Wayne Dyer, who died a few days ago, is the epitome of the high priests of the secular age, such as Tony Robbins and Marianne Williamson, who surreptitiously blend the language of Christianity into their pitch with seductive messages rooted entirely in emotion and feelings that appeal to the "worried well" generation where all of the creature comforts have been met in terms of easy access to food, transportation, housing, recreation, etc. But the problem is that we've arrived at a point in time where the self is reflecting the larger society as a whole -- it's in a state of perpetual discontent in which therapeutic platitudes are just perishable band-aids hiding much deeper spiritual and moral failures. The self-help gurus of our times co-opt and cloak the language of Christianity with the false and deceptive promise of self-realization, self-actualization, or whatever you want to call it. But man cannot perfect himself. There is the saying...(Read Full Post)