past inspiring teachers/writers.

We are introduced to the concept of our highest self (=God). In fact one of his main theses is that we are God. We are not just a part of God, we are “altogether God” (to quote Uell S. Andersen).

The power of God’s name, “I am” (which I have previously encountered through Harrison Klein) is absolutely a man theme of this book. Wayne reminds us to avoid following the words “I am” with a negative adjective such as “weak, poor, depressed” and so on, as most of us continually do in everyday speech. “By observing and teaching the I am awareness, you will become more aligned with your highest self” – (God).

The book includes photos of Wayne while teaching, etc. and these photos portray many orbs. Orbs contain angels (see the works of Diana Cooper).

We must ensure that we avoid negative thoughts immediately before sleep, as these will programme our subconscious mind negatively for several hours. Instead we should say positive I am-statements just before sleep – I am healthy, I am abundant, I am love, etc.

Wayne was recently given a leukemia diagnosis, but received remote healing from John of God, which healing he describes in the book. I trust he is now fully healed.

In the book’s final chapter we are given a transcript of a “past” (parallel) life regression where Wayne describes his life as a man who had learnt that love solves all of life’s problems, though no-one else in that life understood what “he was on about”. The details of that life of his did not surprise me – he was/is a great man in that life and a great man in this one.

This book is absolutely one of the most inspiring and well-written books I have read for a long time, though I have read many inspiring books. It is definitely the best of Wayne’s that I have encountered. I strongly recommend that you read it. ( )