Manifest Your Destiny: The Nine Spiritual Principles for Getting Everything You Want (Mass Market Paperback)

~ Dr.Wayne W. Dyer (Author) "Within you is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that you need to desire..." (more)
Key Phrases: siddhi consciousness, manifesting meditation, mental picturing, New Testament, Holy Spirit, Mother Teresa (more...)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Self-actualization guru Dyer has a talent for appropriating age-old spiritual concepts and marketing them with buzzwords like "spiritual manifestation." Here he outlines nine principles for manifesting spiritual destiny, which appears to be synonymous with getting everything we want. According to Dyer, if we can just get out of our ego's reach, the power of the universe would act in us to bring us everything we truly desire. By putting worthy spiritual ideals to the service of personal power, Dyer subverts the meaning of unconditional love, seeing it as the means to an end rather than a worthy end in itself. Buy only where Dyer's books are in demand.
-?Bernadette McGrath, Vancouver P.L., B.C.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist

Best-selling author Dyer says this title is different from any other he's written, but his 1992 book, Real Magic, was also about "using your invisible self to influence physical reality." Here, the message is muddled. On one hand, he tells readers that inner peace should be their greatest goal, but, on the other hand, he offers techniques designed to attain more worldly objectives, like a new job. There's lots about meditating and chanting, and he supplies distillations from A Course in Miracles, but ultimately, the volume veers close to the low end of New Age gobbledygook. Still, Dyer's name and a marketing push are likely to generate requests. Order this book as demand dictates, but for a better, more down-to-earth approach to the subject of attaining one's goals through creative manifestation, tell readers to check out Sonia Choquette's Your Heart's Desire, reviewed on p.1071. Ilene Cooper --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: HarperPaperbacks (June 3, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061094943
• ISBN-13: 978-0061094941
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (69 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #56,269 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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189 of 199 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Too Much, November 11, 2000

By A Customer

No conflict between material desires and spritual goals. Great concepts and they work.Get this book and An Encounter With A Prophet if you want hugh changes in your life.

47 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Where did you set your thermostat?, January 14, 2004

By	Bob Feeser "MillCrafters.com" (Springfield, PA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Anthony Robbins the famous motivational speaker states that people have a thermostat setting in their minds which is set at a specific success level. Anything lower and they scramble to get back to their setting, anything higher, and they tend to sabotage it.
Dr Dyer in this book takes a different approach. He mentions that people choose a path to enlightenment that is either suffering, goal setting, and the highest order, living on purpose. We overcome obstacles through our general approach to life through one of these approaches. Some through suffering realize enlightenment. Others approach life with goal setting. Hard work, climbing the tower, and they finally arrive. Finally the people who realize that their is a greater purpose for our lives, and get in touch with that reality. By living on purpose all things are added unto you. It is the ideal solution to our lives.
I remember seeing a bumble bee one summer, trying to escape to the outside world. Repeatedly hitting his head against the glass window. Flying toward the glass, hitting his head, staggering, recomposing, and heading toward the glass once again. Again and again, banging his head into the glass. I sat back from across the room and wished I could speak to the bee and share with him the information that only a few feet from the window was a wide open door. Through continual trying the bee could possibly exhaust himself to the floor, and maybe then see the opening to the door. Others may call upon their greater sense, or rely on their intuitive sense, or greater guidance, and find the simple solution without the suffering or goal achieving.
Are we living on purpose? Achieving our destiny? It may be time to stop and ask ourselves that question, and that is what this book is about.
I find Dr Dyer to an enlightened person. He draws upon the teachings of many spiritual masters. Transcending the standards that are often dictated to us by others. I have learned more lifetime truths from him, than from most any other author. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is steering their way through life. (Which is all of us.) I have never read a book by Dr. Dyer that was not an enlightening experience.
Highly recommended.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Have Manifesting Book, June 9, 2000

By A Customer

I have read a large number of books on this topic (much of which I have put into practice and yielded results) but this manual is surely the foundation and bedrock of them all. Rather than implicitly requiring the reader "to have faith", Dr. Dyer explains the underlying principles of manifesting, then proceeds in a no-nonsense manner to outline the "how-to" of it all. It's simple and easy to follow, and above all, uplifting. Unlike other publications such as "Your Heart's Desire" by Sonia Choquette, which writes around the subject, Dr. Dyer encompasses both practical how-to together with a more spiritual aspect. There is no paradox between spirituality and wanting material things; both worlds go hand in hand together. A must-have book. (Other excellent accompaniments are "Creative Visualization" by Shakti Gawain, and "Living Magically" and "Stepping Into the Magic" by Gill Edwards.)