Wayne Dyer
Born	May 10, 1940 (1940-05-10) (age 68) Detroit, Michigan
Occupation	Teacher
Nationality	American
Writing period	1970s-present
Subjects	psychology, spirituality
Official website

Wayne Walter Dyer (born May 10, 1940 in Detroit, Michigan) is a popular American self-help advocate, author and lecturer. His 1976 book Your Erroneous Zones has sold over 30 million copies and is one of the best-selling books of all time.^[1] It is said to have "[brought] humanistic ideas to the masses".^[2] Wayne Dyer (born November 24th, 1977 in Birmingham) is a Montserratian football midfielder who plays for Bromsgrove Rovers in England. ... If you hold the copyright to an image (e. ... is the 130th day of the year (131st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Detroit redirects here. ... This article is about work. ... For university teachers, see professor. ... In English usage, nationality is the legal relationship between a person and a country. ... Psychological science redirects here. ... Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit. ... is the 130th day of the year (131st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Detroit redirects here. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Though the term self-help can refer to any case whereby an individual or a group betters themselves economically, intellectually or emotionally, the connotations of the phrase have come to apply particularly to psychological or psychotherapeutic nostrums, often purveyed through the popular genre of the self-help book. ... Your Erroneous Zones is a self-help book written by Wayne Dyer. ... The frontispiece to the 1611 first edition of the King James Bible This page provides lists of best-selling single-volume books, book series, authors, and childrens books to date and in any language. ... Look up Humanist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Biography

Dyer spent much of his adolescence in an orphanage.^[3] He received his D.Ed. degree in counseling from Wayne State University. He 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.^[3] The Doctor of Education degree (Ed. ... For College in Nebraska, see Wayne State College. ... St. ...

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, 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"^[4]), which eventually led to national television talk shows including Merv Griffin, The Tonight Show, and Phil Donahue.^[3] Attitude is a key concept in social psychology. ... Motivational speakers are persons engaged in public speaking who help motivate others with their knowledge and real-life stories in public setting such as sales seminars and corporate meetings. ... Estate car body style (Saab 95) A station wagon (United States usage), wagon (Australian usage, though station wagon is widely used) or estate car (United Kingdom usage) is a car body style similar to a sedan car but with an extended rear cargo area. ... Michael Korda (b. ... A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... Mervyn Edward Merv Griffin, Jr. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Phillip John Donahue (born December 21, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American media personality and writer, best known as the creator and star of The Phil Donahue Show, also known as Donahue, the first tabloid talk show. ...

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.^[3] Dyer told readers to pursue self actualization, calling reliance on the self as a guide a "religious" experience, and suggested that readers emulate Jesus Christ, who he termed both an example of a self-actualized person, and a "preacher of self-reliance".^[2] 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 themselves had imposed guilt trips on them.^[5] Methods and media for sound recording are varied and have undergone significant changes between the first time sound was actually recorded for later playback until now. ... Dale Carnegie Dale Breckenridge Carnegie (originally Carnegey) (November 24, 1888–November 1, 1955) was an American writer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills. ... Stephen R. Covey on the cover of his audio book Beyond The 7 Habits Stephen R. Covey (born October 24, 1932 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is the author of the international best selling book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, first published in 1989. ... The New Thought movement, a religio-metaphysical healing group, was founded by Phineas Parkhurst Quimby[1](1802-66) of Belfast, Maine, an American mental healer, student of mesmerism, and practitioner of hypnosis, who claimed he could heal by mere suggestion. ... Maslows hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation, later extended. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... This article is about the emotion. ...

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.^[3] Currently, his focus is on interpretations of Tao Te Ching and has many US speaking engagements.^[6] Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit. ... Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit. ... Higher consciousness, also called super consciousness (Yoga), objective consciousness (Gurdjieff), Buddhic consciousness (Theosophy), cosmic consciousness, God-consciousness (Sufism and Hinduism) and Christ consciousness (New Thought) -to name but a few--are expressions used in various spiritual traditions to denote the consciousness of a human being who has reached a higher... The Tao Te Ching (道德經, Pinyin: D Jīng, thus sometimes rendered in recent works as Dao De Jing; archaic pre-Wade-Giles rendering: Tao Teh Ching; roughly translated as The Book of the Way and its Virtue (see dedicated chapter below on translating the title)) is an ancient Chinese scripture...

