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A RECOMMENDATION WITH RESERVATIONS Mar 2, 2005 (317 of 344 found this helpful)
I'm going to end up recommending this book with one major and two minor reservations. If you can get past the reservations (which I will explain), I believe there is something here that might make a difference in your life and mine. You'll notice that the majority of reviews give the book 5 stars, but a significant minority give it 1 star. I'm guessing that the wide disparity of reactions is based on how surmountable or insurmountable the reservations were to each reviewer. My purpose is to help you decide whether for you it would be worthwhile shelling out the $18-$25 price of the book
Here's the major reservation: in Calvinism, you could tell who was saved and going to heaven by how successful and prosperous they were. In Social Darwinism, successful people were evidence of survival of the fittest. In the Power of Intention, people create the lives they want based on being "aligned with Intention". The implication is that if they are poor, diseased, homeless, or victimized, they are not aligned with Intention. They may not be sinners (Calvinism) or unfit (Social Darwinism), but they are unenlightened and somehow responsible for their unhappy fate. I wonder what advice Dyer would have had for the victims of the recent tsunami.
If Dyer's theories are correct and universal, should we be translating his book and dropping it into distressed areas like Darfur in the Sudan or perhaps in the Sunni triangle? Personal responsibility is a powerful and often overlooked factor in the human condition, but Dyer seems oblivious to the possibility that there might be other factors at work, as well. His five words "I want to feel good" would be a tough sell for the sole survivor of a family that has just been murdered.
The first minor reservation is, pardon the big word, epistomological: how does Dyer know what he says he knows? For example, how does he know that there are precisely seven "Faces of Intention"? Why not six or eight or ten? Is he the Chosen Receiver of Spiritual Truth with his own private Mount Sinai, or more likely, is he simply inventing a systematic break-down of Intention or figuring out what Intention should include? The system and the seven faces are plausible and useful, but where and how did he get them?
The second minor reservation is that Dyer does not really share with us how alignment with Intention has made a difference in his life. For example, how did it help him overcome addiction to cocaine or alcohol? How did it help make his second marriage better than his first? These stories would help him connect his theories with his life and help the reader do the same.
All that said, I still think Dyer is onto something. I have a vague awareness of the power of Intention in my own life, and after reading the book, I now intend to pursue it in a conscious way and see what turns up. The possible benefits of this experiment far exceed any conceivable costs. And this is why I end up recommending the book to you, IF you can get past the reservations.
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Connect to the energy and then detach. Great Book! Mar 9, 2004 (236 of 263 found this helpful)
A lot of important information is given in this book that will help you connect to the field of energy that you are connected to whether you may realize it or not, and then detach from what you are trying to manifest in order to allow the manifestation process to bring you what you desire.
This is a comprehensive book that will help to elevate your life in all areas. It will help you turn you negative thinking around, which is the by-product of turning your life around. This is one of the few books that has impacted my life, and has helped me to `feel good' which is why it is highly recommended.
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Become A Connector To Manifest ANYTHING Feb 28, 2004 (203 of 227 found this helpful)
This is a wonderful book that will teach you how to align intention and focus, along with your energy to manifest what you desire to create in your life. By using the tools in this book, you WILL receive that which you place your focus on.
This book will teach you how to become A 'Connector' by working in harmony with those around you. It gives you examples to raise your energy above the negativity of 'competition' and shows you how to align yourself in harmony no matter what your outer conditions are. When you are attuned to this field of alignment, you will radiate and attract to you exactly what is within the field of energy you are in harmony with.
Connecting to the filed of intention is a conscious, daily, moment by moment inner experience to connect you to the highest that exists within you. As a result you WILL bring about EXACTLY what you harmonize with on all levels. This book is a wonderful tool to help you consciously bring about the best in your life from the inside out.
Barbara Rose, Ph.D. author of If God Was Like Man, Stop Being the String Along, and Know Yourself
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Beautiful book Jun 23, 2004 (40 of 42 found this helpful)
I have never written a review on Amazon because, quite frankly, I have never cared enough to take the time. However, this book has changed my life and I want to tell other potential readers that this book will change theirs, too.
This may sound outrageous, but Dyer's words have healed me. I cried through so many passages because I knew that blocks in my life were finally being lifted from me. I got it. And I got it in a big way.
I was about to go to see a psychiatrist about a chronic mental issue. I was convinced that I absolutely needed medication to help me. I read this book and my problems have decreased in such a dramatic way... problems have been replaced by peace. It is not an easy fix-- I still struggle, but then I remember how to access intention. The difference is that before I would have struggled all night long. Now, I have the tools to go back to peace and calm immediately. I take it moment to moment and that sure beats being addicted to medication.
I read some of the reviews below; while most were positive, there were surprisingly some negative ones. Some questioned Dyer's motives and claimed that he does not offer concrete ways to access intention. I cannot disagree more. I feel that his motives are pure and genuine... and why shouldn't abundance rain on a man who has helped so many? If he did not offer concrete ways to access intention, I would not feel so energized and healed.
Buy the book, borrow it from a friend. Whatever you can do to get your hands on this book, do it. It will change your life.
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Dyer is venturing into the zone of the invisible and untestable Nov 17, 2005 (21 of 21 found this helpful)
This is not the typical book on intention; it doesn't tell you to state your intention and then focus with dogged determination on getting what you want so that your will be done. Instead, Dyer equates intention with the Source of all creation, with God, with the Divine invisible force that exists within and beyond us; a force that he says we can learn to attract to us in order to play a role in creation itself.
Says Dyer, "You must learn to be like the energy that allowed you to be in the first place...You were intended out of love, you must be love in order to intend."
This book is a gift for the soul, a treatise on living in accord with the laws of the universe, which he calls the faces of intention: creativity, kindness, love, beauty, expansion, unlimited abundance and receptivity to all. Dyer says, "Intention is the silent partner who's accessible at any moment we choose," explaining that the only way you deactivate this guiding, co-creative energy is by believing that you're separate from it.
Dyer is a wonderful storyteller, bringing you to tears and laughter to anchor his ideas. He has a contagious enthusiasm for sharing his recent insights about intention, their relationship to free will, and our connection to all living beings.
The Power of Intention is a practical guide for those who believe that we are spiritual beings in physical form, and who want to learn how to re-connect to the source of our Divine nature, making life on earth the fullest possible experience of love, beauty, kindness and abundance.