Wayne Dyer

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Wayne Walter Dyer (May 10, 1940 – August 29, 2015) was an American self-help author and a motivational speaker.

Your Erroneous Zones (1976), his first book, is one of the best-selling books of all time, with an estimated 35 million copies sold to date.

Early life

Melvin Lyle Dyer and Hazel Irene Vollick were born in Detroit, Michigan, Dyer. Since his father walked out on his family, he spent a large number of his first ten years in an orphanage on the east side of Detroit, leaving his mother to raise three young boys. Dyer served in the United States Navy from 1958 to 1962 after graduating from Denby High School. He obtained his Ed.D. Wayne State University has a degree in counseling. His dissertation was entitled Group Counseling Leadership Training in Counselor Education.

Personal life

Dyer was married three times. Judy, his first wife, had a child. He had no children with Susan Casselman, his second wife. Marcelene, his third wife, and two stepchildren from Marcelene's first marriage. After 20 years of marriage, Wayne and Marcelene legally separated in 2001. They reunited and stayed married until his death after his separation period.

Dyer wrote about his personal philosophical outlook:

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Career

Dyer, a Detroit native, served as both a high school guidance counselor and a professor of counseling psychology at St. John's University in New York City. He pursued an academic career, was published in journals, and established a private therapy practice. Many students attended his lectures at St. John's University, which concentrated on positive thinking and motivational speaking skills. In his first book, titled Your Erroneous Zones (1976), literary agent Arthur Pine persuaded Dyer to write down his ideas. According to Michael Korda, Dyer left his teaching career and began a publicity tour of the United States, doggedly seeking bookstore appearances and media interviews ("out of the back of his station wagon"), gaining the best-seller lists "before book publishers even noticed what was going on"). Hundreds more books were followed after Your Erroneous Zones, many of whom were also best-sellers. Wishes Fulfilled, Excuses Begone, and The Sky's the Limit were among them. The popularity of these books culminated in national television talk show appearances, including The Merv Griffin Show, The Tonight Show, and The Phil Donahue Exhibition.

Dyer continued to grow on his reputation with lecture tours, a line of audiotapes, PBS stations, and the regular publication of new books. Dyer's words resonated with many in the New Thought Movement and elsewhere. He often recalled anecdotes from his family's life and used his own life example as an example. His self-made man triumph tale was a part of his appeal. Dyer advised readers to pursue self-actualization, calling the self a "religious" guide to "religious" life, and that readers imitate Jesus Christ, who portrayed both an example of a self-actualized individual and a "preacher of self-reliance." Dyer chastised societal blame on guilt, which he saw as an unnecessary immobilization in the present due to previous conduct. He encouraged readers to see how parents, colleges, and even individuals, had imposed guilt trips on themselves.

Though Dyer initially resisted the spiritual word, by the 1990s, he had updated his message to include more elements of spirituality as he wrote the book Real Magic and talked about higher consciousness in the book Your Sacred Self.

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