Love Letters from Wayne Dyer's Insane Fans

I wrote a review on amazon some time back about Wayner Dyer's recent book, The Power of Intention. It was in the form of a fake testimonial- to demonstrate how ludicrous the concept is. Fortunately for Wayne, there's a sucker born every minute, and a lot of people want to believe in magic. So, some of his fans got mad at me- but some others read it and felt affirmed by me... so here's the review and the response I got.

10 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

Intention Worked for Me!, September 22, 2004

Reviewer:

Brian B. Carter (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews

Wow, what a book! I'm writing this from the laptop inside my Lambourghini Gallardo, here on the Carribean island I manifested for myself. Before Dr. Dyer's book, I was a total loser, and it was all because I didn't have the right intentions! Plus, I was under the misconception that I should help other people, be polite and courteous, etc. But Dr. Dyer helped me realize that the most important thing in life was to get the world to work MY WAY! Once I understood his message, I got right to changing my intentions. And now here I am, sitting in my dream car on my own island, waiting for my beautiful trophy wife to get done shopping. She's buying me a Rolex!


And here are the emails I got back-

1. Hi there: I've NEVER written an Amazon reviewer before but I felt I had
to when I read your marvelously tongue-in-cheek review of the above
book.

At first I thought you were serious, because I USED to be heavily into
the New Age movement in Southern Calif., and the tone of your review fit
right into that S. Cal New Age vibe. Obviously, most of Amazon readers
didn't get it either, since not many people felt your review was
"helpful"

Anyway--wanted to let you know you were appreciated!

from M.S. in the medical field (name withheld)


2. Was that true about the Lamborgini and the trophy wife? Please let me know because I am going to buy the book..... You're an idiot. - Peter Severa (name not withheld because hate mail and hate mailers should be known to all)

My reply: Thanks. No, it was sarcasm. Let me know how that works out for you. Kind of like "pray and then take action" I think "intend and then take action" will do a lot more than just "intending" - I have plenty of experience with that kind of thing... it's nothing new, and I've seen other people get sucked into it- it's a dead end. Positive thinking is good, but intention is bologny.
- B

Peter's reply: God to know it all, must be wonderful, I think it was Einstein who said imagination is more important than knowledge....I guess you have a lot of knowledge....BTW, the book does talk about doing...one would actually have to read the book to know that though...

My reply: Ya, sorry too busy with work to read the latest fad flash. Buy any diet pills lately?
;-) Just kidding with ya. No, it's not good to know it all. It's very frustrating. :-)
- B

And then Peter gave up on me. Perhaps he read something about being nice in that Wayne Dyer book.