Chapter 54 – Who Cares? I have often spoken in my memoirs about my belief in the power of intention, a concept that Theresa and I first came across jointly, on the recordings of the American motivational author and speaker Dr Wayne Dyer. The idea of...
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Chapter 54 – Who Cares? I have often spoken in my memoirs about my belief in the power of intention, a concept that Theresa and I first came across jointly, on the recordings of the American motivational author and speaker Dr Wayne Dyer. The idea of intention is a key theme of Dr Dyer’s books and recordings, a philosophical and psychological notion as opposed to a scientifically evidenced theory, rather like the ideas of faith and the power of prayer in religion or positive mental framing in neurolinguistic psychology. Another key idea in Dyer’s motivational philosophy is the suggestion that when connections occur in life which might seem like luck or coincidence, for Dr Dyer these occurrences spring from one’s personal intention, in other words our inner subconscious makes things happen or provides solutions to problems in the external universe. In some ways I compare this to the sceptical counter-arguments made by Richard Dawkins in his book The God Delusion where he cites research i
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