Last night, I was up very late, unable to sleep and still feeling a little sick. I laid on the couch for a long time watching a very boring quasi-spiritual program on PBS called “The Power of Intention” with a fellow named Dr. Wayner Dyer. Apparently, he’s somewhat famous, and has a bunch of books, but I’ve never heard of him. He’s one of these guys that like, his message isn’t bad I guess, but neither does it really say anything at all. There are a lot of words and references and quotes thrown about, but I feel like it never really goes anywhere, or gets deep enough to ever be important.

Here are some quotes from him so you can get a taste of what I mean…

1. Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
2. The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.
3. Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
4. Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
5. If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

And it just goes on like that. Never getting any more than a certain pleasant vagueness. It reminds me of a less technical version of what that Ken Wilber guy does. But at least Wilber has a lot of bewildering vocabulary. I don’t understand why this sort of stuff gets so popular though. These people are some of the biggest selling spiritual authors, which kind of mystifies me.