Personal life

Dyer lives in Maui, Hawaii. He has been married twice, having seven of his eight children by his second wife, Marcelene.^[1]

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."^[1] Topics in Christianity Preaching Prayer Ecumenism Relation to other religions Movements Music Liturgy Calendar Symbols Art Criticism Christianity Portal This box:      Christianity is a monotheistic[1] religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament. ... A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by...

"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]

Controversy

Since 2000, he has appeared several 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".^[8]. PBS redirects here. ... Fundraising is the process of soliciting and gathering money or other gifts in-kind, by requesting donations from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies. ...

Bibliography

• Counseling Techniques That Work published June 1, 1975 by American Counseling Association ISBN 0-911547-26-6
• Your Erroneous Zones published August 1, 1976 by Harpercollins ISBN 0-06-109148-0
• Pulling Your Own Strings published April 1, 1978 by Hay House Inc ISBN 0-308-10336-X
• Group Counseling for Personal Mastery (1980)
• The Sky's the Limit published September 1, 1980 by Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-671-24989-4
• Gifts from Eykis : A Story of Self-Discovery published February 1, 1983 by Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-671-46066-8
• What Do You Really Want for Your Children published September 1, 1985 by William Morrow & Company ISBN 0-688-04527-8
• The Awakened Life - 6 tape/CD audio book
• Happy Holidays! (1986)
• Real Magic: Creating Miracles in Everyday Life published August 1, 1992 by Harpercollins ISBN 0-06-016678-9
• Everyday Wisdom published October 1, 1993 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-56170-076-2
• How to Be a No-Limit Person published November 1994 by Simon & Schuster Audioworks ISBN 0743561635
• You'll See It When You Believe It: The Way to Your Personal Transformation published April 1, 1995 by Harpercollins ISBN 0-06-093733-5
• Your Sacred Self: Making the Decision to Be Free published April 1, 1995 by Harpercollins ISBN 0-06-017786-1
• A Promise Is a Promise: An Almost Unbelievable Story of a Mother's Unconditional Love and What It Can Teach Us published August 1, 1996 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-56170-348-6
• Manifest Your Destiny: The Nine Spiritual Principles for Getting Everything You Want published April 1, 1997 by Harpercollins ISBN 0-06-017528-1
• Wisdom of the Ages published November 1, 1998 by Harpercollins ISBN 0-06-019231-3
• There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem published September 1, 2001 by Harpercollins ISBN 0-06-019230-5
• 10 Secrets For Success And Inner Peace published May 1, 2002 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-56170-875-5
• It's Never Crowded Along the Extra Mile published September 1, 2002 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1401901727
• Getting in the Gap: Making Conscious Contact With God Through Meditation published December 1, 2002 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-4019-0131-X
• The Caroline Myss & Wayne Dyer Seminar published May 1, 2003 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1401902618
• Staying on the Path published September 30, 2004 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-4019-0349-5
• The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way published February 1, 2004 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-4019-0215-4
• Incredible You! published November 15, 2005 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-4019-0782-2
• Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling published February 1, 2006 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-4019-0721-0
• Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating habits to Match Your Desires February 2006 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-4019-1038-6
• Everyday Wisdom for Success published April 15, 2006 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-4019-0552-8
• Making Your Thoughts Work for You published February 15, 2007 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1401911897
• Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao published July 31, 2007 by Hay House Inc ISBN 978-1-4019-1184-3
• Living The Wisdom Of The Tao: The Complete Tao Te Ching and Affirmations published March 1, 2008 by Hay House Inc ISBN 978-1-4019-2149-1
• Excuses Begone (Tentative 2008 Release)

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See also

• List of New Thought writers

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References

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External links

• The Official Dr. Wayne Dyer Website
• Wayne Dyer On Hayhouse Radio
• Wayne Dyer On BookTour.com