"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. "
| Dyer spent much of his adolescence in an orphanage. He received his Doctor of
Education 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. 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"), which eventually led to national television talk shows including Merv Griffin, The Tonight Show, and Phil Donahue. |
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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 people. 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. 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". 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.
Although Dyer resisted the New Age 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. This direction seemingly reduced his broad
appeal and he has appeared less often in the media since.
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